Chinese people have always loved to watch the excitement, and today can be described as a rare "big day".

Usually, the autumn execution of the prisoners in the West City will attract a lot of people to come and watch, but the name of the prisoner who was executed today is really too loud.

Even putting aside the identities of these people, one is Chen Zhun, the first greedy eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, and the other is Li Min, the first greedy household secretary in the Ming Dynasty, and the dignified Qingyun Marquis Zhou Shou and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites Ni Yue can only be classified as accompanying beheading.

To be able to witness so many blood-spattered executions of big names today can be regarded as witnessing history.

It is said that the four powerful figures who are to be beheaded now should be the head of the Three Law Divisions.

It's just that the current Ming officialdom can be described as eventful, the new Metropolitan Procuratorate Zuodu Yushi has handed in his resignation, and Feng Guan, the secretary of Dali Temple, was impeached for accepting money from the Li family to rescue Li Min and go to prison.

If the palm seal official is missing, it is usually replaced by the second official, but Wang Yue, the deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is not in the capital.

The final result was that Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Song Cheng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, were beheaded, and Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, rode in a sedan chair in front, while Song Cheng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, personally escorted the prisoners on horseback.

Because there are too many people today, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Shuntian Mansion have all sent people to maintain law and order, and more than 500 people have been dispatched.

"It's coming! Here it comes! ”

Although the Chinese people love to be lively, they are all well-behaved people, and when they saw the queue of death row prisoners appearing, they all took the initiative to retreat to both sides of the street.

The procession slowly walked through the streets, heading towards the execution platform in the West Market.

"Who's this gagged?"

"Huh...... Qingyun Hou, this Hou Ye deserves it! ”

"Which of them doesn't deserve it? Look at that eunuch is greedy for hundreds of thousands of taels, can he spend it all? ”

"I don't have any descendants myself, this dead eunuch is still so greedy for money, he really deserves a thousand cuts!"

……

The onlookers saw the prisoner cart slowly passing by, and kept pointing at Qingyunhou at the front, and then looked at the prisoner cart of the eunuch Chen Zhun to comment on it.

"It's coming! Come! ”

"This big corrupt official who should be cut off with a thousand cuts, cutting off his head is cheap for him!"

"Isn't it? The money he was greedy for was not taken out of the pockets of our people! ”

"A million taels! Lao Tzu really wants to eat this Ming No. 1 greedy meat now! ”

……

When he saw Li Min being escorted over by the prisoner car, he saw the old man with a treacherous face in the prisoner car, and immediately gritted his teeth angrily and said angrily.

This has been the case since ancient times, even if you commit the great crime of rebellion, ordinary people may not have much hatred for you. It's just that if you are a big corrupt official, then they can't wait to eat your flesh raw.

Because the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, especially after the change of Tumubao, the power of the civil official group has reached a new height, so soon the civil official embezzlement of ink is a big case.

It's just that when everyone thought that these high-ranking Beijing officials were as honest as water, it turned out that this Hubu Shangshu turned out to be the first greedy of the Ming Dynasty, so how could they not hate Li Min to the core?

"How so?"

Li Min listened to the foul language on both sides of the street, and his mouth couldn't help but open slightly.

He originally thought that Zhou Shou, the Marquis of Qingyun, who was at the forefront, was the most concerned and hostile to the people, but it was only after passing through this street that he found that Zhou Shou was less than one-tenth of his own.

Li Min actually still doesn't understand, how does the family do things, how can he let the tightly hidden kiln silver be found by Qincha?

The Ziyun Academy that he built is famous, and next to it is 10,000 acres of Hu Forest, which can be said to be the most ideal place to hide money, much more clever than the officials who hid the stolen silver in the ancestral tomb over there.

It's just that it has been confiscated now, and he will be stinking for 10,000 years.

But, can I really be blamed for becoming a big corrupt official?

He was less than 30 years old and was a third-class jinshi in high school, and because he was not born in a family of eunuchs, he was fortunate to be selected by the imperial court as the imperial history of Huguang.

His career is very lucky, because he was quite meritorious in Fuding Guizhou, so he was recalled to Beijing. Fortunately, the high-ranking teacher Shang Shi valued him, and he was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Gyeonggi.

This low-minded position can be said to have surpassed the vast majority of the same year, and he is naturally more valued by teachers.

It's just that in the seven years he has served in the capital, he knows that if he wants to continue to climb up and really return to the capital, it is far from enough to rely on ability alone, and he needs enough ice and charcoal to open the way.

Even if he seems to be an honest teacher, he is also a protégé, but whoever gives more will take more care, and whoever gives less will not even have the opportunity to meet for the second time.

After all, he is not like Xu Pu and Qiu Jun, who are proud protégés who have been trained by their teachers, and they are valued by their teachers, but they are just knives that can be full of attacks.

It's just that if this knife is no longer needed, then it will naturally become worthless.

Li Min was not able to officially return to the capital, but was sent to Zhejiang to serve as a patrol.

The bad side is naturally to leave the capital, but the good side is to the rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the position is very important.

He knew that if he wanted to return to Jingshi, then he needed to accumulate enough financial resources.

As it turned out, he was right.

Although he did not make any achievements during his tenure, he directly skipped the political envoy department to participate in politics, and soon sat on the political envoy of Sichuan Zuobu, achieving the highest position of local official.

By this time, it was a matter of course to serve as the governor and the official of Beijing.

Only two years after the transition of the governor of Datong, he officially served as a squire in the military department, and then served as the governor of Caoyun, and finally became the high-ranking secretary of the household department.

From a newcomer to officialdom with no background to a high-ranking household secretary, he has completed the leap that most non-commissioned officers cannot complete in their lifetime.

It's just that all this is like a dream, and although there are countless moments of pride during his tenure, he still pays a heavy price for his greed in the end.

Syllable!

Suddenly, rotten leaves, dried cow dung, and rotten eggs flew around the corner of the street, and before he could react, these things had already smashed into his face, especially the disgusting rotten egg liquid that made him face.

Whining......

Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou was actually the first to be attacked, but he still had a rotten cloth ball stuffed in his mouth, and he couldn't avoid it in the face of rotten vegetable leaves, dried cow dung and rotten eggs flying in his face, and he looked very angry and wanted to scold.

Seeing that the execution ground was close at hand, he still couldn't understand how the wardrobe prince who had grown up watching him since he was a child could have changed his temperament, as if he had changed a person.

It's just that all this seems to have nothing to do with him, but the prince who was once despised by himself is going to cut his neck.

Today, the sky is still beautiful, with a faint sun shining in the city.

West Market, a torture table has been set up here.

When the prisoner car drove into the execution ground, an official opened the door of the prisoner car, and several wolf-like officials stepped forward to escort the death row prisoner out of the prison car.

"Don't! No! ”

Chen Zhun was the first death row inmate to be escorted out, and out of fear of death, his voice suddenly changed. The voice that originally seemed sharp was just screaming and then lost its voice.

In the face of death, humans usually instinctively show fear, and Chen Zhun's pants suddenly became wet, and he was still screaming hysterically and silently.

It's just that no matter how much they struggle, it is impossible to escape the fate of being beheaded, and the four important death row inmates led by them were taken to the execution table together.

Song Cheng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, is a very serious person, and when he came to the four death row prisoners on the execution platform, each death row prisoner had to take a closer look.

In addition to the duties of the prisoner, another important job of the prison officer is to prevent the prisoner from being mischievous in the middle of the process, so it is necessary to re-examine the correct body here.

"Wow Wow ......"

Ni Yue, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, had been quiet all the time, but when he saw Song Cheng's black face staring at him seriously, as if he saw a ghost asking for his life, he was so frightened that he immediately started crying while urinating.

Hey?

Du Ming, who was sitting in front of the public case, heard Ni Yue's cry and couldn't help but look at Song Cheng suspiciously.

Song Cheng didn't mean to scare Ni Yue, but Ni Yue was locked up for the longest time, and now he was already unkempt, so he had to pull Ni Yue's hair to determine if this was Ni Yue, the right attendant of the high-ranking Prime Minister's Rite Department.

After inspection, there was no contract transfer incident this time, and there is no doubt that the four important death row inmates are themselves.

There are more and more onlookers here, but the entire execution ground is enclosed, and some bigwigs with quite status can see the execution here clearly in the restaurant in front.

Because the identity of the executed prisoner is not simple, it has actually attracted many big people, and Xu Pu, the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of Hanlin, came in person.

The shadow of the flagpole on the ground was shrinking little by little, until it merged with the flagpole.

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die! ”

The cloth ball in Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou's mouth was taken away, but at this moment he no longer had the arrogance he had all the time, but he begged for mercy in a panic.

Whining......

Ni Yue was originally bent on seeking fame and fortune, but he couldn't control his stinky mouth, but now he has paid the price of blood for his arrogance, and he is crying so much.

Li Min, the head of the household, didn't cry, but his teeth were clenched, and his palms were already sweating with fear, hoping that all this in front of him was a nightmare.

"Now I know that I regret it, it's too late!"

"Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, they are all to blame!"

"Now that you have to be beheaded to know repentance, it is clearly a cat crying mouse and false mercy!"

……

When the tens of thousands of onlookers saw the reaction of the four important death row inmates on the execution platform, no one sympathized with them, but criticized them one after another.

When he saw the shadow and the flagpole merge into one, the timekeeper shouted: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the people in the audience instantly fell silent, and their eyes looked directly at the torture platform.

Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who was wearing a second-grade official uniform, picked up a fire stick from the bamboo tube, and threw it into the open space in front of him: "Chop!" ”。

A prison officer stepped forward with a red pen in his hand, crossed the name of the prisoner on the prisoner's back card, and then pulled out the prisoner's card and threw it on the ground.

Syllable!

When the prisoner's plaque landed on the wooden table, there was a crisp sound.

The bare-armed executioner held the ghost head knife high and shouted to the death row prisoner Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou in front of him: "Master, please get on the road!" ”

When he saw the ghost head knife swinging down heavily, more than half of the people in the audience who were watching the execution had already opened their eyes.

Although they like to watch the excitement, they are just joining in the fun, and the vast majority of the people do not want to witness this bloody scene.

In particular, the onlookers who came with children covered the children's eyes for the first time.

Of course, there are also many people who like to show their courage, and it is eating broad beans and showing their yellow teeth that they seem to watch the execution process with great interest.

Burst!

A stream of blood splashed high, and the head of Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou had already rolled to the ground, and Qingyun Hou, the highest existing relative of the Ming Dynasty, became a dead soul under the knife.

Burst!

Just when the head of Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou was cut off, the head of Li Min next to him rolled to the ground, and Li Min's eyes looked dead.

Burst! Burst!

Ni Yue and Chen Zhun's heads were then cleanly cut off by the executioner, but both of them closed their eyes, as if they had already accepted their fate.

No matter how unwilling they were, they couldn't escape this execution from the emperor.

Indeed, they continued to enjoy prosperity and wealth throughout their original history. It's just that with a soul coming over 400 years ago, or just Zhu Youzhu having a dream, now everything has quietly changed.

"Really...... Chop! ”

Xu Pu, who was watching from a distance in a restaurant not far away, saw the heads of Zhou Shou and others being cut off, and saw that Qingyuan Hou had indeed not escaped this catastrophe, and finally realized that the times had changed.

At this moment, his memories of the former crown prince become blurred, and a new concept becomes clearer.

Their emperor was not an indecisive man, but a decisive emperor, a non-Confucian emperor who had not been brainwashed by him at all.

If he and Zhu Youzhu continue to fight like this, he will probably be sent to that guillotine as well.

Qianqing Palace, East Warm Pavilion.

Zhu Youji, who was dealing with the song, learned that Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou and others had been beheaded, and said lightly as usual: "I know!" ”

Seeing Zhu Youji's calm reaction, Liu Jin couldn't help but swallow and spit secretly, and found that it was becoming more and more impossible to capture the emperor's mind.

"Your Majesty, these are all notes just sent by Nanzhili, and the top one was presented by Lu Song!" Guo Yong came in with a song, and at the same time pointed out emphatically.

Liu Jin knew that Lu Song was a hundred households in brocade clothes sent by His Majesty to Wang Yue's side, and this hundred households in brocade clothes usually would not play, unless they encountered something urgent.

Zhu Youzhu knew that if it went well, Wang Yue would probably have arrived in Yangzhou by now, but he didn't understand why Lu Song was playing, so he opened Lu Song's recital, and said in surprise: "The official ship was attacked?" Wang Yue...... Missing from overboard? ”

(End of chapter)