Chapter 20: Sin is at the end of everything

After all, the monk has a transcendent status, even if he commits the crime of "sectarianism", he can avoid death, and the monk of Jingkong is frightened by the words "Changliu Qingdao" trembling like chaff, as long as he is not exiled to Qingdao, he can do anything.

Yamauchi did not dare to deny the charges convicted of him, and was finally sentenced to a crime of two hundred miles of assassination and long-flowing for three years to serve three years of hard labor in the Laocheng camp under the Abe Golden Mountain in Ampere County, and was pardoned. During the three-year sentence, even if the Junfu granted amnesty to criminals, the monk was not included in the pardon, and he must serve the three years of hard labor before he could be released.

The origin of the thorn match recorded in the first year of Yongguan (the eighth year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Song Dynasty, 983), the monks of Dongda Temple entered the Song Dynasty from Taizhou, and the following year, Song Taizong gave him a Shu version of the "All the Scriptures".

At the same time, due to the resumption of the exploration and cooperation trade, not only the Buddha scriptures, poems and songs, silk coins, Zhuyu porcelain and other items were brought back, but also various punishments that have been handed down since the beginning of the Five Dynasties, and the piercing with Changliu is one of them.

At the beginning of the Heian Dynasty, there were already punishments for exiled prisoners, and Sugawara Michizane was demoted and exiled to Dazaifu in Kyushu, but at that time it was not a stabbing match, and because he offended the enemies of the court, he was demoted and exiled.

The first to begin to assassinate the Song Dynasty with exile punishment, and the official implementation was the entry of Ping Daxiangguo.

In the coup d'état, he first dismissed all the anti-Taira clan nobles headed by Fujiwara Kibo, about 39 people of the court, and appointed the relatives of the Taira clan to replace them, and then imprisoned the king of Go-Shirakawa in the Toba Palace, ended the court government, and officially announced that the Taira clan samurai were in charge of the world.

In the later years of the Tai Daxiang Guo Qingsheng entered the Tao, the cadres were arbitrary, and they were domineering, and the Ise Ping clan was promoted to the palace, and there were 16 people who became immortals.

Heike Ichido controlled Satsuma, Chikuzen, Nagato, Shubo, Iyo, Bichu, Hakuage, Bizen, Sanuki, Awa, Taji, Harima, Tango, Tanba, Awaji, Izumi, Kii, Ise, Wakasa, Echizen, Kaga, Noto, Sado, Echichu, Hida, Mino, Owari, Mikawa, Suruga, Musashi, Hitachi, and Joso, for a total of 32 reichō provinces.

Under the persuasion of Minamoto Yorimasa, Ihito-kun decided to raise troops to resist the Taira clan's seizure of power, calling himself "the most victorious Yuan-kun", and issued an order to the Kanto Genji to crusade against the Taira clan.

Soon after, the Taira clan sent troops to surround the Takakura Palace, and Renjun, Minamoto Yorimasa, Minamoto Zhonggang, Minamoto Kanetsuna, and others were forced to go out to Mitsui Temple, and asked for help from Yanliji Temple and Kofukuji Temple, Yanliji Temple refused, so he had to flee to Kofukuji Temple in Nara, and on the way to Nara he was intercepted and killed by Taira Chimori, Taira Shigeheng, Parallel Sheng, Taira Tadadu and others, after the battle between the two sides in Ushikawa, Minamoto Yorimasa, Minamoto Nakatsuna, Minamoto Kanetsuna and others were killed one after another, and Renjun continued to flee to Guangming Mountain, and encountered the attack of the Heike samurai Fujiwara Keigaka and Fujiwara Tadsuna in front of the torii, He was killed by an arrow from his horse.

After the defeat of Renjun's rebellion and his execution, Wuziping rebalanced and offered his plan, corrected the king's order, and introduced the "Song Punishment" in the name of imitating the Central Plains.

Then in the "Song Criminal Union": "There are more than 200 laws of assassination, and those who are reasonable can also revert to the law of exile and re-offense, and then decide to assassinate and fill the army." "For the name.

The Genji party involved in the rebellion was all stabbed according to the size of the crime, including Minamoto Yorito, and it was also at that time that Zhangba and Qingdao began to officially become a centralized penal colony for repeat offenders.

The other monks who committed the crime in Umegawa-in were only accomplices, and in line with the principle of lightness of the crime, they were only deprived of the degree, and they were reduced from the bhikshus to the novices, and after being punished for thirty years, they were driven back to the main monastery, and they were not allowed to return to the Fuzhi County for the rest of their lives.

The monks and soldiers who participated in the "Sect Theory" yesterday were not monks, although they had monk characters and shaved their heads. Not only will they not enjoy the treatment of leniency, but they will also be punished severely, which is really a disaster.

All of them were convicted and convicted, and they were taken into custody and sold. Because the case occurred in Pingshanzhuang, it was sold by Pingshanzhuang or left to cultivate the land.

This is also a bad custom or practice in adjudication, where crimes committed in the township should be regarded as rewards for the sale of subordinate apprentices and confiscation of family property, and given to the most basic officials who handle the case, as a reward for their dedication to public service.

The amount of family property to be confiscated in this case is too large, and more than ninety percent of it will be confiscated by the county.

Yesterday, there were four monks and soldiers who participated in the "Zonglun", two of whom were present today to wait for their crimes, and the other two were still in the Meichuan Courtyard, and they did not know that they had been sentenced by the county and directly sold into slavery by the officials.

Yamauchi immediately issued a ticket to sign a card, and Aoki Daizen stepped forward to receive the order, just waiting for the case to be understood, he could take the messenger of the village to lead the way, and lead the jailer to Meichuan Courtyard to get people.

When the monk learned that he was going to Suruga, he dug a gold mine for three years, and his heart was like ashes, and opening a mine was also a torture and extremely dangerous.

As soon as his body went limp, he collapsed and let the clerk grab his hand on the pleadings and hastily confess his guilt.

He had not been convicted before, and he was spared the pain of shackles, but now as soon as he drew a confession, a jailer immediately stepped forward, put shackles on him, and crushed him to the ground.

The jailer next to him took out a piece of something similar to an animal chewing head, stuffed it into his mouth, and then went around behind him, stretched out his hand and strangled it hard, the monk hung a heavy shackle, and was pressed to the ground by the jailer, his neck was lowered, and then he was vigorously dragged from behind, unnaturally raised his head upward, and let out a painful wail, because his mouth was stuffed with something, and he couldn't speak clearly, and the people in the courtyard could only hear him make a strange cry of "woo".

This was not to torture him, but to be afraid that when the monk was tattooed on his cheek, he would not be able to stand the pain and bite his tongue in a panic and commit suicide.

Thorn faces are also divided into "big thorns" and "small thorns". Whoever commits a felony is to have a great tattoo, and the shape of the piercing is different according to the crime.

The law decrees that whoever commits the crime of theft shall be pierced behind his ear; the square of the thorn for imprisonment and exile; The stabbing of the cane punishment is round, and the cane punishment of the three offenders is moved to the face, "the diameter is not more than five points".

Later, it was stipulated that "whoever is a robber who dies with a special goods" should have the word robber tattooed on his forehead, and the remaining words should be pierced on both cheeks. In addition to "selecting a certain state or county prison city", there are also those who stab the cause of their crimes in the face.

Later, in the later period, there were more methods such as piercing the forehead, piercing the arms, and piercing the back, each with a good name, which was said: opening the eyes of the sky, stamping the card, and pulling the gold seal.

Among them, it is also said that piercing the forehead can be covered with hair, and those who pierce the arms and back can also be hidden with tattoos.

The crime committed by the monk is very famous, and he should be tattooed on the forehead, but considering the identity of the monk, it was changed to the left side of the tattoo, which belongs to leniency in the law, but in fact it is not as good as piercing the forehead, so it can only be said that he is unlucky.

The work of tattooing is mostly done by the hand, and this time it is the same.

Seeing that the prisoner had been controlled, he asked the two Lang officials if they could be executed, and after obtaining permission, he walked down from the corridor of the platform with the box and turned to the left side of the monk in the clear space.

The attendant who assisted in the tattooing was Itakura Shiro Uemon, who held up a bamboo plate, knelt beside him, and took out a steel needle, a rib, two dry cloths, ink, and a brush from the box, and placed them in turn, and the jailer gave a bowl of water and an oil lamp.

Steel needles and ribs are used to stab, according to the identity of the prisoner's crime, the tools used are also different, the steel needle is good, at least the wound is not big, if the rib difference short knife is used to engrave, even if the wound is healed, it is also disfigured.

If the executioner's hands tremble or deliberately break it, half of his face will be scratched.

The scratching is not finished, but it has to be re-engraved on the other half of the face, and it is not uncommon in the past that the prisoner has been cut on both sides, but the tattoo has not yet been completed.

In response, the decree stipulates that those who deliberately scratch the face of the offender and destroy the tattoo will be punished with a finger and apologize.

The ribbed short knife became the effect of cutting off the prisoner's obstructive hair when stabbing the face, and only the most vicious thieves, or the criminals who offended the poor and refused to spend money to eliminate the disaster, were engraved with the ribs.

The monk is lucky, today is the two Lang officials personally imprisoned, it is not appropriate to let the scene be too bloody, although he is guilty of a serious crime, this time it is just a steel needle prick.

He first soaked a dry cloth with water and helped him wipe the left side of his face, so as not to be contaminated with dirt, affect the judgment of the feel, and the stabbing was inaccurate.

Stretched out his hand and twisted a black steel needle with a length of one and a half inches, dipped it in water, and shook it with his backhand to shake off the water droplets.

Water falls from the sky and returns to dust, which is called not owing each other. It means to inform the gods and Buddhas of heaven and earth that this execution is not a personal vendetta, but a business trip, in order not to receive karmic retribution, and even hopes to accumulate merit by punishing sinners instead of the imperial court.

After the water droplets are shaken off, the steel needle is placed on the oil lamp and carefully grilled, which is not only for disinfection, but also to make the wound quickly scab over and clear when piercing.

Usually, in order to make the handwriting not so clear, the prisoner spends money in advance to buy the work of the execution, omitting this process, and then begging to make the tattoo shallower, mixed with blood and ink, and wipe the cloth after leaving the hall, the handwriting can go down for most of the time, and after a long time, once the wound heals, most of them will not be visible.

The monk has no time to spend money on exercise, and people don't owe him anything, so they don't hurry to burn the steel needles red, and the servants have always paid attention to the fact that they don't pay on credit, and it's easy to say if they give money, and it's easy to say if they don't give money.

In a word, look at it!

The monk of the clear space looked sideways, watching the monk come over with a hot steel needle, the beads of sweat on his forehead kept sliding down, the whimpering sound in his mouth did not stop, his expression was terrified, and he tried all his strength to struggle to get up and escape, the jailers on the left and right sides thought he was shaking badly, and one stepped on one of his thighs, and beckoned to his companion next to him: "Two more people have taken him, don't let him shake around, and stab the words!" ”

With his miserable appearance, even Gao Shisheng couldn't bear to look at it, he never thought that the punishment of stabbing characters would be so terrifying.

Yamauchi Toyoshi and Matsugami Nobumune, on the other hand, looked as usual, and they were not surprised when they saw it.

Two more jailers stepped forward, one put his arm around the forehead of the monk of the clear sky, and the other reached out and pinched his chin, so that he could not shake from side to side, so that it was convenient for him to do his hands.

There were too many jailers in front of him, and Gao Shisheng was far away, so he couldn't see how to do it, but he only smelled a smell of meat coming from the courtyard, and in the blink of an eye, the body of the monk convulsed violently a few times, and then there was no movement.

The two Lang officers did not stop when they saw that the prisoner had passed out, and let the jailers continue to act.

The execution cannot be stopped, even if the prisoner can't stand the torture and dies violently on the spot, he must wait for the tattoo to be carried down to collect the body, this is the rule.

He has been stabbing all the nine big characters of "Thorn with Junzhou Anbu Prison City Camp", wiping off the blood stains with a dry rag, and taking a brush dipped in it to smear it vigorously on the wound, and after the ink is completely soaked in the handwriting, the excess ink is wiped off with a dry cloth, and after repeating several times, the handwriting is clearly visible.

He felt quite satisfied, he hadn't opened his face with someone for a long time, and although his subordinates were a little rusty, he was better at his skills and did it in one go.

nodded with satisfaction, and then turned around and said to the two Lang officials: "The execution is over, please Lang Guan to inspect the sentence!" ”

"How's it going?" Torture Book Matsugami Shinmune asked. If the prisoner did not survive the execution and died violently on the spot, he would have to write a palindrome explaining the reason, which was very troublesome.

"Lord Qiyu, I thought I was snorting just now, but the prisoner just couldn't stand it and passed out."

"Then drag it down and take it into custody for the time being, and then send a special person to escort it to the labor camp of the Ministry of Security to serve his sentence after returning to the county." After the execution, the prison officer had to check whether the tattoo was up to standard, and for Matsugami Shinmune, as long as the person was not dead, he didn't bother to check whether the tattoo was up to standard. , he is a veteran, he can be trusted.

"Thank you, Lord for believing in love!" He bowed down and took all the tools back into the box, and the two servants dragged him down the hall by the two arms of the monk of the clear sky.

Nagata Mori and Hasegawa Hayato felt even more fortunate that they had Gao Shisheng and him as a guarantor, otherwise they would have come like this, and the good man would have been tattooed with a string of big characters on his face, and he really couldn't be a man.

In my heart, I can't help but be more grateful to Gao Shisheng.

Gao Shisheng has not had much contact with the monk of the clear space, but he can also detect the other party to some extent, and he can be regarded as a well-spoken character on weekdays, but it is a pity that the monk meets the official, and he can't tell if he is reasonable, not to mention that he is an unreasonable monk.

If you can calm down and think about it, you should know that this is just a false words and intimidation of Yamauchi's sentence, and his charge is not far from being sentenced to such a heavy sentence.

Of course, if he gritted his teeth, it would be useless to admit his guilt, and the county had already made up its mind to raid the two houses, and the charges could be said to have been drawn up in the county last night.

Yamauchi Shifeng wants to be cautious about the punishment of this general sentence, and re-examines it, and the punishment record next to him, Matsugami Muneshin, will not continue to accompany him, and the litigators are reprimanded as Miki, why can't they ask for it, they have a torture instrument, and they are tortured, and in the end they don't want to confess obediently.

The methods used by the errands to rectify the prisoners are not as ruthless as the jailers of Hachijo and Nijima, but they also have some skills in eating.

Note: After peace, there was exile but there was no assassination, what was said in the article was just a novelist's joke, and you should not take it seriously.

The process of tattooing is generally not much different from the description in the text. The resurgence of tattoos in the Song Dynasty is indeed related to the indiscriminate use of tattoos.