"Mr. Shen is here!"
"Is this Mr. Shen?"
"So young..."
Whispers continued, but Shen Tang walked straight through the crowd without looking around, lifted the hem of his clothes and walked onto the simple platform. The onlookers were stopped by the soldiers... The platform was simple, with three steps. Climbing up the steps, the onlookers could easily see what was happening.
Shen Tang ignored the noisy discussions in the crowd.
Sitting upright at the top, he waved his hand towards the people below.
Soon, soldiers came up carrying heavy books.
With a thud.
A heavy object fell to the ground, raising a thin layer of dust.
Shen Tang picked up the top volume and opened it.
Let her pick a "lucky one" to take the lead.
"Oh, what a coincidence, bring up the Zhang family's manager." Shen Tang closed the book and put it aside, then dragged a man onto the stage like a raccoon catching a chicken. The people took a closer look and immediately recognized the man's identity, it was the Zhang family's manager named Diao.
This person's mother was the wet nurse of the head of the Zhang family.
He has always regarded himself as the foster brother of the head of the Zhang family.
In addition, the whole family worked for Zhang, and several of them were highly valued. He took advantage of this relationship to do many things that were abhorrent to both humans and gods, such as raping women, seizing fertile land, beating tenants to death, and forcing orphans and widows to death.
A person who will do anything for the sake of profit.
The Zhang family owned more than a hundred acres of fertile land, and they had more than five hundred tenants working the land for them. A manager named Diao was in charge of some of the management matters, but he secretly oppressed the tenants' families and forcibly took away their wives and daughters. His evil deeds were heinous.
As for the file that Shen Tang had accidentally seen before—Diao falsely accused someone's son of stealing fighting cocks, forcing the widowed mother to perform a caesarean section on her son to prove her innocence—this incident was not even in the top ten in terms of severity among all of Diao's crimes!
Shen Tang looked at him with a frown.
"No, is there any need to try him? Just drag him away and chop off his head. That's it. Don't waste time."
However, Qi Shan and others did not agree with her proposal at all.
Shen Tang sighed and said to the trembling Diao with bruised eye sockets, "Okay, okay, I understand, I understand. We still have to go through the procedures. Lingde, you read it to him."
Chu Yao was originally responsible for this trivial matter.
However, he said that he was old and had been up all night, so his throat was a little hoarse, so he asked his apprentice Lin Feng to do it for him. The child should practice more and strive to achieve the level of "remaining calm when Mount Tai collapses in front of him and not blinking when a deer appears on his left."
A scholar of literature must have a heart of iron.
Any scene, big or small, can be handled with ease.
Lin Feng suppressed her nervousness, and her childish voice reached the ears of the people below from the high platform. After she finished reading the letter with clear pronunciation and intonation, Shen Tang asked Manager Diao whether he pleaded guilty.
Manager Diao kowtowed and begged for mercy, making the platform bang loudly - if only the Zhang family was arrested, he could still be stubborn, but Shen Tang attacked seven families (gangs) in one night, which shows how ruthless he was.
No more talking, just do it!
How can you survive if you fall into the hands of such a person
It's not that he didn't know what he had done, he was just fearless in the past - the Zhang family was his biggest backer, and as the head of the family's brother, he would not give the Zhang family face if he touched him - now that his backer has fallen, even the backer himself is in a difficult situation, how can he survive
Now I just hope it’s not the death penalty.
As long as I can live...
Shen Tang asked calmly: "Do you plead guilty or not?"
Manager Diao hurriedly said, "Admit it, admit your guilt."
In fact, he couldn't even remember if he had done it, how many times he had done it, or when he had done it... There were just too many things.
Seeing Manager Diao plead guilty, Shen Tang asked Gu Chi.
“How will the sentence be determined?”
Gu Chi said: "He should be punished by cutting off the nose."
Shen Tang smiled and said, "Okay, then let's use the nose cutting punishment."
The people below started to make a commotion when they heard the words, but the manager Diao on the high platform smiled with a hint of relief, as if he had survived a disaster.
The so-called "Yi Xing" is to cut off the prisoner's nose. Compared with losing one's life, losing a nose is nothing.
The people were dissatisfied that Diao had done so many evil things but was still able to escape with his life by just having his nose cut off!
How unfair!
Some people couldn't stand it anymore and prepared to leave.
but-
Diao let out a scream, and his nose fell to the ground mixed with blood. The executioner smeared wood ash on the wound to stop the bleeding.
Shen Tang didn't even look at his nose, picked up another scroll, glanced at it, and smiled meaningfully.
Handed it to Lin Feng on the side.
"Lingde, you read it."
Manager Diao was stunned.
Shen Tang played with the accessories around her waist and smiled brightly.
"Who do you think the letters in this basket are about? Nosing off the nose is the price you had to pay for the incident just now. Now I am interrogating you about another incident. Let's deal with the two separately. I am a very merciful person. It is not appropriate to kill too many people at the end of the year. I will temporarily exempt you from the punishment for multiple crimes. I will settle the scores with you one by one!"
Manager Diao's pupils trembled violently.
He looked at the large basket of letters beside Shen Tang.
Huxu struggled violently, but was kicked to the ground by Lili. His hands were grabbed and put behind his back, making it impossible for him to struggle.
Lin Feng read the second volume.
This time, Manager Diao refused to admit his mistake.
But it doesn't matter. She disdains to use such uncivilized and bloody methods as torture. We are all civilized people, so we should be civilized.
The literary scholar can make you speak the truth!
When Diao confessed uncontrollably, Shen Tang smiled and turned back to ask Gu Chi: "Wang Chao, how should the sentence be determined?"
"He should be punished with beheading."
The so-called "剕刑" means cutting off the feet.
Shen Tang said, "That won't work, will it? If we chop off his foot, how long can he hold out with such a big wound? It's too bloody during the New Year."
Gu Chi: "You can cut off your right toe to reduce your crime."
Shen Tang nodded in agreement.
So he ordered his men to cut off Diao Guanshi's right toe.
Volume 3, severe punishment, "cutting off the leg".
Volume 4, severe punishment, "cutting off the leg".
Volume 5, severe punishment, "cutting off the leg".
Shen Tang frowned again and again as he looked at her.
He whispered deliberately so that the people below the stage could hear him.
"Hey, your parents didn't give you seven or eight legs, so I don't know where you got the confidence to commit so many crimes that are worthy of being tortured. As a human being, please be kind. Before you do anything, think about how many times your parents gave you this body to chop off!"
According to the existing files and documents in hand, even if the sentence is too light, Diao Guanshi's ten fingers, ten toes, eyes, ears, mouth and nose multiplied by two are not enough to be chopped off.
Shen Tang's purpose was to intimidate, build credibility, and establish authority, not to teach the human-pig tutorial on the spot. He simply gave Manager Diao a quick death and ordered his men to chop off his head with knives.
The head rolled several times with the help of the gushing blood.
Blood splattered and stained Lin Feng's shoes and socks.
She just looked a little pale, but she was able to keep calm.
Shen Tang asked Lin Feng to finish reading the remaining files related to Diao.
According to these, not only him, but his whole family would have to be buried several times. In the current environment, Shen Tang did not mention that the disaster would not affect his family - not to mention that Diao's parents, brothers, sisters, wife and children were not clean, even if they were innocent, they were also the direct beneficiaries of Diao's benefits.
If they were ignorant and unaware, they could probably protest their injustice, but as the actual beneficiaries, how can they be innocent
Fifty-eight people were killed directly by Diao! The number of people killed indirectly was probably double that!
Shen Tang: "Bring up Diao's wife Wu."
We are a family...
It’s better to keep it neat and tidy.
Shen Tang sipped her hot tea with a calm expression. In less than two quarters of an hour, eight more heads appeared on the platform. She felt uncomfortable looking at the heads, so she asked someone to arrange the heads neatly, all facing in one direction - well, it was much more comfortable to look at this way.
The only daughter in the family whose crime was relatively minor was also sentenced to fifty strokes of the cane and then sent to work as a pounder, where she would have to pound rice for a living.
After finishing with Diao's family, the next one will not be so long because the highlight is He Yin Zhang's!
Shen Tang randomly pulled out a scroll, and it was a death sentence! She didn't believe it and pulled out another scroll, and it was still beheading, hanging, and even the five punishments for all three tribes... Oh my god...
This is a death penalty gift package.
Gu Chi said: "It's not that troublesome. For the crime committed by the head of the Zhang family, the lightest punishment is the extermination of three clans and five kinds of punishment."
Shen Tang: “…”
The so-called "three tribes of the barbarian tribes, all five punishments" is easy to understand. In simple terms, the three tribes of the barbarian tribes will have their noses cut off, their toes chopped off, they will be flogged and their heads will be hung up for public display, and finally they will be chopped into meat paste...
The punishments in Xin and Geng were different.
The former usually used caning and exile as the main punishment, and limb injuries were rare, as they were only used for extremely serious crimes. On the other hand, Geng country would often chop people's eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands and feet with knives. Now that Geng country was ruled by Zheng Qiao, the Zhang family would naturally not have a good time.
In the past, wealth could be used to absolve one of sins.
Not now.
Because the Geng country is accustomed to confiscating the property first and then dealing with the people.
Zhang's family property was "purchased" by Shen Tang as a gift, so he couldn't redeem his sins, so every file could be opened with a "death penalty" gift package. The executioner's hands were tired from lifting the knife, and even the specially sharpened machete was bent.
Looking at the neatly arranged heads...
The people below did not feel it was cruel, they just felt happy.
The only ones who felt it was cruel were the "slippery fish" who were mixed in the crowd and watching the execution. They watched as familiar faces were dragged onto the platform by Shen Tang's men, and then were grabbed by the hair without dignity, with their necks exposed, waiting to be killed...
Strong feelings of grief and hatred filled my heart.
If I don’t avenge this, I’d be a villain!
A resentful look was directed at the young man on the platform.
They only saw their own people being killed, only saw Shen Tang's cruelty and ruthlessness. It was Shen Tang who made them fall from the clouds to the mud overnight. They were like dogs that had lost their homes, and had to hide from the world wearing common people's clothes... They were no longer as glorious as before.
They have to lie dormant, even if it means sleeping on straw and eating bitter food, they have to secretly accumulate strength and then give Shen Tang a fatal blow!
Some people also planned a prison break.
Gu Chi: “…”
Ah this...
Can you please respect his way of being a scholar
Gu Chi's eyes were slightly cold, he sneered, raised his hand to call Gong Shuwu, and told him the general direction and appearance of the "fish that escaped the net" - why keep it when you know it is a hidden danger
Only by killing him can we eliminate the trouble forever!
Gu Chi traveled a lot in his early years and saw many so-called "old country nobles". These people are the same in their bones. They can't let go of their former glory and wealth. They hide among the people and secretly plot to restore the old country! As long as they can restore the country, they can do anything.
They looked for opportunities to cause sabotage, became bandits, killed the common people of the new country, and spread poison and disease to villages and towns.
These legacy...
Kill him as soon as possible!
There was an unprecedented coldness in Gu Chi's eyes.
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