The only emperor in Chinese history to be lingchi, he was only 15 years old when he was tied to an ox cart and cut thousands of knives
China has a long history of thousands of years, during which 492 kings of all sizes were born, it is worth mentioning that the average life expectancy of the emperor, only 39 years old, is a proper high-risk occupation, this is still because of the rise and fall of various regimes, the regime has always changed uneasily, the way of dealing with the former monarchs in Chinese history, there are nothing more than two, the first is to quickly cut the chaos, such as the Sui Dynasty's Sui Emperor, who was strangled to death by the coup d'état Minister Yuwen Shu, and the Northern Qi Emperor Gao Yang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, after seizing the Wei Dynasty, A total of 721 members of the Yuan clan of the State of Wei were killed.
The second method was to appease, the most typical of which was Liu Chan, who was not thinking of Shu, and the Sima family made him the Duke of Anle, and The Han Xiandi Emperor, who was also crowned the Duke of Shanyang by Cao Pi, such a more moderate approach was conducive to the peaceful transfer of power and the continuation of the legitimacy of imperial power. When the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty went to Nanjing and saw the mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, it was still a great ritual of respectfully performing three prostrations and nine prayers to ease the contradictions between the nationalities.
To sum up, the imperial court either treated the past kings with courtesy or gave them a hard time, and would not do anything abusive, and in Chinese history, there was only one emperor who was executed by Ling Chi, the most cruel punishment in ancient times, and that was the last emperor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the son of the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan: the young heavenly king Hong Tianguifu.
In 1849, Hong Tianguifu was born in Guangdong, his mother was called Lai Lianying, that is, Hong Xiuquan later the Zhengyue Palace, when Hong Xiuquan was still living in Guangxi, after the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was raised, Hong Tianguifu's status also rose with the water, and he became the young lord of this rebellious regime as a baby.
Hong Tianguifu began to receive education when he was 6 years old, but the books he read were not Confucian classics, nor were they the enlightenment "Hundred Family Names", because Hong Xiuquan regarded these books as feudal poisons, and as a child, he was raised in the deep palace, personally educated by his sister, reading Hong Xiuquan's carefully selected "Taiping Salvation Commandment", "Taiping Salvation Commandment" and so on. These books are just the simplest reading materials for worshiping God, Hong Tianguifu's life can not be said to be unappreciative, from a young age, when he was 9 years old, Hong Xiuquan had already married him four wives and concubines.
However, as Hong Tianguifu gradually grew up, his mind was not fully mature due to his crippled education, and at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were Qing soldiers fiercely attacking, the upper echelons of the Inner Heavenly Kingdom had become corrupted and fell into a deep crisis, after the Tianjing Incident in 1856, Shi Da drove away, taking away a large number of elites, the situation in the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom took a sharp turn for the worse, and in 1864, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and Hong Tianguifu, who was still growing up in the greenhouse, became the nominal supreme leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
However, he was only a puppet, the military power and finances were controlled by Li Xiucheng, Hong Renda and others, and the edict was also issued by them to Hong Tianguifu, in this year, the Xiang army attacked into Tianjing, Hong Tianguifu fled in a hurry under the protection of Li Xiucheng, at this time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were still more than 100,000 people, but with the heavy blockade of the Qing army on the road, there were fewer and fewer people, 15-year-old Hong Tianguifu was scattered with the remnants when he fled to Jiangxi, and on the way to escape, he lacked social experience like a headless fly. Bumping around, they were soon seen by the Qing soldiers guarding the checkpoint.
On October 25, Hong Tianguifu was escorted to the Xi Baotian Barracks, and his identity was quickly revealed, and the successor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was captured, which was big news! The Qing court immediately sent Xu Benyong and Shen Baozhen, the prefect of Nanchang Province, for interrogation, and hong tianguifu's childishness and ignorance stunned them, and during the interrogation, Hong tianguifu repeatedly pushed the responsibility to his father and Li Xiucheng and others: "The things that fought in jiangshan were all done by the old heavenly king, and had nothing to do with me." Even after I ascended the throne, they were all done by the King of Gan and the King of Loyalty. And willing to be a Shunmin of the Qing Dynasty again: "Guangdong is not a good place, and I don't want to go back." I only want to go to Hunan with my grandfather to study, and I want to enter the show. Yes, really. ”
However, Hong Tianguifu's idea was still too naïve, after letting Hong Tianguifu explain all the matters, the Qing government naturally would not let him go, in order to set an example and deter the people, it also specially announced the sentence of Hong Tiangui Fu Lingchi, Shen Baozhen also believed that "Hong Fuyao (the Qing government mispronounced Hong Tianguifu's name as Hong Fuyao) Huangkou Xiao'er, there is no need to mind, but Hong Xiuquan has more than ten years of stealing the number, more than ten provinces of poison, and the legacy is still there, then the treacherous giant relies on his name, which is enough to summon the group of murderers." ”
Therefore, this 15-year-old descendant of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was tied to an ox cart in the center of the city of Cao and executed by Ling Chi, when the Qing government took the most severe measures and cut more than a thousand knives, and the viewers were all shocked.