I believe that many friends who have studied the ancient penal system will know that there is a kind of punishment called liyi, which prevailed in the Ming Dynasty, and is much more cruel than beheading, car splitting, corpse splitting, waist beheading, and Ling Chi. Because although the five punishments mentioned earlier are also cruel, they are all so short for a few seconds, and the pain will only appear in those few seconds. The execution process of the shackles is a long process, and without the executioner, it is completely the prisoner himself who slowly tortures himself to death, and this punishment has also been published in the newspapers of the US imperialists.
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Li shackles this kind of punishment may not be heard of by many people, literally, in layman's terms, it is a rectangular wooden shelf, similar to a wooden cage, hollow in the middle, which can fix the prisoner's head, in the "Water Margin", Lin Chong was exiled with wooden shackles, and later in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the weight of the wooden shackles was increased to nearly one hundred pounds. This doesn't seem so terrible, after all, it hasn't been directly beheaded. But what we are talking about today is a standing shackle, which is completely different from Lin Chong's wooden shackle.
The shackles are similar to the kind of cages used to transport death row prisoners to the execution ground, which can fix the neck of the prisoner, but unlike it, the height of the inside of the shackle is higher than the height of the prisoner, and the prisoner has to tiptoe vigorously in order to prevent being suffocated, trying to share some weight on his neck, but in the process of long execution, the prisoner will still be exhausted and finally suffocate. The cruelty of this punishment is that his execution time is very long, and he does not have to bother the executioner, and it is completely carried out by the prisoner himself.
Seeing that some people here want to ask, who is so lacking in morality to invent such a harmful thing? Xiaobian consulted the relevant ancient books and found that the inventor of this punishment was named Liu Jin, a eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. So what was Liu Jin's motivation for inventing this thing? There is a saying that Liu Jin was arrested by the imperial court as a eunuch and was very wronged by the palace punishment, so Liu Jin invented such a torture device in order to retaliate, and after the invention came out, it immediately became one of the punishments of the Ming Dynasty.
Later, during the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he once asked the ministers around him how the Ming Dynasty's punishment was executed, and after listening to the descriptions of the ministers, the Chongzhen Emperor sighed: "This punishment is not benevolent, and it is not comparable to the style of the Ming Dynasty." Later, Liu Jin, the inventor of the Li Shackles, was found from his home with a large amount of gold and silver, which was enough to make people stunned, and was sentenced to more than 3,000 knives by Ling Chi as an example. Later, the Wall Street Journal in the United States also listed Liu Jin as the richest person in China at that time.
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