In ancient times, there were many strange torture devices, many of which were incomprehensible and difficult to understand. Some of them make people shudder and be scared half to death at a glance.
Let's start with a few simple ones, like a whip. Leather whipping answers to torture devices, and during execution, most people take off the prisoner's dagger clothes and whip his back The "Book of Shang" records: "Whipping is an official punishment", indicating that whipping became one of the punishments in the era of Shangzhan legend. Regarding the specifications of the whip, the Taiping Imperial Records recorded: "The sheath is two feet and one inch long, two inches thick, and the handle is one foot and five inches long." "This is the specification of the Song Dynasty, which shows how terrible it is, about a meter or so today."
In the Ming Dynasty, whipping was rampant, and in the third year of Hongwu, Xiangyin County ordered Liu Ying to wear a copper coin with raw cowhide strips and twist it into a whip, which was two feet long, and the person who was whipped was "cracked in skin and flesh" and "miserable". During the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di period, some people were punished with a rod when they committed a crime, but they did not expect that the other party was actually a pervert, and they were not satisfied with the whip, and they also illegally sewed the skin as a whip and poured tung oil into it, so as to deepen the pain of the prisoner.
At that time, there was also a so-called pipa punishment in the East Factory, that is, using a knife to cut around on the ribs, which was very terrifying, and at first glance I thought it was playing an instrument. There are also standing shackles, commonly known as standing cages. The prisoner is placed in a cage with his neck tied in the top shackle. The head is on the shackles, and the body is in the cage under the shackles. Prisoners standing day and night can be said to be very torturous, and many people stand directly at night. There is also the so-called iron brush, which is even more appalling, that is, the skin and flesh of the prisoner are brushed with an iron brush until the brush is clean, as shown in the following figure. So what is the wooden pill mentioned in the opening paragraph?
Wooden pills are mainly used against female prisoners. Because female prisoners often cry loudly and scold more than once before they die, so Wu Zetian invented a wooden pill for Empress Wang, and after stuffing it in her mouth, Empress Wang could not call out, this thing looks quite chic, and the prisoner cannot make any sound after being stuffed with wooden pills, so even if it is quiet, yang Yukui, a collector of ancient torture devices, has a collection of wood nine pieces, wood, oval-shaped, 8 cm in diameter. The texture of the pill is dense and solid, slightly spotted, slightly concave and convex, similar to tooth marks. Proof should have been used before.
After this torture device was invented by Wu Zetian, it was loved by successive emperors. For example, after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the high ancestor Shi Jingyao of jin was very fond of it, and he used this trick to deal with the enemy, when Shi Jingyao recognized the Khitan as his father emperor, it can be said that he was very humiliated and ceded youyun Sixteen Prefectures. In order to block Yoyo's mouth, all those who satirized him used this trick before killing his head, so that they could not speak before they died, and naturally there was no way to reveal his true face.
This trick can be said to be very terrible, because it mainly deals with female prisoners, so many female prisoners will be frightened and paralyzed as soon as they see the appearance of dealing with this thing, which can be said to be an extremely terrible torture device.