With such riding and archery skills, no matter how many people come, she Zhu Xueyan can still get out easily!

Even if the other party uses a foreign gun, she is not afraid!

But when he thought of Lin Yiqing and the Satsuma people under him, Zhu Xueyan felt a chill in his heart again.

This man is the only opponent who scares her now!

If it had been for his men, he would have died a long time ago.

But why did he let himself go?

Did he really think that he would send a message to the helmsman for him?

You must know that the assassination of him this time was not facilitated by her Zhu Xueyan (she also does not have so much power and ability), but the order and plan of the general helm!

Thinking that his brothers had once again killed Lin Yiqing cleanly, but the opponent did not have any casualties, Zhu Xueyan secretly gritted his teeth.

There seemed to be a commotion in the distance, it seemed that the cavalry of the Xuanwu Army was searching this way, Zhu Xueyan quickly treated the wound and quietly disappeared into the grass.

What she is most worried about now is Yuxian's daughter Wang Siqi.

Zhu Xueyan entrusted her to an old sister in the meeting, and she took Wang Siqi to the helm, Zhu Xueyan only hoped that they would not be discovered by the officials and soldiers before they arrived at their destination.

And Zhu Xueyan thought of the tragic death of the Jade Immortal, and she didn't even have time to collect her body, and she couldn't help but feel even more guilty in her heart, and her hatred for Lin Yiqing was even deeper.

Lin Yiqing saw the case about Yuxian in the "Declaration" and "Dianshizhai Pictorial" five days later, and he knew that he was there to ambush Zhu Xueyan and the members of the Heaven and Earth Society under her that day, but he didn't expect it. The local government actually closed the case with "bandits greedy for sex and robbing people's daughters to the point of internal strife and murder"!

Although it is said that the justice of the Celestial Empire in this era is dark. Lin Yiqing was psychologically prepared after returning to China. But the handling of this case, which involved more than a dozen lives, still made him feel dumbfounded. Although such a result is very favorable for him - there is no indication that his head can be found.

Lin Yiqing remembered that when he was still in Japan, the strange case that occurred in Qianguo that shook the whole country, the "Ge Bi's poisoning of her husband's husband", and couldn't help but sigh that the legal system of the Celestial Empire was not only too far behind the Western countries of the same era, but also Japan after the Meiji Restoration. I can't catch up either!

After Ge Bishi and her husband Ge Pinlian married in the eleventh year of Tongzhi, they rented a rental house from Yang Naiwu's house. During this period, Ge Pinlian went to work in the tofu workshop every day and often stayed overnight in the store. Ge Bishi has nothing to do, often asks Yang Naiwu, who is from a good background, to teach him to read and write, and sometimes eats together at Yang Naiwu's house. This continued until the following summer, when the Ge couple moved out.

Ge Bi's appearance is good, Yang Naiwu is from a native background, and the relationship between the two was a little too close at that time. At the beginning, Yang Naiwu's wife, Yang Zhan, was still alive, and there were no rumors in the neighborhood; In September of the 11th year of Tongzhi, Da Yang Zhan died of dystocia. And Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi's "eating the scriptures together" are the same, and rumors gradually spread.

The "adulterous affair" between Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi. In the future, it will become a "long-term aphrodisiac" to stimulate cultural and entertainment consumption in the market. But the innocence of the relationship between the two should be certain. First of all, after Ge Pinlian heard the rumors, he sneaked home many times at night to monitor under the eaves, and did not see any further transgressions between the two; Secondly, the Criminal Department denied the accusation that the Zhejiang Governor Yamen had an "adulterous affair" with the two, which shows that the poor Zhejiang Governor Yamen failed to find conclusive evidence to confirm the "adultery" of the two.

But the rumors in the market have become the fuse of Yang Naiwu's Ge Bi's unjust case. Ge Pinlian died of illness, and his mother Shen Yushi was "reminded" that he was suspected of having died of murder, and after interrogating Ge Bishi to no avail, she applied to the Yuhang County Ya for an autopsy. After a series of post-mortem procedures that did not meet the "standards", it was concluded that Ge Pinlian died of suspected arsenic poisoning. Liu Xitong of Yuhang Zhixian County heard the rumors of Yang Naiwu and Ge Bishi in the neighborhood, so he concluded that Ge Pinlian was indeed poisoned, and the unjust case was formed.

It has to be said that the Great Qianjun Dynasty still attached great importance to the article that "the people are the foundation of the state", and its "holy edict" highly emphasized that "the prefecture and county departments should not be punished for their names and money." And the punishment is more severe than human life." The law stipulates that the state and county officials must conduct a personal and timely autopsy at the scene of the victim or the murder or the place where the body was found. If the post-mortem is altered as a result of the delay, the conclusion of the post-mortem examination shall be punished with 60 strokes of the cane. If the local state and county officials are away on business, the state and county officials in the neighboring areas have the responsibility to conduct the autopsy on their behalf, and those who refuse to perform the autopsy on their behalf without justifiable reasons will be demoted to three levels.

When Liu Xitong of Yuhang Zhixian County led Shen Xiang and Shen Caiquan to the autopsy, the corpse had already begun to swell and mutate: there was blood flowing out of the mouth and nose, and the body was soft but not stiff; Nails and toenails are dull gray. Shen Xiang lacked professionalism, and wrote the blood flowing out of his mouth and nose as "seven orifices bleeding", and the dark gray of his nails and toenails as "blue-black"; Mending Shen Caiquan was actually qualified to participate in the autopsy, and based on "personal experience", he made the conclusion that Ge Pinlian died of arsenic poison.

According to the provisions of the law of the Great Qian, Liu Xitong, the magistrate of the county, has the responsibility to personally check the autopsy reports made one by one in accordance with the standard autopsy textbook "Collection of Records of Clearing Grievances". "Collection of Grievances" said: "The roots of the teeth of the deceased who took arsenic were blue and black, blood burst out from the seven orifices, the lips were cracked, and small blisters were formed all over the body. Regardless of whether the "Collection of Grievances" is accurate or not, it is clear that Ge Pinlian's corpse does not meet these characteristics. Moreover, before that, many people, including Ge Pinlian's relatives and neighbors, had seen the unmutated corpse, and with a little questioning, it could be clarified whether Ge Pinlian had died of poisoning. But Liu Xitong obviously thinks that these further verifications are unnecessary, and deep down, he has naturally linked Yang Naiwu's "adultery" with Ge Bi's and Ge Pinlian's death.

After Ge Pinlian's "cause of death" was determined, Liu Xitong's next job was to find evidence to support this "cause of death" and form a complete chain of evidence. The first thing needed is Ge Bi's confession, in Liu Xitong's case planning, Ge Bishi has been identified as the murderer of the murder of the husband, so his interrogation went straight to "where did the poison come from".

Gerbishi did not poison him. Naturally, there is no way to answer where the poison comes from. Liu Xitong's on-site interrogation was fruitless. He was then taken back to the county government and tortured. According to the "Declaration", the punishment suffered by Ge Bishi was "burning red wire and piercing milk, and pouring water on the back of a tin dragon", this kind of torture that has been handed down to this day is chilling to think about, and its cruelty can be seen. Of course, with Ge Bi's appearance, it is unknown whether the torturer will use any other means to replace him.

Under torture. Any kind of confession is not difficult to get. From Ge Bi's point of view - Liu Xitong has "confirmed" that Ge Pinlian died of poisoning, and he has been "confirmed" as the murderer, and Ge Bishi must also know the rumors about himself and Yang Naiwu in the market, so falsely accusing Yang Naiwu has become Ge Bi's "natural" choice under torture.

Yang Naiwu was then taken to the county office. According to Ge Bi's confession, Yang gave her arsenic on the fifth day of October, but Yang Naiwu had sufficient evidence to prove that he went out on the fifth day of October. It's not in Yuhang City. Major doubts began to appear in the case, seriously deviating from Liu Xitong's "experienced" "subjective judgment". If Liu Xitong can abandon preconceived preconceptions. Re-examine the facts of the case in a timely manner, and this unjust case may be put to rest.

But the fact is that Yang Naiwu's status as a lifter made Liu Xitong quite annoyed, because according to the law of Daqian, he had no right to torture a lifter. Liu's method was to report the case to the Hangzhou prefect's yamen and demand that Yang Naiwu's status be removed. In order to cover up his mistakes, Liu Xitong suppressed the testimony of a series of witnesses provided by Yang Naiwu, and did not include them in the file and submit them to the prefect's yamen.

As a result, Yang Naiwu lost his identity as a lifter. Under torture, you can have whatever you want. It's just that this time the torture was used by Chen Lu, the prefect of Hangzhou. After Yang Naiwu admitted to poisoning, the next link in the integrity of the chain of evidence was the source of arsenic. Yang had no choice but to falsely accuse a pharmacy called Ai Ren Tang and identify the owner of the pharmacy that sold him arsenic as "Qian Baosheng".

At this point, the facts of the case seem to have come to light. The owner of Airentang, who was summoned to the hall, confessed: He is not called "Qian Baosheng", but Qian Tan; He has never sold arsenic to Yang Naiwu. At this point, major doubts have once again arisen in the case, and if the officials at the time had been able to put aside their preconceptions and re-examine the facts of the case, it would still be possible for the unjust case to be clarified. However, Liu Xitong went to "induce" the witness Qian Tan, promising that as long as he testified against Yang Naiwu, he promised not to hold him accountable, and threatened: Yang Naiwu has confessed in full, and if Qian Tan refuses to identify, he will be guilty of covering up. In this way, Chantan's "testimony" was also successfully received. An unjust prison with a perfect chain of evidence has been fully formed.

On the sixth day of November in the 11th year of Tongzhi, the Hangzhou government sentenced: Ge Bishi was sentenced to Ling Chi for raping and murdering his husband; Yang Naiwu instructed to murder other people's husbands and was sentenced to death. The verdict was reported to the Zhejiang Provincial Prosecutor's Office for approval.

Zhejiang's envoy Kuai Hesun is also from a people's background, and he is somewhat suspicious of Yang Naiwu's good future and losing his life for a woman. However, in order to save trouble, Kuai Hesun did not carefully check the case file materials, but only called Liu Xitong, who was in charge of the whole process of the trial of the case, to ask about it. Naturally, what Liu Xitong gave to the envoy must be a guarantee of no grievances with his chest patted. As a result, the suspicious points in the file, such as Qian Tan's never being called Qian Baosheng, slipped through the Yamen of the inspection envoy so easily. Subsequently, the case file was sent to the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang.

The governor's yamen of the Great Qian's Dynasty was a comprehensive yamen in charge of the affairs of a province, and its affairs were numerous, and naturally it was inferior to the procurator's yamen, which was specifically responsible for the affairs of criminal names, in terms of ability and energy to check the prisons. Governor Yang Changjun appointed an alternate magistrate to make an unannounced visit to the scene of the crime. And this alternate magistrate turned the unannounced visit into a "clear investigation" - all his actions in Yuhang County relied on the arrangements of Liu Xitong, the magistrate who created the unjust prison. The conclusion can be imagined.

On December 20, the twelfth year of Tongzhi, Yang Changjun, the governor of Zhejiang, reported the case to the imperial court on the original charges convicted by the Hangzhou government.

At the same time that the imperial court received the case report from the governor of Zhejiang, it also received the grievance materials of Yang Naiwu's sister Yang Juzhen who went to Beijing to appeal. The results are well known: under the pressure of the imperial court, which lasted for more than a year, on December 9, the second year of Guangxu, the Criminal Department publicly opened the coffin for an autopsy in Haihui Temple in Beijing, and the conclusion was: Ge Pin's body and bones were yellowish and white, and it was confirmed that he did not die of poison.

After the opening of the coffin and the autopsy, there is no longer any controversy about whether the case is unjust. But how the court decided was clearly irrelevant to the truth – a large number of heavyweight officials opposed the redress of unjust cases, for example, although the crime of poisoning Ge Pinlian had been cleared. Sang Chunrong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, continued to instruct the relevant personnel to "interrogate Yang Naiwu and Ge Bishi." force themselves to commit adultery". still hopes to kill Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi for this crime.

Another Shangshu Bao of the Criminal Department believes that Liu Xitong of Yuhangzhi County, who single-handedly created the unjust case, is the "same year of the township list" of the university scholar Baojun, so Liu Xitong must be saved.

Perhaps the most fierce reaction was the new Sichuan prosecutor Ding Zhihuang, who was furious when he heard the results of the autopsy, and before going to Sichuan to take office, he made a big fuss about the criminal department and "threatened to go to the court." He said: "Ge Pin has been dead for more than three consecutive years, and the poison has eliminated the whiteness of his bones, which is not enough to determine the truth and falsehood", and held that the conclusion of the criminal department's autopsy is not enough to support it, and the original verdict should still be upheld in the case. and threatened Sang Chunrong, the secretary of the Criminal Department: If such an iron case can be overturned, then no one will dare to be a magistrate in the future,—— it is worth mentioning that the Ding family once advocated the execution of the eunuch Hai Desheng, who was favored by the Empress Dowager Renxi, and was famous for his righteousness.

The imperial court finally declared Yang Naiwu Ge Bi not guilty. However, this verdict was not approved by important officials within the imperial court, and Zuo Jigao was one of them, and he quickly found an opportunity to re-protect Yang Changjun, the former governor of Zhejiang, who had been dismissed by the imperial court in this case and never resigned. in protest.

A clear and unjust case, why did many important ministers of the court oppose rehabilitation?

Yang Naiwu's case was successfully overturned after appealing in Beijing. It is the result of a combination of factors. The financial support of fellow villagers and friends provided financial backing for the appeal; Yang Naiwu's status as a person brought him a network of officialdom in the imperial examination era - from the help of "the same year", to the joint letter of the Beijing officials from Zhejiang, and finally to the appearance of the emperor Weng Shuping, the case went straight to the palace, and this context of redress of grievances was formed, thanks to Yang Naiwu's identity as a person; In addition, the long-term and continuous follow-up reports of the case by the "Declaration" and the "Dianshizhai Pictorial" have created public opinion pressure among the people, which is also an important factor.

However, the key driving force that prompted the imperial court to issue thirteen edicts in a row, repeatedly remanded the case for retrial, until the coffin was opened for autopsy, was not the truth of the grass people's grievances, but political considerations: the imperial court hoped to take back the power of the death penalty, knock the local governor, and reshape the authority of the central government, and the reason why Zhejiang was chosen was because Zhejiang was an important place of wealth, and it had long been controlled by Zuo Jigao's Chu people, and it had become Zuo Jigao's financial resources. This time, there was just such an opportunity, and I made full use of it.

On the eve of the conclusion of the retrial of the Criminal Department, a memo submitted by Wang Xin of the Imperial History best reflects this intention of the imperial court.

Wang Xin severely accused Zhejiang officials of "bending the law with favoritism, recklessly acting for personal gain, and reversing right and wrong", and reprimanded Governor Yang Changjun for "flouting the law and bullying the monarch and being unscrupulous"; and then pushed to all the local officials, worried that "if the minister has the tendency to compare, the court will not be without the worry of isolation"; It is suggested that the imperial court severely punish Yang Changjun and other officials, so as to reverse the situation of Xinjiang ministers deferring the law and bullying the king, "to uphold the law in the world, and to admonish the future." The ministers and ministers knew what they were afraid of, and the discipline of the court was shocked."

The imperial court appreciated Wang Xin's performance, and issued an edict saying: "There are many cases like this in various provinces", and the Ministry of Punishment was ordered to "thoroughly investigate".

Wang Xin's recital is written in accordance with the meaning of the emperor Weng Shuping. As a key figure in reversing Yang Naiwu's case, Weng Shuping previously said to Prince Jing: "At the end of the age, the queen mother hangs the curtain, which is the so-called 'orphan and widow, the situation of weak cadres and strong branches, and the tail is too big to fall, which often starts from this." The history of the past is full of spots. The prince is in a heavy position, how can he not stand up for the court? ”

After the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom, the local governors sat down, and the power to adjudicate the death penalty was also transferred from the central government to the localities. Since the imperial court hopes to "establish authority", the truth of the case is not important, what is important is to arrive at the "truth of the case" that meets the needs of the imperial court, in other words, even if the local officials in this case have not misjudged, if the imperial court insists on it, the final truth can still only be the "truth" that the imperial court needs. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the dissatisfaction of local officials such as Ding Zhihuang.

On the road to appeal to Beijing by Yang Naiwu's relatives, all kinds of "nobles" appeared, including Yang Naiwu's classmates and friends, Zhejiang businessmen who were funded by righteousness, and a large number of Beijing officials from Zhejiang. Without these people, no matter how many appeals Yang Naiwu's family has, it is impossible for them to get the attention of the emperor, let alone get as many as 13 edicts for retrial.

This is the privilege that a gentleman can have in the imperial justice system.

In contrast to the persistent appeals of Yang Naiwu and his relatives, Ge Bi was silent throughout. Since the torture and false conviction, until the grievances have been cleared, Ge Bishi has been content with the injustice of fate and has never asked for redress.

Ge Bishi is a real grass citizen, she does not have the network resources brought by Yang Naiwu's status, so she does not appeal or redress grievances. As a result, there was indeed no one to redress her grievances by the way, whether it was an official from Beijing and Zhejiang, or an imperial history adhering to the holy will, their recital only described Yang Naiwu's grievances, and never mentioned the grievances suffered by Ge Bi.

Similarly, Yuxian is a real grass farmer like Ge Bi, so no one cares about the truth of her death. (To be continued......)

PS: I have a friend who failed in business and had a five-cent dollar left in his pocket, so he thought, is it to use this five-cent dollar to buy a loaf? Or use this penny to buy a newspaper and get a job? But he still adhered to his ideals and realized his career: he used this piece of five cents to make special effects for "Ancient Sword Strange Tan", "Flower Thousand Bone" and "Tomb Robbery Notes".

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