Early in the morning of the third day, the security officers and security guards in the yamen set up a trial table in the East Gate Barracks School Yard under the leadership of Qi Xiaobai, an "assistant engineer" and civil construction worker of the Ministry of Construction. In less than two hours, a wooden platform, ten meters long, five meters wide, and one meter high, was erected. The banner above the wooden platform reads "Public Judgment and Summer Strike Hard Action Pledge Meeting" on a white cloth, and in the center of the stage is a long wooden table covered with a red cloth, and there is nothing but a desk microphone.

At the beginning of the morning, that is, at more than nine o'clock in the morning, people came to the school yard in twos and threes, curiously looking at the "short hair" who were busy back and forth. Short hair is the nickname given to the survivors by the people of the city, simple and intuitive, just in contrast to the Taiping army's "long hair". Although it is a county seat, there are very few entertainment activities throughout the year, so even if the case is tried, there are many people who come to watch. Originally, I thought that after the bloodshed on the street the day before yesterday, not many people in the city would come to the public judgment meeting, but everyone underestimated the enthusiasm of the people to watch the excitement. By the beginning of noon, that is, at eleven o'clock, the school field was already crowded.

At half past eleven, the security team cleared a way through the crowd, and the soldiers of the Liberation Army escorted today's protagonist towards the venue. At the front is today's leading actor, the head of the abduction and trafficking syndicate, and a middle-aged woman - Xi Hongshi. According to Xi Hongshi's confession, she is a native of Huaxian County, Guangzhou, now in her Chinese New Year's Eve, and is related to the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom outside the five suits. The reason why she confessed her identity as a "bandit" was the idea of building friendship with the survivors, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court were enemies, and the Guangfu Army and the Qing court were also enemies, and Xi Hongshi also understood the truth that "the enemy of the enemy is a friend", so he hoped that the survivors would let her go for the sake of everyone being a "revolutionary comrade". Of course, her wish was also impossible. At this time, she looked aggrieved, unkempt, pale, and her whole body was tied up, and she was almost dragged by two soldiers from both sides. There is a two-foot-eight long white card hanging on his chest, with two lines of words written with a brush, and the upper line is the five words "human trafficking", and the font is slightly smaller; The three big characters below are her name, and there is a big red cross on the word. Xi Hong's family has not been abused in the past two days, and the three meals a day are also white rice, vegetables and salted fish, which makes her feel that the Guangfu Army will not be difficult for her, otherwise she will not be entertained with delicious food and drink, most likely for the sake of Hong Tianwang's face to make a good fate.

But just last night her dream was shattered, and a big girl in a black robe was sentenced outside her cell, through the iron bars. "In accordance with the provisions of Article 120 of the "Provisional General Principles of the Criminal Law of the Liberated Area of Guangdong", the following judgment is hereby made against you: The suspect Xi Hong, together with others, kidnapped and abducted women by means of obscurity, the circumstances are heinous, the evidence is conclusive, and he is hereby sentenced to death and immediately executed!" After saying the above words with great momentum, Xia Yusi looked at the middle-aged woman in front of him with indifferent eyes. As a modern person, a civilized person, and a woman, I hate the crime of human traffickers. Watching Xi Hong's facial expression collapse little by little, the female judge faintly felt a hint of pleasure.

Xi Hongshi was confused by the first part of the passage, but she understood the final death sentence. She was completely unprepared and was knocked down in an instant, originally thinking that she could be released by spending some money and losing it, but she didn't expect to wait for such a result. I have to say that the Chinese in the nineteenth century were not only more illiterate, but also more legally illiterate, and in Xi Hong's values, abducting people is similar to stealing things, even if she is caught, it is a matter of several months, and I don't know that even according to the "Great Qing Laws", she will inevitably die.

"Spare your life! Grace to you! For the sake of the king, let the little woman go......" Xi Hongshi sat on the ground as if his spine had been removed, and he wailed with a handful of snot and tears. "I'm the cousin of King Hong! Spare me, and the King will reward you. I don't want to die! I'll give you money, I have a lot of money......" The instinct to survive made Xi Hong's words a little incoherent, and he shouted out whatever was useful or not.

The female judge looked at the ugly middle-aged woman with disdain for a moment, and then resolutely turned away. Ma Jin, who accompanied him to announce the verdict, sneered, "You always have to pay it back when you come out." Think about the girls you have trafficked, will they agree to let you go? Let's be a good person in the next life! After speaking, he left behind Xia Yusi, and there were several prisoners waiting for the verdict to be announced.

The prisoners are now following behind. Two of Xi Hong's accomplices also hung signs that read "Human Trafficking", but their names were not crossed in red. Their sentence was life imprisonment, a written statement of "hard labor for life, labor unto death"; The other few were the thugs who smashed and looted the fire on the day the Liberation Army entered the city, and they have been undergoing "labor reform" for more than 10 days. This time, he was also escorted to accompany him with the signs of "intentional injury" and "robbery". Most of them have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 20 to 30 years, but with the physical fitness of people in this era, they don't know if they will live out one day.

A group of prisoners were escorted to the front of the trial table and lined up in front of the audience, so that everyone could clearly see the charges of each prisoner. This novel way aroused everyone's strong interest, pointing and talking about the actors in today's play, and some literate people began to act as volunteer propagandists, explaining to the illiterate people around them one by one.

At half past eleven, that is, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the judgment meeting officially began. Ma Jin strode to the center of the judgment table, picked up the microphone and tried "Hey, hey" twice. There was a loudspeaker on each of the pillars, and there was a loud noise. "Quiet! Be quiet! Now that the meeting is meeting, please be quiet! As the No. 2 person in the Military Management Commission and the deputy director in charge of civil affairs, Ma Jin has been running around the city for more than ten days, and has an in-depth understanding of all aspects of the situation in the city, and has visited many ordinary people's families, so it can be said that he is the person with the highest exposure rate in the Liberation Army, and more than half of the people in the city know this "pony chief". As soon as I saw him on stage, his voice became quieter, and when the sound like a bell came from the strange loudspeaker, most of the people closed their mouths, and many people muttered in their hearts, what kind of magic weapon is this? Or is it some supernatural power? Or the legendary lion's roar? Before the audience could understand, Ma Jin began to play the role of the host of the meeting. "Now I announce that this Xin'an County Public Judgment and Summer Strike Hard Operation Pledge Meeting has officially begun, and first of all, I invite Huang Fanding, chairman of the Central Committee of the Liberation Army, to speak on stage."

As Chairman Huang walked to the center of the stage, the survivors standing under the stage and around the venue began to applaud. After this period of "edification", the staff in the yamen have also mastered some modern etiquette, and applause is one of them. In order to show their "loyalty" to the new regime, these people applauded much louder than the survivors, and under their leadership, other ordinary people also learned to applaud. A young man dressed in a long robe and a scholar asked a fast man who was familiar with him and was eating in the yamen: "What kind of official position is this chairman?" ”

Kuaishou made a mysterious look and whispered: "This chairman is the biggest official in the Liberation Army, and tens of thousands of people in the county must listen to his orders, and they should really be above 10,000 people." ”

"Above 10,000 people, isn't that the emperor?" The scholar also whispered, "This Liberation Army is really ambitious!" ”

"Even if it's not the emperor, it's almost the same as the long-haired king." Kuaishou looked like "I'm not an acquaintance, I won't tell you".

Huang Fanding took the microphone from Ma Jin's hand, learned the style of Taizu in the documentary, and waved his hand to the audience, "Folks, everyone has worked hard!" It's a pity that no one below answered him with "serving the people". Ma Yangui stood under the stage with his arms crossed and touched Shen Xing with his elbow, "If Rhubarb shouts 'Long live the people', it will be more like." ”

Huang Fanding successfully attracted everyone's attention, and then said: "Fellow villagers, after these days of getting along, I believe everyone has seen that our Guangfu Army is a righteous army, and it was raised for the sake of thousands of ordinary people to live a good life. We must not only fight against the Manchu court that oppressed us, but also eliminate all the bad elements that destroy our happy life. Everyone is an ordinary person, and they all rely on their own hands to work hard to earn food and clothing, but there are some bad elements who like to work hard and want to seize other people's property through illegal means, and this behavior is exactly the same as the nature of the oppression and exploitation of the broad masses by the Manchu court, and we must resolutely crack down on and eliminate it. The purpose of our public trial here today is to tell everyone that a life of abundance and food depends on one's own labor, and that any evil deeds will be severely punished! Now, bring all the criminals up! ”

Under Huang Fanding's order, more than a dozen criminals with cards were escorted to the trial table, and Xia Yusi, dressed in a judge's robe, took over the leadership of the conference and began to read out the charges of each criminal and the punishment they would love. Xi Hong, who bore the brunt of the attack, was escorted to the most conspicuous position in the center of the stage, Xia Yusi stood beside her and began his work, while Xi Hongshi could only barely stand under the hostage of soldiers. "The criminal Xi Hongshi, a native of Huaxian County, Guangzhou, is unemployed. As a woman, she does not think about virtue and virtue, is consumed by the desire for profit, abducts women for her own selfish desires, harms one party, disregards human life, and does all kinds of evil, seriously undermines social stability and unity, shakes the cornerstone of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and arouses the righteous indignation of the broad masses of the people in Xin'an. Xi Hong's case is not an ordinary criminal case, and not killing is not enough to outrage the people; Not killing is not enough to demonstrate the deterrent power of the people's democratic dictatorship; Non-killing is not enough to maintain the stability of social order; Not killing is not enough to set an example and save a large number of people who are lucky enough to break the law and discipline. In order to strictly enforce the national law and set an example, after the trial of the Xinan Intermediate People's Court, Xi Hongshi was sentenced to death, and his identity was verified, and he was executed and deprived of political rights for life. This sentence was revised by the female clerk in combination with the judgments written in the past, and she tried her best to make it easy to understand, but when she read it, she was quick to speak, and added the sentence "deprivation of political rights for life" that was not there, but the people in the audience did not understand what political rights were. After the verdict was announced, according to the pre-formulated script, the victim's family, Boss Li of Chengdong Cloth Shop, rushed to the stage, first spat on Xi Hong's family, and then expressed his gratitude to Chairman Huang Fanding, the representative of the Guangfu Army, and handed over a pennant embroidered with the words "Eliminate Violence and Peace and Justice" to Chairman Huang. This script is the result of everyone's brainstorming, after all, this kind of "show" in the original time and space can often be seen in the media. And Boss Li saved his daughter because of the Liberation Army, of course he had to repay his benefactor, not to mention that a pennant didn't cost a lot of money, so he naturally and honestly cooperated with the performance.

The next sentence was pronounced by Xi Hong's two accomplices, "The criminal Bu Shiren, a native of Huaxian County, Guangzhou, is unemployed." His accomplices ......"

It took an hour, all the criminals were sentenced, and then it was the climax of today's scene. A group of criminals were escorted outside the east gate, and Xi Hong was brought out alone, and the soldiers held her down and made her kneel facing the wilderness. She knew that the time of death had come, and her whole body was completely numb, and she knelt there and muttered to herself. It may be that there is incontinence, and there is a stench from under him, so that the soldiers guarding him have to wear masks. The other sinners stood not far away to watch the execution, and this scene must have left a deep impression on them. The people who stood outside the cordon and watched also surrounded the execution ground.

When the person in charge of the execution is in charge. When arranging this work, everyone shy away, after all, no one is a cold-blooded executioner, and it is one thing to shoot at the enemy, and another thing to shoot at the head of a kneeling person. In the end, Ma Angelica made a decision,Several officers took the lead,Draw lots to decide,And buy Fucai even two yuan prize Shen political commissar won the jackpot this time.

Shen Xingshi walked behind Xi Hongshi with a Type 56 bucket automatic rifle, raised the gun, pointed the muzzle at the back of her head, and then loaded it, waiting for the order of the prison officer. Ma Angelica, who was in charge of the prison, looked at his watch, and the time was exactly half past twelve, which was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, so he ordered the execution. But after several minutes, the gun still didn't go off. Ma Angelica walked behind his partner, and saw the latter's hands trembling, ending a person's life at such a close distance is really a test of people's nerves! Everyone was waiting for the last sound of Xing, Ma Angelica grabbed Shen Xingshi's hand, made it stable and no longer tremble, and then said: "Don't be nervous, just treat her as a mutant!" Everyone is waiting for you! ”

Shen Xingshi gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and pressed his right index finger back, and at any time a gunshot rang out, Xi Hongshi threw himself to the ground in the street, and then blood poured out of the gap between his face and the earth. The crowd of onlookers shouted at the same time as the gunshots rang out, and they all took a step back, but unfortunately the shooting did not cut off the head and bloody, which disappointed most people. The Minister of Health, Qin Shanfeng, temporarily acted as a forensic doctor, touched Xi Hong's pulse, and then publicized that she had died.