Just after the Spring Festival in 2020, although relatives and friends cannot move around each other, it is also a reunion year. When families gather together, there is a category of people who can only cry at the iron window, they are the "prisoners" who have been sentenced to death.
During the Spring Festival, can the "prisoners" who have been sentenced to death go home for the New Year?
Many people may have this question, can prisoners sentenced to death go home for the New Year? In fact, from the current law, whether it is the death penalty or the suspension of death, prisoners should not say that they will go home for the New Year, and if there are no special circumstances, they simply cannot leave the prison.
Therefore, going home for the New Year can only say a beautiful expectation for them. However, under the normal circumstances I mentioned above, there is no absolute, and there is really a special case in real history, that is, Li Shimin's "indulgence incident" in the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty.
To be imprisoned is to release the prisoner. On December 22, the sixth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin suddenly had a brilliant idea and released 390 death row inmates in his cell and let them go home for the New Year. But they were not free, and agreed to return the following autumn to die.
As a result, when the autumn of the following year arrived, to everyone's surprise, none of the 390 death row inmates escaped and all returned to report. Li Shimin felt that they kept their promises and their conscience was not broken, so he relieved them of their death sentence status under great joy, and from then on they could live a normal life again.
This special case in history is recorded in detail in the Zizhi Tongjian: "The death row prisoners who still command the world are all sent to the capital to make the capital master at the end of the period." In the seventh year of Zhenguan, there were 390 death row prisoners in the world in the past year, and there was no one to supervise them, all of whom were self-proclaimed as scheduled, and none of them died; all of them were forgiven. ”
Bai Juyi's "Seven Virtues Dance" also mentioned: "Three thousand resentful women were released from the palace, and four hundred death row prisoners returned to prison", in order to express appreciation for Li Shimin's tolerance and mercy.
What was the motivation for the inmate incident?
Li Shimin's indulgence in prison is a unique move in the whole of history and even in modern times.
However, his motives, under the speculation of later generations, have appeared a lot of doubts. Ouyang Xiu once questioned Li Shimin's approach, believing that it was a self-directed and self-acting farce, the purpose of which was to improve his prestige and win the love of the people.
In fact, this doubt is obviously very reasonable. After the change of XuanwuMen, although Li Shimin ascended the throne and became emperor, he always carried the notoriety of killing his brother and forcing his father, although they were all in the blood of the Li family, they were always suspected of being unjust and disagreeable.
There is no world of ten thousand worlds, only the hearts of the people of all worlds, if you want Li Tang to sit firmly in the world, you must do something to make the people grateful to Dade. With this reasoning, the so-called indulgence incident will also come to light. Of course, this is just our speculation.
Judging from the effect of this incident, Li Shimin obviously earned it, and these 390 death row prisoners may have committed heinous crimes, and once they get the emperor's favor, they will naturally spare no effort to publicize it. Passing on ten or ten hundred, Li Shimin's image naturally became greater and greater.
If this speculation is true, and in ancient times he knew how to manipulate public opinion, then Li Shimin's ideas are undoubtedly quite advanced.
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