"Recently, the customs have been bad, and heresy has swarmed, including White Lotus, Dacheng, Mixed Yuan, Wuwei, Luojiao and other religions, all kinds of fame. Burning incense to confess and incite people's hearts, so that they may conspire or follow thieves, especially those who are traitors to the people. …… In case of encountering various sects, they will be severely arrested and punished with serious crimes, thinking that it is a measure to prevent the slightest mistake. In the third year of the Shunzhi reign of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, the officials wrote to Lin Qilong in the matter

In a dimly lit cell in Deqing Prison, a blood-stained young man struggled to get up from the weeds on the ground, slowly moved his body to the corner of the wall, and then leaned motionless against the wall.

There were also three prisoners in the cell, a white-haired old man over sixty years old, a strong man in his forties, and a black young man, who looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The three of them turned a blind eye to the young man's actions, no one stepped forward to help him, no one said a word to him, just lying on the ground like zombies, all of them with dead air on their faces, as if there was no one in the cell but themselves.

The cell was suffocatingly quiet, with the occasional cough or two in the distance, but nothing else. The air was full of musty smells, and there was a hint of rancid smell from time to time, but I don't know which prisoner's wounds had suppurated again.

After leaning against the wall for half a pillar of incense, the young man finally let out a long breath, and looked at the jailers who walked by from time to time outside the fence, and there was an indescribable resentment in his eyes.

The young man's name is Tie Yi, a miner at the Laofeng Village Copper Mine in Deqing, who was arrested and imprisoned a month ago because he was angry with his teacher because he was beaten by a supervisor. What the county government didn't know was that Tie Yi had another identity in addition to the identity of a miner, and that was a Luojiao.

The so-called Luo cultists, also known as the Xiang cultists, also known as the demon cult, they "eat vegetables and demons", gather people to burn incense, repeatedly fight against the government, and often rebel, so they are deeply jealous of the government of the past dynasties, and the suppression is very severe.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he carried out a policy of suppression of the Xiangjiao, and the once prosperous Xiangjiao has since turned into a civil secret state, and the name of the religion has also developed from Mingjiao, Bailian to Luojiao, Mixed Yuan, Dacheng and other names. In the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Tang Sai'er uprising in the Yongle period, and the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings in the Zhengde period, the Xiangjiao did not have a major rebellion against the government in the rest of the time, and its influence among the people was gradually declining, and there was almost nothing else to do except secretly set up incense.

The policy of racial discrimination and massacre adopted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty against the Han people made the Xiangjiao active among the people again, and the Xiangjiao people in various places were unwilling to be persecuted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and organized many righteous armies to oppose the Qing

Tie Yi lost his father since childhood, his mother was unwilling to be poor and married to others, he grew up by eating hundreds of meals at a young age, at the age of 15, he worshiped Deqing Luo Sect incense master, Lao Feng Mine gun master Zheng Laoquan as a teacher, not only learned the ability to blow up a hole and nest, but also very righteous, quite chivalrous, so in Zhaoqing Luo Christians have a high reputation, and his master Zheng Laoquan won the support of the miners of the Laofengzhuang copper mine.

Two months ago, the governor of Guangdong, Yamen, sent a letter to Zhaoqing Mansion to double the output of the Laofengzhuang copper mine under the control of the government, thinking that the two princes of Jingnan and Pingnan would open a vassal and build a government. After receiving the order from Guangdong, the Zhaoqing government immediately issued a document to Deqing, regardless of the life and death of the miners, forcibly increased production, and more than a dozen people died of exhaustion.

At the beginning, Zheng Laoquan, Tie Yi and other miners did not have the heart to fight, the Qing army was strong, the Luo sect was weak, and the disciples from all over the country cooperated with Li Dingguo's army to attack Guangzhou several times to no avail, and now Li Dingguo's army retreated to Guangxi, they had no support, they could only secretly oppose the Qing court, and did not dare to raise the flag against the Qing Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Guangzhou still thought that the speed of copper production in the mine was slow, and sent a supervisor to the Laofengzhuang mine. After this person took office, he intensified, not only drove the miners to go to the mine day and night, but also wantonly deducted the miners' food, and the original two meals a day became one meal a day.

The miners had to go down to the mine day and night without enough to eat, and the overseers whipped them every day in order to curry favor with the new master, so that the miners complained.

One day, when Zheng Laoquan couldn't see a few words with the supervisor of the Han military banner and was whipped to death, Tie Yi couldn't help it, and angrily stoned him to death, and was immediately caught by other supervisors in the mine, and was handed over to the Deqing government after being beaten, and reported to the criminal department for execution.

Tie Yi killed the supervisor of the Han Army Banner, this Han Army Banner is the godson of the Qing court, is a second-class person in the Qing Dynasty, has been acting as a thug for the Manchurians to oppress the Han people, the Han people kill the Han government may have to ask a right or wrong, severity, and dispose of it as appropriate, but if the Han people kill the flag man, then there is no need to ask, they are all going to be sentenced heavily, and those who don't kill the head will also be killed!

Tie Yi, who knew that he was going to die, didn't complain, but he was sad about his master, and I don't know if anyone in the future sect would come forward to deal with it.

After leaning against the wall and squinting for a while, a prison brought food, a bucket of blackened and sour food, and a bucket of rotten vegetable leaf soup without oil and water.

Tie Yi moved to the fence in small steps, and filled some soup with a broken bowl, but after his mouth was surprisingly faint, he couldn't even have a little salt, and after frowning slightly, he silently sat back at the base of the wall with the bowl, and looked at the other three people out of the corner of his eyes.

The old man's name is Liao Ruixiang, and I heard that he used to be a master of Shaoxing, and he was taken to prison for writing some anti-poems. After getting out of the cell, he cried out there every day.

The strong man's name is Chen Mo, but he is an authentic bandit, and he didn't tear up the meat ticket, but he was caught by the owner's family who spent a lot of money to hire an official, and it is estimated that he will be beheaded a lot.

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was named Pan Mengzi, a native of Deqing, who was sent to prison for injuring the master's son by mistake.

Seeing that the three of them were sitting there with food to eat, Tie Yi stopped looking at them, lowered his head and roared, he could eat this meal in a day, and he didn't eat it for nothing.

The four of them were gobbling up, but they heard someone outside shouting, "Get up!" ”

Hearing this, the four of them put down the broken bowl and looked up to look out of the fence, but it was the prison head who was standing outside with a few green battalion soldiers.

"What for?" Chen Mo shouted, and continued to eat indifferently, not paying attention to the soldiers outside at all.

Master Liao and Pan Mengzi stood up hesitantly, and the former looked at the prison head expectantly.

Tie Yi just put the bowl down, but didn't get up immediately.

"What for?" The prison head glanced coldly at Chen Mo, who was bearded, "Your case has been verified by the Criminal Department, now pull it out and open the knife!" ”

"What? Surgery! ”

When Master Liao heard this, his eyes darkened and he fell to the ground. Pan Mengzi was also scared, standing there trembling.

It's finally here, damn it, die early and be reincarnated early, and after eighteen years, he will be a good man again!

Tie Yi was not afraid, but breathed a sigh of relief, as if a heavy stone pressed on his chest had finally fallen.

"I have to tell Lao Tzu to eat enough and go on the road, what about the severed head rice, bring it!"

The strong man Chen Mo glanced at Master Liao, who was so scared to death, that he smacked at the prison head, slammed the broken bowl in his hand against the wall, and scolded: "If you want to open Lao Tzu's knife, you will give Lao Tzu this food?" Are there any rules? Damn, why don't you go and give Lao Tzu the whole roast chicken and bring the altar wine! ”

"Damn, you still have to eat chicken and drink wine when you die?" The corner of the prison head's mouth twitched, signaled his subordinates to open the lock, and then pushed the door in, according to Chen Mo is fist, and scolded: "Do you eat your fist?" ”

"Dog Day"

Chen Mo had an iron rope in his hand, he couldn't resist, he ate the punch of the prison head, not to be outdone, he opened his mouth to scold, and before the scolding came out, the two green battalion soldiers rushed up and stuffed rags into his mouth.

"Woohoo"

Tie Yi, Master Liao, and Pan Mengzi were also gagged by the green battalion soldiers, and the four of them kept calling, but they couldn't make a sound.

After blocking the prisoner's mouth, the Green Battalion soldiers put black cloth on the heads of the four people, and suddenly the four of them could not see anything. When he was dragged out, Tie Yi vaguely heard someone counting.

"Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three"