First, Yang? White? Adultery rumors and Ge Pinlian's sudden death
In order to better understand the case, let's first introduce several key figures involved.
The case occurred in Yuhang, Zhejiang. The man in this case, Yang Naiwu, was born as a juren, with a well-off family, and lived with his sister Ye Yangshi (because her brother-in-law died early, her sister went back to her family). Yang Naiwu had been married twice before the incident. Wu, the original wife, died of illness shortly after marriage, and Yang Zhan, the second wife, also died of dystocia in the eleventh year of Tongzhi in the year before the incident.
The woman in this case? Chinese cabbage? , formerly known as lifelong aunt, was born in Xianfeng for six years, nearly 20 years younger than Yang Naiwu. Tongzhi for three years, Chinese cabbage married Ge Pinlian, who worked in tofu mill.
Chinese cabbage movie and television image
The intersection of the three took place in the eleventh year of Tongzhi. Ge Yang's two families have always been friends. In March this year, Ge Pinlian and Chinese cabbage rented in Yang Naiwu's home. Gepin is too busy to go home at the tofu mill on weekdays, so Chinese cabbage is often alone at home, and he goes to chat with the Young couple when he has nothing to do in his spare time. This kind of life is also peaceful.
However, in September this year, after Yang Zhan's dystocia died, Chinese cabbage still chatted with Yang Naiwu as usual. Ge pinlian saw two people sitting and eating for many times, and he was suspicious. Although eavesdropping on their conversation for many times did not seem to mean adultery, it was inevitable that being lonely and widowed would lead to misunderstanding, and soon it would be outside? Sheep (Yang) eat cabbage? The ears. As a result, GePinLian moved away, and Yang Naiwu had no contact with Chinese cabbage.
Yang Naiwu and Wax Statue of Chinese Cabbage
In October of the twelfth year of Tongzhi, Ge Pinlian suddenly felt unwell, and soon after returning home, he was foaming at the mouth and unconscious. After the doctor's diagnosis, did Ge Pinlian get it? Tuberculosis? The treatment is invalid for the next day's death.
At this time, the weather in the south is still very hot, and the body soon begins to swell and rot, with reddish liquid flowing out of its mouth and nose. This is a normal phenomenon of corpse corruption, but someone around me said something? Die suddenly, die strangely? , caused the suspicion of Chinese cabbage mother-in-law. Mother-in-law was dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law on weekdays and immediately told the outside world about it? Adultery? Rumors, think daughter-in-law and Yang Naiwu adultery partnership poison her husband. So, a paper book sued the Chinese cabbage to the county government.
(Chinese cabbage film and television image)
Second, extort a confession under duress
The form paper was sent to the desk of Liu Xitong, a magistrate of a county. At this time, Chen Zhushan, a scholar, happened to come to the county government to see him and mentioned the rumor that Yang Naiwu had committed adultery with Chinese cabbage and killed her husband. Rumors and the contents of the form paper are basically the same, so Liu magistrate has a preconceived view in his heart. After that, Liu took the post mortem examiner to the scene for autopsy. Due to the aggravation of the decomposition of the corpse, the upper body was bruised and the abdomen was swollen, and several rashes on the abdomen were broken at the touch of a button. Liu Xitong concluded that Ge Pinlian was poisoned by Chinese cabbage and the adulterer, and immediately arrested Chinese cabbage.
Yuhang county order in film and television dramas
At first, Chinese cabbage firmly denied it, but could not bear the torture. In addition, as a result of post-mortem examination, her husband died of poisoning, so she had to confess that she had committed adultery with Yang Naiwu. On the fifth day of this month, Yang Naiwu instructed herself to poison her husband. With this confession, Liu Xitong immediately arrested Yang Naiwu. Yang Naiwu's disaster came from heaven, because he wasn't in Yuhang City at all on the fifth day, which was really wrong.
Yang Naiwu denied it, but Liu Xitong had decided that this was a murder case, so he imposed a heavy sentence on Yang Naiwu after asking the Hangzhou magistrate to get rid of Yang Naiwu's reputation as a juren. Yang Naiwu bear the pain of the flesh, had to say that he from? Qian Ji ai ren Tang? I bought arsenic and gave it to Chinese cabbage. The owner of Qianji Pharmacy was afraid of being implicated, and under the intimidation of the magistrate of a county, he admitted that Yang Naiwu's confession was true. In this way, the case was finalized as adultery and murder.
Stills of Yao Ju's Yang Naiwu and Chinese Cabbage
According to the Qing law, such cases should be reviewed by superiors, and if they are death sentences, they need to be reported to the Ministry of Punishment for approval. Therefore, Liu Xitong reported the case to the magistrate in Hangzhou. In order to prevent the Hangzhou government from finding contradictions in the case and asking for a retrial, Liu Xitong suppressed the proof that Yang Naiwu was not present, and other places reflecting contradictions in the case were also deleted and revised. In this way, the two levels of superiors, the Hangzhou magistrate and the Zhejiang governor, directly finalized the case according to the documents reported by Liu Xitong. And reported to the punishments, please sentenced to Yang Naiwu beheaded, Chinese cabbage in.
Stills: Yang Naiwu made a confession.
Third, layers of complaints, twists and turns
While waiting for the review by the Ministry of Punishment, Yang Naiwu wrote a complaint in prison, and his sister Ye Yangshi and his younger brother appealed to the yamen in Hangzhou, but it did not attract attention. So he turned to Beijing to file a complaint, and spent a lot of money entrusting people to hand in the complaint to the DuchaYuan. Duchayuan asked Yang Changzhuo, the governor of Zhejiang Province, to review the case, but Yang sent the case back to Hangzhou. Around a circle, the case came back.
Do you still need to think about the result? Maintain the original judgment!
The Yang family didn't give up. Later, they appealed many times and got the help of Hu Xueyan, a businessman with red top. They sent the appeal to the government of Bujun and transferred it to the central government. However, the central government returned the case to Yang Changzhuo, the governor of Zhejiang Province. Soon after, the Yang Naiwu case was shelved because Tongzhi died and Cixi listened to politics.
The Yang family appealed again, and the court appointed Hu Ruilan, a Zhejiang scholar, to hear the case. However, Hu still repeated the results of the original trial, and the complaint failed again.
Yang Sanjie stills
Cixi in film and television dramas
Fourth, the truth of the unjust case
Soon, the Ministry of Punishment re-examined the relevant personnel in view of the doubts in the case, and found that the previous case file was really insufficient. On September 17th, the second year of Guangxu, the Ministry of Punishment formally requested to open the coffin for autopsy. After the post-mortem examination, it was concluded that Ge Pinlian died of illness, not poisoning. Yuhang county magistrate and post mortem examiner also admitted that the case was hasty and they were willing to be punished. At this point, the unjust case was cleared.
The Yang Naiwu case was solved only because? Justice? What?
Obviously not!
Without the attention of the Central Committee headed by Cixi in the later period, without the promotion of public opinion represented by Shenbao, and if the Yang family didn't have enough financial resources to appeal repeatedly, I'm afraid Yang Naiwu and Chinese cabbage would have been murdered by the sword. Yang Naiwu, the male owner of this case, exhausted his family property because of the appeal, and his life has been miserable since then; After the hostess returned to Yuhang, her hair was cut to Nepal, and both of them died at the age of 74.