In ancient China, rulers often did not treat prisoners with kindness. In this case, in order to get the information you want or just to punish others, various forms of punishment arise. Among them, the punishment invented by Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be one of the leaders.
In particular, there is a paper-only punishment that is even more cruel, it allows the prisoner to be destroyed mentally and physically without a drop of blood, and generally in this way, even if the tortured warrior is a strong warrior, the torturer can quickly produce useful information.
The role of punishment
Recall that the state system of china's successive dynasties has great problems, and the corrupt officials derived from them are innumerable, including the late Yuan Dynasty.
Political corruption led to an increase in peasant uprisings. It was also at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang took his own forces and cut through thorns all the way to establish his own dynasty.
It is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang has seen the shortcomings of the previous dynasty that he has continuously strengthened his power, so the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most strengthened period of china's monarchy.
Of course, the excessive concentration of the monarch's power also has its own drawbacks, in order to solve this situation, Zhu Yuanzhang used torture to make up for it.
Under this strong and repressive rule, officials of all ranks were careful to restrain themselves from being punished by torture.
Since torture was invented to strengthen deterrence, it is naturally cruel in any case.
But this kind of punishment is still very useful for some extremely vicious people, after all, death is not terrible to live and torture is the most painful.
Perhaps the criminal law really worked, or perhaps the power in the hands of officials was too small, and the Ming Dynasty under Zhu Yuanzhang's torture and suppression was also a major period of the most honest and incorruptible Ming officials.
Penalties have increased
Zhu Yuanzhang has experienced the ups and downs of life, and it is also extremely difficult to step up to the position of emperor step by step. Under the influence of the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, he understood the importance of being loyal to those available.
That's what made him
Envy is like hatred
He has a nitpicking personality, absolutely intolerant of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and never soft on civilians who make mistakes.
Zhu Yuanzhang used several kinds of torture, one was peeling solid grass, and the other was sucking intestines.
A large part of the peeling grass is aimed at some corrupt officials, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born at the bottom, is well aware of the harm of corrupt officials to society.
This punishment is to peel off the skin of a person, stuff his body with straw, and make a scarecrow. Human skin straw will be displayed in the most lively places on the street, everyone can spit on, the prisoners themselves are tortured, and even the whole family cannot lift their heads.
Another punishment, the intestines are even more bloody, as the name suggests, is to pull the intestines out of the body.
Usually, at the beginning of this punishment, the prisoner will not die directly, and watch his intestines be withdrawn from the body little by little.
This process is not just the physical torture of the prisoner, but more psychological. It is precisely because these two punishments are too cruel, so they have been sealed in the dust after Zhu Yuanzhang's death.
Stickers
Tiejiaguan is a very Sven title, but it is also one of the punishments invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is relatively not too bloody and is used the most times.
This kind of criminal law seems simple, just a piece of paper and a basin of water, but it is the most desperate of them. The whole process does not bleed,
But the prisoner has always been on the verge of suffocation, the psychological defense line has been constantly collapsing, and there is naturally no end to what the executioner asks.
Aka Kaijiaguan, a piece of wet paper is placed on a prisoner's face. The prisoner's body does not need to be punished in any way, it just needs to be firmly tied to the bench.
As the punishment progressed, pieces of soaked paper were pasted on the prisoner's face. At first, it was only a little difficult to breathe, but as the number of papers increased, the human brain began to lack oxygen. Because there is not much bloodshed, this criminal law will last a long time, and the pain of the whole process will continue to deepen.
In the course of the execution, the life of the prisoner is constantly checked.
If the prisoner confesses, he straightens his legs. If you have not been recruited, you will post a piece of paper, and most people will not survive the fifth. After the execution, the paper attached to the face is removed, and the person's facial features are reproduced on the paper. Just like the mask of China's ancient traditional festival "Jumping Officials", this is also the origin of the name of this criminal law.
epilogue:
China's ancient criminal law methods were too cruel, so now one by one are sealed up and no longer reused.
But combined with the society at that time, these punishments still had their own reasons for existence.
For some corrupt officials who poison the people and harm the people, the crimes they commit are only physical punishment, and sometimes they are not enough.
Although these criminal law methods were very cruel, to a certain extent, they also effectively curbed the wanton nature of corrupt officials, which was still somewhat beneficial in the society at that time.