Chapter 767: Daming Gate

The capital of the Ming Dynasty actually had four tiers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe outermost part of the south side is the outer city, and the inner city is a little bit of the inner city on the north side. Inside the inner city is the imperial city, and the imperial city is the place where the temple, the yamen and the inner court offices do their work, that is, the area of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the eyes of the people. The innermost part of the Imperial City is the Forbidden City.

The south gate of the imperial city is called Daming Gate, which is a brick and stone structure building on the top of a single eaves hill, located in the south of the Monument to the People's Heroes and the area of Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall. Daming Gate "three ques on the eaves of the ridge, the front of the door is square, around the stone fence, the left and right lions each one, the dismounted stone tablet each one", there is the Yongle Dynasty University scholar to solve the question of the door link "the sun and the moon light Tiande, the mountains and rivers Zhuang Emperor dwelling", quite majestic.

Daming Gate has a very high specification and is known as the national gate. If the queen mother, emperor or queen passes by, the main gate of Daming Gate is not open.

The inside of Daming Gate is a court institution, and the outside is the street of the market. For the people of the capital, Daming Gate is the dividing line between the official family and the people. On weekdays, it is solemn and solemn, and people are not allowed to gather loudly.

But today, it is full of people, and the crowd is surging.

The Son of Heaven wanted to behead 567 civil and military officials and eunuchs and eunuchs led by Gong Dingyu and Luo Yangxing here. Of course, the highest official positions are not Gong Dingyu and Luo Yangxing. Among the condemned prisoners, there are many officials of the six ministries such as the squire of the Ministry of Rites, and even the left and right of the Son of Heaven such as the celebrant and the eunuch of the hall are among them, and a large number of Donglin Party henchmen and related people.

After the fans took control of the Forbidden City, the case of Yuan Guifei's violent death has been solved. In the end, it was confirmed that Yuan Guifei was poisoned, these people were all involved in the case, and the Son of Heaven went on a killing spree this time.

However, everyone else was beheaded, but Gong Dingyu was killed, and Luo Yangxing was even more exterminating the nine clans, and the families of the two accounted for a lot of places.

Of course, there are many Jinyi guards among the condemned prisoners, and there are more than 100 people.

For the Son of Heaven, these people are traitors who murder their wives and concubines and threaten them.

There are also some rebels who blocked the holy car on Donghua Street half a month ago.

It was the first time for the people to see the imperial court execute so many high-ranking officials at one time, and it was the first time they had seen the execution of Jinyiwei, not to mention the command of Jinyiwei. On weekdays, the people only know that Jinyiwei is the minion of the Son of Heaven, and when the Son of Heaven goes out of the palace to worship, he hugs and protects the Son of Heaven, but he didn't expect that the head of Jinyiwei was also beheaded by the Son of Heaven.

The beheading of the commander of the Jinyi Guard shows that the enemy has entered the Forbidden City, and the situation around the Son of Heaven has reached a certain level. This fact makes the people think about it. And all the guards on the Daming Gate were replaced by Dongchang Fanzi, which reminded the people of a series of palace struggles.

The people in the capital are well-informed, and many people who know the situation in the court have already named and said that this is "the vicious fight between the Donglin Party and the Son of Heaven". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the social atmosphere was open, and the people of the capital talked about it like this, but no one cared.

Tianjin Governor Li Xing, as the representative of Tianjin Wang Li Zhi, was also invited to observe the execution.

Li Xing sat on the Daming Gate and observed the people under the door.

The people of Beijing are different from the people of Tianjin, and the people of Tianjin, especially the people of Fanjiazhuang, have a feeling of concentrating on their own careers without distractions. Although the people of the capital seem to be very shrewd and will not be deceived in any case, they carry the heavy twilight of this era in their gestures.

Like the spiritual outlook of the people of Tianjin, the internal friction of the society is the smallest, and the efficiency is higher. However, the temperament of the people of Tianjin can only be cultivated by Tianjin's fair courts, honest government and perfect public morality, and it is also the only one in Daming.

Li Xing looked at the death row prisoners on the execution ground again.

The commander of the Jinyi Guard made more than 200 people of the Nine Clans be held on the execution ground, occupying a quarter of the execution ground. At this time, Luo Yangxing's whole body was already weak, and he fell on his side on the execution ground, no matter how much Dongchang Fanzi kicked and beat behind him, he couldn't get up.

However, Li Xing was more concerned about Gong Dingyu in the military department, Li Xing had heard Han Jinxin mention this person many times, and knew that this person was the vanguard of attacking his eldest brother Li Zhi in the imperial court, and he was a cadre of the Donglin Party. At the beginning, Li Zhi sent troops to attack Nanzhili, but Gong Dingyu obstructed him in every possible way in the court. Later, Li Zhi transported grain to the north of Henan, and Gong Dingyu said that Li Zhi was deceiving the world and stealing his name.

This person has basically been on Li Zhi's blacklist, and he belongs to the people who want to get rid of everyone in Tianjin.

At this time, the Son of Heaven destroyed Gong Ding's family, and Li Xing naturally clapped his hands.

On the execution table, Gong Dingxiao's face was as white as paper, kneeling in front of his son and grandson, who were also about to be beheaded, and his body shook from time to time.

In front of Gong Dingyu, under the torture platform, there were many Donglin Party officials wearing ordinary clothes. They came to bid farewell to Gong Dingyu and other members of the Donglin Party. However, if today's son has completely controlled the imperial court and wantonly killed the members of the Donglin Party who had attacked him, the Donglin Party was in the dark for a while. These civil officials felt that wearing official robes to watch the execution felt like a demonstration, and they were afraid of arousing the wrath of the Son of Heaven, so they all wore ordinary jackets of ordinary people at this time.

These civil officials looked at the Donglin cadres kneeling on the stage, especially Gong Dingxiao, and their faces were full of sadness about the death of the rabbit and the fox. There are also some people who have close contacts with Gong Dingyu on weekdays, and they are even more tearful.

Li Xing looked at these remnants of the Donglin Party and sneered.

Suddenly, the golden drum was great, and more than 100 Dongchang fans walked up to the Daming Gate with the honor guard of the Son of Heaven. The civil and military officials around Li Xing all knelt down in unison. Then a Dongchang stall head shouted loudly: "The Son of Heaven has arrived!" ”

When the people who were watching the execution heard this, they all fell to their knees one by one.

Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, wore a dragon robe and slowly walked up to the Daming Gate.

The civil and military officials and the people under their doors shouted long live, and the sound of the tsunami was shouted from the mountains.

Zhu Youjian stood in the middle of the Daming Gate Gatehouse, looked at the surrounding crowd, and felt very satisfied. If in the past, when he walked to the Chengtian Gate, he would not be able to go forward anyway, and the civil officials would hold him to the death, and he would only stay in the Forbidden City. And now, he casually went to the outside of the imperial city to take a look at the people in the capital, and no one dared to put a beak.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and the civil and military officials and the people gradually stood up.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the dragon chair placed on the Daming Gate, waved his hand and said, "Let's execute!" ”

The executioners first walked up to Luo Yangxing, and one of them pulled him up from the ground. Falling softly to the ground, Luo Yangxing suddenly screamed, struggling as if to resist. But the executioner did not give him a chance, and cut off his head with a knife in his hand.

The head fell, and the blood on Luo Yangxing's neck spurted a person-high, straight to the edge of the execution table.

The executioner walked up behind Luo Yangxing and began to slaughter. There are more than 200 people in Luo's family, and all of them were beheaded.

Then there are the members of the Donglin Party who participated in the case of Yuan Guifei, as well as the eunuchs and eunuchs who colluded with the Donglin Party. At this time, the executioners killed one by one, and the blood flowed on the torture platform. The original Gao Jue Houlu lost his head one by one at this time.

In the end, it was Gong Dingyu's turn to stop the driver.

Gong Dingxiao's body twitched, his mouth kept shaking, and he didn't know what he was thinking. When the executioner walked to Gong Dingyu's side, Gong Dingyu suddenly glanced at Li Xing on the Daming Gate, and then at the Son of Heaven, and shouted loudly: "If Li Zhi hadn't threatened the imperial court, how would I have let the Son of Heaven build a new army?" How can the Son of Heaven be in power and kill..."

Hearing this, the Donglin Party members in the audience turned to ashes one by one, and closed their eyes helplessly.

Gong Dingyu didn't finish his sentence, the executioner slashed the knife, and he was already in a different place.