Chapter 1978 Emperor Jiajing Is 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. With just one glance, this life was worth living and they had 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 Royal Guards fired their whips and silenced the audience, making the whole place solemn.

For the captured Japanese pirates, the scene was extremely majestic, just like arriving at the Palace of Hell after death, waiting for the final verdict, and 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 arrived.

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

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 chieftain Chen Dong was not much better at the moment, he was just as distracted.

What is the biggest official they have ever seen?

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

Now any official who was brought out at the scene was an existence that they were not even qualified to see from a distance, not to mention that the person sitting on the Meridian Gate Tower at this moment was 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 as if they had been burst.

"Xu Hai, Chen Dong and other Japanese pirates lost their conscience and committed all sorts of crimes, including burning, killing and looting. This group of Japanese pirates were extremely rebellious and immoral. They occupied Tuolin and other places as Japanese nests and looted everywhere. Nearly a hundred villages were burned, killed and looted by them. Old, young, women, and children all had to die. What's more, babies were stabbed through their bodies by Japanese knives, like gourds, or drowned in cesspits. An eighty-year-old woman was killed by the inhumane incarceration. Such cruel crimes are too numerous to describe. The Minister, He Ao, requested that all the captured Japanese pirates be put to death in Ling Chi and go to Caishikou for execution."

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

After the stern accusation, He Ao, the Minister of Punishment, bowed to Emperor Jiajing on 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 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.

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

"It's accurate, take it!" The chamberlains and ministers in the Meridian Tower immediately echoed and repeated it again.

"Zhunzou, 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 under the Meridian Gate.

One person turned into eight people, eight people turned into twenty-four people, twenty-four people turned into 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 of them will be put to death 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 with 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!"

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

"Down with the Japanese pirates!"

"Down with the Japanese pirates!"

For a time, the common 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 support can be used. If the people are like this, why worry about the Japanese pirates not being exterminated!

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

Japanese pirates.

The Japanese pirates who looked like puddles of mud were picked up by the imperial guards and escorted towards Xihua Gate, from which they were taken 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 to the Forbidden City and a sacred and majestic occasion. How can it be a place of execution? The real execution place is often Caishikou.

Because there are many people in Caishikou, execution in public here can serve as a warning to others with evil intentions, making them afraid and making them afraid to commit crimes. Otherwise, you will be executed next in Caishikou.

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

For a while, it seemed like a rain of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, and the Japanese pirates were almost drowned by the rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs.

After a while, these Japanese pirates looked like human beings.

Finally, amid the abuse and filth thrown by the common people, the Japanese pirates were taken to the vegetable market and tied to the execution pillars one by one.

When the executioners wearing red clothes and red headscarves appeared in front of the Japanese pirates, the timid ones fainted with fear, and their feces and urine flowed, and the brave ones couldn't help shivering like sieves.

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

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

Lingchi is a technical job. Not all executioners have this skill. Only some senior executioners have 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 this skill. The total number is less than 10.

This is normal. In the Ming Dynasty, only the most heinous criminals are qualified for Lingchi. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been less than 1,000 prisoners executed by Lingchi, and less than 10 per year at most. There are fewer opportunities to practice, so there are fewer executioners.

However, now is an extraordinary period. There are more than 400 Japanese pirates who need to be Lingchi. They can only force them to do it. All senior executioners are transferred to execute.

The superiors also said that they don’t require them to cut 3,357 knives, as long as more than 50 knives are enough.