Pirate Song

Moreover, most of these executioners have extra money to make. Of course, they will not release criminals on purpose. However, after some criminals are sentenced to death, their families cannot bear to let them suffer, so they have to spend money to honor these criminals.

Executioners, ask them to sharpen their knives so that they can chop off the criminal's head with one knife, so that the criminal will suffer less punishment. If no one respects them, they will use blunt knives to kill people. One knife often cannot kill the criminal, but only cuts off half of his head.

Neck, it is common for people to commit the crime of taking more life, and then die after being stabbed a few times.

Naturally, Daye County also has full-time executioners. Unfortunately, these two executioners are still Gao Huaiyuan's subordinates. Before the execution, these two executioners came to ask Gao Huaiyuan what to do with Gao Huaiyuan's opinion.

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Because these people had committed such heinous crimes and were not good people, and their entire family had been confiscated, naturally no one came to pay tribute to the executioner, so it was up to Gao Huaiyuan to ask how they should be killed.

After Gao Huaiyuan figured this out, he was a little dumbfounded. He just killed someone and kept talking so much that he really didn't know how to answer.

After thinking for a while, Gao Huaiyuan replied: "As for the women who want to be killed, I think you don't have to make things difficult for them. Just knock them down with one knife. As for the remaining men, you should

Whatever you do, do whatever you want! After all, they deserved their death and are not worth pity!"

Then the death methods of several people were decided. After the death drum sounded at three quarters of noon, the two executioners got on the execution platform and killed the guilty women first. Gao Huaiyuan looked from a distance and saw that the women were already frightened.

They were peeing and crying, two people seemed to be frightened and were silent, and two women were wailing, just begging for their lives.

An executioner pushed a criminal woman in front of the execution platform and kicked her in the crook of the leg, causing her to kneel down on the execution platform and face the crowd below.

An interrogator came forward and announced the crime of the guilty woman, then verified her identity, removed the sign from the back of her neck, and handed it to Liu Zhixian, who ticked off the sign with a red pen.

After her name, he picked up a command arrow and threw it down.

At this time, an executioner took the order, stepped forward and broke up the sinful woman's bun, and reached out to pull her head. The other executioner was responsible for the execution. He took a sip of wine first and sprayed the wine on the ghost with great force.

He raised the sword on his head, and then raised the sharp sword in his hand high.

At the moment when the rapid beating of the drums paused, the executioner suddenly swung down the ghost-headed sword. There was a flash of cold light, and a blood arrow immediately shot out. The executioner responsible for pulling the head swung down sharply.

As soon as he turned around, he dodged the bloody arrow and threw the criminal woman's head into the basin on the execution platform. There was no blood on her body. Gao Huaiyuan had to admire his agile movements.

The cry of the guilty woman also stopped abruptly. The headless corpse immediately fell on the execution platform. The blood from the neck spurted out far away. Her hands and feet were still trembling. After a while, it became quiet.

Come down.

Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but close his eyes. Although he didn't even blink when killing enemies in front of the battle, he still felt a little uncomfortable watching people kill people in this way. He only heard the onlookers on the execution ground shouting.

The cry of applause seemed to be praising the executioner's skills.

Executioners are very skillful when beheading, and they are very particular about which cervical vertebra they cut at. Otherwise, the knife may get stuck or cause a gap. That would be really embarrassing, and it would be treated as one blow.

After that, he finally chopped off the head of the guilty woman without any fuss. The executioner seemed very satisfied. He stood on the execution platform with his knife and walked back and forth, feeling a little proud.

Gao Huaiyuan felt uncomfortable in his heart. This scene looked like a performance no matter how he looked at it. Killing had actually become an art form. Those who executed the execution treated it as a performance, and those who watched the execution treated it as watching a show! It really made him wonder what to do.

How to describe this kind of thing!

Not long after, the several guilty women were finally killed one by one, leaving behind several headless corpses. The heads were hung up by the executioner for public display. Then it was the turn of the desperadoes to be sent on their way. This time, one of the few guys

He had long lost his previous ferocity. Seeing the woman being killed, he was crying like a woman. Even his pants were wet with a large piece of urine, and water was flowing down his feet.

Only the murderer surnamed Cao was yelling freely. At one moment he cursed Zhang Cheng and scolded him for harming them all. At another moment he cursed Gao Huaiyuan and scolded Gao Huaiyuan for being a dog officer.

When the knife was used to dismember the body, the man also showed a look of fear.

But this fellow was considered ferocious. After spitting out a mouthful of bloody spit, he yelled at Gao Huaiyuan again and cursed Gao Huaiyuan's whole family. He also said that he would not let Gao Huaiyuan, the dog official, go even if he was a ghost.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan was ordered to prove the identity of these people and walked to the execution platform, which aroused applause from the people who were watching. They all expressed their thanks to Gao Huaiyuan and expressed their gratitude to Gao Huaiyuan for eliminating harm to the people.

Gao Huaiyuan stood on the execution platform, raised his hands to the crowd below, clasped his fists and said: "Since Gao is in charge of this post, he should do something practical for his neighbors. Don't thank me for anything. I hope all the fellow villagers will give up on this thief."

After the end, you can learn from it and don’t break any royal laws!"

Then Gao Huaiyuan read out the charges of these thieves, and checked the identity of these thieves. After going through this process, in fact, these people did not need to be checked by him, and they knew that they could not be replaced. They were beaten so badly during the day.

He looked as scary as a ghost, but it was just the rules, so he still went through the scene.

When he came to the guy surnamed Cao, his eyes were bloodshot and he cursed Gao Huaiyuan again. Gao Huaiyuan looked at this guy's ferocious face with cold eyes. After he had scolded enough, he

He snorted coldly and said: "You won't spare me even if you become a ghost? I'm afraid you won't have this chance! If you become a ghost, think about the people you harmed. Their ghosts may have been waiting for you to go down, Yan

The prince will naturally take special care of evil people like you. The severe punishments in the underworld are still waiting for you to enjoy! If you are so unrepentant when death is imminent, I think you deserve to die the most!"

The executioner came over to please Gao Huaiyuan and said: "Lord County Captain, this guy is very fierce. Soon a younger one will come to serve him and send him off more happily! Humph! The younger one specially added a knife for him. He

This tongue is so damn tight!"

Gao Huaiyuan nodded, and he naturally heard what the executioner meant. In order to please himself, the executioner felt better when he cut him, and he was afraid that his tongue would be stabbed one more time.

After hearing what the executioner said, the man surnamed Cao couldn't help but change his face. The punishment was already painful enough, but he acted like a hero just now, and now he had to find fault for himself!

Following the order from Magistrate Liu, the executioner began to execute the execution, starting with the other three people. The dismemberment knife in his hand was like the wind. He quickly used up the twenty-four knives and divided two of the guys into corpses on the spot.

After ending their lives, the reason why these two guys died more happily is because these two people said some good words before they died, indicating that they would never do such evil things in the next life, and they would only attack Zhang Cheng.

Time, you have to slow down a little. This guy's crime of mutilating a woman is more serious. Therefore, because of the wishes of the people, the executioner deliberately made this guy suffer for a while. He was satisfied with twenty-four knives and cut off his limbs.

Then they dug out his liver and gallbladder, and finally decapitated him with a knife, ending this guy.

Even people like Gao Huaiyuan, who are accustomed to seeing various ways of death on the battlefield, felt sick to their stomach after seeing this kind of torture, not to mention the people who were watching, who were very interested in watching the execution at first, but when they saw the real

When the Lingchi criminals were attacked, some people were so frightened that they fainted on the spot, and some even vomited all their morning meals. In any case, it really had a shocking effect on people.

However, unlike Gao Huaiyuan’s imagination, there is still a fundamental difference between the Zhexing in the Song Dynasty and the Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty. The number of Zhexing knives in the Song Dynasty was very small, only twenty-four knives. It was not like the later Ming Dynasty, which had a small number of knives.

The prisoner was chopped alive by hundreds or thousands of knives, and specifically it should be a kind of dismemberment punishment. The execution time was also relatively short. It was far less cruel than the ling-chi punishment in later generations. It was relatively more humane, and the pain of the victim was

It's not too long and your nerves can bear it.

After watching his accomplices being killed one by one, the man surnamed Cao finally couldn't curse anymore. All the muscles in his body were shaking uncontrollably. His whole face was so frightened that there was no color at all. At this moment, he could no longer curse.

He no longer had the energy to act like a hero. This was exactly the purpose of the executioner. What he wanted was to make this guy suffer a mental breakdown and suffer an extra period of mental torture. Now it seems that he has obviously achieved his goal.

It wasn't until the executioner came in front of him that the guy realized that he was finally suffering. The guy wailed and began to surrender, begging the executioner to give him a happy death and end his life as soon as possible.

But the executioner had his word first. He wanted to make this guy suffer more, and he would never regret it. If he did that, he would be afraid that Gao Huaiyuan would be unhappy and take away his job, so he ignored this guy's begging for mercy at all. The executioner even smiled sinisterly.

Then a plate was brought out, and there was still white salt foam on the plate. Cao suddenly understood how the executioner was going to deal with him.

So the frightened guy named Cao suddenly started struggling on the pillar tied to him as if he had been given a shot of stimulant, and started to curse again, first at Gao Huaiyuan, then at the executioner, in short

He scolded everyone he could think of. After such scolding, some of the onlookers below really applauded him. I really don’t know what these applauding people were thinking, that they would applaud such a desperado!

The executioner stepped forward and grabbed the man's chin, pinched hard, and opened the man's mouth so that he could no longer curse. Then he took out a small hook from his arms and put it into the man's mouth.

He hooked the guy's tongue and pulled out his mouth with force. He released his jaw with the other hand, reached out and took a hook-shaped knife from the executioner nearby, and put it on the guy's tongue.

After passing by, a human tongue was left in his hand, dripping with blood and was thrown down. Someone immediately grabbed it and put it away. It is said that this thing can be used as medicine and can be used to treat sores and boils. It makes people's hair stand on end.

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After the man named Cao had his tongue cut off, his mouth was full of blood and he could no longer curse. He was bouncing on the pillar like a skewered fish. Then it was time for the executioner to perform again. Every time the executioner struck

The knife would be stopped for a while to make the guy suffer a little more pain, and then the other person would sprinkle some salt particles into the wound, causing the guy to jump in pain.

This execution lasted for a stick of incense before the executioner finally stabbed the man and ended his life. Gao Huaiyuan looked at Guo Liang next to him. He didn't know where this guy had gone to vomit.

Even Guo Liang is used to seeing dead people on the battlefield and can't stand this. It shows that this kind of death is really scary!

Gao Huaiyuan suppressed his nausea and went on stage to conduct an autopsy again. This brought the execution to an end. The crowd dispersed immediately, leaving only a pile of fragmented corpses of the dead.

Generally, after people are killed in the execution ground, the prisoners have their families to collect their bodies. However, because these guys have done too many evil things, no one dares to collect their bodies even if they have relatives. Naturally, the government will not ask more questions and just throw them in the wild and let them

The corpses were exposed in the wilderness, and finally the wild dogs had a feast. It is said that such people will not be reincarnated after death, which can be regarded as finding a tragic destination for their sins.

After Gao Huaiyuan solved the case, he immediately became famous in Daye County. The squires who had not thought highly of him in the past did not dare to underestimate him. They changed their attitudes one after another, invited Gao Huaiyuan to his door, and tried to reconcile with Gao Huaiyuan.

Make friends.

Gao Huaiyuan was impatient to deal with this group of people. He originally planned to push him away, but was stopped by Ji Xiancheng.

"Young master, don't underestimate these squires and wealthy people. They have a lot of energy. If the young master wants to stay in the position of Daye County captain for a long time, he must not offend these people. After all, they have little influence in the countryside.

"Xiao, the young master plans to implement rural joint protection in the county soon and train rural braves. Without the support of these people, there will definitely be a lot of resistance. The young master had better get familiar with these people and deal with them!" Ji Xiancheng knew.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't like this kind of social interaction, but he still advised him.

Gao Huaiyuan thought this was the case. After he took office, he discussed with Ji Xiancheng that he wanted to implement rural joint protection in Daye County, select villagers to train farmers, strengthen people's physical fitness, and gradually change the folk customs of Daye County.

He was more tough, and he also promoted bow and arrow clubs in various townships and villages to train his village courage and respond to emergencies at any time. Ji Xiancheng also agreed with his idea and supported him in doing so. Now after listening to Ji Xiancheng's words, Gao Huaiyuan

He gave up the idea of ​​declining the banquet hosted by the squires. If he wanted to implement this kind of thing, he would have to obtain the support of these powerful people in the village first. Otherwise, if he started to implement it from the common people, there would inevitably be great resistance.

As a result, Gao Huaiyuan put down his arrogance and accepted the banquets and gifts from the squires. He kept socializing every day. Fortunately, he had a pretty good drinking capacity. Otherwise, it would not be a big problem to develop alcoholic liver disease at such a young age.

As a result, Gao Huaiyuan quickly became familiar with some wealthy gentry in the county and township. Although these people had heard of Gao Huaiyuan before, when they met, they saw that Gao Huaiyuan had an extraordinary bearing and spoke quite well.

Being approachable has won a lot of favor from this group of people.

Gao Huaiyuan also officially embarked on his official career and began to prosper in Daye County.

Ever since Gao Huaiyuan returned to Daye County in 1998, he has been very busy. While he had to deal with the official affairs of the yamen, he deliberately wanted to do something in Daye County, and gradually formed a good relationship among the local people in Daye County.

Wu Zhifeng selected archers for training to increase the standing force of Daye County.

On the other hand, he also needs to care about the development of his private industry from time to time, allocate manpower and material resources, and support Huang Zhen to develop in the two Zhejiang areas. When he takes office, he will send his trusted personnel to deliver a batch of new goods hoarded by Wohu Village.

When they arrived at Ezhou, they were handed over to Huang Zhen.

Huang Zhen was also well prepared and handed over the matters at hand to his subordinates. Before leaving, in the name of Gao Huaiyuan, he gave a generous gift to each of the prominent figures in the Ezhou Prefecture, and presented these gifts.

He drew up a detailed list of officials who might affect Gao Huaiyuan, listed their temperaments and personal preferences, and sent them to Gao Huaiyuan, so that Gao Huaiyuan would have an understanding of these officials in Shangfeng.

Then he hired two large river boats, loaded them with various goods, and headed for Shaoxing.

After Gao Huaiyuan was busy with Huang Zhen's affairs, he began to turn most of his energy to official matters. He would not pursue political affairs when he was not in his position. When he became a county captain, he had no intention of living in idleness, so first

Bu Bian solved the gang of villains plaguing Daye County and opened up his career as an official.

After solving this serious case, Gao Huaiyuan quickly received a verbal commendation from the Ezhou magistrate, commending him for solving such a major case in such a short period of time. Gao Huaiyuan also entered the official circles of Ezhou through this incident.

within sight.

First, Gao Huaiyuan selected fifty able-bodied villagers from various townships in Daye County and reorganized the Daye County Archers Team. With Guo Liang as the leader of the Archers Team, he concentrated them in the old camp in the county.

During this period, he personally trained these archers.

The overall quality of the rural warriors selected through his personal review this time is much better than the previous batch of archers. Even compared to the first time Gao Huaiyuan led the team on the expedition, the quality of the rural warriors selected was much higher.

Less! Although some people were reluctant to join the army, they were forced to join the archer team and became archers due to the county government's orders.

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