The punishment of minced meat originated in ancient times.

It is one of the capital punishment, but in the capital punishment, it is also a big name the two monarchs who used it the most are known to fools and fools of women as the model of the dimwitted monarchs and the example of the tyrants Xia Jie and Shang Zhou.

Jie minced Guan Longfeng and Zhou minced Meibe.

All things known to those who have read a little history.

Although this punishment was once included in the canon during the Western Han Dynasty, perhaps because it was too brutal, even Empress Lu, who made Mrs. Qi into a human pig, issued an imperial decree to abolish this system.

One can only imagine the notoriety of this punishment.

So later the court law has not openly listed this sentence, even when the razing when the clan of the major crimes, often only to the waist decapitation.

Wei and the previous dynasty, for hundreds of years, that is not even mentioned this penalty but now the saint not only want to deal with the loyalists this penalty, and even by him so disposed of, or a scholar's son!

Although Wei Yu is a side branch of the Rui Yu Hall, he has a not insignificant influence in the clan. As the old saying goes, punishment is not for the great masters. Such a disposition is not only brutal, but also humiliating.

The Shiites were in an uproar of their own!

They know that the saint is now already incomprehensible, but how could they not expect, the saint is on the verge of dying, but also want to add a brutality in the life of the dim this is straight after Jie Zhou ah!

Yet all their pleas for mercy were blocked from the palace gates!

Gu Xiaode held the imperial decree in his hand, his face expressionless as he stopped under the palace gate, and the Xuanjia guards behind him, silent as a rock, steadily blocked the way of the crowd.

"Sundown, do you still want to be obsessive, Commander Gu!" Of the Wei family's people who are officials in the court nowadays, apart from Wei Yu, it's Wei Sheng Yi because of Wei Zheng Hong's recovery, Wei Sheng Yi has been very disheveled in the past two years, but when something like this happens to the Wei family, it's impossible for him not to step in wherever he's still alive.

At this moment, when he was blocked by Gu Xiaode, he chided angrily.

Not only him, but also his fellow ministers, the Imperial Masters, the Imperial Masters, the Imperial Guards, and other first-ranking officials, as well as all the officials in the court, including the scholarly clansmen who have only received the titles of loose officials but no real positions, have all gathered according to the view of the people at this time, it is not true to say that Wei Yu is advising the king for the sake of his loyalty, and that he is not guilty of any crime; even if he has committed a crime that is unforgivable, with the status of a son of the Valve Readers, a sentence of public execution is already the limit. Even if he had committed ten crimes, with his status as a son of the Valve Reader, a public execution would have been the limit, and he would have been given death minced meat? Before the king's decree, that is to beat them to death can not imagine!

This is clearly a slap in the face to the Shire!

Will they not tolerate it?

But His Holiness is still determined to hit this face!

For this reason, His Majesty even hinted to Gu Xiaode the time had come for him to prove whether he was loyal to His Majesty or whether his heart was on the side of the Shi clan!

Therefore, Gu Xiaode, despite all the people's tactics and reasoning, always guarded the palace gate and did not allow entry.

Even Tai Fu Shen Xuan couldn't hold back his anger and used the Hongzhou Gu clan to coerce him, but Gu Xiaode also ignored him!

Under these circumstances, the crowd could do nothing but yell at Gu Xiaode for being crazy as well!

After all, at the moment, the strongest troop on the left side of the imperial capital is in the hands of Gu Xiaode. If he wants to carry out the holy order, who can do anything about it?

Just this many people are furious, was ordered by the saint minced meat Wei Yu is death is at home, know that the hundred officials gathered in front of the palace to plead for mercy, and even in the prison sent out the word to persuade them to disperse he is stored a death to serve the country to serve the king's heart, but the family where to stand this?

Wei Yu's old wife, Mrs. Qian, was lying on the couch after the imperial decree came down, and when she learned that the hundred officials had failed in their petition and that the old lady would be dragged outside the noon gate to be executed by minced meat in three days, she couldn't get up in one breath and actually went before him!

The daughter of Wei Yu, Queen Run has been worrying about her daughter, Princess Chengxian, who is childless after her marriage, and has been sickly for a few days now. As a result, Chengxian County is not yet resolved here, the father suffered so, the mother went first, the condition immediately aggravated, so heavy that even to go back to her mother's home to offer condolences these steps can not be scared Chengxian County is not in charge of the heir or not the heir, and the in-laws complained, rushed back to Runwang Mansion to serve her mother's medication, fearing that Runwang Queen followed the example of the old lady Qian! The

When Wei Changying learned of this news, he was naturally shocked and furious!

Although she and Wei Yu's branch were farther apart in terms of bloodline, they were also from the same clan. Moreover, since she married into the imperial capital, Wei Yu's branch has not been bad with her. After hearing the news, she immediately told Huang to put down all the things in her hand and returned to the backyard to watch over the two children, and hurriedly changed her attire to follow Mrs. Su to Wei Yu's residence to offer her condolences.

By this time Wei Yu's mansion was in chaos.

Originally, Wei Yu's sons are all mediocre, or else Wei Huan and Wei Qi fought to the death, and it was easy to drive Wei Qi away from the position of the Secretary of the Department of Wei Huan's close relatives, but there is no one who can take the position, and would not have chosen Wei Yu from the remote clan. It's just that he's planning that even if Wei Yu has ambitions in the future, his own heirs aren't very good, so it's better to deal with them.

Now that they have been hit by a big change, these people are in a panic and simply don't know what to do.

It is said, or the second lady Deng really can't look at the eye, wiped the tears to stand out to do the Lord, before most of the hangers arrived to put the spirit of the hall built out.

Under these circumstances, the entire mansion naturally looked particularly bleak and dilapidated.

The people who went to offer their condolences, no matter how they usually look at Wei Yu's family, were all saddened by this scene. Wei Changying herself was very sad, but she still had to support her mother-in-law, Mrs. Su, because Mrs. Su's legs became soft as she cried.

In between, among those who still tried to stop this heartless and undignified thing from being accomplished, there were also those who rushed to the Gu family, either intimidating or persuading Gu Xiaode's wife and children to persuade Gu Xiaode. And the clansmen in the imperial capital, especially Princess Linchuan and the others, all received one batch of lobbyists after another.

But Gu's wife and children made it clear that they have no control over Gu Xiaode, and can only listen to God's will. Princess Linchuan, on the other hand, said with tears in her eyes "All of you are the pillars of the country, the mainstay of Wei, and you still can't change my father's will, let alone a daughter who has already gotten married. I'm just a little girl, how can I compare to you all? What you all can't do, is it possible for me to do?"

When the lobbyist tried to persuade her again about the love between father and daughter, she said, "It is no secret that my father has been averse to listening to advice for a long time. As a daughter, I serve my father with filial piety, so how can I tell him what he doesn't like to hear? After all, as you all know, my father is old, how can I bear to ask him to listen to words he dislikes? Besides, if I said it, it would only be in vain to incur the wrath of thunder!"

Anyway, ...... the princess just does not go Linchuan is not stupid, the saint is now in this situation, is the person who will still recognize the love of father and daughter? Even before the most favored first young daughter Qing Xin was relegated to the county master. If Linchuan go, afraid to be cut into the common people are light.

As for the Princess Ling Xian and others, because of the former disfavored, in the face of some of the urgent illness of the lobbyist, a light sentence "Linchuan sister is still at her wits' end, I'm clumsy because of a long time less than the top of the intention, would not dare to approach," but also to get out of the way.

All in all, three days later, under the suppression of Gu Xiaode's Xuanjia guards, Wei Yu was in the end brought to the outside of the Noon Gate to be executed.

This punishment has been known for a long time, plus Wei Yu has a good official reputation and is quite prestigious, so all the people can't bear to go and watch. There were not many people watching, but many people were secretly weeping and grieving at home.

But although they didn't go to the noon gate to see it, there was a scene that the crowd also saw at home it was snowing.

This time is the beginning of May, although not to the three days of ambush, however, is already the product everywhere, the order of midsummer. But the sky, even drifted up a large group of snowflakes, as if the spring twilight of the fluttering willow flakes, faying group, filled the city!

There are people who can not believe it reached out their hands to pick up a flower, feel the little coolness in the palm into a water stain, and then heavily pinched himself to confirm that the water stains and coolness is still in the palm of the palm of the hand ...... full of people's sweat hairs are almost all standing up!

Snow flies in May! Not as extreme as June, of course, but--

These people are old, although excited blood, but for a time actually a little unable to climb up. Such as Shen Xuan is still in the prime of life, almost even shoes are not wearing, with people rushed out of the door, in front of the noon gate threw down a number of guards to prevent the execution, and did not look back rushed into the palace!

...... just the crowd thought with such an unusual celestial phenomenon, how the saint should also be on this step to pardon Wei Yu, and then do not help should be lightly sentenced, but Shen Xuan downstairs in the culmination of the forehead knocked broken, the saint is actually still cold and ice-cold two words "do not amnesty!"

Until the end, the great master and other ministers arrived, and the preferential treatment fought for is only to let Wei Yu do not have to suffer torture, permission to first put him to death, and then mince his body.

Afterwards, the minced meat was sent back to Wei Yu's residence the children and grandchildren of those who could not restrain themselves in fear and grief, have either fainted, or stagnant, the residence was chaotic, and even appeared to be a dilettante slave theft of property in the night and fled the matter.

Shen Xuan and others know, on the one hand, sent people to help preside over the situation, on the other hand, sent people to chase the fugitive slaves these fugitive slaves happen to do the Shi Shi venting place, no matter how much property taken, all were sentenced to mince meat!

However, the climax of the matter of Wei Yu's wrongful death by His Majesty was not yet in these places.

It was at his funeral as Old Lady Qian died three days before him, the couple was buried together. In addition to his children and grandchildren, several of Wei Yu's disciples are also serving the same filial piety as his son.

Among them, the shut-in disciple Huo Shenyuan was the most silent, but the mournful color between his brows was also the heaviest.

...... Because Wei Yu is Rui Yu Hall children, according to common sense, he and Qian old lady passed away, should be by the children and grandchildren to help the spirit of the south, buried Fengzhou. But now the exempted county is occupied by stragglers, the war in the east of Hu is tight, the saint died pressed the imperial army refused to send troops, the court is unable to recover Xi, the north and south has become the situation of cut off.

Even Wei Changfeng, the future head of the Rui Yu Hall, was unable to receive the marriage, and supporting the spirit to return to the countryside is obviously not possible at this time.

So after some discussion among the sons of the Wei family, and after consulting several other elders, it was decided that the parents would first be buried on the farmland outside the city. When the opportunity arises, they will be buried in Fengzhou.

Out of the city, along the way, but see the caper wheat green, but near and far farmhouse, but rarely see the smoke of cooking, occasionally avoided in the roadside pedestrians, most of the yellow face, hungry and thin, stagnant eyes. This is still the capital city, a number of Zhuang people are the scholar's servants or stained with the relationship, there is the main family shelter, more or less can have a mouth to feed. It is said that a little farther away, that is the starving corpses everywhere that's why Exit County will gather that many displaced people.

The scene looked heavier and heavier for the mourners.

Easy to the chosen field, because only temporary burial, to move the grave later, and Wei Yu at this time has been deprived of all official body, only a birthright of the identity of the clan; and died so miserable, is not suitable for the big ceremony, so the funeral ceremony is relatively simple.

Just after Wei Yu couple's coffin into the burial, the end of the memorial service, the crowd sighed to be dispersed, before has been silent Huo Shenyuan suddenly came out, to the crowd and salute, bowed deeply "family teacher unfortunately, suffered this disaster, the late generation of these days, there is a eulogy, would like to pray that all the gentlemen can listen to it."

As soon as the crowd's footsteps slowed down, anger surfaced on many of their faces-not that they were eager to leave, but they thought that Huo Shenyuan was at least a son of the Yunxia Huo Clan and Wei Yu's closed disciple, so how could he be so shallow and shameless?

His own benefactor s corpse is not yet cold, and he actually seized this opportunity ...... Want to be famous?

After all, he didn't say anything when he read other people's eulogies before!

At this moment, he even stood out, not wanting to take advantage of Wei Yu just into the ground, come up with some kind of embroidered article to make a splash, earn literary fame, and what is it?

However, nowadays, people's hearts are filled with sadness and anger and the idea of the rabbit's death. No matter how good the article is, who can not hate such a character?

The Huo Clan Head's face was a mixture of shame and anger as he immediately drank, "Back off!"