In the seventh year of Hongwu, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, in Damingfu City, the streets were empty to watch the murder!
This former Beijing city of the Song Dynasty has now been downgraded by one level and has become the capital of Hebei Road. The Hebei Road Yingtian Envoy Department and the Hebei Road Appeasement Envoy Department both moved from Xiangzhou to Damingfu in the summer of the seventh year of Hongwu.
Along with the Hebei Road Yingtian Envoy Department and the Hebei Road Appeasement Envoy Department, there was also the Hebei Road Tidian Prison Department.
Nowadays, the local governance of the Luoyang imperial court is roughly the same as that of the Yingtian Envoy Department or the Transport Envoy Department, which manages the administration, the Soothing Envoy Department, which manages the military, and the Punishment and Prison Department, which manages the judiciary. It is roughly the "three departments in parallel" approach. There is also a leader among the "three divisions", which is the field envoy or the transport envoy.
Among the transshipment envoys, although Guan Jun's pacifier status is lower than that of the transshipment envoy, he is very independent and the transshipment envoy basically cannot interfere in the military.
As for the Yingtian envoy, because the Yingtian envoy is not a simple civil affairs official, but an officer in charge of the military government in the field (the Yingtian envoys are all military attaches), the pacification envoys on the Yingtian envoy are more like Yingtian envoys. The deputy of the field envoy.
However, whether they are camp envoys or pacification envoys, unless there is a special purpose, they have no right to command the field troops stationed in their jurisdiction. As for these field troops, they are under the joint management of the Military Department and the Service Department... At least these military leaders are in the hands of Zhao Kai, as long as Zhao Kai can allocate enough to the soldiers below. field, then everything will be fine.
As for the various departments of punishment and prison, it is a relatively independent yamen. In charge of the judicial and prison affairs, general civil and criminal cases are handled by the criminal department.
However, when officials break the law, military officers and serving soldiers break the law, the Department of Prisons and Prisons cannot intervene. As for the case of the Department of Punishment, the Department of Punishment and Prisons can participate to a certain extent. Because the Zhenfu Division does not have its own prison or trial court, it can only handle cases with the Military Justice Department, the Yushitai, and the Criminal Division depending on the status of the prisoner. Theoretically, there will be three or four joint trials. situation - if there are multiple prisoners in the same case, including civilians, soldiers, and officials, it will naturally be tried by four courts.
As for the large number of "fake officials" caught in Daming Mansion a while ago, because they did not have official status in the Luoyang court, the Yushitai did not care about them. They were not soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and the Military Justice Department certainly did not care about them.
Therefore, the Town and Fu Division was responsible for investigation and prosecution, and the Hebei Lu Tidian Criminal and Prison Division was responsible for detention, trial, and execution.
Including the former gold thief Yuancheng County Magistrate Yuan Chun, there are eight big traitors whose "crime cannot be redeemed" (no one will redeem them), and one little traitor who "can be redeemed but not redeemed" (no one can redeem them), Lai Yufeng, the Hebei punishment envoy who had just taken office not long ago, arranged to go on the road together on the seventh day of July!
In the Song Dynasty, there were originally two ways for prisoners to go on the road: "beheading" and "hanging." Among them, "hanging" could be paid to "avoid hanging", while beheading could not be redeemed. When Song Renzong was an official, he felt that "cutting" and "hanging" were not enough to scare Xiao Xiao, so he added Lingchi... It was really Renzong!
Zhao Kai, who reopened the Song Dynasty, did not spend much thought on how to kill people, so he completely retained the three types of death penalty: "hanging", "beheading" and "lingchi".
Moreover, Zhao Kai had a soft heart and could not bear to see others suffer, so he allowed prisoners who had been sentenced to beheading or tortured to spend money to have their sentences reduced.
Under normal circumstances, beheading can be commuted to hanging, and under special circumstances, the sentence can be commuted to release!
For example, the beheading sentence imposed by Li Daguan in Lujiazhuang is a beheading sentence that can "full atonement". As long as there is enough food (Zhao Kai's army of more than 200,000 people needs to eat every day!), he can leave immediately. And as long as the knife doesn't cut it off, it can be redeemed!
So today, Li Jian, who was taken to the northwest corner of Daming Mansion, to the large campus inside Yongji Gate, waiting to be stabbed, is still stretching his neck. Lady Jia, who is looking at him eagerly, has changed her mind and offered to ransom him with food. life.
But seeing the sun getting higher and higher, Lady Jia didn't see her coming to save him with food...
And Lingchi's punishment can only be redeemed by beheading! However, Zhao Kai himself decreed that mercy could be granted outside the law, otherwise he would definitely die.
Eight fake officials, including Yuan Chun, the former magistrate of Yuancheng County, were all sentenced to Lingchi by Lu Xiucai. However, with the help of Li Shiwen, the chief registrar of Yuancheng County, all the filial sons of the eight fake officials were ruined. They redeemed Ling Chi and changed the sentence to a more pleasant beheading.
These eight are considered dead. Now they have collapsed and are lying limply on the execution ground, waiting for their heads to fall to the ground when the time comes.
The person in charge of today's execution is Liu Da, the same Liu Da who led the troops to capture Lujiazhuang. He is now transferred to the Second Zhechong Mansion of Daming Mansion as an official, responsible for training the newly recruited utility men.
Liu Da selected nine of the newly recruited utility men who were strong and brave and could use large blades, and asked them to temporarily serve as executioners. The number of executioners in the Hebei Punishment Division is limited. It’s not much in total, and my business has been quite busy recently, so I have to rush to kill people!
In the past two days, I have been to Cangzhou to support the anti-traitor work there - Cangzhou is the last stronghold of the gold thief Wei Bojun on Hebei Road. Wanyan Qi left many traitors behind when he ran away, and some of them also took advantage of Cangzhou's terrain. (Many forests and wetlands) resisted stubbornly, but most of them were captured alive by Dong Jingang, who was ordered to lead troops to suppress them. So all the professional murderers from the Hebei Criminal Division went to Cangzhou to help...
As for Daming Mansion, several groups have been killed, and now there are only eight or nine (one of them is not sure) left to kill, so Liu Da's people are allowed to kill them casually.
A large number of common people and gentry from Daming Prefecture came to see the murder. They formed a large circle outside the "murder scene". There were always tens of thousands of people craning their necks waiting to watch the "live-action horror movie". Many of them are gentry from the Daming Prefecture. Li Shiwen, the chief registrar of Yuancheng County, is also standing in the crowd, surrounded by a large group of gentry with their heads held high, without wearing headscarves, and with their heads raised - they proudly reveal their faces. The bun on the head!
Now the scholars with buns here in Daming Mansion are worth a lot of money. Having buns means they have never surrendered to the enemy... Although it is useless, they still have backbone, so anyone with a little knowledge can take the exam. The last trick officer.
In fact, they came to Daming Mansion to seek official positions!
And Li Shiwen was ordered to take them to receive the ideological education of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism... So now they were all pointing at the people who were about to be stabbed and yelling curses.
"These traitors who betray the country really deserve death!"
"Treason against the country, betrayal against the ancestors, disloyalty and unfilial piety, and now you really deserve what you have been punished for!"
"If we don't kill these thieves, it won't be enough for the people to get angry!"
"Killing him with one knife still leaves him with no regrets!"
"Yes, it should be cut to pieces..."
There were also some scholars wearing thick Dongpo scarves who stood among the crowd and gasped... They almost knelt there waiting to be stabbed!
Although he escaped death for various reasons, his family property also suffered heavy losses in this accident...and now he is being discriminated against because of his hair style!
I really don’t know where the future lies!
Zhao Kai definitely doesn't want them here, but goes to Zhao Gou... Will he be caught and beheaded in a few years? But if you don't join Zhao Gou, where can you become an official?
Just when these people were wondering whether to try their luck on Jingdong Road, a loud noise suddenly came from their ears - boom!
This is a 5-pound long-barreled cannon with one shot fired!
When Liu Da heard the sound of the cannon, he knew that it was three o'clock at noon, so he strode towards Lai Yufeng, the today's prisoner and executioner, and made a salute: "The time has come for the punishment!"
Lai Yufeng was a Jinshi in the first year of Hongwu, and was in the same class as Lu Baoshan. After seven years of being an official, he was sentenced all the way. This official career was impossible in the Taiping years. But these are troubled times, and he has been a "Hanlin warrior" and followed Zhao Kai to the front line. Naturally, he has military exploits. With Zhao Kai's support, it is not surprising that he sits on the spot of punishment.
Lai Yufeng, who had been on the battlefield, had seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Of course he was not afraid of killing people. He picked up a command arrow with a smile and threw it to Liu Da, saying loudly: "Behead him!"
"Here!"
Liu Da caught the token and then strode towards the execution ground. The nine criminals, who had turned pale with fear, loudly said: "The time has come...it's time to behead! All the criminals will be punished by me." Stretch your neck out!”
Then he said to the nine executioners carrying swords: "Brothers, chop well...don't chop crookedly!"
"Good!"
A young executioner standing behind Yuan Chun responded immediately, and then he saw him skillfully waving his knife, and then he raised the knife and dropped it!
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"The advent of what love is......"
At the same time that Yuan Chun was beheaded, Zhao Kai was studying poetry with his "eldest granddaughter" Yelu Yuliyan in the imperial city of Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing.
At that time, he was reading a song he liked very much, "Moyuer. What is the Hate of Human Love?" This is a masterpiece by Yuan Haowen, a great official and great writer in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.
But Zhao Kai just read the beginning and completely forgot what the following words were?
"Why did you forget the lyrics?" Zhao Kai frowned and said to himself, "What did Li Mochou say?"
"Grandpa..." Yu Liyan asked curiously, "Who is Li Mochou?"
Zhao Kai did not answer him, but frowned more and more - the problem was serious!
He, Zhao Kai, actually forgot some things from his previous life!
This has never happened before, because Zhao Kai has a very good memory in this life and has a photographic memory!
Therefore, the memories of his previous life have never been lost as long as they followed him.
But today I actually forgot a word! This is going to cause amnesia!
Zhao Kai was no longer in the mood to "play tricks on his grandson" and said to Yu Liyan: "Grind it for me, I want to write something!"
He had to take advantage of his "complete amnesia" to write down all the knowledge he still had in his mind - these were "treasures for all mankind"!
