Section 601 The Age of Cool Officials
According to Wu Zetian, none of the imperial historians under her command are suitable!
They are stupid in reading, looking ahead and backward, they are afraid of this and that, their morality is too heavy, their hearts are not black enough, and they are afraid of karma, for example, Yu Chengye investigated Pei Yan, and everyone said that Pei Yan was wronged, so Yu Chengye's son Yu Baozong had an accident, and everyone said that he was retribution, but Yu Chengye asked to go to work after writing a letter to ask for guilt. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The guts of the imperial historians are too small, and they are conservative and have no passion!
can't keep up with the Queen Mother's leaping thoughts, then they all have to stand aside, and the Queen Mother finds another way.
Now the gods are in vogue, "Have you voted (the book) today?" "If not, you're embarrassed to say you're a god.
There was a Persian vendor in Shendunan City, named Suo Yuanli, who was tall and big, and he didn't bother him to do the same work every day, but he didn't get much.
In order to change his fate, he also went to vote, he voted for Dongge, and wanted to ask a military attache to be a pawn.
He was lucky to be summoned by Wu Zetian.
When Suo Yuanli stood in front of the Queen Mother, with a high nose and deep eyes, those eyes were fearless and fearless, and when he looked at him, he was like a tiger.
"The ......" The Queen Mother's heartstrings were plucked, and she knew that she had found the person she wanted!
Suo Yuanli got the military position of guerrilla general, but instead of going into battle to fight, he was in charge of the prison, and the Empress Dowager Yukou Jinyan: "The mourning family believes that you will not disappoint the mourning family in this important position!" ”
In order to repay the Queen Mother's deep kindness, Suo Yuanli devoted himself to the great cause of catching rebels and thieves with 120% enthusiasm.
The people of Shendu quickly got used to this majestic general with his group of horses, breaking in everywhere and catching mermaids!
Every day, people are caught by him and parade through the streets, watching Suo Yuanli riding a high-headed horse, swaggering with his subordinates and scolding criminals, and the people envy his luck, more confused, how can so many people be caught by him, not before?
He will not only arrest people, but also try cases, and the trial will be done quickly and well.
Can a hawker who can't read a big word try a case?
The hawker's head is flexible, the first case he tried was the unlucky Yu Baozong defendant who conspired against the case, Yu Baozong was still a little level, he knew that he couldn't admit it, and he didn't admit it, Suo Yuanli shouted: "Come on, take my iron cage!" ”
Yu Baozong fixed his eyes and saw that it was an iron cage with a small opening at the top that could only accommodate the head, and a small wooden strip with a thick top and a sharp bottom (the small wooden strip was used to wedge various parts of the prisoner's head) was carried over, Suo Yuanli "kindly" told Yu Baozong what this small cage was for, and Yu Baozong obediently recruited it, so he was not affected by the torture instrument, and Suo Yuanli was able to hand over the matter.
After that, "Come, get my iron cage!" It became Suo Yuanli's mantra.
In addition to this iron cage, there is another kind of iron cage, which is covered with iron nails, and if the criminal does not confess, he will be beaten to the point that his brain is overflowing and blood is flowing wildly. He also ordered the criminals to be hung upside down and tied to their hair with heavy stones, called falling stones.
With these vicious tricks, it is naturally invincible, and whoever wants to recruit can be recruited, and how to recruit!
One can sue ten, ten can sue hundred, and one hundred can sue thousand!
This is the reason why Suo Yuanli can't catch people's heads every day!
And the person who can compare with Suo Yuanli is Lai Junchen, and the two are collectively called Lai Suo.
This person came from a humble background and was also very immoral, but his father forced a gambler who couldn't afford to pay back his wife to pay off his debts, which may be his father's, or it may be his father's gambling friend's son, that is, Lai Junchen.
Such a background can be imagined, when he grows up, he doesn't do anything to produce, he is idle, and finally he is imprisoned for committing robbery, and because of recidivism, it is said that he will be beheaded after the autumn.
He heard that no matter where the Queen Mother came from, anyone who wanted to tell the truth could do it, so he picked up a life-saving straw and shouted all night: "Let me out, I want to tell the truth!" ”
shouted hoarsely and said: "The Queen Mother has a decree, and any informant can go to the divine capital, you dare not obey the decree!" ”
The crime of "disobedience" was not small, so it was reported by the division at all levels, until the highest governor of the state, ----- the state assassin Shi Li Xu.
Li Xu is a member of the Tang Dynasty clan, the title of King of Dongping, and when he heard that Junchen was noisy, he said casually: "Okay, just send him to the Shendu, let him die if he is addicted." ”
As a result, he was sent to Shendu, and Lai Junchen had a good time, and it was Li Xu who died.
When he arrived in Shendu, he heard that the death row prisoners had come to inform, Wu Zetian felt strange, so he summoned him to see what was going on.
Like Suo Yuanli, Wu Zetian looked at Lai Junchen again.
"Why can't a prisoner be promoted to an officer?" Wu Zetian, who dared to be the first in the world, asked Lai Junchen to serve as the imperial historian to replace Yu Chengye, who was unwilling to do it.
What really moved Wu Zetian was Lai Junchen's denunciation, he reported the state assassin Shi Li Xu for plotting against him!
Great, I'm looking for the handle of Emperor Li Tang's grandson, no one needs him to use!
As soon as he got his will, he sent the order, and Lai Junchen was grateful to Wu Zetian.
So he frantically arrested people according to the informant, and the person who caught it must be guilty----- which is inevitable, and did not let Suo Yuanli's torture instrument be in front of him, and Lai Junchen cooperated with Suo Yuanli to jointly invent ten kinds of shackles: one is to set a hundred pulses, two is to breathe, three is to roar suddenly, four is to inherit, five is to lose the soul, six is the same as the opposite, seven is the opposite, the eighth is the death of the pig, the ninth is to die, and the tenth is to break the family.
There are many styles, and it has become "art".
In terms of punishment, Suo Yuanli, Lai Junchen and others are even more useless, and they can make any broken moves, damaged moves, ruthless moves, bad moves, and indiscriminate moves, and there are many inventions and creations. Such as:
Plugging ears with mud, covering the head, grinding the neck with heavy flails, tying bamboo sticks with fingers, hanging hair, and scenting ears are called "prison guards";
Reduced daily meals, all-night interrogations, and shaking day and night are known as "hangouts".
The hands and feet of the prisoners were connected with wooden rafters, and then rotated in one direction, which was called "phoenix sunbathing wings";
The prisoner's waist is fixed with an object, and then the flail around the neck is pulled forward, which is called "donkey foal pouting";
Let the prisoner kneel on the ground and hold the flail in his hand, and build bricks and tiles on the flail, which is called "immortal offering fruit";
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People often say that in the Tang Dynasty, there were two people who could not be provoked, one was the general Wei Xi, and the foreign tribe could not provoke him, he had never been defeated, and which clan would perish.
This is a declaration of prestige to foreigners, which is a good thing, and the other thing that cannot be provoked is "coming to Suo", which makes the officials and people of the Tang Dynasty afraid.
The level of the cool officials reached such a level that whenever a prisoner came in, he would first lead him to the torture equipment showroom.
Then, no need to torture, no reasoning, no noise, just say in a soft voice: "Recruit or not?" If you don't recruit you, I'll ask you to go for a walk! ”
Who isn't afraid? Everyone who came in was afraid, and after seeing the torture equipment, everyone's legs trembled, cold sweat broke out, and the fart and urine collapsed, and they wanted any confession.
Come to the front, Zhou Xing is behind, this guy has already been an official, it is a county order, according to the court system, officials are not allowed to put things in the four-color copper box, and he just wrote things and put them in, but he met Wu Zetian, who didn't count when he spoke, and after reading his book, he allocated Zhou Xing.
In addition to the three of them, there are Wang Hongyi, Hou Enzhi, Wan Guojun, Ji Ji and the like, all of whom are cool officials, all of them destroy human nature, have a brutal temperament, take pride in being funny, be brave in violence, take pleasure in killing, and be proud of doing evil.
Well, there's also a cool guy missing.