What if the prisoner does not confess? He made a cruel move, and he never expected it to be used on himself
Torture is a cruel punishment in ancient times, in order to pry open the stubborn mouths of prisoners, various means of coercion came into being, these punishments are the continuous study and development of generations of cool officials, who know the mystery and have no fear. Even if these cool officials break the law, they are not afraid of other cool officials to deal with him, because the trick they use is clear to each other. There is a story in history that the cool official gave others a cruel trick to deal with a difficult prisoner, but he never imagined that this trick was finally used on his own body.
During Wu Zetian's reign, she reused cool officials to clear the way for herself, of which Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing were the most important to her, these two people deliberately did a lot of bad things, they dealt with a lot of people who opposed Wu Zetian, and after such a purge, the imperial court got the situation that Wu Zetian wanted.
Wu Zetian thought that her world was already stable, so at this time, these cool officials who had done evil things became a very obstructive existence. At the same time, there were upright courtiers who questioned the whistleblower and the cool official system. Chen Ziang, who had written the famous sentence "I did not see the ancients before, and did not see the people who came after" at that time, wrote a letter to Chen: "All parties have informed the secrets, imprisoned hundreds of thousands of generations, and they are poor, and there is no truth", and the empress you are extremely encouraged by this behavior, so that "the treacherous party is happy to hate each other, and the suspicion of blindness is called secret." Finally, he also gave historical examples of serious consequences due to indiscriminate killing to persuade Wu Zetian.
Although Wu Zetian did not care on the surface, with the "honesty" of the members of the Li clan and the courtiers of the Wei Li Sect, she thought it was time to change her thinking. In the second year of Tianzhi (691 AD), Wu Zetian began to open a knife to the Cool Officials. The first person to be cut was Zhou Xing. He also died in whistleblowing. His colleague Qiu Shenji was killed for his sins, and under the torture of The Cool Official, this Cool Official confessed to Zhou Xing before his death. Wu Zetian sent Junchen to interrogate Zhou Xing. Thus, a dramatic scene in history appeared. The two of them ate and drank, and when the wine was in full swing, Lai Junchen played a humorous game, and he asked Zhou Xing: "Recently, I have a prisoner who always refuses to confess, I don't know what good method Brother Ren has?" ”
Zhou Xing smiled contemptuously and said, "This is too easy! Such a simple thing can actually embarrass you. You find a big urn, grill it with charcoal, burn it hot, put the prisoners in the meeting, and you naturally have what you want. Lai Junchen pretended not to understand, so he called someone to come, according to Zhou Xing's words, found a large urn, lit a charcoal fire around it, and when the big urn was almost burned, Lai Junchen took out the holy will and said to Zhou Xing: "Someone has denounced you." I think, if you don't confess, please enter the urn! ”
Zhou Xing almost did not faint on the spot, but he had done such a job for so many years, knowing that he had no way to escape, and after all the confessions, Zhou Xing was sentenced to exile in Lingnan. Zhou Xingwan could not have imagined that he would treat his human body in the same way as a person, but he had done many evil deeds, and he deserved to get such a fate.