What happened to Lai Junchen was very miserable: he was abandoned in the city, his body was destroyed, and people who hated him to the bone rushed to cut his flesh, and soon cut off his flesh.

In fact, according to Xu Yougong's thoughts, he wanted to sentence Junchen to cut off his body with a thousand knives or five horses, so that he could atone for one or two percent of his crimes.

After all, he was soft-hearted, and he considered that he could not pass the level of Wu Zetian, so he was sentenced to behead.

With Xu Yougong's generosity, they are all so angry with him, let alone others.

No one to collect the corpse of Junchen, because the family was wiped out, and the nine clans were punished!

In the past, the imperial court was merciful, and unless there was a rebellion, there was generally no phenomenon of clan punishment.

Even if it is a crime, the court has sentenced the clan, and there are some ministers who are good people, such as the prince Li Dan, who often pleads for mercy, and Wu Zetian will also give this face.

But Lai Junchen was exterminated, and no one in the court came up to intercede!

Hundreds of heads in his family fell to the ground, killing people with rolling heads.

People congratulated each other on the streets, saying, "Only then will the sleeping man be allowed to put a mat on his back." ”

His family property was confiscated, the fixed property value was as high as 15 million guan, and the value of movable property was also 5 million guan (in essence, Wu Sansi and others privately swallowed 3 million guan), which was really rich and rivaled the country, and the wealth obtained by Wei Xi when he broke the Zhaowu countries on the silk road was only like this.

His family has found countless treasures, all of which have been robbed by corruption, and it can be imagined that they have harmed many people!

After coming to Junchen's questioning, it marked the end of the politics of cool officials.

The ministers of the imperial court vied with each other to impeach, the party members also went to Lingnan, the original prison system was demolished, and the "Routine Gate" finally ceased to be the sword of Damocles on people's heads.

The more authoritarian the society, the more inclined it is to attack informers; The more the monarchy is dictatorial, the more he likes to appoint cool officials. In order to exclude dissidents, attack political opponents, and maintain the authority of the emperor, the Han and Tang dynasties were all the same.

And in the Great Zhou period of Wu Zetian, the cool officials developed to the point of reaching the peak!

Why did Wu Zetian practice the White Terror, and why did he favor these cool officials?

She is the heroine of the dynasty, in the eyes of the orthodox courtiers, she is just a usurper, her inheritance of the unification in the eyes of others is suspected of seizing Li Tang Jiangshan, the government and the opposition are not convinced, whether it is at that time or in the future there are still many political opponents, she can not tolerate the existence of these opposition forces, she needs everyone to endanger herself, she needs to carry out the terrifying high-pressure policy for the tiger to the end, so that the opposition is difficult to protect itself in trembling, and gradually move closer to her, she needs to create her authority and status in this tense atmosphere!

So the cool officials came into being, these eagle dogs and senior thugs of the imperial court in order to be loyal to the master, the fox and the tiger might, they exterminated human nature, made a great deal of injustice, did everything to punish the crime, and creatively invented a lot of distorted and shocking torture, their invention of torture tools is magnificent, it seems to be the first in the world, and the bloody pictures of hell on earth are terrifying.

Black praise one: The wisdom of the Chinese is unparalleled in all aspects.

The art of war is our first;

We recognize the second food, and no one dares to call themselves the boss.

The torture instrument is unique in the world!

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Cheng Xingchen, a man of the time, said: "The cool officials of the Zhou Dynasty, Lai Zixun, Wan Guojun, Wang Hongyi, Hou Sizhi, Guo Ba, Jiao Renqing, Zhang Zhimo, Li Jingren, Tang Fengyi, Lai Junchen, Zhou Xing, Qiu Shenxian, Suo Yuanli, Cao Renzhe, Wang Jingzhao, Pei Ji, Li Qinzhu, Liu Guangye, Wang Deshou, Qu Zhenyun, Bao Sigong, Liu Jingyang, and Wang Chuzhen 23 people, mutilated Zongzhi and poisoned the good, and the situation was particularly serious. ”

The cool officials aroused the anger of the heavenly resentment, and Wu Zetian's political wisdom was superhuman, once the old enemy was cleared, she showed her shrewdness, so she scolded these cool officials, and did not hesitate to kick away the cool officials who were angry with each other, her skills were handy, and the unlucky ones were those who used to call for wind and rain, flying and domineering.

None of the cool officials had a good end, and all of them died miserably in the end, and the so-called "evil family is more than ruined", which can be regarded as a kind of retribution in the underworld. (Some cool officials were picked out, such as Ji Ji, and also harmed some people, but he stood in line accurately, so he was not liquidated)

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After the chaos, there is a great rule, on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, Wei Xi, the captain of the horse, congratulated the Qixi Festival, expressing his good wishes, saying that the Qixi Festival represents vitality, life is related to human life, human life is critical, and manpower is precious!

He played, "...... The minister is in the West, sparsely populated, and there is no one within a hundred miles!

Only when there are people can there be society can have everything.

May Your Majesty, be cautious of punishment! ”

Then he said: "Since my dynasty, Emperor Taizong has established that the 'three repetitions' and 'five repetitions' should be firmly implemented. ”

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty stipulated that there were two kinds of "three repetitions" and "five repetitions", that is, the "three repetitions" should be applied to local death penalty cases, and the "five repetitions" should be applied to the death penalty cases in Beijing. Judicial officials who fail to perform their duties or who execute them without approval shall be subject to criminal punishment and dismissal.

However, the death penalty may be used for those who commit the above crimes of "treachery" (i.e., beating and murdering grandparents, killing aunts, siblings, maternal grandparents, husbands, grandparents, and parents), as well as those who are untouchables and slaves who commit the crime of killing their masters.

On this basis, Wei Xi proposed a more practical and feasible method of the death penalty, which has two forms: immediate execution (immediate execution) and autumn execution (autumn execution).

The former is "beheading" and "hanging", and the latter is "beheading" and "hanging". All death penalty cases of a particularly serious nature, such as conspiracy, rebellion, conspiracy, homicide, and robbery, must be decided.

There is also an advantage of the autumn duel, when the emperor wants to amnesty, then there is a time buffer, and fewer people can be killed.

"The dead cannot be resurrected, and if they are wronged, even if they are severely blamed, they cannot be excused!"

"Therefore, it must be the Jiuqing draw, and the emperor will decide!" Wei Xi spoke loudly, attracting the attention of the courtiers and listening carefully.

The so-called Jiuqing painting detention, that is, death penalty cases, is generally approved by the Criminal Department, and then sent to Dali Temple for trial.

Every person sentenced to death must go through the Shangshu of the Criminal Department (Wu Zhou Dynasty was the Qiu Official) and the two servants of the Criminal Department; the imperial officials of the Imperial Officials Terrace and the two chiefs of the Taiwan Yuan and the Procuratorate; If there are nine high-ranking officials in Dali Temple and two Shaoqing, and one less person signs, the death penalty cannot be carried out.

After Jiuqing finished painting, he had to be executed by the emperor on the name, and the emperor could not carry out the death penalty if he did not tick the name!

"The Criminal Department, the Yushitai, and the Dali Temple are in charge of the criminal law, which can be described as the 'Three Law Divisions', in case of major cases, such as conspiracy against the law, each of the three Law Divisions will produce a member of the 'Three Sessions of Trial', so that the Yushi Tai cannot be arbitrary!"

"This law is implemented by Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping outside the customs, and no one is killed indiscriminately, and the effect is good!" Wei Xi pointed out that it was actually Wei Xi's invention, but he had been pretending to be only in charge of the army and the administration was under the supervision of the Taiping Gong all these years, so as not to arouse Wu Zetian's disgust.

Li Dan was the first to stand up and agree: "The concubine will immediately play the words of the old Chengye country, and the sons and daughters wish Your Majesty to promulgate and implement it, and they should be praised by all the people!" ”

He likes this kind of law too much, as the crown prince, he is the target, the biggest target, the Wu brothers attacked him, and the cool officials dealt with him... His people.

The ministers who were attached to him killed him when they said they would kill, died innocently, died enough, died so much that he couldn't sleep at night and shed tears.

If you really want to do this, you can't kill it if you want to, no matter what, there must be one person in Jiuqing who is his, so he can save many lives.

What about the others?

The Wu brothers agree!

The cool officials who break the rules are terrible, and a royal official with less than five grades can engage in the positioning of the prince of the extremely human minister, kill the prince, the general, and so on.

Forget it, let's play in harmony!

The three forces unanimously agreed, Wu Zetian is a smart man, so he issued an edict to implement it from January next year, and from then on "forever as a rule" and "after the frost falls every year".

This year, those condemned prisoners who were not executed will not be beheaded until next fall, so that they have more chance of survival.

When the news came out, Wu Zetian's face was greatly brightened, and he was called "Ten Thousand Buddhas!" ”