The melon of Wu Yifan, the top of the entertainment industry, has been fermenting on the Internet for some time, and recently it has finally had preliminary results.
At 22:30 on July 31, the Beijing Chaoyang police media platform released a police intelligence circular saying that Wu Yifan had been criminally detained by the Chaoyang Public Security Bureau.
According to the analysis of relevant legal circles on the Internet, this notice shows that the police have preliminary evidence of Wu Yifan's suspected sexual crimes.
It is foreseeable that Wu Yifan's team will certainly not sit still like this, and round after round of legal confrontation between Wu Yifan's team and the local police and prosecutors will be inevitable in the future.
However, all this is not the topic that will be discussed today in this article, what we are concerned about is: if Wu Yifan's case occurred in ancient times, how would it be judged?
Wu Yifan
First look at the Song Dynasty, the song dynasty's penal laws are relatively loose among various feudal dynasties.
But even so, forcibly having sex against a woman's will is still a felony.
The provisions in the Song Penal Code stipulate:
"The strong rapists (female pickers under the age of one, though the same as the same), liu san li, with the far evil state: unsuccessful, with Wu Baili."
This means that those who commit such acts will be punished by exile for three thousand miles and sent to remote and poor living conditions for hard labor.
In addition, the song dynasty law also stipulates that if the victim is a young girl under the age of ten, even if both parties are willing, they will be punished according to the above punishment.
Such a case was recorded in the Song Barnyard Banknote:
Luo Dianzi Chunbo was a native of Gao'an County, Song Chongren County. He had adjudicated such a case when he was in charge of Zhejiang Cang and concurrently served as the chief executive of Pingjiang Province.
A servant borrowed a lot of money from his master, but refused to return it.
The owner expelled him from his home and filed a lawsuit with the government to recover the money he owed.
This servant was a scoundrel, and instead of repaying the money, he took the initiative to admit to the government that he had had an affair with his master's concubine, with the intention of tarnishing his master's reputation.
After Luo Dian found out that there was nothing wrong with it, he ruled: "Although what the servant said is not true, since he himself admits it, he should be punished accordingly according to the law." ”
He was sentenced to exile and imprisonment for the crimes he confessed.
This case shows that the Song Dynasty not only had such provisions in law for sexual crimes, but also enforced them in practical application.
Speaking of the Dynasty, according to the provisions of the "Great Ming Law and Adultery":
"The rapist hangs, the unsuccessful one, the rod flows a hundred and three thousand miles." Whoever is under the age of twelve, although he is the same as the same"
This means that those who forcibly have sex against the woman's will are sentenced to hanging.
Those who attempted were punished with a hundred rods and exiled for three thousand miles.
If the victim is less than twelve years old, even if both parties are willing, they will be dealt with severely.
It can be seen that the laws of the Ming Dynasty were actually stricter than those of the Song Dynasty to a large extent.
Wu Yifan's so-called "sleeping powder" behavior, if placed in the Ming Dynasty, is likely to be worried about his life.
Moreover, this is still the provision in the "Great Ming Law", as we all know, the "Great Ming Law" of the Ming Dynasty has been revised countless times, and its punishment is already quite relaxed compared to the "Great Commandment" formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang in that year.
If he encountered Zhu Yuanzhang, the killing god, I am afraid that he would not face the terrible encounter of Ling Chi's execution.
To sum up, in fact, the different periods of ancient times had commonalities in the identification of rape crimes.
That is, based on the principle of protecting minors, a strict and serious approach has been adopted.
Unlike modern times, where eighteen is the age of eighteen as the criterion for juveniles, in the Ming Dynasty it was twelve years old, and in the Song Dynasty it was even younger, only ten years old.
Wu Yifan should be glad that he lived in modern times, if he had been in ancient times, his behavior would probably have been life-threatening, and even if he did not, he would have been exiled for three thousand miles and served the punishment of hard labor.
Either way, it was enough for him to drink a pot!
References: "Daming Law", "Song Penal System", "Song Barnyard Banknotes", etc
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