In the fifty years of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty, a literati named Fang Bao was imprisoned in the Prison of the Punishment Department because of his influence on the prison of writing, and was sentenced to death. He spent two years in prison and completed several books, including a "Miscellaneous Notes in Prison", which recorded what he saw and heard in prison. In order to make profits for themselves, the prison guards in the Qing Dynasty knocked out the bones and sucked the marrow, the cruelty of the means, the living people had to peel off a layer of skin, then the death row prisoners were almost gone, could they die a hundred?
It stands to reason that death row inmates are the most difficult to blackmail, but executioners also have a way. For those death row inmates who were executed but had money in their families, the executioner would talk to his relatives and say to the families of the prisoners: "Obey me, that is, first stab the heart; otherwise the limbs will be broken, and the heart will not die." "This means that, obeying my words, I will first stab him in the heart during the execution and give him a pain." If not, then I will slash at him with a thousand knives, and the limbs will be gone and no one will still be alive.
For those sentenced to hanging, the executioner, before hanging, said to the prisoner's family: "Obey me, and you will be angry at the beginning; otherwise, you will die if you add three hangings and other weapons." "This means that if I obey my words, I will lose my breath as soon as I hang, or I will strangle him three times and let him die slowly."
Those who have the slightest amount of money and do not want their relatives to suffer can only send money and wealth to avoid their suffering; those who have no money can only powerlessly die of the suffering of the relatives of the prisoners before they die.
What about death row inmates who were beheaded? Prison guards also have a way of blackmailing, leaving the dead man's head as collateral and asking the family members of the collecting bodies for money.
PS: As I write this, I somehow think of the current school to do a background check on the parents and families of the students. I don't know what it means?
Fang Bao once advised a prisoner that you have no hatred with those prisoners, but just want to get a little money, but if some poor people really don't have money, you can't let them go, just do good deeds? That Lao Yi said that they must not be spared, this is to make rules, so as to warn others, otherwise everyone will take chances and will not pay money.
These jailers, executioners, and prison guards, in addition to their cunning and cruel side, also have the side of officials and officials who protect each other, deceive the upper and lower levels, and cover the sky with one hand.
Fang Bao wrote, "Lao Xu in the ministry, the family collection of false chapters, the documents down to the province, more potential and easy, increase or decrease the key language, the practitioners can not discern." "What do you mean?" This means that in the Punishment Department, some old officials secretly carved fake seals and hid them in their homes, often used to secretly modify various documents. He doesn't change it completely, just adds or subtracts words or words that add or subtract key parts, and the person who performs it often can't tell the truth from the fake, and then he can profit from it.
At that time, there were two brothers in prison, who committed the death penalty and should be executed according to the law, but after the verdict, the prison history in charge of the documents said: You give me 1,000 silver, and I will have a way to make you not die. The two deathly brothers were shocked to hear this, and asked what could be done? The jailer said: It is not difficult, I will prepare another judgment, the original text does not need to be changed, but the names of the two accomplices who have no family relatives in the back can be dropped, anyway, these two have no relatives and no reason, and no one has called them unjust when they die.
So, is this the case that they don't worry about the fact that it will be revealed? Of course not, things done too much will definitely be discovered. However, the old official is not afraid, you see how he said: "If you ask for it, my generation has no physiology, and the master will also go away, and if he cannot change his official with the lives of the two, then my generation will not die in the end." ”
Meaning: Even if we are found, although we will not be able to live, the chief judge will lose his office because of this matter, and even be executed. He chose not to bear such consequences, so we will not die.
Later, this man really did just that, and as a result, two poor accomplices were sentenced to death, and the presiding judge later found out, and was frightened, but he did not dare to pursue, for him more is better than less, to keep his official position, and then there is money to share, what is wrong?
Thousands of rivers and mountains are always love, is it okay to pay attention to it?
#Share# #History##Qing Dynasty#