What was the cruelest instrument of torture in ancient times? The prisoner didn't last three seconds, but now he has become a necessary tool for his family?

I don't know if you left any psychological shadow when you watched The Romance of the Gods as a child. This TV series is good-looking and good-looking, but there are also many bloody pictures that are not suitable for children, especially the punishment developed by Su Daji for fun. It should be the brand that leaves a deep shadow on countless people. Branding is a cruel and bloody punishment, and few people can persist for three seconds. But the once frightening instruments of torture have now become a necessary tool for every family, an iron.

Slightly different from TV series, searing was actually developed by Shang Zhouwang, and it was not made for Bo da ji to laugh. Zhou Wang is fatuous and cruel, and likes to ignore human life. For him, all the people in the world belong to him, and he can do whatever he wants. He wants to kill a person as simple as running over an ant. The punishment of burning was actually used by him to punish some criminals. It existed before da ji, and then it was just a show for da ji.

How is the punishment of cauterization executed? How cruel? Why can't anyone survive?

The so-called branding is to erect a hollow copper column on a long iron plate, then dig a big pit under the iron plate and burn a charcoal fire in the pit, so that the iron plate and copper column will be heated and red by the fire. At this time, criminals will be stripped naked, arrested with iron plates and let them walk barefoot on the floor. If you stand unsteadily because you are afraid of being scalded, you may fall directly into the charcoal pile and be burned alive. Those who are lucky enough to persist will be tied to a copper pillar and continue to be punished until he is baked into coke by a hot copper pillar.

In "The Condor Heroes", Shang Zhouwang roasted Mei Bo, a veteran of the Three Dynasties and a Shanghai doctor, alive with this searing punishment. And at that time, in order to shock the ministers, all the civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty were summoned to watch the punishment. When everyone saw Mei Bo's tragic death, they all turned pale and trembled with fear. Although I feel sad for Mei Bo, and I curse Zhou Wang a thousand times, I still say Wang Shangying, long live my king.

Of course, there are actually several statements about the specific implementation of burning. Some say that only when the iron plate is burned red can the prisoner be released, some let the prisoner walk directly on the hot copper column, and some tie the prisoner to the copper column first, then heat it bit by bit, and roast people slowly like a frog cooked in warm water. But the principle is that people are expected to be roasted to death by extremely hot iron plates or copper columns.

This kind of punishment is too cruel. It was actually recorded after the Shang Dynasty, but it was rarely used by kings. I really want to punish the prisoners in this way, so they improved the soldering iron and made it small and convenient, which won't burn the prisoners to death at once or crush them. This picture is also a punishment scene that we often see in film and television dramas.

In the Ming Dynasty, I happened to find that iron drums filled with charcoal could even iron clothes, but it was too much trouble to hold large drums filled with charcoal. Slowly, someone changed the big iron drum into a small kettle and changed the charcoal into hot water, which was safer and more effective. So the instruments of torture were transformed bit by bit, and after hundreds of years of evolution, they became today's funnels.

Now every family in our country has an iron in use. Have you ever thought about how to improve this cruel torture device? After understanding the evolutionary history of iron, will you be afraid to use it when using it? I'm kidding. Actually, an iron is an iron, which is used to iron clothes. As for the rest, it's all history, so don't worry too much.