Kang Xiaoba is a typical ungrateful person. In the early years, because there were several donkeys at home, I specially carried goods for people. Later, he was brave and aggressive, so he was hired as an attendant. The landlord bought a pistol from Japan for self-defense. The rich man gave the pistol to Kang Xiaoba and asked him to use it to protect himself.
But later, the rich man found that Kang Xiaoba was ruthless and worried about Kang Xiaoba, so he wanted to get the pistol back from Kang Xiaoba. However, Kang Xiaoba made an excuse not to give it. Later, Kang Xiaoba found an opportunity to kill the rich man directly. From then on, he became a thief in Jiang Yang. The government stepped up its wanted list because it was very famous in the street and gathered some fugitives and committed many cases.
Later, a cousin of Kang Xiaoba met him, lied to him that his mother was ill, lured him back to his hometown, and was caught by the officers and men in ambush. In fact, the government sentenced him to beheading, not execution that year. But he knew he was going to die, and he wanted to package himself as a fighter against oppression. He cursed Empress Dowager Cixi and said that he would rape the imperial concubine. When this word reached the ears of Cixi, she immediately changed her decision to be executed that year. After Kang Xiaoba was executed by Ling Chi, it was not long before the Qing Dynasty abolished the Ling Chi system, and he became the last person to be executed by Ling Chi in the history of China.