In ancient times, many people may have expected to say that the most well-paid occupations were paid. This profession is none other than the infamous executioner who carries out executions before leaving.
With the spread of major film and television dramas, people have the impression that these executioners often drink a large bowl of wine before executing death row prisoners, and then spray it in the execution knife to make it more bright and sharp, and then the knife flashes by, and a round and slippery head is decapitated.
It is precisely because the executioner's hands are stained with blood that the profession is not popular, and the decent characters who are killed by the executioners in the TV series often make people full of hatred for the unsympathetic executioners.
Of course, not all prisoners to be beheaded will be kneeling on the execution ground waiting for death, and many times the executioner will also leave people under the knife. Just like the plot in the TV series, just as the executioner was executing, a fast horse suddenly rushed into the execution ground and shouted "leave someone under the knife", and these executioners would often suddenly put away the knife and stop the execution.
However, most people are skeptical about these plots, believing that people like executioners who are brutal and murderous are often murderous and do not care about the lives of prisoners, and these plots often can only exist in film and television dramas, which is simply impossible in reality.
But in fact, the scene constructed in the TV series is actually not a problem, in reality, these executioners often in time to collect their knives in various emergencies, leaving the prisoner's life, there will be no such scene as directly cutting off the head with a knife.
So why did these executioners just close their hands in time and let these death row inmates go? In fact, there are three main reasons.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > take people's money and eliminate disasters for people</h1>
Among the ancient professions, if you want to say that the most well-paid, it must be the executioner, this is because the ancients have a kind of "heaven has the virtue of good life", thinking that killing people is very unlucky, will damage the blessings and morals, so often no one does it.
Of course, in the ancient era when the productive forces were not developed, there were always people who were desperate for various reasons; and in order to survive, they would take care of what blessings and yin virtues, so it was not without people who wanted to be executioners.
Of course, the executioner is not something that anyone wants to do, and the requirements of the government for the executioner are often very high, and it is difficult for the vast majority of people to reach. First, the executioner must have the courage to be bold and not afraid of blood; the second is that the executioner should be strong and have a clean hand.
For the first point, it is easy to understand, after all, the beheading is bloody, and if a person who is afraid of killing even a chicken is an executioner, I am afraid that he will not cut others, but cut himself.
After all, if the executioner's strength is not large, it is often impossible to kill the prisoner with a knife, which will make the prisoner add countless pain to the plain, which is naturally more unacceptable to people.
If you think about the execution ground, countless people are watching, and an executioner holding a large knife slashes at the prisoners like a bone, which is undoubtedly a major blow to the prestige of the government.
In summary, people who can be executioners are often extremely rare, and the salaries and treatment given by the government are often particularly high, such as the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the basic high salary, they will also give beheading allowances, and a few silver or two for a person's head is often worth one or two months of ordinary families.
Of course, some executioners will also make the blood of prisoners into blood buns according to the superstitious ideas of the people, and then sell them at a high price. And a steamed bun can often be sold for a very high price.
In addition, in order to reduce the pain of prisoners, many prisoners' families often stuff the executioner with a very rich red envelope, so that the executioner can be sharp when beheading, so that the prisoner will not be tortured, or accommodate the death row inmate to live for one more minute.
As the saying goes, take people's money to eliminate disasters for people, and when they receive other people's money, they naturally have to do things for people, so the executioner will naturally take more care of the death row inmates, unless it is really irreparable, otherwise the executioner will not behead easily.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > executioners don't want to get out of the ordinary</h1>
For the executioner, what he wants is not to kill people to satisfy his animal desires, but to seek wealth, so it is not a crime to embarrass these death row inmates.
For them, as long as the death row prisoner has no head on the ground, then things will have some turnaround, as long as there is a turnaround, then they should be a smooth person, one is to accumulate merit for themselves, and the other is to avoid offending some people.
After all, the death row inmates who can make people rush into the court on horseback and shout "leave people under the knife" must have a wide network of relations, and they are not so good to deal with, if they are people in the government, then it means that the death row inmates have great power and can change the verdict or otherwise. If you don't stop, isn't that offending these powerful people?
It would be even more remarkable if Pegasus came from the rivers and lakes, these people often formed groups, and it was difficult to ensure that they would not lose their lives by retaliating against the prisoners themselves.
Therefore, when it comes to their own rice bowl and life, executioners often practice a good knife technique, which can cut off the head with a knife neatly, and can also be held in time when swinging the knife, and will not hack the prisoner to death due to inertia.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > law</h1>
Since ancient times, the way our country has governed the country is the external Confucianism and internal law, and the official government itself is very cautious about formulating laws, not only combining the background of the times and the etiquette of human ethics, but also often full of humane Guan Hui, leaving many prisoners with a certain amount of room for redemption.
Of course, the premise is not to commit crimes such as treason, which are extremely almost unforgivable.
Just like the 13 words stipulated in the Song Law: Those who are on death row who are about to be sentenced to death will be questioned again. This is due to the fact that ancient science and technology are not as developed as they are now, and many cases will produce misjudgments or heavy sentences, so in order to avoid unjust cases, the lawmakers allow death row inmates to cry out for justice in order to protect their own interests, and then retry the case.
Therefore, in ancient times, the execution of a prisoner was often very cautious, and it was often clear after many trials before he was beheaded. Of course, this autumn beheading is also to give death row inmates some time to change their sentences by giving them other clues to prove their innocence.
Therefore, many people think that county orders often rely on their own subjective assumptions, and although county orders have the power and responsibility to judge cases and punish crimes, these cases often have to be sent to a higher level or even higher legal department for trial again, and only after checking that they are correct can they be sentenced.
Therefore, for executioners, there are naturally many people who shout injustice, and they naturally do not behead at will in order to avoid wrongful killing, but need to ensure that the crime of the prisoner is correct and there is no room for recovery before the knife falls.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > conclusion</h1>
In this world, people will always get something and then lose something. For executioners, although their money is well paid, they can often earn the money that others earn in a lifetime after a few months of working.
But because of the peculiarities of their profession, they are often discriminated against by others, and they are not welcomed by others, and they cannot even find a wife. Even if there is, most of them are prone to cutting off their children and grandchildren, and the offspring either die early or are plagued by diseases.
Heaven has its own virtue of good life, and there is its own luck and fruitfulness in the underworld, and I think we still need to respect and fear life.