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In order to suppress those who were against her, Wu Zetian, the empress of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), appointed a few merciless（殘忍的） persons to be judges. Two of them were extremely brutalcorporal punishment to them.    Once, Wu Zetian received a letter which informed against Zhou Xing. The letter aside that Zhou Xing was plotting a rebellion in collaborationwith others. Wu Zetian was furiously angry when she read the letter, and immediately ordered Lai Junchen to deal with the case severelyabout it. He knew that Zhou Xing could not be forced to tell the truth merely by using a letter informing against him because he was very sly and craftywith the case, because the empress would certainly blame him and punish him. How could he solve the problem then? He turned the problem over and over in his mind, and finally thought out a "brilliant scheme".    Lai Junchen had a sumptuousof the wine. Lai Junchen immediately pretended to be very earnest, saying, "Oh, please do tell me at once." Smiling insidiouslyit hot with charcoalfire all around, and then let the prisoner come into the vat. Will the prisoner fail to make a confessionof his crime?" Hearing this. LaiJunchen nodded his head in approval repeatedly. He then ordered his subordinates to bring a big vat, and had a charcoal fire lit all around it as Zhou Xing had said. He then turned to Zhou Xing and said, "Someone in the imperial court has informed against you, saying that you are plotting a rebellion. The empress has ordered me to deal with the case severely. So I beg your pardon, but would you kindlystep into the "Someone in the imperial court has informed against you, saying that you are plotting a rebellion. The empress has ordered me to deal with the case severely. So I beg your pardon, but would you kindly step into the vat?" Hearing this, Zhou Xing dropped his wine cup to the ground and the cup broke with a crash. Then he knelt down with a flopthe set phrase "kindly step into the vat -- try what you have devised against others".

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