On that day, Xing Wenxin ordered people to post notices all over Qingshan City, announcing the news that Chen Mohuai and others would be executed three days later, which caused a great sensation.
It has been nearly half a year since Chen Mohuai and others were demoted from their posts and imprisoned. The people have been looking forward to the outcome of the matter.
Now, the fourth-grade official from the capital had just arrived on the first day and posted the notice on the second day. Chen Mohuai, Liu Hui, Cai Cheng and others were actually sentenced to Lingchi, which was very satisfying.
Many local people in Qingshan County have actually hated these corrupt officials for a long time. However, in the past, they held the power of life and death in the county. No matter how dissatisfied the common people were, they could only endure it in their hearts.
Now that these people have finally got their due end, the people are all celebrating.
Some people even prepared wine and meat, preparing to toast with their relatives and friends when the execution was carried out three days later. Can you imagine how Chen Mohuai and others have been hated by people in Qingshan County over the years?
How Chen Mohuai spent these three days in prison was clearly arranged by Shao Xi.
In the past three days, Shao Xi took Lao Wu, Long Qitai, Fu Biao and others to drink with him every day, and he did not forget to go to the southern suburbs of the city to worship Ye Ziyuan every day.
In just three days, great changes have taken place around Ye Ziyuan's graveyard. The land has been leveled, weeds and shrubs have been cleared, and an area of nearly a hundred feet has been fenced off.
Centered on Ye Ziyuan's stone tomb, the entire place has been tidied up.
According to Xu Maocheng, as long as we work day and night, the cemetery can be completed before the Lantern Festival next year. At that time, the Zhang Yuzheng Council of the Ministry of Rites of the DPRK will send relevant officials to Qingshan County to hold a worship and conferment ceremony.
Since then, this area has been the location of the cemetery of the fourth-grade wife of the current dynasty. Officials will be assigned to stay here all year round and urge local officials to take care of the place.
Cleaning, worshiping and guarding and protecting the cemetery will be one of the important responsibilities of Qingshan County officials in the future.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and finally the day of execution came.
As early as the night before, the entire Qingshan County government office and prison-related officials, government officials, jailers, and jailers had stayed up all night, preparing for the execution at the execution ground the next day.
It’s just that the scale of this execution is too large!
Hundreds of heads had to be chopped off in one day, which was no small project.
What's more, there are three people to be executed, so this is even more of a technical job. The executioners invited are all masters with many years of experience.
Chen Mohuai and others also stayed up all night in prison because they knew very well that their lives and those of their family members had entered a countdown.
Early in the morning on the day of execution, the people of Qingshan City rushed to the execution ground set up in the city.
The execution platform and the execution platform for officials to supervise the executions had been built here three days ago. The common people were afraid that they would be blocked outside and could not see it. Some people even arrived before dawn.
From now on, all prisoners will wear shackles and chains. Chen Mohuai and others were even put into prison cars and paraded slowly along the street from the prison.
This is a process that death row prisoners must go through before being executed. The purpose of the parade is to show everyone the fate of those who violate law and challenge the law, as a warning to the world.
This parade almost circled around Qingshan City. An hour later, at noon, all the prisoners on death row were taken to the execution ground.
The common people have been bullied and squeezed by these corrupt officials for so many years. They used to be too angry to speak out, but today is the best time to vent their anger.
So during the parade, the people along the way threw almost everything they could throw out, which made the government officials very busy.
It doesn’t matter if you throw vegetables or eggs, but there are still people throwing stones, and even ruthless people rush up with kitchen knives at home. Fortunately, they were stopped by the government officials, otherwise Chen Mohuai and others might not have been able to do so. When you arrive at the execution ground, you will be stabbed first.
Chen Mohuai, Liu Hui, Cai Cheng and others who were detained in the prison car did not deserve any sympathy. No matter how the people treated them, they brought it upon themselves and deserved it.
I just pitied the implicated family members who were hobbling around in shackles and chains behind the prison van. Hundreds of men and women also suffered the same rebuke from the common people.
Although these people are not innocent, they are indeed very pitiful. Some of them still can't figure out why they are now being pushed to the execution ground to pay for their lives.
There are too many things that I can't figure out, but anyone who has spent dirty money will definitely be implicated.
After parading for an hour, these prisoners were taken to the execution ground in the city just after noon, and they knelt on the ground in such a dense mass, it was such a big area!
Today, Shao Xi was wearing a scarlet official uniform and led officials at all levels from the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple who came with him to Qingshan County, as well as a group of local officials from Qingshan County to the execution platform.
A simple awning has been set up on this platform. This shed is just a formality. No one is afraid of the sun in the winter. It would make sense if it is after autumn, because the sun after autumn is still quite poisonous.
The main function of this shed is to imply that the person being executed represents the imperial power and laws, the public opinion of the people, and is sworn in with the criminal being executed.
However, there should be no sheds on the heads of the executed prisoners, which symbolizes the clear sky and the punishment of crime and evil.
Shao Xi led the officials to sit down on the execution platform and looked at the death row prisoners kneeling opposite the execution place. At this time, Chen Mohuai, Liu Hui, and Cai Cheng were tied to the execution column.
Since the execution process of these three people would be extremely slow, according to Shao Xi's request, the execution of these three people should be completed only after all the executions were completed.
There were thirty or forty executioners standing on the execution platform, which meant that with one order, thirty or forty heads would fall to the ground at the same time.
But Shao Xi felt that it was too late to chop off one chop after another, so he summoned the black armor guards who had been prepared in advance to enter the scene.
Xing Wenxin had made arrangements for this matter beforehand. The knives used by the soldiers of Xuanjia Guard when they entered the execution ground to assist in the execution were all prepared by Xing Wenxin for them in advance.
Qiao Wu'an commanded two hundred and twenty soldiers to enter, plus the dozens of executioners, this wave could take away two to three hundred people, and they would be finished in three or four cuts.
The waiting process seemed a bit long, but Shao Xi still patiently stared at Chen Mohuai and others on the execution platform.
Thinking back to their disgusting faces a year ago, today they finally got the retribution they deserved.
The busiest people at this time were the government officials and police officers. They were identifying themselves one by one in the audience to ensure that the person being executed was indeed them.
When the official responsible for watching the time announced loudly: "It's three quarters past noon!"
The audience immediately felt like a pot was exploding, and almost everyone in the city came to watch. The scene was truly spectacular.
Now that the time has come, Shao Xi raised his hand, pulled out the token from the token tube, and threw it towards the audience.
When the token fell to the ground, the executioner on the stage and the two hundred and twenty Xuanjia Guards below the stage raised their swords and dropped them at the same time.
The sound of the blade penetrating into the bones came and went, and there was only a constant sound of "click, click, click...", followed by the sound of "crack, thump, rumble" and the sound of the head falling to the ground.
The people who were watching couldn't help but exclaimed. They had seen beheadings before, but this was the first time in their lives that they had seen so many heads beheaded. This scene was both spectacular and terrifying.
It was indeed easy to get things done when there were so many people. Apart from cleaning up the place after beheading and dragging away the bodies, which took some time, everything else was pretty straightforward.
Just like this, one after another, it took four waves of beheading to finish, hundreds of heads and hundreds of corpses. At this time, the execution ground looked as weird as a large slaughterhouse.
During the first two waves of beheadings, the people would still let out some exclamations, but at the end of the beheadings, the entire execution ground became silent, with no one exclaiming or cheering.
Because this scene aroused the deepest fear in everyone's heart, it was as if they had seen a real hell.
It might be fun to watch one person, two people, ten people, or eight people, but in the blink of an eye, seven or eight hundred people were beheaded. Not to mention the corpses, the heads alone could not be loaded into a carriage.
At this time, the people present realized that this was not a bustle, but the disappearance of hundreds of lives.
From the excitement at the beginning, to the surprise later, to the fear at this moment, this is the effect of shock.
Seeing this scene, I believe that both the common people and officials present will have no doubt that if they have committed many evil deeds, they will definitely end up like this.
Hundreds of heads were chopped cleanly, and the last one to be beheaded was the county captain Chang Jinhu who was pulled out alone.
He looked very calm. As one of the important officials of Qingshan County, it was a great irony to pull him out alone to behead him.
With the verification of his identity and signing of the token, Chang Jinhu ended his not-so-glorious life.
But before he died, he still raised his head and glanced at Shao Xi with grateful eyes. After all, it was Shao Xi's generosity that saved the lives of more than a hundred people in his clan. For Chang Jinhu, who was well aware of the seriousness of his sins, Shao Xi Xi can be regarded as his benefactor.
When all the heads were chopped off and the execution ground was cleared, Shao Xi stood up and walked slowly down from the execution platform and came to the execution platform.
After waving behind him, an old woman holding a baby came to the execution platform and stood behind Shao Xi. At the same time, Xuanjia Colonel Qiao Wuan also followed.
The old woman was holding Chen Mohuai's half-year-old son, whose mother had just been beheaded.
The reason why the child was left alone was because Shao Xi wanted to fulfill what he had said to Chen Mohuai before. He wanted Chen Mohuai to watch his son being strangled to death and fed to the dogs.
"Chen Mohuai, you didn't see me kill Chen Hanbin a year ago, but now I'm going to let you experience how it feels to have someone close to you die in front of you."
