In addition to Xie Baoshu, there are many young people who have come here.

There are the top ten sword immortals in Chang'an City, as well as physical cultivation, as well as scattered cultivation sword immortals.

If there are too many people, there will be trouble.

From time to time, there are still some contradictions, in order to suppress these things by thunderous means. On the Mountains of the Two Realms, there are some means of punishment.

In fact, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the cane punishment, as one of the "five punishments", was once inseparable from the "flogging punishment", and they were all beaten with bamboo "air tools" that were one inch thick at the root and half an inch thick at the tip. In the Han Dynasty, it was fought once, and at the beginning it was "three hundred" or "five hundred", and later it became "one hundred" or "five hundred". When it developed into the Sui Dynasty, it was more common to catch what to use in a fight. For example, Emperor Wen of Sui, the "benevolent monarch" of the Sui Dynasty, sometimes became angry and directly used a horse whip to give people "cane punishment".

Moreover, it must be noted that before the Tang Dynasty, it was possible to spank during "cane punishment"? This was a luxury most of the time, and it was basically a hard beating on the back, and the killing effect can be imagined. Therefore, the "cane punishment" in the Han Dynasty was said to be sympathetic to the health of the prisoners, and the "cane punishment" was used to replace the "corporal punishment" of cutting off people's hands and feet.

In the years when Emperor Wen of Sui played the prestige of "cane punishment", the officials were so frightened that they resigned one after another, and he himself was puzzled: "How heavy is my cane?"

It was not until the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty that after seeing countless tragedies of broken bones and tendons, Tang Taizong officially reformed and changed the "cane spine" to "cane buttocks", and since then "spanking" has become the mainstream of "cane punishment".

"Tang Law" even divided the "cane punishment" into five levels: "cane sixty", "cane seventy", "cane eighty", "cane ninety" and "cane hundred". But it's another thing to execute, sometimes the emperor comes up with a temper, and he still fights as much as he wants. For example, when Tang Xuanzong was in power, it was common to give officials a "cane punishment" in anger, such as Jiang Ting, the imperial historian, who was "caned to death" in the court because he said a sincere word.

But ordinary people don't have this good luck.

Although the punishment of "cane punishment" is mainly used to punish adultery and evil, and is also often used to fight the prestige of officials, it is often abused in many cases. A mighty torture rod is sometimes used to punish the people. For example, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, not only crimes would be "cane punishment", but even sometimes rampant expropriation, it was often "cane punishment" to open the way. For example, in the "Records of Chaotic Departure" by Chen Shun of the Qing Dynasty: In the third year of Kangxi, many counties in the southeast used "cane punishment" to kill hundreds of people in order to urge the payment of taxes and grain. How many people's fat and people's ointment are "beaten" in this way.

Even for the grassroots officials in the yamen, this terrifying "cane punishment" is an "artifact" for collecting money. The "Miscellaneous Notes in Prison" by Fang Bao of the Qing Dynasty also recorded: There were three prisoners who were to be "punished with a cane", and the first one bribed 30 taels of silver, and was beaten to the bone. The second gave sixty taels of silver, but only wounded the flesh. The third one was given one hundred and eighty taels, and he was cured the same day after the beating. This crackling beat is the "food chain" of many people in the yamen.

Ever since the first tribes were founded, people have been delighted in inflicting suffering on their own kind, and they have come up with endless tricks.

Legend has it that during the Yaoshun period, "Boyi surrendered the code, and the people were punished" gradually replaced "the people obeyed without orders, and the people did not do anything wrong without rewards and punishments" became the tribal law. Later, in order to achieve victory in the battle, the clan chiefs also formulated military laws, such as: "The prince of the princes of Yu will be above the Huiji, and the king of the wind will come, and Yu will behead him." ”

The early record of punishment appeared in the Yu Dynasty, a dynasty established by Yu Shun before the Xia Dynasty, such as the "Shangshu Da Biography": "The upper punishment is impure ochre, the middle punishment is miscellaneous, and the lower punishment is ink, so as to live in the state, and the people are ashamed." ”

Punishment first appeared in order to make the wrongdoer ashamed, awakened, and repented, but later some people felt that if he had hurt others or even lost their lives, would the shame and shame be over?

It can be said that the evolution of punishment also corresponds to the evolution of social forms.

The first social form of human beings to get rid of barbarism and begin to enter civilization was the slave society, and the punishment at that time was divided into three kinds of punishments: formal punishment, exile and imprisonment. The "History of the Legal System" and the "History of Legal Thought" have changed the "five punishments of slavery" to the "old five punishments", that is, the five punishments mentioned above.

The five punishments were formulated by the people at that time according to the five elements of restraint, and were gradually established from the beginning of Xia.

Fire can turn gold, so ink can change its flesh, gold can overcome wood, so cut to remove its joints, wood can overcome soil, so cut to remove its nose, soil can plug water, the Forbidden City to cut off its prostitution, water can extinguish fire, so it is great to cut off its life. ”

Among the five punishments, except for the death penalty, which is used to punish the most vicious people, the other four punishments are all corporal punishments, which harm the body of the inmate through savage, deliberate, and inhumane methods, and bring permanent mental and physical damage to the inmate.

At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, corporal punishment was gradually weakened, and at the same time, there were also a certain degree of restrictions on Dabi. In addition to the physical punishment of the tortured, labor is also added, specifically: the ink makes the gate, the slasher guards the gate, the palace guards the inside, the slasher guards the prison, and the slasher guards the accumulation.

Until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the old five punishments were still carried out among the vassal states. After entering the feudal society, the old five punishments gradually evolved into flogging, rods, imprisonment, exile, and death, which were called the "feudal five punishments" and also called the "new five punishments".

During the Qin Dynasty, the Legalist doctrine was the mainstream, so the rule of law was stricter, and "the law was complicated and the punishment was severe". In terms of Dabi punishment alone, there are more than a dozen kinds of punishments, such as waist beheading and car splitting, and corporal punishments such as ink, slashing, slashing, and palace have still not been abolished.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the punishment of the left toe was changed to imprisonment and flogging, and the punishment began to be reduced. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty further reformed the flogging, not only reducing the number of flogging, but also restricting the length and thickness of the cane and the part of the flogging.

It can be said that the penal reform in the early Han Dynasty laid the foundation for the establishment of the feudal statutory five punishments. By the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, corporal punishment was gradually abolished.

The punishments of Wei law include death penalty, punishment of suffrage, completion of punishment, execution, redemption, and fine; Western Jin Dynasty inherited Wei law and commuted punishment, completed punishment, and increased prison sentence; Northern Wei Dynasty increased punishment of whipping and cane; Western Wei Dynasty forbidden palace punishment; Northern Qi abolished palace punishment.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, exile was introduced as a measure of leniency for the death penalty, and the punishment was further reduced. The Sui Dynasty was very important in the history of the development of punishment, and the "Kaihuang Law" removed some of the more cruel contents, and the death penalty was only retained - beheading and hanging, and the whipping punishment was changed to cane punishment. The Sui and Tang dynasties were relatively close to each other, and the Tang law followed the Sui law, but the punishment was further reduced.

In the long history, there have been many emperors. With the arrival of a new generation of emperors, some criminal laws and systems will definitely be amended. The punishment that Xiaobian is telling you today was created by Hu Hai in the Spring and Autumn Period, this person is notoriously "mediocre", in order to be able to become the emperor, he also did not hesitate to kill his own brother Fusu. What is such a punishment as "Double Dragon Playing with Pearls"?

To put it bluntly, it is two women who attack each other with the ball, and the ball must be shaken. If it had stopped, Hu Hai would have smeared the woman with honey and put him in a vat, which shows that such a punishment was indeed miserable for women. According to folklore, there is such an event.

That is, Hu Hai called his sister Yingying over and threatened her to play "art" in the hall, but such a "bastard" approach made her sister furious. Therefore, he angrily scolded Hu Hai, who is now the emperor. How can he tolerate others scolding him like this? Not even his own sister. After that, he ordered Ying Ying to be put in prison, and when she agreed, she was released.

This incompetent emperor was not happy for a few years, because his rule led to the misery of the people. Many places revolted against Hu Hai one after another, and were finally killed by Zhao Gao's henchmen.

The punishment is simple: the victim is secured, their shoes are removed, and the soles of their feet are coated with salt or sugar, and a cute goat licks them.

It doesn't sound too bad, the highest makes people laugh, and the feeling of being tickled and laughing out of breath is uncomfortable, but it's bearable. But if that cute goat is a greedy ghost, it will keep licking your feet. You start laughing, but after you stop laughing, you get dizzy, nausea, vomit, and dizziness.

As long as a mistake is made, there is a certain level of punishment. Depending on the severity of the offender, multiple penalties should be imposed.

As long as you commit the crime of deceiving the emperor, or say that you make the royal family unhappy, then in the end there is only a dead end, there is no room for discussion, only being cut down. The fate of the head. In contrast to beheading, there was a series of cruel punishments, most of which were enacted and passed down by a generation of emperors. From ancient times to the present, almost every generation of emperors, whether they are brutal emperors or benevolent and holy monarchs, has enacted new death sentences for their own dynasty. After all, only by increasing the punishment of the state can we better consolidate our own country.

It can be said that there are a variety of patterns, and there is a steady stream. We are more or less aware of these penalties or have seen them in TV series. Any of these punishments can scare people to death because these punishments really don't just make the prisoner die, each one will make you feel painful.

Many inmates in prisons choose to turn themselves in before execution because they don't want to suffer. At least they died quietly and without pain. The editor said that these punishments were all corporal punishment of prisoners, in order to torture the prisoners' bodies and make them suffer unparalleled suffering. But in fact, there is a kind of punishment for the soul of prisoners in history. This is the "ink punishment" that we are often in.

Ink punishment is also known as cruel punishment.

This kind of punishment is the one that has been used for the longest time in feudal society, and it is also the most common one. Although ink punishment also had an effect on the prisoner's body, the general pain of the punishment was not intense, as it often hurt the prisoner's heart. In fact, ink punishment is carved into the face of the prisoner with a knife. Generally speaking, it is engraved with some words with criminal significance. Then, when the wound was bleeding continuously, the ink prepared in advance was slowly poured over the prisoner's wound, so that the ink and blood at the wound were combined into one, and the prisoner guard prisoner was ordered not to allow them to be washed. When the wound on the prisoner's face heals, the text engraved on the prisoner's face will appear in black and will never disappear.

That way, no matter where the prisoner goes, no matter what they do later, as long as they see the black letters on your face, you will know that you are guilty. Such people are always looked down upon. Historically, in the Tang Dynasty, an official named Shangguan Wan'er was punished by Wu Zetian, namely Wu Zetian, for offending the emperor, and expelled from the palace. We should know that the ancient ink punishment was a great shame for a man's face, not to mention the beauty of a woman's face, and it would definitely not be alive for ordinary people.

However, Shangguan Wan'er's mind is very smart. After the wound healed, she went to a special needle and tattooed a plum blossom in the place where she had carved it. When others saw her again, they all expressed her unique appearance and called her "plum blossom makeup".

At that time, because Wu Zetian set the name of the country as Zhou, the period of her reign was also called the Wu Zhou period. We all know that Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in the official history of China, so there were indeed many female officials in the court during the Wu and Zhou dynasties. For example, Shangguan Wan'er, the "women's prime minister", is one of them.

Shangguan Wan'er was just a lowly servant girl at the beginning, and Wu Zetian only began to notice her existence by chance. It is said that it was because Wu Zetian found that Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful appearance had a trace of majesty, which was quite similar to his youth.

Subsequently, after a period of observation, Wu Zetian found that this woman's writing is also very good, especially the calligraphy. So, Wu Zetian appointed her as his maid in charge of the pen, and since then Shangguan Wan'er has embarked on her own career journey.

In this way, Shangguan Wan'er relied on her excellent performance, and soon won Wu Zetian's appreciation, and successfully entered the court as an official official. After Shangguan Wan'er became an official, because she was very effective, coupled with Wu Zetian's favor for her, gradually many things that should be handled by the prime minister began to be handled by Shangguan Wan'er. Because of this, Shangguan Wan'er was given the title of "women's prime minister" by later generations.

Since Shangguan Wan'er already has such a high status, and at the same time is deeply favored by Wu Zetian, why was she tortured by Wu Zetian?

The ink officer said that it was actually called 黥, which means that after cutting a person's face or other parts of the human body with a knife, he then applied ink to the wound of the knife wound. In this way, even if the wound heals, it will leave a permanent mark.

Although, it is true that such punishments are not comparable to those unbearable tortures.

However, once this punishment has been received, the mark of shame will remain with the victim for the rest of his life and will never be erased. Especially in the face of torture, this symbol of shame cannot be concealed. In short, this kind of punishment is intended to inflict physical pain on the prisoner, but also to destroy his spirit and will, and even if he is released, he will never be seen again for the rest of his life.

Ordinary prisoners are still like this, let alone a woman like Shangguan Wan'er. This kind of punishment that is almost disfiguring can be seen how harmful it is to a great beauty like Shangguan Wan'er.

In this regard, the records in the official history of the Tang Dynasty do not mention any reason for this. On the contrary, in many wild histories and rumors, there are roughly two different theories.

The first statement: It is said that it was because Wu Zetian's "face" Zhang Changzong and Shangguan Wan'er were laughing and joking in private, and Wu Zetian found out that she was sentenced to ink punishment.

The second theory: It is said that Shangguan Wan'er was discovered by Wu Zetian when she was spying on Li Zhenxiu, the Fengge Sheren who was performing in the Shang Dynasty. Wu Zetian, who was furious, sentenced her to ink punishment.

Of course, the credibility of this kind of wild history and rumors is indeed not very high, so everyone should listen to it. After all, Shangguan Wan'er is Wu Zetian's "best friend", and the specific reason for her punishment is also a secret matter in the ancient palace. Therefore, it is still impossible to figure out what the real situation was at that time. The record of this matter in the official history "New Tang Book" simply wrote: "If you taste the will, you should be punished, and then you will cherish your talents, and you will stop and not kill." In fact, it is a record of the result of the punishment, and there is no mention of any reason.

Because in ancient China, inscription on the face was a form of punishment, and this punishment had a special name called "ink punishment."

Ink punishment involves the use of a sharp instrument to engrave a character on a certain part of the prisoner's face, and then use ink to smear it again, so that the mark follows the prisoner's life and cannot be erased until death. Although this punishment causes extreme physical suffering to the prisoner, it generally does not pose a threat to the prisoner's life.

The most odious thing is that the "ink punishment" will make most prisoners feel ashamed, and many prisoners will end up committing suicide after suffering the ink punishment. Therefore, ink punishment was also called the most undignified punishment in ancient times. The degree of punishment is determined according to the severity of the offender's violation of the law. Depending on the degree of offense, the content and order of the words engraved on the face are also different, and the punishment of ink punishment is undoubtedly a manifestation of inequality in the class social system.

This statement originated from Shangguan Wan'er's contemporary, the Chinese herbalist Chen Zangqi's "Collection of Materia Medica", so it is more credible.

However, compared with the above statement, other statements about Shangguan Wan'er's ink punishment, although more mysterious, are widely circulated because they are related to the peach color of the palace.

For example, in the peach-colored "The Secret of the Crane Prison", Wu Zetian regards Shangguan Wan'er as a confidant, and even when he is happy with Zhang Zongchang, he does not shy away from it, but he doesn't want Shangguan Wan'er to be attracted to spring because of this, plus Zhang Zongchang is indeed beautiful, so he can't help but have a spring heart.

One day, Shangguan Wan'er and Zhang Zongchang teased each other in private, but unfortunately Wu Zetian saw it, and pulled out the golden knife one by one, inserted it into Shangguan Wan'er's front bun, injured his left forehead, and said angrily, "If you dare to approach my belly, you should be executed." Fortunately, Zhang Zongchang interceded on his behalf, and he was pardoned.

For another example, there are a large number of male pets in Wu Zetian's Palace, but Wu Zetian is old and decrepit after all, so some male pets took the opportunity to flirt with Shangguan Wan'er, who often accompanied Wu Zetian, but it aroused Shangguan Wan'er's disgust.

Over time, Shangguan Wan'er, who couldn't bear this teasing, closed the passage to enter the palace, and as a result, Xue Huaiyi, the male pet who had fallen out of favor, burned down the Ming Hall symbolizing imperial power in a fit of anger because he couldn't enter the palace, which provoked Wu Zetian to be furious and almost ordered to kill Shangguan Wan'er, and didn't change his mind until before he was sentenced, but "the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped", and the next person engraved the word "resentment" on his forehead.

In short, no matter which statement is more credible, Shangguan Wan'er was always subjected to "ink punishment", and the injury is exactly on the forehead, which is undoubtedly a great impact on women who love beauty.

Shangguan Wan'er originally wanted to cover up the scars, but she didn't want to be more coquettish after that, and after the palace maids saw it, they vied with rouge to dot red on the forehead to imitate, which made this kind of red beauty all the rage.