Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

One by one, the prison vans finally arrived at the designated location.

The prison van was carrying the imprisoned officials. Behind the van, the officials' family members had iron chains around their ankles and their hands were tied with a rope.

The rope is connected front and back, like a grasshopper on a string.

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven.

When one person falls, the whole family will benefit.

Cause and effect reincarnation, retribution is unhappy.

They were crying, still wearing silk clothes. Just a few days ago, they were enjoying fine clothes and delicious food, and they were warming themselves on charcoal basins in the bitter winter.

In just two or three days, they fell from heaven to hell and their hair and faces became disheveled.

The delicate neck is no longer white, and the powder on the face is covered with dust.

They looked around hopelessly, with fear on their numb faces.

However, the people no longer felt pity for them.

The prison van was opened, and two soldiers dragged the prisoner to the execution ground. The prisoner's family members were also pulled behind him and knelt down one by one.

The executioner checked the ring-handled broadsword in his hand for the last time, and the flashing cold light caused several women to faint on the spot.

The soldiers who were guarding nearby poured a bowl of cold water on them to wake them up and then pressed their heads onto a wooden block.

"cut!"

Zhang Shikang shouted loudly.

The executioner who received the order raised his sword high and roared. With a "pop" sound, dozens of heads fell to the ground.

Blood spurted far away, hot steam drifted everywhere, and human heads rolled everywhere.

The smell of blood began to fill the air.

After the torture was completed, the guarding soldiers immediately dragged away the body and head and threw them onto the carriage.

When the carriages were full, soldiers transported them to the outskirts of the capital and burned them.

Dust to dust, dust to dust.

All they left in this world was the blood they shed along the way.

Another group of criminal officials were brought in, and they also cried out for injustice and begged for mercy, following the same procedure.

Under the ring-handled sword held high, all beings are equal.

Half an hour later, Chang'an Street was covered with blood, as if it were a battlefield that had just experienced a bloody battle.

Most of the people around have already dispersed. For most of them, it is nothing more than just watching the fun.

After all, such a bloody scene is not something that ordinary people can endure.

But there are also a small number of people who stubbornly refuse to leave.

Among them was an old man whose clothes were full of patches. In the bitter cold winter, he still didn’t wear a cotton coat, and his red face was covered with frostbite.

A half-grown child followed him. The child was wearing a cotton coat, but it was extremely worn out and full of holes. Black cotton was sticking out of the torn clothes.

Looks like a refugee from somewhere.

The old man's eyes were cloudy and tearful, and he held the wrist of the half-grown child with his wrinkled hands.

"Zhu Zi, open your eyes wide and look at me. That man called Zhao Wensheng is the enemy who killed your father and mother."

The old man pointed at a convicted official on the execution ground and spoke to his grandson with a trembling and choked voice.

On the bloody and muddy road, the small number of people who still refused to leave were mostly those who had been bullied by a corrupt official.

They were waiting, waiting to see their enemies die under the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

When the head of the convicted official Zhao Wensheng fell to the ground, the old man held his grandson's head and knelt down in the direction of Zhang Shikang.

"Zhu Zi, kowtow to your benefactor."

The half-grown boy named Zhuzi stepped on the blood and mud, gritted his teeth and kowtowed to Zhang Shikang, and his forehead was instantly stained with blood.

Then, the grandfather and grandson left the execution ground.

He looked like a general who had avenged his great hatred.

Once the first person did this, others followed suit.

They waited until their enemies' heads fell to the ground, kowtowed to Zhang Shikang, and then left.

There were too many officials who committed crimes. In order to speed up efficiency, Zhang Shikang ordered the execution of three households at a time.

At about the time of Wei, he met some old acquaintances.

Among the five giants of Jingdong Lin, Zheng Sanjun, Liu Zongzhou and Xiong Mingyu looked haggard and sullen, glaring at Zhang Shikang.

Fang Fengnian was still begging Zhang Shikang for mercy, his voice was so loud that the guarding soldier stuffed a piece of rag into his mouth in annoyance.

Liu Yuliang was dragged here. His legs had long been out of control and he fainted from fright as soon as he got off the prison van.

"Have a nice journey, all five of you. I won't see you off." Zhang Shikang waved at them with a smile on his face.

"You will die in the chaos sooner or later!" Xiong Mingyu said viciously.

"Oh, maybe. Anyway, you won't be able to see it. I will see you off to the end of your life." Zhang Shikang said nonchalantly.

"Even if I die, I will turn into a ghost and come after you to avenge my life!"

"You are so funny. I have a very good relationship with Zhang Xiuqing from Dongyue Temple. The Taoist priests there are very skilled in Taoism and are especially good at drawing talismans.

I will go and ask for a few of them and stick them on the door of your house. If you really have a soul, I guarantee that your soul will fly away, hahahaha!"

Zhang Shikang once again showed a devilish smile. As a person from later generations, he didn't believe in any monsters at all. Xiong Mingyu's threat was like a joke.

Xiong Mingyu was choked, but ultimately did not say anything harsh.

Liu Zongzhou said nothing. Things had come to this point. The winner would be the king and the loser would be the bandit. There was nothing more to say.

However, when Zheng Sanjun was pressed in front of the executioner, he suddenly became crazy.

"Zhang Shikang, you didn't expect that the assassination in Shanxi was done by me.

It’s a pity, haha, that I couldn’t kill you.

That’s why we are defeated today.”

Zheng Sanjun suddenly gave a self-deprecating smile and shook his head.

"Indeed, it's a pity. If you have the chance in your next life, you can assassinate him again."

Zhang Shikang was somewhat surprised by Zheng Sanjun's words.

During the assassination attempt, he suspected the Shanxi merchants, the Jianlu, and even Zhang Xianzhong.

But he did not suspect Zheng Sanjun and others. At that time, the court was still in an extremely dangerous situation.

He didn't expect that even in that situation, these Donglin Party members still couldn't stop fighting among themselves.

But everything is over now, there is no point in dwelling on it anymore.

“Humph, even if I die, you still won’t have peace.

It won't be long before you know what kind of situation you are facing.

I may not be able to see it, but it won’t take many days for you to die.”

The guard soldier pressed Zheng Sanjun's head down.

"Behead!" Zhang Shikang ordered.

“I left a surprise for you in Jiangnan!

A big surprise!

Hahaha--"

As the executioner's knife fell heavily, Zheng Sanjun, who was halfway laughing, stopped abruptly.

After his head rolled down, his eyes blinked once, and the hideous smile on the corner of his mouth was frozen in a pool of blood.

Fang Fengnian, Liu Yuliang and others, along with their families, were also beheaded one after another.

Zhang Shikang frowned. He thought of the reply letters from Zhang Shenyan and Qian Qianyi to Zheng Sanjun, and Zheng Sanjun's last words were still echoing in his mind.

Surprise, what exactly is it?

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PS: The fifth update is finished, good night. I woke up and wanted to see the electricity you generate, preferably the kind that can electrocute me to death, haha.