Xu Xianchun returned to the North Institute and first called someone to serve tea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It was late autumn, and the weather was getting colder, but he still drank most of the pot of cold tea, gulped down, and felt that the feeling of burning his heart was much better.

There are faintly standing here and there are some brocade-clothed garrisons wearing purple flower armor, big hats, armor, wearing green Luo Tieli inside, wearing black boots on their feet, holding big sticks or spears and long knives, or hand waist knives.

Only a few school captains wore embroidered spring knives and wore tows, and even fewer brocade guards, with more than 1,000 households, wore black gauze hats, flying fish suits, or red official robes, and stood with their hands pressed on their waist swords.

There are more shadows and shadows, I am afraid that there are more than 100 people standing inside and outside the North Institute, Xu Xianchun calmed down for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "Go and see Yang Lian!" ”

With his own prison to guide the way, many Jinyi Wei officials and guards followed, and dozens of people around him, Xu Xianchun felt a little more at ease, but somehow, he was a little afraid to see Yang Lian and others.

Among the North Institutes, no official is given preferential treatment.

If you are in the criminal department, the officials will have a separate room, clean it up, you can send bedding and other daily utensils in, you can also buy food outside, here, everyone is treated the same, sleeping in the rotten grass, the urine bucket is next to the stench, flies and maggots are everywhere, a peculiar smell mixed with various things smokes people are disgusting and uncomfortable, the prisoners keep moaning lowly, no matter how strong the people are, it is like in hell here, most of the prisoners are tortured, many people have a fever, and no one is treated, Almost every day, dead people are carried out from here, not only where officials are imprisoned, but also ordinary people, from all walks of life, generally enter here, even if they are innocent and have no silver two ransoms, they generally come in alive, and they can only be carried out when they die, and it is almost impossible to get out of here completely.

Yang Lian was framed by several prisons, he was tortured too much, his body was covered with bruises, there was almost no good meat on his body, his thighs and buttocks were broken before and after, pieces of rotten meat could be torn off by hand, his body was full of maggots and flying flies, he was tortured like this, there was no way to stand, there was no way to sit, he could only lie on his stomach all day long, even so, he still had to pass the sentence every day, and he was brought to the hall with a flail, Xu Xianchun asked, if he didn't answer, he would fight, and every time he was killed, The Jin Yiwei who executed it was able to sweep out a large amount of minced meat on the ground, and the blood was dripping, which was terrifying to see.

Even so, whether it is Wang Wenyan or Yang Lian, or Zuo Guangdou, Huang Zunsu, Gu Dazhong, none of these people confessed.

In the past 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the backbone of civil officials has become so hard that it can no longer be hard, it is really a head that can be broken, blood can be shed, and face must not be lost. Since the beginning of the Jiajing Great Rites Discussion, there has been such a tradition, even if you die in battle, you can't be weak, once you admit it, you lose face, and it will be difficult to be a human being from now on. Of course, there are serious drawbacks to this tradition, civil officials only ask about their position regardless of right or wrong, and attack the emperor indiscriminately, for example, during the Wanli period, there was a speech official who wrote a book, and I heard that Wanli did not care much about the queen, and did not sleep much with his wife, but only preferred the side concubines, and the officials advised the emperor to be impartial and care for the main room.

This kind of thing is unimaginable in any dynasty, and Wanli has nothing to do, so he can only approve the affairs of the inner court, and the ministers don't know, and explain that the queen is because of her poor health, not because she was beaten into the cold palace by the emperor.

There are a lot of things like this, including the famous wine and wealth, bold, and the rest are also a lot of too rude, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty said that the monarchy is in hand, in fact, under the supervision and restraint of the civil official group, there is less and less freedom, Ming Wuzong is the most rebellious one, but it is only nonsense within the system, and the things that really endanger the country actually do not dare to do. In the Longwan period, the emperor didn't even have a way to get out of the palace, and he didn't even have the right to go to Nanhaizi to go shopping, and once he went out of the palace, he was criticized once, Wanli simply hid in the deep palace for 20 years and didn't come out, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor was the most to Xiyuan and Long Live Mountain, and no emperor could go out of the deep palace one step.

The emperor is certainly wronged, but what about the people who hold the world are wronged? The civil officials are adhering to this concept, not afraid of life and death, not afraid of dismissal, and one after another to find fault with the emperor.

Once degraded, even if it is thousands of miles away from Yungui and Guizhou, the degraded person is elated, and the officials and friends who saw him off are praised.

With such a spirit, it can be said that even the scholars of the Han and Tang dynasties are far from being compared.

As for the deception of the court, there are indeed ignorant people who deliberately use words to stimulate the emperor in order to invite fame and sell directly, and once they are defeated, they will be famous all over the world. But the head of the court battle is covered with iron, and if the battle goes down, the skin will open the flesh, and a large piece of flesh and blood can be laid in ten battles and twenty battles, and this kind of deception is far from being able to bear by ordinary people.

It can be said that after a hundred years of example by the predecessors, the strength of the Ming civil officials can be said to be unprecedented...... Don't say that the Qing Dynasty is compared, there is no way to compare ordinary dynasties.

Yang Lian and others, not only have the so-called sage spirit since they read in their hearts, but also have the century-old inheritance of the Ming civil officials, no matter what, they are clear streams that boast of their integrity, if Miki becomes a soft egg, even if they go out, what face do they have? Besides, who doesn't know, once Jinyiwei comes in here, they will become wasted people when they go out, and they don't plan to get out alive from the day they were caught in, so why are they afraid of torture?

Xu Xianchun looked at Yang Lian, who was dying, and there was no lack of admiration in his heart.

This thin scholar has been clamped with splints and beaten with a big stick, there is not a piece of good meat on his body, he has been crushed by dirt bags, locked on a urine bucket, his ears have been pierced by nails, and he has not confided a word.

The so-called iron bones are nothing more than that.

"Yang Dahong!" Xu Xianchun shouted: "Today is your last chance. If you confess and admit that you colluded to frame Zhongliang and form a party for personal gain, you still have your life. If you don't, next year today will be your anniversary. ”

Yang Lian was no longer able to speak coherently, only looked at Xu Xianchun, with a strange smile on his face, and he had a voice, but he didn't know what he was talking about.

Xu Xianchun has been dealing with Yang Lian a lot, knowing that it must be ridicule and scolding, he felt a burst of disgust in his heart at the moment, and saw that Yang Lian really had a pen and paper around him, and someone took a look at it, and sure enough, he saw that there were still words scolding Wei Zhongxian and the Wei party for traitors, so he was furious at the moment and said: "In the court, your Donglin people are good people, and everyone else is evil." In the past few years of ruling the country, I have not seen where you are wise, and your people have accepted bribes, imposed the same taxes on merchants and merchants, and persecuted the people. As soon as it is said, it is to persuade the emperor to be diligent in government and love the people, and to be sympathetic to the suffering of the people, I think you ministers, which one is not brocade clothes and jade food, and I have not seen you and Hai Gangfeng learn, your Yang Dahong's family can't afford to eat pork? How much can you afford to eat and wear? What a joke! ”

Yang Lian was scolded by Xu Xianchun and was furious, his eyes rolled white, he wanted to come forward and beat this person, many years of Qingliu imperial history career made Yang Lian develop the so-called Haoran Qi, in fact, it is the arrogant spirit that no one puts in his eyes, even if he suffers so far, his belief is that good and evil are not separated, and he will definitely be able to leave a name in Qing History, Xu Xianchun's words have a great stimulus to Yang Lian, and it is also the angle that Yang Lian is usually reluctant to think deeply, and hearing it in such a place today makes Yang Lian angry.

"Liberate this guy." Seeing that Yang Lian in front of him was full of stench, Xu Xianchun said lightly: "In the past few days, Yang Lian and Wang Wenyan will go on the road first, and then slowly arrange them to be executed in a few days." ”

"Yes, sir."

Several brocade guards stepped forward and held Yang Lian hostage, and an old man who was used to doing this approached with a long nail and a hammer in his hand, and said to Yang Lian: "Lord Yang, whether you are loyal or treacherous, this has nothing to do with the villain, the villain has been in prison in this country for 20 years, and he has always acted on orders, and he can only say that he is doing his duty, and he will never let you suffer a lot and offend." ”

Yang Lian sighed, obviously still scolding, this Jinyi Wei veteran ignored it, got closer, aimed at the top of Yang Lian's head, put down the iron nail, the hammer had been smashed up, the first Yang Lian was shocked, obviously it was painful, and when the second and third smashes down, he had already rolled his eyes and twitched all over, and when the long nail was completely smashed in, deep into the hair, and there was no trace at all, Yang Lian was already out of breath.

"Braiding his hair, the nails can't be pulled," a thousand households ordered, "you can report illness to the boss and die." ”

"How did Wang Wenyan die?"

"Let's jump to the top of the official." Xu Xianchun said: "That person has a sharp mouth all his life, and I can't open my mouth if I want him to die." ”

Wang Wenyan is indeed sharp-toothed, compared to Yang Lian and other scholars who are only good at using pens, they are much stronger, Xu Xianchun and others almost dare not get close to this person, every time they are arraigned, everyone can't get off the stage, there are really a lot of people who hate Wang Wenyan in Jinyiwei, and everyone agrees with Xu Xianchun's decision.

The so-called jumping plus official is to spray water with kraft paper, stacking it on people's faces one by one, moistening the paper on people's faces, blocking the nose and mouth, one still breathes, and five sheets completely seal off the breath.

This kind of death seems to be gentle, but in fact it is very cruel, and the deceased is also very painful, and several people need to hold the deceased's hands and feet to prevent him from struggling, Xu Xianchun immediately sent a team of people to Wang Wenyan's cell, and he sat and waited in the lobby.

After a quarter of an hour's work, the man who had been ordered returned to report that the errand had been done.

"Did he say anything before he died?" Xu Xianchun paid attention to the last words of these Donglin Party members before they died, because maybe Wei Zhongxian would be interested.

"I said something, it's a big rebellion, and my subordinates don't dare to say it."

"What are you afraid of, it's not what you said!"

"Yes...... The subordinate said. Wang Wenyan said: Those who will weaken the Ming Dynasty in the future will not be divided into Donglin and the eunuch party, and they are all people in the current party struggle. And the one who really died in the Ming Dynasty was Zhang Han who was with Yusheng. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will die at the hands of others, like the eunuchs of my generation and their Donglin lineage, they will not be pleased. Because Hutchison doesn't need people like us, and doesn't need people like Donglin, in the past, regardless of the new dynasty or the old dynasty, all wanted minions and eunuchs, and also wanted Wenchen to be attached, but Hutchison didn't need it, Wang Wenyan said that he was studying Hutchison recently, and found that Hutchison already had its own set of rules and systems, and the cultivation and use of talents were completely different from Daming, and the wonders were difficult to describe, but unfortunately time was running out, and there was no time for him to study slowly. ”