Female prisoners are only terrible when they are punished, and the whole family is willing to destroy the door
In the history of China, many outstanding people have emerged, many of whom are experts in trying cases. Some of them have sharp eyes, wisdom and bravery; Some strictly abide by the right path and are not afraid of power.
However, there is also a special group of people, known as "cool officials", who are characterized by the use of harsh legal means and cruel punishment. The term "cool officials" originated from Sima Qian's "Historical Records" "The Biography of Cool Officials", but in the Han Dynasty, cool officials were more "cool" for officials, because they dared to challenge the powerful and confront the powerful.
Han Feizi once said: "The Ming monarch governs the officials but not the people." "Zhang Tang and Dong Xuan are famous for helping the emperor deter officials. They don't have much private property after their deaths, and often they don't even have the cost of burial, and some even distribute the emperor's rewards to their servants and subordinates during their lifetimes, and they don't abuse their power, and they don't ***
This tradition of cool officials has been passed on to future generations through history books, and its influence is far-reaching. However, in the Tang Dynasty, this atmosphere changed.
The political changes from Li Tang to Wu Zhou, after experiencing the ** of the Sui Dynasty, the monarchs of the early Tang Dynasty adopted a strategy of governing the country with leniency and strictness, grace and authority, and paid attention to governing the country in the way of punishing punishment and inaction, and did not adopt the practice of reusing cool officials.
However, by the time of Wu Zetian, the situation had changed. Wu Zetian, who once assisted Gaozong, finally ascended to the throne after gradually gaining imperial power, but there were many opposing voices inside and outside the government and the opposition.
Within the imperial court, the elders of the clan and the former ministers of the Zhenguan period were dissatisfied, and outside the court and the opposition, Xu Jingye's military campaign against Wu Zetian broke out. Wu Zetian thought that he had been in power for many years and had won the support of the people, but he did not expect that there would still be many opposing voices.
In order to stabilize the political situation, Wu Zetian adopted an innovative method, that is, whistleblowing. She set up a whistleblower box in the capital to collect whistleblower letters from all over the country.
Ostensibly, this was to broaden the public, but in reality it was to gather evidence of a possible rebellion by others. As a result, the cool official Lai Junchen stood out from the report.
Lai Junchen, a native of Yongzhou Wannian in the Tang Dynasty (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi), was from a humble background, did not read and did not participate in the imperial examination, but served in the judicial field as a servant of the imperial history, Zuotai imperial history Zhongcheng, servant Shaoqing, etc., for 14 years, he held the fourth and fifth official positions, and was an out-and-out scoundrel in the eyes of his fellow villagers and neighbors.
His father was also an unemployed vagrant who liked to gamble, and he was even worse than his father, a vice, spurned, and had no choice but to live in Hezhou.
Lai Junchen, who was not familiar with the place, was reported by the villagers and sent to the government because he had no true colors and stole other people's property. At that time, the assassin of Hezhou was Li Xu, the king of Dongping, who was a relative of the Li family, so Li Xu personally ordered his subordinates to beat Junchen with a hundred boards, and then put him in prison.
Later, Lai Junchen was released and taught to be self-disciplined. However, he always held a grudge against Li Xu. Soon, Li Xu was imprisoned because of an incident, which made Lai Junchen see an opportunity.
He began to weave evidence of Li Xu's "rebellion", and used the reporting system set up by Wu Zetian to actively frame Li Xu. In the end, this operation was successful, and Lai Junchen met Wu Zetian and was awarded the official position of Zuodu Yushi, and was also responsible for supervising the case of Li Xu's "rebellion".
For Li Xu, Lai Junchen always held a grudge, he remembered the "humiliation" he had been beaten, so he used more cruel methods in Li Xu's case.
There is a shocking story between Lai Junchen and the cool official Zhou Xing, and there is an idiom between them "Please enter the urn", which originates from the historical event that Lai Junchen returned the torture invented by Zhou Xing himself to the other way.
Zhou Xing was ordered to interrogate Lai Junchen, and while the two were drinking, Lai Junchen skillfully tricked his new torture out of Zhou Xing's mouth - a large urn surrounded by charcoal, lit it, and threw the prisoner into it, which was tantamount to treating others in the same way as others.
By the secret decree of the Holy Heaven, I will interrogate you and ask you to go deep into it. "But it's nothing compared to his own torture. The Tang Dynasty basically inherited the laws of the Sui Dynasty, and according to tradition, there were five kinds of punishments: "flogging, cane, imprisonment, exile, and death", of which flogging and cane punishment were still legal torture methods, and their purpose was to torture the defendant and force him to admit his crime.
Lai Junchen mainly uses the first two, because the latter three are sentences. However, in terms of torturing people, he exerted his "specialty" as a hooligan, and further developed these two criminal laws to develop more torture methods.
If you like to watch horrific penal laws, you may be horrified by the following: vinegar stuffed nose, ear smoked, bamboo nails nailed into fingernails or toenails, and more brutal hanging stones, iron hangers, phoenix wings, and urn roasting.
Among them, flail is the most torturous. The flail was originally used to prevent prisoners from escaping, but Lai Junchen made a flail of varying weights, the heaviest of which even reached 150 catties.
So, for these horrific criminal laws, it is recommended that you be cautious** and do not try it lightly.
Lai Junchen's prison is like a purgatory on earth, and none of the people who enter it can get out alive. He not only used corporal torture to extract confessions, but also tortured people by means such as being imprisoned, locked in filthy dungeons, and denied food, so that many people could not bear it and confessed unjustly.
It is said that when the female prisoner of ** faced the torture instrument, she was even willing to let the whole family be wiped out in order to avoid punishment, which shows the cruelty of Lai Junchen's methods, which has completely destroyed human nature.
The world calls it the "Gate of Exceptions", and no one who enters it escapes the fate of being executed. Such a place has long gone beyond the scope of interrogation, and is more like a terrifying concentration camp.
Lai Junchen, a genius who fabricated the charges, arrested more than 1,000 people in just one year. Most of these "criminals" were actually wronged, but their fate also terrified Wu Zetian's enemies.
Lai Junchen knew that "knowledge is power", so he wrote "Luo Weaving Sutra" together with his henchmen Zhu Nanshan and Wan Guojun to teach people how to fabricate crimes. This "whole person" book is actually a complete collection of crimes, including "Governing the Enemy Volume", "Questioning Crime Volume" and "Melon Man Volume" and so on.
In the political environment of the cool officials of the Tang Dynasty, the influence of "Luo Weaving Sutra" was huge, and even the prime minister Di Renjie broke out in a cold sweat. Lai Junchen demonstrated how to fabricate charges through "Luo Weaving Sutra".
Once one person is caught, hundreds of innocent people can be implicated. If whistleblowers are scattered across the country, thousands of people can be arrested in a single case. Although most of these cases were unjust, false and wrongly decided, the Luo Weaving Sutra has been used as a learning material by Lai Junchen's minions, enabling him to extend his tentacles to all parts of the country, which has had a serious impact on the law and order environment at that time.
The behavior of this Lai Junchen is really despicable. Not only did he oppress others, but he also targeted his own colleagues. When he heard that Duan Jian's wife was beautiful, he forced him to marry her, causing her to commit suicide; He heard that Duan Jian's concubine was also beautiful, so he tried to get her.
He even planned to forcibly seize the wife of his colleague Wu Ren, get him drunk and forcibly commit adultery. He also fabricated an unjust case and framed the servant of the Turkic Khan Ashina Husero, in an attempt to take her away.
He used his power to buy and sell officials, take bribes, and openly demand money. He even had a Goguryeo man killed for refusing his request for a bribe.
This kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable, and we should resolutely oppose this kind of oppression and exploitation of others.
Lai Junchen, who was originally a ruffian hooligan, was relied on by Wu Zetian, and he relied not only on his ability to frame and fabricate charges, but also on actual merits. On Chinese New Year's Eve the year after Wu Zetian became emperor, someone attempted to assassinate her while viewing the flowers, and Lai Junchen was keenly aware of the conspiracy and successfully stopped it.
In the first year of Shengong, Liu Sili plotted a rebellion, and Lai Junchen denounced him and successfully put down the rebellion. Therefore, Lai Junchen was appreciated by Emperor Wu, promoted to Si Nongqing, and was rewarded with ten maidservants.
For many years in office, he did whatever he wanted, bent the law for bribes, took bribes, took bribes, formed gangs, and framed Zhongliang, all because he was trusted by Wu Zetian to be unscrupulous.
Lai Junchen is a self-righteous **, his behavior is not only harmful, but also the property of his colleagues, and his popularity is extremely poor. In order to consolidate his position, he began to set his sights on big names in the court, such as Di Renjie.
He falsely accused Di Renjie of being involved in Li Jingjing's case, and convicted Li Jingjing of being beheaded for the crime of treason, in an attempt to put Di Renjie to death. However, Di Renjie is an honest and honest minister who does things fairly, and Wu Zetian relies on him very much.
Facts have proved that what Wu Zetian needs is not only cool officials to fight dissidents, but also capable ministers who govern the world to govern the country.
In order to protect himself, Di Renjie confessed his rebellion, and after Wu Zetian's interrogation, he explained that he was forced to do so under torture in Lijingmen.
Although Lai Junchen has framed others many times, this time he chose the wrong target. He tried to bring down Princess Taiping, the children surnamed Wu, and Zhang Yizhi, but only to anger them and attract the anger of the public.
Princess Taiping, together with other forces, accused Lai Junchen of rebellion and demanded that he be executed. In the end, Lai Junchen's actions caused him to lose Wu Zetian's trust, and his end came.
Lai Junchen's crime was so heinous that the state sentenced him to death. At first, Wu Zetian considered pardoning him, but three days after the chapter was handed in, no instructions were given. Wu Zetian said to the people around him that although Lai Junchen has contributed to the country, his crimes cannot be ignored.
As a result, everyone wrote letters one after another, insisting on the execution of Lai Junchen. Lai Junchen usually oppressed his colleagues, seized the property of other people's wives and daughters, and even used torture, which made him the object of hatred by everyone.
In the end, Wu Zetian approved the decision to execute Lai Junchen, and he was beheaded in June of the second year of Long Live Tongtian, and his body was displayed in the downtown area. Lai Junchen was sentenced to death, beheaded for public display, and the people of Luoyang fought for his meat.
When Wu Zetian heard this, he was deeply shocked, and immediately issued an edict to expose the crimes of Lai Junchen, and wiped out his comrades, clansmen and subordinates. This incident won Wu Zetian unprecedented support and popular support, and at the same time, it also dealt a heavy blow to dissidents.
Wu Zetian then returned to the road of lenient governance. After Lai Junchen was executed and exterminated, no matter the princes and nobles, the scholars, farmers and industrialists, everyone celebrated and said to each other: "I can finally sleep peacefully today!" ”
It can be seen from this how much panic Lai Junchen caused to people's psychology. The reputation of "cool official" left by Lai Junchen in the history books, whether in the official history or the wild history, folk legends or rural stories, has been spurned by people, and it can be said that he has been nailed to the pillar of shame.
This is a lot of injustice will kill himself, Lai Junchen unscrupulously attacked dissidents for Wu Zetian, and he took the opportunity to loot the people's fat and ointment, which led to ** resentment, and finally could only leave a stinking infamy for 10,000 years.
The political environment of Wu Zetian's era was full of the existence of cool officials, among which Lai Junchen was one of the representatives. His cruelty and ruthlessness, stemming from his loyalty to Wu Zetian, made him occupy an important place in the political history of the Tang Dynasty.
These historical events provide us with an in-depth understanding of the power structure and political environment of that era. "