Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 34

Chun'an County has never had so many soldiers stationed in history.They were all dispatched from the province, and under the light of the torches, the armor, knives, guns, and firecrackers all shone brightly, and the Daping of the county government was full of stands!
In the middle of Daping, a firewood mountain was built around the flagpole with thick and long arms. It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, more than one foot high!
Two people are tied back to back on the flagpole at the top of Chaishan.

——One is Qi Dazhu.

——One is Shishiro Inoue in the prison of the Neisi Yamen.

Around Chaishan for a distance of about ten feet, standing cages are placed on all sides, and in each cage stands a young and strong man. The round mouth on the top of the cage is stuck around their necks, and everyone’s hands are handcuffed again. Handcuffed to the pillars of the cage.

There are still several teams of soldiers standing in front of the county yamen, all of them lined up there.

All the people came, although they were all silent, after all, there were tens of thousands of heads moving, and it was a time of disaster, countless pairs of eyes were full of hostility, looking at Qi Dazhu and Inoue Shishiro who were tied to the firewood pile, looking at the firewood A dozen standing cages are piled up around them.

The soldiers transferred from the province were very nervous. They circled the Daping of the execution ground, and pointed their spears and firearms at the people watching the execution.

Not long after, this calmness was broken. First, there was commotion on the street to the north. Countless pairs of eyes around Daping looked over, and the crowd surged.

The team officer became nervous and shouted loudly: "Someone is coming from the province! Stop it! Don't move around!"

The soldiers then turned their spears and used the handle of the gun to attack the people in the front row.

The firecrackers in the back row also held their firecrackers high, shouting one after another: "Back! Back!"

The people in the front row backed away, but there were more people in the back, and the crowd still rushed forward.

A group of yamen servants came over, holding bowls in their hands, filled with ink, and dipped a big pen into the ink and sprinkled it on the heads of the people in the back row.The crowd backed away.

People on both sides of the North Street were forced by the officers and soldiers to the storefronts facing the street, leaving a passage in the middle.

Hai Rui led the horse and appeared on the street of North Street.

On both sides and behind him were the officers and soldiers from the province.

Hai Rui and his party walked into Daping, and the crowd surged again.

Sprinkling ink didn't work anymore, those yamen servants had prepared long ago, and immediately moved over a bench, stood up across the soldiers, nodded and whipped the people who were crowded in the front row and back:

"You! Back off!" The whip whipped towards a person's head.

"You! You can't retreat!" The whip whipped at the other head.

"It's you! If you squeeze again, you will be locked!"

The crowd drew back again.

Hai Rui didn't have the slightest expression on his face, and he walked steadily forward without looking at the people around him.

Suddenly, Hai Rui stopped and looked at the firewood pile a few steps away.

A pair of eyes stared straight at him, shining on the woodpile!
Hai Rui also looked directly into these eyes, and he recognized that it was Qi Dazhu who was released by himself at Hangzhou Water Transport Wharf!
At this time, Qi Dazhu's mouth was strangled, and the two ends were tied tightly behind his head with ropes. There seemed to be countless words in his eyes.

Hai Rui stopped looking at him, and shifted his gaze to the pirate who was tied to Qi Dazhu.

Shishiro Inoue had a cold face at this moment, and his eyes were looking up at the sky.

Hai Rui walked forward slowly, and the eyes in the cage were all wide open, looking at him.

It was two faces that he had seen before, the two Sang people who had met Qi Dazhu at the Water Transport Wharf. At this time, their mouths were also strangled, and the desire for help flashed in their eyes.

Hai Rui's gaze was strangely indifferent, as he walked past the cages one by one, he walked towards the yamen.

"Hey! Catch!" A voice came from behind.

Hai Rui stopped and turned around slowly.

An old man, the one who was lying in the field when Ma Ningyuan was riding the green seedlings, was grabbed by the soldiers surrounding the crowd as soon as he got out of the crowd, struggling there and shouting: "You are wronged! Master Qingtian, we did not It's all unfair for people to know the Japanese!"

Hai Rui looked at him from a distance.

At this time, someone in the crowd shouted: "It's wrong! It's all wrong!"

More and more people followed and shouted.

The guarding team officer became anxious and ordered loudly: "Fire the guns!"

The soldiers holding the firecrackers threw the cannons diagonally at the heads of the crowd.

The sound of the guns roared and the flames blazed everywhere, and the crowd slowly quieted down again.

The guarding team officer hurriedly walked up to the old man: "This is also a trickster, lock him in a cage!"

Several soldiers immediately dragged the old man to an empty cage, opened the cage door, and locked him inside.

The old man looked at Hai Rui in the cage and still shouted: "Master Qingtian, you are wronged!"

Hai Rui just watched without any expression on his face.The team officer ordered them to be arrested, then came back and bowed his hands to Hai Rui: "My surname is Xu, and I'm the head of a thousand households in the yamen."

Hai Rui only glanced at him, then turned around and walked slowly towards the yamen.

That Xu Qianhu was startled, and his face immediately flushed red.

A small official in eight-pin uniform walked quickly from the steps of the yamen to the tall and flat supervisory platform, stepped down the steps, and greeted Hai Rui with a deep bow: "Your Lu, the prime minister of Chun'an County, greets the hall respectfully. Respect!"

Hai Rui also just looked at him and didn't say anything.

Tian Youlu: "It's time now, please go and change your official uniform first, and beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon."

Hai Rui didn't look at him anymore, Xu Bu stepped onto the prison platform and walked towards the gate of the county government.

Tian Youlu was also stunned for a moment, so he had no choice but to follow closely.

That Xu Qianhu was angry for a while, and strode towards the team officer who came with Hai Rui.

Xu Qianhu: "Old Jiang, this county magistrate is some kind of birdman, but he doesn't pay any attention to me when I say hello to him, he's coaxing."

The team officer who came with him was originally surnamed Jiang, and he was also a Qianhu. He had noticed Hai Rui's snubbing of Xu Qianhu just now, and now he greeted him: "I was just about to tell you that this person has some background. He was in the governor's office. The lobby gave Zhong Cheng and Mr. He a hard time. The higher-ups said hello, and at [-]:[-] noon, they will have to coerce him to execute these people."

Xu Qianhu: "Understood. A Niaozhi County, even Zhongcheng and Mr. He dared to stand up, so we took the blame for the above."

That Jiang Qianhu: "It's not just a matter of venting anger. After killing a person, he has to buy the field quickly and change the rice into mulberry. We are just doing business, so there is no need to get angry with him."

Xu Qianhu: "When I came here, the superiors only told me to arrest people and kill people. I won't stay here any longer to buy fields."

Jiang Qianhu: "It's said above, if you kill someone at [-]:[-] p.m., it's nothing to do with you or me. In addition, there are soldiers guarding Boss Shen to do it."

Xu Qianhu: "That's about the same."

At this time, there was another commotion in the crowd behind, and Xu Qianhu turned his head viciously: "Who is making trouble again? Beat! Beat with a whip!"

Those yamen servants stood on the stool again, and whipped some people behind them with their whips.

The time to kill at three o'clock in the afternoon is fixed by God.

Near noon, the sky was as blue as washed, and the day was high.At this moment, countless pairs of eyes waiting to be watched were looking up at the slowly moving sun with dazzling light.

The executioners came out of the yamen in a procession.

The four trumpet players and the four pistol-handling soldiers went to stand on both sides of the supervisory platform.The one who played the trumpet set up the trumpet, and the one who played the trumpet lit the torch.

Since the province ordered fire and cage hanging, more than a dozen executioners in red clothes did not carry knives.The two executioners who carried out the execution of the fire walked to the pyre with torches and oil drums.Each of the ten hangmen approached a cage.

The so-called cage hanging is: the bottom plate of the cage is alive, and there is a ring handle at the rear. As long as the executioner pulls the handle, the bottom plate will be pulled out, and the neck of the person in the cage will be stuck in the cage. In the round sleeve, it was stuck alive.

The crowd of people watching the execution began to commotion, and the soldiers around the execution ground became more nervous. They whipped and poked, and kept yelling loudly.

At this moment, Xu Qianhu couldn't bear it anymore, raised his head to look at the sun, and then looked at the prison platform in front of the yamen.The chairs in front of the Jianzhantai case were still empty, and there was no movement in the open yamen.Hai Rui hasn't come out since entering.

"Shut up!" Xu Qianhu yelled at the soldiers suppressing the crowd, "Execute the execution on time at three quarters in the afternoon!" Then he walked to the prison platform, jumped onto the wooden platform, approached the door and stood with the sea. The team officer who came with Rui.

Xu Qianhu: "It's already noon, and you still haven't come out, what's going on!"

That Jiang Qianhu: "Tell him to come out."

The two walked towards the yamen together, they were aggressive all the way, but as soon as they stepped into the lobby, Xu and Jiang were startled at the same time.

Hai Rui had already put on his official uniform and hat, and was sitting in front of the desk in the middle of the lobby, his eyes were restrained, and he remained motionless, but quietly gave the huge hall an invisible prestige.

The county magistrate, Tian Youlu, was sitting in front of the desk next to him, apparently already withered, and when he saw two thousand households coming in, he stood up immediately.

Hai Rui was still sitting and didn't greet them, so the two thousand households could only stand there.

Immediately, the hall fell silent again, only the sound of commotion outside the yamen could be heard in bursts.

The selection of scholars in the Ming Dynasty followed the old example of the previous dynasties, and not only the articles were tested, but also the appearance.Therefore, when selecting a scholar, there is an additional condition, which is actually a necessary condition, that is, to have a good appearance and complete six palaces.For example, face shape, the first class is the face with the characters of "Guo", "Jia", and "Shen";Once the official hat is worn, there is an official appearance.If the parents are unkind and give birth to a "Nai" face, no matter how beautiful the article is, it will definitely fail the ranking.

Hai Rui is a Juren and has passed the Jinshi examination. Because he is a great talent, he doesn't pay attention to the rules of "breaking the question and accepting the question". "Face" off.Whether there is an official appearance or not can only be revealed by wearing official uniforms.He attended two meetings in Hangzhou, and he was dressed in casual clothes. Now that he has arrived in Chun'an, he has put on the county magistrate's hat for the first time. .

The three people felt uneasy, but they couldn't just stand like this, and the two thousand households looked at Tian Youlu at the same time.

Tian Youlu looked at the hourglass placed in the middle of the lobby.A large part of the time card in the drip pot is exposed.Tian Youlu walked over, took a closer look, and when he had some words to say, he turned around and bowed to Hai Rui: "Master Tang, it's a quarter past noon, and it's time to go to the prison stage."

The two thousand households also made a "please" gesture.

Hai Rui still sat there without moving, but suddenly said, "Let me read the case file." This was the first time Hai Rui spoke after entering Chun'an, and he spoke with a heavy Cantonese accent.

"What?" Tian Youlu probably didn't hear clearly, more because he didn't expect it, so he asked.

Hai Rui: "I want to read the case file."

Tian Youlu: "No, no file..."

"If you don't have a case file, call me Gou Zhu to kill someone!" Hai Rui's tone suddenly increased.

Tian Youlu was startled, and looked at the two Qianhus, who also looked at each other in blank dismay.

Then Jiang Qianhu had no choice but to speak: "Haizhi County, the murder is ordered by the province, and it didn't say that the case file should be reviewed."

Hai Rui turned to him: "I said in the governor's hall that if there is a conspiracy of conspiracy, I will execute criminals according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", but I will never kill innocent people indiscriminately." Having said this, he turned to Tian Youlu again. : "Since the murder is reported, why is there no case file?"

Tian Youlu: "Hui Tangzun said that the culprit was only caught yesterday. According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", anyone who has a relationship with a Japanese will be executed on the spot, so there is no time to file a case file."

Hai Rui's eyes sharpened: "I'm asking you something, and you have to answer it truthfully."

Tian Youlu was stunned for a moment: "Excuse me, my lord."

Hai Rui: "You just said that the prisoner was caught yesterday. When was he caught yesterday?"

Tian Youlu looked at Xu Qianhu.

Xu Qianhu: "Yesterday before dawn. What's the matter?"

Hai Rui: "Where is it?"

Xu Qianhu: "It's at the Hejiapu Wharf [-] miles outside Chun'an County. Does Haizhi County also care about it?"

"This is exactly what I want to take care of!" Hai Rui stood up abruptly, his tone increased and his speed of speech accelerated: "The criminal was caught before dawn, but the report was sent to the lobby of the governor's office yesterday morning. Chun'an went to Hangzhou for more than [-] years. Here, did your report fly away with wings?"

That Xu Qianhu was stunned for a moment, only then did he realize that he had made a mistake, and only then did he realize how powerful this Hai Rui was, so he slowly shifted his gaze to Jiang Qianhu and Tian Youlu.

Jiang Qianhu and Tian Youlu were also dumbfounded, dumbfounded.

"You still told me about the "Law of the Ming Dynasty"! The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" is here." Hai Rui picked up a copy of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" on the case: "Which one of the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" says that anyone who has a relationship with the Japanese There is no need to file a case file? No file is filed, no confession is asked, and criminals are reported to the superiors before they are caught, what are you going to do!"

All three were silent, speechless.

Hai Rui: "There are huge loopholes in this case, and the execution must not be carried out today." Having said this, he glanced at the two thousand households: "Take your soldiers and take all the criminals to the county jail first, and strictly enforce the sentence. Take care. Immediately send two urgent reports, Jiang Qianhu went to Hangzhou to report to the Governor's Yamen and the Neisi Yamen, and I sent someone to Suzhou to report to Governor Hu. This case must be jointly tried by the Governor's Yamen, the Governor's Yamen and the Nisi Yamen!"

Xu Qianhu and Jiang Qianhu dared to agree to his arrangement. After looking at each other, Xu Qianhu signaled Jiang Qianhu to speak.

Jiang Qianhu looked at Hai Rui: "When we came, the provincial government greeted us and told us to execute criminals, but they didn't say that we would go to trial. Mr. Hai, we are sent by the yamen. We only know how to kill people. Don't ask anything else."

Hai Rui stared at him: "That's great. If you killed the wrong person, will you pay for the crime, or will you be punished by the yamen?"

Jiang Qianhu did not show weakness: "It is decided by the province. Of course, Mr. He and Mr. Zheng bear the burden. It is not up to me to take the blame."

Hai Rui: "Then take the instructions written by Mr. He and Mr. Zheng."

How did Zheng Michang and He Maocai issue their own warrants?Jiang Qianhu was questioned again.

Hai Rui glanced at the two of them with piercing eyes: "I'll tell you, if this case is small, you can kill someone in Chun'an. If it's serious, there's the Governor's Yamen above the Governor's Yamen, and the Governor's Yamen above the Governor's Yamen! You are on orders Yes, now that there is no written order from my boss, I am the current official of Chun'an, and I am also the supervisor of execution. According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", everything must be done as I say. If I don't hook Zhu, anyone who dares to kill someone will be investigated by the court. , no one above will take the blame for you!"

Both Xu and Jiang understood what they said, and they were stunned for a moment.

Hai Rui: "Also. A group of criminals can't indulge in murder before the case is judged. One person left and one died. I will pull you to take the blame together!"

The two thousand households looked at each other in blank dismay.

"How long can the relief food be distributed?" Hai Rui's eyes turned from the two thousand households to Tian Youlu.

Tian Youlu has been standing there in a daze, when he was suddenly asked, he hastily replied: "It's still a day..."

Hai Rui: "What preparations have you made?"

This Tian Youlu was originally a cowardly and cowardly person. He served his predecessor Chang Boxi blindly to flatter and offer advice, and tried his best to search for it. I was stunned for a while, and after only two questions, my tongue became sloppy: "What preparations do you have for the humble, humble function?"

Hai Rui: "Then the day after tomorrow, you are going to beheaded."

Tian Youlu was anxious: "Tang, Tang Zun, what you said is wrong. The food for disaster relief has always been allocated by the province, why kill my head?"

Hai Rui: "The county magistrate is vacant, and the county magistrate is in charge. He knows that there is only one day's food but he is unprepared. The victims are starved to death and stir up a civil uprising. If you don't kill you, who will you kill?"

Tian Youlu: "It's agreed, the food purchased from the field will be delivered tomorrow at the latest..."

Hai Rui: "Who will guarantee you that the grain you buy for the fields will arrive tomorrow?"

Tian Youlu: "Dang, of course it's the province."

Hai Rui: "What if the food doesn't arrive tomorrow? Should I kill you or the people in the province? What's more, the situation has changed now. I'm out of prison. Before the case is judged, I can't forcefully buy or sell land. In short, there will be no relief food tomorrow." , provoke a civil uprising, and be the first to question you."

Tian Youlu: "Tang Zun, you can't put such a big matter on my head."

Hai Rui: "I'm the county magistrate. I'll take care of everything after I come. You have to take care of what happened before I came! Go now and borrow food from big households in Chun'an. You don't need to borrow too much. God's disaster relief food is none of your business."

Tian Youlu: "I, how can I borrow it?"

Hai Rui: "Borrow it in the name of the county government office. You borrow it, and I'll pay it back."

Tian Youlu was very hesitant: "I, I may not be able to borrow it."

Hai Rui: "If you can't borrow it, you should run away with your family."

(End of this chapter)