The emperor also loudly announced: "In the past 20 years, from the beginning of the first month of Yinzhen's seventeenth year to yesterday, all the servants who worked on errands in the upper study, regardless of their rank, were arrested and brought to justice, and thrown into the prison for criminal trial. The Criminal Department was ordered to immediately initiate an investigation. Do a good job of extorting confessions by torture. These dog minions are in collusion with the concubines. It's just abominable. ”

More than forty guards in the back immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, "Wow! Minions obey! ”

A day later

The next afternoon

Three p.12

I was in the crowd with hundreds of people at the entrance of the vegetable market to watch the beheadings. This time, the minions in the palace were slashed. Whether it is a palace maid, a father-in-law or a concubine, they are all death row prisoners who want to be beheaded. Yesterday in the middle of the morning, the emperor ordered the investigation of the secrets of the four mansions in the past twenty years, and the concubines of the harem were implicated, which had completely annoyed Emperor Kangxi. That's why it's only been a little more than a day, and a lot of slaves and concubines have already chopped melons and vegetables. I heard that there were more than 600 people in the harem, and I heard that the beheadings began at five o'clock in the morning, or the officials used hangings in order to quickly execute the prisoners, so 416 new and old red or black pillars were erected on the open space of more than 40,000 square meters at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the pillars were fixed on the mud ground. At the top of the pillar is a raised wooden plank more than one meter long arranged in a cross shape, so a single pillar can hang a total of four people from the front, back, left and right. Most of the pillars have four ropes on them.

There are also old servants and helpers who carry out strangulation, middle-aged women and men, and young women and men. Anyway, each has the strength of a stick. The rope noose is first placed on the prisoner's head, and then the other end of the rope is thrown onto a raised wooden plank more than four meters high to prevent the rope from falling off. So deliberately wrap it back and forth at least three times. Then the end of the rope was tied to four protruding wooden nails on the master half a man above the ground, so that no matter how painful the prisoner struggled when he was strangled, it was useless. The strangulation of prisoners began in the morning until 3:12 until now.

Sometimes up to 80 strangled prisoners start strangling at the same time, and at least a few minutes later, the rope is next, because the next death row prisoner is strangled exactly the same. Because the wooden pillar is more than four meters high from the ground, and there are not 100 million prisoners who are two meters high, so in the end, the top of the prisoner's head is on the top of the four convex wooden planks on the front and back, the left and right sides of the wooden board are more than ten centimeters thick, and the protrusion is more than one meter long to the front and back, so it is said that when the execution of the strangulation, the official first put the prisoner on the rope, and the rope sleeve is already very tight and tight on the prisoner's neck, and will never loosen, and then the rope is thrown up three or four or five times, and then it is fixed. Then he pulled the prisoner hard and immediately lifted it up from the ground and hoisted it to the top, but the prisoner's feet were more than two meters above the ground. The official still grabbed the other end of the rope, and the official immediately tied the rope to the four wooden nails at the lower end of the stake that were more than one meter high above the ground, and then tied it tightly.

It took at least seven or eight minutes for the prisoner to loosen his ties and put him down, but in fact five minutes was definitely enough for a person to hang himself and suffocate to death. The reason why we wait for at least seven or eight minutes, sometimes for more than ten minutes or twenty minutes, is also an expression of deep hatred for the prisoner and the fact that the prisoner has committed a great crime. This common man guessed it as soon as he guessed.

I came to see the beheading at eight o'clock in the morning and it had been hanged.

Going to cut off the head is also nice to look at. There is no need to wait until three o'clock in the afternoon. The beheaders heard that they had begun to behead at six o'clock. I first looked at the four harem concubines. Because Gong Dou is too obvious. Finally, the emperor was seriously dealt with, and he was arrested and beheaded.

An aunt now explained to me that she thought I was too wooden and stupid, so she really wanted to decrypt it for me. The aunt said: "In the past, Emperor Kangxi was not so diligent in killing harem concubines. It's strange to say, yesterday I was in power, and in the middle of the morning I ordered to kill. The list was drawn up immediately. Immediately, there were death row inmates who put their concubines on the list. This shows that the emperor knows all about these damn palace concubines. It's been investigated a long time ago. Moreover, each female prisoner has her own case file, in which all the bad things they have done are investigated in the Qing Dynasty. Are you listening to me? Big sister. Are you listening? ”

I immediately turned my head to look at the distance between me and the left front, and in the middle row there were more than a dozen men, women, and children, all of whom pricked up their ears to listen.

I immediately nodded and looked at my aunt, who was very satisfied, and she had a good impression of me and continued to make her own remarks.

The aunt was anxious and excited, and made a generous statement: "So these concubines may still be fighting in the palace before the last moment comes, and they are secretly making small moves." On the surface, they are also forming gangs and forming relationships. Unexpectedly, the rabbit's tail can't grow, it's over. It's coming to an end. I don't think they regretted it in the last moment of their death. ”

A masked woman in a black dress suddenly interjected, and many people glared at her, and she continued to express her opinion with a thick skin: "Yes, isn't it." But why are all their harem concubines like this? It's like fighting all the time. It's as if if if you don't fight, you're not human, and you can't do it. Is the desire for power so important? ”

An aunt in the front left scolded the masked heroine in the black dress and said, "I'm a fledgling and don't understand anything." Are you interceding for these damn death row inmates? What are you! The truth has been revealed. ”

The masked woman in the black dress was unconvinced and retorted and scolded back: "I didn't say they shouldn't die, they really deserve to die." But why is the fight so fierce? Fight to the death! Fight until the last minute. Why is that? Aren't ordinary people very good? What are they doing in the palace? Are they forced to fight helplessly? I have to be at the mercy of orders. I'm not saying they're luxurious, I'm just asking my questions. I just feel like they're not fighting for themselves, they're fighting for others. They don't live for themselves. Live for the black boss behind him. They're just tools. Why kill them? ”

An old man immediately kicked off the right leg of the masked woman in the black skirt, and the woman immediately fell to the ground, all four rows of centaurs in front of her got out of the way, she didn't hit anyone, she was more than a meter away from the left and right, and she couldn't catch anyone who could catch and rely on in the chaos of falling.

She was so frightened that she immediately begged for mercy on the ground: "I'm not going to do it anymore." Spare me! Spare me! I can see the truth. There is evil behind them. You just don't believe me. Besides, they are just minor crimes, and the bad guy black boss who uses them as pawns and tools behind his back is the target who should be killed. Although their crimes are already great, they can indeed be put to death. But if the mastermind behind the scenes doesn't find out, they will be killed hastily, and the clue to the truth will be broken today! I'm in a hurry, too. I'm kind, I've done something bad, I've done a bad job. Why bother with me? I'm here to solve the case! ”

An aunt walked up to her, stepped on her head and scolded: "The truth has been broken, it's just inconvenient to announce it to the people, it's just a secret, and a few people know it." Are you still waiting to solve the case? What are you? Since the truth cannot be exposed, there is a certain truth to it. What are you? Do I have to ask for your consent? Damn slut, I don't have the talent to meddle in my own affairs! Looking for a fight! ”