Speaking of the late Qing Dynasty, I think everyone's impression of the late Qing Dynasty is not good, after all, it is the last classical dynasty in Chinese history, and in the end it also got a very tragic end, humiliated and divided by foreign powers, not to mention, the people in the turbulent society of the people do not have a good life, living in that era can be described as the world's suffering. However, when it comes to people's livelihood, in fact, the precepts of the Qing Dynasty at that time were still very strict, and people in the society at that time would break the law if they did not pay attention to it, and they would be executed by the Nine Tribes and Ling Chi.
In addition to these torture norms, in fact, there were many prisoners in the qing dynasty's prisons. Even if the rulers of the late Qing Dynasty fainted, they did not release water on the law. Let's talk about the more famous Qing Dynasty Punishment Department Office - The Punishment Department Prison. In fact, everyone guessed by listening to this name, the prison of the Punishment Department is not used to do anything else, but is mainly used to detain some repeat offenders. The Qing Dynasty's Criminal Department Office was reformed on the basis of the original Ming Dynasty and then built.
After its completion, the Prison department has been used to imprison some important prisoners of the Qing Dynasty and has been strictly guarded. During the years of Qing rule, the number of people imprisoned in the Qing Dynasty's prison was incalculable. There are many reasons for being put in jail, so let's take a closer look.
The first is the political prisoners. If you simply analyze the composition of political prisoners, it is actually more complicated, after all, there were many different parties and religions at that time, but if you were imprisoned in a big prison, there was only one reason - anti-Qing. The rulers of the late Qing Dynasty still paid great attention to consolidating their rule, and if they encountered some people who vigorously advocated anti-Qing remarks in society, after all, they had to be caught or persecuted, and a large part of those imprisoned in the late Qing Dynasty were political prisoners.
There is also a more important kind of criminal offender, although the criminal prisoner did not oppose the Qing, but also did a lot of anti-human things. Such prisoners can no longer be examined from a political perspective, in order to avoid such prisoners from endangering people's safety, such as killing people and setting fires, they will be arrested and sent to prison.
Finally, there are those who have been arrested and imprisoned. As we all know, in the late Qing Dynasty, how could it be possible to govern society strictly according to the law? If you think about the corruption of grassroots officials at that time, you can see that if you want to punish anyone or be offended by anyone, it is a effortless thing to do as an official. These officials can buckle their hats if they want to give others a hat, and if they want to put people in prison, they can basically belong to a situation where people's lives are taking a reckless life, so there are still many unjust, false and wrongdoers in prison.
After Puyi was forced to abdicate, the Republic of China government took over China. And the prisoners in these prisons, who have indeed committed very serious crimes, will be continued to be detained and not released, while as for the political prisoners, they will carefully verify their identities and release them to assign some work. As for some unjust, false and wrongdoers, they have also been dealt with in different categories, and only after it is found that there are indeed no crimes will they be released.
If you want to know more interesting history, it is interesting to pay attention to that kind of history.