Ding Tian's Ancient Life

As a result, Zhou Mingtong was sentenced to death after autumn, and official Jiang Chun was also hanged.

Zhou Mingtong was full of crimes, and finally subdued the law, which is really his own fault, but there are not many prison bullies who have committed crimes and got away with it.There are even some prison bullies who enjoy it so much that they would rather be prisoners in prison forever.In the article "Miscellaneous Notes in Prison" by Fang Bao, a great writer in the Qing Dynasty, it is recorded that such a prison bully was imprisoned for homicide, colluded with jailers and subordinate staff, and bullied prisoners. two silver.Later, when he was granted amnesty, he was released and went home. He stayed at home for several months, bored and doing nothing. It happened that someone in the village committed a murder. He volunteered to take the blame for him. Sentenced to death, the worst thing is to be imprisoned forever, which is exactly what he hopes.In this way, he returned to the prison and lived his life as a prison bully.Two years later, when there was an amnesty again, his sentence was commuted and sent to the frontier as usual, but he refused to leave and asked repeatedly to stay in prison, but was not allowed.He left the prison sadly, and sighed sadly: "I will never come here again in my life."

Coincidentally, such a prison tyrant who lives in prison is also recorded in "Qingbai Leisha".This person, surnamed Zhang, was imprisoned for murder during the Tongzhi period and was imprisoned for nearly ten years.Every year, he earns a thousand taels of silver by exploiting and defrauding fellow prisoners. He gives this money to his wife at home to lend usury.In the first year of Guangxu (1875), he was released from prison after being amnesty, went home to check the accounts, and made thousands of taels of silver from usury.While being happy, he also regretted being released from prison, because other jobs were not as lucrative as being a prisoner.He stayed at home for more than a year, doing nothing, depressed all day long.It happened that there were people fighting and killing in the village. When he heard about it, he bribed the subordinate officials and offered to take his place in prison.After being imprisoned, he earned more money, which aroused the envy of some other prison tyrants.They also want to imitate him, but their qualifications, prestige and power are not as good as him, so they want to expel him from prison.In the 16th year of Guangxu (1890), the emperor got married, Empress Dowager Cixi returned to power, and gave amnesty to the world.Those prison tyrants bribed the prison officials with a lot of money, asking for him to be released from prison and deported back to his hometown to avoid future troubles.In this way, he was forcibly expelled from the prison and returned home with his wife and ten thousand taels of silver.When he left the prison, he also said the same sentence: "Could it be that I can never come back here again in this lifetime?"