Zhu Yuanzhang's horrific and bloody reign;
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the most murderous emperors in the mainland's ancient history, who violently overthrew the Yuan Dynasty while ruling the Ming Dynasty violently.
Zhu Yuanzhang's reign can be described by the word bloody, and his reign is called "iron-blooded Ming" by the world.
In order to consolidate the imperial power and let future generations sit firmly in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate to bloody slaughter those heroes and good buddies who fought the world with him.
During the thirty years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, almost all the founding fathers and military generals of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered by him.
In order to consolidate his rule, Zhu Yuanzhang invented many cruel punishments, such as: peeling and pulling grass, cutting off fingers and hands, cutting knees, picking tendons, and so on.
Due to the psychological trauma left by Zhu Yuanzhang's grief when he was a child, he has always disliked and disgusted those corrupt officials in his heart.
Under his bloody rule, he suffered more than tens of thousands of victims, and the bloody crimes he committed were horrific, and his torture was also terrifying to corrupt officials.
In 1392, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree that as long as he embezzled more than 60 taels of silver, it would be equivalent to about 40,000 yuan now, not only beheading them for public display, but also peeling off their skins and filling them with straw.
Therefore, later generations also gave Zhu Yuanzhang another nickname called "Zhu Papi", which means that Zhu Yuanzhang's killing is all based on his mood, just like stepping on an ant to death.
You must know that the income of officials in the Ming Dynasty is very low, for example: the monthly salary of Zhengyipin Daguan is 1,000 stones, which is about 170,000 yuan when converted into RMB, while the monthly salary of Jiupin "Sesame Official" is only 1,000 stones, and the annual income is less than 10,000 yuan.
If the officials of the Ming Dynasty wanted to rely on their wages to support a large family, they could only solve the problem of food and clothing, and if they wanted to live a chic and nourishing life, it would definitely be a fool's dream.
Therefore, in order to pursue a decent and prosperous life, many officials often go to great lengths to embezzle, take bribes, and make extra money to supplement their families.
It seems that the root cause of corrupt officials and corrupt officials still lies in Zhu Yuanzhang, who is reluctant to give high salaries to officials, so low salaries have caused the rampant corruption in the Ming Dynasty.
If Zhu Yuanzhang was too cruel to the officials to peel the skin, then he was even cruel to his beloved concubines;
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Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's biological mother was tortured to death by Zhu Yuanzhang with "iron skirt punishment".
On the night of July 15, 1368, there were bursts of wailing and screaming in the Daming Palace, which was terrifying, and it turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang was torturing his beloved concubine.
Because Zhu Di's biological mother, Concubine 碽 (gōng), gave birth to a child before 10 months when she gave birth to Zhu Di, which means that Zhu Di was a premature baby.
Due to the lack of medical knowledge of Zhu Yuanzhang, she did not know enough about premature birth, so she suspected that she was pregnant and gave birth after having an affair with someone.
The editor will tell you what is "iron skirt punishment":
The so-called "iron skirt punishment" is a skirt made of iron sheets for the inmate to wear, which looks like a piece of shiny fish scales from the outside.
Then the prisoner is hung on the fire and slowly roasted until the iron piece is burned red, at this time, the skin and flesh of the prisoner are scorched and smoking, and finally he dies of anger, and the tragic situation is self-evident.
Zhu Di's biological mother, Concubine Qi, was sentenced to an "iron skirt" by Zhu Yuanzhang in this way, and was tortured to death in grief and anger.
The first of the "Ten Tortures" of the Ming Dynasty - "the punishment of grooming";
The punishment of grooming
According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang reigned for 31 years and created the "Ten Great Tortures" of the Ming Dynasty, executing as many as 150,000 corrupt officials.
Among the "Ten Tortures", the most cruel is the "grooming punishment", especially female prisoners are most afraid of this punishment, and almost no one can survive to the end.
According to the late Ming Dynasty literati Shen Wen's "Records of the First Politics of the Holy Monarch":
At the beginning of the country, in addition to Ling Chi's execution, there was a brush to wash the brace (naked), an iron bed, a boiling soup, and an iron broom to brush off the skin and flesh.
At first glance, the name of "Punishment of Grooming" sounds very elegant, and the tools required are simple: a simple iron bed, a comb, and a pot of boiling water.
The grooming mentioned here is not a woman's grooming, but a very cruel punishment.
Of course, the comb used for execution is different from the comb we usually use to comb our hair, its whole body is made of iron, and the comb is densely packed with sharp steel needles.
Before the execution, the executioners stripped the female prisoner of her clothes, placed her on a special iron bed with her back up, and tied her limbs with ropes to prevent them from moving during the execution.
This Zhu Yuanzhang is really ruthless, a big country and a country of etiquette, he actually deprived the prisoner of his self-esteem in front of the public and in front of everyone, which even male criminals feel ashamed and embarrassed, let alone female prisoners.
Then the executioner scooped up a scoop of hot water and poured it on the prisoner repeatedly, and after a while, the prisoner's body was scalded to the point that his flesh was opened.
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Next, the executioner took an iron comb, starting from the prisoner's back, and combed it down little by little until the flesh was completely exposed and the body was completely exposed.
At this time, someone will pour a basin of cold water on the victim's head to keep him awake and force him to feel the unbearable pain.
The most unbearable thing is that the executioner also gags the victim's mouth with linen strips to prevent him from biting his tongue and killing himself, or crying and swearing loudly.
Some of the tortured people often died of exhaustion before they could survive the execution, and the death was extremely miserable.
And the most terrifying thing is that the executioner can still accurately grasp the number of times to pour boiling water and the strength of the iron brush.
Basically, the victim will not die of pain in advance, so that the entire execution process can be completed smoothly.
Therefore, the punishment of "grooming punishment" is even more terrible than "execution at the end of the year".
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang invent the "punishment of grooming"?
Childhood Zhu Yuanzhang
Because Zhu Yuanzhang's family was very poor when he was a child, he often did not have enough to eat, so in order to be able to eat enough, he helped rich people kill pigs to earn money.
When killing a pig, it is scalded with boiling water first, and then the hair on the pig is removed, and the whole process is quite cruel.
may have been too shocking at that time, and it also left an indelible imprint on Zhu Yuanzhang's young heart.
Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, every time he thought of the pain of the process of killing pigs, if it was applied to people, it would definitely make people feel the pain to the greatest extent, so he invented the "punishment of grooming".
But in history, there are also people who have been "groomed" to the end, according to the "Old Tang Book. The Biography of Huan Yan Fan records:
Wu Sansi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, used the "punishment of grooming" against Huan Yanfan, who was in the "service".
"Shizhong" is the prime minister's subordinate officer, and his official position is second only to the prime minister, and his rank is equivalent to our current vice chairman.
Wu Sansi hated Huan Yanfan's participation in the "Shenlong Coup" to force his aunt Wu Zetian to abdicate, and was worried that Huan Yanfan would gradually eradicate the Wu clan next.
In front of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, he kept saying bad things about Huan Yanfan, and after Li Xian listened to the slander, he demoted Huan Yanfan and other five kings to the throne and exiled them to the frontier.
Wu Sansi
Wu Sansi also falsely passed on the holy decree and instructed the "Imperial History" Zhou Lizhen to persecute Huan Yanfan and carry out the "punishment of grooming" on him.
After Huan Yanfan suffered the "punishment of grooming", he did not lose his breath, and Zhou Lizhen ordered him to be beaten to death with a stick at the age of 54.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant rebel army, also used the torture of "grooming punishment".
According to the dynasty's "Jiashen Dynasty Affairs, Zhang Xianzhongji":
The generals killed more than 60,000 men and women.
After Zhang Xianzhong occupied Chengdu, he frantically slaughtered the Sichuan people, resulting in the famous "Zhang Xianzhong slaughtering Sichuan" in history, resulting in the loss of the population of Chengdu Prefecture in Sichuan, and only a few dozen families were left on the huge land.
Epilogue:
Although the "grooming punishment" was later abolished because it was considered too inhumane, there were not a few prisoners who died painfully as a result of this torture.
It was with these horrific punishments that Zhu Yuanzhang became the most terrifying emperor in the hearts of everyone in the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, these tragic punishments were abolished, and we live in today's legal society, where men and women are equal, everyone can live a happy life, and there will never be such punishments again!
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