Chapter five hundred and fortieth evil retribution
Thousands of people gathered outside the gate of Gusu Yi, waiting for the final result inside. Half an hour ago, they watched the imperial envoy Fang Yingwu walk in. At that time, Lord Fang said that he would go in first to seek justice for the local people. Please
Everyone waited patiently for a while.
Although they cannot see the detailed situation inside Gusu Station, the people know that the situation should be very favorable.
Because not long after Mr. Fang entered, he saw the official army escorting a large number of eunuchs and minions who had done evil and caused great anger among the people. Originally, most of these lackeys were local scoundrels and villains, who had taken refuge with the eunuchs to oppress the good, but at this time, there were no more of the previous eunuchs.
Arrogant and arrogant, everyone is out of control, obviously they are going to be unlucky.
After a while, the people again saw the officers and soldiers escorting the leader of the minions, who was said to be Mr. Wang from Qianhu in the capital. Most of the bad reputation of the eunuch Wang Eunuch was actually recorded on Wang Qianhu. All kinds of evil
Everything was done by Wang Qianhu himself, and I don’t know how many people have suffered from Wang Qianhu’s murderous hands.
At this time, Wang Qianhu was still shouting and cursing the imperial envoy inside, but he was beaten rudely and gagged by the officers and soldiers. From this, the people knew very well that Wang Qianhu
Hu will definitely be punished.
Finally, under the gaze of everyone, the imperial envoy Fang Yingwu walked out of the gate of Gusu Station and stood in front of the crowd.
Thousands of people stopped talking in unison, and the scene immediately became quiet. Fang Yingwu said calmly: "Let me tell you elders, I am fortunate enough to live up to my command! I have hired eunuch Wang Jingzhi's minions, thousands of royal ministers, and everyone below
They have all been guilty of evil for a long time, and they are too numerous to mention! Now we have captured them all and treat them as human criminals!"
The audience cheered a little. Listening to this, Commissioner Fang Qin, who represented the people, had won a great victory! In this way, Suzhou Mansion finally eliminated the disaster, but we still need to hear the details.
Fang Yingwu followed the people's will and said: "The first offender, a thousand-household royal minister, is a military attaché of the imperial court. It is inconvenient for me to make the decision without authorization, so I will first put him in prison and keep him in custody, and then report to the imperial court and ask for punishment!"
These few sentences are ordinary and have the proper meaning. There is nothing to be excited about.
But then I heard Envoy Fang's voice rising an octave, and he said loudly: "Among the other minions, there are a total of thirty-five main criminals who have violated the people... I have made the decision to bring all these main criminals to justice. To express the anger of the people!"
The crowd was still talking quietly, and no one publicly stood up to cheer. Fang Yingwu was also stunned, why did his big deal go sour, how could the situation be like this?
But Fang Yingwu didn't know that everyone didn't react to the word "zhengfa" at first and didn't understand its meaning, so their reaction was mediocre. But soon someone who understood quickly explained that the word "zhengfa" actually means to cut down.
head!
Immediately, the crowd was greatly shocked and all thirty-five people were beheaded. This was a killing spree! After a brief period of shock, the cheers became louder again. Mr. Fang was cruel enough to the evil forces!
Those "chief culprits" are all idle scoundrels on the street, and good people are often bullied. This time they are helping the eunuchs bring trouble to the countryside. They are extremely hateful. It would be no shame to kill them all. It is a good thing for most people.
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Just now, there were people who were dissatisfied because Wang Chen was not punished immediately and were worried about the protection of the officials. When they heard that Mr. Fang wanted to be the butcher's knife, they could only be convinced.
Lord Deng, the deputy commander of the guard station, asked in a low voice: "Master Fang asked about the execution of a criminal. Why don't you report it to the imperial court?"
Fang Yingwu pointed at the crowd and said: "The public opinion is like a volcano, how can we delay it for a long time? I am the one who makes the decision and must make a quick decision!"
Based on the imperial system and the concept of careful killing, cases involving the execution of criminals must be reported to the court for review, and sometimes the criminals must be deported to the capital to await the final judgment and execution.
However, the royal flag has a special privilege, that is, in extraordinary times, in order to stabilize the situation, the imperial envoy can first behead the criminal, and then report it to the court for record. This is probably one of the origins of the folk legend of "behead first and report later".
Therefore, from a legal perspective, there is no problem at all in that Fang Yingwu, who was given the royal flag, was different from ordinary officials. He used the pretext of appeasing public anger to order the execution of the minions who were the main culprits in Suzhou.
Just killing thirty-five people in one breath is indeed shocking enough. Generally, such a situation only occurs when bandits and rebellions are suppressed.
Fang Yingwu said again: "The rest of the minions and accomplices can be exempted from the death penalty, but they cannot escape from the living crime! I sentence them to three years of hard labor!"
The crowd continued to express their great welcome! There were about one or two hundred villains who took refuge with Eunuch Wang. They were not good people, and most of them were people who were running rampant in the market and oppressing good people.
Now that these people have been rounded up by the Imperial Envoy, they will be beheaded and sentenced, the streets of Suzhou City can be quiet for a while! No one does not welcome this situation.
Just after recovering from Fang Yingwu's iron fist, some people thought of the main figures in Suzhou's disaster and asked loudly: "I dare to ask the imperial envoy, but I have never heard of it. I don't know what to do with the eunuch who was purchased."
How to deal with it?”
Fang Yingwu replied: "The procurement eunuch Wang Jing is an imperial envoy. Although I have no authority to detain him, he has promised to leave Suzhou Prefecture early tomorrow morning and never return after I reprimanded him face to face and expressed his righteousness."
This is all we can do!”
Having just heard the decision to execute more than thirty people, the people were shocked and gradually calmed down, and they became less angry towards the eunuch Wang Jing.
Since he has no intention of chasing after him fiercely, and he heard that Fang Yingwu meant to completely expel the procurement eunuchs who were poisoning Suzhou, then that’s all. After all, the prince is an imperial eunuch, and this is already what Mr. Fang can do.
It's the limit of what you can do.
The crowd couldn't help but start cheering, expelled Wang Jing, detained the king's ministers, the remaining principal criminals were beheaded in public, and the accomplices were punished with hard labor. Public opinion finally won the final victory!
They gathered together to fight, and their hard work was not in vain. As the saying goes, God has eyes, and evil will be punished!
Although the common people seemed to have done nothing from beginning to end today except running around with Envoy Fang and acting as background, this did not affect the mood of celebration.
No matter what, they personally participated in major events and achieved their goals safely. What higher requirements could they ask for?
At this time, the sun was setting in the west and the sky was filled with red clouds, but the people surrounded Fang Yingwu for a long time and were unwilling to leave. Commissioner Fang was discussing technical issues with Deputy Commander Deng...
Deputy Commander Deng was confused: "Beheading must be done with a special sword, otherwise it will not be so easy to cut down. There are several swords in the guard station, but it is still difficult to cut down more than 30 people at the same time."
Fang Yingwu thought thoughtfully and said, "In that case, only three or four people will be killed in one batch, and one batch will be cut every day. The people will be allowed to watch, and then they will be shown to the public after the cutting. The thirty-five criminals will be divided into ten batches, almost ten batches."
It can end later.”
Deputy Commander Deng was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "I obey your orders!"
This imperial envoy is really kind-hearted. Originally, today's matter is considered over. Maybe it will be popular for two or three days, and then it will almost fade away.
But killing people and beheading them for ten consecutive days is equivalent to extending the process for ten days, at least for the first half of the month, which increases the prestige. (To be continued...)
ps: I am not in good condition and my thoughts are not smooth, so I have barely managed to write this chapter until now. But today there are photos of cute girls again, and I have to hold in the rest of the update overnight. I don’t know what time I can hold it in, so I will book it for tomorrow morning.
