The fact that the Empress Dowager Cixi personally intervened and vindicated the injustice of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai had a lot to do with the political environment at that time.

Why do you say that? See below. Since ancient times, beauty has always had a bad fate: the reason behind the case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai.

Xiaobaicai is very beautiful, with smooth skin and plump body, which is why people call her "Xiaobaicai".

Treasures can easily attract the attention of thieves, and people who are too beautiful can easily attract the attention of the opposite sex. Xiaobaicai was so beautiful and charming, and the relationship between her and her husband Ge Pinlian was not good. All the men in the neighborhood coveted her beauty, including the son of the then county magistrate Liu Xitong.

Ordinary men may just think about it, but Liu Xitong's son is bold and bold because his father is the county magistrate. He will do whatever it takes to get the cabbage.

One day, while Xiao Baicai was going home alone, he signaled the government servants to tie up Xiao Baicai and rape her. After that, he often looked for Xiao Baicai, but Xiao Baicai knew that he was the son of the county magistrate, so she could only live with humiliation.

On the one hand, he is an emotionless husband, and on the other hand, he is a bullying bully. He is really a pitiful "little cabbage". It happened that at this time, she met Yang Naiwu, a talented scholar.

Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai fell in love at first sight. Yang Naiwu, who already had a wife, planned to take Xiao Baicai as his concubine.

How could Liu Xitong’s son let it go after learning about it? He wanted to take Xiaobaicai as his own, so he tried every means to kill Yang Naiwu.

Coincidentally, at this time, Xiao Baicai's husband Ge Pinlian suddenly died of a sudden illness. This reminded people of the story of Pan Jinlian and Wu Dalang, and there was a lot of discussion in the streets.

When the son of the county magistrate saw this situation, he hatched a vicious plan. He bribed Ge Pinlian's mother with money and asked her to accuse Xiao Baicai and Yang Naiwu of collaborating to murder Ge Pinlian. An unjust case protected by officials.

The county magistrate Liu Xitong brought people to do an autopsy. Because Ge Pinlian died of a sudden illness, and the weather was relatively hot at that time, Ge Pinlian's body had undergone mutagenesis, and there was blood flowing out of his mouth and nose. No silver was used for the autopsy. A needle test for poison will directly determine that he died of poisoning.

So, the county magistrate arrested Xiao Baicai. How could Xiao Baicai admit that there was no murder? How could her delicate body not withstand the torture of the county magistrate, and she was forced to admit that she had conspired with Yang Naiwu to kill her husband.

Liu Xitong used the same method to torture Yang Naiwu to extract a confession. Yang Naiwu could not bear the torture and had to admit that he bought rat poison from a pharmacy. Liu Xitong also found the drugstore owner to collude with him to confess.

After a series of operations, Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai were convicted of the crime of Ling Chi.

After the case of Yang Naiwu and Xiaobaicai was settled, it was reported to the Hangzhou government at all levels. At that time, the late Qing government was politically corrupt and officials protected each other. No objection was raised up to the governor level.

However, Yang Naiwu was not convinced and wrote a complaint and asked his sister to complain.

Weng Tonghe, who was in charge of the case at the time, discovered that there were doubts in the case. At this time, the complaint that Yang Naiwu entrusted his sister to deliver also arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

So Weng Tonghe asked officials who were familiar with criminal law and officials from Hangzhou in the capital. Everyone felt that the case was suspicious and suggested that the court retry the case.

After learning of the situation, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered a retrial of the case. The truth is revealed and the injustice is cleared up.

Under the personal order of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the personal attention of Weng Tonghe, Ge Pinlian's coffin was opened for autopsy, and it was found that Ge Pinlian did not die of poisoning.

It turns out that although Ge Pinlian died of a sudden illness, the root cause of the disease existed before that, and three days before his death, Ge Pinlian had redness, swelling and weakness in his legs.

But he thought it was no big deal and continued to work. As a result, his condition deteriorated rapidly.

The case was clearly investigated, and the truth was finally revealed, and Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai were vindicated.

After the truth about the Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai cases came to light, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the Ministry of Punishment to thoroughly investigate the relevant officials who failed to investigate and handle the cases, and dismissed Liu Xitong and others from their posts and sent them to the army. The reason why Empress Dowager Cixi attaches great importance to it.

In the political environment of late Qing Dynasty with political corruption and dark officialdom, there were still many cases like Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai. Why did the Empress Dowager Cixi personally intervene in such small cases? And go to war over it?

It turns out that the case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai happened in 1875, when Empress Dowager Cixi once again listened to politics behind the curtain. At that time, many princes and ministers were dissatisfied with this, and Empress Dowager Cixi was eager to establish her prestige.

The Yang Naiwu and Xiaobaicai case happened at this time. The Empress Dowager Cixi was very concerned about the progress of the case and showed her political courage to the ministers through the case of redressing the injustice.

The case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai was a major injustice, but it happened to be a good opportunity for redress. If not for this, the injustice case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai was likely to be like many other unjust cases in history. Submerged in the long river of history.

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