According to ancient records, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, many folk artists who relied on "juggling" to make a living appeared in various parts of the country. Most of these artists can play a trick or two, and then live by the copper plates thrown down by the people around them when they watch the bustle.
However, according to an ancient book called "Laughing Forest Guangji" in the Qing Dynasty, there is such a story that people only feel that the more they look at it, the more hairy it becomes.
The story says that it was during the Qing Dynasty, and the specific emperor did not say, only that in a small county town called Mingxi in the south, there was a group of people wearing rags and rags to sell art. This group of artists has no ability, but there is an inexplicable "human-faced snake". Whenever they sell their art, they can always rely on this "human-faced snake" to harvest a lot of money.
One day, this group of artists was juggling in the street, and when they saw a lot of people around, they locked it, and then opened a large wooden box behind them and released a very obedient "snake with a human face.".
This "human-faced snake" is indeed like what people say, like a very human. Although the "human-faced snake" is completely covered under the scales from head to bottom, the head and upper body are real human-headed. Watching this "human-faced snake" propped on the ground with both hands and acting according to the instructions of the juggler, many ordinary people onlookers applauded. The rich people threw a few copper plates on the ground, and the people who did not have money shouted loudly. Suddenly, the people gathered more and more outside this group.
Coincidentally, just when the people were gathering on the side of the gang selling art, the county commander of Mingxi County also took the family members to the street.
Seeing that the people had gathered in one place, the county commander felt strange in his heart and took his family with him. It's okay not to look at it, and it didn't scare the county order to death at first glance. Unlike those uninformed ordinary people, the county order in the middle of the Qing Dynasty was also a literati who was "born in the same soldier". Looking at the "human-faced snake" who was "playing" on the ground, the county commander did not know where this group of people had done the "harvesting and cutting" thing that had lost their conscience. But the county commander did not make a sound, but asked his wife to take the token to the county court to call people.
After the people in the county court arrived, the county order did not say a word, and then tied up the group of people and brought them back to the gate.
The so-called "harvesting and cutting" is actually to make people's originally healthy parts disabled, and then drive such disabled people to beg on the streets and win people's sympathy to obtain money.
When this county order saw that the "snake with a human face" was no different from a living person, he naturally understood in his heart that this was a group of evildoers who had encountered a group of evildoers who were doing the work of "harvesting and cutting". After the group of evildoers pressed back to the gate, the county order did not say a word, so he asked the people to tie the group to a stool and beat the board according to their butts.
After playing the board, the county commander pointed to the "human-faced snake" and asked several evildoers, "What is going on?" The villains did not admit it at first, and one by one they said that they had been caught from the mountain as "human-faced snakes." The county commander saw that these people were dying and did not tell the truth, and continued to put them up and beat them up.
At this time, some of the evildoers in this gang could not hold up and told the matter.
It turned out that this so-called "human-faced snake" was not actually a snake demon in the mountains, but a child they had gotten from elsewhere. In order to make these children into "human-faced snakes", they first broke the leg bones of the children, and then peeled off the flesh on their legs, so that the legs grew together when they healed themselves. At this time, they use the "snakeskin condom" prepared in advance to put on the lower body of the child, and then glue the "snakeskin" and the human skin together with glue made of grease. After doing this set, the "human-faced snake" is basically completed.
The evildoer's words were heard by the county, so he asked a few servants to set them up and beat them to death in the county hall.
The story ends here, but the information revealed in this little story makes people feel cold and sweaty.
Since ancient times, there have been many people who have mixed up the rivers and lakes by relying on the matter of "harvesting and cutting". During the Yuan Dynasty, there were a large number of missing children in many places. These missing children, if not unexpectedly, are naturally abducted by these evildoers who make money by "cutting off their lives", and then use various methods to make money by disabling the children.
So much so that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly emphasized the decree that "those who do the work of harvesting and cutting will be executed by Ling Chi" in the "Great Law of daming" and the "Imperial System". It can be seen from this that this kind of "harvesting and cutting" is not only felt by the people to be hateful, but the government has always explicitly prohibited it. As another feudal dynasty after the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty naturally took quite severe measures and prohibited decrees on the matter of "harvesting and cutting". However, due to the inaction of most local officials, this kind of thing was repeatedly forbidden during the Qing Dynasty.
Not only during the Qing Dynasty, but also in the decades after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, because the land of China was plunged into war, many evildoers with vicious minds did the "harvesting and cutting" thing.
For these people who have made the "harvest and cut", there have been celebrities and gentlemen in all dynasties and dynasties who have issued the voice of "crowning them with capital punishment". For example, when the Ming Dynasty formulated the "Great Ming Law", an official zhi from Sipin, a hanlin academy attendant named The Past, once advised Zhu Yuanzhang on the grounds that "the punishment for the matter of harvesting life and cutting is too light". After some exchanges, Zhu Yuanzhang finally determined the legal provisions of "those who cut off the life and cut off the life should be punished with LingChi".
In addition to this adjutant named Wang Shi in the early Ming Dynasty, many university scholars insisted that this law should not be modified. For example, Liu Jian, a famous minister during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, urged Emperor Wuzong not to amend this decree so that the people of the whole world would remain afraid of the "harvesting and cutting" and the consequences, so as to achieve a stable effect.
In fact, whether in ancient times or in modern times, this kind of abduction of children and then make them disabled is not uncommon, and many people do not know what they really think in their hearts, obviously they can earn money through work to support themselves, but they want to do this kind of unconscionable thing.
However, the so-called "painting tiger skin is difficult to draw bones, knowing people know the face and not knowing the heart." We have no way of knowing who is going to do good and who is going to do bad things. The only thing you can do is to do your best to protect your family from the bad guys. When we have some spare energy, we will do some good things to beautify the environment and society in which we live.
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