Liu Zihe, son of Liu Xitong, the magistrate of Yuhang County, covets Bi Xiugu, the wife of Ge Xiaodai. Liu and Qian Baosheng, the owner of a pharmacy, conspire to poison Ge and frame Yang Naiwu, a scholar, for the crime. Yang Naiwu was sentenced to death for his crimes.

Naiwu's sister Shuying took the opportunity to visit the prison, told my brother to write a good plea, she took the plea to Beijing to seek help in the Ministry of Justice Xia Tongshan. The Prince of alcohol, the father of Guangxu, told Xia that the Empress Dowager intended to get rid of the governor Yang Changrui and other things, and Xia Tongshan wanted to reverse the case for Naiwu. On the day of the trial, Ge Bi was coerced by the county magistrate, biting her husband's murderer was Yang Naiwu, and the magistrates were bribed to show favoritism.

The Ministry of Criminal Affairs saw the situation and knew that there were problems, that is, to withdraw from the trial, secretly designed to obtain Yang Naiwu and cabbage confession, the case finally came to light. Yang Naiwu was reinstated in his official position, and a group of officials were punished for their wrongdoings.

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Yang Naiwu and Cabbage's influence:

Yang Naiwu and Cabbage is one of the four great mysteries of the late Qing Dynasty. During the Tongzhi period, Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi was suspected of committing adultery and killing her husband, and confessed to the crime after being sentenced to imprisonment, and was sentenced to death row, and was unjustly convicted of the crime. The case alarmed the court, in several times after the trial, although the innocence, but the two were tortured and tortured by the tragic experience is still saddening.

In this matter, Shanghai's news paper "Declaration", continuous coverage of the case, contradictions directly pointed to the court officials to protect each other, deception, attracting public opinion, the Zhejiang gentry as well as Zhejiang officials sympathy for Yang Naiwu.

Because Yang Changjun was suspected of harboring his subordinates and oppressing the Zhejiang gentry, many Zhejiang officials ran for Yang Naiwu, hoping to reverse the case for Yang Naiwu. At the same time also alarmed the two empress dowager and Prince Gong Yi? The case was reopened by the court.