Chapter 44: The King of Fortune also collected the corpse
The execution ground outside Luoyang Xiguan was already crowded with people, but Bao Jiqiang still squeezed into the first two rows of onlookers in advance. There was a roar of curses behind him, and several weak people were pushed to their backs by him.
, it took him a long time to get up.
Suddenly, a burst of rapid gongs and drums sounded, followed by a burst of swan trumpet sounds. The people crowded around the execution site immediately became excited. They turned around one after another, with thousands of heads moving, and looked towards the direction of Zhougong Temple.
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After a while, there was the sound of horse hoofbeats, and a large flag was hoisted in front of the team as the leader, followed by fifty cavalrymen rushing towards the execution site, surrounded by King Chuang's nephew Li Guo.
Li Guo got off his horse and climbed directly onto the high platform where he was executed. He sat in the middle of the high platform, with several generals under his command and other bandit leaders standing on both sides.
People surrounding the execution ground wanted to take a look at the general who came to oversee the execution. People in the crowd speculated one after another. Some said he was Li Guo, some mistakenly thought he was Liu Zongmin, and some said he was Li Guo.
Break into the king!
They all wanted to squeeze forward and take a closer look at the appearance of the imprisoned general. They all squeezed forward with all their strength, and those behind them tried their best to push forward, but those in front were blocked by the bandit soldiers and could not move forward.
Everyone crowded together, and there were already many people in the execution ground, so the order suddenly became chaotic. Li Guo had no choice but to order the people in the ten rows in front to sit down. This was how the execution ground was restored.
order.
But after a while, the order in the execution ground became chaotic again. People who had just been sitting on the ground stood up again, looking up towards the Zhougong Temple. The short ones stood on tiptoes, stretched their necks, and raised their chins.
A group of men and horses came from the west. Twenty armored thieves were divided into two groups and walked in the front. They stretched their bows and set arrows, looking at the left and right sides and the front. They looked so powerful that the execution ground suddenly became quiet.
Then, another twenty thieves walked in holding red tassel spears. Behind them were four broad-armed swordsmen and axe-hands, pushing and carrying Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi.
Then twenty more foot soldiers came behind, also holding the red spears. Finally, a young general led thirty soldiers riding war horses into the execution ground.
Most people here have never seen what King Fu is like before, and now everyone wants to see it clearly so that they can brag among the neighbors when they go back. And those few who are lucky enough to have seen King Fu Zhu Changxun also want to see it clearly.
I want to see what he will look like before execution.
Bao Jiqiang suddenly heard a faint sound of sobbing. He looked around and suddenly saw several scholar-looking people covering their faces and crying, muttering softly: "Teacher...Teacher..."
At this moment, the thieves who were clearing the way in front had already moved forward, and the onlookers retreated to make way for them. They led Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi straight to the execution platform and ordered them to kneel down.
Lu Weiqi was a little better. Although he was very old, he still looked straight in front of people. But that was not the case with Zhu Changxun, the King of Fortune. His legs were trembling uncontrollably, and his entire body was shaking under the orders of the traitors.
He fell to the ground.
A swordsman stepped forward and kicked him hard, and shouted again: "Kneel down!"
He suddenly started and seemed to wake up a little. He reluctantly put his hands on the ground and slowly got up, maintaining a half-kneeling and half-crouching posture.
Some people in the crowd of onlookers could not help but curse: "Damn, you are a coward..."
"That's right...it's better to give it back to the prince...than a bear bag..."
At this time, there were also bursts of noisy sounds coming from the west gate. Bao Jiqiang turned around and saw that the city wall to the right of the west gate was also crowded with people, looking down at the execution ground from across the moat.
It turned out that there were still many people in the city who wanted to see Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi being tortured, but the city gate was blocked so tightly that they could not get out of the city at all. After getting permission from the bandits guarding the city, these people rushed to the inner wall of the west gate.
Climb the city wall and overlook the execution ground across the city trench.
"Boom!"
When the time came, a sound of cannon was heard from behind the execution platform, which shocked the whole place. Several war horses were even excited and neighed by the sound of the cannon.
The first cannon had just sounded when Li Guo ordered the swordsmen and axemen to prepare for the execution.
Four swordsmen and axemen dragged Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and former Nanjing Minister of War Lu Weiqi from the ground, pushed them to a place about five feet in front of the execution platform, and made him face due south and kneel down in front of the onlookers.
"Boom!"
The second cannon shot was also fired at this time.
The swordsmen and axemen standing on the right sides of King Fu and Lu Weiqi pulled out the death flags stuck behind their necks, threw them to the ground, and then turned around and retreated to the side.
Although Lu Weiqi was still kneeling there, it could be clearly seen that his body was shaking unconsciously, while King Fu Zhu Changxun had lost the ability to hold himself together and collapsed directly on the ground.
The Xiguan Dharma Ground was filled with thousands of people, and they held their breath in silence.
"Boom!"
As soon as the third trumpet sounded, the swordsman standing on the left side of their bodies stretched out his left hand to lift the bun on their heads, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Kneel down!"
It’s too late to say it, but it will be soon!
The onlookers only saw a flash of white light in the sun, and the two heads of Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi flew to the ground, and two streams of blood spurted out three feet away.
From the Xiguan execution ground to the top of the inner city, the people who came to watch the execution burst out with earth-shaking cheers:
"good!!!"
The executioner who was performing the task of beheading stood up and took two steps forward. He bent down and picked up the heads of Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi, and then walked towards the prison beheading platform.
They followed the order of Li Guo, the thief general, to bring the two heads into Luoyang City and hang them on a Chinese watch in front of the Palace of Prince Fu. This was what the ancients called "displaying the heads to the public".
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After the execution, Li Guo, the executioner, had completed his mission. He led a few generals down the execution platform, mounted his war horse, blew the trumpet, opened the way with gongs and drums, and led the cavalry soldiers to rush to the Zhougong Temple.
Go back and resume your life.
After only walking a few dozen steps, I met a small school boy next to King Chuang Li Zicheng. He was holding one of King Chuang's command arrows, followed by two middle-aged eunuch-looking men. Behind them was an old ox cart with a
It carried a white coffin of Paulownia wood.
When they saw Li Guo and others passing by on horseback, they retreated to the roadside, planning to wait for Li Guo and his men to pass by.
However, Li Guo stopped his horse on the road and asked the principal who was holding the Chuang Wang Ling Arrow in his hand: "Who are these?"
The schoolmaster replied neatly: "Returning to the general, these two people are the eunuchs in Prince Fu's palace. Just now they went to the Zhougong Temple to beg for favor from King Chuang to collect Prince Fu's body, and they have been granted permission by King Chuang.
However, King Chuang also said that they could bury Prince Fu's body first, and Prince Fu's head would not be given to them until three days later.
They were afraid that King Fu's people would be very angry and would be blocked by the people, so they begged King Chuang to send an arrow so that they could come and collect the corpse."
Li Guo nodded and rode off to Duke Zhou's temple.
According to historical records, the two men who collected the body of King Fu Zhu Changxun were the eunuchs named Wang and Zhang from the palace of King Fu. They secretly buried the bones of King Fu in a mass grave north of Zhougong Temple.
It was not until the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen that Emperor Chongzhen decreed that Prince Fu be reburied in Mengjin. The two eunuchs surnamed Wang and Zhang and their families were all taken to Nanjing by Zhu Yousong, the eldest son of Prince Fu.