In order to maintain their rule, the feudal rulers of ancient China often adopted various severe punishments and harsh laws, so that the people below them honestly obeyed their orders. In ancient China, many punishments that made people smell different, such as Ling Chi's execution, which was the most severe punishment in ancient China, when the execution had to cut hundreds, even thousands of knives, before the last knife, the prisoner could not die, which was really terrible.
After the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, it quickly swept across the country, and the Taiping Army soon occupied a large area of southern China. At this time, the Qing Dynasty's army was not at all an opponent in the face of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and Cixi had to ask Zeng Guofan and others to 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.
At that time, Shi Dakai's son was only 6 years old, and he was naturally going to be executed by Ling Chi, and Cixi ordered for example to use the most severe Ling Chi, that is, to cut 3,000 knives! Such a punishment was really cruel for a child, but Cixi couldn't manage so much. Shi Dakai was a very powerful general in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and under his leadership the Taiping Army defeated the Qing army many times. However, with the progress of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Hong Xiuquan and others gradually became corrupt and degenerate after tasting the benefits brought to them by power.
Under such circumstances, the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army was also weakened, and the various princes within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fought for power. When Shi Dakai saw this situation, he was very distressed, so he went to the southwest with his soldiers in a fit of rage. There he lost the battle with the Qing army and was eventually captured. Of course, Shi Dakai had already seen through all this, and he did not regret what he had done after he was arrested. Cixi heard that Shi Dakai had been arrested but Le Blossom and hurriedly ordered Shi Dakai's three tribes, 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. However, Cixi did not listen at all, and he angrily rebuked the governor of Sichuan, saying that if you were pleading, you would be delayed together! Cixi's cruelty was notorious, and the executioner could not bear to see the child so small during the execution. But he did not dare to disobey Lafayette's will, and the child was too young to be cut by the executioner with only two knives, and he fainted.
When Cixi learned of this, she did not order a stop, but let the child wait until he was awake and then slowly cut it, and not a knife could be less! In this way, Ling Chi took 9 years, and when the last knife was cut, the child was 15 years old! Being lingered 9 years late, such an experience is not to say that it is unbearable for a child, even an adult. Or the most poisonous woman's heart, Cixi is really a snake and scorpion heart!