The rise of the poor

Chapter 1978 Emperor Jiajing is very satisfied
"Dong Dong." The bell rang continuously.

Amid the ringing of bells, Emperor Jiajing's carriage arrived at the Meridian Gate under the escort of the Imperial Guards, and the bells stopped ringing.

Officials from the Honglu Temple knelt before the imperial carriage and respectfully invited Emperor Jiajing to ride on the sedan chair.

The village head, gentry and old people in the distance saw the imperial carriage and the figure of Emperor Jiajing from afar, and their faces suddenly flushed with excitement. Just this one look made their life worthwhile and without regrets.

Emperor Jiajing sat on the sedan chair and the Jiaofangsi played ceremonial music. When Emperor Jiajing sat on the dragon throne on the Meridian Gate Tower, the ceremonial music stopped.

At the Meridian Gate, the Imperial Guards blew their whips to quiet the crowd, and the whole place was solemn.

For the captured Japanese pirates, the scene was extremely majestic, just like they were in the King of Hell's Palace after death, waiting for the doomsday judgment. They were almost scared to death.

"Enter!"

The eulogists shouted in unison.

The official from the Ministry of Rites, holding the victory report, walked to the front of the Meridian Gate, bowed four times to Emperor Jiajing on the Meridian Gate Tower, and then presented the victory report.

"Read the victory report." Emperor Jiajing nodded, and the officers behind him repeated Emperor Jiajing's order loudly.

An official from the Ministry of Rites read out the good news.

The procedures of the prisoner presentation ceremony were carried out one by one, and the most exciting part of the prisoner presentation also arrived.

The Japanese pirates were taken to the position for surrendering prisoners. They faced north, knelt on the ground with their heads prostrated, and waited for their fate.

The Japanese pirates seemed to have lost their souls, kneeling on the ground numbly. Facing such divine power, they were already frightened to death.

Even the Japanese chieftain Chen Dong was not in a much better condition at the moment, and was equally distracted.

What is the highest-ranking official they have ever seen?

The county lieutenant and magistrate who broke through the county town? Or the prefect who was guarding the city from afar? !

Any official picked out at the scene now would be unqualified for them to even watch from afar, not to mention that the person sitting on the top of the Meridian Gate Tower at this moment is the supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty - the Emperor - Emperor Jiajing!

The suffocating sense of majesty and oppression almost suffocated Chen Dong and others, and their hearts felt like they were about to burst.

"Xu Hai, Chen Dong and other Japanese pirates have lost all conscience, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil. This group of Japanese pirates is extremely rebellious. They occupied Tuo Lin and other places as their nests and looted everywhere. Nearly a hundred villages were burned, killed and looted by them. The old, young, women and children all died. What's worse, babies were stabbed through the body by Japanese knives or drowned in the cesspool. An 80-year-old woman was tortured to death by their inhumane gang rape. Such cruel crimes are too numerous to list. I, the Minister of Justice He Ao, request that all the captured Japanese pirates be executed by slow slicing and go to Caishikou to be executed. Please allow me to do so!"

The Minister of Justice He Ao stepped forward and sternly denounced the crimes committed by the Japanese pirates. His voice was so powerful that it resounded through the sky.

After finishing the accusation in a stern voice, the Minister of Justice He Ao bowed to the Jiajing Emperor on the top of the Meridian Gate Tower and could not get up.

After hearing this, everyone present clenched their fists, glared at the Japanese pirates, and wished they could bite them to death with their teeth.

"Approved, take it!" Emperor Jiajing wrote the two words "Approved" in a flamboyant manner and threw the pen away with pride.

"Approved, take it!" Huang Jin respectfully took the imperial edict with both hands and repeated the words of Emperor Jiajing.

"Approved, take it!" The eunuchs and ministers in the Meridian Gate Tower echoed and repeated it.

"Allowed, take it!"

The ministers and soldiers who were a little further away shouted again and again.

From near to far.

From the city gate tower to the imperial road under the Meridian Gate.

From one person, it became eight people, eight people became twenty-four people, twenty-four people became hundreds of people, and then became thousands of soldiers and factory guards who shouted in unison.

For a moment, the sound of "Approved, take it!" was as loud as thunder, like a divine punishment from heaven.

"All of them were executed by slow slicing."

The Japanese pirates who were kneeling on the ground were so scared when they heard the final punishment that they collapsed to the ground, and Chen Dong was no exception.

This is Lingchi (death by slow slicing)! The most cruel punishment in the world, bar none! The person must be skinned alive for 3,357 times before being executed on the last cut, which is the 3,357th cut.

Compared with the Japanese pirates, the common people were extremely excited when they heard that all the Japanese pirate captives would be tortured to death.

"Your Majesty is wise, long live your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty is wise, long live your Majesty!"

"Down with the Japanese pirates!"

"Down with the Japanese pirates!"

For a moment, the people shouted "Long live the emperor!" and the sound spread from the Meridian Gate like ripples, affecting the entire city.

Infected by this atmosphere, the people of the whole city couldn't help but join in and shout in unison.

Finally, the shouts of "Long live the emperor" were like waves, shaking the whole city and seeming to tear the sky apart.

Emperor Jiajing, who was on the top of the Meridian Gate Tower, heard the voices from all over the city chanting "Long live the emperor" and "Down with the Japanese pirates", and he couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. Wasn't the purpose of holding the Meridian Gate Prisoner Presentation Ceremony to boost morale and boost public morale?

The people's hearts can be used. With such people, there is no need to worry about the destruction of the Japanese pirates!

Emperor Jiajing was very satisfied with today's ceremony of presenting captives.

The Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates, who looked like puddles of mud, were picked up by the Imperial Guards and escorted to Xihua Gate, and then taken to Caishikou for execution.

"Being pushed out to the Meridian Gate for execution" is just a saying in TV dramas and novels. The Meridian Gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City, a sacred and majestic place. How could it become a place of execution? The real place of execution is often the Caishikou.

Because there are many people in Caishikou, executing the person in public here can serve as a warning to the rest, shocking those with evil intentions, making them afraid and preventing them from committing crimes, otherwise you will be the next person to be executed in Caishikou.

When the Japanese pirates were escorted out of Xihua Gate, the angry people threw the rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs in their hands at the pirates.

For a moment, it seemed like it was raining rotten leaves and rotten eggs, and the Japanese pirates were almost drowned by the rotten leaves and rotten eggs.

After a while, these Japanese pirates looked like unrecognizable people.

Finally, amid the curses and hurling of obscenities from the common people, the Japanese pirates were taken to the Caishikou and tied to the execution pillars one by one.

When the executioners dressed in red clothes and red turbans appeared in front of the Japanese pirates, the timid ones fainted with fright, and their feces and urine flowed out. The brave ones could not help trembling all over like sieves.

The executioners first poured a bucket of cold water over the pirates' heads to wash off the filth on their bodies to facilitate the execution.

In addition to these executioners from the capital, many of them were urgently transferred from surrounding towns for support.

Lingchi is a technical job. Not all executioners have mastered this skill. Only some senior executioners have mastered it. There are less than 30 executioners in the whole capital who are proficient in Lingchi. There are even fewer executioners in the surrounding towns who have mastered this skill. All together, there are less than 10 executioners.

This is normal. In the Ming Dynasty, only the most heinous criminals were qualified for lingchi. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the number of prisoners who were executed by lingchi was less than 1,000, and at most less than 10 per year. With fewer opportunities to practice, there were naturally fewer executioners.

However, now is an extraordinary period. There are more than 400 Japanese pirates who need to be tortured to death, so they have to force the issue and mobilize all the experienced executioners to carry out the execution.

The higher-ups also said that they were not required to collect the full three thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars, as long as it exceeded fifty dollars.

(End of this chapter)