April 18, Beijing.

The streets were crowded with people, the capital was under martial law for two days, and the ban was just lifted yesterday evening, and the people in the capital who had not gone out for two days walked out of their homes one after another.

The day before yesterday, the brocade guards who filled the streets had already realized that something big had happened in the capital, but it wasn't until last night that these people, who worked hard for firewood, rice, oil and salt every day, knew that the imperial court was punishing corrupt officials.

The notices of the imperial court had already been posted all over the capital yesterday evening, and each notice was crowded with people who had come to watch, and some literate people had already read aloud to the people around them.

The imperial court wanted to punish corrupt officials, and they had to behead 312 at a time, which did not appear a few times in the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and these only few times made the people at that time celebrate and run to tell each other.

"The sky has eyes, that dog official has finally received retribution, son, you can be blinded in the spirit of the sky!"

An old man with a flat burden on his shoulders was full of tears, and the flat shoulder also slipped from his shoulders to the ground, and the old man bowed his head in the direction of the imperial city, his forehead touched the ground, and he didn't know it when he was covered with dust.

"My family's house was snatched by the dog official named Zhang Qi two years ago, my mother was not in good health, and she was bullied by this dog official, causing my mother to go away with injustice, all of them are this dog officials! Mother, have you seen it, that dog official will be beheaded tomorrow! ”

A young man wearing a small felt hat and looking like a guy in a restaurant was also full of tears, scolding the name of Zhang Qi, the left attendant of the former ministry, and then kowtowed in the direction of the imperial city.

"This surnamed Li occupied my family's ten acres of fertile land and injured my father, retribution! Retribution! I'm going to Xishi Street, and I'm going to see that dog official beheaded! ”

"Let's go, I'm going to see it too!"

"I'll go too, the little sixth son of my second uncle's family was killed by them......"

"Let's go!"

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There is a street near the border city outside the noon gate of the capital, called Xishi, since Ming Chengzu Zhu Di usurped his nephew's position and moved the capital to Beijing, the streets of Xishi have become a special place to execute criminals.

Since then, the entire Ming Dynasty has continued this tradition, and it is not known how many ghosts under the knife have been in this place for more than two hundred years.

However, since the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Chongba executed tens of thousands of heads at one time when he dealt with Hu Weiyong's case, there has been no large-scale corruption punishment, but that was in Nanjing.

A total of 318 criminals were involved in the 17-year corruption case of Chongzhen, and in the case of the three clans, the number of executions was as high as 3,270, which directly created a record of the first execution of criminals since the establishment of Beijing.

From early in the morning, Liu Hong gradually dressed up and rushed to Jinyi Wei Zhao Prison, all the criminals were escorted from the prison to the prison car, through Chang'an Street, until they reached Xishi Street, one after another, stretching endlessly, innumerable.

The streets of Chang'an Avenue were lined with the people of the capital who had heard the news, including the small merchants who had been bullied and the people in the fields who had been oppressed, dressed in various colors of clothes, and some of them were covered with colorful patches.

But everyone had a basket hanging on their arm, and there was nothing else in the basket, but rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs stuffed into the whole basket.

Liu Hong gradually specially beckoned the prisoner car to move slower, so that these people could vent their grievances in their hearts for many years.

Only he knows that when a nation awakens, it is an unstoppable torrent, which is enough to change the embarrassment of the Ming Dynasty.

People on both sides of the street threw all sorts of debris at the prisoner cart and shouted to kill him, kill him, and the whole street became very chaotic.

The 2,000 Jinyi guards and 5,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp raised their guns horizontally to block the people who wanted to break through the obstacles.

Outside the noon gate, there are several dark red jujube wood tables on the top, and from the middle to both sides sit the chief supervisor Liu Hongchuan, as well as the new criminal department Shangshu Meng Zhaoxiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Liang Yang, the driver and the eunuch with the palm print, Shi Bangzhao, the left capital of the Inspectorate, and Qi Zhongming, the secretary of Dali Temple.

Due to the huge number of executioners killed and the serious shortage of executioners in the Criminal Department, Meng Zhaoxiang consulted the documents with experience in beheading and re-recruited 30 executioners who had experience in beheading.

Most of the older executioners executed their ministers during the Apocalypse, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, which also made them feel guilty until they quit the business.

Now, the imperial court wants to execute these really corrupt officials who are full of evil, and it also makes the blood of these old guys who have been forced to kill loyal ministers rekindled, for them, this is a redemption.

He took out the rusty ghost-headed broadsword from home, sprinkled some water on the whetstone, and in just a moment, the ghost-headed broadsword flashed cold light and was abnormally sharp.

The first batch of convicts to be pressed up were the huge greed Wei Zaode, Zhang Jinyan and their families, a total of 35 people, Wei Zaode, who was kneeling on the execution ground, had long lost the scenery of the previous brocade clothes and jade food.

Not only is he unkempt, but his two arms are also hanging weakly, it looks like he has lost the dominance of his arms, his lips are cracked, his throat moves slightly but he can't say anything, it seems that Xu Ba has been tossing a lot in the past two days.

Zhang Jinyan, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, was very tough, and he knew that he was guilty, but he just bowed his head and accepted the abuse of Minzhuang, his eyes were dull, and he didn't say a word.

"Brother Liu, Uncle Liu, do you recognize you, I'm Zhang Chengyou, in the Changsheng pawnshop, I have bought your mirror, Lord Liu is here!

All that silver is greedy for by my father, and it has nothing to do with it! Oh yes, he's not my father, I had already cut ties with this bad old man the day before yesterday.

Lord Liu, as long as you can rescue you, I wish to be by your side for the rest of my life......"

Behind Zhang Jinyan, a sloppy young man, desperately shook his head left and right, revealing his pickled face, he was the one who once spent a huge amount of money in the prosperous pawnshop to buy Liu Hongji's mirror, Zhang Chengyou, the son of the former military department.

Idiot, Liu Hong's contempt in his heart, corrupt and perverted the law, it is for disloyalty, insulting his biological father, for unfilial piety, killing relatives for life, for unkindness, greedy for life and afraid of death, and for injustice.

You took the money that your father was greedy for, arrogant and lascivious, and wandered for half your life, and now you are scolding your father for not being a thing, is there still such a brazen person in the world? Where did your father's money come from, don't you have a B count in your heart?

"This official doesn't recognize you, as for your grievances, go to the underworld and go to the abyss with Lord Hades, come on! Proclaim! Liu Hong gradually gave an order in a deep voice.

"You dog officer, even if I go to the underworld, I will turn into a demon to find you, you ......" Before Zhang Chengyou continued to make noise, the Beijing soldiers who were already impatient next to him kicked him in the ribs, and he lay on the ground speechless.

The director of the criminal department, who got the order, took a few steps forward to read out the evil deeds of Wei Zaode and Zhang Jinyan, as well as the emperor's will, and looked back on his life.

"Slash!" Liu Hong gradually took out the decapitation token and threw it out, shouting, the decapitation token drew an arc in the air, and fell to the ground in response.

The executioner's door spat out a mouthful of liquor on the ghost head knife, thirty-five ghost head broadswords, held high, shining cold light against the sun, after an order, the executioner's eyes widened, and suddenly thirty-five human heads rolled to the ground.

Most of the onlookers covered the children's eyes, but some adults taught the children not to be afraid, and they wanted the children to watch the bad people who killed their parents and bring them to justice.

"The sky has eyes, my Zhou family has finally taken revenge, the emperor is shengming, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

An old man took the lead and knelt down, and the old tears were all over the place, bearing the highest respect for Emperor Chongzhen.

Immediately, the surrounding people knelt down like waves, shouting in unison in the direction of the imperial city, long live our emperor, and all people were in unison, and the momentum shook the sky.

Emperor Chongzhen did not go to the execution ground, at this time he was still in the Qianqing Palace to review the folds that could never be cleaned up, probably tired, Emperor Chongzhen sighed, got up and walked to the window.

Wang Erxi, the eunuch in the hall behind him, also followed, and a vague shout suddenly came from a distance, and Chongzhen frowned.

"Your Majesty, listen, it's the people of the capital, they are shouting, shouting Long live the emperor!" Wang Erxi listened carefully.

"Really?" Chongzhen's tired eyes suddenly burst into tears.