Punishment is light and heavy, but Qi Fei Qi, there is a medicine. - "Lü Punishment"
In modern society, some cases can easily ferment through the Internet, and people are mostly very negative about the murderers, believing that these murderers should be punished very badly, because people are very angry about what these people have done.
However, the final trial results often disappoint people, and after entering the new century, China has rarely sentenced people to death, and even in Western countries, the death penalty has been abolished, at most, life imprisonment. Many relevant experts and scholars are constantly reflecting on such a question, that is, the death penalty or imprisonment, will it really make prisoners repent?
The answer, of course, is no, and in the study, people who are sentenced to prison tend to commit crimes again after they are released, and their whole lives are in and out of prison until they are sentenced to life imprisonment or death.
However, those who consider whether prison or the death penalty is effective ignore a very important issue, that is, justice in this world needs to be done, and if a murderer knows that although he has committed a very bad murder, he still waits for him to be only life imprisonment, and he can even reduce his life sentence to 30 years by performing well in prison, then he will naturally have a very contemptuous attitude towards the law.
When Wu Zetian was called emperor in ancient China, there was a punishment for women that made people feel frightened, and it was completely to the point where people did not dare to break the law.
In fact, this is a kind of torture called "jade girl climbing the ladder", although the name is very elegant, but it is very deadly, and the woman is frightened and trembling when she sees it.
A generation of empress Wu Zetian
In almost all monarchies in the world, there have been empresses, and China is no exception, except for those who are not the empresses of the great unified dynasty, Wu Zetian is undoubtedly the only female emperor in China.
Wu Zetian's road to the emperor is very tortuous, she first married Li Shimin at that time, Li Shimin can be regarded as a generation of Ming Jun, but her harem beauty is very much, where can a woman like Wu Zetian take her turn?
In this way, Wu Zetian spent 12 years in Li Shimin's harem, until Li Shimin finally died, and Wu Zetian was just a talented person. Fortunately, However, Wu Zetian hooked up with the then crown prince Li Zhi in the harem, and after Li Shimin's death, his harem concubines were sent to the Ganye Temple to become a monk, and Wu Zetian was the same, but she broke off her connection with Li Zhi, which also laid the groundwork for her future title of emperor.
Later, Li Zhi resolutely took Wu Zetian back to the palace despite the opposition of his courtiers, and this was the follow-up. In his later years, he had a physical illness, and for more than 10 years he did not ask about the government and politics, but only indulged in wine, so Wu Zetian, who was familiar with political affairs and had a heart, seized the opportunity to grasp the power of the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian ascended the throne as emperor at the recommendation of his courtiers and changed the name of the country to Zhou. During the period when Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor, the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty were still thriving, and the opening up to the outside world did not stop for a moment.
However, at this time, there was a great controversy within the Tang Dynasty about Wu Zetian's title as emperor, after all, Wu Zetian was a female stream, plus she was also a concubine of the former emperor, and it was not right for her to be the emperor.
Therefore, in such a period of time, the voices opposing Wu Zetian have risen one after another, and in the face of such a very difficult environment, how will Wu Zetian deal with it?
Wu Zetian used very tough tactics, she adapted to very harsh punishments for these opponents, and she also encouraged whistleblowing, and for a while almost no one dared to say bad things about Wu Zetian.
Second, the torture of the "jade girl ascending the ladder"
In order to silence those who oppose him and impose extremely severe punishment on them, it was very necessary in Wu Zetian's view. In fact, if you want to talk about it, it is not that Wu Zetian is cruel, but that Wu Zetian had to do this.
Why? As long as you think about it from the perspective of Wu Zetian, you will understand very well. First of all, Wu Zetian is a woman, which means that compared with men, Wu Zetian must bear a very big controversy. No woman had ever ascended the throne as emperor, and Wu Zetian was faced with a dilemma that had never happened in history.
In addition, Wu Zetian also had a very embarrassing problem, that is, she had to face the attacks from the clans. Even if wu Zetian was not the emperor, these clans were also a piece of heart disease that the emperor had to remove.
From the Eastern Han Dynasty onwards, after a period of chaos like the Wei and Jin Dynasties, although the power of the clans was weakened, they still controlled a very large power in the dynasty, and until the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was also committed to weakening the power of these clans.
At present, Wu Zetian, a person of an improper status, ascended the throne, which naturally gave these clans a reason to attack her. In the face of such a dilemma, Wu Zetian was not soft,000, and since they refused to shut up, Wu Zetian used his own way to make them completely shut their mouths.
The jade girl ascending the ladder is a punishment for women invented by Wu Zetian, the name of this punishment is so good, but the content is very dirty, making the woman tremble with fear.
First, let those who have received this punishment remove their clothes, so that they can feel great shame.
Then, in front of them there was a pre-prepared ladder with very sharp awls on it, and then the women had a rope around their necks, and the executioners forced the women to climb such a ladder. If they don't climb, they are strangled with ropes. If they climb, they will be punctured by the awl on the ladder, and the more they climb, the more painful they are, the more bleeding, and eventually they will lose too much blood and die.
That is to say, when this punishment was designed, the women who were tortured were not allowed to live at all, and it was a complete torture for the officials who executed to see the death of the people.
Is there anything wrong with such a punishment? There were countless people who died in such an event, and the death was extremely painful, and no one wanted to come to suffer such a punishment themselves, so many people closed their mouths and no longer dared to talk nonsense against Wu Zetian's rule.
Although Wu Zetian successfully achieved her goal, she also gradually lost the hearts of the people, and when she was old, she originally wanted to become her nephew, but she was broken by Di Renjie's words, and only her son worshiped her parents, and no nephew worshiped her aunt. Even if Wu Zetian passed on his throne to the Wu family, what would she get in the end? A name for all eternity!
Moreover, although the strength of the martial family at that time was greatly increased under the strong support of Wu Zetian, compared with the whole world, the martial family was still just a grain of dust. Who can guarantee that Wu Zetian's nephew will enjoy the throne? If her nephew could not guarantee the throne, then whether Wu Zetian could be at peace in the mausoleum was probably a matter of certainty.
In this way, Wu Zetian eventually returned the throne to Li's descendants, and the Li-Tang Dynasty was able to continue in its entirety, and Wu Zetian was indeed at peace, and those who opposed her were happy that the Li family had regained the throne, and Wu Zetian's status was finally recognized. Everything about her right or wrong will be left to the wordless tablet to tell.
brief summary
The punishment of the Jade Girl ascending the ladder was a product of a special period, and such a torture was abolished after Wu Zetian. No courtier wanted his relatives to suffer such abuse, and no emperor was in the mood to see some people subjected to such inhuman treatment.
Wu Zetian, who used such a punishment, what did she finally get? The world eventually returned to the hands of Li's descendants, and she only left a curse to slaughter Li's descendants, which was really not worth the loss, perhaps the elderly Wu Zetian remembered everything she had done, and she would also feel that there was no definite number of things in the world.
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