In October of the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1873), a murder case occurred in Yuhang Town, the seat of Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, and Ge Pinlian, a fellow of tofu shop, died of sudden illness. Liu Xitong, a magistrate of a county, suspected that Yang Naiwu, a juren in this county, seduced Bi Xiugu, Ge Pinlian's wife, and poisoned Ge Pinlian. He tortured Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiugu to extract confessions. As a result, he was sentenced to "seeking a husband and taking his wife" and reported it to the Hangzhou government and the Zhejiang provincial offices. Hangzhou Prefecture and Zhejiang Province also broke up as planned and reported to the Ministry of Punishment. Later, Yang Naiwu's sister Yang Shuying was sued by Beijing for the second time, which alarmed a group of judicial officials in the court and they jointly appealed. The court ordered the punishments to open the coffin for autopsy, and the truth came out and the unjust case was cleared.
Yang Naiwu, a native of Yuhang, lives in Clarification Lane, Qian Jie, Yuhang Town. In August of the twelfth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, he was a juren at the age of 33. As an honest and clean person, he is good at dealing with grievances for a reason, and has deep grievances with Yuhang County magistrate Liu Xitong.
At that time, there was a beautiful girl named Bi Xiugu in the town. Because she often wears green clothes and a white skirt, her neighbors call her "Chinese cabbage". /kloc-When she was 0/8 years old, she married Ge Pinlian and rented the back room of Yang Naiwu's family. The two families live in harmony. Bi Xiugu often goes to Yang's house to chat and eat, and teaches Bi Xiugu to read classics. Good-hearted people in the neighborhood are rumored that "sheep (Yang) eat Chinese cabbage". Ge Pinlian became suspicious, so he moved out of the Yang family and moved to Taiping Lane.
On the seventh day of October, Ge Pin was hot and cold, and his knees were red and swollen. Bi Xiugu advised him to rest at home, but Ge Pin didn't listen and went to the tofu shop to help. I came home on the ninth morning, shivering with cold, with phlegm in my throat and foaming at the mouth, and died at night. On the tenth night, the body changed, and there was a faint blood flow from the nose and mouth. His adoptive mother von Xu Shi suspected that he was poisoned. Ge Shiyu, his mother, reported her son's death to the county government. Because the cause of death was unknown, she requested an examination.
Magistrate Liu Xitong had estrangement with Yang Naiwu. After learning the news, he suspected that Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiugu were plotting to poison, and personally led the leader to post the autopsy report. At noon, the deceased's skin was light blue and there were floating rashes and blisters on his abdomen. When Shen Xiang saw the blood in his nose and mouth flowing into his eyes and ears, he thought it was "bleeding from seven orifices." He stuck a silver needle in his throat, thinking that he had died of poisoning. Liu Xitong brought Bi Xiugu back to the county for interrogation with ignorance. The next day, a confession was extracted by torture, and Bi Xiugu was punished three times in a row, but she lied about having an affair with Yang Naiwu, and was given poison in the fifth day of the fifth year, and murdered her husband.
Liu Xitong immediately confronted Yang Naiwu. Yang Naiwu denied it and angrily condemned the framed magistrate of a county. Because Yang Naiwu is a new juren, it is not convenient to use punishment. Liu Xitong then applied to his boss, asking him to judge leather as a juren, and then tortured him, and Yang was forced to take it off. Liu Xitong thought that the case was clear, so he reported the autopsy results and interrogation to the Hangzhou government in detail.
Chen Lu, the Hangzhou magistrate, listened to the magistrate's words and tortured Yang Naiwu indiscriminately. Yang was forced to make a complicated confession. It is said that on the third day of the third year, in the name of tetramine, I bought 40 pieces of red cymbals in Shengyao Store and gave them to Ge. In order to supplement the circumstantial evidence that Qian Bao sold arsenic, Liu Xitong returned to Yuhang to summon Qian Baosheng for verification. Qian Bao admitted that his name was Qian Tan, and he had never used Qian Baosheng's name. Ai Rentang is a small drugstore and never sells arsenic. Hu Chen, the tout of the county government, threatened Qian Bao with inducements, and asked Zhang Jun, a former warehouse keeper who was punished by the county government, to send a message to Qian Baosheng, asking him to boldly admit that he would never be dragged down. If he doesn't admit it, Yang Naiwu's confession will be used as evidence and the punishment will be aggravated. Qian Bao perjured herself and issued a sales document.
When Chen Lu, the magistrate of Hangzhou, saw that the three certificates were complete, he reported them to Yang Changrui, the governor of Zhejiang. Yang Changrui believed it, and broke the knot according to the original sin of "seeking a husband and taking his wife" and reported it to the Ministry of Punishment for approval.
Yang Naiwu wrote a complaint in prison, which was taken out by his sister Yang Shuying. He and his wife Zhan Caifeng went to Beijing to sue Duchayuan and were escorted back to Zhejiang by Duchayuan. When his first trip to Beijing failed, Yang Shuying went to Yang Naiwu's classmate Wu Yitong in Hangzhou. At that time, Wu Yitong worked as a teacher in Hu Xueyan's home. It happened that Xia Tongshan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, returned to Beijing after his term expired, passing by Hangzhou, and Hu Xueyan gave him a farewell dinner. During the dinner, Wu Yitong talked about Yang Naiwu's unjust case, and Xia Tongshan promised to return to Beijing to accept the advice of the cameraman.
In September, Yang Shuying and Zhan Caifeng went to Beijing, and Xia Tongshan introduced them to more than 30 Zhejiang officials in Beijing, and appealed to the Ministry of Punishment. Xia Tongshan also contacted Weng Tonghe, Minister of Military Affairs, and told the Empress Dowager about the case. The Qing court appointed assistant minister Hu Ruilan (who was also studying politics in Zhejiang at that time) as an imperial envoy to review in Hangzhou. Yang Changrui, the governor of Zhejiang Province, dispatched Bian Baocheng, the magistrate of Ningbo, Luo Zisen, the magistrate of Jiaxing, Gu Deheng and Gong Xintong, the alternate magistrates, to accompany the trial. During the trial, Yang Naiwu and Bi Xiugu retracted their confessions, that is, Yang Naiwu's legs were folded, Bi Xiugu's fingers were torn off and tortured. Yang and Bi, under severe punishment, took the clothes by themselves.
10 18, Hu Ruilan studied the case in detail with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice, and found that the circumstances were inconsistent and submitted it to the court for trial. And make Hu Ruilan retrial, Yu Ming will not be punished. Yang Naiwu confessed in despair. The witness Qian Baosheng is dead and cannot be determined.
/kloc-in October/February, Zhejiang gentry Wu Yitong and more than 30 people signed a letter, demanding that the prisoner be brought to Beijing for trial to dispel doubts. Xia Tongshan and other Beijing officials spoke for the case many times in front of Empress Dowager Cixi. The court ordered Yang Changrui to escort all files, criminals, witnesses and Ge Pin's coffin back to Beijing. Liu Xitong also shrugged off his peers.
In December of the second year of Guangxu, the Justice Department held a big trial, and Duchayuan and Dali Temple came together. Yang Naiwu dissected the incident and denied adultery and drug conspiracy. Bi Xiugu was wronged and told the truth. Relatives and witnesses of the body were also questioned, and men Ding Shencai Quan, Shen Xiang, Ai Rentang drugstore and others were questioned, and they all gave the truth. Then, the coffin was opened for autopsy, which was indeed death, not poisoning. The unjust case finally came to light after more than three years.
On February 16, the Qing court issued an order to remove Liu Xitong from the post of Yuhang county magistrate and sent him to Heilongjiang to atone for his sins. Hangzhou magistrate, Ningbo magistrate Bian Baocheng, Jiaxing magistrate Luo Zisen, alternate magistrate Gu Deheng, Gong Xintong, Guang, etc., decided to dismiss them immediately. Hu Ruilan, assistant minister, and Yang Changrui, governor, were dismissed for ignoring human life. Other personnel were also convicted and sentenced to 80 sticks for two years. Bu Shen Caiquan was sentenced to 100, and Zhang Junge was exiled for 3000 li. Ge Pinlian's mother, Shen, was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment. Bi Xiugu doesn't avoid suspicion, bonzi 80.
After three years and four months, Yang Bi's unjust case was tortuous and sensational. After Yang Naiwu was released from prison, he raised silkworms and planted mulberry for a living. In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), he died of sores and gangrene at the age of 74, and his tomb was in Anshan village outside the west gate of Yuhang town. After Bi Xiugu was released from prison, she was appointed as a nun in Shimentang outside the South Gate, and her legal name was Hui Ding. He died in 10 (1930) at the age of 76.