In 284 BC, King Qi Tang suddenly announced that his favorite su Qin would be tortured by Che Rift.
Car cracking is the use of five horse-drawn carriages to tie people's heads and four glues to the car and tear them into pieces, which was the most tragic punishment at that time. As soon as the decision was announced, the government and the public were shocked, public opinion was in an uproar, and more people were puzzled.
Su Qin was still a powerful figure not long ago, and king Qi Tang was impressed by his ability to speak skillfully and schemingly, and almost obeyed him and regarded him as a confidant. It is really unpredictable, what caused the relationship between the monarch and the subject to occur, this drastic change?
It should be known that Su Qin was the most famous Zongheng in the Warring States period, and his theory and plan of jointly resisting Qin were accepted by all the princes of all walks of life, and he was once elected as the longitudinal chief, who admired the seal of the six kingdoms, organized, coordinated, and commanded the joint anti-Qin cause of the princely states.
Unfortunately, this situation of unity and cooperation between the six countries was not consolidated, and after a period of time, the princely states came out of their own selfish interests and each conceived a ghost fetus, making the alliance increasingly loose and existing in name only.
Su Qin saw that it was difficult to act, so he defected to the State of Yan, and with his three inches of uncorrupted tongue, he said that he had retreated from the army of the State of Qi and recovered ten cities, which was deeply trusted by King Yan Yi and enjoyed extremely high courtesy.
However, Su Qin did not respect himself, and a peach-colored incident made him realize that it was difficult to gain a long-term foothold in the Yan kingdom.
It turned out that King Yan Yi's mother was the wife of Marquis Wenhou of Yan. Since the death of her husband, this noble lady was not willing to be lonely and boring in court life, and after meeting Su Qin, the two went from eyebrow to eye to send Qiu Bo, and developed to a very close and ambiguous relationship. This affair soon spread to Zhang Yang within a certain range, and also reached the ears of King Yi.
Surprisingly, King Yi was very generous, did not have the slightest intention of adding to Su Qin, and did not diminish his trust and respect. Su Qin himself was a thief with a weak heart, and he was afraid that King Yi would have to remove his head sooner or later, so he came up with a plan to get out.
He said to King Yi, "I live in the State of Yan, and I cannot increase the prestige of the State of Yan among the princely states, but if I go to the State of Qi, I can make the status of the State of Yan more important." ”
After the King of Yan listened, he did not stop him, respected Su Qin's own choice, and went to keep himself. Therefore, Su Qin pretended to offend the State of Yan and hurriedly fled to the State of Qi.
King Xuan of Qi, who was in charge of the mei at that time, had long heard that Su Qin was a talent, accepted him, and appointed him as a guest secretary. After King Xuan of Qi died and King Qi Tang ascended the throne, his trust and respect for Su Qin increased unabated, including those bad ideas that Su Qin came up with, and King Qi Tang did not seriously distinguish them, but accepted them all according to the order.
For example, Su Qin suggested that king Tang use grand pomp and funeral ceremony to show his filial piety to the previous king; he also suggested that the king build a large number of buildings, tall and ornate palaces, huge gardens and hunting grounds. The King of Tang adopted them one by one, which greatly depleted and wasted the financial resources of the State of Qi.
Su Qin's excessive favor in front of king Qi naturally aroused the envy of some ministers and scholars in the imperial court. They could not use other methods to make Su Qin fall out of favor, so they adopted extreme measures.
One day, Su Qin was about to go up to the court, when he suddenly rushed out of an assassin, armed with a sharp dagger, and stabbed at him, Su Qin did not have time to dodge, and he was seriously injured. Instead of collapsing on the spot, he covered his wounds and alertly fled the scene in severe pain.
When King Qi Tang heard that Su Qin had been assassinated, he was very angry and immediately ordered all-out efforts to arrest the murderer, but the assassin had already fled. For several days, there was no major progress in the case, and there was little hope of solving the case. However, Su Qin's injuries were getting worse and worse, and he saw that there was no way to return to the sky.
Su Qin knew that he had died not long ago, and before he died, he left a puzzling last word to the King of Qi: "I am going to die soon, and after I die, I implore the King to torture me by car splitting, and then order the whole country, and now it has been found that Su Qin is a spy of the State of Yan and is ready to plot a rebellion in the State of Qi..."
King Qi Tang respected Su Qin's last wishes, and when he lost his breath, he split his body in a car, abandoned it on the street for public display, punished Su Qin for a major crime of espionage, and informed the whole country.
Shortly after Su Qin's body was torn apart by the car, some people stood up and went to the imperial court without scruples, rightly admitted that they were assassins, and demanded that the imperial court give rewards according to the provisions of the notice.
At this point, the murderer threw himself into the net, the assassination of Su Qin was solved, and the assassin and several ministers of the envoys were executed. The truth about Su Qin's self-request for the car crack was finally revealed to the world.
In order to avenge himself, Su Qin set up a poisonous plan -- he did not hesitate to let his body undergo such inhuman torture as a car split, and although the means were clever, they more or less made people think that he was terrible.