Squeak squeak......

The wheels rolled through the brick streets, and the prisoner carts made a noisy sound.

The escort team walked through the blue brick street and was heading towards the Sixi archway, but many onlookers had already gathered on both sides of the street.

Ling Chi, this is the most cruel torture.

The number of Ling Chi in the Hongzhi Dynasty increased significantly, and the first person to be Ling Chi in the first year of Hongzhi was Li Guangdu, the envoy of Annam, and then the eight Jin merchants who intended to buy 10,000 horses and camels from Mongolia last time.

Now, Sun Jiao and Sun Bao, who obstructed the Qing Dynasty of the imperial court, have also been subjected to this heaviest torture and are about to be punished with a thousand knives.

In the capital, the struggle on the surface has slowly disappeared, but the intrigue in the secret has always existed.

Hongji is no longer the sage of the original history, and because of the lot of killings, he has even been silently labeled as a tyrant by the scholar class.

In fact, they also belittled Hongji's repeated use of Ling Chi's execution, but this voice did not ferment at all.

Whether it is Li Guangdu, the envoy of Annan, or the eight Jin merchants who treasoned the country and sought wealth, even if Yangzhou beheaded hundreds of officials in one day, these people are to blame.

As for Sun Jiao and Sun Bao, since they committed the evil act of assassinating Qincha, especially since the two of them are still officials of the imperial court, they can't still make offerings if they don't Ling Chi.

"Dare to assassinate Qincha, this imperial grain is really fed to the white-eyed wolf!"

"They actually want to stop Qingzhang, there must be hundreds of acres of hidden fields hidden at home!"

"Hundreds of acres of land? Not to mention Huguang, even if some people in our capital hide thousands of acres! ”

"Qingzhang is targeting their gentry and local bigwigs, and the imperial court should kill all the people who hinder Qingzhang!"

……

The people of the capital watched Sun Jiao and Sun Bao appear in the prison car, but they did not have the slightest sympathy and pity, so they condemned one after another.

The official gentry class really wants to do everything possible to obstruct the imperial court from clearing the fields, but the ordinary people actually support the Qingzhang fields. After all, they don't talk about hidden fields, and they don't have to be thanked for not being deliberately exaggerated by the magistrates.

As for whether Hongzhi's execution of Sun Jiao and Sun Bao was a tyrant, if it was such a tyrant, then he hoped to be able to do it again.

When the prisoner car came to the Sixi archway, it was already crowded with people, and it was also very lively.

Although this time it is not like Li Min to kill the first greed of the Ming Dynasty, nor is it like Li Guangdu's first envoy to be Lingchi, but it is the nature of the Chinese people to love to join in the fun.

Sun Jiao and Sun Bao were arranged under the South Pai Tower, and several officials opened the prisoner cart and took the people down, and then forcibly stuffed the people into a large basket.

In the face of death, and the most cruel way to die, the two of them were already trembling with fear.

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Wailang Sun Jiao, a member of the Ministry of Literature and Selection, was unwilling to register and make a register to pay taxes to the imperial court because the Anlu Sun clan was quite hidden, so he instigated the children of the clan and Diao Min to obstruct it in every possible way, and teamed up with Zhongzhou Wei to command Sun Bao and other Sun branches to plot against Qincha to prevent Zhangtian...... Now the facts are clear, the behavior of the Sun clan is indignant to the people and gods, it is the evil clan of my China, the male of the Sun clan should be beheaded, the first evil official department of the Wen Xuan Division of the Wailang Sun Jiao and Zhongzhou Wei commanded Sun Bao to carry out the punishment of Ling Chi, according to the law should be cut 3,600 knives, Qin this! The official of the criminal department stood on the execution platform and read aloud to the onlookers.

On the beheading platform, Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Wang Xiang, the Jinyi Wei of the Beizhen Fusi, were beheaded, but there was not much joy on their faces.

They all knew very well in their hearts that although Sun Ming had a reason to hinder the imperial court from clearing the fields, he dared to do such a vicious deed, and even almost succeeded, and there must be a bigger person behind him manipulating this matter.

It's just that Sun Jiao's two sons don't know what happened, and Sun Jiao seems to be threatened, but he has never been willing to confess who is behind it. In addition, Zhu Youzhi did not agree to make a deal with Sun Jiao, so there was no substantive breakthrough in this case.

Things have come to this point, and Emperor Hongzhi seems to have lost all his patience. He chose to slaughter the Sun clan and designated Sun Jiao and Sun Bao as the masterminds of the assassination of Qincha, which brought the incident to an end.

Du Ming and Wang Xiang knew that they were now killing Sun Jiao, and this clue was completely broken.

The two saw that it was already a boat, and this incident really needed to be explained to the world, and at the same time, they needed to clear the obstacles of Qingzhang Tianmu by killing the Sun family, so they had nothing to complain about.

can only say that the enemy is too cunning, obviously they have found out Sun Jiao, a key figure, but they can't find him out.

Since Ling Chi didn't need to check the time, when he saw Sun Jiao and Sun Bao being escorted to the execution platform, he was ready to order a thousand cuts to be executed on these two people.

The two executioners were already in place, and they put all the knives they needed in a bamboo basket, and they were silently sharpening their knives on the gravel.

The knife was not big, but it was very sharp, which made the onlookers secretly frightened.

When Sun Jiao was about to be stuffed with a peach pit, he saw a sharp knife on the bamboo basket, and the desire to survive in his heart surged, and the miserable scene when Li Guangdu was Ling Chi came to mind, but he temporarily changed his mind and said: "I move, I move all, as long as Your Majesty can let me go!" ”

When Wang Xiang heard this seemingly acceptable condition, he couldn't help but move slightly in his heart, and cast an inquiring glance at Du Ming, the secretary of the criminal department next to him.

Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was unmoved, so he said lightly: "It is impossible for Your Majesty to negotiate terms with a traitorous person!" Someone, stuff him into a net, and prepare for execution! ”

Du Shangshu ...... Under...... Xia Guan said, Xia Guan is all recruited, but please stop the sentence immediately now, and escort Xia Guan back to the prison first! Sun Jiao's heart has collapsed, but he has compromised again.

At this moment, he no longer hopes to be able to get out of the way, as long as he can live. Even if he only lived one more day, it would be better than being executed by Ling Chi now.

Wang Xiang saw that Sun Jiao needed to be willing to confess, and he also knew the importance of finding out the mastermind behind the scenes, so he turned his head to look at Du Ming and said, "Du Shangshu, he seems to be really willing to recruit!" ”

"Sun Jiao, do you really want to recruit all?" Du Ming was not in a hurry to make a decision, and asked Sun Jiao, who was full of desire to survive, in a righteous and solemn manner.

Sun Jiao looked at the extremely sharp blade in his hand, so he hurriedly cried and nodded, and said sincerely: "The lower officials are all recruited, and they are willing to act as witnesses, please stop the execution!" ”

Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, showed a serious and thoughtful expression on his face, and looked at Sun Jiao, who was full of pleading.

In fact, there is a certain risk in this matter, although he can stop this execution as the secretary of the criminal department, but if Sun Jiao repents again and refuses to die, then it is easy to attract blame for disturbing the emperor.

Du Ming thought for a moment, and when he made a decision, he said, "This official will believe you...... Return! ”

Burst!

It was at this moment that the situation on the torture platform changed suddenly, and a stream of blood splattered.

Tens of thousands of onlookers stared in disbelief, and no one expected that the executioner in charge of the execution suddenly cut Sun Jiao's throat.

Sun Jiao's eyes widened, looking at the assailant in front of him in disbelief, his hands and feet were tied at this time, and he only hoped that the wound on his neck would not be too deep.

"What's going on?"

"Why did the executioner kill Sun Jiao?"

"Is this executioner a blood feud with Sun Jiao?"

……

After seeing the handsome hand unexpectedly slash Sun Jiao's throat with the sharp weapon in his hand, everyone present never expected to make such a fuss, and couldn't help but speculate.

Thump!

Sun Jiaoyou was stunned for a second or two, his throat moved but he couldn't make a sound, and his whole body fell heavily on the torture table, but his open eyes were full of unwillingness.

Wang Xiang was the first to react, pointing to the soldiers below and angrily ordering: "Quick, take him down!" ”

After committing the murder, the executioner seemed to have already thought of the way, so he rushed in the direction of the south archway, intending to escape from the narrow alley in front.

A soldier with a spear in his hand saw the executioner fleeing towards him, and he stabbed the executioner by surprise.

Burst!

The executioner's body was pierced, and a smear of blood spilled from his mouth.

"Dead!" Wang Xiang came to Sun Jiao's corpse, originally holding on to the last glimmer of hope, but after using his fingers to detect the breath, he shook his head bitterly and said.

Du Ming glanced at Sun Jiao's corpse, and then his gaze fell on the corpse of the executioner. The executioner's vitality was obviously more tenacious, but after a few more seconds, he also collapsed in a pool of blood.

Du Ming and Wang Xiang glanced at each other silently, realizing that this mastermind behind the scenes was even more difficult than he imagined, and he had already been wary of Sun Jiao's temporary change of fortune on the torture table.

In fact, in view of the earlier poisoning incident, they waited for the rabbit in the prison of Fusi in Beizhen, but as if they had known about it, they never sent poisonous food.

It's just that no one thought that on this execution table, the mastermind behind the scenes had anticipated this situation in advance and had prepared a backhand here.

But it's too late, although Sun Jiao temporarily changed his hexagram, and they were once very close to revealing the mastermind behind the scenes, but Sun Jiao has now been successfully eliminated.

On the torture platform, Sun Bao suddenly looked at the executioner next to him in fear.

The executioner who was in charge of Sun Bao's execution suddenly found that everyone was looking at him, and he couldn't help swallowing and foaming with difficulty, looking innocently at Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Wang Xiang, the secretary of Jinyi Wei.

"What are you doing there stupidly, hurry up and execute!" Du Ming didn't understand why this executioner didn't make a move, so he ordered in a deep voice.

In fact, Sun Bao is now facing Ling Chi, he is afraid that the knife in the hand of the hand is actually wrong, but he should hope that the knife in the hand of the hand will give him a good time.

With 3,600 knives, Sun Bao's body was dismembered with knives under the witness of everyone, and he suffered the most cruel torture in the world.

"Even if it has been extinguished, this is the end of Sun Jiao's affairs!" After Zhu Youzhu learned about the incident at the execution ground, he seemed very calm and authentic.

While it is important to clear internal tumors, it is important to focus on dealing with external events for now.

The Mongol mission had arrived in the capital, and in addition to paying tribute to Dayan Khan and Manduhai, they were also asking for Nayksi as a concubine, thus ensuring a few years of peace in the north.

As for the southwest, he now has to find out the specific situation of the granaries in various places as soon as possible and prepare for the conquest of the Li Dynasty.

In fact, what he cares about the most is that the Ming Dynasty and North Korea opened a market on Senzhi Island, which is the first step for Huaxia to become a textile center, so it is not allowed.

Dingguo Mansion, there is a sense of sorrow in the house.

Xu Shiying had accepted the imperial court's appointment and became the first governor of the East China Sea in the Ming Dynasty.

Today is the day of departure, he handed a crystal clear jade pendant to his wife and said, "Keep this jade pendant safe!" If the transaction of the joint cotton cloth to Senzhi Island is not smooth, then you will sell this jade pendant and use it to maintain the expenses of our national government! ”

The Dingguo Mansion is actually a superficial scenery, not to mention that the current Dingguo Duke Xu Yongning was almost convicted of madness, and the previous Dingguo Duke Xu Xianzhong also did not get a real job.

The status of Wu Xun is actually related to grace, because they have not served in the army for decades, and even this situation has to be maintained for more than ten years, so the Dingguo Mansion is now more like a symbol.

Although the 2,500 stone of rice in the Dingguo Mansion a year is not a small amount, the Dingguo Mansion also has to eat and drink, and Xu Yongning, the Duke of Dingguo, ran to the street to smash things to compensate, so he has already been unable to make ends meet.

Since the Dingguo Mansion used most of the fields to grow cotton this year, this batch of cotton became the raw material for the United Weaving Factory, and the preparation for the United Weaving Factory has been hollowed out by the last family of the Xuguo Mansion.

Who would have thought that the dignified Daming Mansion is now only left with the cost of maintaining most of the month.

It would be fine if they used the United Cotton Cloth to exchange a large number of valuable goods from North Korea to sell in the capital, but if things did not go well, not only would they lose all their money from the United Weaving Factory, but they would also have no rice to cook in the Dingguo Mansion.

It is precisely for this reason, for the sake of the financial resources and livelihood of the entire Dingguo Mansion, this time I came to the island to exchange markets with the North Korean side, but I was only allowed to succeed and not fail.

"Well, the concubine knows!" The beautiful woman took the ancestral jade pendant and nodded gently.

The convoy at the gate of the Dingguo Mansion has been prepared, after all, it is a dignified Guogong Mansion, and there are several strong martial arts guards in the entourage, as well as a very shrewd old butler.

The old housekeeper will follow him to Senzhi Island this time, and comfort Xu Shiying, who is full of sadness: "Shizi, you don't need to worry too much! As long as we exchange our cotton cloth for their ginseng, Chinese medicine and leather goods and other goods smoothly with North Korea this time, we will definitely make a lot of money by bringing the goods back to the capital! ”

Xu Shiying glanced at the old housekeeper, and then reluctantly showed a smile and said, "With Steward Sun here this time, everything will definitely go well!" ”

Since my father got madness, the huge Dingguo Mansion seemed to be in chaos, and the Dingguo Mansion once fell to the point of no rice to cook. Fortunately, this Steward Sun stepped forward.

It is under the control of this Steward Sun that the Dingguo Mansion has not only not fallen to the point of selling its ancestral business, but also the shops under its name are now operating impressively.

This time, the emperor called on the Dingguo Mansion and the Ministry of Industry to form a joint weaving factory, and it was the old housekeeper who was the first to stand up and express his support, so it was also the confidence of everyone in the Dingguo Mansion.

When Xu Shiying passed by West Chang'an Street, he also looked in the direction of Xiyuan, and was very grateful to Emperor Hongzhi who gave him such an opportunity.

Whether it is for the honor of his ancestors, or to repay the trust of Emperor Hongzhi, he will go to Senzhi Island this time to break a new world for the Ming Dynasty no matter what.

(End of chapter)