What was it like to punish the nine families in ancient times? How many people will the emperor kill?

The emergence of the concept of nine nationalities is closely related to the penalty system in feudal society. In the feudal society since the Qin Dynasty, there was a very cruel punishment called "involvement". If a person breaks the law, especially Dafa, it will implicate his close relatives. Among the heinous crimes, the three most serious are treason, treason (destroying the emperor's temple, mausoleum or palace) and treason. The method of executing Jiuzu is cruel. Those who made mistakes were sentenced to death, and other innocent people were in the majority because of their relations with nine ethnic groups. Fortunately, unlike costume dramas, emperors of past dynasties did not order the nine families to be caught in the net for the sake of historical fame.

Clan punishment is the most cruel punishment. The earliest record of family punishment was in the Xia Dynasty, when Xia Qi and Shang Tang warned their soldiers that if anyone disobeyed their orders on the battlefield, they would be put to death with their sons. This is the earliest record of clan punishment in history. This kind of punishment is still used today. In the Qin Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms changed laws. If a soldier disobeys orders or desertes on the battlefield, the court will arrest his next of kin and call his people to behead him in front of the ancestral temple as a deterrent.

At that time, the scale of Chu was not large, only involving parents and brothers. At first, the aim was to punish the people by uniting with Lian Heng, and then more and more people began to kill. From six o'clock ... the number of ethnic groups has increased to nine ethnic groups or even ten ethnic groups. The reason why there are so many ethnic groups is to achieve the purpose of "weeding out the roots".

Jiuzu is a family of nine generations, from grandfather's uncle to great-grandson, namely, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, son, grandson, great-grandson and great-grandson. Some of these people are already dead and can't be killed. Since the emperor wants to "uproot weeds", it must be more than nine generations, so the nine families of criminals killed by the emperor are: four generations of fathers, three generations of mothers, two generations of wives and children, and nine families.