Chapter 432: Torture (I)

"Rare Collection" is a magical book, the one in my hand mainly introduces all the rare beasts in the world, originally I thought that the other half of the book was the same, nothing more than a detailed introduction to some strange secret techniques, but I kept seeing the dawn, the half of the book that Xiao Jiang gave me browsed, the real book really surprised me more and more. Forgive me for being so nagging, and constantly emphasizing the magic of this book, if you knew what I saw, I am afraid that you would be as naïve as I am.

The other half of the "Collection of Curiosities" not only records all kinds of secret techniques in the world, but also the strange things in the world, the cycle of everything in heaven and earth, it can really be described as all-encompassing, I turned to the last chapter, which reads, capital punishment in the world.

The long river of history is vast and boundless, how many kinds of criminal laws can be invented with human wisdom? The description of criminal law in the "Collection of Curiosities" is not a simple record and description, but a combination of various stories. At this time, the sky is already slightly bright, but I am not sleepy at all, okay I admit, I am a person with heavy tastes, even watching movies, I also like to watch movies like "Chainsaw", when I see the title of this chapter, I feel that it is simply a treasure, and I also deeply feel that I am really like-minded with Jiang Yuqin's predecessors.

How many types of criminal law are there in the world? From the beginning of the imperial system, mankind has been divided into two opposing classes, the ruling class and the ruled class, and in ancient times, the ruling class came up with the method of governing the country violently in order to keep its throne of power. Punishment came into being.

Cannon branding, vegetable pots, these capital punishments mentioned in literary works are already terrifying, but these are far from embodying human wisdom, and human beings can often show unparalleled creativity when creating punishments.

The first story recorded in the "Collection of Curiosities" is an extremely tragic story, which many people also know mostly, but the details of it are not necessarily clear. Jiang Yuqin's predecessors described a process in detail. The description is as detailed as if you had seen it with your own eyes. This first story. It is a story about Qin Xiang Li Si. There are different opinions about Li Si in history, and everyone knows about his results that he was framed by Zhao Gao and finally beheaded. However, this is not the case in the account of the Curiosities.

There is a written record of Li Si's killing in the "Historical Records": "In July of the second year of the Second Emperor. The Five Punishments of Gu Si. Cut down Xianyang City. Therefore, Jiang Yuqin's predecessors named this punishment as five body punishments.

The five punishments refer to the five types of punishments imposed on criminals. What exactly are the five punishments? Dynasties have been different from generation to generation. The five punishments of the pre-Qin Dynasty refer to ink, slash, slash, palace, and dapi; The five punishments of the Northern Wei Dynasty were death, exile, imprisonment, whip, and rod; The five punishments of the Northern Qi Dynasty were whipping, rod, resistance, flow, and death; The five punishments of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were death, exile, imprisonment, whipping, and rod. It was only in the Sui Dynasty that the five punishments were set as flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death, and continued until the Qing Dynasty.

Lees didn't talk gibberish when he was executed, so he wasn't additionally cut out of his tongue. However, the definition of five punishments shows that the five punishments suffered by Li Si and the beheading of the body are not missing.

was sentenced to five punishments, which cannot but be said to be a great mockery of Li Si personally by the cruel reality. Li Si is the formulator and executor of the "Great Qin Law", and the specific content of the five punishments is still finally circled by him with a stroke of the pen and a beautiful small seal. Li Si was the hardcore butcher of Qin Shi Huang's brutal rule, and perhaps the executioners who executed him were still the skilled cooks he trained and cultivated with his experience of killing people without counting. Now he himself has become a swordsman who has been trained by him, and according to the punishment he has determined, one by one, one by one, he has been killed, and there is a very good taste of a carpenter making a flail and inflicting it on himself.

The execution of the five punishments is a long, even indefinitely prolonged process of death, far from the simple pleasure of being cut off with a knife. From the face being carved by the tip of a needle at will, to the nose being cut off by a dagger, to the two calves being chopped off one by one by a machete, to the whole body being cut off by a special guillotine, and then to the head being cut off by a ghost-headed knife, in this extremely complicated death process, what Li Si felt was from bursts of stinging pain, to severe pain in the heart, to pain, and finally to not knowing the pain. Li Si watched himself die slowly bit by bit, and at the same time, he also saw the glory, wealth, and power he had been chasing for all his life gone.

Li Si's suffering can be described as unprecedented and unprecedented, and he was ranked first, saying that he was the first person in the world to die tragically, which is really well-deserved.

The punishment that ranks second is also familiar to everyone, and this punishment adds another word to the dictionary, called Renbi, and it also has a nice name called, bone drunk.

彘, 豕也, that is, pigs. Renbi refers to a form of torture that turns people into pigs. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, after Gaozu Liu Bang won the world, Empress Lu was tired of Liu Bang due to old age and decrepitness. Every time Liu Bang traveled and went on an expedition, he was accompanied by Mrs. Qi. And left Empress Lu in the palace, rarely met, and their mutual feelings became weaker and weaker. He pampered Mrs. Qi, and **** flirted in his arms. Mrs. Qi looks better than Xi Shi and has a slender figure. Will play a variety of musical instruments, dance skills are superb, she is good at dancing the dance of the sleeves and bending the waist, from the unearthed Han painting stone statues, its dancing posture is beautiful, the sleeves and the waist have quite a skill, and the pattern is complicated.

Mrs. Qi has a son named Ruyi, who has Liu Bang's demeanor in speech and demeanor, she frowns and tears in front of Liu Bang day and night, and begs her son Zhao Wang Ruyi to be the prince. Liu Bang couldn't help but be moved, and because the prince Liu Ying was weak, not as smart as he wanted, and his personality was not like himself, he simply abolished it as soon as possible, which could not only please Mrs. Qi, but also protect the society. Empress Lu was also wary of the deposed prince at any time, and regarded Mrs. Qi's mother and son as a thorn in her side. In order to ensure the status of the crown prince, Empress Lu sought advice from Zhang Liang, and Zhang Liang came up with a plan to invite Shangshan Sihao to make the prince's position in the imperial court more solemn and unshakable. The so-called Shangshan Sihao is the four white-haired hermits in Shangshan, who have built Maoshan forests to avoid the Qin chaos, and Liu Bang has not come out after inviting him several times before. Once Liu Bang placed himself in the wine palace and summoned the prince to serve a banquet. The prince was summoned to the palace, and Sihao went in together. Liu Bang was very surprised in his heart, and when he heard that they were Shangshan Sihao, he knew that the prince had become a wing, and he could not be abolished.

Soon after Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu arrested Mrs. Qi and used it first. She had Qi Ji's hair shaved and her feet chained. She was dressed in tattered clothes and locked up in a damp, dark and dilapidated room. Let her cook rice all day long, and if she can't get a certain amount of rice, she won't be given food. Then, Empress Lu summoned Qi Ji's son Ruyi from the fiefdom to the capital, preparing to kill him. When Emperor Hui of Han heard that his mother Empress Lu had summoned Ruyi, he knew that Empress Lu wanted to poison Ruyi. He hurriedly sent someone to take Ruyi to the palace, and stayed with him when he ate and slept. The two have been playing together since childhood, and Emperor Hui loves this younger brother very much, so he does his best to protect him. Although Empress Lu was so angry that she gritted her teeth, she didn't have a chance to attack Ruyi for several months. One day, Emperor Hui of Han got up early in the morning to go hunting, but Ruyi didn't get up to follow because he was too lazy to sleep. Empress Lu finally found an opportunity, so he sent someone to send poisoned wine and killed Ruyi. When Emperor Han Hui came back from hunting, Ruyi's mouth and nose were all bleeding, and he turned into a straight zombie.

Ruyi just died, and the rest of the mourning was over, and he panicked again. Suddenly, a palace supervisor was ordered by the Queen Mother to lure Emperor Hui and go to see people. Emperor Hui had never heard of anyone's name, and his heart was very rare, so he followed the eunuch and went out of the palace to watch. The palace supervisor twisted and turned, led into Yongxiang, approached a toilet, opened the toilet door, and instructed Emperor Huidao: The toilet is full of people.

Emperor Hui looked into the toilet, but saw that it was a human body, with a flower face, no hair, no hands, no feet, no eyeballs in the eyes, no nose, no ears, only two flesh and blood holes, the body was still slightly moving, a mouth was very open, but there was no sound, no tongue. After seeing it once, I was shocked and frightened, and I couldn't help but shrink my body, the consultant palace supervisor, what is it? The palace eunuch did not dare to explain. Until Emperor Hui returned to the palace, he insisted that the palace supervisor say it directly, and the palace supervisor said the word Mrs. Qi. Before he could say a word, he almost fainted with fright, and he barely pressed his mind to ask for details. and the palace eunuch whispered, saying that Mrs. Qi's hands and feet were broken, her eyes were gouged out, her ears were deaf, and her throat was dumb, so she was put into the toilet and tortured to death. Emperor Hui didn't wait to finish speaking, and urgently asked the name of others, and the palace supervisor said: This is the order of the queen mother, but the palace slave is not puzzled.

Emperor Hui couldn't help but lose his voice and said: The things of people are not done by people, Mrs. Qi has been serving the first emperor for many years, how can she be so miserable? The minister is the queen mother, and he will not be able to rule the world in the end! When he returned, he fell seriously ill and was bedridden for more than a year, and since then he has been drinking and having fun day and night, and he died soon after.

Lu Pheasant set a precedent in the matter of human beings, but the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, and such a cruel and inhumane punishment was naturally carried forward by later generations.

During the Tang Dynasty, after Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were deposed, they were imprisoned in a secret room in the harem. The chamber was surrounded by high walls, had no doors or windows, and only a small hole was made in a small door for a feeder. Outside the door, there were people sent by Wu Zetian to guard it. The two were trapped inside, not seeing the sun and moon day and night, and could only wash their faces with tears all day long, complaining to each other about their sorrows.

One day, Tang Gaozong remembered the deposed Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, who had forgotten her affection, and wanted to go and see it. The inner prison guided Tang Gaozong to the secret room. Seeing that the access was strictly controlled, and only one small hole entered the diet, Tang Gaozong couldn't help but feel moved and saddened. He stepped forward and said loudly: "Queen, concubine, are you okay?" Where is it today?.

Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu heard the emperor's voice, and it was just outside the door, the two of them were overjoyed, and said silently: Your Majesty is fortunate to remember the day, so that the concubine will die and be reborn, and see the sun and the moon again. Tang Gaozong was sad, his eyes were hazy with tears, and he promised: I will deal with it!

However, Wu Zetian immediately got the report from his henchmen, and when Tang Gaozong left, he immediately sent people to empress the cane king and concubine Xiao Shufei with one hundred each, and beat the two of them until their flesh and blood were blurred. Then he ordered the hands and feet of the two men to be chopped off, and put them in a wine urn to make them into human beings. Wu Zetian said fiercely: Make the second concubine drunk!

When she was dying, the queen choked up and said: Your Majesty for ten thousand years, Zhaoyi will be gracious, and I will share death!

It was Concubine Xiao's turn, and after she received the edict, she scolded: Ah Wu Demon is slippery, and even so far! May I be reincarnated as a cat in the next life, and let Ah Wu become a mouse, and I will strangle his throat alive!

In order to show his hatred for the two, Wu Zetian ordered to change the Wang family to the python family and the Xiao family to the Xiao family. It was not until Tang Zhongzong ascended the throne that the two surnames of python and Xiao were restored to their original surnames. (To be continued.) )