A newly completed guillotine was installed in the wilderness.
The director of the Military Justice Department at the Jeju Island base sat on the stage and supervised the execution. Yang Fan had no interest in watching such a bloody occasion. He had seen too much carnage on the battlefield and he was tired of it.
After the things here have been dealt with, Yang Fan still has to inspect Vladivostok, which has already wasted too much time. It's already snowing in the Northeast. If it drags on any longer, the port will freeze.
Yang Fan instructed to deal with the criminals in one day today and rest for a day tomorrow. Then leave a group of pirates to maintain law and order. He was about to leave for Vladivostok.
Cao Wei, the base commander of Jeju Island, was transferred by Yang Fan and served as the first Governor of Manila. Cao Wei was born as a servant. In the past few years, he has built the Jeju Island base from scratch and managed it very well. His ability was fully proven, and Yang Fan valued him very much.
He has accumulated a lot of merits. This time Master Yang rewards the meritorious officials, which is equivalent to allowing him to build a mansion. Let the old family members be envious.
The total area of Luzon Island reaches 110,000 square kilometers. About half of North Korea. It's not a small place. Although many places are governed in name only, the small area of Manila is under direct jurisdiction.
But this is unthinkable. This is an area the size of Zhejiang Province. It is rich in copper mines and is located in the tropics, where rice is harvested three times a year. But a good place.
Cao Wei came to see Yang Fan and fully explained his understanding of his responsibilities, which was to gradually change the land and return it to the people, turning Luzon Island into a place like the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.
These words deeply touched Yang Fan's heart. Yang Fan was relieved to leave this place under his management.
At this time, Cao Wei, as the newly minted governor, naturally wanted to be executed. He was looking at the guillotine that had been built in three days with great interest.
A door-shaped frame with a hardwood horizontal plate that can slide up and down, and a ten-meter-long blade at the bottom of the horizontal plate. It was cast and polished by blacksmiths overnight. The blade is made of steel, which is inserted during casting.
Because the hardwood horizontal boards are very heavy, plus the weight of the blades. A fall from three meters is enough to cut off the head. The bottom of the door-shaped structure is also a horizontal plate, with a row of semicircular grooves dug out on it.
While the prisoner is kneeling on the floor, place the neck behind the groove. When the other horizontal plate is lowered, there are also semicircular grooves on it, so that the head can be firmly fixed.
At this point, just pull the wrench to release the blade.
It will click and cut off ten heads in a row.
This thing is very fast and can directly cut off the neck, maximizing the efficiency of execution and reducing the prisoner's pain.
This guillotine is based on the design of the guillotine during the French Revolution. At that time, after Marat was assassinated, the furious Jacobins decided to suppress the reactionaries. Killing people all over the country.
Because there were so many people who were captured and waiting to be executed, mechanized methods had to be used to keep them busy.
This thing is mainly to relieve the prisoner's pain and chop off the head in one second. And it's very efficient. Suitable for mass executions.
Before the French Revolution, France often executed prisoners on death row by being quartered in a cart. This kind of punishment is extremely cruel and horrific.
Dr. Guillotin, a member of the Constituent Assembly, made an impassioned speech in the Assembly, demanding the use of new instruments of torture to spare the victims the pain.
The deputies were very impressed, and the resolution to use new torture instruments was quickly passed.
The new method of execution was hanging, but it also did not allow the prisoner to die painlessly. The torture instruments still needed improvement, and Guillotin took on this task himself. Designed the first decapitation machine.
Originally, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, there were some criminals here who killed too many people of the Ming Dynasty and committed various crimes such as rape, robbery, and arson. I'm afraid many extremely barbaric and cruel punishments will be carried out.
The death penalty in the Ming Dynasty was divided into two types: execution and execution. "Zhang Li Ju" means to be executed immediately after committing a capital crime. "Beheading in prison" means to be imprisoned first, awaiting punishment, and then beheaded in the future.
The Ming Dynasty's "Five Penalty Laws of Legal Cases" records: There are two types of death penalty, hanging: hanging means the body and head are intact. Although it is a capital punishment, the method is slightly lighter than beheading. Beheading: The beheading of the person's head is in a different place, which is a severe punishment, especially hanging. If he committed a serious crime of rebellion, he would be executed in Lingchi. Cutting up his corpse is more severe than beheading him, and the punishment is so extreme that it cannot be further punished.
Yang Fan believes that the method of executing prisoners should be as civilized as possible.
Those who were taken here for execution were all death row prisoners. In order to improve efficiency, they were all executed.
Moreover, this is a military execution and military law applies. These prisoners were all identified and reported by survivors, and not one of them was an isolated witness. There is basically no injustice.
At the same time, these people were sentenced to confiscation of property as compensation to the victims. Other Spaniards who had not committed any crime also needed forced labor and would not be released until their families and the king paid for their redemption.
Yang Fan believes that the Spanish dynasty needs to take overall responsibility for the unfair treatment of the Han people for more than a hundred years. Therefore, in addition to the confiscation of property and ransom, the King of Spain also needs to make compensation.
For this money, Yang Fan planned to send a letter to the King of Spain first. Explaining Ming's position, as for when to go to Europe to ask for this compensation, it depends on the future development of the navy.
This guillotine is different from the one in France. This one is larger and is used for mass executions. It is a ten-meter-long blade that can execute ten people at a time. There are more than 800 people to be executed here. If we want to finish the work in one day, the efficiency must be improved.
Looking at this terrifying killing machine, as well as the Spanish and natives who were so scared that they were stunned. The people who came around to watch the execution of the Han people were so angry. They generally cursed these beasts in human skins and watched them chop off their heads.
Many people kowtowed in the direction of the capital, thanking His Majesty the Emperor for sending troops to avenge them.
They all had relatives and friends who were killed in the massacre twenty years ago, and many suffered property damage. In the past thirty years, it has been even more oppressed.
The Spaniards and natives no longer behaved like they were arrogant and bullying them. Many of them were shivering into a ball and could not even stand. Most of them were paralyzed on the ground, and some had feces and urine flowing out.
Those whose turn it was, were carried by the soldiers of the pirate regiment and dragged to the guillotine. These people come in all shapes and sizes. Some were crying loudly, and some were making signs of the cross. There are also those who sneer hard. In their view, this world is originally a world of the weak and the strong, and they will not repent for what they have done.
Yang Fan respected anyone's religious beliefs and allowed the priest's assistant to stand on the guillotine and pray for the criminals who were about to be executed. Because the priest has died a violent death. Unfortunately, the young priest also committed a crime and defrauded Han merchants. But instead of being executed, he was sentenced to ten years of digging up guano.
Ten years later, he continued to dig guano to save enough travel expenses so that he could return to his hometown in Spain.
Ten people were dragged to the guillotine, and the little priest chanted for them.
The young priest took the Bible and read to them: "Fire is coming to destroy and judge the world. The Lord will not remember my sins. The Lord, my God, looks forward to guiding me... God has mercy on us, and Christ has mercy on us. , God have mercy on us.”
"Amen"
Cao Wei listened with interest and waited for the recitation to end. He nodded. The executioner immediately pulled the wrench, the blade fell, and with a click, ten heads rolled to the ground.
It was so clean that not a single scream was uttered, and the person who was executed did not even know he was dead. His eyes were still moving in horror.
In the distance, soldiers were digging a big hole. The executed bodies were neatly placed inside. It won’t work if you don’t put it in a good position, that way you won’t be able to show off too much. After the execution is completed, a pyramid-shaped Jingguan will be built here with earth. And set up a monument to record it.
There are several big characters written on this monument: "Those who openly offend the powerful Han will be punished no matter how far away they are."
One of the reasons for building this temple is to prevent corpses from being left undisposed of and causing plague. This is the tropics after all, and bodies decompose quickly. The other is to frighten the natives and prevent further incidents of harm to the Han people. Just like the copper pillars Ma Yuan set up in Vietnam.
Ma Yuan erected a copper pillar in Jiaozhi to mark the southern boundary of the Han Dynasty. The inscription on the pillar said: "If the copper pillar breaks, Jiaozhi will be destroyed." These copper pillars have been preserved for two thousand years. The people of Jiaozhi regard them as a shame and hate them, but they do not dare to destroy them.
Yang Fan just wants to give the native people a deep memory. The Han people are not someone they can bully casually.
Seeing the heads of these enemies being chopped off, the long-suppressed emotions of the Han people burst out. Now this place has once again become the territory of the Ming Dynasty. They are no longer abandoned people without care, and they all cried excitedly.
Cao Wei also felt happy in his heart when he saw it. The people of the Ming Dynasty, the country above, cannot be bullied by these barbarians.
He waited for the crowd watching the execution to calm down and said loudly to the following: "Starting from tomorrow, apply for household registration. As long as you apply for household registration, you will be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty and will be protected by the Ming Dynasty for life. No one will bully you again. As long as you obey If you abide by the law and operate honestly, your life will be better and better."
"I declare that from now on, residents of Luzon Prefecture will be exempted from tax for ten years."
These common people who had to pay four times the tax seemed to be unable to believe their ears and stood dumbly. However, they soon woke up and a burst of ecstasy overwhelmed them.
Then a thunderous roar erupted.
"Long live the Ming Dynasty"
