Chapter 804 Cut to pieces
After the rain, the sky cleared.
In the city of Guangzhou, Duke of Wei Qin Lang publicly pronounced the execution of the cult leader and his henchmen.
The whole city watched, thousands of miles of empty alleys.
On the surface, he is the leader of the light, but secretly he is the king of the eagle nest assassins. This king who once ruled the underground in Guangzhou for 30 years, has been accused of dozens of serious crimes today, and then sentenced to public shreds.
Third was almost disfigured by torture, his face was **** and bloody, and his true colors could not be seen.
On the platform, a group of executioners stood in a bit of a dilemma.
Qin Lang's request was to cut him a thousand knives, and it would be too early to kill him.
A thin old man with white beard and hair came up, "Young people today, they don't even know Ling Chi anymore."
"Master."
When a group of executioners saw the old man, they quickly saluted respectfully. This is an old man who has been in the same industry for many years. Unexpectedly, the Metropolitan Government invited this man over.
Although the old executioner was stooped and trembled slightly when he walked, his eyes still shone brightly when he saw the Eagle King tied to the execution platform.
"When the old man washes his hands in the golden basin, the King of Light has not yet come. I have heard of his reputation for thirty years, but now he will be tortured on this torture platform. Hahaha, before the old man died, he could cut him Such a great person is also enjoyable."
"Take my dick!"
Lao Tzu’s great-grandson came up with a box on his back, opened it, and there were dozens of odd tools inside. This family tradition of executioner has been passed down from generation to generation.
Cutting to pieces by a thousand knives is a test of the executioner's skills, and most people don't have this ability.
Ling Chi execution, also known as thousands of cuts or broken cuts, is not included in the five punishments of the Tang Dynasty.
Although Ling Chi is not listed as a punishment in Tang law, Ling Chi still exists.
Generally speaking, those who are capable of Lingchi are extremely serious crimes, and even ordinary heinous felonies are not Lingchi. Conspiracy and treason, killing three people in a family is not a capital crime, dismembering people, harvesting and cutting off, killing grandparents, parents, maternal grandparents, husband's grandparents, parents, slaves murdering parents, wives and concubines murdering relatives and husbands because of adultery, generally only Only criminals who commit these extremely violations of the code of ethics and have a bad influence may be delayed.
Ling Chi demanded a public punishment, cutting the prisoner piecemeal and letting him die in extreme pain, which had a great deterrent effect on the public.
Rarely does Ling Chi really achieve a thousand cuts.
Many prisoners will bleed to death quickly, etc., and there are not many cuts at all.
The old executioner put on a big red robe, tied a red forehead, and his whole body was refreshed.
Qin Lang and a group of officials sat on the observation platform, watching this scene with cold eyes.
In front of the execution platform, at the port, countless barbarians and merchants were rushed to witness this scene.
"Too cruel!"
Changping envoy Jia Wuben sighed to his son Jia Runfu, governor of Zhangzhou, "Watching such a good show, it should be accompanied by a jar of good wine and a few appetizers. Only then will it be interesting to watch. It's really a shame to just sit and watch like this." Cruel."
Jia Runfu curled his lips at his father's remarks, unable to answer.
Lao Jia was a military officer in the Sui Dynasty. He followed Zhang Xutuo in the southern and northern wars, fought against Turks, conquered Goguryeo, and conquered Tuyuhun. Ping Nan Chen, follow Yang Su to pacify the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Zhang Xutuo and Zhang Xutuo wiped out one army after another in the Central Plains, and finally went to Wagang by himself. He fought thousands of battles in his life.
"I think back in the day, the former dynasty used no method to deter the rebellious army of ant thieves. It's really nothing, really. You know that when we suppressed thieves in the Central Plains, thousands of people faced the siege of hundreds of thousands of ant thieves How did you survive when you ran out of arrows and food?"
Jia Runfu's experience is not as rich as his father's, but he also served under Zhang Xutuo's command at a young age, and fought side by side with Qin Qiong Luo Shixin and the others.
"Eating human flesh is not easy to preserve in hot weather, so we have to pickle it with salt and put it on fire to smoke it. This will not only save it for a longer time, but also remove some of the sour taste in human flesh. This boy Luo Shixin liked to eat human ears the most back then. Put the skewers on the fire and grill them until they are crispy, one bite at a time."
"Shu Bao always couldn't eat. Everyone took care of him and often found some mice and sparrows for him to satisfy his hunger."
Xiao Jia thought of his unbearable past experiences. Not only did they eat human flesh, but they even fought for human flesh when they were poor.
He fought with several soldiers just for one leg, and now there is still a scar left by the battle on his shoulder.
"Aye, there's no need to keep mentioning the events of that year, as it makes me sick to my stomach."
"Hmph, you're still acting hypocritical. Don't you remember the time when you were almost beaten to death when you fought for a leg?"
Xiao Jia smiled wryly.
"It's better to be a dog of peace than to be a troubled person. We were better back then. We thought that the false king of Chu, Zhu Can, was a man-eating devil. He had hundreds of thousands of horses under his hands, but he didn't occupy any land. He just plundered blindly. If they couldn't rob food, they robbed people, drove the living people to serve as military rations, and even took away all the corpses that were killed during the siege of the city. They ate hundreds of thousands of people."
"That Zhu Can only eats the hearts and livers of children, you devil."
Cannibalism has finally broken through the limit of human beings.
How cruel the environment must be, this is possible.
For Lao Jia and his father, they came from hell, Suisha is really not worth mentioning.
In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, I have never seen anything like this.
Yang Xuangan rebelled, and after Yang Guang captured the Yang family brothers, he ordered the Yang family brothers to be dismembered, and all the officials shot the Yang family members to death one by one. At that scene, everyone became a mountain of arrows.
In order to frighten the rebellious people, the local governments have used all kinds of killing methods, and the fragmentation is just so-so.
"Back then, there was a very powerful old executioner in Qi County. He was able to cut a prisoner alive for 10,000 knives. He would cut a prisoner alive for nine days and nine nights. The prisoner wailed day and night. He only wanted to die, but he couldn't die."
"This craft is probably lost by now."
"This old man seems to be quite powerful!"
"Lingnan is Lingnan after all, no matter how powerful it is, can it surpass the Central Plains? I guess this old man could cut four or five thousand knives at most when he was in his prime. Now, at most three thousand knives, it would be great if he could keep the prisoner alive for three days .”
Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianhu did not dare to make a sound while listening. Although they also came from Wagang, they were just like Qin Lang when Wagang was in its prime, they were just kids, riding bamboo horses to fight as generals in Jinyong City Well, where did he really experience any cruelty?
Chumo had spent a few years guarding the Hetao town. He had gone through a lot of hardships. He thought it was a big deal to attack Goguryeo and suppress Liuqiu this year.
Compared with them, I am still too young.
"The official criminal law of the imperial court is beheading, and beheading at the waist is considered an additional punishment. Now that there are thousands of cuts to pieces, I think that in twenty or thirty years, the Tibetan merchants will not dare to mess around again." Wang Chengen, the Shibo envoy sitting next to Qin Lang, sighed. He said, in Qin Lang's action this time, he was quite cooperative, but he didn't participate too much.
I thought that the King of Light was not so easy to deal with, but who expected Qin Lang to uproot that King of Light and capture everyone in just a month.
He didn't doubt that Qin Lang found a substitute to carry out the execution.
Qin Lang's actions against the Guangming Sect were very successful. Up to now, hundreds of strongholds of the Guangming Sect and the Eagle's Nest have been detected and suppressed, and tens of thousands of people have been arrested.
This is pretty amazing.
In Guangzhou and Lingnan, there is actually such a huge underground kingdom. In fact, he is also guilty of dereliction of duty as a city envoy.
Now that Qin Lang is willing to give him the help of suppressing thieves, he is already grateful.
What's more, Qin Lang's opportunity to purge the Guangming Cult and the Eagle's Nest also involved many Han and Fan maritime merchants. A large number of merchants were either confiscated, taxed, or bought at a low price by the Changping Division. Jia also distributed a lot of luxury seafood to the Shipbuilding Department.
It is undoubtedly a political achievement for the Shibo Department to complete this year's procurement tasks ahead of schedule, even at a very low cost.
On the scaffold.
The old man was talking to a group of young executioners, "You young people, you only know a little bit of superficial knowledge, and Ling Chi can only do eight knives. What kind of Ling Chi is eight knives? If you cut more than 3,600 knives, you are not called Ling Chi. Today, grandpa, I will show you what Ling Chi is. Keep your eyes open and learn it. I am afraid that this skill will be lost in the future."
On the execution platform, the eagle king with white eyebrows wanted to struggle, but was fixed by his whole body.
An executioner brings a fishing net.
"What do you do with this thing?"
"It is said that the fishing net is put on the prisoner's body and tightened, and when the flesh of the prisoner protrudes from the mesh, it is just a piece of knife."
The old executioner disdainful, "Whoever uses this thing as a real executioner, take it away."
He picked up a sharp knife and walked up to the Eagle King, sneering, "This body is neither fat nor thin, so it's easy to cut."
After speaking, he took out a gourd and poured a few mouthfuls of potion into the Eagle King's mouth.
"Patriarch, what is this?"
"Hey, this is the secret of our family not to pass it on. It is passed on to the male but not to the female, and not to the outside. If you want to cut tens of thousands of knives and cut the prisoner for several days without dying, this is very particular."
He smiled, lifted the sharp knife and saw a familiar flash of movement, Eagle King didn't feel any pain, and then a thin and thin piece of flesh was sliced off his chest.
The old executioner threw the first piece of meat into the sky and shouted.
"The first cut of meat, sacrifice to heaven!"
Then, before the piece of meat fell to the ground, the old executioner flicked his wrist again, and the scalp above Eagle King's eyes was cut open, but still slightly connected.
The old executioner picked up the knife lightly, and the two pieces of flesh drooped down, just covering the two eyes of the Eagle King.
"Look, it's called a blindfold!"
"Old Patriarch, what is the point of this knife?"
"Hmph, save yourself from being stared at when you are under the knife, and save yourself from dreaming about him in the middle of the night in the future."
(end of this chapter)