Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 434 Execution of Rebel Civil Officials
The civil servants all showed disappointment on their faces.

But these civil servants are not good at saying anything.

After all, the current emperor Zhu Youjian is no longer something they can rebel against.

Today, Zhu Youjian has the military power and financial power, and the civil officials who rebelled are already heinous crimes. How dare these civil officials make any comment.

But the vassal kings were a little moved, thinking that His Majesty is still his own family. Although the methods are cruel, the punishment for civil servants is heavier than that of his own Zhu family.

In fact, what they didn't know was that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was kind enough.

According to Song Yingxing's report, since a large number of captives participated in the construction of Daming industry, the output of various industrial products in Daming has increased significantly.

Even if these large numbers of captives continue to participate in Daming's industrial construction and engage in free and high-risk work, Daming's industrial plan can be completed ahead of schedule, and the Northern Expedition can also be carried out ahead of schedule.

Zhu Youjian didn't know whether Song Yingxing deliberately used the reason that Daming's industrial construction needed labor to indirectly dissuade himself, the emperor, from killing wildly or whether he was really explaining that Daming's industrial construction urgently needed a lot of labor.

However, what Zhu Youjian had to admit was that with the development of Daming industry, the demand for population did increase dramatically.

Especially heavy industry, especially some high-risk industries, need some cheap labor to participate.

But the reality is that most of the Ming's population is controlled by the gentry class, either their servants, their tenant farmers, or their clan members.

If Zhu Youjian wants to engage in the development of capital industry, he has to exploit a large amount of cheap labor in the early stage to realize the increase of industrial output value.

In this way, more outstanding craftsmen can be concentrated in higher-end industrial production, and the speed of developing new things in Daming Industry can be accelerated.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian was a little kinder and did not exterminate them. He tried his best to let some implicated people who had little to do with political reality replace implicated people with forced labor.

In fact, it is only after working in the factory that one realizes that working six or seven hours a day is more painful than being directly executed.

There is no freedom, no human rights, and no salary promotion system, only non-stop labor.

Zhu Youjian has become an evil capitalist unintentionally, and has gradually changed from a butcher to a vampire.

Less gossip.

On this day, after the last public trial of Tang Shiji, the former censor of the left capital who participated in the uprising, Gao Zhuo, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, read out the final verdict on Tang Shiji, that is, he was sentenced to Ling Chi, [-] knives!

Tang Shiji, the censor of Zuodu, never thought that he would be sentenced to [-] knives by Ling Chi!
Tang Shiji fainted on the spot.

After he was woken up with a bucket of cold water, Tang Shiji knelt down in front of Gao Zhuo without thinking:
"Brother Zhilou, please, I beg you to intercede with His Majesty on my behalf. I know I was wrong, I am really wrong! I should not be dissatisfied with Your Majesty's new policy, I should not oppose Your Majesty Increase the business tax, I am willing to donate all my belongings, as long as His Majesty is willing to spare my life, I am willing to do anything! Or give me a whole body, okay?"

Gao Zhuo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, waved his hand.

Soon, Tang Shiji was dragged down, and screams rang out, and all the vassals and civil servants on the public trial stand were shocked.

Zhang Bingzhen, the former governor of Zhejiang, came up with various signs and was giggling all the time, but when he was announced to be fined [-] knives, he yelled out loudly:

"Don't, don't, don't treat me like this, Your Majesty, I'm innocent, I just agreed to Jiannu's spies in a moment of confusion, these are all arranged by that old thief Zhang Shenyan;

I beg your Majesty not to treat this humble official like this. I am a Jinshi of the second list, a scholar of Qingliu Hanlin, a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, and a disciple of the Son of Heaven. How can you be so cruel, Your Majesty!

I beg Your Majesty, I beg Your Majesty to forgive me, I am willing to imitate Shi Gong, how about being castrated after Tai Shigong, I promise to be a good minister who is only loyal to His Majesty in the inner court!Woohoo! "

Zhang Bingzhen kowtowed in the direction of Miyagi non-stop, muttering non-stop.

"Shut up! Zhang Bingzhen, just because you can be compared with Shigong, and Tai Shigong! My minister is also a rebel like you who can be a traitor!"

Admiral Wang Chengen of the East Factory listened to Zhang Bingzhen's words, but he did not prevent the execution of Zhang Bingzhen, and even angrily reprimanded him on the spot.

Because he knew that His Majesty was watching from behind now, and if he had more contact with civil servants like him, His Majesty would always remember him.

Zhang Bingzhen was also directly executed, and she screamed for three days.

Next is Guo Yong.

When Guo Yong was executed, Daming's executioner was able to execute Guo Yong with his eyes closed.

Since the 17th year of Chongzhen, because of the fierce political and military struggles at home and abroad, and Zhu Youjian's iron-blooded tyranny has been going on, it can be said that there have been an endless stream of felons who have been punished by Ling Chi.

This also directly contributed to the great improvement of surgical operations in the Ming Dynasty's medical career.

Some executioners have been selected into the Daming Guards Field Hospital to participate in surgical treatment.

Zhu Youjian also ordered the eunuch in charge of the imperial pharmacy to set up the Daming Royal Hospital in Nanjing City. In addition to the functions of a imperial hospital, this hospital also has special surgical treatment for people studying clinical medicine.

In the Ming Dynasty, or in other words, Chinese medicine was the mainstay of medicine in China, and internal medicine treatment was perfected, but surgical treatment was relatively lacking. Although Chinese medicine was more extensive and profound, it could not be without the assistance of surgery.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there are no doctors in Ming Dynasty, but there are relatively few doctors.

Anyway, no one would have thought that these tortured prisoners had quietly promoted the development of Daming's anatomy career, and there was more than one Song Ci in Daming.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, I don't want to die like this, it's so painful! I don't dare, I won't dare again!"

Guo Yong also died crying.

It took a relatively long time for civil servants to be executed, and they had to be criticized and severely punished, so it took two months before it was the turn of the criminal military attache.

As for the military officers, except for the severe punishment above the lieutenant-general level, the rest were just beheaded, or ordered to undergo labor reform for life.

By November of the 21st year of Chongzhen, the entire area around Taiping Gate in Nanjing City was almost blood red.

No less than [-] people have been executed here, which is comparable to the big case in the early Ming Dynasty.

However, different from the early Ming Dynasty, although the Taipingmen area of ​​Nanjing City has been crying for several months, and the blood is still the same as before, no one thinks how eerie it is here. On the contrary, they feel that the world has become much safer than before. .

(End of this chapter)