On the day of the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), when the PengwuKe Shun Tianxiang Trial List was issued, the students were full of expectations for the title of the gold list and full of ambition. However, people were surprised to find that the Manchurians with the white flag were actually the middle and highest rankings, ranking seventh, and for a time, the public opinion in the capital was in an uproar, and the people were fierce.
Everyone knows that this pingling is a prodigal prince who does not learn any techniques and does not understand literature and ink, mixing in the liquor store tea house during the day and mixing in the Qinglou at night, eating flower wine, foxing beautiful prostitutes, and tossing and turning with thousands of dollars. Moreover, the insider also revealed that just the day before the township examination, Pingling was still listening to the play in the theater garden, and did not enter the examination room at all.
This is the famous "Shuntian Kechang Fraud Case" during the Xianfeng period, the chief examiner was the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Cabinet University Scholar Bai Bao, and the deputy examiners were Hubu Shangshu Zhu Fengbiao, Zuo Du Yushi Cheng Tinggui, and so on. When the Xianfeng Emperor learned of the fraud in the Shuntianxiang examination, he was greatly angered and ordered Sushun, Duanhua, Jinqing, and others to strictly investigate the case together with the Punishment Department.
SuShun and Bai Yao have been complaining for a long time, and when they meet on weekdays, your face is respectful and respectful, a lump of harmony, but there is a hidden resentment in your stomach. Su Shun's investigation of this case was naturally to make a fierce effort to bring Bai Ye to death. Soon, the scientific expedition fraud case that caused a sensation in the whole country was investigated.
Although the chief examiner Bai Bao had been carefully investigated by Su Shun and others, he had not found any evidence of accepting bribes, but his family Le Xiang was a major criminal who opened the upper and lower joints for Pingling. Le Xiang received a bribe from Pingling's hand, and gave part of the bribe to Bai Yao's concubine, who then interceded, blew the pillow wind, and asked Bai Ye to use the method of stealing beams for pillars, and pulled out a copy of the Chinese-style scroll and replaced it with Pingling's scroll, so that he could be on the list.
It is a pity that Bai Bao, who has a clear name all her life, can't withstand the soft and hard bubbles of concubines, and she is fascinated, and according to her idea, she performs a trick of stealing the day, and indeed let the stupid children climb to the list at an ordinary age.
Originally, in this case, Bai Ye himself did not accept bribes, and if he really wanted to pursue it, it would be a dismissal at best. However, things were not so simple, because since Bai Ye had been a member of the imperial court, he had formed a grudge with Su Shun and others, and there was no room for any mistakes in the official arena.
In fact, the Xianfeng Emperor still knew Bai Ye very well, and he knew that Bai Ye was a stable person and had a relatively good reputation in the dynasty, so he was also bent on saving him. Helplessly, Su Shun and others strongly advised and did not spare Bai Yao at all, so that although the Xianfeng Emperor intended to protect him, there was no way. In the end, the seven people involved in the case were sentenced to death and immediately escorted to Caishikou to prepare to be beheaded, and dozens of people implicated in the case were all dismissed.
The imperial court had to cut down five senior officers at once, and among them was a well-known university scholar Bai Bao, and the capital exploded for a while, and all kinds of people gathered on the side of the road and around the execution ground early to watch the liveliness. People saw that Bai Ye was not wearing a prison uniform, but as usual, he was dressed very cleanly and calmly.
He said to his son, who had come to see him off, and who was crying so hard that he was in tears: "My son does not have to cry, and today the emperor will have grace." According to my court's custom, whenever a member of the First and Second Grades is about to be executed, the Emperor must be extra gracious... Go home quickly, take care of all the applications I have applied on the way to distribution, and then go to Yusho-ji Temple to wait for the change of sentence..."
Bai Yao's remarks are indeed based on evidence, and according to the practice that has been followed since the founding of the Qing Dynasty since the beginning of the founding of the country, whenever the first and second members are about to be executed, they will be pardoned and changed to beheaded. Moreover, there is an old practice of the Qing Dynasty, and there has always been an old practice of extra grace for one or two senior officers before they are sentenced. Therefore, Bai Yao confidently believed that he was a scholar of Wenyuange University, a pint, and had always been loyal to the imperial court, and although he violated the laws of the Great Qing, he would not be killed.
Indeed, the Xianfeng Emperor had been hesitating about whether to kill Bai Bao, and the Zhu pen in his hand had never been decided, and Su Shun saw that Xian Feng was slow to write down, and it was another trepidation that Xian Feng could no longer intercede for Bai Ye, and finally the XianFeng Emperor began to hurry and drew a bright red "×" on the driving post of the execution of Bai Bao.
Looking at the blood-red × on the driving post, Bai Ye felt in despair that as a scholar of the tang dynasty, he had been ups and downs for decades, but how naïve he was in politics, he did not expect that the emperor who was loyal and effective would be so faint, listening to the provocations of Su Shun, and ruthless to this point. Thinking of this, Bai Yao suddenly stood up, widened his eyes, and cursed loudly: "I am not sorry to die, Su Lao Liu, he will be like me in the future, and you will not be able to bear good results!" ”
In the Qing Dynasty, the military minister and university scholar were killed because of the Keju case, which was the first time. Therefore, when people see the Baizhong Hall, who is more than a year old, look at the Forbidden City Xie'en, and lead the neck to kill, there is no one who does not cry out for him. Only two years later, after the "Xin You's coup", Sushun was also sent to caishikou to be punished, and indeed fulfilled the prophecy of Bai Yao before his death.