Outside the North Gate, the body of Mountain Goat Beard was hanging from the city gate tower. This form of public execution, displaying the corpse outside the city walls, was a far more severe punishment than beheading, and it had been many years since it was last seen in Xichuan.
A large crowd of people gathered around the notice board below, pointing and whispering about Mountain Goat Beard's body. Soldiers holding megaphones repeatedly read out the charges against him listed on the notice board.
"No wonder the Princess wanted to display his body like this; he was truly evil! He deliberately inflated grain prices!"
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