When it comes to cruel punishment in ancient times, what can one think of? Some people may think that this car cracking this punishment, this punishment is five horses divided into corpses, of course, there are some changes in the back, it is changed to the use of cars or cattle, this punishment will also be very cruel, live will make the prisoner's head divided, some people think that it is waist beheading, this punishment in the end the prisoner is to endure the pain alive because the blood flow is clean to be able to die, in fact, the most cruel punishment should be Ling Chi, this is the most severe punishment in ancient China, when the execution to cut hundreds of prisoners, Even a thousand knives, before the last knife is cut, the prisoner can not die, this is really terrible.
Speaking of the people who were executed by Ling Chi, the most famous person should be Yuan Chonghuan, this famous general did not die under the enemy's gun, but finally he was killed by the most Chongzhen who used Ling Chi's punishment, this pain is not something that ordinary people can endure, and the most chilling thing is that the people of the capital also regard this town guarding the border as a traitor, and finally everyone is fighting to eat this Yuan Chonghuan's meat, is not very chilling.
After the Taiping Rebellion began, this peasant uprising brought great threat to the Qing Dynasty, and at this time the Qing army was not at all an opponent in the face of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and Cixi had to let Zeng Guofan and others recruit troops against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Finally, through the efforts of these people, the Taiping Rebellion was suppressed, and Shi Dakai was killed by the Qing army. However, Cixi still refused to let him go, and Cixi ordered the execution of all his family in order to understand the hatred. In fact, we have to look at the generals of the Taiping Army at this time, many of whom received this Ling Chi punishment.
We all know that this Shi Dakai is a high-level member of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also one of the five kings of the founding of the country, in the expansion of the Taiping Army, this person's contribution is huge, especially under his leadership, the Taiping Army defeated the Qing army many times, but in the end the Taiping Army internal struggle for power and profit, there was a bloody massacre, and finally this Shi Dakai also ran away, he took his soldiers to the southwest in a rage, lost the battle with the Qing army in Sichuan, and finally was captured Cixi heard that Shi Dakai was captured but happy to blossom, He hurriedly ordered The Three Tribes of Xue Shi dakai, and his family would cut 3,000 knives. At that time, Shi Dakai's son was only 6 years old, and the governor of Sichuan at the time thought that the child was still too young to be suitable for such a harsh punishment. But Cixi did not allow it, and when the executioner saw that the child was so small, he could not bear it, because the child was too young, the executioner only cut two knives, and he fainted. In this way, Ling Chi took 9 years, and when the last knife was cut, the child was 15 years old! Such a punishment was really cruel for a child, but Cixi couldn't manage so much.