When it comes to torture, I believe that many people's first impression is the "Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty", however, the punishment of the Qing Dynasty is far more than the so-called "Ten Tortures".
The so-called "standing punishment", as the name suggests, allows people to be tortured standing up, and on the surface, this kind of punishment does not need to be beaten, nor is it harmed by various other sharp weapons, but it can fundamentally destroy a person.
This was invented by Yu Xian, a famous cool official and extreme xenophobic person in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning, Yuxian served as the prefect of Caozhou, Shandong, when the security in Caozhou was not very good, and there were many thieves.
"How does it work?"After the prisoner was caught, Yuxian asked the official to put the prisoner in a cage and lock the prisoner's neck with a wooden ring on it, so as to immobilize the prisoner's headIn the middle of the cage, a piece of wood was erected, a brick was placed at the foot, and every once in a while, the official was asked to remove a piece of the brick, so that the prisoner would slowly suffocate to death as if he had been hanged on a suspended basis. Generally, a weak person can't carry it for a few hours, and no matter how good his body is, there is a high probability that he will die in one day and one night.
In order to give the thieves in Caozhou a dismount, Yuxian proposed a prisoner from death row after doing a good job of "standing cage", and then asked the officials to announce it to the people of Caozhou, so that the people could go to the execution ground to appreciate how he treated the prisoners with the "standing cage", and the onlookers naturally included the thieves. When the common people and thieves saw how the "standing cage" made a person die in agony, most of them were terrified. According to records, Yuxian once said in a report to the imperial court that "in February of taking office, 370 people were punished, and since then the phenomenon ......of thieves has disappeared".Although cruel, you have to admire Yuxian's "killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys".
In addition to "standing punishment", Yuxian also has another well-known thing. That is, he has been pushing the "Boxers" to start a war with the foreigners, when the Empress Dowager Cixi accepted his proposal to use the Boxers to "help the Qing and destroy the foreigners" failed, the Eight-Nation Coalition mainly dealt with the culprit Yuxian, at that time the imperial court in order to show its attitude, immediately sent Yuxian to Xinjiang to deal with, but the coalition forces were still not satisfied, so Cixi had no choice but to order the execution of Yuxian. At this time, Yuxian was already on the way to Xinjiang, and the law enforcement team hurriedly caught up with Yuxian in Gansu, and finally read out the edict to correct Yuxian on the spot in Lanzhou.
The father of standing punishment" Yuxian died in Huangquan like this, but compared to the more than 300 lives that died under the "standing cage", Yuxian's death is relatively gentle, he should be glad that his master, the Empress Dowager Cixi, did not learn from Wu Zetian to deal with criminals, otherwise he invented the "standing cage" and finally got into it himself, which is really ironic.
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