Chapter 408
To say that the jailer did not take action against these officers, soldiers and bigwigs is actually unclear what Cheng Shijie really meant. If these officials only stayed in prison for a few days, if Cheng Shijie entrusted them with important responsibilities, then these officials would be released After that, they will definitely deal with these little jailers.
Seeing Cheng Shijie let them do it, there is no need to be polite. Although Cheng Shijie has certain knowledge and experience in extracting confessions through torture, Cheng Shijie is only a theoretical school, but the jailers are the real professionals.
The first unlucky person was Wang Yingxiong. He was first tied to a special chair. This kind of chair is a bit like a recliner, that is, a person can half lie on it, but the chair is made of iron and has several horizontal rotation axes. There were thorns on the horizontal axis that were not too deep. As the wheel turned, thin lines of blood appeared on Wang Yingxiong's body. The thorns on the axis cut countless bloody cuts on Wang Yingxiong's body.
At first, Wang Yingxiong didn't feel anything. When a jailer poured a bucket of red water on Wang Yingxiong, Wang Yingxiong's voice broke instantly. Wang Yingxiong looked at Cheng Shijie and cursed loudly: "Thief, you... you have no superiority to the king, and you are conspiracy." Killing the king, bullying the prince, resisting foreign enemies with words, but what you do is reckless, trying to coerce the emperor to control the princes, and even replace Zhu with Cheng! You are ambitious, everyone knows, and now you are ruthlessly retaliating, trying to I'll catch all the gentlemen in one fell swoop. If you do this, aren't you afraid of being infamy for eternity?"
Cheng Shijie was not angry at all. He looked at the jailer calmly and said, "Old Bai, you are living in vain!"
"Commander, give me another chance!"
Wang Yingxiong tried to anger Cheng Shijie and seek relief, but it was a pity that both Cheng Shijie and the jailer saw through Wang Yingxiong's plan.
If you want to die, there is no way.
Seeing that Wang Yingxiong had lost a lot of blood, he was not too young anymore. He probably wouldn't be able to hold on for long. The jailer named Lao Bai was the jailer of the original Dengzhou Prison. He had been eating this bowl of rice for generations. He had to use torture to extract a confession. , they were professionals and asked one of his prison doctors to apply medicine to Wang Yingxiong and treat his wounds, and then gave Wang Yingxiong a large bowl of ginseng soup.
After Wang Yingxiong took a breath, another method was used on Wang Yingxiong. An old jailer took off Wang Yingxiong's socks and opened a cloth bag. There were dozens of sharp knives in it, just like in later generations. The scalpel, in fact, this is the surgical scalpel of the Ming Dynasty, as well as pliers, tweezers, clamps, fish hooks and other tools.
The jailer peeled off the flesh and skin from Wang Yingxiong's feet layer by layer, as if doing embroidery, which made Wang Yingxiong scream miserably.
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly: "Aren't you going to scold me?"
"Commander, spare your life..."
"continue!"
"Cheng Shijie, do you think this can scare the gentlemen like me? Delusion!"
At first, Wang Yingxiong could curse a few words. Gradually, as the guard's knife came out more and more, starting from the big toe, it was peeled off until only the bones were left. Wang Yingxiong soon couldn't curse anymore. He passed out from the pain.
The most devastating thing is that Cheng Shijie didn't even watch this scene, and walked away after telling the jailer to take action. If Cheng Shijie had insulted Wang Yingxiong on the side, he might have felt better, but Cheng Shijie was spared even the humiliation, and Wang Yingxiong only Can be tortured into unconsciousness.
Chen Xinjia couldn't stand it any longer, jumped up and shouted angrily: "Cheng thief! Not Xiong Gong, but the second minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, a giant in the literary world, how can you allow you to humiliate me like this?"
Cheng Shijie didn't even look back, and just said: "Pull him out and beat him."
So a group of jailers rushed in, dragged Chen Xinjia out and beat him severely, making him cry for father and mother.
Wen Tiren's face twitched and he stood up tremblingly, but he was too scared to say a word.
However, Cheng Shijie did not let go of Wen Tiren: "Pull it out and beat it, save your hands, don't beat it to death."
Wen Tiren was stunned: "I haven't said anything, yet you want to drag me out and beat me?"
Cheng Shijie said: "I want to beat you, do you need a reason?"
The prison became even quieter. All the scholars, scholar-bureaucrats, old bureaucrats, feudal princes, and nobles stared at this bastard with fear and anger. They wanted to cry but couldn't speak. They finally understood what it means to be a scholar meeting a soldier, and they couldn't explain why. !
Cheng Shijie walked up to Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo and other Qing court officials, looked at them, patrolled back and forth, and finally landed on Fan Wencheng: "Fan Wencheng?"
Fan Wencheng had some backbone and calmly handed over: "That's me!"
Cheng Shijie was a little surprised: "You're not afraid of me at all?"
Fan Wencheng said proudly: "We are loyal to Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty and swear to live and die with Taizong. Now that Taizong is dead, our hearts are also dead. We are not even afraid of death, so what are we afraid of?"
In fact, Fan Wencheng was also a smart man. He knew that even if he begged for mercy, Cheng Shijie would not let him go, so he humbly begged for mercy instead of pretending to be brave and fearless.
Cheng Shijie said calmly: "I want to die. I will help you and drag Fan Wencheng and all the men in their family out of Lingchi!"
All the ministers of the Qing Dynasty were so frightened that they could not say a word.
Fan Wencheng wanted to assist Huang Taiji to dominate the world and build a huge empire. If he had indeed succeeded in the original time and space, and achieved fame, as Huang Taiji entered Beijing, Fan Wencheng was appointed as a bachelor of the Internal Secretariat, and he would be in charge. He wrote letters of correspondence with foreign countries, recorded memorials to various government offices, pleadings for grievances, imperial edicts, edicts from civil and military officials, as well as edicts to memorial temples and memorials to civil and military officials.
This can be said to be the chief minister of the Qing Dynasty's cabinet. Now that Huang Taiji is dead and the Qing Dynasty is over, Fan Wencheng no longer thinks about life, so he is now bent on death. As for whether he died by being chopped with a knife or by Ling Chi, in fact, it was not a big problem for Fan Wencheng who wanted to die.
As for Cheng Shijie's plan to kill Fan Wencheng's entire family, Fan Wencheng had six sons. Fan Wencheng was actually not sure whether these sons were Fan Wencheng's descendants. In the first case, Hauge took away Fan Wencheng's wife, and in the second case, Duduo seized Fan Wencheng's wife, and it was not until Huang Taiji came forward that he returned her to Fan Wencheng.
It's hard to say whose father the six sons are. As a slave of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Wencheng, who was dedicated to the Qing Dynasty, didn't mind the matter of cuckoldry. In fact, the entire Qing Dynasty didn't mind. Speaking of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, Chaos, the Qing royal family was even more chaotic.
However, the problem is that not everyone wants to die. I would rather live than give back.
After finishing Ning, I struggled desperately, burst into tears, and shouted wildly: "Prince Regent, I was forced to surrender to the slaves. I am innocent! Please let me go. I am willing to work hard for you. I am willing to do everything for you." Cows make horses, cows make horses!!!”
Cheng Shijie sighed: "With an old bastard like you working hard, I will be in trouble for eighteen lifetimes! Aren't you determined to live and die with Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty? He should be waiting for you on the road to hell. Go find him quickly. Him! Of course, you won’t be alone!”
Although it is said that Daishan, Yuetuo, Duoduo, Dorgon and others are dead, they were all beaten to death by Song Xiance with a hammer in front of Huang Taiji, but there are still hundreds of captured Qing soldiers among the Manchu prisoners. Senior generals, the Manchu army's establishment was too small. For example, Jia La'e, who commanded 1,500 men and horses, was really of the third rank, but he was a senior general. In fact, he was only equivalent to the rank of colonel commander. If among the Eight Banners, Jia La'e Well, there are only sixty or seventy people in total.
In addition to Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo, Cheng Shijie also went to see Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, as well as the traitor Wu Sangui. It was a pity that Cheng Shijie would not let them go no matter how loud they broke their throats.
Of course, unlike others, although Cheng Shijie said he wanted to kill all the men of Fan Wencheng's clan, he did not implicate the female family members and young children of Fan Wencheng's clan, just like Fan Wencheng's fifth and sixth sons, because they were too old. They are among those to be killed, but the question is, whether these two children are Fan Wencheng's descendants, I'm afraid even Fan Wencheng himself doesn't know for sure.
However, unlike Wu Xiang who cried loudly and begged Cheng Shijie for his life, Zu Dashou remained calm, neither happy nor sad. To be fair, surrendering to Huang Taiji was not his original intention. Unlike Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, they wanted to surrender to Huang Taiji. Tai Chi, another master seeks wealth, while Zu Dashou is forced to have no choice.
Whether it was voluntary or active, the result was the same. Cheng Shijie could not let them go, because the more than 300,000 Ming army soldiers who died on the Northern Expedition would never forgive him.
"If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place!"
Cheng Shijie also knew that now was not the time to be soft-hearted. Those who deserved to be killed must be killed. If not, the people who died at the hands of Jiannu and Guan Ningjun would be punished.
Of course, Cheng Shijie's attitude towards Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou is still different. After all, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui took the initiative, while Zu Dashou was coerced. History is that Zu Dashou was evaluated as a famous general of his generation. There is loyalty; the ministers of the two dynasties, disobeying the former master and betraying the latter master, are really no human beings inside and outside.
This is the contradiction of Zu Dashou. As the leader of the Liaoxi generals, he is also the spokesperson for the interests of the Liaoxi generals. Of course, he is only a spokesperson. If he does not represent the interests of the Liaoxi generals, then he will be punished, just like in the Daling River. Just like in the Battle of the City, Zu Dashou was betrayed.
However, after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was not like Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui who were willing to serve as the new master's vanguard and wield the butcher's knife against the Ming Dynasty. However, Zu Dashou still surrendered with Guan Ning's army, which shows that the interests of the Zu family are far more important than the interests of the country.
Zu Dashou looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Can you leave a single seedling for the Zu family?"
"Can!"
Cheng Shijie knew that Zu Dashou had few heirs and was probably like Emperor Tianqi. It was not because he was infertile but because someone did not want him to have children. After years of hard work, Zu Dashou figured it out. Now he has two young sons, the older one is four years old. The youngest is three years old, and Cheng Shijie will not have trouble with two three or four-year-old children.
"Thank you!"
Cheng Shijie left. Of course, Cheng Shijie would not punish Fan Wencheng and others without teaching them. Instead, he would first put them on trial and expose the crimes they committed one by one.
After half a month of trial, Fan Wencheng was first announced. Fan Wencheng had a total of 30 charges and was sentenced to Lingchi.
Caishikou, Beijing, is an ominous place. Every year after autumn, a group of death row prisoners are taken here to be executed and beheaded. This has been the case for hundreds of years. Therefore, this place has a strong negative energy. At night, if you can, stay away. When it comes out, I get a rash.
But now, Caishikou is crowded with people. Thousands of people are coming from the streets. The crowds are loud and everyone’s eyes are red. In this scene, even if there are some evil spirits entrenched in Caishikou, they will probably be frightened and run away. opened. It was as if the entire capital city had gathered in this area, everyone was eagerly waiting, anxiously waiting...
This is what we saw when Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and a group of big traitors were put into a prison car and drove to Caishikou. Countless looks of extreme hatred were shot at them. The overwhelming anger almost burned them to ashes, and the deep-seated hatred almost cut them into pieces! Even Fan Wencheng, who was accustomed to strong winds and waves, felt his heart suffocate, his chest felt tight, and he felt like he couldn't breathe.
"Come out! Those traitors are out!"
Countless people crowded towards this side with distorted faces. The Ning Navy soldiers who maintained order had to push them back with all their strength. These people did not dare to fight against the Ning Navy soldiers. They just tried their best to reach out to the prison car. Only because of their excessive anger, the veins were exposed. With his hands, it seems that countless ghosts and ghosts who died tragically because of these traitors are possessed at this moment, trying to drag these culprits into the abyss of hell and then tear them into pieces!
This scene made these traitors' livers and gallbladders explode, and several of them were so frightened that they urinated on the spot. Ning Wanme turned pale, curled up into a ball, trembled all over, and screamed desperately. Only now did he realize how many evils he had committed. , looking at the faces full of hatred, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his bone marrow almost solidified!
Now retribution is coming, and retribution is never equal to original sin. It may be ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times or even ten thousand times as much as original sin! But unfortunately, many people can't understand this truth until the end, and Ning Wanwo, Fan Wencheng and others are no exception.
The prison car moved forward, and the farther it went, the more furious the hatred became, and the people's expressions became more violent. If Ning Haijun hadn't worked hard to maintain order, they would have rushed up to perform a show of tearing apart the prison car and tearing apart the living people with their bare hands.
Even with Ning Haijun in the way, all kinds of rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves do not actually exist. This is just the effect of film and television dramas. Common people are not like the people of later generations who have so many materials and rotten vegetable leaves. Nowadays, In the current situation in Beijing, you have to eat rotten vegetable leaves yourself, let alone eggs?
However, the current situation is that the common people use lime, stones, bricks, tiles and mud balls, and of course feces. All kinds of debris fly overwhelmingly towards the prison cars, leaving these traitors bruised and swollen.
The people of the Ming Dynasty are the most simple and kind-hearted. They can endure no matter how great the suffering and grievances are, but once their bottom line is crossed and they go crazy, they will tear everything into pieces!
The most unlucky ones are those Ning Haijun soldiers. Not everyone is a good pitcher. They will also suffer disasters, and they will also be beaten to the point of bruises and bruises. Fortunately, the Ning Haijun soldiers have excellent armor, so there is no big problem.
The convoy struggled to pass through these smelly things, and even the Ning navy soldiers escorting the condemned prisoners were made to smell for ten miles.
From the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Wencheng was the founding hero, but from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Wencheng was the ultimate scum. Of course, Cheng Shijie's butt was not sitting crooked, so what did he do?
This time it was unprecedented. Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Zu Dashou, Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong and more than a hundred senior Manchu generals, plus traitors, a total of 267 people were imprisoned.
It's a pity that there are not so many craftsmen who are good at Lingchi in Beijing. Cheng Shijie waved his hand and asked Ning Haijun to join the army and learn from these dozen craftsmen.
Fortunately, there are too many people who are willing to learn and understand the structure of the human body. No matter whether they are novices or experienced people, they can make do with it anyway. Cheng Shijie stipulated that whoever completes the most knives can be rewarded with one thousand taels of silver. The top twenty will all There are rewards, more or less.
Of course, Fan Wencheng and Wen Tiren are the most experienced people.
(End of chapter)
