All officials from the chancelleries that he had created and all of the officers were obliged to attend this torture scene as a way of warning them that, "You'd better not mess around."

他所有的内阁大臣和官员们,都被迫出席拷打的场面,这么做是以儆效尤,"你们最好别到处惹是生非"

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