In ancient China, whenever the situation was turbulent and the chaotic world came, the rivers and lakes would be lively; especially in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, when countless thieves in the rivers and lakes and good men in the green forest crossed the rivers and lakes; some became a generation of giants (such as the old foreigner "Zhang Qing"), some became heads of state (the famous Zhang Zuolin Zhang Dashuai), and some became jianghu legends, such as the Kang Xiaoba mentioned below.
Kang Xiaoba's "great achievements" are certainly not as good as Zhang Zuolin and others, but his movements are indeed no worse than these ones, and he also created a history: the last prisoner in Chinese history to be delayed (May 10, 1905). Moreover, his Ling Chi was approved by Empress Dowager Cixi!
So what happened to this grandfather? Legend has it that way.
When Kang Xiaoba was born, no one knows, he is a Hui, born in Tianjin, his original surname is Wu, but in his early years he was inherited by the Kang family of the East Emperor Zhuang in Beijing, so he also changed his surname to Kang, so later everyone called him Both Wu Bald and Kang Baye. Kang Xiaoba initially relied on 3 donkeys to transport goods for a living, and was later hired by a rich man to be a bodyguard, but Kang Xiaoba found an opportunity to shoot the rich man to death and began to break into the rivers and lakes.
Tianjin Wei this place is yan zhao's hometown, the flesh is fierce, coupled with the chaotic world, the martial arts are extremely strong, who is bold, is doing things, who can get the respect of the jianghu people, Kang Xiaoba is such a cruel character, he entangled a large number of hooligans across Beijing and Tianjin: extortion, kidnapping and robbery... It can be said that there is no evil, becoming a famous giant bandit in North China, and eventually even wanting to rob the "Imperial Gang"!
The Qing government really couldn't bear to look at him, and went around arresting him, and even invited out martial arts masters, and later Kang Xiaoba's cousin, Changping Yiyang surnamed Yang, tricked him back to his hometown, and Kang Xiaoba was eventually captured by the famous shape boxers Shang Yunxiang and Ma Yutang.
However, the most wonderful story is still to come, because Kang Baye was really famous in the jianghu, many nobles in the court also heard his deeds, Empress Longyu lived in the deep palace for a long time, heard the eunuchs "painted the sound" to tell the story of Kang Eight Master who "added oil and vinegar", and suddenly came to be interested, and ran to talk to Empress Dowager Cixi about this person.
Empress Dowager Cixi was later interested, and decided to personally interrogate Kang Xiaoba.
But Kang Xiaoba this person is not a hero, he is a bandit, this kind of horizontal man does not want to leave a name in Qingshi, nor is he afraid of death, if he can make some noise before he dies, it would be good, so Kang Xiaoba pretended to practice all kinds of etiquette in the Punishment Department, but when he saw Empress Dowager Cixi, his nature was revealed, there was no half respect, and he also said this sentence: If you want to rob, you will rob the "imperial bar", if you want to rape, you will rape the imperial concubine!
This can be said to be looking for death! However, Kang Xiaoba was not afraid of death, he did not care; but Empress Longyu and others were frightened and constantly knelt down to plead guilt; those palace eunuchs were even more frightened and overwhelmed; Cixi was so dizzy that she could not even speak Chinese, scolded Kang Xiaoba in Manchu, and personally ordered Kang Xiaoba to be changed from "beheading and deciding" to "Ling Chi".
The day that Kang Xiaoba was lingchi, the execution site could be said to be crowded with people, and in the face of the empress dowager's "Ling Chi offender", the executioner did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest, it is said that he was stabbed with a total of 3,784 knives, but in the process of execution, except for a few laughs, he did not issue a little wailing.