Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 78 Deserve to be killed
Yunhua's mind was indeed a little twisted. He washed the wounds with salt water, hit the fibula with a wooden stick, hit the head and face with a thin bamboo stick, and burned the flesh with an iron. Moreover, there would be a short interval between each torture to allow the person being tortured to catch his breath before continuing.

Not to mention the ordinary people of Fobao, even the people in the mountain strongholds could not bear to watch.

Chen Jue had already retreated to the stage. Zhang Haomin came over with a gloomy face and said, "With so many people, we can always get the required confessions if we interrogate them separately. Shao Shantou's actions are a bit too much. This jumping up and down Yunhua is not like an ordinary person!"

"Is it over?" Chen Gu sighed and said, "I think it's not enough. Do you really think the old man asked me to go into the mountains just to avoid Yan Cheng?"

"What's that for?" Zhang Haomin asked with a frown.

"It is indeed to avoid Na Yancheng, but that is just a helpless choice. On the other hand, why do you think I want to avoid Na Yancheng?" Chen Gu asked.

Zhang Haomin couldn't help but remain silent. What else could it be? Wasn't it just that the other person was an official and he was a thief?
"It's because we are not strong enough, so the old man asked me to go into the mountains to avoid Na Yancheng, but it was also to let me train. Think about it, if we have an all-rifle army with a combat effectiveness as strong as mine, do we still need to avoid Na Yancheng?

By then, it will be only Na Yancheng who avoids us.

Since Na Yancheng has already locked on to Jianghe and Hexian, it is only a matter of time before he finds out what happened to Addis, although there is a high probability that no substantial evidence will be found.

But they are Manchus, and as long as they can lock on to the target, they will not have so many scruples. To put it bluntly, even if they lead the army to massacre the entire Jiangjin County, maybe nothing will happen to them.

Therefore, torture is necessary, and talented people who can perform the interrogation are also necessary.

By killing the chicken on the stage in this way, the monkey below the stage can be tamed very well.

There are many feasible options, such as driving the White Lotus Sect into Jiangjin County, which will make things much easier afterwards.

Chen first pointed at the monks on the stage, and then at the Buddhist people below the stage, "The White Lotus Sect will only become an obstacle to us, so they should be killed.

Zhang Haomin was speechless and could only sigh.

Of course, there are many ways to kill people, but I need these people below the stage to be obedient, and I don’t have that much time to guide and tame them, so these White Lotus Sect members are a very good chicken.

The sooner an intelligence is obtained, the more complete the corresponding preparations can be, and the greater its value will naturally be. On the contrary, the later it is obtained, the smaller its effect will be. Sometimes, just a little delay in time will directly cause it to lose its value.

Therefore, I have to train a usable army as soon as possible before things develop to an irreversible state. Even if they can't capture cities and strongholds, at least they have to have a certain ability to protect themselves.

For example, these White Lotus sect members have a batch of treasures outside, and some of them have escaped. Now I need to know the location of the treasure as soon as possible. Your method of interrogating them separately and then checking their confessions will definitely not work.

Yunhua is indeed not an ordinary person, but I need someone like Yunhua now and I will need him in the future. In the military, interrogation is actually related to intelligence, and intelligence is time-sensitive.

And these people!"

Moreover, Yunhua is not like an ordinary person. How do you know that the means he is using on others right now are not what he has suffered before?"

After Chen Gu finished his tea, he slowly walked up to the platform. Yun Hua immediately ran over and shouted respectfully, "Young Master!"

"Well, very good, thank you for your hard work!" Chen Gu smiled and patted Yunhua on the shoulder.

Yunhua was so excited that his face turned red. He said loudly, "It's not hard for me to complete the task assigned by Shao Shantou." Chen Gu nodded, walked to the old monk, untied the cloth tied on the back of his head, pulled out the rag from his mouth, and asked, "Do you have anything to say to me now?"

The old monk was already soaked through and looked listless. He slowly raised his head, glanced at the name, and after saying "Amitabha", he closed his eyes.

"Very good!" Chen Gu nodded with a smile, then came to the second person, untied the cloth strip and pulled out the rag from his mouth, and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Well, that money was earned from growing opium and selling children. Give me some water to drink, please."

Chen Jue couldn't help but laugh, and shouted to the audience, "Bring up a basin of hot water, put less salt and more sugar.

Huazi, give him some hot water later and let him have a good rest."

"Okay!" Yunhua nodded.

Then Chen Gu came to the third person, who was a tough guy. As soon as Chen Gu pulled the rag out of his mouth, a mouthful of phlegm came towards him. Fortunately, the other party had consumed a lot of physical strength due to the torture, so Chen Gu easily dodged it.

Chen the executioner shook his head and said to the interrogator beside him: "Seal his mouth again, then break his legs, starting from the toes and going all the way to the kneecap, alternating between the left and right feet. Don't hit too fast, or he won't feel it."

Even though Chen Gu still thought that there might be good people among them at the beginning, the last trace of pity in his heart disappeared when he heard that the silver was earned by growing opium and selling children.

Yunhua's torture seemed brutal, but because Chen the Judge had given instructions beforehand, the injuries to these people were not serious. Even if someone fainted from the pain, they could wake up immediately by washing their fingers with salt water.

After hearing Chen Gu's ruthless methods, the monks finally became obedient. No one dared to spit at Chen Gu anymore, and from then on, they basically answered whatever Chen Gu asked.

"Where is your opium planted?"

"At the foot of Magnolia Mountain!"

"Whose child did you sell? What was the child's name? Was it a boy or a girl? When did you sell it? Just tell me one."

"The girl from Liu Laoqi's family in Tiantangba, I think her name is Zhaodi or something, she's been there for four or five years, she's very well behaved, I sold her for five taels of silver!"

"Damn it!"

There was a shouting and cursing from the audience, followed by a burst of crying and noise.

Chen Jue ignored the audience and continued to ask the next person, "Come on, tell me the name of a child who was sold. Whose child is it?"

In this era, most families had many children. Although Fobao was a tenant farmer, he lived in poverty because he was surrounded by mountains, but he was still able to survive. Even if there was a disaster in the fields, he could always find something to eat in the mountains.

However, there have always been only a few hundred households in Fobao. The Bian family must have discovered the problem, so Bian Shichun specifically reminded Chen Gu.

The more Chen Gu asked, the more the smile on his face grew, but the colder the light in his eyes grew.

(End of this chapter)