"You're a donkey bird with low skin, low bones and low life. How can you not be more agile in carrying a bag!? In front of me, you are committing your own lowly nature and laziness!"
One of the officers in the group saw a weak prisoner in front of him who had exhausted his strength in dragging the sack. He yelled and cursed, then picked up the water and fire stick in his hand and hit the prisoner in the back who was dragging the sack.
, the prisoner received a heavy blow, groaned, and immediately fell to the ground.
The other guards and officers nearby scolded him even more harshly when they saw it. One of them even pulled out a steel knife from his waist and gestured as if he was going to chop it at the prisoner. Another officer saw this and said hurriedly: "Hey, hey, hey.
, you kid, don’t really do it! If you want to chop this guy up, you have to go to the beach to kill him, and use these birds to come like the dead donkey birds in the prison, so that you can throw them into the sea. Who are you going to kill his body now?
Come to carry it? If you want to move it, go and move it!"
The prisoner who was wielding the knife stopped angrily when he saw this, but at this moment, one of the other prisoners screamed. The dozen guards were startled and were about to block the exit.
When the prisoner screamed in surprise, he found that the sack he was dragging began to squirm, and a slight groan came from inside.
"Hey! This bastard is a tough guy. He's been tortured a lot, but he's not dead yet!"
"What's going on? Since you still have some breath, why don't you let this guy out and then take him into custody?"
"Zhao Wu, are you crazy? We have already been pulled far away from the prison camp, so why bother escorting this donkey bird back? Since the leader of Yang Village has already spoken, the name of this donkey bird has already been marked on the document.
Cross it out, since this guy has been sentenced to death in the book of life and death, just kill him on the spot!"
After the dozen or so officers gathered together, one of the leaders spit into the palm of his hand. He and the other four or five officers immediately picked up the water and fire sticks in their hands, and they all hit the sack hard together! A series of
Heart-stopping muffled sounds were heard one after another, and several heart-rending screams suddenly came out of the sack! But after a stick was brought down, in just a moment, the sack that kept twitching and squirming was gone.
Completely silent again...
The prisoner who had been knocked to the ground before with a stick stood up tremblingly. After witnessing the heinous scene in front of him, he could no longer hold back and seemed to be willing to risk his own life. He became furious.
Pointing at the officers, he said: "According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, even prisoners who were repeatedly assigned to the army would not be punished to death. You are killing people in the prison camp. This is a disregard for the king's law and a violation of the country's laws. Together with the man surnamed Yang,
You are an evil official. Sooner or later, someone will come to punish you for killing prisoners without permission!"
When the guards and guards heard the prisoner's angry shouts, they all looked at him with surprised expressions on their faces, and then burst out laughing wildly.
"Stupid donkey, he turns out to be a joker! Are you going to make me laugh so hard?" One of the guards laughed and cursed, thrust the water and fire stick in his hand, and moved forward a little toward the prisoner's chest. The man who was originally born weak
The prisoner had not eaten a grain of rice for two or three days and was already starving. He was so skinny that he was knocked over to the ground again.
The officer who knocked down the prisoner with the water and fire stick looked down from a high position and said with a cruel smile: "It's my unlucky fate. I was sent to this Bird Island by the Yamen. I have seen you thieves and soldiers all day long. I haven't touched the flesh of a woman in several years.
I'm so lonely and lonely, and I'm so full of anger! You idiot is quite interesting, and you dare to tease some of our brothers! Ah, yes, you turned out to be some kind of bureau of the Kaifeng government office in Bianliang, Tokyo.
Are you an official? Hey, if I bumped into you, a donkey like you, outside Salmon Island, I would have to call you "Lord" in a lowly manner. Unfortunately, you are still a swordsman and penman, so you are so ignorant that you don't know what to do when you arrive on Salmon Island.
The master is Wang Fa!?"
Another officer next to him also laughed conspiratorially and said: "If I want to kill you, it will be like killing a fly! Since you are ignorant and have offended the nobles and were sent to this Salmon Island, it means you have relatives here.
If you buy it, file a lawsuit, and use the money, you will never get out of the island alive again! But I really don't want to end the life of a pig like you, do you know why?
Because you guys used to be subordinates who could ride on my head and show off, but the situation has changed. Now I can torture you idiots and punish my brothers for killing prisoners without permission? I will teach you first.
I can't live, I can't die! Sooner or later, I can only come over servilely and lick the mud from the soles of my shoes! It's so cruel that I feel happy and refreshed in my heart!"
Although the prisoner who fell on the ground was trembling with anger, he could not fight with these vicious guards in front of him. The other prisoners just stood there in a daze, and most of them looked dull, as if they were in the prison camp on Salmon Island.
They had already become numb from the all-day torture inside. Although there were two or three prisoners with expressions of anger on their faces, they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at any of the guards, so as to teach those brutal thieves to look down upon them.
Seeing the rebellious anger in his own eyes.
As for Xiao Tang and other people who were hiding in the dark, they saw that the officers were cruel and inhumane, and even killed and bullied the prisoners for fun. Although the leaders were all rough and fierce men who were used to killing people, they were not like that.
Those officers generally regard killing and torture as a kind of fun. People like Sun An, Shan Shiqi, Sun Li and others all have eyes that are about to burst. They just wait for Xiao Tang to give the order and they will take action immediately. As for Xiao Tang, who has always killed decisively, he takes action.
Shi Xiu, who was swift and fierce, had a ferocious smile on his face covered by black cloth. The handle of the knife on his waist had been slowly grasped, and the narrow-edged steel knife hidden in the sheath was just waiting to be struck.
Drink blood.
Although Salmon Island was a prison camp under the official system of the Song Dynasty, it was isolated overseas, just like a foreign land. Because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, the island's officers could brutally kill the prisoners who served with the army with brutal methods.
It is far more than the famous jails and forts in various states under the Song Dynasty. Such notoriety and notoriety are indeed not false...
Xiao Tang secretly thought to himself that he also knew very well that the prison prisoners on Salmon Island were all criminals who were originally sentenced to death, but had received leniency and commutation. Originally, according to the situation on the island, the number of prison prisoners in the trial court was only 200.
, and later the quota was increased to 300 people. However, in the current season, more and more prisoners have been sentenced to be exiled to Salmon Island, and the number of prisoners sent to the prison has doubled. In addition to some criminals who have indeed committed serious crimes, there are also
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Like Pei Xuan, Lu Junyi and others, they were frequently sentenced and sent to Salmon Island. Indeed, there were indeed many victims of unjust cases who were persecuted by the powerful in the prison camp and were punished with death.
Nowadays, most of the rations on Salmon Island are supplied by more than 80 island households. Because the number of prisoners assigned to the army has doubled, the number of garrison soldiers in the prison camps has also increased. When the island cannot supply rations, a large number of prisoners will be caused.
Deaths from starvation have also occurred, not to mention that there are almost no medical conditions here. Under such an environment, it is not surprising that the vicious officials and evil officials in the prison camp are disregarding human lives.
Xiao Tang still remembered that among the village owners who were in charge of the prison camps on Salmon Island in the past, many took pleasure in torturing and killing prisoners. During the Song Dynasty, Lang Qingqing was assassinated and sent to Salmon Island. However, Gao Qing's family went through twists and turns and found out that Gao Gao had been killed by the prison officer Dong Yu. Gao Gao went to the capital to file a complaint in order to redress his father's grievances. Emperor Zhenzong attached great importance to this case. The eldest son of Qing Dynasty sued Dong Yu for committing murder for personal gain, but in the end he had no choice but to drop the case. At that time, even Song Zhenzong had to issue an edict saying: "In the custody of Shamenzhai, no one can be killed unreasonably for personal reasons." The envoys of the island often inspected and raised the issue, and the offenders had the knowledge of the matter and their crimes were reset."... However, this empty document did not seem to have any practical effect in the following dynasties. By the time of Xining, Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, there were even A man named Li Qing had only been the leader of Salmon Island for two years, but he had killed seven hundred prisoners, killing people almost every day...
"Don't talk about dying to see the King of Hell, it will be like a real hell..."
Xiao Tang sighed in his heart, and then remembered the ballad that commented on the evil officials in the prison camps who often used excuses to kill criminals indiscriminately, and the Salmon Island prison camp was the most notorious among the military prisons in various places. From the village leader down, there were also Soldiers and horses are in custody, at the provincial level, in small cells. These people are either good at killing prisoners or torturing prisoners in different ways... It is already very timely to send troops to Salmon Island by myself, like Liu Fana and others. As a senior general with a respected position in the Western Army, it is expected that the village master and prison officer of Salmon Island will also have to wait and see if anyone with high authority in the Western Army will come to defend Liu Fazhou, so as not to offend the military for no reason. Lieutenant General, but Tong Guan also has the intention to harm Liu Fa... In just these few days, the natural god general has endured so much torture?
Because his hidden position was still some distance away from the guards and prisoners, Xiao Tang could only roughly hear the conversation between them. Originally, Xiao Tang heard the soldier who was knocked over by the guard with a stick reprimand him, but he was inexplicable. I felt that the man's voice seemed familiar, but for a moment I couldn't remember which of my acquaintances was also sent to this prison camp on Salman Island.
While Xiao Tang was thinking in his mind, Zhang Rong, who was following him, also leaned towards the side. But seeing that this little white dragon also looked indignant, he whispered again: "Brother, just go ahead if you said you wanted to kill him." Evil thieves who kill people should not kill them indiscriminately, but what are you going to do with the handful of birds in front of you?"
Xiao Tang raised his head again and stared at the prisoners in front who were scolding and dragging the sacks containing the prisoners' bodies towards the seaside. There was a fierce glint in his eyes, and then he said to Zhang Rong in a deep voice: " ...Brother, the businessmen we are looking at now are all murderable people."