Yang Mu was wearing a dragon robe, stepping on the pre-laid cloth carpet on the ground, slowly ascending to the prison platform, sitting on the dragon chair, raising his hand, Shen An next to him took out a holy decree, slowly opened it, and read: "Your Majesty declares an edict!" ”

Suddenly, the valley of 100,000 people was silent, and even the criminals who were waiting to be executed stopped sobbing.

"When the time comes, I am hereby ordered. Since I ascended the throne, the internal law and law, the external defense of the strong enemy, although the best efforts, but there are still conspirators in the country to commit chaos, repeated teachings, so today the Ming canonical punishment, to correct the public, in order to take the enemy! Chin this—"

"Hooray, hooray, hooray—"

After the edict was recited, there was another tsunami-like bow.

Then, more than a dozen officials of the Ministry of Punishment walked to the prison and read out the names one by one, holding the roster, and about a quarter of an hour later, dozens of executioners entered the execution ground with large knives on their backs.

These can be said to be all the executioners of Cangguo at present, generally speaking, there are at most two or three executioners in a local government, but there are too many criminals to be executed this time, so the executioners of various local governments are also gathered, and then some butchers are temporarily recruited from the people, barely enough to gather an executioner team.

The first batch of executions were 1,500 soldiers, one row at a time, and with the order of the prison officer of the Criminal Department, row after row of heads fell to the ground, blood splattered everywhere on the neck, and in less than a quarter of an hour there was blood all over the ground, and the low lying area was a terrifying scarlet, like a pool of blood.

This is a very cruel scene, at the beginning, the people from all directions were still cheering, but halfway through the execution, they all felt nauseous and disgusting, extremely mad.

Until the end, the executioners' big knives were rolled, and often cut down with one knife and half of their necks hanging, and the criminals wailed and spasmed on the ground in pain, seeing this scene, many of the surrounding people vomited one after another, their faces were pale, and many of them were a little less courageous, squatting on the ground and not daring to look at it again.

The ordinary people who watched the execution were still like this, and the three kings and the rebel officials kneeling on the central execution platform were naturally even more afraid, and they only felt that every time the big knife fell, it was like a slash on their neck.

At this moment, they began to envy those who were the first to be executed, death is a matter of moments, anyway, sooner or later, it will be a death, why bother to suffer so much?

"Your Majesty, spare me! We are flesh and blood, even if there is a mistake, do you have to be so ruthless! I don't dare to be a brother anymore, and I will be an honest civilian in the future, and I won't dare again, Your Majesty! King Yi's eyes were red, and his whole person seemed to be crazy, struggling constantly, if he hadn't been tied to the torture pile, I'm afraid he would have fallen to the ground.

"Me too! Me too! King Ze's hair was scattered, and he also shouted in horror: "Spare me, I don't have any threat anymore, if Your Majesty kills me, I will bear the notoriety of killing my brother!" The first emperor is in the spirit of heaven, and he must not want to see us kill each other! Your Majesty! ”

"The old minister should die, he was blinded by lard, my Shangguan family will be loyal to His Majesty in the future, when His Majesty is a dog, His Majesty will bite wherever he says!" Shangguan Mingwen cried bitterly, and the remorse in his heart was like a surging river, and the hatred was inexhaustible.

"Weichen knows that he is wrong, please let go of our Liang family's family, they are innocent!" The head of the Liang family also wept bitterly, and his blood relatives and family members, totaling more than 60 people, were all waiting to be executed in the execution ground at this time.

"Your Majesty, Kai En!"

With King Yi's begging for mercy, the rest of the people on the torture platform also began to cry and beg for forgiveness, which gradually spread to the entire execution ground, and the families of the rebel officials seemed to see the dawn, because they heard that His Majesty the Emperor has always been lenient, and even those prisoners on the battlefield can be forgiven, why can't they be forgiven?

Even if he was punished by the palace and enslaved for the rest of his life, or he was sent to the sect as an official prostitute, it was better than dying!

Although they knew that there was little hope, but driven by the instinct to survive, they couldn't care so much, and even the soldiers who had not been executed opened their mouths to beg for mercy, and kept struggling, until hundreds of officers and soldiers rushed up to suppress them, which stabilized the scene.

Looking at the miserable begging for mercy below, Yang Mugao sat on the dragon chair with an expressionless face.

Everyone thought he was indifferent, but only a few people closest to him, such as Shen An and Ji Ling'er, knew that His Majesty the Emperor, who was extremely holy in the eyes of outsiders, was also disgusted by this bloody tragedy at this time, just like those ordinary people.

Of course, no matter how disgusting it was, Yang Mu was still very calm.

Forgive?

How can it be!

Since ascending the throne, he has dealt with two foreign wars and one domestic traitor, which has made many people mistakenly think that His Majesty the emperor does not like to kill.

But who knows what goes into this?

Don't kill prisoners, this is a strategy with a view to the future, and a thousand dollars buy horse bones.

He did not kill the traitors because at the beginning of his succession, he was unable to fight with the domestic family lords, so he had to exchange it for the support of the domestic nobles for the decree.

Even the three kings only dealt with it with a very gentle plan to kill the three soldiers, and never thought of asking for the lives of the three kings.

The most important point is that making compromises on these matters does not threaten his foundation, and it doesn't matter if he forgives.

But this time, these people are forcing the palace to rebel! Without the nine clans, it is already an extrajudicial grace, even forgiving one person is a kind of connivance to rebellion, which is equivalent to telling the world that the cost of rebellion is very low.

Therefore, this time, he specially issued an edict to let the high-ranking officials and people of the whole country come to watch, just to draw a red line in front of everyone, so that everyone in the future will shudder and tremble when they think of the word rebellion.

This is not only a deterrent to rebellion, but also a means to enhance the power of the emperor!

"Your Majesty, the second batch has also been disposed of." After a while, Shen An next to him reminded.

Yang Mu took a look, and sure enough, on the huge execution ground, 1,500 soldiers and hundreds of rebel officials and their families had been beheaded, and the small officials of the criminal department who collected the corpses were carrying the baskets, picking up the heads and throwing them into the baskets, as if collecting melons and fruits, they were carried away one by one, leaving some headless corpses, and it was estimated that after all the executions were completed, they would dig pits and bury them on the spot.

"Put on the torture equipment, and call the executioners who trained yesterday." Yang Mu ordered.

"Yes." Shen An bowed and nodded, and with a wave of the dust in his hand, a team of soldiers carried one torture instrument after another.

Cut in half, crack the car, Ling Chi, bury alive......

These things are the ancient tortures that Yang Mu found out one by one according to the descriptions of the books, especially the first three, which are specially used to deal with the most vicious people, and they are the standard for those who plot against them.

"What is this ......?"

"Seems to be a torture instrument?"

"Isn't it beheaded, what new tricks is the little emperor going to play?"

When the torture instruments were brought up one by one, the hearts of the rebels began to feel a strong uneasiness, and they were terrified, and their already desperate hearts were restless again.

Just want to die happily, is it so difficult?