TV dramas often hear such a sentence, "The whole world is not the king's land, where can I run?" ”
This shows that in ancient times, when communication technology was backward and criminal investigation technology was weak, it was very difficult to even if you wanted to sneak away.
We often hear the word "Zhulian Nine Tribes" mentioned in film and television dramas, and there are only a few examples of Zhulian Nine Ethnic Groups in real history, which are not as common as in film and television dramas, and Zhulian Nine Ethnic Groups are not full of door slashes as we understand it.
It is not common to say that the Nine Tribes of Zhulian are not common because the "Nine Tribes" are not a law, and they are not the same as the criminal law.
For example, the most terrible law we know of is Ling Chi.
Ling Chi also called a thousand knives, to cut three thousand knives from the living, and it took three days and three nights to let the prisoner die.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, if you can cut 500 knives, you can be worthy of the title of chief executioner of the Punishment Department.
There is a clear stipulation in the Great Ming Law that there are six kinds of people who will be punished by Ling Chi.
The following offenders shall be punished by the punishment of lingchi for the crime of treason.
In rebellion, the perpetrators who kill the elders of the family, such as grandparents, parents, maternal grandparents, husbands, and in-laws, are punished with lingchi.
The concubines sentenced the husband to death by Ling Chi.
Dismemberment of the crime, the prisoner who is cut off is punished by Ling Chi.
The servants and subordinates of the family were punished by Ling Chi.
The killing of uncles' parents and elders in the clan is punishable by Ling Chi.
The above six types of prisoners will be punished by Ling Chi, but unlike the Nine Tribes, in most cases it is the emperor's personal order, not a penal system.
After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the scope of the zhulian stipulated by successive dynasties was only the criminal himself and the core members of the family and the father clan, and the mother and wife clan were generally not included in the scope of the joint sitting.
Most people here have a misinterpretation, zhulian nine tribes, full door slashing and sitting, these three ways are very different.
First of all, the nine ethnic groups, at first, it referred to the gaozu one vein, the great-grandfather one vein, the grandfather one vein, the father one vein, the personal one vein, the son one vein, the grandson one vein, the great-grandson one vein, and the Xuansun one vein.
There is also a saying that the four clans of the father clan, the three clans of the mother clan, and the two clans of the wife clan are nine clans.
The Paternal Four are:
Aunts and their children, involving cousins and cousins.
Sisters and their children.
Own children and their children.
His own parents, brothers, men with the same family name.
The three families of mothers refer to:
Mother's paternal family.
Mother's matriarch.
Mother's sisters and brothers.
The wives refer to:
Father-in-law family.
Mother-in-law family.
The Nine Tribes are very widely implicated, is it really a person who committed a crime in history that the Nine Tribes had to accompany him to his death?
This is not the case, or most of the time.
The real Zhulian Nine Tribes in history are not full of doors but sit together.
China's feudal dynasty has had a system of consecutive sitting since ancient times, which can be a joint sitting of relatives or neighbors.
The system of sitting together began in the Zhou Dynasty, which refers to a group of people who have a certain social relationship with criminals.
After the Shang martingale changed the law, the Qin Dynasty entered a period of strength, and the Shang martingale established the "continuous sitting system", according to the military organization, the formation of the people in the country, five for one, ten for the sake of the family, the residents are not allowed to move without authorization, the ten families supervise each other, if someone commits adultery, they must report and expose it at the first time, if not ten families will be punished.
The consecutive sitting here is not the same capital punishment as the criminal, the person who sits together may be exiled, or he will be enslaved in the home of the hero.
Only those who commit the most heinous crimes will be executed along with their families, such as the execution of men of the same race who commit major crimes of rebellion, and the exile of the men's family members.
Most of the squatters themselves were executed and their families exiled.
The earliest consecutive sitting in history comes from the Book of Shang, and there is a record of "sinners and tribes" in the Thai oath.
When Xia Qi and Shang Tang mobilized before the expedition, they would make it clear that if the soldiers disobeyed the orders after the expedition, the disobedient soldiers would be executed together with their sons in the family.
Sitting together is inhumane to the offender, but it is a good method for the ruler, greatly reducing the possibility of subordinates committing crimes.
Zhulian's great punishment from the Yisan clan in the former Qin to the five tribes in the future, the seven ethnic groups to the final nine ethnic groups, the nine ethnic groups foreshadow that all the prisoners of the same surname and relatives have been subjected to Zhu lian, so that there will be no retaliation by the prisoner's family.
Even more tragic than the Jiujiu clan is the Jieshi clan, which has only one person in history, the Ming Dynasty's great Confucian Fang Xiaoru.
After the success of the Jing Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru swore not to yield, and finally was sentenced to Ling Chi for refusing to draft the edict of the throne for zhu Di, the king of Yan, and thus the tragic "Ten Tribes" occurred.
In order to show that he would do what he said, Ming Chengzu added Fang Xiaoru's protégés, and a total of 873 relatives and friends were executed.
Fang Touyu said, "Death is death, and the edict must not be grassed." Cheng Zu suppressed his anger and said, "Even if you die, do you care about the Nine Tribes?" Fang Xiaoru said angrily, "Is it the Ten Tribes who are not me?" ”
So, before being exterminated, can the prisoner's family escape early?
Theoretically, it is possible, there will certainly be a lot of fish that have slipped through the net, but if you want most of the possibilities to escape is almost zero, whether you can finally escape the clutches of the devil also depends on the attitude of the emperor, if you want to kill them all, even if you escape in advance, it is difficult to die well, or that sentence is not the king's land under the whole world.
The History of The Ming Dynasty records that there is a description of the four major cases of Hongwu that can explain this phenomenon.
Every time the Minister of Korea goes to the court, he will say goodbye to his family! It is likely to be the last time we will meet.
It is very likely that after going to the dynasty, they will not be able to come back, and people will not wait to come back but wait for the Jinyi Guard.
This means that many situations are unexpected, the prisoner may not know that he will be imprisoned, and the prisoner's family is even less likely to know that he has been implicated, and it is too late to be raided.
There is also a kind of prisoner who knows that his sins are deep, and if he is unsuccessful, he becomes a benevolent person, and he will properly dispose of his family before the incident, and his family is passive and has no choice at all.
Let's talk about the people who escaped, if they want to leave their hometown, they must pass the customs and pass the road to the road, the text is equivalent to the pass, the road guide is equivalent to the certificate of leaving the hometown, and it is almost impossible to walk without these two things.
Some people say that you can hide in the deep mountains and old forests to live, you can imagine what kind of life state people will be in an environment with no electricity, no mobile phones, and no one.
If you want to keep a pet or something, you may also attract wild beasts in the mountains, can this life be better?
In the Qing Dynasty, the prisoners who were assigned to them committed suicide overnight as soon as they heard the three words of Ningguta.
Therefore, in fact, most of the escaped prisoners will not hide in the deep mountains and old forests, hidden in the city, change an identity to live an ordinary life, the most common occurrence in film and television dramas is to hide the Holy Land of Buddhism.
However, if you want to run, it also varies from person to person, and once the emperor is determined to kill them all, it is difficult to avoid disasters for a lifetime.
Throughout his life, Ming Chengzu never gave up on looking for a Jianwen Emperor who was already gone.
To sum up, in ancient times, there were roughly two reasons why the families of prisoners could not secretly run away, one was that it was too late to run, and the other was that the results of running or not running were the same.