In response to this public trial of the century, Su Yonglin only made a few demands when he convened a joint meeting of the three departments.
"The harm caused by the Zhao and Song royal families to all the people in the world cannot be over in just one generation. Killing them all would be an advantage for them. My opinion is that it starts with the two brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi and ends with Zhao Jin. , according to the kinship relationship, they passed the throne for a total of eight generations.
Therefore, these children of the Zhao and Song royal families now have to pay the same price. Starting from them, eight generations down, they will have to do hard labor and do the hardest and most tiring hard labor to serve the country and the people. If they still If it can be passed down to eight generations, then by the ninth generation, freedom can be restored. "
The officials of the Third Division didn't think much of Su Yonglin's opinion, because according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for official crimes and heinous crimes was quite severe.
Not only was he severely punished, but his descendants were also affected. Two or three generations were rarely punished, and even if there was an amnesty, this criminal group would definitely not be within the scope of the amnesty. This law is an iron law, no matter what. No changes allowed.
Two or three generations can basically take away a large wave of families and cut off their inheritance, let alone strict punishment for eight consecutive generations.
This can almost take away the entire Zhao and Song royal family in one wave, effectively cutting off their inheritance.
But no one thought it was wrong to do so.
Otherwise, the tens of thousands of creatures killed by the Sanyi Huihe River and the Yellow River breach would probably cause trouble for them in their sleep.
The sins they have done themselves need to be borne by themselves.
We will settle the matter to the end and never forgive.
There were a large number of children from the Zhao and Song royal families. By the time they basically arrived in mid-November, the number had exceeded 3,000.
On November 25, a collective public trial was held in Zhongdu City. The children of the Zhao and Song royal families were sentenced according to their official positions, property, type of work, and whether they had criminal records.
Those with relatively minor crimes were sent to reform-through-labor workshops in the mainland to participate in labor reform and use labor to atone for their sins.
Those with more serious crimes were incorporated into the newly established hard labor establishment. They were among the first batch of criminals to do dirty and dangerous work. They were a group of people newly established by Su Yonglin. They were all corrupt officials, major criminals and criminals. their descendants.
They will be assigned to the border states of the Ming Dynasty to participate in various hard work such as city wall construction, road construction, and water conservancy maintenance. Wherever there are hard labor, they will be recruited to work there as soon as possible, followed by hired migrant workers and conscripted troops. .
From now on, they will stay away from wealth and splendor, stay away from their so-called noble blood, and become prisoners of the rank and file. Their footprints will travel all over the Ming Dynasty, contributing their labor force to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the happy life of the people until they die. .
For those with more serious crimes, the children of the Zhao and Song clan who committed crimes such as abusing the people and taking human lives will be publicly executed. After a public trial, they will be executed publicly, and not in Zhongdu, but in the Huangfan District of that year. When the Song rulers committed crimes A public trial was held where the crime was committed, and then he was hanged on the spot.
As the first offender, Zhao Hao and his co-conspirator Yu Yunwen were sentenced to death for conspiring to destroy the Yellow River dikes. The two were locked in a prison car and taken to Huazhou, where the water flow was strongest and the situation was the most dangerous in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.
They were scheduled for a public trial in Huazhou and then hanged directly.
After being hanged, their bodies were burned, their bones crushed and ashes scattered into the Yellow River.
It is worth mentioning that before being hanged, Zhao Hao looked at the angry and angry Central Plains people on and off the stage, looked at the rope that tightly tied his neck, collapsed, and then cried, he was a mess. , the dignity that had been forcibly maintained collapsed at this moment.
Yu Yunwen's face was dull from beginning to end, his eyes were dull, and he said nothing. He only let out a long sigh when he watched Zhao Min collapse because of fear and finally burst into tears.
After being executed, the story of Zhao Hao and Yu Yunwen's plot to destroy the Yellow River embankment was erected in the form of an inscription on the side of the Yellow River embankment in Huazhou. The cause and consequences of the crimes committed by the Song rulers Zhao Hao and Yu Yunwen were clearly told, so that everyone could remember that there had been a For what crimes the emperor was hanged here.
In all places where the Zhao and Song clans were executed, monuments were erected as usual to write down the crimes they committed and the causes and consequences of why they were executed as an eternal memorial.
Thousands of souls who died unjustly cannot be resurrected. All future generations can do is to prevent them from being forgotten.
If the genealogies of emperors, generals, and ministers do not commemorate them, people should commemorate them in their own way. This is the glory of humanism.
During the entire trial, only one of the Zhao and Song royal family received a slightly lenient trial.
This is a family branch of the late Zhao Shi??, Zongzhengqing of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The reason why this group of people received special treatment was because Zhao Shi stood up to defend Yue Fei in the injustice case of Yue Fei, and made a political mistake by vouching for Yue Fei with the lives of his entire family.
For this reason, Zhao Shi's family suffered a political attack from Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, and the whole family was moved to Fuzhou. He himself finally died in depression. This clan was also ignored and lived a relatively difficult life without making any achievements. Rape Division.
Because of this past incident, the Third Division showed leniency to this group of royal family members and treated them leniently.
Su Yonglin ordered his family to guard Yue Fei's tomb on behalf of the Zhao and Song royal family, and to serve as staff in the upcoming General Yue Memorial Shrine, passing on the responsibility of guarding the tomb and guarding the memorial shrine from generation to generation, as a meager compensation for Yue Fei from the Zhao and Song royal family.
The trial took more than a month to complete the verdict. During this period, people from Zhongdu came in waves to witness this century-old trial against the Zhao and Song royal family. The royal trials were front-page news in Zhongdu.
The clan members who had committed the most heinous crimes and were brought to the Huangfan District for public trial also aroused the excitement of the local people.
The crowd that gathered to watch their public trial was three tiers deep and three tiers outside. It was crowded and dark, and at a glance they were all full of people.
The local revival organization took the opportunity to conduct a wave of political and historical propaganda to educate the public about what mistakes these Zhao and Song clan members had committed, what evil they had done, and why they were publicly tried and hanged in public.
The effect of this wave of publicity is very good.
Anyway, these villains were lucky enough to enjoy the baptism of throwing weapons such as rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves before being hanged, and they also exuded an unbearable stench at the last moment of their lives.
After the trial, the fate of the other children of the Zhao and Song clans had been determined, and there was nothing else to do except wait to be punished.
Except Zhao Gou.
As the most politically significant political chief criminal, Su Yonglin's treatment of Zhao Gou was different from his treatment of others.
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