The execution of Zhou Zicheng was soon settled.
Prince Huai's words became a prophecy, and Zhou Zicheng was sentenced to the punishment of being pierced by ten thousand arrows. The original owner had personally issued the decree.
After the morning court session that day, more than a thousand righteous men were acquitted according to the agreement. However, although they were acquitted, they were not without punishment. In order to ease Prince Huai's anger and to make them remember, he ordered them to write a 5,000-word self-reflection letter.
This punishment method was very novel, and none of the officials had ever heard of it.
However, the original owner was more familiar with this method. From her school days to the college entrance examination, she had written a lot of self-reflection essays.
She had experience.