During the ancient feudal dynasty, the emperor invented many terrible punishments in order to manage the people, one of which was called "Lingchi" , which was to cut all the flesh on the criminal's body and torture the criminal to death with one knife.
A sharp thing accidentally cut a small hole in a person's skin, and it will hurt for a long time. If you use a knife to cut the flesh of a living person, you can't imagine the pain, let alone bear it. That is a double torture between physiological and psychological.
People know that they can't live, but they want to die but cannot die. It is much crueler than torture such as beheading and dismembering the corpse of five horses.
Iron-blood punishment
Ming Dynasty There was an eunuch named Liu Jin . He was sentenced to the punishment of Lingchi after committing the crime. executioner cut him 3357 knives. The entire execution process lasted for three days before it ended. After the flesh on
is cut, the body must be cut off and then beheaded. I really admire how brave the executioner needs to develop to finish this job.
The punishment of Lingchi has a long history. lasted from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period until the end of the Qing Dynasty. It was not until Emperor Guangxu when the reform was abolished, and only the punishment for beheading was retained.
How many knives are needed for Lingchi to cut, According to the sentencing of the criminal, the heavier the crime, the more the number of knives you cut . Some people cut a few knives, and some people cut a few hundred knives. However, Ming Dynasty was the most terrifying period of Lingchi's punishment , and is probably related to Zhu Yuanzhang's personality .
It was all done by one hand and one kick. Zhu Yuanzhang had very strict requirements on the court and the country. He had to rely on strict means to control the ministers in the court and absolutely did not allow the ministers to have ill-behavior. So, Zhu Yuanzhang began to kill meritorious officials, and tens of thousands died under his iron-blooded policy.
Zhu Yuanzhang hated evil and would severely punish anyone who committed a crime, no matter how much credit the person had made to the Ming Dynasty.
For example, his Founding General Lan Yu , because he was sued for treason, Zhu Yuanzhang imposed the punishment of peeling Lan Yu in order to establish his prestige for his crown prince Zhu Yunwen .
During this period, Lingchi had grown from cutting to hundreds to thousands of knives of . With the punishment set by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty were even better than those of .
Eunuchs who disrupted the court
The Ming Dynasty had a big disadvantage - Reused eunuchs . After these eunuchs became more powerful, they began to interfere in the government affairs and even overwhelmed the government. The emperor must not only use them, but also prevent their power from being too great and threatening the imperial power.
Liu Jin When he was in great power, 's official position was as high as the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor . During the 8th year of Zhengde, there were eight high-ranking eunuchs in the court, and they were called Eight Tigers, and Liu Jin was the leader of these Eight Tigers.
Liu Jin committed a crime when he was in power in the last dynasty. He was later pardoned and sent to serve the prince Zhu Houzhao . After Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, he naturally arranged an official position for his personal eunuch. Liu Jin is very good at making the emperor happy and often finds some precious birds and beasts to make a smile on Ming Wuzong.
In this way, Liu Jin's status in the palace was getting higher and higher. In order to make money, he even taught Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty to collect money from the eunuchs who supervised the army, calling it "contracting fee" . There are countless unjust acts such as robbing people of land, finance, etc.
The ministers in the court saw the Eight Tigers bewitching the emperor and wrote letters to advise. But Emperor Wuzong of Ming did not take it seriously, which made him very anxious.
After discussing, the court officials came up with a way to use the emperor's deep belief in the astrology to talk about Liu Jin, saying that what he and the eunuchs had done had angered the heavens. Even the astrology changed . Emperor Wuzong of Ming was panicked and took it seriously.
strikes while the iron is hot, and the court officials write letters one after another to ask the emperor to kill the eunuch Liu Jin , but Liu Jin takes advantage of the favor he has been to Emperor Wuzong of Ming for many years. He pretended to run to the emperor and cried bitterly. Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty softened again and believed that Liu Jin was framed.
As a result, Liu Jin was fine and the innocent minister was chased. Now, Liu Jin became even more inflamed. Not only did he embezzle a lot, he even dared to fake the imperial edict and threw officials who opposed him into prison. Those who wanted to impeach Liu Jin were scared and dared not easily go to Ming Wuzong to complain.
Killing treacherous slander
However, if you do evil things, you will die. Liu Jin will eventually pay a heavy price for his illegal behavior.
1510, a eunuch finally presented the seventeen major crimes about Liu Jin to Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty. Emperor Wuzong of Ming was shocked and sent someone to interrogate Liu Jin. With the efforts of the cabinet chief Li Dongyang , Emperor Wuzong of Ming made up his mind to kill Liu Jin.
He couldn't believe that the eunuch he had favored for many years had committed so many crimes, and personally took people to Liu Jin's house to search the house.
After a thorough investigation, Emperor Wuzong of Ming found millions of taels of gold and silver, and many other things that were under the influence. He was also surprised to find that Liu Jin often hid a dagger in the fan in his hand. This means that Liu Jin is ready to kill the regicide at any time.
can no longer use the excuse to defend himself, and Liu Jin was sentenced to death by Lingchi. At this time, Emperor Wuzong of Ming hated him to the core, and ordered him to cut more than three thousand swords .
But Liu Jin is not the only example of being lingchied in the Ming Dynasty. The famous anti-Jin general in the late Ming Dynasty Yuan Chonghuan , and was also falsely accused of rebellion. was executed by lingchi of Ming Yingzong . A generation of loyal and good generals died miserably, leaving only a bloody skeleton.
Qing Dynasty After taking over the Ming Dynasty and reigned, the old system was continued, and the punishment methods passed down by the Ming Dynasty continued to be used in terms of punishment. Fortunately, with the progress and opening up of ideas, these cruel criminal laws were abolished.
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