Chapter 258 Cannon Branding
"Do you think the king has moved all the things he had during his lifetime here?" Miao Weiqiang asked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It should be, the ancient emperors all wanted to live forever, and when they died, they had to take the things they used in life to the ground!" Zhou Tianyi said.
"Okay, don't talk about those useless things, hurry up and eat, I'm almost hungry!" The little beggar said.
"Beware, if these foods are poisonous, they're in trouble!" The twin-tailed scorpion reminded.
"Brother Scorpion, if we don't eat, we will be starved to death, and if we eat it, we will be poisoned, what is there to worry about, if you eat, eat it quickly!" The little beggar said excitedly, and hurried to a roasted goat, hugged the goat's leg and gnawed it.
Zhou Tianyi walked to the side of the twin-tailed scorpion: "Brother Scorpion, what Xiao Huazi said is very reasonable, if we don't eat it, we will starve to death, I think there should be no problem with these foods, haven't we also eaten it when we are outside!" ”
"Don't talk about those useless ones, let's enjoy the mediocre treatment of the ancient emperors together!" Miao Weiqiang smiled, took two sips of wine in the wine pool, and shouted excitedly: "Good wine, there is absolutely no alcohol in this wine, it is made of pure grain, hehe..." ”
This wine pool is filled with royal tribute wine, which is the Son of Heaven's royal elixir and jade liquid, of course, it is the best in the wine, plus it is a treasure collection 3,000 years ago, these wines can no longer be measured by price, and it is really worth this life to drink a sip.
The five of them had a full meal, walked to the dragon chair of the king of Zhou, and sat on the couch under the dragon chair with a satisfied look.
"This imperial life is different, there is food to eat, there is to drink, and there is fun to play!" The little beggar said.
"I can't tell it's a tomb, it's like heaven on earth!" Dong Tinghua said.
The twin-tailed scorpion was still vigilantly observing its surroundings, and when it was eating, it felt as if someone was secretly watching him, who was in the dark.
Zhou Tianyi frowned, since leaving the organ room, it seems that the road is too quiet, the quieter it is, the more it shows that the real danger is slowly approaching, it can be seen that this place is very likely to be entrenched in powerful characters, and ordinary demons and monsters dare not approach at all.
"Brother Scorpion, do you feel it, it's a strange feeling, isn't it too quiet here!" Zhou Tianyi asked.
"I feel like someone is watching us, but we can't catch each other's tracks, we have to be careful behind us, I feel like real danger is coming!" The twin-tailed scorpion said.
"Let's take turns to take a rest first, recuperate our spirits, and then we can deal with any danger we encounter!" Miao Weiqiang said.
"Uh-huh! Zhou Tianyi nodded.
When several people were taking turns to rest, there was a sudden sound of beautiful music from the 'Music Hall' that they walked by, the sound was euphemistic and beautiful, and Zhou Tianyi, who was asleep, woke up and looked in the direction where the music came from in confusion.
"What's the situation?" The little beggar asked.
"It seems to be from the concert hall, who is percussion of the instrument?" Miao Weiqiang questioned.
"Shall we go back and see!" Dong Tinghua asked.
"There's no need to go back, there's nothing important anywhere, if I'm right, it's either a youkai or a ghost who is percussion and playing musical instruments!" The twin-tailed scorpion said.
"Yes, there is really no value in going back, the most important thing for us now is to find Daji's coffin and investigate and deal with the location of the sealed Zhantian soul!" Zhou Tianyi said.
"Everyone should be careful in the back, we are only now really stepping into the core position of the palace of the king of the Emperor, and there must be many dangers ahead!" The twin-tailed scorpion said.
A group of five people continued to walk forward, doubling their caution along the way, everyone felt that danger was slowly approaching!
After leaving the wine pond meat forest and walking for about five minutes, a lot of horrific torture instruments suddenly appeared in front of me, and many torture instruments still had corpses hanging on them.
Double-tailed scorpion, Miao Weiqiang, Dong Tinghua, little beggar, Zhou Tianyi's eyes widened in shock, from these strange torture tools, you can imagine how brutal the original king was.
The most striking of all the torture instruments is a bronze platform with a round cylinder erected on it, which is probably the most famous cannon brand of the reign of the Emperor of Zhou.
Cannon branding, ancient torture, used charcoal fire to heat the copper pillar, tied people to the copper pillar and burned to death, that is, burned to death on the charcoal. Later, it generally referred to the torture instruments of burning prisoners with red-hot iron.
Regarding the punishment of cannon branding, ancient historical legends and historical books say that it was committed by King Yin, that is, it happened in the last years of the Shang Dynasty in the 11th century BC. "Xunzi? The Parliamentary Soldier recorded the cloud: "Gang Bigan, imprisoned basket, burned for cannons." "Han Feizi? Yu Lao" Jiyun: "The meat garden is set up for the meat garden, the cannon is branded, the damp Qiu is climbed, and the wine pool is in the wine pool." It is said that the punishment of cannon burning was the work of King Yin, not the Xia Dynasty in the eighteenth century BC. Among them, the word "set" in "Han Feizi" said "set up cannon branding" is a bit of a clear cannon branding punishment invented by King Yin. The punishment of cannon branding originated in the reign of King Zhou and was invented by Daji. In the TV version of "Fengshen Bang", the punishment of cannon burning is to be tied to a red-hot pillar to endure the torment of hot fire, but it is not. The story begins after a shower. The king and Daji were outing in the forest, and it happened that after a shower, a tree was struck down by lightning and was in flames, but strangely, there were many ants from one end of the tree to the other, and the ants who couldn't stand the heat fell from the tree and fell into the fire.
When Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records", he was very cautious and cautious in selecting ancient legends and identifying historical materials. In "Xia Benji", about Xia Wei's evil deeds, he only wrote the sentence "Xia Wei did not practice morality and injured the people, and the people were unbearable", and did not say that Xia Wei invented or used the punishment of cannon branding. But in "Yin Benji", he clearly wrote: "It is a heavy punishment, and there is a method of cannon grid". The cannon grid is the cannon branding.
Shen Jiaben, a famous jurist of the Qing Dynasty, examined in detail the state of criminal law in his famous book "Examination of Criminal Law in the Past Dynasties". What is the result of the research? In the section of the Xia Dynasty, he listed four items, called "Five Punishments", "Flesh Punishment", "Redemption", and "Killing", and there was no cannon burning punishment in the content of each entry. However, in the section of the Shang Dynasty, he explicitly lists the entry "cannon branding", and the evidence cited under the entry is the "Historical Records? Yin Benji" contained in the "纣 is a heavy punishment, there is a method of artillery".
Looking at the corpse that makes people's hair stand upside down and is still attached to the copper pillar, you can guess from the hideous expression of the corpse how painful he was when he died, and the mediocrity and cruelty of the king are really unimaginable... (To be continued.) )