In fact, Yu Niang didn't say it, Shen Xi could roughly think that Yu Niang was preparing to intercede for Jiang Liwei. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yu Niang said: "Lord Shen, Jiang Zhenfu came here with tolerance, although he is guilty, but he also asks Lord Shen to forgive him, so that he can make meritorious service and return to the capital as soon as possible." ”

Shen Xi didn't reply for a long time, and after pondering for a long time, he asked, "Is it because the official didn't give him a chance?" ”

This is where Yu Niang is depressed, before she wanted to secretly help Jiang Liwei, but she didn't expect Shen Xi to be "reasonable" and let her persuade Jiang Liwei, she was stupid to go at that time, and only reacted afterwards, maybe it was because she went that Jiang Liwei's attitude was so tough.

Maybe he fell into Shen Xi's trap from the beginning, and Shen Xi never thought of giving Jiang Liwei a chance at all.

"Lord Shen, can you give Jiang Zhenfu another chance?" Yu Niang asked.

Shen Xi shook his head slightly: "Even if I don't forgive his sins, you don't need to worry about his life...... Please go back, the official has a certain number in his heart. ”

Seeing that it was useless to intercede, Yu Niang kowtowed to Shen Xi again, and said, "The slave family is abrupt, please punish Lord Shen." ”

Shen Xi smiled slightly: "Yu Niang has helped the official a lot in Song Kuang's case, how can she be punished for a little mistake?" Get up, if you don't leave, the official will just hit people! ”

Yu Niang had no choice but to get up, bow again, and leave the room with Xi'er.

Shen Xi shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, thinking about why Yu Niang spoke for Jiang Liwei.

Judging from her previous attitude, Yu Niang obviously has a "respectful and distancing" attitude towards Jiang Liwei, why is she so concerned now? Could it be that Yu Niang is acting in front of him, but in fact, they are actually "embarrassed"?

Shen Xi didn't want to think about it anymore, what he was most eager for at this time was to make up for his sleepiness, he didn't sleep well in the morning, if he still couldn't rest well on the day of rest in Huizhou Mansion, then his body would not be able to bear it tomorrow.

Shen Xi slept until noon, and when Jing Yue came to call the door, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and there was only a quarter of an hour left before the execution.

Fortunately, the prefect's yamen is only one street away from the most lively market entrance in Huizhou City, and after Shen Xi came out, he took the official sedan chair to the entrance of the market, and when he arrived at the execution ground, the people in the city had surrounded the execution ground.

The main culprits, including Song Kuang and several officials who helped him kill good and meritorious deeds, as well as the bandits of Elephant Head Mountain, knelt under the execution ground.

There are not many knife and axe hands in Huizhou Prefecture, so they are replaced by knife and axe hands in the army, because it is a downtown area as a place of execution, the place is not large, and only four people's heads can be cut off at a time.

After the execution, it is necessary to cut seven or eight rounds in a row, and the person who is punished first may be fine, and the yin and yang will be separated forever with a knife, but the person who will be punished later will suffer a great crime, watching other people's heads continue to fall down, and then thinking of their own fate, they are scared to death.

"The Governor has arrived!"

Jing Gao shouted, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

In fact, there is no need for Jing Yue to deliberately remind the people, when they see that an official sedan chair is coming, and then look at the appearance of the surrounding officers and soldiers waiting for battle, they will know that Shen Xi, the governor of the three provinces, is coming.

When Shen Xi, dressed in a red official robe, got down from the official sedan chair and boarded the prison platform, the people all flocked to see what this young governor looked like who had turned the ground in Guangdong upside down in the past year, and could even be described as turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain.

When they saw that Shen Xi was just a young man with two eyes and one nose, many people were disappointed in their hearts.

"Smack!"

Shen Xi slapped the wood awake, and the execution ground was quiet again.

The awakening wood may have a good effect in the lobby, but in this kind of public occasion, the effect is actually minimal, the people quieted down mainly because they waited for a long time for the execution, and at this time it was punctual and the governor also arrived, and they naturally held their breath and waited for the bloody and terrifying scene to come.

In the Ming Dynasty, it stands to reason that the execution of death row prisoners needs to be reported to the imperial court, and then the emperor himself decides, which is also to demonstrate the prudence of the death penalty.

However, Shen Xi, as the governor of the Qin Mission, was also responsible for the military affairs of the three provinces, and this time he beheaded the mountain bandits and the prefects and subordinate officials who colluded with the mountain bandits.

"Verify the body, execution!"

Shen Xi gave an order, and each of the eight soldiers escorted the four mountain bandit leaders onto the wooden platform that was temporarily built as a execution platform, and first verified their identities.

In these years, there are no scientific and technological means, not even photos, and the so-called verification of the body is just a cell head to look at and compare a plausible portrait.

Immediately, the "guilty card" of the four people was taken down, and Shen Xi, as the supervisor and beheader, needed to be executed again, and when Shen Xi threw out the red wooden chips, the execution would begin.

The four bandit leaders did not resist or struggle, they all knelt in place, and the four knife and axe men held long knives, drank a bowl of wine, and spit on the knife with the last mouthful.

The axemen do not ask questions, so that they do not know each other, so that they will not be called for by ghosts based on their voices and appearances. First, the prisoner's hair was opened, the knife and axe hand was in place, and there was a command flag on the platform, which was the rule for the execution of sword and axe hands in the army.

"Wow!"

Although many people had seen executions, they had never seen the heads of four people cut off at once, and the bloody scene caused many to vomit on the spot.

"Change!"

Jing Yue shouted at the top of his voice, and someone on the wooden platform removed Wu Zi's convulsive body and head, and the blood on the ground didn't have time to wipe it, so he immediately replaced the four people below.

And Song Kuang and his subordinates are in last place.

To say that Song Kuang also has backbone, even if he dies, he has not weakened his momentum, but several of his accomplices have been scared before they can go to the execution table.

Finally, after Song Kuang and his three subordinates went to the execution platform, Song Kuang raised his head and shouted at Shen Xi: "Shen Xi'er, you abuse lynching and kill the court officials, and the official will not let you go!" ”

It's all here, and you are still called the official, Shen Xi thinks that your Song Kuang's official authority is not small.

Shen Xi spread his hands and did not reply, but his face was full of ridicule, and the expression meant: If you want to take revenge, you must first have the ability to become a ghost.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, noon, is the time of the day when the yang energy is at its highest, and it is said that after a person dies, even ghosts cannot be made.

After beheading, the body cannot be separated from the whole body, and the ghost is not allowed to be a ghost after death, this is already the greatest punishment for the death row prisoner, even if Shen Xi thinks that Song Kuang died a well-deserved death, it is inevitable that he will still sigh, how beautiful are you in life? Didn't you end up in a different place?

"Poof!"

The knife and axe hand deliberately slowed down a few beats, making Song Kuang wait in panic, until the three accomplices around him had their heads cut off, and Jing Yue even kicked the three heads in front of Song Kuang, but at this moment Song Kuang closed his eyes deadly...... He was the last to be beheaded.

When all the condemned prisoners have been punished, the execution does not end there.

The heads of large families and the proprietors of large shops who were confiscated from last night to this morning were escorted to the execution platform by officers and soldiers, lying on the ground on a bloodstained place, and having their pants stripped off...... Everyone will suffer 50 boards, and then half a year in prison.

This is already Shen Xi's extrajudicial grace, otherwise these families would have to be ruined.

"Good fight!"

In any era, ordinary people will have a prejudice against the official eunuchs and gentry and merchants, and when they see the gentry and businessmen being beaten, the people are very relieved and applauded loudly.

The officers and soldiers on the platform waved the boards to "beat" the prisoners, and Shen Xi stood up and walked out of the execution ground and got into the sedan chair under the escort of more than a dozen personal guards.

Before he could return to the prefect's yamen, Shen Xi had already fallen asleep.

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……

When Shen Xi woke up, it was already sunset.

Jing Yue played in front of the bed: "My lord, the officials and gentry in the city have a banquet in Guishan County, please come over and have a banquet!" ”

Shen Xi washed his cold water face, looked sideways at Jing Yue when he heard this, and asked, "Isn't it the Hongmen Banquet, did you send someone over to investigate?" ”

"Sent."

Jing Yue said, "The county government has searched inside and out, and there are no assassins, and the general is ready to send someone to check the guests entering and leaving the yamen, and there will be no one to disadvantage you!" ”

Shen Xi smiled: "In this way, this banquet official has to go?" ”

Jing Yue grinned.

Obviously, now the gentry and businessmen in Guishan County are afraid of Shen Xi to death, just when Shen Xi is marching to fight, the more abundant the food and materials at hand, the better, since he can knock a stroke in Guishan County, of course he will laugh.

Shen Xi ate something casually at the mansion, then put on civilian clothes and walked out of the yamen, and took the official sedan chair to the Guishan County Ya. The two were separated by two streets, and there were 200 officers and soldiers escorted along the way, not to mention the assassins, who were not even afraid of the bandits attacking the city.

When I arrived outside the county office, although it looked lively, there was no carriage or official sedan chair in front of the door, and Shi Feng of Guishanzhi County personally greeted him with county officials, subordinates and local gentry.

Shen Xi got off the official sedan chair, and the official gentry and the businessmen who were about to bleed all knelt down and saluted, as if Shen Xi was the Hongzhi Emperor in person.

"This official can't afford your great gift, so get up."

Shen Xi looked calm, stepped forward and made a "flat" gesture. Shi Feng stood up playfully and accompanied Shen Xi inside, followed by a guard with a knife, followed by the officials and gentlemen who had just gotten up from the ground.

Entering the main courtyard of the county government, the red lanterns are hung high, the lanterns are colored like a festival, a total of more than 30 tables of banquets are set up in the courtyard, and there are more than 200 guests.

Shi Feng invited Shen Xi to the front of the main seat in the lobby and asked respectfully, "Lord Shen, I don't know if you need to set up a seat for the generals?" ”

Shen Xi didn't speak, Jing Yue glared at Shi Feng, and said, "I'm here to protect adults!" "The implication is that you let us sit down, do you want to be unfavorable to Lord Shen?

Shi Feng couldn't help but smile, forced a smile, and couldn't help wiping a cold sweat when he turned his head, although he also acted as a witness to expose Song Kuang yesterday, he was the latest one to surrender to Shen Xi, and if he didn't make trouble, he would become Song Kuang's comrade. Of course, the main reason is that Shen Xi needs Shi Feng, a "tainted witness", so that he can protect himself.

Shen Xi sat down directly on the main seat, so that the guests dared to sit down one after another.

But when the guests looked at the lobby from the courtyard outside, the first thing they saw was the neatly lined up Governor Yamen's personal soldiers, especially Jing Yue, with tiger eyes and round eyes, as if he was going to eat people at any time.

At the beginning of the feast, tea and wine were served first, followed by a dazzling array of delicacies, all the dishes were prepared in advance, and they looked very rich, but in fact they were nothing more than chicken, duck and fish that they often came into contact with in winter. The dishes are simple and uninspiring, but no one cares because no one comes here to taste the food.

After the wine and food were served, Shi Feng stood up and said: "Lord Shen, the lower officials represent the local gentry and people of Guishan County, I salute you, I wish you smooth sailing in Pingkou in the north, level my Daming Haijiang, and protect the peace of the party!" ”

As he spoke, everyone raised their wine glasses and stood up, but Shen Xi sat in place, seemingly without the intention of drinking.

The scene was slightly embarrassing, Shen Xi didn't stand up, didn't touch the wine glass, didn't say a word, as if a storm was brewing.

After a long time, Shi Feng mustered up the courage to repeat: "Lord Shen, the lower officials toast you on behalf of the local gentry and people of Guishan County." (To be continued.) )