Xu Xianchun returned to Beisou and asked someone to take tea first.

It was late autumn and the weather turned cold, but he still drank half a pot of cold tea and drank a lot of gulp. He felt that his heart was so anxious that he felt much better.

There were vaguely standing around the surroundings of some garrisons wearing purple-flowered armor, big hats and armor, blue-colored sticks, black boots, big sticks, long spears and long swords, or waist-pressing knifes.

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There were shadows, and there were probably more than a hundred people standing inside and outside the North Institute. Xu Xianchun calmed down for a while and gritted his teeth and said, "Go and see Yang Lian!"

With his own prisoner, many officials and soldiers of the Jinyiwei Guard followed him, and dozens of people surrounded him. Xu Xianchun felt more at ease. Somehow, he was a little afraid of seeing Yang Lian and others.

No official in the Northern Institute can be treated preferentially.

If you are in the Ministry of Justice, officials will have a separate room, clean it up, you can send bedding and other living utensils in, or buy food outside. Here, everyone is treated the same way, sleeping in a pile of rotten hay, the urine bucket is emitting a foul smell, flies and maggots are everywhere, and a unique stench of various things makes people feel disgusting and uncomfortable. The prisoners keep making low moans. Even the strongest people are here, as if they are in hell. Most prisoners are tortured. Many people have fever and no one is treated. Almost every day, dead people are carried out from here. Not only officials are detained, but also ordinary people, from all walks of life. Generally, even if they are innocent and have no silver to redeem people, they usually come in alive and can only be carried out after death. It is almost impossible to get out of here in a complete and sound manner.

Yang Lian was held by several prisoners. He was tortured too much, and his body was covered with bruises. He could hardly see a piece of good meat on his body. His thighs and butt were broken. He could tear off his pieces of rotten meat with his hands. He was full of maggots and flying flies. He was tortured in this way and could no longer stand or sit. He could only lie down all day long. Even so, he still had to pass the punishment every day and was carried to the hall with a big shackle. Xu Xianchun asked, but if he didn't answer, he would fight. Every time he was warned, the Jinyiwei who was executing could sweep out a large amount of minced meat on the ground, dripping blood, which made people frightened.

Even so, no one confessed to Wang Wenyan, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Huang Zunsu, and Gu Dazhong.

Over the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the backbone of civil servants was so hard that they could no longer be hard. They could really break their heads and blood could not be lost. Since the Jiajing ceremony, there has been such a tradition. Even if they die after being warned, they should not be weak. Once they admit defeat, they will lose face and become difficult to be a human being. Such traditions certainly have serious disadvantages. Civil servants only ask their positions regardless of right or wrong, and attack the emperor indiscriminately. For example, during the Wanli period, a censor wrote a letter. It was said that Wanli did not care much about the queen and did not sleep much in his main wife, but only favored his side concubines. The censor advised the emperor to be impartial and cared for his main wife.

Such a thing is hard to imagine in any dynasty. Wanli had no choice but to approve the affairs of the inner court and the foreign ministers did not know about it. He explained that the queen was in poor health and was not instigated to the cold palace by the emperor.

There are many things like this, including the famous wine, sex, wealth and power, and boldness. There are many too rude things in the rest. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty said that the monarch was in power, but in fact, under the supervision and constraints of the civil servant group, there was less and less freedom. Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty was the most rebellious one, but he was just a nonsense within the system, and he actually did not dare to do anything that really endangered the country. During the Longwan period, the emperor could not even leave the palace, and he did not even have the power to go to Nanhaizi. Once he left the palace, he was criticized once. Wanli simply hid in the deep palace for twenty years and never came out. In the seventh year of Tianqi and the seventh year of Chongzhen, the emperors went to Xiyuan and Wansuishan at most. No emperor could step out of the deep palace.

Although the emperor is wronged, what if the people in the world are wronged? Civil officials adhere to this concept, not afraid of life and death, not afraid of being exempted from office, and continue to find fault with the emperor.

Once demoted, even if it is thousands of miles away like Yunnan and Guizhou, the demoted person is very happy, and the officials who see him off will be praised. The so-called demotion of the world will become famous from then on. Being demoted is like making money in business, which is enough to be congratulated!

Such spirit can be said that even the scholars and officials during the Han and Tang dynasties were far inferior to those of them.

As for cheating in court, there are indeed ignorant people who deliberately use words to stimulate the emperor in order to invite fame and be famous. Once they receive war, they will become famous all over the world. However, the court war is in the head, and one battle will be full of flesh and blood. Ten and twenty battles can be used to kill a large piece of flesh and blood. Such a deception is far beyond ordinary people's ability to bear.

It can be said that after a hundred years of examples from the predecessors, the character of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty is unprecedented and unparalleled... Not to mention comparing the Qing Dynasty, there is no way to compare it to ordinary dynasties.

Yang Lian and others not only have the so-called sage spirit since they were studying, but also the century-old inheritance of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. No matter what, they are the pure streams who claim to be honest. If they become soft girls under the Three Woods, they will be like soft people, even if they go out in a hurry, what kind of face will they have to be a human being? Besides, who doesn’t know that once the Jinyiwei comes in, they will become useless people when they go out. From the day they are beaten and caught, they have not planned to go out alive. Since that is the case, why should they be afraid of torture?

Xu Xianchun looked at Yang Lian who was dying, and felt admiration.

This thin scholar had been clamped with a plywood and a big stick. He had not had a good piece of meat on his body, and had been pressed by a soil bag. He had locked it on a urine bucket. His ears were penetrated by nails, and he had never revealed a word.

The so-called iron-for-solidarity is nothing more than this.

"Yang Dahong!" Xu Xianchun shouted: "Today is your last chance. If you confess, admit that you collude and frame your loyal and kind, form a clique for personal gain, and you still have your life. If you don't recognize it, next year will be your anniversary."

Yang Lian spoke inconsistently, only looking at Xu Xianchun, with a strange smile on his face, Johe sounded, but he didn't know what he was talking about.

Xu Xianchun and Yang Lian had already dealt with a lot of things, and knew that they must be ridiculous words. They felt annoyed in their hearts. They saw that there were indeed paper and pens around Yang Lian. When they saw that there were still words cursing Wei Zhongxian and the Wei Party as treacherous parties. They were furious and said, "In the court, you Donglin people are good people, and others are evil people. In the past few years of governing the country, you have never seen you wise men. You have accepted bribes, levies taxes on Liao and merchants, and forced the people. In the first place, you are urging the emperor to work diligently and love the people and to comply with the sufferings of the people. I see, which ministers are not a rich and elegant food, nor have you learned from Hai Gangfeng. You Yang Dahong's family can't afford pork? With your salary, your food, clothing and expenses can you afford it? It's a joke!"

Yang Lian was furious when Xu Xianchun scolded her, and her eyes turned pale. She wanted to come forward to beat this man. Her years of career as a censor made Yang Lian develop a so-called grand aura. In fact, it is the arrogance that no one takes seriously. Even if he suffers so much, his belief is that good and evil are incompatible. He will definitely be able to leave a name for Qing Dynasty history. Xu Xianchun's words are very stimulating to Yang Lian, and it is also an angle that Yang Lian is not willing to think deeply. Today, he heard it in such a place, which made Yang Lian angry.

"Let this guy be free." Seeing Yang Lian's body stinking, Xu Xianchun said lightly: "In the past few days, Yang Lian and Wang Wenyan have set out first, and then make arrangements in a few days to execute them all."

"Yes, sir."

Several Jinyiwei walked forward and held Yang Lian. An old man who was used to doing this approached with a long spike and a hammer in his hand, bowed to Yang Lian, "Mr. Yang, no matter whether you are a loyal or a treacherous person, this has nothing to do with the villain. The villain has been in this national imperial prison for twenty years and has always been on orders. He can only say his duties and will never let you suffer or offend him."

Yang Lian was hunched, obviously still cursing. The veteran Jinyiwei ignored it and walked closer and approached Yang Lian's head. He put down the iron nail and the hammer had already hit him hard. At the first time, Yang Lian was shocked, obviously in pain. When the second and third strokes were smashed, his eyes were turned pale and his whole body was twitching. When the nail was completely smashed into the hair, he could not see any traces at all, Yang Lian was already angry.

"Wear his hair, and the nails cannot be pulled out," said a Qianhu, "You can die when you report your illness."

"How did Wang Wenyan die?"

"Just jump to the top." Xu Xianchun said: "That man will be wise all his life, and I will never speak even if I want him to die."

Wang Wenyan is indeed sharp-tongued. Compared with scholars such as Yang Lian who are only good at using pens, Xu Xianchun and others dare not approach this person. Every time they interrogate, they will make everyone unable to come to Taiwan. There are many people in the Jinyiwei who hate Wang Wenyan, and everyone agrees with Xu Xianchun's decision.

The so-called "jumping" means spraying water with kraft paper, stacking it on a person's face one by one, moistening the warm paper on a person's face, blocking the nose and mouth, and breathing one by one, five times completely sealing the breath.

This way of death seems gentle, but it is actually very cruel. The deceased is also very painful. Several people need to hold the deceased tightly and not make him struggle. Xu Xianchun immediately sent a team of people to Wang Wenyan's cell and wait in the lobby.

After a quarter of an hour, the person who was ordered came back to report that the errand could be done.

"What did he say before his death?" Xu Xianchun paid great attention to the last words of these Donglin Party members before their death, because Wei Zhongxian might be interested.

"I said something, it's so ruthless, I don't dare to say it."

"What are you afraid of? It's not what you said!"

"Yes... Then my subordinates said. Wang Wenyan said: In the future, those who weakened the Ming Dynasty will not be distinguished from the Donglin and the eunuch party will be the current party struggles. And the one who really destroyed the Ming Dynasty is Zhang Han, who was the Heyusheng. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed by his own hands, like our eunuchs and their Donglin lineage, and they cannot get it. Because Hutchison does not need people like us, nor does Donglin like that. In the past, whether it is new or old, they would have minions and eunuchs, and civil officials should submit to him, but Hutchisons did not need Hutchisons. Wang Wenyan said that recently he has been studying Hutchison and found that Hutchison has its own set of rules. It is completely different from the Ming Dynasty. The beauty of it is hard to describe. Unfortunately, I have no time to study it slowly for him."
Chapter completed!