When it comes to ancient criminal law, everyone may find it intolerable and particularly cruel. Indeed, sometimes I want to know who the people who are doing the punishment are, and have such vicious thoughts. Speaking of Ling Chi's execution, everyone is not unfamiliar, many costume dramas have used this word, which is probably the most cruel punishment that Xiaobian is familiar with. Today, I would like to tell you about the last person in history who was executed by Ling Chi, who was the most famous thief in the Guangxu years of our country, named Kang Xiaoba.
Kang Xiaoba has three donkeys in his family, which are used to pull goods for others for a living. Compared with the poor people, they are still relatively rich. Later, a rich man in the village took a fancy to his donkey, hoping that he could help himself pull goods along the way, and also bought a revolver, which had 300 bullets, and gave him to Kang Xiaoba to be his bodyguard.
But the rich man had a friend who told him that Kang Xiaoba was a bandit, and you wanted him to protect him, so you shouldn't give him a gun. You look at Kang Xiaoba's family with only three donkeys, and you, you don't have more than three donkeys in your family. You better get the gun back sooner. Later, the rich man asked Kang Xiaoba to return the gun to himself, and Kang Xiaoba said, If you are in trouble, I will not get it if I shoot the person with one shot, what are you going to do with it? This made the landlord even more frightened.
Later, on the way to collect the account, the rich man saw that the surrounding area was very desolate, and the more he walked, the more frightened he became, and he said that he wanted to return to the city. This Kang Xiaoba asked him if he was afraid, and if he was afraid, he would return the gun to him. The rich man was just about to pick up the gun when he was killed by Kang Xiaoba. Since then, Kang Xiaoba has been unscrupulous and non-stop. No one could stop him.
One day, Kang Xiaoba went to a barber shop for a haircut, and the shaver and the person sitting there waiting for Kang Xiaoba to shave his head said that Kang Xiaoba was a vicious person and would not be able to die in the future. After sorting it out, Kang Xiaoba asked, Do you know Kang Xiaoba? The two of them scolded Kang Xiaoba again. Kang Xiaoba smiled and said, Lao Tzu is Kang Eight Master, let you die today to understand, said pull out a pistol and killed these two people. Among them, there was also a customer waiting for a haircut, and Kang Xiaoba said to him, Today you have oral virtue, and Kang Baye left you to live for a few more days.
After this incident, Kang Xiaoba was wanted, so he hid in a place where the Qing court could not find it. Later, a long time later, he was touched outside by his cousin he knew. This cousin was a catcher, so he lied to Kang Xiaoba that his mother was critically ill and asked him to go back to see, but he did not expect that as soon as Kang Xiaoba returned, he was caught by Ma Yutang and others.
Later, Kang Xiaoba was sentenced to Ling Chi's execution, but not at three o'clock in the afternoon, but in the early morning. According to the law, lingchi executed people would cut a piece of skin on their foreheads to block their eyes, which was used to reduce the fear of prisoners. However, when the executioner wanted to cut Kang Xiaoba, Kang Xiaoba did not let him cover it, but instead told the executioner not to block his eyes, he wanted to see how the executioner killed himself.
At the time of the execution, he did not scream a word, which made the executioner think that he was very courageous, and in order to reduce his pain, he pierced his heart with a steel needle and understood him.