Liu Zongmin looked at the drawings again, and the machine was a wooden platform with a trapezoidal guillotine hanging on it, the blade of which was oblique, hanging on a tall wooden support. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are several wooden strips on the info wooden platform, and I don't know what it is used for, but there is a bamboo basket under the wooden platform. Liu Zongmin looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Please forgive my subordinates for being stupid, I really can't see what it does, but it's like a lathe used to cut something, and the basket below should be used to hold the cut materials!" ”

"Zong Min really has good eyesight!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "This is indeed used to cut things, but it is not a material to cut, but a person's neck, and the basket is not filled with anything else, it is the head of Liuyang!" ”

"What?" Liu Zongmin almost couldn't believe his ears, he couldn't hold the drawing in his hand, left it on the ground, hurriedly apologized to Liu Cheng, and bent down to pick it up. But because he had an old injury on his leg, it was Liu Cheng who picked it up first. Liu Zongmin cautiously raised his head and glanced at Liu Cheng, and mustered up the courage to ask: "My lord, I haven't heard it clearly, can you please say it again!" ”

"Zong Min, it's not that you didn't hear clearly, you just can't believe it!" Liu Cheng smiled: "You heard it right, you can call him a guillotine or a decapitator for this machine, the only use is to cut off people's heads cleanly, and almost no pain is felt." ”

"My lord, why did you spend so much time to build this machine, is it, is it-" When the words came to his lips, Liu Zongmin stopped again, although he was born lowly, he was not stupid. After following Liu Cheng for many years, he has long regarded him as the main one, in ancient words, "the distinction between monarchs and ministers has been decided", since this is the case, it is difficult to say a lot of things, and it cannot be said.

"Isn't there still a few men I can kill?" Liu Cheng said with a smile.

"Damn it!" Liu Zongmin was told that he was broken, and hurriedly kowtowed to the ground to apologize. Liu Cheng leaned over to help him up, and said in a deep voice: "Zong Min, you said this question well, let's put it this way, I can indeed kill a lot of subordinates, but there is a big difference between killing and killing." On the battlefield, the two armies face each other, draw their swords against each other, and each has its own destiny in life and death. There is no shortage of such warriors under me, but the other situation is different. ”

"Another situation? The subordinates are stupid, please speak clearly! ”

Liu Cheng didn't answer Liu Zongmin's question, and asked instead: "Zongmin, I remember that what you hate the most is the gentleman and dignitary who oppressed the people. ”

Liu Zongmin listened, his face turned slightly red: "Those are all things in the past, and my subordinates don't dare to be so nonsense now!" ”

"Zong Min, it's actually right to kill these people, if I were in your position, I wouldn't let them go. It's just that you killed it in the wrong way? ”

"Isn't that right?"

"Yes, I heard that every time you got a gentleman or a dignitary, you were tortured to death, some were heart-digging, some were beaten to death with sticks, and there were many people who were roasted and clamped with sticks. When others see his miserable condition, they will have compassion and forget their sins, but they will think that you are cruel by nature, but not beautiful. When we kill someone, we must affirm their guilt and punish them by heaven, not to avenge our own personal vendettas. It is sufficient to behead him for his sin, but torture is not necessary. ”

"Subordinates understood!" Hearing this, Liu Zongmin was already convinced, he had killed people, knowing that the executioner was a technical job, vision, knife skills, and arm strength were indispensable, and it was common for prisoners with bad skills to go down with seven or eight knives and still survive and not to die, and as long as this machine aligned its neck, the guillotine on it fell several meters high and was definitely cut in two, and even the blood could be blocked with a baffle, and there would never be the situation mentioned earlier.

"It's good to get it!" Liu Cheng nodded: "After you go back, you will step up the work, build this guillotine, and then pick a dozen down-to-earth and capable young men and teach them how to use this thing." ”

"Why don't you pick a few people from your adult's guard?"

"No!" Liu Cheng shook his head: "Just pick from the locals, you have to be locals, it is better to be poor from the family, it is best to choose from the coolies." The salary is a little higher, just nine buckets of rice per month, five silver coins, and one piece of cloth in winter and summer! ”

"Yes, yes!" Liu Zongmin couldn't help but secretly say to himself, the treatment given by Liu Cheng is really not low, and the salaries of those cowardly Xue guards around him are just like that, but those cowardly Xue pro-soldiers are all elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, and this job only needs to pull the mechanism, and the cost performance is really outstanding.

At this time, Zhao Wende came in quickly from the outside, and saw that Liu Zongmin was also slightly stunned, so he walked to Liu Cheng's side and whispered: "My lord, Xuanda Town has sent troops, and it has passed the Bauhinia Pass!" ”

"Oh, so fast!" Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I thought he would have at least three or four days, it seems that Chongzhen is also urging him!" ”

"Lord Lu is a loyal minister!" Zhao Wende sighed, with a look of pity on his face: "My lord, do you want to convene all the generals to discuss?" ”

"What's so good about this, pass the order, all the armies will immediately make food and eat, and leave the division in the afternoon, the goal is the Beijing Division!"

"Then how many soldiers and horses should be left to defend Tianjin?"

"It's enough to leave a thousand people for Lin Heshui, and it's a waste to have more. Guan Ningjun was staring at Yue Tuo, and he couldn't go wrong. Don't be afraid if something goes wrong, as long as you can defeat the Xuan army, and then turn around and deal with the Guan Ning army! Liu Cheng stood up, took the saber from the guard's hand and tied it to his belt, turned back to Liu Zongmin and said, "That's it, you go down first and finish the matter just now!" ”

Yingpun.

"Line up, and those who dare to cut in line will be pulled out to beat the military stick!" Ono Ichiro held a thorn staff and looked coldly at the Japanese soldiers who were lining up to eat, and behind him, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young attendant was trying his best to raise his voice and shouted: "Before everyone eats, they must first thank His Highness Jinong for his great kindness. These rice, fish, tofu, and pickles were originally to be sent to Jingshi for the Ming Emperor and his ministers to enjoy. Because of the generosity of His Highness Jinong, people like you, who are as humble as dust, can eat the food that only the people of the Great Hall can enjoy, and it is really a great favor that must be repaid with their lives! ”

After the lecture was finished, Ono Ichiro looked coldly at the soldiers who had finished receiving the food and returned to the table with folded hands in prayer before starting to eat. He was back in his place, and lunch was already on the table—white rice, tofu and fish soup, braised pork with soybeans, and his favorite pickled radish. Seeing such a sumptuous food, he couldn't help but feel inexplicably moved in his heart - His Royal Highness Jinong's great kindness really needs to be repaid with his life!

As a Kishimidan (Japanese term for Christian) samurai, Ono had to go into exile from his homeland to Southeast Asia in order to maintain his faith, and spent the next few years living in exile, relying on mercenaries for the indigenous and European colonizers of Southeast Asia to support himself. The life of a mercenary is full of dangers and the gains are minimal, just when Ono thought that his life would go on like this, until one day he buried his bones in some unknown corner, and a turning point appeared. The Spaniards and the Ming people united to attack the Dutch's fortress in Dayuan, and he became the internal response of the Ming people. From then on, the god of luck seemed to live on the roof of his house, and Lord Hayashi gave them a house, land, and a salary according to the agreement, and he Ono also followed the leader of Okita to Yangzhou, and defeated the thieves many times, and then went to Liaodong by boat, commanding the ashigaru team composed of ronins recruited from the Matsumae Domain, and rose to the official position of a thousand generals. He also knew that his lord was His Royal Highness Jinong, a powerful daimyo with an army of more than 100,000 and tens of thousands of miles of land. Therefore, when Liu Cheng raised the banner and went south to Jingjing, Ono did not have some trepidation like other Han generals, but the ecstasy of "His Royal Highness Jinong really has the strength of the people of the world, if I can make great contributions in the war, maybe I can become the lord of one city and one country like Kato and Fukushima".

Just as Ono was in his own reverie, an attendant came in from outside and whispered in his ear, "My lord, there is a military order!" ”

Ono took the military order from the hands of the attendants, opened it and looked at it, his hands immediately trembled violently, he suddenly closed his hands, crumpled the letter paper into a ball, Huo stood up and shouted in a high-pitched voice: "His Royal Highness Jinong has ordered that troops be sent out in the afternoon to conquer the Xuanda army of the Ming Kingdom, and this battle will determine the ownership of the world." If this battle is won, His Royal Highness Jinong will become the world, and even the lowly people who carry shoes should rejoice and be loyal and brave. Today, those who have brothers and heirs do not have to worry about having no one to inherit the family business, and those who have no brothers and children can choose those who are close to them from among their relatives to inherit the family business. The level of everyone's reward is the depth of loyalty of the whole system! ”

"Seventh brother, is seventh brother at home?"

Hearing the slamming sound of the courtyard door being slammed, Wang Qi stood up and wanted to open the door, but was stopped by the Hun family behind him: "The master, ask who it is first?" At the moment, when the army is in chaos, there are soldiers everywhere, if the soldiers are arrested, who do you expect our mother and son to go? ”

Wang Qi listened reasonably, first put the Hun family in place, and asked loudly, "Who is outside?" ”

"It's me, dog, Seventh Brother, are you here, I have something important to look for you!"

Wang Qi had already heard Li Gou'er's voice outside at this time, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran to the courtyard gate, laughing as he ran: "It turns out that Gou'er, you were okay that day, I am so worried!" As he spoke, he had already removed the pillar that had reached the door, and saw that Li Gou'er was dressed in a thin tweed short coat, with a pair of leather boots on his feet, a wide belt around his waist, and a short-handled beard knife. Wang Qi couldn't help but grow his mouth when he saw it, and he couldn't speak.

"Brother Seven, come and help you!" When Li Gou'er entered the door, he put down a pocket from his shoulder, Wang Qi hurriedly stepped forward to catch it, felt that it weighed about thirty or forty pounds, and asked, "What is inside?" ”

"Food!" Li Gou'er smiled: "Give it to the seventh brother!" ”

"How can this be made, so much food!" Wang Qida was taken aback and hurriedly excused himself. Li Gou'er said with a smile: "Brother Seven, don't shirk, I know that our river workers are all working day and eating day by day, these days the military luck has stopped, your family must be broken, you can hold on, sister-in-law has a child in her belly!" ”

Wang Qi heard Li Gou'er tell the truth, his face was slightly red, as the other party said, his rice bowl had already seen the bottom, and there were only a few handfuls of broken rice left to boil some gruel with his wife to drink, and he was about to stop. Although he took a few silver coins from Li Gou'er, he didn't dare to buy rice on the street, for fear of being arrested by the army. If you can stand up, can you let your wife with a child in her belly also stand up? He looked back at his wife, gritted his teeth, and said, "Dog, thank you, I'll take half of it, and keep the remaining half for yourself." I'll give you the money right away! ”

"No need!" Li Gou'er said with a smile: "Seventh brother, you stay, I led the way for the military master that day, and found an errand from them, there are nine buckets of grain every month, and there are five silver coins at the end of the month." You took care of me a lot, and this bento is my kindness in return! ”

"Nine buckets of grain, as well as silver collars, there are such good things!" Wang Qi looked at Li Gou'er's outfit, and his envy was overflowing. At this time, he also brought water and said in a low voice: "Dog, this time thanks to you." Do you know when this soldier will be finished? Your seventh brother doesn't dare to go out to find work, it won't work like this! ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm here for this matter this time!" Li Gou'er took a sip of water, put the bowl down, and said to Wang Qi: "Brother Qi, let me find a few locals to be on errands, nine buckets of grain every month, five silver coins, and a piece of cloth in summer and winter, are you willing to do it?" ”

Wang Qi swallowed his saliva, glanced at his wife, and then turned around and asked, "Do you know what to do?" ”

"Beheaded! It's the executioner! ”

"Ahh Wang Qi's feet were weak, and his butt reached the ground, and he waved his hand again and again: "How can I have the ability to eat this bowl of rice, you better find someone else!" Brother dog, I advise you, this is a thing that hurts yin morality, so don't do it! ”

"I've seen it, it's very simple, anyone can do it!" Li Gou'er said with a smile: "Someone has done a good job, as long as he pulls the handle, the guillotine will fall from above, and even the wood will be cut in two, let alone the living?" If your head falls into the basket, you can't even bleed much, even your sister-in-law can do it, let alone your seven-foot-long man? Speaking of this, he paused slightly: "As for Yin De, those wicked people have done so many things that hurt Yin De? Everyone is rich and glorious, how can there be retribution in this world? And I've already heard that the dozens of warehouse officials in Tongzhou have been arrested, confiscated their family property, and made up for the shortfall. This mechanism is for them. As long as I can let these wicked people be punished, I am willing to damage some yin virtues! ”