In ancient China, rulers often invented all kinds of terrible punishments to intimidate the people and emphasize the authority of the government. This practice is obviously cruel and inhumane, but in ancient times it was the most powerful means.
Because the feudal system existed for more than two thousand years, successive dynasties and dynasties can really be described as a hundred flowers and many ways in the study of punishment. As folklore says, by the time of the Qing Dynasty, there were already the so-called Ten Great Tortures, each of which could make people scatter.
Each of these punishments is very terrible, and some of them have become terrible and labor-saving, truly making the souls of the victims fly away and letting the people who carry them out wander leisurely! For example, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty is said to have invented a punishment that only requires a comb and a pot to scatter the souls of all female prisoners. So what's going on here?
In history, Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor from an ordinary person, so this emperor did not have the reservedness of traditional aristocrats, on the contrary, there were many folk grounded ideas.
For example, when Zhu Yuanzhang cracked down on corrupt officials, he would not be like aristocratic officials, paying attention to punishment and not being able to go to the doctor, and leaving some face for officials and nobles. Zhu Yuanzhang directly demanded that all corrupt officials and corrupt officials be either castrated or skinned, or directly let the common people grab them and go to Beijing to file a complaint.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, the officials did not have a little sacred color, and the nobles were only his slaves who bullied the common people, and some people violated the law and committed crimes, so they must let their ancestors shame him for eighteen generations.
Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang was looked down upon by many readers at that time, and was even more rejected by the aristocracy, so later generations of history books have said that Zhu Yuanzhang was ugly and cruel.
It should be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is not ugly, and what Zhu Yuanzhang did was for the common people, and these were all slandered by the pen. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's brutality is also real, and his cruelty even makes the nobles despair.
According to historical records, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he set up a special secret service agency, which was called the JinyiWei. In many TV series, JinyiWei is a group of very handsome and cool masters, a flying fish suit, an embroidered spring knife, so handsome that people dare not blink.
But in fact, the Jinyi Guard set up by Zhu Yuanzhang was not at all for the purpose of playing a handsome man, but for the purpose of comprehensively supervising these corrupt officials and nobles. Moreover, in addition to supervision, Jinyiwei was also desperately punishing these officials and establishing a desperate mentality in their hearts.
In order to truly make the officials afraid, Zhu Yuanzhang authorized Jinyiwei to invent various terrible punishments, including tiger stools, waterboarding, castration, and Ling Chi. All in all, each punishment was horrific, and most officials made public attempts.
For example, in that year, a corrupt official broke the law and committed a crime, and as a result, the local people went to Zhu Yuanzhang to complain, but under the protection of the officials, some officials intercepted them in the middle. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang not only stripped the corrupt official alive, but also castrated the official who stopped people. It is said that the castration process was very tragic, not at all like a purification, this person died of fear and pain, as well as heavy bleeding, and died a tragic word.
Of course, in addition to Jin Yiwei's own invention of this strange punishment, Zhu Yuanzhang also personally put forward his own suggestions. It should be known that Zhu Yuanzhang is a person from the folk, and he once begged for food, so his knowledge is very wide, and his hands-on ability is extremely strong, it is said that he came up with a very wonderful trick, called the punishment of grooming.
Listening to the name seems to be dressing up a woman, but in fact this punishment is extremely terrible, especially when targeting women, it only needs to be shown to make ninety percent of female prisoners directly obey the law. So what is the charm of this criminal law?
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had also personally killed pigs in the past, and he liked the scene of shaving pigs the most, so Zhu Yuanzhang had a wonderful idea to involve the process of killing pigs in the process of torturing people.
According to records, the props for this punishment are simple, requiring only a comb and a pot. Of course, the comb must be an iron comb, and the pot must be an iron pot that boils water.
At the time of the actual execution, the guards would strip the prisoner of his clothes and fix it to the bed. Usually, he lies on the bed and then pours boiling water from the pot on him continuously. This process will make a series of stinging sounds, and it will also be accompanied by the wailing of people.
However, under normal circumstances, people will not be burned to death immediately, but will only be hurt to faint. But the guards on the other side would keep pouring cold water on the prisoner's face to keep him awake. And at the same time, when the person's back is gradually burned by boiling water, the iron comb comes. The comb will comb the flesh of the prisoner's back as hard as a woman's scalp.
The meat is already cooked, and then under the sharp combing of the iron comb, it will inevitably lead to the separation of flesh and bones, and the scene will be extremely bloody and violent. There is no doubt that the prisoner who was about to die, who had already been boiled in boiling water, would let out an even more miserable cry under this torture.
To put it bluntly, this punishment is very simple, but it is even more terrible than Ling Chi's execution, and after basically completing the criminal law, the prisoner is left with only a skeleton.
Generally speaking, the tortured men basically can't last long, and they will die without a corpse, if you use this punishment to treat women, it is even more terrifying, most of the female prisoners do not dare to participate directly, they have been frightened or scared to death.
In fact, such punishments are more lethal for female prisoners, why? Because on the one hand, this kind of punishment can destroy a woman's nature of loving beauty, and on the other hand, it can make women suffer psychological torture in addition to suffering under the concept of chastity.
You must know that any woman, even if it is just an ugly woman, does not want her body to become a pile of rotten flesh, and at that time, women paid attention to not exposing their bodies, but this punishment had to be stripped naked, and after the punishment was dealt with, it was also displayed outside. This is simply a kind of social death after death, and no female prisoner dares to bear it.
Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang punished corruption cases and targeted foreign female spies, as long as this punishment was revealed, the families of those corrupt officials would not hesitate to confess the corruption incidents in their families, and as for those female spies, naturally they could not stop it, whether it was Arutai or Mahamu, it was all confessed regardless of their disregard.
It was precisely by relying on these terrible punishments that Zhu Yuanzhang successfully became the most terrifying king in the minds of all nobles and officials. So that later, whenever corrupt officials mention Zhu Yuanzhang, they will be frightened and trembling, and even when corrupt officials go to harass the people, when they encounter a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in someone else's home, they will be frightened and kneel, which shows how terrible Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment was back then.
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