Although history is that there are many women fighting for power, but the most famous Mrs. Mo Guoqi. It was not because of how clumsy her method of seizing the prostitute was, but because of her tragic ending, Queen Lu became the only person in history.
What is ‘Ren Yu’?
"Historical Records of the Empress Dowager Lu" then the queen mother cut off her relatives' hands and feet, removed her eyes, brightened her ears, drank medicine for fetuses, and made her go to the toilet, saying "people". For a few days, he called Emperor Xiaohui to watch people. Xiaohui saw and asked, knowing his wife, but crying, because of illness, she can't get up after her age.
According to the records of "Historical Records", the so-called "ren 彘" method is to blind the eyes, mute the mouth, deaf ears, then chop off the hands and feet, and put them in the toilet.
Many people question the authenticity of this period of history, because these cruel punishments were all imposed on a weak woman, and it is estimated that it is difficult for her to survive until she is thrown into it. The day of the toilet.
Judging from the content of the penalty, "remove the eyes, brighten the ears, and drink the medicine" is not a fatal injury, so there is no need to elaborate. The key lies in the three problems caused by cutting off hands and feet: bleeding, infection, pain . These three conditions may cause death even in today's relatively advanced medical methods.
肉刑之’刖刑’
Actually we underestimated the ability of the ancients too much. Although medical treatment was not well-developed in ancient times, he was very experienced in such things as slashing hands and feet.
The punishment imposed on Mrs. Qi by Hou Lv generally belongs to the ‘corporal punishment’, which was the most common punishment in the pre-Qin period. The physical punishment in the narrow sense refers to five types of punishment: tattoo (stab the face and ink), 劓 (cut the nose), 刖 (cut the foot), palace (castration), and dapi (death penalty).
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Bian He, the discoverer of'He's Bi', was accused of deceiving the emperor because he was suspected that the jade was fake in the process of offering jade. Was sentenced to a'slaughter sentence' twice and cut off both feet.
There is a collection in the Palace Museum in Beijing, named ‘Fang Li’. From this artifact, we can see a man whose left leg was chopped off from under his knee, and his left hand stood with a stick;
Bronze unearthed in Shaanxi in 1963' It's pan', four naked men kneeling on the ground under its circle, it can also be clearly seen that they are all slaves who have been tortured. In addition, in some of the tombs unearthed today, we can also see the remains of the people.
Therefore, the ancients had quite mature methods to cut off hands and feet without causing death.
Where was Mrs. Qi cut?
The ancients’ ‘persecution’ is theoretically only the part below the knee. And Mrs. Qi was cut off, at best it can only be regarded as an enhanced version of the execution. and in Sima Qian's account, it is stated that it is "断戚夫人手足" instead of broken arms or broken stocks. In "Records of the Assassin", when Jing Ke assassinated King Qin, King Qin swung his sword to counterattack by writing "then draw to strike Jing Ke and break its 左股", that is, cut off his left thigh.
In addition, in the "Historical Records of Dawan Biography", when it is mentioned that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty contacted the Western Regions to jointly fight against the Xiongnu, he wrote, "It is a good idea to join forces with the Han Dynasty. Listening to it is broken Xiongnu 右臂 also".
It can be seen that Sima Qian's wording is very precise. It’s just that in everyone’s minds, if it weren’t cut from the torso, it would not be able to reflect Empress Lu’s cruelty.
And there is one more thing, since Hou Lu called it "Ren Yu", that is, human-shaped pig. Well, pigs have hooves. If just cut off the handThe feet are exactly similar to trotters, so this is also a proof.
Mrs. Qi can't die
Since Mrs. Qi was not cut into a "personal stick", her mortality rate would naturally be greatly reduced. Although we cannot know how this cruel punishment was implemented, it can be guessed that the ancients could control the bleeding of the extremities by a method similar to the method of tying a tourniquet, as well as external use of nepeta charcoal and other drugs to shorten the bleeding time; using mandala The anesthesia effect reduces pain and prevents death from shock; use fire and sore medicine to avoid infection.
In addition, this series of punishments may not be implemented at the same time within one day. Empress Lu can do it in stages, slowly torturing Mrs. Qi and let her Life is better than death.
And the revenge against Mrs. Qi can be said to be the ‘image project’ of Queen Lu. The selected performer must be a master at this, not only the work must be clean and beautiful, but also that Mrs. Qi will not die in a short time. Because Empress Lu is still going to boast of her cruel masterpiece.
结局
After a period of time, Hou Lu called his son Han Huidi to watch Mrs. Qi's tragic situation. It is not only a catharsis of Mrs. Qi's old hatred, but also a kind of "main theme" education for his son-if power cannot kill people as it pleases, what power is it called? Who would be afraid of you?
Han Huidi deserves to be the Lord of Mercy. After visiting'Ren Yu', he said to Hou Lu, "This is not what man did. The minister is the queen dowager. It will never rule the world." Since then, political affairs will not be asked.
And the "Ren Yu" made by Hou Lv is known to the people and the people, and it has spread through the ages. She even did such a cruel method, who is not afraid of Manchu civil and military? Who else can she not kill?
The Western Han Dynasty that was just established, under the guidance of Hou Lv's "Political View of Butcher Knife", gradually moved towards glory.
Seeing the whole story of Madam Qi’s murder, I realized that she had a miserable ending Cfb0b#
