The twelfth year of the Tongzhi Qing Dynasty (1873), October, Zhejiang Province, the seat of Yuhang County, Yuhang Town, there was a murder, tofu store fellow Ge Pinlian died of a violent illness. The county magistrate Liu Xitong suspected that the county graduate Yang Naiwu seduced and raped Ge Pinlian's wife, Bi Xiuqiu, and poisoned Ge Pinlian, and tortured Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiuqiu to force them to confess, and then reported them to the Hangzhou prefectural government office and the Zhejiang Provincial Office for "plotting to take away a woman". Hangzhou and Zhejiang Province also according to the original proposed conclusion, reported to the Ministry of Justice. After Yang Naiwu's sister Yang Shuzhen second Beijing accusation, alarmed a group of court officials who presided over justice, joint appeal. The court ordered by the Ministry of Justice to open the coffin and examine the body, before the truth is revealed, the case is clear.
October 7, Ge Pinlian body fever, knee red and swollen, Bi Xiuqiu advised him to rest at home, Ge Pinlian did not listen to, and go to the tofu store to help. On the morning of the first nine days home, shivering, phlegm in the throat, foaming at the mouth, to the evening of the body dead. To the night of the 10th, the body changed, the mouth and nose with light blood water flow. His mother Feng Xu suspected that he was poisoned. His mother, Ge Yu's, then his son's cause of death is unknown, reported to the county magistrate, pleading for verification. The county magistrate Liu Xitong Su and Yang Naiwu have a gap, heard the report, suspected that Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiu Gu conspired to poison, personally led the yamen, pallbearers went to the autopsy. It was noon, the deceased skin color pale green, belly and abdomen with floating skin rash blisters. Pallbearer Shen Xiang see the mouth and nose memory blood into the eyes and ears, recognized as "bleeding from the seven orifices", with a silver needle into the throat with a green and black material, that the death of poison. Liu Xitong Bi Xiuqiu brought back to the county department for questioning, confession of ignorance. The next day to torture to force confessions, a series of three squeezed (holding fingers of the torture device), Bi Xiugu was tortured, but, falsely claimed that and Yang Naiwu fornication, on the fifth day of granting arsenic, murder of their husbands. Liu Xitong immediately summoned Yang Naiwu confrontation. Yang Naiwu denied, angrily rebuked the magistrate false accusations. Since Yang Naiwu was a new candidate, he could not be executed. Liu Xitong then applied to his superiors to have him expelled, and then Yang Naiwu was tortured, and Yang was forced to submit to the charges. Liu Xitong that the case has been clear, the results of the autopsy and interrogation reported to the Hangzhou government Hangzhou governor Chen Lu believed the words of the governor, Yang Naiwu indiscriminate torture. Yang was forced to mix confessions. Said the third day in the name of poisonous rats, in front of the warehouse Qian Bao Sheng pharmacy to buy red arsenic 40 Wen, Ge Bi. In order to make up the money Baosheng sell arsenic circumstantial material, Liu Xitong back to Yuhang subpoena money Baosheng verification, money Baosheng confessed that his name is called Qian Tan, did not use the name of money Baosheng, Airen Hall is a small drugstore, did not sell arsenic. The county magistrate Chen Lake to Qian Baosheng threatened to lure, and asked the county magistrate to train the Cangqian Zhang Joon letter to Qian Baosheng, asked him to boldly admit, never dragged, such as not recognized, there are Yang Naiwu confession, to aggravate the crime. Qian Baosheng perjury, issued by the sale of arsenic instruments. Hangzhou governor Chen Lu see three evidence has been complete, reported to the governor of Zhejiang Yang Changrui. Yang Changrui that the case is true, according to the original proposed "husband and wife" crime of breaking the knot, reported to the Ministry of Justice for approval of the implementation of Yang Naiwu in prison wrote a complaint, brought out by his sister Yang Shuzhen, together with his wife Zhan Caifeng, Beijing to the Metropolitan Police Department charges, the results were escorted back to Zhejiang. The first Beijing charges failed, Yang Shuying went to find Yang Naiwu in Hangzhou classmate Wu Yi Tong. At that time, Wu Yitong in Hu Xueyan's home as a teacher, coincidentally, the Ministry of the Army, right minister Xia Tongshan worry about the expiration of the period of return to the capital, passing through Hangzhou, Hu Xueyan for his farewell party. During the meeting, Wu Yitong said and Yang Naiwu injustice, Xia Tongshan promised to return to the Beijing camera speech.
September, Yang Shuying and Zhan Caifeng two on Beijing, Xia Tongshan introduced them throughout the knocking Zhejiang officials in Beijing more than 30 people, and to the Ministry of Justice to deliver the complaint. Xia Tongshan and contact military minister Weng Tongkotewall, the case inside the face of the two Empress Dowager. The Qing court issued an oracle, sent the Ministry of Rites Minister Hu Ruilan (then also served as the Zhejiang school government) as an imperial inspector, in Hangzhou to review the trial. Zhejiang governor Yang Changrui transfer Ningbo governor Bian Baocheng, Jiaxing governor Luo Zisen, alternate governor Gu Deheng, Gong Xintong with the trial. Trial, Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiuqiu retracted the confession, that is, with the torture, Yang Naiwu legs folded, Bi Xiuqiu ten fingers squeezed off. Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiuqiu retracted their confessions.
October 18, Hu Ruilan will be reported to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice detailed study, found that the plot more than the existence of incompatibility, the court. And Hu Ruilan retrial, Oracle shall not be tortured. Yang Naiwu desperately retracted his confession. Witness Qian Baosheng has died of illness, can not be determined by the verdict. In December, the Zhejiang gentry Wu Yi Tong, Wang Shuping and other thirty people jointly appealed, requesting that the offenders will be released to the Beijing trial, in order to release the group doubt. Xia Tongshan and other Beijing officials repeatedly in front of Empress Dowager Cixi for the case. The court issued a decree ordering Yang Changrui will be all the case files, prisoners, witnesses, along with Ge Pinlian coffin escorted to Beijing. Liu Xitong was also relieved of his duties to travel with him.
Guangxu two years in December, the Ministry of Justice trial, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Da Lisi trial, Yang Naiwu defense of the case, denying that the adultery and poisoning, Bi Xiuqiu mouth called the wrongdoing, the truth. And interrogation of the corpse and witnesses, the arraignment of the door Ding Shen Caiquan, pallbearer Shen Xiang, Airen Hall pharmacy staff, etc., all confessed the truth. Then, open the coffin to examine the corpse, it is indeed death by disease, not poisoning. The case has been wronged for more than three years, and the truth has finally come out.
February 16, the Qing court issued an oracle, the dismissal of Liu Xitong Yuhang County magistrate, from the heavy sent to Heilongjiang atonement. Hangzhou governor Chen Lu, Ningbo governor Bian Baocheng, Jiaxing governor Luo Zisen, alternate governor Gu Deheng, Gong Xintong, Xiguang rashly finalized the case, be dismissed. Squire Hu Ruilan, governor Yang Changrui negligent of human life, also be dismissed. Other personnel also to the proposed crime, pallbearer Shen Xiang eighty canes, two years in prison. Mentor Shen Caiquan canes one hundred, three thousand miles in exile. Zhang Jun was dismissed from his post as a trainer. Ge Pinlian's mother, Shen Yu's 100 strokes, four years in prison. Bi Xiu Gu did not avoid the suspicion, and attracted criticism, the staff of eighty. Yang Naiwu did not comply with the rituals and teachings, dismissed from the graduate school. Chen Lake because of the prison death, Qian Bao sick, exempted from punishment. Yang Bi injustice case lasted three years and four months, the case twists and turns, stirring the public. Yang Naiwu released from prison, to raise silkworms planting mulberry for a living, Republic of China in 3 years (1914) suffered from sores and gangrene untreated and died at the age of 74 years old, the tomb in the town of Yuhang, outside the West Gate Anshan Village. Bi Xiugu was released from prison, in the South Gate outside the Shimendang Juntian nunnery, Dharma name Huiding. Republic of 10 years (1920) passed away, aged 76.