The end of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Naiwu, a scholar from Yuhang, was successful in the countryside examination, and organized a banquet to celebrate. The tenant Ge Xiaoda's wife Bi Xiugu is quite beautiful, known as "little cabbage". She was originally Ge's child bride, once in Yang's house help, and Yang Naiwu early love, in the way of etiquette and honor, difficult to become a family, only to marry each other. Yuhang county magistrate Liu Xitong had been for the collection of money and grain convergence of stolen goods and corruption, was Yang Naiwu contacted the scholars to write a letter to the report, cut off the way of wealth, harboring resentment. His son, Liu Zihe, raped Bi Xiugu with drugs and poisoned her husband, Ge Xiaoda, to death. Liu Xitong in order to save his son's life and vent his personal anger, they moved the wood for the trees, Yang Naiwu tricked to the county magistrate, tortured to force confessions, to "plotting to take away the woman" to set the proposed, asked for the death penalty. Yang Naiwu and his sister Yang Shuying, his wife Zhan's not convinced, repeatedly appealed for two years, before and after dozens of halls, all due to Liu Xitong up and down bribes, so that the officials protect each other, still convicted of a capital offense, and the Ministry of Justice in detail. Zhan's also failed to appeal and was detained for the crime, fortunately, the same section of the scholar Wang Shiping united gentry petition to the Ministry of Justice to identify grievances, the Ministry of Justice, Xia Tongshan dismissed the details, and please get the imperial decree of the three major constitutional order of zhejiang will be tried. Yang Shuying in order to save his brother, nephew in arms to visit the provincial capital, begging the showgirls to turn over the truth, Bi Xiuqiu feel guilty, and immediately agreed. Who knows Zhejiang governor Yang Changjun in order to save their own face and many officials on the top of the trial, relying on the embrace of the border Zuo Zongtang's power, together with the clan Taiwan, the environment platform deliberately disobeyed, not allowed to Bi Xiuqiu retracted the confession, but also to "adultery and murder" to set the proposed, on the report. Yang Changjun this move provoked the Zhejiang gentry public anger, Yang Shuying in their support, to the prison to let Yang Naiwu write a complaint, risking his life to Beijing, rolling nail plate complaint. Prince alcohol, the emperor's biological father hated Yang Changjun contempt of the court, but also afraid of the provincial governors to follow suit, determined to Yang Naiwu overturned, to show caution. Just when Yang Naiwu see through the darkness of the bureaucracy, and XiuGu want to blood, head offerings to the world: "the people of the Qing dynasty hope that the blue sky," the time, got the Prince alcohol "Qing dynasty has the blue sky," the answer. On the day of release, Yang Naiwu witnessed Bi Xiugu on imperial decree, was escorted to nunnery hair as a monk, although he saved his life, but has been a disability, a few for the invalid, and even the title is not allowed to restore, can not help but sadly ask themselves: "I am the case of injustice is cleared up? The Qing Dynasty really have a blue sky? ...... a song of injustice passed a hundred years, long companion hate said the blue sky?"
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Yang Naiwu was born in Daoguang 21 years, is the village squire of Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, he is usually nosy, like to fight injustice, which also bumped into the government, which is also for the future of his behind bars buried hidden trouble, Tongzhi 12 years, Yang Naiwu exams were successful in the lift. Bi Xiugu, also known as Ge Bi's, due to her looks look pretty, but also like to wear white and green pants, people send the nickname of small cabbage. She married Ge Pinlian, the two rented in Yang Naiwu family in a house, since *** with living in a large family Yang Naiwu and Cabbage is very close, Yang Naiwu also often to Cabbage teach, recognize words, teach her to read the Bible, because of this, the neighborhood on the gossip, when the neighborhood has "sheep (Yang) to eat Cabbage," the gossip.
Tongzhi 12 years in October, Yang Naiwu went to his mother-in-law's home in Yuyao to do business, a few days did not come back to the beginning of October 9, the tofu store helper Ge Pinlian, that is, the husband of the cabbage, early in the morning suddenly got up and got sick, at first thought that it was the flow of fire disease, that is, fire, to later take medicine does not matter, the condition has worsened, we thought that it was gua sha, that is, on the big fire, ate all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine are Did not work, until the afternoon of the Shen time, that is, we are today's three to five o'clock in the afternoon like, Ge Pinlian whole body green and black, seriously ill and dead, a good young man suddenly died of a violent illness, family members and neighbors can not be understood, and thus associated with the usual Yang Naiwu and Cabbage is very close to the old mother Ge Pinlian at this time the case reported to the Yuhang County Yamen, the Yuhang magistrate Liu Xitong, to get the case reported to lead the pallbearers, and the case was reported to the county magistrate, the county magistrate Liu Xitong. Reported to lead the pallbearer, that is, we say today's forensic doctor Shen Xiang came to the Ge family to see the dead, that is, Ge Pinlian, pallbearer Shen Xiang took out the silver needle to stab Ge Pinlian's body, here need to talk about, in the process of breaking the case, pallbearer with the soapy water cleaned by the silver needle stabbed into the body, if the body is poisoned to death, then the silver needle may turn black, Shen Xiang stabbed into the body, the silver needle black, then Shen Xiang thought it was poisoned, then the silver needle black, and then the body is poisoned. Then Shen Xiang thought it was poisoned death.
Liu Xitong got such a conclusion, the conclusion of forensic identification, immediately recognized the rumors of the neighborhood is true, will be brought back to the county magistrate's interrogation of the cabbage, at first Bi Xiuqiu, that is, the cabbage does not admit that they have the suspicion of murdering their own husbands, Liu Xitong with the torture, torture, according to the historical records at the time, Liu Xitong was using torture, including the use of a red-hot iron wire piercing the breasts with a tin melt. The hot tin melting pouring back, hot tin melting what? Is to use the metal tin melting after the hot tin water poured her back, in such a cruel interrogation under torture, Ge Xiu Gu was forced to confess, said that on the 5th of October, Yang Naiwu bought arsenic, arsenic to her, so that she took the opportunity to poison Ge Pinlian, in order to achieve the purpose of their adulterous residence. On the 9th of October, Ge Pinlian was sick, she poured the arsenic as in the medicine soup and served it together, Ge Pinlian died of poisoning. Liu Xitong got Bi Xiuqiu confession like a treasure, immediately summoned Yang Naiwu, unexpectedly Yang Naiwu came to the magistrate's office, denied that they have any connection with the case, claiming that he was in the early October 9 was not at all in the Yuhang County, there is no time and motive for the crime, Liu Xitong that the confession must be tortured in order to obtain a confession. This is a legal provision in the Qing Dynasty, if the person does not have a confession shall not be finalized, so Liu Xitong like the Hangzhou government submitted a letter, requesting the lifting of Yang Naiwu's lifer, if the lifting of his lifer he can torture Yang Naiwu, so that he needs to get such a confession. But in his submission of official documents, government officials just walked away at the same time, the eagerness of Liu Xitong in the evening of the same day to torture Yang Naiwu. Nevertheless, Yang Naiwu never admitted that he had the motive to commit the crime. That is to say, always denied that he actually committed the crime. But even so, Liu Xitong still to Yang Naiwu and cabbage adultery *** plotting to kill the dead Ge Pinlian finalized the case was submitted to the Hangzhou government, requesting a second trial to finalize the case.
Then the Ministry of Criminal Affairs Shangshu, that is, the Minister of Public Security or the President of the Supreme Court, by his personal sitting in charge of the trial, and then the Nine Ministers, that is, the highest level of the relevant criminal interrogators sitting next to them to thoroughly interrogate Yang Naiwu, Cabbage, the two suspects have come to Beijing for the interrogation, the trial in the process of this trial, there are two issues need to be raised, the first one at that time provided a testimony that will be arsenic Sold to Yang Naiwu Ai Rentang pharmacy owner Qian Tan has died, but the Yang family has long provided the day Yang Naiwu fundamental Yuhang County testimony, this testimony is admissible, the second very critical point, Ge Pinlian's bones even with the coffin was also escorted from Yuhang all the way from the thousands of miles to Beijing, to re-open the coffin, the pallbearer to re-identify Ge Pinlian is not poisoned to death, the results of this examination found that, according to the coroner's office, Ge Pinlian is not poisoned. According to some doctors ultimately found that Ge Pinlian is indeed a disease and death, is the death of disease, in all the bones of the test, did not find any death by poisoning, is the composition of arsenic, so that the most central issue once identified, then also in the public hall of Yuhang County magistrate Liu Xitong and pallbearer Shen Xiang confessed, said that indeed, we were in the detection of the body of Ge Pinlian when the work was not done meticulously, and subjectively found them guilty, so the torture to force a confession, then, and the pallbearers were not found guilty, so they are not guilty. So the torture to force confessions, then such a before and after the continuation of more than three years, nearly four years of the case, the final verdict, Yang Naiwu, Cabbage, Ge Pinlian is not poisoned to death, but the death of disease.
This case was vindicated after the snow, then in the Qing Dynasty, the political environment caused an uproar, the Empress Dowager Cixi all of a sudden issued a consecutive decree, punishing Yuhang county magistrate Liu Xitong, far away from the Heilongjiang sentenced to exile, Yuhang county magistrate Liu Xitong survey is not serious, leading to the occurrence of this case he is the main culprit, sentenced to the Heilongjiang. Bearer Shen Xiang, as well as other relevant people, such as more than 30 officials were dismissed, military or investigation, Zhejiang governor Yang Changjun, Zhejiang school Hu Ruilan, Hangzhou governor Chen Lu, a cadre of officials more than 100, remove the top of the Hanabishi, never renewed, this case has been raised by Yang Naiwu, the case of the Cabbage to a large number of officials to the end of the fall.