In ancient times, there was an enviable VIP service, it was the gold medal of death, after all, ancient times was an era of "deception", and having a death-free gold medal must be regarded as a trump service.
For example, the Tang Dynasty general Xue Rengui, in the eyes of Tang Taizong, he was a ying mengxian courtier, and finally he made great military achievements for The Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong gave him nothing more than any crime, and he could be exempted from the reward of death.
Of course, there is no absolute, is the effect of the deathless gold medal necessarily effective? Not necessarily, if someone who holds a deathless gold medal has a certain thing, it is still a shooting kill.
Deathless gold medal appeared in the liu bang period of Han Gaozu, its real name is not called "death-free gold medal", but called "Danshu iron coupon", "death-free gold medal" is relatively speaking, just a common name, convenient for people to follow up with the direct understanding of its meaning.
And the "Danshu Iron Coupon" is now like a "certificate of honor". The date and the recipient of the reward are all kinds, the most well-known of which is the famous Han Dynasty general Han Xin.
However, the result of Han Xin is also known to everyone, and in the end, because of a false crime of treason, he was killed in Weiyang Palace, in addition to being condemned to exterminate the three tribes.
And not only Han Xin, in Liu Bang's time, there were still many people who got the "Danshu Iron Coupon", but in the end, there were very few who used it to save their lives, and it is not difficult to imagine that this "Danshu Iron Coupon" is at best a formalistic item, and if the emperor wants to destroy the life of a certain person, he can still ignore its existence.
To put it mildly, it is more like a kind of PUA that the emperors have done to their ministers, which means: "Give you a gold medal for avoiding death, and in the future you will work harder to honor the court." ”
It is not difficult to deduce from this that the crime of treason must be regarded as a taboo in the "gold medal of avoiding death".
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, in order to repay the minister's life-saving grace, The Northern Zhou Taizu wrote "Exempt from 10 Capital Crimes" on the "Death Exemption Gold Medal", and for a time this so-called death-free gold medal exempted from 10 capital crimes caused a sensation among the ministers, and they all worked hard in front of the Northern Zhou Taizu.
However, The Northern Zhou Taizu still played a word game, as long as he gave the minister a heinous crime, he could still take his life, but the minister at that time really did not think of this, which made him think that the emperor was deliberately understanding them.
During the Tang Dynasty, the "death-free gold medal" became a cabbage commodity, from the ministers to the commoners were eligible to receive, after all, Li Shimin was an emperor who was not keen on killing people, the only time he was stained with blood was the change of Xuanwu Gate, and he was certainly willing to issue some death-free medals to encourage people's hearts.
However, when Emperor Gaozong of Tang ruled Li Zhi, he did not recognize the validity of the ancestor's "death-free gold medal", so he killed many elders and important ministers.
Obviously, it is not difficult for everyone to see that this so-called "death-free gold medal" is really a pseudo-concept, as long as the emperor wants to kill, he can find countless reasons, just like the ancients said "accompanied by the king is like a companion tiger", this sentence is not without reason at all.
Perhaps, as a modern person, we should be glad to live in the era without an emperor, engage in a series of connections, and see the mood to kill people in the emperor can be said to be everywhere, and the ministers place their lives above the mood of the king, which highlights a deformed imperial power, and the imperial power system has been eliminated in history, presumably it is also an inevitability.