Lingchi is the most ferocious of all punishments. Unless they are extremely vicious, they rarely use this extreme punishment.
If this punishment is used too much, it will leave a bad impression of cruelty.
The five cabinet elders present felt that this method of death was too cruel. If they wanted to execute a person, they could behead or hang. They didn't have to use the extreme means of lingchi.
However, Sima fan did not give the cabinet elders the opportunity to speak against it at all, and directly asked people to write this judgment into the edict.
Jiang Shuan personally went to Xu's house with two edicts.
Xu Yizhi is still lying in the hospital bed at this time. Due to a mild stroke, his body can't move. He can only lie straight in bed. He has to be taken care of by others.
Jiang Shuan read out the two decrees in front of him.
After hearing this, Xu Yizhi felt extremely sad and angry, but he was unable to speak. His mood fluctuated violently, which aggravated the symptoms of stroke.
All the property of the Xu family was sealed up. After counting, half of it was turned over to the private Treasury and half to the state treasury.
The private Treasury is different from the Treasury. The Treasury belongs to public property, and the private Treasury is only the private property of the son of heaven.
According to the Convention, the private Treasury and the National Treasury should take half of the property obtained from copying the family.
As for Xu Yizhi's family, they are all tattooed within five clothes, distributed to the border, and will never return to Beijing.
In order to appease other aristocratic families and prevent them from feeling that the emperor was too ruthless, the emperor symbolically retained a collateral clan of the Xu family, who was allowed to stay in Bianjing.
When the Xu family learned the bad news, they all cried to death.
Among them, Xu Xin's reaction was the most intense.
He refused to believe it. He threw things at home and hit people. He wanted to tear down the whole Xu family.
The Dragon guards shot in time and tied him up. He was not allowed to drop anything again.
Now the Xu family's property has been confiscated. These things belong to the emperor and the public. The Dragon guards must protect the safety of these properties.
Xu Xin couldn't move. He could only sit on the ground and cry.
Large boxes of belongings were carried out from Xu's house, loaded into a carriage and transported to the imperial palace.
Many onlookers gathered outside Xu's house.
They were pointing and talking.
Among these people, there stood a short man with a bad nose. The man seemed to have drunk and exuded the smell of wine. Looking at the drunk, the people around him subconsciously kept a distance from him.
The man with a bad nose stared at the boxes with drooling eyes.
There must be a lot of gold and silver in it.
When Jiang Shuan walked out of the door of Xu's house, the man with rosacea shrunk his head, turned and slipped away.
He ran all the way to the west of the city, got into the alley, turned left and right for a long time, and finally stopped at the door of a remote courtyard.
He knocked on the gate three times, paused for a moment, and knocked on the gate four times.
A moment later, the gate opened.
The man with rosacea raised his feet and went in.
The yard is very small. It looks very humble. No one thought that there were two Xisha people hidden in such a small place.
They are spies hidden in the capital of Bian, specially responsible for collecting intelligence.
It was one of the Xisha people who opened the door. His name was rob. Like most Xisha men, he was tall and burly, but his eyes were brown black and his facial features were soft, which was obviously more inclined to the people of Southern Chu.
This is because half of his body is of Southern Chu descent.
Rob, like old Ba, is a hybrid of Southern Chu and Xisha.
But the difference is that Lao Ba believes he is from southern Chu, while rob believes he is from Xisha.
It is precisely because his appearance is very similar to that of the southern Chu people and is not easy to recognize, so he was sent to Bianjing as a spy.
Rob looked at the man with a bad nose in front of him and asked in very fluent Southern Chu dialect.
"Why are you here?"
The man with rosacea, surnamed PI, is an authentic Southern Chu man. Because he is addicted to alcohol, everyone calls him PI Lao Jiu.
PI Laojiu doesn't make a serious living. He usually makes a living by working hard to move goods for people. But he takes wine as his life. As long as he has some money in his hand, the first thing is to buy wine. He would rather eat without food than drink without wine.
Now he is in his thirties and still worthless. He can't even marry a daughter-in-law. He is alone.
When the Xisha people put the glittering silver ingots in front of Pilao wine and asked him to help collect intelligence, he agreed without thinking.
He has no patriotism. For him, no matter he is from southern Chu or Xisha, as long as he can give him money to buy wine, he can kneel down and recognize each other as his father.
PI Laojiu said with a smile, "there's a big event in the city today. Do you want to know?"
After that, he didn't forget to rub his fingers, suggesting that the meaning was very obvious.
Rob knew it, took out a silver ingot and put it in Pilao's hand.
As soon as PI Laojiu saw the silver, his eyes lit up. He didn't think it was dirty. He directly put the silver ingot into his mouth and bit it twice to make sure that the silver was real. His face immediately smiled like a flower.
He carefully collected the silver ingots and said, "do you know the Xu family? It is the home of Xu Yizhi, the head of the dynasty. "
Rob nodded to show that he knew.
PI Laojiu then said, "the Xu family has been confiscated. Not only have all their property been removed, but even the Xu family have to be distributed to the border. Tut Tut, I didn't expect that such a big family will collapse in the blink of an eye."
Rob asked, "what crime did the Xu family commit?"
"It's said that they formed cliques for personal gain, framed Zhongliang and assassinated the crown prince. Anyway, there are many charges, and I can't remember so many. By the way, Xu Yizhi's eldest son was sentenced to lingchi. It seems that he will be executed tomorrow. "
Rob asked some more details. After confirming that he could no longer ask for valuable information, he waved his hand and signaled that Pilao wine could go.
PI Laojiu left the yard with silver and went straight to the wine shop. He beat half a kilo of wine.
He poured two mouthfuls of wine into his mouth and felt refreshed and happy!
At noon the next day, Xu Jia was tied to the execution table. The executioner took out a knife that had been sharpened extremely sharp and began to cut off Xu Jia's flesh and blood.
Xu Jia was in pain and screamed repeatedly.
After only two knives, he couldn't bear to faint.
The executioner was ready for this. As soon as he saw Xu Jia faint, he immediately pinched his people.
Soon Xu Jia woke up again.
The criminal law continues.
The whole execution ground could hear Xu Jia's desperate cry.
Many people gathered around the execution ground. They all came to watch the excitement after hearing the news. Some hearty parents even brought their children here. When they saw the bloody and cruel picture, the children were scared to cry, and some timid adults were scared to spit out on the spot.
Rob hid in the crowd.
He quietly watched Xu Jia being cut by thousands of knives, and he was secretly thinking about something.
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