readx; In the past few days, the Jinyi guards who have followed Zhu Youzhen's royal drive have been very busy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although Xu Dingguo ran away, the officers at all levels who were originally under his command let the officers and soldiers arrest dozens of people, from the general flag and the small flag to the commander and the commander, and all the Jinyi guards were interrogated one by one.

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's transfer of military criminals to Jinyiwei for trial, the courtiers had no opinion. Because since its establishment, Jinyiwei has always had great power as the emperor's secret service. Officials who commit crimes are often tried first by Jinyiwei, and they are all transferred to the Criminal Department only after they have been tried, which is just a formality. As for the generals, they were arrested and interrogated by Jinyiwei, and the criminal department was still unwilling to mix. Now that the emperor has made a clear decree to be assigned to Jinyiwei, the criminal department is happy to do less work.

But for Jin Yiwei, it was the first time that a prisoner had been convicted. Now the backbone of Jinyiwei has all been replaced by the old foundation of Qin Bing, they have a first-class level of arrest and interrogation, but they are not very familiar with "Da Ming Law". Fortunately, these criminals are charged with only one crime: rebellion, and the facts of the crime are also very clear. After the trial, Jinyiwei sentenced 14 criminals to be beheaded, and 20 criminals were sentenced to be sentenced to prison, and handed over to Zhu Youzhen to be executed.

In the past, after the criminal was convicted of a capital crime by the Criminal Department, the Criminal Department would write a list of the death row prisoners to be killed, briefly introduce the facts of the crime, and hand it to the emperor to use a cinnabar pen to tick. The name of the person who is ticked is that he has been approved for execution, and he can be beheaded after the autumn; What is not decided is that the emperor believes that the case may be suspicious and needs to be remanded for retrial.

The execution of criminals by the supreme ruler himself seems to be a manifestation of "careful killing", but it is not. For example, Emperor Xizong Zhu Youxiao also hooked up criminals, he didn't even know a few big characters, and the hook was all based on likes and dislikes. Those who were lucky not to be hooked by him, some of them have been locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department since the early years of the Apocalypse, and one pass is five or six years.

What's more, he obviously committed a capital crime and there is no possibility of overturning the case, but by bribing the eunuch around the emperor, every time it is time to make a decision, let the eunuch try to cover up or hide the page with his name written on it. The emperor can't see this page, so naturally he can't be convicted, and the prisoner can live for an extra year and wait until the next conviction. If the family has hands and eyes, they can slowly try to overturn the case.

But this kind of despicable trick is not good for Zhu Youzhen here. First of all, he abolished the eunuch system, and the person who helped him to "manage everything every day" was replaced by a secretariat composed of palace maids. The palace ladies are almost isolated from the world, rarely colluding with the outside world, and no one can do it if they want to cheat.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen also took a few days to dispose of all the backlog lists of Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi. After that, he did not talk about any "autumn decision" and asked the criminal department to submit the completed death penalty cases at any time, and he could collude with them at any time. Of course, Zhu Youzhen is not careless about human life, he looks at every case very carefully, and only if there is an iron case without any problems, he will immediately decide it, and if there is any doubt, he will send it back to the criminal department to ask for a retrial.

The same was true of this execution, and Zhu Youzhen spent several hours going through the files of all the condemned prisoners to confirm that these officers did indeed play a key role in the rebellion. Among them were several low-ranking officers, and Zhu Youzhen thought that their rank was too low, and they might have been coerced by their superiors, so they were removed from the list and sentenced to prison. And those who were sentenced to beheading and waiting for prison, as long as the evidence is conclusive, there is no need to "wait", Zhu Youzhen directly conspired with them, and it became a beheading sentence.

In the early morning of the next day, Jin Yiwei was immediately executed, and Zhu Youzhen personally supervised the beheading. The place of execution was set up in the barracks of the first division of the Ming Army, and dozens of death row prisoners knelt down in a row, most of their faces were like ashes, and some had already passed out, and they had to be supported. The thousands of soldiers who watched the execution around were solemn and silent.

The Jinyi Wei official in charge of hearing the case first read aloud the list of condemned prisoners and the reasons for the crimes, and then verified their identities one by one. After all preparations were stopped, the executioner asked Zhu Youzhen for instructions on execution. Zhu Youzhen's eyes were slightly closed, and he said categorically: "Execute immediately!" ”

"There is a decree from the Holy Father, immediately executed!"

This last word "punishment" dragged on for a long time, and with this shout, only the sound of "click" was heard endlessly, and within a few seconds, dozens of officers who participated in the rebellion were all beheaded, and their heads looked at the whole battalion, and then hung on the gate tower of the four cities of Kaifeng Mansion to show the public. Everyone was in their hearts, thinking that this young long-lived master was ruthless enough, and he couldn't even wait for three o'clock in the afternoon, so he sent these dozens of people away early in the morning.

And just when the head of the city of Kaifeng Mansion provoked the head of the rebel general, the head of Chuzhou, which was more than 800 miles away in the southeast, was also hanging more than a dozen heads with terrifying faces. On the official road outside the West Gate, a group of people stopped to look into the distance, and after a long time, the old man led by him said to another old man beside him: "Brother Yun, look at the banner at the head of the city, Chuzhou is still under the control of the official army. Go to the city quickly and ask questions, and if there is no abnormality, we will enter the city. ”

These two people are Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli, two old ministers who were ordered to go to Nanjing. Since leaving Kaifeng Mansion, they have been escorted by Yang Lukai, an officer of Lu Xiangsheng, all the way through Guide Mansion and Fengyang Mansion, the central capital, and arrived in Chuzhou in just over four days.

In fact, this journey is already very dangerous, because the hundreds of thousands of thieves are in the Pengcheng area not far to the east, and the characteristics of the thieves are that they are wandering around, and they may return here at any time, so Yang Lukai, who is responsible for protecting the two old ministers, is highly nervous and only dares to sleep for more than an hour every day.

When he arrived in Chuzhou, Yang Lukai finally breathed a sigh of relief, because Chuzhou was very close to Nanjing, and there were heavy troops stationed in Nanjing, so thieves might not dare to come here. But before he could catch his breath, he saw the head hanging at the head of the city, and immediately became nervous again, and ordered all the people to be on guard, and then sent the Chinese army to the city to shout.

After a while, the city gate was opened, and a group of cavalry slowly came out, also under the banner of the official army, and everyone was completely relieved. Soon, the leading general rushed to Wang Zaijin and Yuan Ke immediately, turned over and dismounted and saluted: "The last general Yangzhou deputy Qianhu Huang Degong, see the two Shangshu adults!" ”

Cao Wenzhao's top-secret biography to Zhu Youzhen, Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli have not read it, and they don't know Huang Degong. After a few simple greetings, Wang Zaijin asked: "Huang Qianhu, are you ordered to be stationed in Chuzhou?" Who was the head hanging at the head of this city, and why was it beheaded? ”

Huang Degong said with a big grin: "Lord Hui Shangshu, if you want to say that you are ordered, the last general will not be ordered." You asked about the heads above, one of them was Li Mingqiu of Chuzhou Wei Qianhu, and the last general cut it off with his own hands, and it was not half an hour before he hung it..."

As soon as the words came out, Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli were taken aback at the same time!