Chapter 35 From the use of heavy codes in governing troubled times to the torture of previous generations

Since April 14th, when a masked lone gangster shot the deputy manager and robbed a huge sum of money at Tuyin Guting Branch, it was discovered that there was a well-organized network for selling infants, and dozens of infants had been exported. .This kind of lawless and dehumanizing behavior makes everyone gnash their teeth. Everyone advocates that heavy codes should be used to rule troubled times. story. In the era of autocracy in our country, there were many kinds of tortures for the big villains, such as cooking punishment, palace punishment, chariot punishment, cutting off the feet, cutting off the tongue, cutting off the ears, scraping the nose, gouging out the sun, tattooing the head, quartering the corpse by five horses, etc. The cruelest criminal law is skinning and lingering.Some people say that the punishment of skinning began in Shang Zhou, but now there are no records to test. The earliest recorded one is Sun Hao, king of Wu at the end of the Three Kingdoms period. He is the young grandson of Sun Quan. Finally, I like skinning people the most.His sycophantic courtier, Yu Chuo, flattered and deceived his heart, but he saw it through, and in a rage he taught someone to peel off Meng Chuo's entire face.Later, when Sun Hao descended to the Jin Dynasty, more than a dozen complete facial skins were found in his harem.Jia Chong, the Taiwei of the Jin Dynasty, asked him, why do you want to peel people's skin?Sun Hao said: "Some people have a flattering smile, a face, thick and tough, so they peeled it off as a warning and punishment." Zhu Hongwu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, since he wiped out all the heroes and established his prestige in Jinling, he also used severe torture. strict law.In order to crack down on corruption, officials, big and small, who took bribes of more than six thousand taels, not only showed their heads to the public, but also peeled off the prisoner's body skin, stuffed the skin with straw, and hung it on both sides of the public hall of the government office to scare off corrupt officials.Legend has it that there is a haunted house in Bafutang, Nanjing, which was the skinning execution ground in those days.

Zhu Yuanzhang was vicious and bloodthirsty, and under his influence, since Chengzu and below, everyone liked to use some ingenious methods to kill people.Even the powerful eunuchs, local tyrants and evil gentry in the Ming Dynasty all had their own lynchings.Looking at history, the Ming Dynasty dealt with criminals with the most tricks and the cruelest. Lin Gengbai, a modern poet, has done a lot of research on Xingxiang Ziping.He once read a notebook of astrologers in the Ming Dynasty, one of which talked about Wei Zhongxian's brutal skinning methods: "During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, this astrologer traveled to Beijing and lived in a pot in Cao Laogong's temple. Of course, the pot is of high quality. Huge and mixed, with three teachings and nine streams, and everything. Next door to him, there are hawkers selling food, drinking around the kang table, and everyone is a bit drunk. One of them counted Wei Zhongxian's crimes, which involved privacy, and said that heaven has eyes, rape People will be defeated soon. The four friends, trembling with fear, advised him not to talk too much and suffer disaster. He thought that whispering in the house, although the traitor is domineering, do you really have such long ears, come to peel my skin? Who knows Sleeping until late at night, unexpectedly there were Jinyiwei personnel who pushed the door open, nailed the limbs of the guy who said nothing on the door panel with big nails, locked up the four people and took them to Jinyiwei in Dongchang Hutong for interrogation. In the hall sat a The father-in-law of Scarlet Cloak, Wei Zhongxian who dares to kill without blinking an eye, said, "Some people say I can't peel his skin, now let's see if I can peel it off." After speaking, someone brought in two barrels of asphalt oil, two Oil brush, a wooden mallet, first strip off the clothes of the guy who didn't hold back his mouth, and cover his whole body with asphalt oil, and beat it with a mallet while applying it, and soon the whole human skin came off. Four people knelt aside and watched the shit Thanks to Wei Xie’s kindness, the four people saved their lives.” Judging from the above records, the organization of Wei Zhongxian’s East Factory is so strict that the walls have ears and penetrate every hole, and the cruelty of torture is even more chilling. .

At the end of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong was also a notoriously bloodthirsty devil.Aside from his fondness for chopping off women's slender feet and piling them up into mountains of golden lotuses for fun, he has rich and seasoned experience in skinning people.It is said that he invented the method of cutting from the back of the head to the tailbone, and tearing it left and right, and the whole human skin was peeled off.He also told the left and right that barren people have bones but no flesh, thin tendons and fat, and are the easiest to peel off; obese and strong women have thick skin and fat, and the breasts are the most difficult to tear off. If such people can peel off the whole If the human skin does not break, it can be classified as a master skinner.How can this kind of argument not make people frightened.

Around the 20th year of the Republic of China, a demon king called Fan Erkuzi appeared in northern Hubei. He burned, killed and looted in the area of ​​Xiangfan.Finally, the "Appeasement Office" in Wuhan secretly dispatched operatives to the home of the concubine of Fan Erqianzi in Laohekou, trying to lure him to Hankou and bring him to justice.As a result of the interrogation, there was no doubt that he was sentenced to death.The victims in the Xiangfan area believed that this person was killed by a gun, which was not enough to relieve their hatred and anger, so they helped the old and the young, and each of them took a stick of incense to Hankou to petition, hoping that Ling Chi would be executed and avenge the victim's shame.However, in the Zhaoxing of the Republic of China, those cruel and inhumane executions were abolished long ago. Although Fan Er's behavior was disgusting, he could not be tortured again.After several deliberations by the Military Law Department, before he was tied up to the execution ground, he was given paralytic poison. When he arrived at the execution ground, he had already stopped breathing and returned to heaven, so he cut the left and right upper foreheads with the fastest method of "Quick Eight Knives". , Cut off two breasts, cut off two arms, cut off the heart, cut off the head, a total of eight cuts, the people of Xiangfan burned incense and fired cannons.This time, my friend Dai Shaolun presided over the handling of everything. For several months, he was always in a state of anxiety. When talking about this matter, his palms were sweating!

The author visited the Beijing Meridian Gate Building (the so-called Wufeng Building under the title of Jinfeng) History Museum one year. At that time, Wang Tongyi, the person in charge of the museum, was a middle school classmate of the author.There is a glass cabinet in the showroom, which contains all kinds of knives and chisels used for cutting, scraping, judging, and gouging out in Ling Chi's execution.According to Brother Tongyi: "The documents in the museum record that Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty had the so-called Cunzhen, which should be three hundred and sixty knives. However, Liu Jin, the right eunuch, was executed in Lingchi, and the victim's family gave a lot of gold and silver to the executioner. Please chop Liu Jin more. A few knives were used to express grievances. In the end, he received a total of 4,700 knives. Wouldn’t it be meat sauce if a person was chopped up thousands of knives? If it is now, it is forbidden by the law. In the Qing Dynasty, in the early years of Kangxi In the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty", the number of swords in Lingchi was clearly divided into four types: twenty-four swords, thirty-six swords, seventy-two swords, and one hundred and twenty-four swords! Only reduction of swords is allowed, and requests from the victim's family are not allowed. Add more knives at will. In fact, in the end, Ling Chi's prisoners were almost killed by eight knives. It was not a special purpose, and they were rarely executed with one hundred and twenty-four knives."

Seeing that there are more and more vicious thugs who are full of desires, defying the law, and stopping killing with killing, although it can be effective for a while, I think everyone must work together in family education, school education, and social education. Only in this way can the obscenity and evil be eliminated, and the effect can be achieved.According to the newspaper, since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the number of male and female prisoners sentenced to death and awaiting execution in the United States has reached as high as 1,009. This proves that killing to stop killing is definitely not a good way. It won't be that Xixi Rongrong settles down to his own business.