Execution Ground - Located in the downtown of the city, the reason why the execution ground is set up here is to clarify the canonical punishment and deter Xiaoxiao. On the east side of the execution ground was a sealed brick wall, about a foot high, which was the back wall of some houses and small warehouses. Leaning against this wall, almost the same distance from the two ends of the execution ground, there was a shelf on which there would always be some rotting human heads. And to the north of the shelf, a shed was built along the brick wall, where the executioners waited for the prisoners to arrive. At the time of the execution, the prisoner sat under this tent.

And the execution ground was already surrounded by a sea of people, crowded and shouting, coupled with the reprimands and whips of the officials, this piece of noise and noise, almost Tongguan City was shaken.

It has always been seen in the city to see the killing, will attract the people in the city to gather here, just to see the excitement of the killing, but often only the small people in the market are interested, but the person killed on this day, although there is no fame, but the crime of being killed is different - not from the Qing Dynasty to make clothes, this is how many years have not heard of it. So even if it's a local gentleman, this will come to catch the excitement. They refused and could not go into the crowd, and suffered the living sin of having their chests against their backs and not even breathing, so that they all made up their minds in the shops they knew in the market. They came to the door to rest. And the shopkeeper in the store saw that they were all old customers, so they naturally entertained them wholeheartedly, served tea and smoke, and were busy.

Although most of the guests were ignorant of their lives, they had come to see the execution, and on this point, it was easy for everyone to talk speculatively, and most of the words were a pity.

"Then Tang Bin doesn't know how to leave a way back for himself?"

"Back road, if he Tang Bin wants to leave a back road for himself, I'm afraid that my Tongguan will have already fallen under the rule of Da Ming now, how can this be the case?"

"It's just hateful, we can't afford to kill thieves!"

"Hugh is going to talk nonsense, Hugh is going to get burned!"

was reminded like this, everyone's resentment was vented, and then sighed, and one person sighed.

"A few years ago, I had a relationship with Brother Zhang, but I never thought that Brother Zhang was so strong."

"It's too rigid and easy to break!"

The other said.

"It's too rigid and easy to break, if he can endure it for a while, maybe in a few days, he will be able to see the sun and moon again!"

"But that's the truth! It's a pity, it's a pity! ”

"That's not right!"

Someone interrupted him.

"If all of my Han people can be so strong, how can this world be occupied by the Qing captives for so many years?"

"Isn't that the truth, hey, it's only hateful, but I can't do it!"

Who can do that?

Zhang Yizong, who was sitting in the prisoner car, raised his eyes and looked at the people around him, he could feel the pity in people's eyes, and when he saw that Guo Mingchen seemed to be a little scared, he chuckled.

"Brother Guo, do you think there are so many people to send me, what is there to fear?"

He reminded him this so to let him know that with so many people watching, he must not be discouraged.

Tang Bin, sitting in the shed, looked up at the sky, the hour was almost up.

"The hour is almost up, let's carry it out!"

After this order was given, the scene of the crowd was suddenly silent, and everyone looked towards the prisoner car.

Zhang Yizong and Guo Mingchen were led out of the prisoner's car, standing facing north, and a government official shouted loudly.

"Get on your knees!"

Because there was silence all around, the shout of the official was particularly loud and majestic. Everyone stood on tiptoe, their eyes widened, and turned their gaze to the two of them, all of which were full of pity.

Zhang Yizong just stood there with a smile, and Guo Mingchen, who had been closing his eyes, opened his eyes at this time, and at first he seemed to be afraid, but then his expression became calm.

"Get on your knees!"

The servant stood in front of him and shouted again.

The aftermath of the word "down" was still there, and he suddenly raised his head and stared straight at the servant, facing his gaze, the servant opened his mouth and didn't dare to say anything.

Looking at the bloodstained wooden stake, Zhang Yizong straightened his clothes, walked to the pile, and stood there like this. The two of them stood in front of the pile, they looked at each other, but they were speechless.

The atmosphere of the execution ground became strange in the long battle between the two, and some people couldn't bear to turn their heads, and couldn't bear to watch the next scene.

Looking at the appearance of the two of them, Tang Bin's face suddenly changed sharply, a vicious snake-like ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, his teeth were gritted loudly, and his lips were distorted! When the master on the side saw this fierce look, he couldn't help but shudder in his heart.

"It's noon, execution!"

After the adult's order, the master on the side walked over and asked the two.

"What else do you two have to say? If they beg for mercy, they will surely be spared. ”

Zhang Yizong shouted in a deep voice.

"Dead is dead, what else is there to say! How can there be Han people in the world who are afraid of death! ”

After saying this, he looked south again, stared at the south for a moment, and knew that the Ming court was in the south, and he looked south.

Then he said to Guo Mingchen.

"Brother Guo, the younger brother is one step ahead, and now ...... A clear conscience! ”

"Brother goes first, brother will come later!"

The two exchanged again, and then Zhang Yizong knelt to the south.

"The Ming court is in the south, I want to face the south and die!"

Looking at the person kneeling on the ground, Li Laosan, who was holding a thin-bladed and thick-backed ghost head knife, had been pondering for a long time in his left back. He is the executioner of Tongguan County, since the Ming Dynasty, the Li family has always been out of the "red errand", when the guard house, the "red errand" was also a business trip by their family, and later set up a county, the same is also a business trip by their family, from the age of five or six, he used gourd scoops, old winter melons, rotten eggplants, dead pig's heads and other things to practice knives! As an executioner, you are afraid of one thing by life! That is, when the knife goes down, the head is not cut off, and the prisoner rolls on the ground and wails and struggles to bleed, which is the most humiliating and embarrassing thing for the executioner! So he had to practice well, and when he took over his father's class from the knife man, the knife would only need one knife.

This time, he was naturally sent out to make this "red difference". And his fifteen-year-old son is by his side, and like him, his son Li Huizu has also practiced knives for ten years, and is now a knife mending hand in the yamen, if his father loses his hand, he will mend the knife on the side. However, this really hasn't happened.

Li Laosan's knife is also fast, and in the blink of an eye, he will complete the mission. Therefore, people give the reputation of "one knife company", and he never needs two knives when he has a "red difference". The mending knife hand was standing on the sidelines.

Li Laosan's hands are happy and ruthless. In order to better blackmail the families of the prisoners who were about to be beheaded and the families of the death row prisoners, those cell heads, soap officials, executioners and others did everything they could to extort the families of the prisoners. As the family members of the prisoners, as long as they have the money and ability, they will try their best to meet the requirements of these bastard bastards, in order to avoid the pain that the incoming prisoners will suffer when they are alive!

The prisoners who are about to be beheaded are also willing to meet a skilled executioner to kill themselves, and they all want to give themselves a happy and free life before they die! It's human nature!

Otherwise, when the execution is carried out, only two knives are sent over, and then the prisoner is clearly told when and when the executioner with the knife wields, the three knives did not cut off the head of such and such a prisoner, and the fourth knife only escaped one of the prisoner's ears. Oops, hey, the prisoner was painfully killed, rolling and struggling on the spot in front of countless spectators in the execution ground...... In the end, the fifth knife can be regarded as cutting off the head with half of the neck......

Of course, Yidaolian will not do this, in his opinion, it is too bad to do this, and it will insult the reputation of the Li family, the Li family has been a "red difference" for generations, and it must not be laughed at.

So it seems that there is no trick in the slashing and slashing, but in fact, it is not. If he fails to ask for a bribe in advance, he will hide the head of the person who has fallen to the ground. Then, if the prisoner's family wanted the head, they had to pay for it if they asked a cobbler to sew it up and put it in the coffin. If the money is spent, and the prisoner's family will ask for no different heads, then it really depends on the skills of these executioners, the skills are not enough, and if they kill too much with a knife, they will naturally not give any more money.

Therefore, this knife, not everyone can cut out, but a knife can be cut well, often the executioner is in this "cut", the skill is high, just on the last drag, dragged just right, cut the throat, there is a layer of skin below is still connected, finally the head has never been different, for the prisoner's family, it is a comfort, at least there is no difference in the head.

Li Laosan has this kind of method of breaking his head and skin, and with this knife, he has earned a lot of furniture over the years. He was ordered to kill countless people in his life, and on the day of the autumn execution every year, the prisoner was punished, and in a moment, the head was rolling, and it was not taken seriously.

But since more than ten years ago, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and shaved, Li Laosan began to feel that it was not a taste to do his business, even if it was every time he went out on a red errand, he could get two taels of silver, and sometimes he could earn dozens of taels of silver a day, which was not a taste.

He didn't know how many Manchu soldiers had killed that year, but he shaved his head and saved his life. Later, once in a while, someone would be killed because of his bad hair, and it was he who did it, and every time that time, he would be nervous, and his nervous hands would tremble there.

Holding the ghost head knife in his arms, he remembered that once, he met an old Xiucai on this execution ground, who was a scholar, and had never committed any cases of rebellion and rebellion, nor was he a thief from Jiangyang who did all kinds of evil, let alone a big villain.

is because if you don't shave your head, you have to die on the execution ground, and this knife is really difficult to start.

It's hard!