The mysterious and terrifying Ming Dynasty prison, who are the prisoners, and how many people can get out alive?
Zhao Prison first appeared in the Han Dynasty, generally referring to the prison where the emperor hand-picked criminals were located, but it was the Ming Dynasty Zhao Prison that was really widely known.
In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the Hu Weiyong case occurred, Zhu Yuanzhang's distrust of officials rose to a new height, in order to deter illegal officials, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a Jinyi guard.
Jinyiwei carried out reconnaissance and arrest work, then the prisoners had to have a place to be detained, so the Zhao Prison appeared, it was not restricted by the judicial system, and it was directly controlled by the emperor. Zhao Prison has also become the most mysterious and dark prison, and countless benevolent people, officials and generals have died tragically in Zhao Prison.
In the recent hit "Daming Style", there is a description of the prison, and the real situation will only be more terrifying than on the screen, making people afraid.
The punishment is cruel and the environment is harsh
Since the prison is an extralegal place and is only subject to the emperor's restrictions, its punishment is also relatively cruel, and for the sake of confession, or fabrication of crimes, the executioners can do whatever it takes.
Historical records:
"The criminal law is self-explanatory, and those who are not interested in ancient systems are already court staffs, east and west factories, Jinyi guards, and Zhenfu Si Prison. It is the number of people, who kill people to the point of misery, but not to the law. Follow it, and do it to the end. Holding up the fate of the court and the wilderness, listening to the hands of the warriors and eunuchs, it is good to sigh. ”
The court staff, the East and West Factories, and the ZhenfuSi were the most cruel and had no legal constraints, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the fate of all the people in the imperial court was almost all in the hands of eunuchs, which was really bad.
If there is no restraint, then there is no principle and bottom line, the trial and interrogation of prisoners are based on the personal will of the interrogators, and if they want to kill, they may only be in the mood of the interrogators, and places like the prison become extremely terrible.
In order to keep secrets and perform special tasks, the prison adopts a semi-underground structure, and the walls are extremely strong, unbreakable, and the internal management is strict, even if only a thing is sent, it needs more procedures, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to escape from it. Don't look at the highest level of prison, but the treatment of prisoners is extremely poor.
In the semi-underground prison, it is humid and cold all year round, there are no cold facilities, and the diet here cannot be guaranteed, that is, although you are locked up, you may not be given food, there is no clothes to wear, and many times in addition to torture, you will be frozen and starved to death. It was not until the first year of Tianshun that the treatment of one liter of rice per day was stipulated for criminals, which did not include the prohibition of eating and drinking hand-picked by the emperor and the malicious retaliation of people.
Due to the large number of prisoners, the space is still relatively small, and there are many people who are tortured, infectious diseases often wreak havoc in the cells, that is, they are not tortured to death, they may be starved to death, or they may die of illness, which is really a purgatory on earth.
During the Apocalypse, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and others repeatedly impeached Wei Zhongxian, but wei Zhongxian retaliated and was imprisoned. Fabricating charges and beatings into confessions is the best trick of this gang of Jinyi guards, because they cannot be executed publicly, and Yang Lian and others are secretly killed.
"Since going to prison, I have no skin. And his death, the soil sac pressed the body, the iron nails through the ears, only wrapped in blood splattered clothes in the coffin. ”
Since he was imprisoned, Yang Lian had been beaten to the point of exhaustion, and when he was about to die, he was still pressed by Xu Xian's pure earth bag, and then he was injected into his ears with iron nails and was killed alive. Senior officials of the imperial court, such as Yang Jisheng, Zhou Chaorui, Wei Dazhong, as long as they were imprisoned, it was difficult to get out alive.
Extremely powerful and unscrupulous
Zhao Prison is also called Jinyi Prison, imprisoning criminals is only responsible to the emperor, except for the emperor, almost no one dares to point fingers at it, and boundless power also breeds boundless evil. The eunuch's position is very special, his power is given by the emperor, that is, he can be a very popular subject or he may have nothing in an instant, coupled with the degree of distortion of the eunuch's psychology, the factory guard has become the source of evil.
"The jin is becoming more and more arrogant, and maoju bureaucrats are meticulous, spreading out lieutenants, and spying near and far, so that people can not be saved." Because of his skill, the Party was castrated and divided into all sides of the town. Xu Datonggong moved the official school to more than 1,560 people, and passed on the instructions to hundreds of Jinyi officials. ”
Liu Jin, a traitorous eunuch during the Zhengde period, when he gained power, seized the official's mistake and fabricated charges, and he could be directly imprisoned, and for his own power, his close associates were all given important positions, and more than 1,500 officials were appointed, and almost all the secret service organs were under Liu Jin's control.
It is needless to say that dissidents were eradicated and loyalists were persecuted, and there were not only officials of the dynasty, but also ordinary people in prison.
"When the East Factory and the West Factory were surrounded by people, the road was afraid. Jin Fu Li Neihang Factory, especially cool and fierce, the Middle Man with micro-law, no one who has achieved the whole. He also learned that the servants of the Beijing division were expelled, and the widows were married, and the mourners were burned, and the people who were not buried were burned, and the people who were sent down to cause chaos. ”
The East Factory and the West Factory are arresting people everywhere, and the people are all panicked, and for the sake of power, Liu Jin also set up an insider factory, and if there is a little illegal behavior, it may be arrested. In addition, this secret service also drove away the guest maids in the capital, demanded that widows marry people, and directly burned those who had not yet been buried. How many people died in the chaos is impossible to find out.
Delinquent culprit
Being imprisoned means that people are tricking me into fish and meat, and there is no law to rely on, and the other important problem is the problem of criminal delay, which is not only the prison, but also the prison of the Punishment Department.
In the chaotic and chaotic situation, many people are imprisoned for no reason, some may not die, some may be unjustly sunk to the bottom of the sea, but they may face a terrible situation, that is, no one cares and no one asks.
The environment in the prison itself is harsh, the disease is rampant, and the food may not be eaten, if there is not even a release time, that is the real despair. In the twelfth year of Yongle, Yang Pu was framed by Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han, and was imprisoned, because this was ordered by Zhu Di himself, and did not say how long the detention would last, Yang Pu was so confused and imprisoned for ten years, until he was released after Emperor Akihito succeeded to the throne.
"In the orthodox period, Yizhong Bu Yilin was arrested and imprisoned for eighteen years. Until the restoration of Tianshun, he was allowed to ask for release. ”
There was a common man named Lin Yang, who was imprisoned for eighteen years and was not released until the restoration of Zhuqi Town. At that time, people's life expectancy was not long, and these eighteen years were very painful. This is still alive, if the physique is not good, starvation, freezing to death, there must be countless.
There are also many reasons why criminals are delayed, some of which the emperor forgot, just like Yang Pu, if the emperor really has a very poor memory, he will really die in prison. In addition, the beizhen fusi officials are not hardworking people, and if they don't want to care, the prisoner's release is far away.
Some prisoners cannot be convicted because of their special responsibilities, which has become an outstanding case, and since the case is so troublesome, it can only be dragged on, and the criminal does not dare to let go. What is more terrible than torture is procrastination, and to die or to live is a matter of principle, which has been ignored until death in prison, which is the most tragic.
Of course, it is still possible that those who are imprisoned in zhao prison will come out alive, but the probability is relatively low, and at the end of each year, the zhao prison must report the situation of the criminals in that year, and if they encounter the situation of the emperor's grace or the intercession of officials, it is still possible to be released.
If there is no background, there is no relationship between the people, then it can only wait until the new emperor ascends the throne, the birth of the prince and other important days, the emperor will mostly amnesty the world, so that many prisoners can see the light of day and be released.
Therefore, although he was imprisoned in nine lifetimes, it was not impossible for him to survive. It's just that this kind of hope has nothing to do with whether the conviction is firm or not, and his own innocence is not very important, but it is even more important that the person who put him in prison wants him to die.