In the courtyard of a mansion in the depths of Dongchang Mansion, which is not small, it is full of women who have been taken captive from Linqing to Dongchang and many other places, many of whom are women in their thirties and forties, and there are also many elderly people who have a certain rank and status. According to some past experience, it is clear that in a typical large family, there is a certain status of people. This is also the reason why traditional Chinese society pays attention to the seniority of rotational capital. Young people or children who are too young may not know some things about the wealth orientation of the family because they are often not at home.

"Today is your last chance! I hope you cherish it and don't take chances! Dealing with you people, I am not the first time that a big girl has been in a sedan chair. Judging from your identity, the size of your mansion, and even your manpower, you should have how much of the people's fat and people's ointment you should have plundered from the common people, but I know very well! Just as a dignified hundred-and-a-half old man was speaking, suddenly a heart-rending shout came from some of the surrounding houses. Every little time or so, there are seriously injured people who are beaten and bloodied, and even corpses are pulled out. Others seem to have less serious injuries on their bodies, and there are even people who have barely been tortured.

"See? You should know very well! If you don't honestly return the stolen goods taken from the common people! Those people are what will happen to you! Don't think you can get by! ”

Not far from the gate, Gao Jie was obviously a little impatient with such a reasonable and well-behaved "torture". Some of the other officer leaders also felt that it was too much of a waste of time.

"My lord, if you go on at this pace, not to mention at least a few more days of wasted time, and there will definitely be a lot of omissions. Why don't we implement the method of eating some big households in the Luoyang area at the beginning? Piercing the soles of their feet and fingernails with burned iron needles, or directly using red-hot fire strips to deal with the anus and genitals of those people, no matter how much personal property there is, are tortured until they are close to death. In this way, it will definitely take two days at most to unlock all the floating wealth... ”

Someone else bluntly complained: "When the Northwest Uprising, the other teams were even some people with a not very bad reputation. It's just a slight punishment for those who bully lower-class folk women. A lot of the time it's just a show. Those young ladies and ladies of rich and noble families have never looked down on us poor people in ordinary times, and they are more wicked people who are greedy for vanity, dislike the poor and love the rich? Why not let the brothers collect the debt? ”

If it was Li Zicheng in history, perhaps why only bamboo boards and clamping sticks were used for such a seemingly ordinary and common punishment, and some very cruel punishments were not used. Why should we restrain the team, some of the most basic military disciplines can't be explained, but I just think it should be. At this time, because of some of the teachings and inspirations on the "Chongzhen Anthology", I also thought about some doorways.

Therefore, after being silent for a long time, he said: "Confucius monopolized education and became a prominent scholar for more than 2,000 years. Although those people don't talk about benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith at all to our lower class people. The consciousness of being benevolent and reasonable in everything is imperceptibly in the minds of the vast majority of lower-class people. If we use capital punishment such as needle and artillery burning, or even Ling Chi, it may have a good effect, but it will also allow the soldiers to break the shackles of benevolence, righteousness and morality. If so, they can easily become people without principles and bottom lines. What if we were to plunder some more wealth because of this? Once the bottom line of no moral principle is broken, the prevalence of ink greed will not be far off. The same is true for the military discipline of the families of the rich, and of course you and I are well aware of the grievances brought about by a small number of people with three wives and four concubines, and many ordinary people who are lonely and old for life. But to tell you a word from the heart: even those of us who are smarter? Who thinks that if a woman loves vanity or comes from a wealthy background, she deserves to be humiliated in turn? We all muttered in our own hearts, let alone those below. If this bottom line is broken, the time is not far off for us to become those we despise. So at best, we can use this kind of thing as a means to test people's hearts, but we must punish those who violate it. At the same time, the silver should also be mainly made of bamboo boards and sticks. It can even be taken to a higher level: there is no capital punishment for the worst of the worst. Prepare a few slightly hardened clods of earth that won't easily crush people. Organize a public trial meeting, secretly instigate and coerce the local people to throw it, and use the number and time heap effect to make those who are the most evil people be stoned to death little by little, so that the people who are stoned to death are like the people who were whipped to death by a thousand tails, and their whole body is swollen and died, and the death is even worse... ”

Seeing that there still seemed to be some people who seemed to be somewhat disapproving, Li Zicheng continued: "Our army now has much superior tactical tactics and armor and equipment than the enemy, and everyone's confidence is much stronger. Therefore, in the past, some of the other families relied on women and abduction to maintain morale, and they tried not to use it as much as possible... ”

At this time, a personal soldier who reported the military situation walked into the hall of the meeting, only to see this situation, no need to ask in detail, many people already understood what was happening.

"Is it the military intelligence from Beizhili? Isn't it that after the battle between Linqing and Dongchang, some imperial officials and soldiers in Shandong have not dared to move forward, and there has been no movement for several days? ”

"It's the forbidden travel of the Son of Heaven, but there is no further action after arriving in Linqing! Do we want our army to move south? As long as this group of strong men approached within 200 miles, it was very dangerous. Gao Yingxiang only spoke at this time. Since the Battle of Fuping, everyone in the army did not dare to underestimate the strong army that made the team face heavy setbacks almost in the first battle.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng, who has always been quite decisive on weekdays, was indecisive at this time: "The Son of Heaven Forbidden Brigade is good at firearms and foot combat, and the cavalry combat is not very strong. The distance from Linqing to Dongchang is safe enough. The lack of further progress shows that the Son of Heaven seems to be deliberately pampering us, and the torture can continue, and even expand to some surrounding places. After eating Dongchang, go to eat Qingzhou to take a look, it is said that the garrison there is not strong compared to the Jinan Mansion and Jining area where the heavy troops are now gathered... ”

(End of chapter)