Lying in the late Qing dynasty four strange cases of the first "Yang Naiwu and Cabbage", occurred in the Tongzhi Guangxu years, the late Qing dynasty four wrongful deaths of the first, after seven trials and seven verdicts to the world, the case of the protagonist of the Yang Naiwu and Cabbage subjected to torture, and later in the late Qing dynasty rich merchant Hu Xueyan, Ministry of Criminal Affairs, Xia Tongshan and imperial teacher Weng Tongotewall's help to be vindicated. help to vindicate the case, ultimately leading to more than a hundred officials were deposed, so what is the character of the little cabbage? Why are there so many officials involved in this case?

Yang Naiwu and Cabbage

(a) Cabbage's unfortunate early life

Cabbage was born in Xianfeng six years (1856), the birthplace of Yuhang County, Bijiatang village, Bijiatang dozens of families are surnamed Bi, so the village is called Bijiatang, Cabbage is one of the family, her father is called Bi Chengxiang. Her father's name is Bi Chengxiang, and the little cabbage's real name is Bi Xiuqiu, because she looks elegant and beautiful, often wearing a white blouse and a green apron, so the neighbors gave her a nickname "little cabbage".

Li Xucheng occupied Hangzhou in 1860 and Yuhang, west of Hangzhou, in the following year.

The second year of Tongzhi (1863), the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom situation is critical, the Qing army attacked Hangzhou and Yuhang. In October, the Taiping army to Yuhang and the Qing army to start a duel, in December, Zuo Zongtang mobilized more than 100,000 people of the Qing army divided into land and water to launch an attack on Yuhang.

In March 1864, Yuhang lost its defense, the Taiping army withdrew from Yuhang, this year the little cabbage is only eight years old, she grew up in the war, more unfortunate is her father died in the Taiping army attacked Yuhang, since then the little cabbage and her mother lost their dependence, under the circumstances, the mother of the Bi-wang took her daughter, the little cabbage remarried to the county government office at the time of the grain servant of the Yu Jingtian.

Small Cabbage Stills

(2) Small Cabbage and Ge Pinlian

Small Cabbage remarried with her mother, and the tofu store fellows with Ge Pinlian, Ge Pinlian simple and honest, he and the small cabbage with the same illnesses, but also early loss of his father, and Ge's mother and Bi's mother remarried to the same place very coincidentally, so that the small Cabbage and Ge Pinlian into the same hometown. The two mothers felt that the two children were very destined for each other, and Wang made the decision to betroth the eleven-year-old Xiaobai to the twenty-two-year-old Ge Pinlian.

With the growing up of Xiaobai, she became more and more beautiful, and was very dissatisfied with her mother's arrangement of the marriage. She thought that Ge Pinlian was too old, short and fat, and was not her favorite type, and she wanted to regret the marriage.

Small cabbage often in front of her mother crying, asking her mother to break the marriage contract, in feudal society want to break the marriage contract is not easy, Bi mother comforted her daughter said that in the future to ask the Ge family to ask for more dowry, so that she can live a better life, the small cabbage had no choice but to accept the fate.

Small cabbage sixteen years old, Ge Pinlian is 27 years old, at that time is considered to be the oldest man, Ge family proposed to let the children get married early, small cabbage stepfather Yu Jingtian usually do not care about the small cabbage, until the small cabbage to get married, he took the opportunity to want to ask for more dowry, in addition to the Ge family he also asked to buy a new house, the Ge family which has so much money, the two sides of the argument, and ultimately, Ge's family! In the end, the Ge family was willing to pay 140 yuan of foreign money (about 120 taels of silver, the average farmer's income of about six years) to organize the wedding, 80 yuan to Yu Jingtian, 60 yuan for the banquet.

The wedding was scheduled for the fourth day of March, 1872, after both sides reached an agreement.

Small Cabbage Stills

(3) Small Cabbage and Yang Naiwu

Yang Naiwu was born in 1839 in Yuhang County, his family is relatively wealthy, lost his mother at an early age, was raised by his sister, siblings affectionate, Yang Naiwu talented, knowledgeable, at the age of 20 years old in high school Cultivation, coupled with his instrumentation, in the He was very famous in Yuhang County. Yang Naiwu is a man of integrity, love of injustice, this character for his later tragedy buried the brush.

The Qing Dynasty Jia Dao years, corruption, officials favoritism, corruption and bribery, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas in the Qing Dynasty at that time is the largest collection of grain provinces, local officials take advantage of favoritism, the people are quite dissatisfied, Yang Naiwu for the people, often help the people and the government fight, and then the government to Yang Naiwu to insert a "bagging grain" charge, want to punish him for his crimes. The government later gave Yang Naiwu to put a "money and grain" charge, want to punish Yang Naiwu, but Yang Naiwu argued, this matter is not settled.

Small cabbage married into the Ge family in the second year, Yang Naiwu family to recruit tenants, small cabbage by the father-in-law introduced, and her husband Ge Pinlian become Yang Naiwu family tenants.

Ge Pinlian sells bean curd for a living, often early morning and late at night, and then simply live in the bean curd store, the Yang family to see Xiaobai eat alone, quite cold, in sympathy with the call her to eat together, for which Xiaobai is very grateful to the Yang family.

Yang Naiwu read a lot of poetry and books, so that the cabbage is very envious, she often let Yang Naiwu to teach him to read and write, Yang Naiwu did not refuse, the feudal society is concerned about men and women are not close, Yang Naiwu and the cabbage of all kinds of behavior attracted a lot of gossip, but also let Ge Pinlian on his wife, the cabbage suspicion, he often sneak home, lying outside the door to listen to, but heard only the sound of the book.

Ge's mother, after discovering that the cabbages were eating at the same table as the Yangs, told the neighbors that her daughter-in-law seemed to be the Yangs' daughter-in-law, and so the blackmail was spread to everyone, and there was a rumor that the sheep ate the cabbages, and the cabbages have since become a target.

Photos of Cabbage

(4) Ge Pinlian's violent death

With the rumor of "sheep eating cabbage" spreading, Ge Pinlian moved out of the Yang family, and once He Chunfang, a close friend of the magistrate's son, Liu Xitong, was bullying Cabbage, and Ge Pinlian was right in the middle of it. Ge Pinlian just scolded He Chunfang away, and did not pursue his responsibility, but more suspicious of the little cabbage, often beat her.

Just when the relationship between the couple is getting more and more rigid, Yang Naiwu high school graduate, the future is bright, one day Ge Pinlian ready to go to the bean curd store, found that his legs can not make the force, the cabbage let him hire a helper, at home a few days of rest, Ge Pinlian did not agree to insist on going to the bean curd store, two days Ge Pinlian found that his body is not right, hard to come home from the tofu store, the cabbage carefully! The doctor was not able to take care of her husband, and she found a doctor to see him, but she died in the end, Ge Pinlian was only in his twenties.

Ge Pinlian's mother Feng is a nosy person, she suspected that Ge Pinlian unnatural death, the next day to the county office to report the case, Yuhang County magistrate Liu Xitong ready to set off for the autopsy, Chen Zhushan, a scholar, stopped him, and the rumors of "sheep eating cabbage" to inform the magistrate, Chen Zhushan has long been hated to the bone by Yang Naiwu, Yang and Chen Zhushan often fought against each other before the lawsuits, Yang and Chen Zhushan. The case of Yang Naiwu and Chen Zhushan was often fought against each other in the past, and Yang Naiwu won more than he lost and robbed Chen Zhushan of his job. Chen Zhushan wanted to use the case of the cabbage to eliminate Yang Naiwu.

Yuhang county magistrate Liu Xitong sent people to inquire, confirmed that Chen Zhushan said true, and immediately sent pallbearers autopsy, pallbearers initially identified as smoke poisoning, but Liu Xitong's doorkeeper is a bite of arsenic poisoning, the pallbearer had no idea, and he and the county magistrate to discuss, determined that the "death of the poisoned".

Small Chinese cabbage stills

(5) a wave of three twists and turns

Liu Xitong sent people to arrest the small Chinese cabbage, and tortured her, small Chinese cabbage can not stand the torture, fainted, and so she woke up, Liu Xitong has been nowhere to be found, the county magistrate of the arresting officer's sister, Ruan Guijin, intimidated the small Chinese cabbage, said that things have been done to her, and if the confession of all the crimes Yang Naiwu. If she confesses that Yang Naiwu did everything, her crime can be mitigated.

After Ruan Guijin did his job, Liu Xitong appeared and tortured Xiao Bai Cai'an again to force her to confess. Xiao Bai Cai Cai told Ruan Guijin that Yang Naiwu gave her a packet of gunpowder, and that her husband died violently after taking it.

Liu Xitong got the confession, then arrested Yang Naiwu, but Yang Naiwu lifelong, the Qing court has regulations can not be lifelong torture, the next day Liu Xitong to the governor of the official document, requesting the governor to report to the court to remove Yang Naiwu lifelong status.

Liu Xitong second trial of Yang Naiwu, began to use heavy torture, Yang Naiwu denied that the day of the crime, said he was not in Yuhang, with his family in Nanxiang father-in-law's home.