A newly completed guillotine was installed in the wilderness.
The director of the Military Justice Department of the Jeju Island base sat on the stage and supervised the execution. Yang Fan had no interest in watching such a bloody occasion. He had seen too many killings on the battlefield and he was tired of it.
After the things here have been dealt with, Yang Fan still has to inspect Vladivostok, which has already wasted too much time. It is already snowing in the northeast. If it drags on any longer, the port will freeze.
Yang Fan instructed to deal with the criminals today and rest for a day tomorrow. Then he left a group of pirates to maintain law and order. He was about to leave for Vladivostok.
The base commander of Jeju Island, Cao Wei, was transferred by Yang Fan and served as the first Governor of Manila. Cao Wei was born as a servant. In the past few years, he had built the Jeju Island base from scratch and managed it very well. This fully proved his ability, and Yang Fan
I respect him very much.
He has accumulated a lot of merits. This time Master Yang rewarded the meritorious officials, which is equivalent to allowing him to open a mansion and build a new family. This makes his family members envious.
The total area of Luzon Island reaches 110,000 square kilometers, which is about the same as half of North Korea. It is not a small place. Although many places are ruled by name, the direct jurisdiction is a small area like Manila.
But this is unthinkable. This is an area the size of Zhejiang Province. It is rich in copper mines and is located in the tropics. Rice is harvested three times a year. It is a good place.
Cao Wei came to see Yang Fan and fully explained his understanding of his responsibilities, which was to gradually change the land and return it to the people, turning Luzon Island into a place like the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.
These words won Yang Fan's heart. Yang Fan was relieved to leave this place under his management.
At this time, Cao Wei, as the newly minted governor, naturally had to supervise the execution. He was looking at the guillotine that had been built in three days with great interest.
A door-shaped frame with a hardwood horizontal plate that can slide up and down. There is a ten-meter-long blade at the bottom of the horizontal plate. It was polished by blacksmiths after casting overnight. The blade is made of steel, which is considered to be the time of casting.
Clamped in.
Because the hardwood horizontal board is very heavy, coupled with the weight of the blade, it can slide from three meters away, which is enough to cut off the head. The bottom of the door-shaped structure is also a horizontal board, with a row of semicircular grooves dug out on it.
When the prisoner kneels on the floor and puts his neck into the groove, he puts down another horizontal plate with a semicircular groove on it, so that the head is firmly fixed.
At this time, just pull the wrench to release the blade.
There will be a click and the heads will be cut off in rows of ten.
This thing is very fast and can directly cut off the neck, maximizing the efficiency of execution and reducing the prisoner's pain.
This guillotine is based on the design of the guillotine during the French Revolution. At that time, after Marat was assassinated, the furious Jacobins decided to suppress the reactionaries and killed people all over the country.
Because there were so many people who were captured and waiting to be executed, mechanized methods had to be used to keep them busy.
This thing is mainly used to reduce the pain of prisoners and chop off their heads in one second. It is also very efficient. It is suitable for mass executions.
Before the French Revolution, France often executed prisoners on death row by being quartered in a cart. This punishment was extremely cruel and horrific.
Dr. Guillotin, a member of the Constituent Assembly, made an impassioned speech in the Assembly, demanding the use of new instruments of torture to spare the victims the pain.
The MPs were very impressed, and the resolution to use new torture instruments was quickly passed.
The new execution method was hanging, but it could not allow the prisoner to die painlessly. The torture instruments needed to be improved, so Guillotin took on the task himself and designed the first guillotine.
Originally, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, there were some criminals here who killed too many people of the Ming Dynasty, as well as various crimes such as rape, robbery, and arson. I am afraid that many extremely barbaric and cruel punishments will be carried out.
The death penalty in the Ming Dynasty was divided into two types: beheading (hanging) and standing in prison. "Hanging (hanging) standing in prison" meant that people were executed immediately after committing a capital crime. "Hanging (hanging) in prison waiting" meant that they were executed first.
Put him in jail, wait for punishment, and wait for the queen to ask and behead him.
The Ming Dynasty's "Lütiao Gongan·Five Penalty Laws" records: There are two types of death penalty. Hanging: The person who is hanged has his body and head intact. Although it is a capital punishment, it is slightly lighter than the death penalty. Beheading: The person who is beheaded has his head in a different place.
The death penalty is more severe than hanging. If it is a serious crime to commit treason, he will be executed at Lingchi. Cutting his body into pieces is more severe than beheading, so the punishment cannot be increased.
Yang Fan believes that the method of executing prisoners should be as civilized as possible.
Those who were taken here for execution were all death row prisoners. In order to improve efficiency, they were all executed.
Moreover, this is an execution by the army, and military law applies. These prisoners have been identified and reported by survivors, and they are not one person or an isolated witness. Basically, they are not unjust.
At the same time, these people were sentenced to confiscation of property as compensation for the victims. Other Spaniards who had not committed any crime also needed forced labor and would not be released until their families and the king paid for their redemption.
Yang Fan believes that the Spanish dynasty needs to be fully responsible for the unfair treatment suffered by the Han people for more than a hundred years. Therefore, in addition to confiscating property and ransom, the Spanish king also needs to make compensation.
For this money, Yang Fan planned to write a letter to the King of Spain first to explain the Ming Dynasty's position. As for when to go to Europe to ask for this compensation, it would depend on the future development of the navy.
This guillotine is different from the one in France. This one is larger and is used for collective executions. It is a ten-meter-long blade that can execute ten people at a time. There are more than 800 people to be executed here. If you want to finish it in one day, efficiency must be
To improve.
Seeing this terrifying killing machine, as well as the Spanish and natives who were scared to death, the Han people who came to watch the torture were so angry. They usually cursed these beasts in human skins while watching their heads chopped off.
Many people kowtowed in the direction of the capital, thanking His Majesty the Emperor for sending troops to avenge them.
They all have relatives and friends who were killed in the massacre twenty years ago, and many of them suffered property losses. In the past thirty years, they have been even more oppressed.
The Spaniards and natives no longer had the arrogant and ugly faces that bullied them. Many of them were trembling into a ball and could not even stand. Most of them were paralyzed on the ground, and some were excrement and urine.
Those whose turn it was, were carried by the soldiers of the pirate regiment and dragged to the guillotine. These people looked like all kinds of people. Some were crying loudly, some were making signs of the cross, and some were sneering. In their opinion,
This world is originally a world of the weak and the strong, and they will not repent for what they have done.
Yang Fan respected anyone's religious beliefs and allowed the priest's assistant to stand on the guillotine and pray for the criminal who was about to be executed. Because the priest had already died an untimely death. Unfortunately, the young priest also committed a crime and defrauded Han Chinese shops. But it would not happen.
He was executed and sentenced to ten years of digging up guano.
Ten years later, he continued to dig up bird droppings to save enough travel expenses so that he could return to his hometown in Spain.
Ten people were dragged to the guillotine, and the little priest chanted for them.
The young priest took the Bible and read to them: "Fire is coming to destroy and judge the world. The Lord will not remember my sins. The Lord, my God, looks forward to guiding me... God has mercy on us, and Christ has mercy on us."
Have mercy on us, God have mercy on us. (Recite the Our Lord and sprinkle holy water)"
"Amen"
Cao Wei listened with interest and waited for the recitation to end. He nodded. The executioner immediately pulled the wrench, the blade fell, and with a click, ten heads rolled to the ground.
It was so clean that not a single scream was uttered. The person who was executed did not even know he was dead. His eyes were still turning in fear.
In the distance, soldiers were digging a big pit. The executed corpses were neatly placed in. It would be impossible if they were not arranged properly, as they would not be able to hold too much. After the execution was completed, a pyramid-shaped Beijing temple would be built here with soil, and a monument would be erected to record the event.
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On this monument are written the words "Those who openly offend the powerful Han will be punished no matter how far away they are."
One of the reasons for building this Beijing temple is to prevent the plague from being caused by unhandled corpses. This is the tropics after all, and corpses rot quickly. The other is to scare the natives and prevent further incidents of harm to the Han people. Just like what Ma Yuan established in Vietnam.
Like copper pillars.
Ma Yuan erected a copper pillar in Jiaozhi (in the area of Guangping and Guangzhi in central Vietnam) as the southern boundary of the Han Dynasty. The inscription on the pillar said: "When the copper pillar breaks, Jiaozhi will be destroyed." These copper pillars have been preserved for two thousand years.
I regard it as a shame and hate it deeply, but I don't dare to destroy it.
Yang Fan just wanted to give the native people a deep memory that the Han people were not someone they could bully casually.
Seeing the heads of these enemies being chopped off, the long-suppressed emotions of the Han people burst out. Now this place has once again become the territory of the Ming Dynasty. They are no longer abandoned people without anyone to care about them. They all cried excitedly.
Cao Wei also felt happy in his heart when he saw this. The people of Ming Dynasty, our country, cannot be bullied by these barbarians.
He waited for the crowd watching the execution to calm down and said loudly to the following: "Starting from tomorrow, apply for household registration. As long as you apply for household registration, you will be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty and will be protected by the Ming Dynasty for life. No one will bully you again. As long as you obey
If you abide by the law and operate honestly, your life will be better and better."
"I declare that from now on, residents of Luzon Prefecture will be exempted from tax for ten years."
These common people who had to pay four times the tax seemed to be unable to believe their ears and stood dumbly. However, they soon came to their senses and a burst of ecstasy overwhelmed them.
