The so-called "cooking" is one of the cooking methods, that is, cooking food in a large pot of boiling water. Nowadays, it mostly refers to a kind of torture in ancient times, that is, the punishment of putting prisoners into a large wok filled with boiling water and hot oil, boiling or frying in a large ding, and putting them to death.
After the Sui Dynasty, the criminal law promulgated by the imperial court officially stipulated that the death penalty was only hanging, beheading, and Ling Chi, but cooking was always used as an informal punishment; in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Juniper's dictatorship mutilated Zhongliang, and he also used the punishment of cooking people; until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was still a large iron wok in the courtyard of the shooting hall on the east side of the Hangzhou domain.
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, such a punishment was also used once.
It is said that in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), the people of Luoyang, Henan, gleefully welcomed Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, into the city and resolutely expressed their opposition to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
Henan has been an agricultural area with large grain production in ancient times, but successive years of drought and locust plague have long made the people of Luoyang miserable. In addition, the Ming court continued to increase taxes, which made them lose the hope of survival. Although the Ming Dynasty regarded Li Zi as a rogue thief, in the hearts of the people, the peasant army was their great savior.
Before Li Zicheng entered Henan, he had only a thousand soldiers under his command. However, with the support of the people, tens of thousands of people have come to defect in a few months. Since ancient times, those who won the hearts of the people won the world, and with the people's will, Li Zicheng conquered Yiyang, Lingbao, Luoyang and other important towns with one heart, and the Ming army scattered and fled.
Without the protection of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cailiang, the King of Wan'an, and Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, could only become prisoners of Li Zicheng's ranks. Zhu Caiqing was quickly beheaded by Li Zicheng, but Zhu Changxun was not so lucky.
As the favorite son of the Wanli Emperor and the uncle of the current Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Changxun's fame was very high. At that time, if it were not for the ministers who vigorously insisted on the primogeniture system, perhaps the emperor after wanli would have been him. Even if he lost the throne, he was still divided into Luoyang, an incomparably rich place.
When the Wanli Emperor reigned, he was eager to give him the whole world. After he went to Luoyang, the Wanli Emperor gave him 40,000 hectares of land. When he got married, the marriage fee was as high as 300,000 taels, which was the highest among many princes. The name of Fu Wang's wealth can be said to be known throughout the country. With the favor of his father and many gold and silver treasures, Zhu Changxun played happily in Luoyang.
After getting tired of the days when he was tired of his clothes and reaching out for food to open his mouth, he went on to pursue the life of a drunken fan. In addition to drinking fine wine, it is left and right, indulging in the gentle countryside. Such days, he passed for decades. Even when Henan was full of mourning and the people were cannibalizing each other, he still wantonly amassed wealth, raised taxes, and only cared for his own pleasure.
The people's evil form is pinned to the bone, but he has eaten a fat man of more than three hundred pounds.
King Fu's extravagant and lavish life not only made the people dare to be angry, but also made the soldiers in Luoyang indignant. Chongzhen fourteen years (1641). Li Zicheng led an army to besiege the city of Luoyang. At this critical time of survival, King Fu's men urged him to open a warehouse to reassure people's hearts. Unexpectedly, the rich and invincible Fu Wang was a miser who did not pull out a dime. He loved money as much as his life, and even the soldiers did not care about the food and clothing of the soldiers.
The soldiers often complained privately: "Luoyang City is more gorgeous than the imperial palace in the capital, and the Wanli Emperor gave all the treasures of the world to King Fu." The King of Fortune is beautiful, but we have to fight hungry. Li Zicheng is menacing, and we will die if we are not careful. If you think about it, it's really unfair! Just after the Fifteenth Lantern Festival of the First Month, before King Fu had come out of the festive atmosphere, Li Zicheng led his army to launch an attack on Luoyang City.
King Fu held the city strong, thinking that the peasant army would only attack for a moment and then retreat. Unexpectedly, the defenders of Luoyang City already had the intention of defecting to the enemy after holding out for a day. In the evening, the defenders took advantage of the black to tie the commander Wang Yinchang to the head of the city and prepare to surrender to Li Zicheng. King Fu's men came to persuade them, but the soldiers guarding the city said in unison, "Li Zicheng's army is now under the city, what can you do with us?" "Li Zi is prejudiced to see the sudden civil unrest in Luoyang City, of course, he will not let go of such a good opportunity."
He immediately ordered a fierce siege of the city and quickly set up a ladder to the city. The Ming army not only did not stop it, but instead reached out to help the peasant army stabilize the ladder. Inside and outside, Luoyang soon fell. At this time, the frightened Fu Wang remembered to escape. However, Li Zicheng would not give him this opportunity. Under the search of the peasant army, King Fu was soon tied up by Wuhuada. The Fu King, who became a prisoner of the order, completely lost the arrogance of being a mighty and blessed man in the past.
His three-hundred-pound body was creeping on the ground, constantly bowing to Li Zicheng and begging. Li Zicheng knew that Fu Wang was already boiling with resentment in Luoyang, and when he saw the fat Fu Wang, he had a plan and wanted to cook him alive. The difference in fu wang's reputation has reached the point where people and gods have abandoned it. When the people of Luoyang City heard that King Fu was about to be boiled and killed, not even a single one objected, and they all went to watch with great joy.
As for Li Zicheng's soldiers, they were even more happy to enjoy a broth, and several cooks with better skills even introduced themselves and wanted to take charge of the spoon themselves. Li Zicheng said that he would do it, and in order to be lucky, he also grabbed a few deer from The Fu King's garden and stewed them with the Fu King, named "Fu Lu Feast". In the midst of the Fu King's incessant wailing, his clothes were stripped of his essence, his hair was all shaved, and finally, he was thrown into a hot cauldron.
The precious son of the Wanli Emperor ended up in such a fate.
After the fall of Luoyang City, King Fu's gold and silver treasures were all returned to Li Zicheng. It is said that Li Zicheng sent thousands of people to carry it, and it took several days to move it. Ridiculously, King Fu plundered the people's fat and people's anointing for decades, and in the end, he served as Li Zicheng's military salary.
After receiving the news that King Fu had been killed, the Chongzhen Emperor left the dynasty for three days, gave him a sacrifice and burial, and all the funerals were more generous than those of other princes, and gave him the honorific title, and on the eighth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, he was buried in the plains of Mount Yao. In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, and after Emperor Mingweizong hanged himself on coal hill and martyred himself, Zhu Yousong was proclaimed emperor by Ma Shiying and Lu Jiude in Nanjing, with the era name "Hongguang". The state name was still Daming, the history was called Nanming, and Zhu Changxun was posthumously honored as Emperor Gong.
Soon, Hongguang proposed to change his title to Emperor Xun, so he changed his title to Emperor Zhenchun SuZhe Shengjing Ren Yixiao.
Resources:
[History of Ming", "Liu Kouzhi", "Ancient Cooking, Wok Cooking, Ding Cooking"]