Speaking of Li Wangsheng, we cannot but say his cruelty. This faint-hearted emperor who cultivates killing as a "performance art" may not be enough to describe it with only a few words that are mad and outrageous. The bloody images of his beast-like interpretation of the scenes that are almost crazy and perverted are always challenging the limits of people's endurance and impacting people's fragile nerves to the greatest extent.
There is no need to see it in person, just based on the simple records left by the history, it will make people feel frightened when they read it. "Raw cattle, sheep and horses, live flame chickens and guinea pigs and geese" ("Book of Jin"), is the most favorite trick of this emperor, looking at those skinned livestock, the poultry that have been lit on fire, screaming and dying, running and struggling above the empty hall, until the last bit of strength is exhausted, convulsing and dying, and The life is sitting on the side clapping hands and clapping. Perhaps it was this sensory stimulation that brought him psychological satisfaction. Even more frightening, he also "skinned people and made them sing and dance" (Tongjian), and we can imagine what a frightening and terrifying scene it was for a group of people who had been skinned alive to dance and sing in the main hall.
Former Qin was a political power established by the Hu people during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, and it was also the most beautiful period in the history of the Qi people. At one point, it won strongly in the midst of the crowd and reached its peak. And it was this once glorious kingdom, among its emperors, there was a fierce and fierce role, which almost caused the fate of the kingdom to die tragically.
Gongsheng (335-357) was the third emperor of Former Qin, the grandson of the founding emperor Gong Hong, and the last emperor of Xuanzhao, who later unified the north. King Li is a hypocrite after Hesheng was deposed and killed. In the explanation of the Fa, it is said that killing innocents is the best summary of The Cruel and Tyrannical Life of Zhisheng. In history, there is another person who was posthumously known as "King Li", that is, King Li of Zhou, who was blasted out of the capital during the "rebellion of the people". King Zhou Li used indiscriminate killing to stop slander and prevent people from discussing his right and wrong, in my opinion, perhaps more out of the original intention of consolidating the king's power, and using killing to maintain the majesty of the king is not necessarily really interested in killing. Compared with Li Wang, this emperor who seeks happiness in killing people and is obsessed with preparing his own tools to do it himself is a small witch.
Let's first take a look at the scene of the Shang Dynasty: according to the Zizhi Tongjian, when he saw the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs, he would "bend the bow and expose the blade", "hammer and claw saw and chisel, and prepare left and right". See who is not pleasing to the eye, copy the guy by the hand and greet, killing people is like playing. This is a matter of deliberation in the upper court, and it is clear that it is entering a hunting ground or a slaughterhouse. Moreover, the means are extremely cruel, "those who cut shins, pull threats, saw items, and cut tires, bibi have it." Soon after he ascended the throne, he killed more than five hundred ministers and palace maids. He was moody and strange-thinking, no one could guess, and you died without knowing what the reason. Once, Hesheng invited the courtiers and made Shang Shu Ling Xin a liquor supervisor, which was the role of beckoning everyone to persuade everyone to drink. Emperor Kai'en, according to the saying that this is a good thing, as a result, GongSheng saw that the crowd drank a lot, and there were actually not drunk (it seems that there are many people with a large amount of alcohol), without saying a word, bending the bow and arrow, he shot Xin Gao to death, that means, how do you persuade the wine, how can there be standing. At this time, who dared not rivet to drink, so the group of ministers "do not dare not to get drunk, the servant lost the crown", the scene was a mess, and Xiang Sheng was happy.
In a dream at night, Hesheng dreamed that the big fish ate pu grass (the surname of Zhi was originally surnamed Pu, and later Zhi Hong changed his surname to "Cao Fu Ying Wang" in the Chinese character). So he killed the Taishi Yuzun family, and this fish with the surname was also guilty. Zuo Guanglu's doctor Qiang Ping had the courage to advise Gongsheng to "suspend the punishment of Chongde", and Qiangsheng "chiseled the top and killed him". Chisel the head with a chisel, and he will go down. Due to his addiction to killing, it didn't take long for him to "honor his old relatives and curse them all", which made the people up and down the country panic. "The group of subjects must be saved for one day, such as ten years", you can think of the horror atmosphere at that time. Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor Niu Yi, really can't bear the pressure of this atmosphere, Shangqu requested to be transferred to the local work, so as to hide from The Distant Point, Xiang Sheng said are you not a suspect official, or you do the position of the fish, Niu Yi was frightened, and went home and committed suicide.
To say that there are several kinds of cruel emperors, those who step on the throne with tired white bones often cultivate cold-blooded domineering spirit, and become more and more iron-hearted and fierce in the struggle for power; killing people for pleasure, doing the most cruel things, it is called hand cruelty; the nature of killing, almost perverted, is both cruel and cruel. Gong Sheng is a master of great achievements, a very fierce master. There were tigers and wolves eating people outside Chang'an City, and for the sake of the people, the courtiers asked the government to take care of it, and Xiang Sheng said: "If the beast is hungry, it will eat people, and it will stop itself when it is full. ("Tongjian"), the beast is hungry, of course, eats people, and when it is full, it will be fine, no matter what it does, is this a human word, dare not eat him.
Speaking of government and government, it is even more absurd. Drinking is the second favorite hobby of Zhisheng, drinking day and night, often not going up to the dynasty for a month, and the upper dynasty is also "killing by drunkenness", for subordinates, it is better not to go up! If you want to talk about absurdity and shamelessness, no one is out of the way. According to the Book of Jin, Gongsheng often "sent palace people to have naked sex with men in front of the temple" in order to seek excitement. On one occasion, when he met two brothers and sisters on the road, he "forced them to be indecent" and forced them to have intercourse, and if the two did not comply, they killed them in anger, which was simply inferior to animals and beasts. In the face of such a faint emperor, the country could not last long, and the foundation of the empire created by poor Hero Hong I soon became tired. After a drunken drink, Zhisheng threatened to kill his cousin Zhijian, and finally forced Zhijian to launch a coup d'état, abolishing and killing this rare cruel emperor in history, which also saved Former Qin who was on the verge of extinction, and created a powerful imperial myth in the history of the Xian clan.
So, why is Ituki so cruel and murderous? In my opinion, the reason may come from three aspects: one is the congenital defect of the birthright; the second is the personality experience; and the third is the tutoring tradition. People's congenital physiological defects can easily lead to the distortion and deformation of the mind and the formation of psychological defects. He was a one-eyed dragon from a young age, and perhaps it is precisely because of this that he has the absurd behavior of "young and rogue" ("Book of Jin"); physical inferiority and mental distortion will also directly affect the development and formation of human character. After growing up, he was physically strong and "brave and easy to kill" ("Book of Jin"), an outlaw, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Huan Wen Northern Expedition, once single-handedly killed into the enemy position, beheading dozens of people. Perhaps in the midst of this fierce fighting and killing, some psychological satisfaction can be sought.
As for the tradition of tutoring, it is even more dare not compliment. People with physical defects may not be psychopathic, depending on how to educate and cultivate the day after tomorrow, how to guide. Looking at these two passages of the General Book, we may be able to get a glimpse of one or two from them. His grandfather Gong Hong once teased Zhi Sheng: "I smell a tear from a blind child, believe it?" I heard the one-eyed dragon shed tears, is that right? To say that his grandfather's brain is estimated to have entered the water, you ask why? Tease is not so funny, in front of the gun to say short words, this is not okay to find trouble? What hurts the grandson so much! It is also reasonable to say that the eyes are urgent, people have self-esteem, children are no exception, and children with physical defects will be more sensitive.
However, The behavior of Zhisheng was somewhat shocking, "leading the sabre to stab himself to bleed", picking up the knife and slashing at his face, the blood crackled down, saying: "This is also a tear", which means that you are wrong, the one-eyed dragon can also have two lines of tears, and the temper is explosive enough! When he was dying, he said to Him, "If the Liuyi chieftain and the ministers who hold power do not obey ru orders, it is advisable to get rid of them gradually." His last words were not to teach him who to trust and who to rely on to govern the country and rejuvenate the country, but to tell him that the generals and ministers would do away with them who dared not obey your orders. Do you think that teaching your son in this way can teach well? Mr. Sima Guang wrote that this was all emotional, saying that the ministers who accepted the will were used to assist the next term, to protect the emperor's wings, "for the wings of the feathers to teach the scissors, can not be killed!" "Cutting one's wings is tantamount to killing oneself, how nice it is to say!"