When it comes to ancient punishments, perhaps the most eye-catching is the "Ten Great Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty", which is bloody enough.
However, do not think that all torture is so bloody and brutal, today to introduce this torture, the props are simple, the steps are civilized, but the killing is invisible, can be called an indispensable tool for torturing prisoners.
What torture? Stickers.
The scientific name may not be well known, but many people have seen this kind of plot in the TV series: the wet paper is covered on the prisoner's face, layer by layer, until suffocation death. That's right, this is the specific operation steps of the tiega officer.
Some people may say: What kind of torture is this? Doesn't sound scary at all!
Here I can tell you very responsibly – big mistake. When the prisoner's hands and feet were fixed, the executioner covered the prisoner's face with wet mulberry paper. Here to say, this kind of mulberry paper has strong pulling force, great toughness, and will stick to the skin like kraft candy, how uncomfortable it is. You can make up for it yourself.
Under normal circumstances, one is not dead to prisoners, but it is also tortured enough. Under normal circumstances, the endurance of ordinary people will reach the limit at the fifth time, and they will often convulse due to lack of oxygen, and eventually suffocate to death.
Even if the lung capacity is relatively large, it is not too early to be happy, and adding a few more sheets will be fine.
What is even more cruel is that some executioners do not use water to wet the mulberry paper when they are operating, because this will make the prisoner die more painfully, but with a burning knife in his mouth, slowly blowing out, so that the mulberry paper will gradually become soft and wet, causing the prisoner to fight hard, and at the same time aggravating the prisoner's psychological fear, just like drowning a person in a water tank alive.
Murder, but that's it!
Therefore, compared with those bloody punishments, the tie-up official is not inferior at all. Moreover, this method is clean and neat, does not leave any traces, and also saves the labor cost of cleaning up the site, which is environmentally friendly and energy-saving.
So, who invented this highly creative weapon of murder? Needless to ask, of course, it is ming taizu Zhu Yuanzhang zhu brother, people are the superstars of the torture world.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang created this punishment in order to kill those who were close to him, and at the same time to hide his eyes and ears. On the one hand, you can kill people invisibly, on the other hand, if you want to repent, there is still room for salvation, otherwise if you cut off your head, you will have nothing to save. For the sake of the whole person, Big Brother Zhu really hollowed out his mind.
What he did not expect was that his exclusive tip was infinitely respected by future generations and carried forward. It is estimated that if he knew this, Brother Zhu would be about to apply for a patent.
Speaking of typical examples, the plot of Tiejiaguan in "Li Wei As An Official" may still be fresh in your memory.
At that time, liangjiang officials colluded with the governor of Hedao to embezzle 3 million taels of silver for disaster relief, and although Li Wei and Nian Qianyao arrested corrupt officials Feng Yueqing, Wei Min, and others, they were suffering from no evidence and could not make them bow down and confess their guilt. What's more, the two were still officials of the imperial court, so they couldn't torture them severely, and everyone was suddenly out of luck.
At this time, Li Wei suddenly thought of the punishment of "attaching officials to the top", and without saying a word, he served these corrupt officials. Li Wei found rice paper, spread it on the face of the corrupt official, and then spit on it with a mouthful of water. The corrupt official, who had just relied on not admitting the account, could not breathe in an instant, struggled for a while or instigated, and obediently confessed after removing the rice paper.
These corrupt officials would rather be sentenced to be beheaded than endure the torture of attaching officials, which shows that this thing is really uncomfortable.
Therefore, torture does not have to be bloody and terrible, and the "polite" torture of the posting officer is actually more powerful in psychological deterrence.