This incident occurred during the Ming Zhengde period, when a beautiful woman was sentenced to ling chi by Jin Yiwei.
The heroine of this unjust case is named Li Yuying, and her father was a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, who died on the battlefield because of the conquest. Originally, Li Yuying lived in a more harmonious family environment, although it was not a wealthy family, but his father was a good official, his mother was also a virtuous and virtuous woman, and he and his sister and brothers and sisters lived happily, but his mother died suddenly when his brother was two years old, and his father remarried his stepmother Jiao because their sisters and brothers were unattended, and later Jiao gave birth to a younger brother Li Yanu.
Stepmother is the most vicious creature in the world, Li Yuying's father has been working outside for many years, rarely going home, this Jiao clan has revealed his vicious side, all kinds of abuse of their sisters and brothers, to his brother Li Chengzu is also either beaten or scolded, soon after the father also died in battle, Jiao's treatment of them became more intense, sold his sister to the Qinglou, forced his brother who was only ten years old to go to the west to find his father's bones, and his sister wanted to escape and was caught and beaten. It is said that a child without a mother is like a grass, and a child like Li Yuying, who has no father and no mother and is abused by his stepmother, is even more destined to be the same as the ant.
A year later, the younger brother finally found the father's bones back home, but the cruel stepmother was afraid that Li Chengzu would inherit his father's identity as a thousand households because he was a concubine, and the status of his son Li Yanu would be taken away, and the fierce Jiao clan tricked Li Chengzu into drinking the poisonous vegetable soup she had prepared long ago, and the poor eleven-year-old child experienced hardships and did not die outside but died at the hands of this fierce woman, and what is more, Jiao Shi unloaded the child into eight pieces so as not to be discovered. Dumped his body in batches into the moat.
Li Chengzu died, the next thing to deal with is Li Yuying, one day Li Yuying was about to loosen his clothes and prepare to rest, suddenly outside the door grabbed the adulterer and adulteress, Jia Ding kicked open Yuying's room, searched in Yuying's room, searched yuying's room, found the small poem written by Yuying's young girl Huaichun and the silver bracelet left to her by her mother before she died, and these two items, plus a shoe found by her stepmother and Jia Ding framed, judged Li Yuying to commit adultery, and sent her to the prison of Jinyiwei.
The Ming Dynasty was very important to women's chastity and filial piety, the decay of the feudal system, the deepening of Song Ming's theory of science and the persecution of women was very deep, coupled with her stepmother's words to Yuying, saying that she not only committed adultery but also murdered herself, which made Li Yuying enter the point of unforgivable evil. In Jinyiwei, she was tortured to the end, in order to let the Li family have incense to pass on, she did not want to expose the sins of her stepmother, only she silently endured everything, only hoping that she could reach the day when she was lingchi, and she would be liberated after death.
There is not only this unjust case in Jinyiwei, but only the officials who tried it were corrupt, tried one unjust case after another, and persecuted generation after generation, and the same was true of Jinyiwei who tried Li Yuying's case, this person was named Chen Yin, who listened to Jiao's one-sided words, forced Li Yuying to press his handprint, and was put on death row.
It may be that Li Yuying's life should not be extinguished, this time coincided with the death of the Zhengde Emperor Jiajing to inherit the throne, the decision of the upper echelons affected everything, he wanted to make Ming Xiaozong the emperor's uncle and list his father as the imperial examination, but the courtiers all expressed their opposition to this matter, so there was a dispute, there was no way Jiajing came to suppress this behavior, so Jiajing in order to stabilize people's hearts after this suppression, he wanted people to retry the unjust case, and sent Lu Bing to retry the unjust case, this Lu Bing's fair handling of affairs, deeply admired by everyone. Just when Li Yuying also saw the emperor's holy will, coupled with the enlightenment of the jailers who sympathized with Yuying, Yuying decided to seek redress for herself. This complaint also quickly reached Lu Bing's hands, Lu Bing also quickly launched an investigation, found some of the evidence in Li Yuying's case, looked at Juan Xiu's fly head Xiao Kai Lu Bing also saw that Li Yuying was a big girl, and sent a servant to see that she was still a yellow flower girl who had not yet left the cabinet, and Lu Ping determined that her case must be an unjust case.
The truth of the case came out, Li Yuying was indeed wronged, and the lying Jiao Shi, Jiao Shi's brother and the family Ding also determined that they killed Li Chengzu, framed Li Yuying, Yuying innocently released Lu Bing and helped to recover Yuying's relatives, and used 200 taels of silver with her as a mental loss fee for being framed for a year.
In fact, the reason why this case has become an unjust case is because the feudal system of the Ming Dynasty gradually declined, feudal thought became more decaying, and the ideological rule of science over people was more profound, and the influence of the legend of the martyrs was more serious. Secondly, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's secret service agencies led to the occurrence of many unjust cases, if it were not for the major political changes in the imperial court, coupled with Lu Bing's integrity, Li Yuying would be a wronged soul.