This article is an exclusive original manuscript of Shishishishi. Reproduction without authorization is strictly prohibited. Author: Gao Chenger
More than two hundred years ago Jiaqing In the eighth year, there was no subway station in Caishikou, Beijing, and it was still the place to execute prisoners. As early as , the Ming Dynasty , this place was the largest vegetable market around, with many vegetable restaurants along the street. Because of the dense crowd, the rulers had to set up the execution ground here so that the people could see the fate of the death row prisoners and act as a deterrent effect.
Among the prisoners executed this year, one of them was named Chen De, who was sentenced to a slaughter by the court, which is commonly known as "thousands of cuts" among the people. The executioner first cut off his nose and mouth, and then started from his left arm, with only the bones left, and then began to deal with his right arm, then his chest and back. Chen De's blood flowed, and later the blood flowed dry, leaving only yellow liquid. Because it was too painful, he asked the executioner to end his life as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, the executioner said, "The emperor has an order to make me suffer more!" The emperor specifically explained that you cannot let you die quickly and must suffer to the greatest extent. It is really a scorpion heart.
Chen De has two sons, one is Chen Tiao'er and the other is Chen Lu'er. Both are not over 16 years old. According to the laws of Qing Dynasty , you can be exempted from death and be sent to the frontier as slaves. But even Emperor Jiaqing was unwilling to let go of such a young child and was sentenced to hanging . What's even more cruel is that when Chen De was cut into pieces, the government specially took his two children to the execution ground, watching his father be killed by one by one. It was really cruel. Is it a distortion of human nature or a decay of morality? Chen De was just an unemployed poor man. Why did Emperor Jiaqing not get along with the father and son? This starts a month ago.
Since the end of Qianlong, the White Lotus Sect Uprising swept across the country. The Qing government spent a lot of manpower and material resources to basically suppress the uprising. Looking at the good news, Emperor Jiaqing was very pleased. The mess left by his father had finally cleaned up part of it, and it was not easy to do the job of wiping his ex-boy! To this end, he decided to visit the tomb of Zunhua and tell the ancestors the good news. After passing through Tangshan, Sanjiadian, Daxinzhuang, Baijian and other palaces, he finally arrived at the Dongling Mausoleum. Emperor Jiaqing visited Zhaoxiling , Xiaoling, Xiaodongling , Jingling, and Yuling. Every time he visited a tomb, he began to cry before he could reach the pavilion. Then he walked into Longen Gate and saluted in front of Baocheng. Although it was very sad on the surface, I was very happy in my heart, and came with the feeling of paying merits and offering gifts. After returning to the capital, he did not immediately return to Forbidden City . He first went around several palaces in Nanyuan to hunt for a while and relax. Then he went to Yuanmingyuan in the northwest of the capital to watch the show during the day and communicated with the concubines in bed at night, and life was enjoyable.
ended the trip to the East Tomb and the Nanyuan and the Old Summer Palace. It was time for Emperor Jiaqing to return to Da Nei. The imperial carriage entered from Shenwumen south of Jingshan . Emperor Jiaqing successfully entered the Forbidden City, but his good mood disappeared in an instant. A commoner named Chen De suddenly rushed out, holding a knife in his hand, preparing to assassinate the emperor. More than a hundred guards had never seen such an exciting scene before. They were all stunned and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, Prince Ding Mianen and Prince Concubine Lavandorji rushed up with a few people and fought with Chen De, so he successfully captured him. In the chaos, Mianen's sleeve was pierced and the guard Danbadorji was injured in three places. After listening to the report, Emperor Jiaqing was in a bad mood and his heart was filled with shock, anger and loss.
"I am the common ruler of the world, and I have no suspicion. I know and see all the people in China and abroad. For eight years, although I have no benevolent government and the people, I dare not kill them arbitrarily. I will not kill them arbitrarily, so what kind of hatred does it have?" Emperor Jiaqing considered himself a well-behaved emperor. Although he did not implement benevolent government for the people, he did not kill innocent people indiscriminately. He could not understand why Chen De took the risk of his life to assassinate him, as if he had never done anything that was harmful to the heavens.
Looking back at the day of the incident, the emperor felt even more angry and disappointed by the performance of the entourage and security personnel. He angrily criticized: "However, there were no less than a hundred guards and various people at that time, but there were only six people who were desperate and captured the criminals. Among the six people including Mianen and Lavandorji, they were grateful for their kindness. However, no one who stood by and watched by the hundreds of people who stood by and watched by? Mianen is my nephew, and Lavandorji is my husband's son-in-law, so I am very pleased. However, are there no one who stood by and watched by and watched by and have no relatives? Isn’t it a servant who has received the kindness of the country in the world? Seeing that such things are so indifferent, how can I hope that he will do his best to do his best in the country? What I am so afraid of is here but not there. All the ministers have a conscience and can they be ashamed of their own? "
More than one hundred people accompany me, and at the critical moment, there are only six poor people, two of whom are relatives. Emperor Jiaqing was heartbroken, so why did he keep so many wine bags? He used to say that he wanted to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and he really needed to be useful. He stood there stupidly and watched the show. He does not act in critical moments and is often a waste of time. He also asks people to reflect carefully and ask carefully with their conscience.
Because Mianen and Lavandorji and six others made contributions, Emperor Jiaqing gave him a reward. Mianen's clothes were pierced by Chen De. He rewarded a royal replenishment jacket, and his son Yishao was named beizi ; Lavandorji also gave him a replenishment jacket, and his son was named auxiliary duke ; Danbadorji performed well and was named baizi and walked in front of the imperial court. The other three also gave the benefits of hereditary third-class male and cavalry commander . These are rewards, and of course there are punishments. Jiaqing dismissed the deputy commander of the Guardian Army, Ahabao and Su Chong'a, on the grounds that the access control was abolished, and other responsible personnel were also punished by various sizes.
In order to find out the reason for Chen De's assassination, Emperor Jiaqing sent a luxurious lineup for trial. He first arranged for the Minister of Military Affairs to ask questions day and night with the Ministry of Justice. Then he ordered the Grand Secretary of Manchu and Han, the Secretary of the Six Ministry, and the Nine Ministers of the Court, and the Senior High-ranking officials of the upper class to join. Almost all the senior officials were involved, and they were facing a cannibal who had no official position and no money. After severe torture, Chen De confessed that it was entirely a personal act, and there was no commander behind it, and his life experience was revealed, which was very sad.
summarizes Chen De’s experience in four words: be a slave for life. There was once a TV series called this name, and the protagonist was Prince Gong Yiyi, telling the story of him being a prince but giving Xianfeng and Cixi to their lives a slave. Yilian is a slave, so Chen De is a slave of a slave. He spent his childhood in Shandong. He was just eight months old and was taken to another place by his parents to be a slave to the official, and he tasted the warmth and warmth of human nature. Later, the two elders died one after another. Chen De had no livelihood in Shandong, so he had to return to Beijing to make a living, because there were cousins and nephews there who could surrender. After arriving in the capital, Chen De lived in Nengren Temple in Xicheng. He had no other skills and could only work as a slave and worked for one official after another, such as Shen Yuanwai of the Ministry of Works, the guards of the Ministry of War, the Wentie Celebration of the Ministry of War, etc., and changed six employers.
In the third year of Jiaqing, Chen De was sold by his master to the Meng Ming family in the north of the city as a cook for fifteen yuan. Three or four years later, his wife unfortunately passed away. The 80-year-old mother-in-law was paralyzed due to accidental paralysis. The successive family changes caused Chen De to be hit hard and heavily in debt. In order to alleviate the economic pressure, he had to arrange for his thirteen-year-old eldest son to go out to work, just like himself, to be a slave to the official family. Faced with the misfortune of life, Chen De often drank to drink and wail, cry and fight in the yard. Soon, bad luck came again. Meng Ming despised Chen De's family for being too large, with too few people working, and having a low cost performance, so he fired Chen De ruthlessly. After being laid off, he lost his source of life and had to go to his nephew again. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he found that his cousin passed away, and his nephew was also very worried. Moreover, their family's financial conditions were not good, and they lived in a difficult life, so they were embarrassed to live for a long time.
, desperate Chen De went to join his friend again and lived outside Donghua Gate. He went out to find a job every day, but he couldn't find it no matter how hard he looked for it. Seeing that his wallet was getting dry, Chen De had no choice but to send his only few clothes to the pawn shop.Looking back on his life, he served so many officials. They were all frugal and frugal, and they were all servants and concubines, but they were all in poverty and destitute. The injustice of society and the corruption of the officialdom made Chen De indignant and thought of committing suicide. When he went out one day, he saw someone repairing the road. He understood that the emperor was about to come out because he had served in , the Interior Office, and had sent objects to the palace. He then decided to assassinate the emperor and end his tragic life. So he ran to the outside of Shenwu Gate. When the imperial carriage appeared, he picked up the knife and went forward to assassinate him. Unfortunately, Chen De was one step late. Emperor Jiaqing had entered Shunzhen Gate and . He mustered up the courage to run out. He was arrested by the guards without even seeing the emperor's face.
After reading these confessions, Emperor Jiaqing and the officials of the court felt unbelievable and increased the interrogation efforts. According to their ideas, there must be someone instructing them behind them, and the water must be very deep. However, no matter how officials used to torture, Chen De insisted that it was done by one person and that there was no force to arrange for him to do so. Later, Emperor Jiaqing simply stopped the interrogation and was about to close the case. He first praised the interrogation officials, saying that they were "loyal to the emperor and the country" and "examination with all their hearts", and then angrily criticized Chen De, saying that he was like an evil dog, biting people and barking randomly. That was due to his nature and he did not need any commander behind the scenes. The emperor was even more afraid that someone would use this matter and describe Chen De as an assassin arranged by his political enemy, implicating innocent people and causing new turmoil. Soon, Chen De was escorted to Caishikou for execution. In order to eliminate the roots and vent the hatred in his heart, Emperor Jiaqing openly violated the law and sentenced two underage children to hang. In an era of dictatorship where rule of man is higher than rule of law, law restricts the people and cannot restrict the rulers. Their promulgation " Daqing Law " can be turned out to be openly contrary to personal likes and dislikes in a blink of an eye, just like a child's play.
After this incident, Emperor Jiaqing saw the anger of the poor people at the bottom. Those who are desperate can take risks and would rather give up their lives than put the supreme ruler to death. Anyway, it’s better to resist and defeat the death of the fish. There are many people like Chen De in China. They are like bundles of dry firewood. As long as there is a little spark, they will immediately release huge energy and deal a heavy blow to the Qing court. Emperor Jiaqing also saw those officials and followers who were in a state of corpse and were confused. They only knew how to embezzle and accept bribes and fish, and they really needed them to take care of things, but they spread their hands and did nothing. With such monarchs and ministers, such people, the broken ship with holes in the Qing Dynasty can only continue to sink in dusk.
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