It also helps rich people like the new and hate the old, and fabricate divorce notes for the sake of new love, so as to help people dissolve the marriage contract; Counterfeiting contracts, contracts, and correspondence in order to defraud others of money, bonds, and goods; Those who imitated other people's styles, forged other people's seals, and made fake documents to add, delete and alter accounts, so that others and future generations would suffer, these ghost criminals were all punished by the Song Emperor.

I am convinced of Emperor Song's verdict. Although these judgments may seem too pedantic to modern people, the harshest punishment for these social evils is really gratifying.

Just when I was feeling happy in my heart, Emperor Song, who had already completed the punishment, looked down at me from the high court and said, "King Ming, do you think it is fair for this king to punish me like this?" ”

I hurriedly knelt down to Emperor Song, unconcealed the joy in my heart, and praised Emperor Song.

I said thoughtfully: "Emperor Song, I think that the Bodhisattva of the Earth did not really come to you to see those tortures, but to warn the world that for the sake of kindness, we must not disturb the people's customs for the sake of selfish desires, and restore a peaceful and harmonious social atmosphere." ”

Emperor Song nodded and approved.

I asked worriedly, "Emperor Song, it's just that people are not sages, who can do nothing?" This black rope hell is really terrifying, although these ghosts had bad intentions before they were born, planted bad karma, and planted this bitter fruit themselves, but they are also really pitiful, can't Emperor Song give them some chance to repent and reform? ”

Emperor Song smiled slightly: "King Ming, you really have the compassion of a Buddha's disciple. No one who has entered my temple has ever dared to ask me such a question except you. If a man of the world, on the eighth day of the second month, though he has committed the sins which you have seen before, in the yang world, if they vow not to do so, they will be allowed to go to the other temples, so that they will not suffer in my black rope hell and in all the little prisons. ”

I knelt down on my knees and said goodbye to Emperor Song: "Emperor Song, on behalf of the people of the world, I thank you for your great compassion. Since I have been told by you that mortals can avoid going to the Black Rope Hell to suffer after death, then I will say goodbye to Emperor Song, and I will follow the two impermanent elder brothers to the fourth hall of the Yin Division. ”

The fourth hall of Yan Jun is the king of the five senses, his surname is Lu, he was born on February 18, and he is in charge of the Great Hell, also known as the Hell of the Peeling Blood Pool. The Heda Hell is still 8,000 miles long, and there are 16 smaller hells. All those who resist the rent of grain and trade fraudulents are thrown into this prison, and they are sentenced to suffer in a small prison and sent to the fifth temple for inspection every day.

These sixteen little hells are called each one: a pump pool little hell; two chains, bamboo sticks, little hells; three boiling soup pourers on the little hell; four palm-side little hells; five little hells with broken tendons and deboning; Six weir shoulders brush skin little hell; Seven skin-locking little hells; Eight squatting little hells; Nine iron-clad little hells; Ten wood, stone, and earth tiles pressed the little hell; eleven sword-eyed little hells; Twelve fly ash gag little hells; thirteen potted little hells; Fourteen slippery and slid little hells; fifteen little prickly hells; Sixteen gravel buried in a small hell.

Bai Wuchang told me that the origin of the name of the king of the five senses refers to the Xian official, the water official, the iron official, the earth official, and the heavenly official, respectively, prohibiting killing, stealing, adultery, double-tonguedness, drinking and other five evils, mainly to cure lies.

I looked all the way over, and I saw that the Fourth Hall and the Great Hell were really miserable.

All the ghosts who commit murder, theft, adultery, double tongue, and wine, and are escorted to the fourth hall of the underworld after death, are subjected to various kinds of evil punishments.

Those who cut the crotch with a saw were broken alive and deboned; Some are nailed into their nails with bamboo sticks; Some can't breathe in the dust and can't breathe in their mouths, and their eyes are protruding; Some of the ghost criminals pressed their hands into the boiling water until they rotted and molted to reveal their bones. All kinds of tragic situations made me feel terrified.

What's even more terrifying is that some of them have been driven through the mouth with a red-hot iron nail and then through the back of the head, or from the left ear into the right ear; Some of them filled iron bowls with melted red copper juice, and poured it into the mouths of the ghosts, and in an instant the smell of scorching began to appear, and even the bones became charred gray;

For the ghost offender who committed a serious crime, it is not poured all at once, but first drip copper juice on the ghost criminal's lips, then on the ghost criminal's tongue, then into the eyes, and then into the heart, etc., step by step to roast the ghost prisoner until only a little scorched bone remains, and then start all over again after the ghost offender recovers.

I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and quietly asked Bai Wuchang, what kind of person would be subjected to this kind of copper torture?

Bai Wuchang said: "It's that a man and a woman hook up and commit adultery, and because they want to seek other people's property and have a murderous intention, let the copper juice be punished like this!" ”

I have met the Queen of the Five Senses, and respectfully asked the King of the Five Senses: What crimes did the people of the Yang World commit in their lifetime, and the ghosts will only go to the Fourth Hall of Hell to be punished after death?

Although the King of Five Senses had a stern face, he still met my requirements readily. So, on the orders of the King of the Five Senses, the judge told me about the sins committed by the ghost of the Great Hell.

tax evasion and tax evasion; Those who rent other people's houses or belongings and do not pay rent or rely on them to pay back; Buying and selling short catties and less than two catties, defrauding consumers; Manufacture and sale of counterfeit drugs or exaggerated efficacy; Those who produce, counterfeit, sell and sell counterfeit goods;

shoppers using counterfeit banknotes; Dealing in or selling items that confuse people's minds and lead people to commit adultery; those who do not respect the old and love the young; Those who deceive the market and deceive honest people; Those who are entrusted by others do not take it to heart, and do not do things for others; Destroying public property and facilities; those who covet ill-gotten gains; For the rich and not benevolent, do not pity the old and the poor, and do more relief;

Those who promise to help others lend money to others to tide over difficulties, and finally change their minds and mislead people; Seeing that the patient needs medicine but wants to sell it at a high price; Those who have a good way to help others but refuse to disclose them; Garbage such as decoction residues, broken bowls, sundries, and discarded instruments are placed on the street and affect vehicles and people;

Those who raise donkeys, horses, and other animals, but do not manage them, so that urine and feces hinder people or environmental hygiene; Those who do not have fields that can be cultivated, but do not rent them to others for planting, and deliberately desolate or abandon them; Damage to other people's walls;

using spells, spells, and spirits to trick or harm people; Those who spread rumors for no reason, disrupt the normal social order, and undermine stability.

When I think about it, although I feel that some of the laws seem to be impersonal, they are also in line with social morality and ethics.

It's just that those ghosts are pitiful, if they were people in the Yang world, they would have already died by such devastation, and they would only suffer for a while. But ghosts don't die, and the evil they did before they were alive will be endlessly devastated and tortured here after death.

The King of the Five Senses told me that if a person in the Yang world swears, repents, and does not transgress again on the 18th day of the second month of each year, or before the Buddha statue or sutra, he will be exempted from suffering in the hells of the main hall.

If the whole book of prison almanacs is copied; Or add the deeds of karma in ancient and modern times, after the chapters and verses of each temple, to persuade people to do good, and pass them on to future generations, so that those who read them will repent and avoid mistakes, and they will secretly have their own merits.

I said goodbye to the King of the Four Halls and Five Senses, and asked Black and White Impermanence: "Brother Impermanence, what is the place in the Fifth Hall that we are going to now?" ”

Black and white impermanence was in awe, and said respectfully: "The lord of the fifth hall of the Yin Division is the King of Yama, surnamed Bao, who was once entrusted by Bao Zheng in the Yang Dynasty during the reign of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty to break the world by day and the Yin Division by night. The eighth day of the first month is the birthday of King Yama, and the Hall of Yama was originally located in the first hall of Yinsi, above King Qin Guang. It's just that the king of Yama often takes pity on the ghosts who have died and repeatedly releases those ghosts to avenge their grievances, so he was demoted to the fifth hall. ”

I was amazed and said, "Although the king of Yama is selfless, he has such a benevolent heart, which is really admirable!" ”

Black and white impermanence said: "Although the king of Yama was demoted to the fifth hall of the Yin Division, he is still the master of the Yin Division, and his status is second only to the Jizo Bodhisattva. He is a man of great origins, and when he first came to hell, the king of the underworld was only Yama. ”

It turned out that King Yama was originally a king of the ancient Indian kingdom of Visha, he was warlike by nature and never gave in. At that time, the only country that could rival him was a nation ruled by the first king of Vida, and the army was also very strong. They fought and fought for years.

Due to King Bisha's insistence on using military force, the country's strength gradually weakened. In the life-and-death battle with the first king of Vita, the army of the country of Visha was almost wiped out by the first king of Vida.

King Bisha finally broke out of the siege and fled alone to the top of a mountain. After the death of his eighteen generals, the ghosts of the defeated millions of soldiers were gathered, and finally the king of Bisha was found on that mountain.

The millions of subordinates who swore allegiance to King Bisha first comforted King Bisha and inspired King Bisha's renewed fighting spirit. Then the crowd was furious, and in the direction of the first king of Vita, who had defeated them, they swore to the heavens: "Follow King Bisha to death!" We must punish the vicious enemy, even when we go to the underworld, we must also be kings, and fight to the end! ”

King Bisha saw that the tide of life was gone, and the oath of his soldiers to kill the souls of his soldiers aroused his pride. King Bisha drew his sword and killed himself.

After the death of King Bisha, the souls of the millions of soldiers gathered around his corpse went straight to hell without hesitation, led by the ghost of King Bisha.

As a result, King Bisha became the famous King of Yama, and his eighteen generals became judges in the eighteen layers of hell, and the millions of people who followed him also became ghosts and pawns one by one.

The king of Yama is in charge of the Great Hell, which is located at the bottom of the sea and under the fertile stone in the northeast, which is also 8,000 miles long, and has 16 small prisons.

All the ghosts who come to this temple are first escorted to the Wangxiang platform, so that they can hear about their own family in the world. The ghost went up to the lookout platform, saw his hometown from afar, and a group of relatives wept bitterly around his corpse.

The ghost suffered all kinds of things because of his sins, and then he was pushed into the great hell of calling, and then he was sent to the sixteen small prisons of the heart, hooked out his heart, and threw it into the pit of poisonous snakes for ten thousand snakes to compete and devour, and then used a guillotine to make his body head in a different place, and suffered for a long time, and sent another hall.