In ancient times, after the establishment of feudal dynasties, the handmaidens began to appear gradually in history. In many costume dramas today, there will be scenes of squires slashing and killing prisoners. In ancient times, the handmaiden was a very difficult profession to do. After all, not everyone can slash and kill people, which requires a strong psychological quality.
Nowadays, people have not seen the scene of the handmaiden cutting and killing the prisoner, and in such a situation, the average person will be frightened if he sees the scene of the nephew cutting the prisoner. In ancient times, the handker was a very bad word. After all, everyone doesn't want to see people cut, this kind of scene is really very bloody, and ordinary people can't bear it.
"Executioner" is an ancient saying, and in modern times, the executioner is generally referred to as the executioner. Nowadays, executions are generally relatively simple, but in ancient times, there were many ways of execution, such as the familiar thousand knives and thousands of knives is one of them, and the five horses are also one of them. In general, in ancient times, there were many ways of execution.
There are a lot of things that people don't see today. Ancient executions were generally carried out by hand-in-hand men. Nowadays, it seems that in ancient times, the handmaiden was not something that anyone could do, which was a technical job. To become a qualified handmaiden, it takes a lot of experience and skills, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to become a handmaiden.
So what was the income of the handmaiden in ancient times? Being able to be a handmaiden is certainly very rare. However, the technical content of the handmaiden is very high, and the experience and skill are indispensable. What is less well known is that the handmaidens also have a distinction between high and low. Most of the high-ranking executioners were executioners ordered by the imperial court to carry out heavy punishments such as Ling Chi.
For example, when Yuan Chonghuan was beheaded, he was a handmaiden who used the imperial court's command. In such a situation, the status of the handmaiden can be imagined. Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced to a thousand knives, that is to say, Yuan Chonghuan was tortured to death. The meat cut down by the executioner is sold at a price. This is the gray income of the handmaiden.
That is to say, selling Yuan Chonghuan's meat to the people is one of the gray income of the handmaidens. Yuan Chonghuan was considered to have defected to the enemy at that time, so the people at that time must have hated him to the bone. It is not possible to kill the prisoner at one time, but to torture the prisoner to death with one knife and one knife. If a knife goes down and the prisoner dies directly, then it will make people laugh and be generous.
In ancient times, in addition to the money given by the imperial court, there was also a gray income. Under normal circumstances, the families of prisoners will give some silver. In ancient times, capital punishment was very common, but in general, beheading was used. Some of the family members of the prisoners would give their servants some silver in order to make their relatives suffer less.
This is done to avoid the guilt of the offender. That is to say, clean and neat, a little bit to fight for a knife to kill a good death. Generally speaking, the families of prisoners give the full amount. There is no such thing as a deposit in this industry, after all, no one is willing to go to the court to be punished. At the time of execution, the handmaiden will show the prisoner's family to see if the prisoner has been convicted.
First of all, the servant wore a white silk pants, and behind the prisoner, he held a knife and wiped it vigorously, and then he kicked him in the back, after which the head fell to the ground. After the head is on the ground, the prisoner enters the coffin prepared in advance. In this process, it is necessary for the handi to have no blood, which proves that the handman did not torture the prisoner.
Judging by the beheading of prisoners, the handmaiden is certainly not something that anyone can do, after all, beheading requires a lot of force. The second is to be determined and not to have compassion when killing prisoners. More importantly, the psychological quality must be passed, that is, if the prisoner is beheaded, the handmaiden cannot pass out.
Many people can't stand to see bloody scenes. Nowadays, people can only understand the ancient handmaidens through the history books. The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in the history of our country, and there are not many mysteries left in this dynasty. Even many members of the Qing dynasty lived until after the founding of New China. In terms of hand-runners, Deng Haishan, the last executioner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, personally described some problems.
During the Qing Dynasty, the handmaidens had a subsidy of one ocean every month, followed by a subsidy of three oceans without killing a person. If you cut off two heads in a month, you will have nearly seven oceans of income. In Deng Haishan's time, the income of seven oceans was almost equivalent to the income of an ordinary family for most of half a year.