Penglai County Magistrate Ge Yewen will not attend the Kaiyuan Rebellion Lingchi Ceremony held at Wendeng University today.
In the past year, Penglai County Magistrate was very dissatisfied with Ping Liaohou's various arrogance in Dengzhou, and repeatedly rejected Kang Yingqian's bribery actions against him.
Ge Zhixian complained to the court many times, objecting to Liu Zhaosun's recruitment of refugees and land reclamation in Wendeng.
He believed that if things continued like this, Wendeng would even become a paradise for the refugees in Nanzhili, especially Fengyang, and Kaiyuan would gradually encroach on Shandong, which would inevitably affect the court's prestige here.
Ge Yewen's superiority brought him trouble. In addition to the Kaiyuan forces threatening and suppressing him, other colleagues around him also did not like Ge Yewen. Most of them accepted the benefits of Ping Liaohou.
So when Song Yingsheng, Zeng Qixiao and others took control of Wen Deng this time, the first thing they thought of was to win over the smelly and tough Ge Yewen.
Song Yingsheng knew very well that it was difficult to suppress the local gangsters in Wendeng with just the two titles of Chief Licensing Supervisor and Liaoxi Military Gate. They urgently needed the support of more local forces.
When he heard that there was a person named Ge Yewen in Dengzhou, he was very happy and wanted to win over this person to deal with Liu Zhaosun together.
"Is Gezhi County here?"
"Back to Master Song, I sent someone the day before yesterday. According to the wishes of several Shangguan officials, I invited Ge Zhixian to come to Wendeng to participate in important events, but somehow they haven't arrived yet."
"That's all, don't wait for him anymore, bring the prisoner up! Execution!"
At noon on February 24, the first year of Chongzhen, we were in the north of Wendeng County.
The large campus was crowded with people. A temporary wooden platform was erected in the center of the campus. The platform was densely packed with Wendeng people.
The Japanese soldiers and water camp soldiers transferred from the capitals of Dengzhou and Laizhou, armed with long spears and waist knives, glared fiercely at the Wendeng people who were pouring in around the school grounds, and shouted loudly to drive them away from the execution ground.
Commander Yang and the servants of several generals were on guard with knives on the North and South Streets, closely monitoring any disturbance in the surroundings.
Many people in Wendeng had just received the news that the Kaiyuan soldiers stationed in Wendeng were preparing to rebel. Fortunately, Eunuch Zeng came to the capital and surrendered the Kaiyuan soldiers in the past two days, which helped Dengzhou avoid a war.
Today, Eunuch Zeng is going to publicly execute Kaiyuan rebels in the university grounds, including Mrs. Ping Liaohou and a baby who is not yet one month old.
The elegant Song Yingsheng lifted up the sleeves of his third-grade robe and reached out to grab the order token on the table. The stall owner from Dongchang next to him coughed twice and said uneasily: "Master Song, there is no need to kill this child. He is not yet one month old." .”
Song Yingsheng grabbed the arrow and drew a blood-red word "剉" on it. When he saw Zeng Qixiao trying to dissuade him, he smiled coldly:
"Eunuch Zeng, what I am wearing today is the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty."
He continued with a serious face:
"Eunuch Zeng, after all, you came from Dongchang, don't you know the law? According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, those who rebel will be punished by the nine tribes. All three tribes will be punished by being cut into pieces, which means cutting them into pieces with a thousand cuts. As the saying goes, if you cut the grass, you will eradicate the root. Liu Thief If you commit treason and commit rebellion, you should never think about what will happen today."
"Not only the family members of Liu Zhao and Sun, but also the maids from the Wendeng County government office have been beheaded today. There are also shops originally located in Wendeng. The shopkeepers are all Liu's spies, and none of them can be kept."
After hearing this, Zeng Qixiao took a deep breath and quickly stopped talking.
He has been working in Dongchang for many years, working his way up from fanzilishi to big stall, and became Xu Xianchun's most capable subordinate.
Over the years, he has ransacked countless homes and killed many people. He was considered a ruthless person, but he had never done anything like Song Yingsheng did today.
Sure enough, if the civil servants are ruthless, the eunuchs will have nothing to do with them.
"Eunuch Zeng, don't you think Liu thief will let us go if we kill one less person? I know this beast Liu Zhaosun best. He can kill heroes for only two hundred taels of silver! Let's kill him from Kaiyuan to Wen Deng, after killing so many of his men, he can’t wait to turn us into ashes.”
Song Yingsheng suddenly raised his voice and slapped the command arrow in his hand on the table, causing the wooden table to make an unsettling creaking sound.
"We, the three brothers of the Song family in Linchuan, gave up their promising future in the capital in the forty-seventh year of Wanli and followed Liu Zhaosun to Liaodong. At that time, the war was fierce and the war was dangerous. We helped him manage civil affairs and shops, and worked conscientiously. We also led people from Jiangxi to Kaiyuan Become a private school teacher and help him transform Xia into barbarians. Without us three brothers from the Song family, he would not be what he is today! My brother Song Yingding only took tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was money earned by the trading company himself. The Liu thief actually crossed the river and demolished the bridge, killing My brother wants to attack me again! Tell me, should Thief Liu die?"
"That's all, let's not talk about this anymore."
Song Yingsheng took a long breath, restored his elegant image, and said to the conductor Yang Qilong who was sitting next to Zeng Qixiao:
"Commander Yang, are everything arranged?"
Yang Qilong did not dare to look directly at Song Yingsheng, wiped the sweat from his forehead and stammered:
"An, the arrangements have been made. Okay, people have been ambushed along the official roads and trails, and servants have been deployed at the pier."
Song Yingsheng nodded, affirming Yang Qilong's ability to do things.
"What about the area around the execution ground?"
Yang Qilong said quickly:
"Three hundred servants were ambushed, the soldiers were dressed as ordinary people, and there were our people on the roads around."
"Okay! Well done, Commander Yang. When we return to the capital, I and Eunuch Zeng will not forget your contribution."
Song Yingsheng said nothing and looked at Wu Xiang, who was sitting at the edge.
"Wu Junmen, Liu thief is attacking Guangning. Your brother-in-law, Zu Dashou, is probably not going to die soon. Since you already know that Liu Zhaosun is our common enemy, we should work together as one, today!"
Song Yingsheng suddenly stood up and threw the arrow with the word "剉" written on it.
"Today, Jin Yuji and her daughter will vote for their names and chop them into pieces. From now on, the four of us will be our own!"
Let the arrow fall to the ground, and Ling Chi begins.
The school grounds were buzzing with people.
On the high platform, there were more than a dozen wooden stakes standing. The last twelve Kaiyuan rebels were tied to the wooden stakes and underwent Lingchi torture.
Because the executioner was beheaded yesterday (it is said that this person was involved with Liu Thief), all the butchers who killed pigs in Wendeng County were arrested and executed by Mr. Song.
Sharp knives, whetstones, water basins, and bamboo baskets are neatly placed next to the twelve wooden stakes.
Bamboo baskets are used to hold human flesh cut off during Lingchi.
The butchers were busy sharpening their knives, and the eight-inch-long knives tore at the gravel on the whetstone. The rustling sound was like a poisonous snake eating people's hearts.
Next to the twelve rebels, there was a swaddling baby, and the sound of a child crying could be heard from the swaddling cloth.
After Liu Zhaosun's concubine was captured, her under-month-old child was also escorted here. Mr. Song specifically warned that the little prisoner could not die prematurely, so the servants had been feeding the baby rice soup for the past two days, trying hard to maintain the little one. life.
More than thirty white birds fluttered out from the channel of Qingchun River (a river in Wendeng), flew through the blue sky above the crowd, then turned eastward and flew towards the golden sun.
Jin Yuji saw the egret flying in the blue sky. A lone egret flew over the execution ground, screamed sadly and flew quickly towards Liaodong.
She lowered her head and looked at her daughter who was lying on the ground crying.
Two servants dragged a bloody man towards a high stake.
Jin Yuji did not immediately recognize the Chinese army guard.
After the fall of Wendeng, this guard had been hiding on the beam of the Wendeng County government office. Before being captured, he shot to death five of Song Yingsheng's soldiers with a short crossbow.
Master Song specifically ordered this person to rebel before the Twelve and accept the torture of Lingchi.
Jin Yuji saw a beaten humanoid monster.
The guard's head was like a rattle, following the steps of the servants on both sides, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, like a broken ear of wheat, swaying in the wind.
The bloody scab on the top of his head and the bun were stuck together, making his head look like an indestructible iron ball.
The guard's feet sometimes hung in the air and sometimes touched the ground, causing little ripples on the bluestone of the school grounds.
With this ripple as the center, the crowd shrank back unconsciously like birds in the river of youth.
For a moment, the school grounds were silent, and the egrets could be heard clearly croaking sadly above their heads.
Jin Yuji saw the servant dragging the humanoid monster to the wooden pile. As soon as she let go, the monster collapsed on the ground like a pile of boneless flesh.
Jin Yuji struggled and shouted: "Mr. Zhang!"
Zhang Ba always squirmed slowly under the wooden pile, like a big frozen snake.
He knelt on his knees and raised his head slightly. His face was swollen and translucent, his eyes became two thin slits, and two dark green rays of light shot out from the slits in his eyes.
Two soldiers of Song Yingsheng walked up to the people of Wendeng and shouted at the top of their lungs.
"Whoever sacrifices his life for Liu Zhaosun again will end up like this!"
Two servants stripped Mr. Zhang naked and tied him to a wooden stake.
Wang Er, the most famous pig butcher in Wendeng County, was pushed and escorted over by Song Yingsheng's soldiers.
Holding a sharp knife in his left hand and a bucket of purified water in his right hand, he walked tremblingly to Mr. Zhang.
The soldier came up and said:
"Master Song said that today he is going to open the eyes of the people of Wendeng. This is the first course, and there will be hard dishes later! Three thousand six hundred knives, no less, if you can't cut it well, you will open your chest. Throw it into the River of Youth and feed it to the bastard!"
Wang Er's whole body was trembling, and the sharp knife in his hand was shaking along with it.
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