"Wang Shuochen and Xing Dachun were publicly executed, and the others were exiled to the grasslands to mine and build roads." Huang Shi'an handed over the reply letter from Datong Town.
Yang Jiachen opened the reply letter and read it again, and said, "I only killed two people. Wouldn't the punishment be too light?"
"There is a huge shortage of people on the grassland, and I heard that copper mines have been discovered, which means the demand for miners is even greater. Now all the prisoners are captured and sent to the grassland for mining." Huang Shi'an said.
Yang Jiachen said: "Haven't tens of thousands of military prisoners been sent to the grassland? Why is there still such a big gap?"
"I heard that several supply camps have been set up on the grassland. The soldiers are all selected from the prisoners of the army. With the development of copper mines, manpower is naturally stretched." Huang Shi'an walked to the stove aside, lifted the teapot on it, and served Yang Jiachen and fill your cup.
Yang Jiachen, who picked up the tea cup, sighed and said with disappointment: "When I entered the martial arts hall, I wanted to become a military attache. After graduation, I directly entered a certain combat division to become an officer. Unfortunately, my father did not want me to become an officer." Soldiers, force me to study literature, otherwise I should be fighting with the army in a certain soldiers division today."
"Xuewen can also serve the proprietor. As long as you and I manage Lingqiu well and stabilize our Tiger Flag's rule here, the contribution will be no less than those of the officers who went into battle to kill the enemy." Huang Shi'an consoled him from the side.
Yang Jiachen nodded lightly and said, "I understand, but when I think about missing the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy, I always feel that I have lost something."
"You young people always like to go into battle with swords and guns. In fact, it is equally important to stabilize the rear. Don't think so much. Next, go to supervise the execution." Huang Shi'an walked back to the main seat and sat down.
Yang Jiachen said: "Are you going to behead today?"
"Yes, we will be beheaded today. I will write a notice and post it later, and we will kill him after noon." Huang Shi'an said.
Yang Jiachen said: "When the execution is carried out, the county magistrate will bring a group of soldiers with him. Maybe there are still the remnants of the captured squire families in the city. It will be safe to have more people around."
"You will be responsible for the execution. I won't show up. I will send you the county's military force." Huang Shi'an said to Yang Jiachen.
Yang Jiachen was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He didn't expect that the other party wouldn't even come forward to deal with such a big matter.
"It will be noon in less than an hour. You go and prepare first. When the supervisor comes back, he will have to deal with the matter of dividing the fields in each town." Huang Shi'an said.
Yang Jiachen nodded.
He stood up from his seat and left the back office with a notebook in his hand.
The yamen had its own procedures for executing prisoners on death row. Yang Jiachen did not make any changes, but let the people in the yamen make arrangements.
Xing Dachun and Wang Shuochen were taken out of the prison by the jailer and put into a prison car. Then the officials from the yamen beat gongs and paraded through the streets to let the people in the city know that they were going to be beheaded.
There is a place similar to Caishikou in Lingqiu City.
The prisoner was placed on a high platform made of wood, with a chain on his hands and feet. In front of the high platform, there was a row of government officials holding spears and spears, blocking the way between the people and the high platform.
The area near the high platform was already crowded with people who were ready to watch the fun.
In an era when entertainment was scarce, beheading was an extremely interesting thing. Watching a beheading could keep many people talking for half a month.
The executioner brought two bowls of rice, two bowls of vegetables, and two bowls of wine, and placed them in front of Wang Shuochen and Xing Dachun.
"You two, please eat quickly. Once you are full, you can go on your way." The executioner said, then walked to a place not far away and looked at the two of them with a ghost-headed knife used to cut people.
The rice is white rice, and the vegetables are greasy stewed meat.
When the executioner left the meal in front of the prisoner, many of the people around him subconsciously swallowed their mouthfuls of saliva.
A few children even wanted to crawl under the crotches and armpits of adults to grab the decapitation meal of the death row inmate.
Fortunately, the police officers in the yamen saw this happen more than once and calmly drove back the children who wanted to get through.
"I won't eat, I won't eat."
Wow!
Wang Shuochen looked at the food in front of him and swept it over with his hands and the chains on his hands.
"You can't kill me. I am a director of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. I have done things for Dongzhu Liu and contributed to the Tiger Flag. I want to see Dongzhu Liu. I want to see Dongzhu Liu." Seeing that he was about to be beheaded, Wang Shuochen looked excited and began to speak. Incoherent.
The executioner on the side glanced at him sideways and said coldly: "This is your last meal in the world. You have overturned your rice bowl and will be hungry soon!"
If the condemned prisoner's meal was overturned by himself, he would naturally not prepare a second portion.
"I want to see Dongzhu Liu. You take me to see Dongzhu Liu. Dongzhu Liu will definitely not kill me." Wang Shuochen shouted loudly, either claiming that he had made meritorious service for the Tiger Flag, or that he wanted to see Liu Heng.
"No need to shout. It has been several days since we were captured. I'm afraid it was Liu Heng who gave the order to execute the two of us." Eat, looking very calm.
"It's all you. If I hadn't been bewitched by you, how could I have been beheaded?" Wang Shuochen seemed to have found a target to vent his anger and cursed at Xing Dachun.
Xing Dachun ate less than half a bowl of rice and a few pieces of meat, and finally picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
Snapped!
He threw the wine bowl on the high platform and broke into several pieces.
"It wasn't me who killed you, it was your greed. The day you embezzled the Xu Yang and Li family's wealth, your fate was doomed today." Xing Dachun said sarcastically.
"No, that's not the case. It's you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have embezzled the wealth of three families, and I wouldn't have had the opportunity to embezzle the wealth of three families. It was all because of you. It was you who made me what I am now." Wang Shuochen shouted.
Xing Dachun snorted contemptuously and said: "It was you who found me for embezzling the property of three families. You were reluctant to part with the family's land by fighting against the tiger-character flag. In the words of Buddhism, if there is a cause, there must be a result. Can't you do it?" If you do what you should do, you will end up like this."
"You're talking nonsense, it's all because of you. If you weren't there to confuse me, I would never do such a thing." With that, Wang Shuochen was about to pounce on Xing Dachun.
The executioner on the side walked over and kicked Wang Shuochen, knocking him to the ground. At the same time, he cursed: "Be honest. If you dare to move again, don't blame me for being rude to you."
Wang Shuochen, who had been kicked, had cold sweat on his painful forehead. He sat on the ground covering the place where he had been kicked and could not move for a long time.
"After you have eaten and are on the road, you have to kneel down for me." the executioner shouted.
Xing Dachun did not resist and knelt quietly on the high platform.
