In ancient times, torture was not uncommon, the heaviest was the Zhulian Ten Tribes, and this punishment was only one case in ancient history, and the punished person was Fang Xiaoru, a giant in the academic circles of the early Ming Dynasty. In the view of Geng Zhi's Fang Xiaoru, Zhu Di swore an oath to "Jing Difficulty" and waved his army south, which was to seek power and usurp the throne, so he swore to die and did not obey, that is, he did not draft an edict for Zhu Di.
Although the Zhulian Ten Clans are the heaviest punishments, in terms of torturing people, Zhulian may not be the heaviest, such as skinning in torture, waist chopping, car cracking, Ju Wu Punishment, Ling Chi, hanging head, cooking, etc., which is not a means of scaring people to death?
In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a most decent-looking torture, using only a piece of paper, but no one could bear it for a hundred years.
This torture, called "Tiejia Guan", is said to have been invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and was not explicitly displayed for interrogation of officials. In ancient times, mulberry paper was very common, whether it was ordinary paper, or high-grade mounting, umbrella making, wrapping Chinese medicine, etc., mulberry paper would be used.
The clerk first put the mulberry paper on the prisoner's face, and then sprayed a mouthful of shochu, and the mulberry paper would be damp and soft, thus attaching it to the prisoner's face, making the prisoner's breathing different and the pain unbearable; if the prisoner still refused to confess, the criminal staff would paste another one, and when the fifth sheet was pasted, the prisoner was afraid that he would not be able to bear it any longer, and eventually there would be no movement.
Throughout history, many bad habits that were abolished have reappeared later, and as we all know, among the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the burial system was abolished during the Ming Yingzong period, but during the Qing Dynasty, martyrdom was still prevalent, even if the Qing Kangxi Emperor explicitly abolished martyrdom, but also vigorously commended folk martyrdom.
During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han explicitly abolished corporal punishment and carried out a famous reform of the system, but the descendants of the later dynasty were full of tricks, according to relevant documents, there were many kinds of torture in the Ming Dynasty, and many corporal punishments were restored.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the grassroots, well aware of how corrupt officials harshly rebuke the people, he became emperor and did not become a king who coveted pleasure, was a famous emperor in history who was diligent in government affairs, and Zhu Yuanzhang had a special hatred for corrupt officials and corrupt officials, according to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang was in power for thirty-one years, and successively launched 6 large-scale crackdowns on corruption, killing 150,000 corrupt officials.
During this period, the Jinyi guards set up by Zhu Yuanzhang did not "make meritorious contributions", the Jinyi guards had their own courts and prisons, and the ancient ten major tortures could also be seen in the Jinyi guards, and Zhu Yuanzhang also allowed the Jinyi guards to execute the court staff at the imperial court.
Zhu Yuanzhang tried to make officials abide by their duties through torture and not to do some corruption and bribery, in addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent a large number of secret agents named "inspection schools" to secretly monitor the officials' every move, so during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, the officials were terrified.
However, in his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a lament that "the rule of the dynasty is the same as the twilight offense, and the twilight rule is the same; the corpse is not moved, but the artificial heel is followed, and the more serious the cure is, the more the offender is committed."
During the Qing Dynasty, the Yongzheng Emperor also specifically dealt with corrupt officials, and the punishment of "sticking to officials" to kill people without leaving a trace appeared in the TV series "Li Wei As an Official" with the Yongzheng Dynasty as the historical background, allowing the audience to witness this punishment process.
However, Yongzheng's methods of punishing corrupt officials were different from those of Ming Taizu, and in addition, he also provided officials with treatment, hoping that officials would keep their duties, but by the end of the Qianlong Emperor's life, the matter of corrupt officials and corrupt officials could not be solved.