In the Ming Dynasty's "Law and Article Public Case", there is a case recorded in the "Ma Dai Inspector asked a woman to die five lives", in which the woman was very beautiful, because the unscrupulous people had ill intentions, and it was impossible to kill her by stealing, and I did not expect to lead to a series of murders. The facts of this case are not complicated, and it is not only because people's hearts are not right that they have harmed several lives.
Details of the case:
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Henan man named Wang Sixteen, who lived in Dongping Yongjia Lane, his family was poor, and when he was young, he worked as an apprentice in Jinpu and learned to make jewelry, so as to make an industry. Wang Sixteen was intelligent and studious, and after five or six years, he accumulated some money and married Yang Shi. Yang's closed moon shy flower appearance, sinking fish and falling geese, and moral leisure, knitting and embroidery is extremely exquisite, I have seen this person all praise.
A Huizhou merchant named Liu Xinqi opened a pawnshop at the mouth of the alley, and because Wang Sixteen saw that he was arbitrary, someone used it as gold and silver jewelry, etc., and took it to identify wang sixteen. After Liu Xinqi saw Yang Shi, he was fascinated by her beauty, so he often used the origin of the identification to walk around the Wang family, and the past was very close.
Wang Sixteen had a neighbor named Xi Yun, who was a pig killer, and Xi Yun was also thinking about the Yang family, and when he saw that Liu Xinqi often came to the Wang family, he thought that Liu Xinqi had an affair with the Yang family. Since the Yang clan was a frivolous person, Xi Yun became bold and wanted to take the opportunity to be close to the Yang clan.
On the night of the crime, because Wang Sixteen was summoned by a rich family to make jewelry and was not at home, Xi Yun carried a short knife and sneaked into Yang's bedroom to steal yang's bedroom. Yang Clan was chaste, insisted on not allowing it, and angrily scolded Xi Yun for preparing to shout people, Xi Yun was worried about waking up others, and with evil thoughts, he cut off Yang s head with a knife.
Xi Yun grabbed the door and fled, fled to the end of the alley, and when he saw a lime basket in front of Sun Yi's house, he put his head in the basket. Early the next morning, Sun Yi found the head after going out, he did not report the case, and in fear, he carried the basket into the courtyard, and it happened that a young post-graduate hit this pass, all in his eyes. Sun Yi was worried that Housheng would say this, so he lured him into the hospital, bribed Housheng with wine and food money, and Housheng did not comply, Sun Yi was worried about Housheng's nonsense, so he killed him and buried him in the back garden with his head.
However, it is said that after Xi Yun killed people that night, Liu Xinqi also knew that Wang Sixteen was not at home, so he quietly sneaked in, he entered Yang's room, secretly groped, and found Yang's headless body. Liu Xinqi's hands were bloodied, and he fled in a hurry, lying on the bed after returning home, his body in cold sweat and unable to speak. At four o'clock, Wang Sixteen went home, saw the door open, shouted that his wife did not respond, entered the house and lit a candle to find that his wife died tragically, and cried loudly, and the neighbors around him heard the news and rushed to see this scene.
Several elderly people asked Wang Sixteen, "Are there any people who come often today?" Wang Sixteen cried and said, "My family has no idle people coming and going, only the pawnshop Liu Treasurer often comes to ask me to identify jewelry, is it because he covets my wife's beauty, and if he commits adultery, he will not kill her?" Several elders heard that the words were reasonable, so they took Wang Sixteen with them to Liu Xinqi's pawnshop. Everyone called for Liu Xinqi, no one answered, broke into the house to see, Liu Xinqi was lying on the bed, his face was gray, his mouth could not speak, his hands were still dry, everyone thought that Liu Xinqi's rape and murder of Yang Shi was true, and Wang Sixteen filed a complaint against Yamen.
After hearing the case according to the investigation of The Inspector Dong You, hearing the confessions of many people, and seeing Liu Xinqi's hands stained with blood, he had already identified him as the murderer. Liu Xinqi was already able to speak at this time, although he tried his best to defend himself, but Dong You was not moved, and ordered someone to move a big punishment, Liu Xinqi was beaten into a confession, confessed and detained, Dong Youshi sentenced him to death, was sent to death row, and was sentenced to death after being examined by the Punishment Department. Liu Yi, the seventh son of Liu Xin, knew of his father's grievances, spent a lot of money to make a pawn, and appealed to the soldiers to patrol the road, but they were not accepted. Soon after, Ma Mingliang was promoted to the post of acting inspector of Henan, and this person's decree was majestic, and liu Yi immediately wrote a complaint.
Ma Mingliang consulted the case file and found that Yang's head and murder weapon had not been found, believing that the case was closed hastily, so he retried the case, and he ordered someone to bring Wang Sixteen and Liu Xinqi who were already present in the lobby for questioning. After the interrogation, Ma Mingliang thought that Liu Xinqi might have been wronged, so he ordered someone to take Liu Xinqi down to the church, and then asked Wang Sixteen: "After you shouted on the day of the incident, did your neighbors and neighbors all arrive at the scene?" Is there anything you can't do? ”
Wang Sixteen and the neighbors pondered for a moment, saying that only Xi Yun did not come that day, Ma Mingliang asked where Xi Yun was, and some neighbors said that Xi Yun had recently gone to Shanyang to open a shop, and Ma Mingliang immediately ordered someone to go to Shanyang to arrest Xi Yun. Not long after Xi Yun was brought to court, Ma Mingliang saw Xi Yun's panicked words and concluded that he was the one who killed Yang, but Xi Yun was a hard bone, and no matter how he interrogated him, he would not recruit, which made Ma Mingliang feel bad.
After Ma Mingliang thought about it, he seduced him with a false statement: "Xi Yun, you don't confess what you want to do when you die, is it true that the Yang clan was not killed by you, so that the Yang clan head has not been found, and the case cannot be closed, if you help me find a woman's head to come back, I will let you go." This remark moved Xi Yun, saying that it would take a few days to consider before confessing, and Ma Mingliang temporarily suspended the church and retried after five days.
On the same day, Xi Yun was taken to prison, and the jailer Li Qi wanted to put him in a bed and ask for money and goods. Xi Yun hurriedly said, "The jailer's eldest brother spared me, I have money for you, and Fang Cai said on behalf of the inspector that if I find Yang's head to him, he can spare me the death penalty, and if you can help me find a woman's head, I will let the dog give you more silver." "Li Qi is a man who loves money, and it just so happens that his aunt is critically ill, and Li Qi actually poisoned his aunt to death, and after being buried, he secretly cut off his aunt's head and ruined his appearance."
A few days later, Ma Mingliang came to ask Xi Yun, Xi Yun said that he would go home for two days, he could get the head, Ma Mingliang ordered the messenger to suppress Xi Yun to go back, and the next day Xi Yun did take a woman's head to seek release. Ma Mingliang ascended to the hall and said angrily, "Bold Xi Yun, the Yang clan was indeed killed by you, and now that the Yang clan's head is there, what excuse do you have?" After saying this, he ordered someone to give Xi Yun a heavy punishment, and Xi Yun could not bear the heavy punishment, shouting that he had been wronged, saying that this head was bought from Li Qi.
Ma Mingliang ordered people to arrest Li Qi, and under strict interrogation, Li Qi confessed the fact that he had poisoned his aunt and cut off his head for money, and Ma Mingliang originally thought that he had used lies to trick Xi Yun into handing over Yang's head and confessing to the crime, but he did not expect that Xi Yun would spend money to buy his head, let alone that Li Qi would kill for money. Enraged, Xi Yun was tortured, but Xi Yun finally failed to hold on, confessed the details of the killing, and said that he would put his head in the lime basket in front of Sun Yi's house.
The messengers were ordered to go to Sun's family to find the head, and Sun Yi could not help but intimidate and explain that the head was buried in the back garden, and the messengers dug out Yang's head in the backyard, and there was the body next to it. Sun Yi was taken to the lobby and tortured to explain the process of killing the afterlife, and what Ma Mingliang did not expect was that Yang's death actually implicated two more murders.
The facts of the case were revealed, Xi Yun, Li Qi, and Sun Yi were all questioned for capital crimes, Liu Xinqi was acquitted, and the staff twenty set an example. The death of one person of the Yang family implicated two people to be killed, three criminals were beheaded, and the beautiful woman took one life and five lives, which was also a tragedy.
Closing Remarks:
This case is a real case, recorded in the "Law and Public Case", after reading this case, we will find that there are many incomprehensible points, which can be said to be full of loopholes and puzzling, but if combined with the actual situation at that time, we may be able to understand the strange practices of some people in this case.
First of all: Sun Yi found the head at the door, originally had nothing to do with himself, why did he hide it, in order to hide it, he also killed a descendant, isn't it okay to find something? However, if we consider the officialdom and prisons at that time, we can understand Sun Yi's approach. At that time, the official prison was dark, unjust, false and wrong cases were continuous, the so-called public court did not die and had to peel off the skin, if Sun Yi reported the case with his head, it was estimated that 80% would be framed as a murderer, even if the official was clear, he could return his innocence, but the torture at the time of the court was estimated to kill him, so Sun Yi would take the risk, conceal it, and even more hesitate to kill people for this, in fact, to put it bluntly, the people at that time were afraid of officials, and they were more afraid of going to court, because it was too dark.
Secondly: Ma Mingliang coaxed Xi Yun, this trick is really not smart, but why would Xi Yun be deceived? In fact, this can show that Xi Yun, as a real murderer, made the last struggle to get rid of the crime. When he knows that he will die, even if he knows it is a lie, he must try it, which is called the dying struggle. Ma Mingliang may have considered this and used this low-IQ trick, but he didn't expect it to work.
One last point: The jailer Li Qi actually killed his own relatives for money, and this alone shows how unscrupulous the officials at that time were, believing in similar things, and even more vicious and terrible things, which also happened frequently in prison.
In many criminal cases in the world, there are very few high-IQ crimes, in fact, most of the murders have simple, low IQ, and unreasonable existence, after all, most people's psychological quality is very general. If this is the case, why were there so many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in ancient times? It comes down to law enforcers.
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