weaving

Chapter 463 King Fu also has someone to collect his body

The execution ground outside Luoyang Xiguan was already full of people, but Bao Jiqiang squeezed into the first two rows of onlookers ahead of time. There was a lot of scolding behind him, and several frail people were squeezed on their backs by him. , It took a long time to barely get up.

Suddenly, there was a rush of gongs and drums, followed by the sound of swans and trumpets, and the people crowded around the execution site became excited immediately. They turned around one after another, and all their heads gathered, all looking in the direction of Zhougong Temple. .

After a while, there was a sound of horseshoes, and a large banner was raised in front of the team as the leader, followed by fifty cavalry, surrounded by King Chuang's nephew Li, and rushed towards the execution ground.

Li Guo dismounted from his horse and went directly to the high platform where he was beheaded. He was sitting in the middle of the high platform, with several generals and other bandit leaders standing on the left and right sides of the platform.

The people around the execution ground all wanted to see the general who came to supervise the beheading. The people in the crowd guessed one after another. Some said he was Li Guo, some mistakenly thought he was Liu Zongmin, and some said he was Li Guo. Chuang Wang!
They all wanted to squeeze forward to take a closer look at the general who supervised the execution, they all squeezed forward desperately, the one behind pushed forward with all their strength, but the one in front was blocked by the bandit soldiers and could not move forward.

The crowd crowded each other for a while, there were already many people in the execution ground, and the order immediately became chaotic. Li Guo had no choice but to order the ten rows of people in front to sit down, and this was considered to have restored the execution ground. order.

But after a while, the order in the practice field became chaotic again. The people who were sitting on the ground stood up again one after another, and looked towards the Zhougong Temple. The short ones stood on tiptoe, stretched their necks, and raised their chins.

A group of troops came from the west, and twenty armored step bandits walked in the front in two. They stretched their bows and set arrows, staring at the left and right sides and the front. They looked so powerful that the execution ground fell silent instantly.

Then, another twenty thieves stepped forward with red-tasseled long spears in their hands. Behind them were four broad-armed swordsmen and axemen, pushing and supporting Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi.

Behind him came another [-] bandits who also held the red spears, and finally a young general led [-] soldiers on horses into the execution ground.

Most people here have never seen what King Fu is like before, and now everyone wants to see clearly, so 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 Wanted to see what he would look like before his execution.

Bao Jiqiang suddenly heard a faint sobbing sound. He searched around, and suddenly saw a few people who looked like scholars covering their faces and crying, muttering softly: "Men... Teacher..."

At this moment, the thieves who opened the way in front had already approached, and the onlookers retreated to make way for a path. They escorted Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi straight to the front of the execution stage, and ordered them to kneel down.

Lu Weiqi was better, although he was already very old, but he was still straight in front of people, but Zhu Changxun, the king of blessing, couldn't do it, his legs were trembling uncontrollably, and his whole body collapsed under the orders of the bandits. He fell to the ground.

A swordsman stepped forward and kicked him hard, and shouted again: "I tell you to kneel down!"

Only then was he startled suddenly, and seemed to be a little awake, he barely got up slowly with both hands on the ground, maintaining a half-kneeling, half-prone posture.

Some people in the crowd couldn't help cursing: "Damn it, you bastard..."

"That's right... It's better to be a prince..."

At this time, there were also bursts of noisy voices from the west gate. Bao Jiqiang turned his head and saw that the city wall on the right side of the west gate was also crowded with people, overlooking the execution ground through the moat.

It turned out that there were still many people in the city who wanted to see Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi, the King of Fortune, be tortured, but the city gate was blocked so they couldn't leave the city at all. On the city wall, overlooking the execution ground across the moat.

"Tom!"

The application time had come, and a cannon shot came from behind the supervisory platform, shocking the whole audience, and several horses even neighed excitedly due to the sound of the cannon.

The first blast of the trumpet had just sounded, and Li Guo ordered the knives and axes to prepare for execution.

Four knives and axes dragged Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and former Nanjing Military Minister Lu Weiqi from the ground, pushed them to a place about five feet in front of the execution platform, and made him face the south and kneel down to the onlookers.

"Tom!"

The second cannon was also fired at this time.

The knife and axemen standing on the right of King Fu and Lu Weiqi pulled out the death flags stuck behind their necks, threw them on the ground, and then turned back to the side.

Although Lu Weiqi was still kneeling there, it was obvious that his body was shaking unconsciously, while Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, had lost the ability to restrain himself and collapsed directly on the ground.

Tens of thousands of heads gathered in the Xiguan law field, holding their breath in silence.

"Tom!"

As soon as the third trumpet sounded, the axeman standing on the left side of their bodies stretched out his left hand to lift the buns on their heads, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Kneel down!"

It's too late to say, then soon!
The onlookers saw only a flash of white light under the sun, and the two heads of Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi flew to the ground, and two streams of blood spurted three feet away.

From the Xiguan law field to the top of the inner city, the people who came to watch the execution burst into earth-shattering cheers:
"it is good!!!"

The executioner who performed the task of beheading got up and took two steps forward, bent down and picked up the heads of Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi, and then walked towards the execution platform.

Following the order of the thief general Li Guo, they brought the two heads into Luoyang City and hung them on the Huabiao in front of the Fuwang Palace.

…………

After the execution was over, Li Guo, the supervisor and beheading officer, had completed his task. He took a few generals down the prison beheading platform, got on the horse, and with the sound of the trumpet, the gongs and drums opened the way, and he led the bandits on foot and cavalry to the Zhou Gong Temple. Go back and report back.

Only a few dozen steps away, I met a small school next to Chuang Wang Li Zicheng. He was holding a command arrow of Chuang Wang, followed by two middle-aged men who looked like eunuchs, and behind them was an old ox cart. Carrying a paulownia white coffin.

When they saw Li Guo and others riding their horses past, they retreated to the side of the road, intending to wait for Li Guo and his men to pass by.

But Li Guo stopped his horse on the road, and asked the junior officer who was holding the arrow of King Chuang Ling, "Who are these people?"

The schoolboy replied sharply: "Master Hui, these two are eunuchs serving in King Fu's palace, just now they went to Zhou Gong Temple to beg for favor from King Chuang, and they wanted to collect King Fu's body, and they have been granted by King Chuang.

But King Chuang also said that they can collect King Fu's body first, and King Fu's head will be hung for another three days before giving it to them.

They were afraid that King Fu's public anger would be great and would be blocked by the people, so they begged King Chuang to issue an arrow so that they could come to collect the corpse. "

Li Guo nodded his head, and rode his horse to Zhou Gong Temple.

According to historical records, the two who collected the body of Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, were the eunuchs surnamed Wang and Zhang in the palace of Fu Wang. They quietly buried the bones of King Fu in a random grave in the north of Zhougong Temple.

It was not until the first month of the 16th year of Chongzhen that Emperor Chongzhen decreed that King Fu was buried in Mengjin again, and the two eunuchs surnamed Wang and Zhang and their families were all taken to Nanjing City by Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu.

(End of this chapter)