Chapter 1978 Emperor Jiajing was very satisfied

"Dong dong." The bell rang continuously.

Amidst the ringing of the bells, Emperor Jiajing's chariot arrived at the Meridian Gate under the escort of the imperial guards, and the ringing of the bells stopped.

The officials of Honglu Temple knelt in front of the imperial chariot and respectfully invited Emperor Jiajing to ride on the chariot.

In the distance, Li Zheng, the squire and the old man saw Emperor Jiajing's chariot and the figure of Emperor Jiajing from a distance, and their faces suddenly flushed with excitement. Just one glance, this life is worth it. No regrets.

Emperor Jiajing sat on the shoulder chariot, and the Jiaofang Secretary played the ritual music. When Emperor Jiajing sat on the dragon chair above the morning gate tower, the ritual music stopped.

Under the Meridian Gate, the Imperial Guards were in silence, sounding their whips, and the whole place was solemn.

For the captured Japanese pirates, the scene was extremely majestic. It was like going to the Hall of Hell after death and waiting for the doomsday verdict. Their souls were almost scared away.

“Enter!”

The salute officers shouted in unison.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites holding the good news walked to the Meridian Gate, bowed four times to Emperor Jiajing on the Meridian Gate Tower, and then presented the good news.

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

Officials from the Ministry of Rites read out the good news.

The process of the prisoner presentation ceremony was carried out one by one, and the most exciting part of the prisoner presentation ceremony has also arrived.

The Japanese pirates were taken to the prisoner offering position, facing north, kneeling on the ground with their heads on the ground, waiting for death.

The Japanese pirates seemed to have lost their souls one by one, kneeling on the ground numbly. Faced with such power, they had already been frightened to death.

Even the Japanese chief Chen Dong is not much better at the moment, he is just as distracted.

What is the biggest official they have ever seen?

They captured the county captain and magistrate of the county? Or the prefect guarding the city that he saw from afar? !

Any official who is present at the scene is someone they are not even qualified to see from a distance, not to mention that the person sitting on the Meridian Gate Tower at this moment is the supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty - Emperor Jiajing. !

The sense of majesty and oppression was so strong that Chen Dong and others were almost suffocated, and their hearts felt like they were being squeezed.

“Xu Hai, Chen Dong and other Japanese pirates lost their conscience, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. This group of Japanese pirates were extremely rebellious, occupying Tuolin and other places as Japanese nests, and robbed everywhere. Nearly a hundred villages were burned, killed, and plundered by them. All the young, old, women, and children could not escape death. What's more, babies were stabbed through their bodies by Japanese knives, like gourds, or drowned in cesspools. , an 80-year-old woman was killed by the inhumane criminals. Such cruel crimes are too numerous to describe. He Ao, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, requested that all the captured Japanese pirates be executed in Lingchi. Let's go to Caishikou for execution and request the order!"

He Ao, the Minister of Punishment, stepped forward and sternly accused the Japanese pirates of various crimes. His sonorous and powerful voice resounded through the sky.

After the stern accusation, He Ao, the Minister of Punishment, bowed to Emperor Jiajing above the Meridian Gate Tower and bowed to the ground.

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

"Zhunzou, take it!" Emperor Jiajing wrote the word "zhunzou" with a flourish of dragon and phoenix, and threw the pen boldly.

"Quickly read, take it!" Huang Jin respectfully picked up the imperial edict with both hands and repeated Emperor Jiajing's words.

"Accurate, take it!" The chamberlains and ministers in the Meridian Gate Tower followed suit and repeated it again.

"Quick report, take it!"

The ministers and soldiers a little further away shouted repeatedly.

From near to far.

From the top of the city gate to the imperial road at the Meridian Gate.

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

For a moment, "It's accurate, take it!" The sound was like thunder, like divine punishment from heaven.

"All executed in Lingchi."

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

This is Lingchi execution! The most cruel punishment in the world, bar none! It took 3,357 cuts to cut him alive before he could be executed with the last cut, which was the 3,357th cut.

Compared to the Japanese pirates, the common people were excited when they heard that all Japanese captives were to be executed in Lingchi.

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

"Down with the Japanese pirates!"

For a time, the people shouted long live the emperor, like ripples, rippling from the Meridian Gate and affecting the whole city.

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

Finally, the sound of "Long Live the Emperor" was like a wave, shaking the whole city, as if it was about to break the sky.

Emperor Jiajing, who was on the Meridian Gate Tower, heard the shouts of "Long Live the Emperor" and "defeat the Japanese pirates" echoing throughout the city. He couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. The purpose of holding the Meridian Gate Prisoner Presentation Ceremony was to boost morale and boost people's hearts.

The people’s hearts are at their service. With the people like this, why worry about the Japanese pirates not being exterminated!

Emperor Jiajing was very satisfied with today's prisoner presentation ceremony.

Japanese pirates.

Puddles of mud-like Japanese pirates were picked up by the Imperial Guards and escorted towards Xihua Gate, and from Xihua Gate to Caishikou for execution.

"Pushing out the Meridian Gate to ask for execution" is just a saying in TV series and novels. The Meridian Gate is the main entrance of the Forbidden City, a sacred and majestic occasion, so how can it become a place of execution? The real place of execution is often Caishikou.

Because there are many people in Caishikou, execution in public here can serve as a warning to others, deterring people with evil intentions and making them afraid, so that they dare not commit crimes, otherwise they will be executed in Caishikou next place. It's you.

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

For a time, it was like a rain of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, and the Japanese pirates were almost drowned in rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs.

After a while, these Japanese pirates no longer looked human.

Finally, amid the people's curses and throwing filth, the Japanese pirates were pressed to the market entrance and tied to the execution pole one by one.

When the executioners wearing red clothes and red scarves appeared in front of the Japanese pirates, the timid Japanese pirates were so frightened that they fainted, with feces and urine flowing out, and the brave ones couldn't help but tremble like chaff.

The executioners first poured a bucket of cold water on the Japanese pirates to wash away the filth on their bodies to facilitate the execution.

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

Lingchi execution is a technical job. Not all executioners master this skill, only some senior executioners master it. There are less than thirty executioners who are proficient in Lingchi skills in the entire capital, and there are even fewer executioners in surrounding towns who are proficient in this skill, and there are less than ten executioners in total.

This is normal. In the Ming Dynasty, only those who committed the most heinous crimes could be punished by Ling Chi. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Ling Chi has executed less than a thousand prisoners, and at most less than ten prisoners every year. With fewer opportunities to practice, there will naturally be fewer executioners trained.

However, this is an emergency period. There are more than 400 Japanese pirates who need Ling Chi, so they can only rush the ducks and mobilize all senior executioners to execute them.

As mentioned above, they are not required to cut off 3,357 knives, as long as it exceeds 50 knives. (End of this chapter)