Chapter 20 Pros and Cons of Electricity

During the Japanese shogunate period, Christians were massacred, and the punishment was very severe, but they were not allowed to be published, and the world is ignorant.In recent years, there have been quite a few documents published at that time.I have seen "The Martyrdom of Cherizhitan" [2], which records the situation of torture believers, or take them to the hot spring, pour their bodies with hot soup; or light a fire around them, and slowly roast them. , but the supervisor moved the fire away and changed the death penalty to torture. China is even crueler.There was a record in the Ministry of Tang Dynasty that a county magistrate tortured a prisoner and roasted him over a fire all around him. When he was thirsty, he gave him soy sauce and vinegar. [3] This is a step further than Japan.Now the government tortures suspects, pouring chili juice into the nostrils, which seems to be a method left over from the Tang Dynasty, or it is an ancient and modern hero, and the experience is similar.I once saw a letter from a young man who was imprisoned in a reflection courtyard, saying that he suffered from this torture before, and he was in terrific pain. The spicy juice flowed into his lungs and heart.This person is an army student, and he doesn't know the structure of internal organs. In fact, the nose is hung upside down, and it can flow into the lungs from the trachea, causing a fatal disease, but it can't enter the heart. At that time, because he was in pain and his consciousness was confused, he suspected that he had reached the heart. .

But the instruments of torture made by the so-called civilized people are far more cruel than this method.There is electrocution in Shanghai. Once it is applied, the whole body is in pain and painful, and then passes out. When it wakes up after a while, it is tortured again.It has been heard that some people who were subjected to seven or eight times in a row were lucky enough to avoid death, and since then their teeth have been shaken and their nerves have become blunt and cannot be recovered.In commemoration of Edison [4] the year before last, many people praised the benefits of the telegraph and the telephone, but they did not think that the same electricity, and some people suffered such great harm. The blessings used electricity to cure diseases and beautify the eyes, while the oppressed suffered from it. , died also.

Foreign countries use gunpowder to make bullets to defend against the enemy, but China uses it as firecrackers to worship gods; foreign countries use compass needles to navigate the sea, but China uses it to read geomantic omen; foreign countries use opium to heal diseases, but China uses it for food.It is the same thing, but the difference between Chinese and foreign usages is such that it is not just electrical. January thirty-first. [1] This article was originally published on February 16, 1933 in "Shen Shen Free Talk", signed by He Jiaqian. 〔2〕 "The Martyrdom of Cherizhitan" was originally called "The Martyr of Qiezhidan E", published by Japanese pine sole sole.When it was revised and republished in 1925, it was renamed "The Martyrdom of Chietzhitan".The book describes the spread of Catholicism in Japan since the sixteenth century, as well as the cruel persecution and massacre of Catholics by the feudal ruling class in the Edo Shogunate era. "Chezhidan" (also known as "Chelizhidan") is the Japanese translation of Christianity (and Christians). [3] "Taiping Guangji" volume 268 quotes a similar record in the lost article "Shen Yi Jing": Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, when the cruel officials came to Junchen to extract a confession, "every prisoner, no matter the severity, first poured vinegar into the nose, and was forbidden in the dungeon. Surrounded by fire."

[4] Edison (T.A.Edison, 1847-1931) American inventor.Intensive study of electricity, many inventions and creations, such as electric light, telegraph, telephone, movie player, phonograph and so on. After his death on October 18, 1931, he was mourned all over the world.