"Reporting to Your Majesty, fifty lashes have been completed!"
In front of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, on the open square, the flogging executed personally by the Commander of the Chun Si Army, Cao Jie, finally came to an end.
For the punished, it was torture; for the onlookers, it was no less than heart-pounding terror!
At this moment, the two nobles kneeling on the ground had identical expressions of pale misery. Their bare upper bodies similarly marred with purple and blue lash marks, hideously intertwined like snake prints.
Flogging consists of ten lashes per degree, totaling five degrees; fifty lashes are the maximum. In principle, this is the lightest punishment. However, if the executioner so intends, it is not difficult to whip a person to death right there and then!
Cao Jie stretched out his right hand, waiting for the eunuch standing by to take away the whip before turning and stepping back onto the raised platform.
Emperor Qi said, "Rise."
