23. A Great Imperial Dynasty Filled With Monsters
Prince Chien enjoyed tormenting his wives and concubines. Some of those who displeased him – and there was no telling what might displease the psycho prince from one day to the next – he forced to sit naked in trees for days on end. Others, he forced to keep time to a drum all day long. Yet others, he simply starved to death. He also liked drowning young boys and girls in a palace lake, as their desperate thrashings amused and aroused him
Princes Tuan, Chu, and Chien were not the only degenerates in that family. Ancient Chinese sources hold that quite a few of Emperor Jing’s relatives were sick sadists. According to contemporary sources, male members of the great imperial family routinely had incest with their sisters and other female relatives, and were not above raping any married woman that caught their eye.