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The Official and the Ministers went outside, two rows of little eunuchs carried palace lanterns to light the way, bypassing Chen Ji and the Crown Prince, leaving only Zhang Zhuo not in a hurry to leave.
He stood quietly outside the threshold of Renshou Palace, calmly watching as Jiefan Guard pinned Chen Ji beside the Filial Piety and Brotherly Love Stele, raising the imperial punishment rod and striking Chen Ji's back one blow after another.
Twenty lashes of the rod, breaking two punishment rods.
In the palace, to prevent someone from committing fraud, the implication of twenty lashes of the rod is breaking two punishment rods, thirty lashes would break three, and fifty lashes means being directly beaten to death. If the person is not dead when the beating stops, the executor is sent to the Imperial Prison under the charge of deceiving the monarch.
Chen Ji was completely drunk and didn't cry out in pain.
