The unjust case between Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage has a huge impact, and there are too many things worth studying, such as the litigation system of the Qing Dynasty, the darkness and decay of the officialdom, and so on. The unjust case between Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage began with Yang Naiwu's upright disposition, he dared to fight for the legitimate rights of the people and dared to criticize the corrupt behavior of local officials.
However, at that time, Yang Naiwu's behavior was not protected, and such behavior secretly offended local officials, and the corruption of the Qing Dynasty had reached its bones, and there would still be officials who accepted criticism from the common people, so these officials would only retaliate against Yang Naiwu.
Ge Lianping's death became a heavy shell for local officials to attack Yang Naiwu, so Yang Naiwu was doomed. Xiao Cabbage is a bitter child, it is said that her father was the Taiping Army, died early, she and her mother fled from Nanjing to Hangzhou, married a tofu shop helper Ge Lianping, rented the house of Yang Naiwu's family, Yang Naiwu's family liked this beautiful and industrious little cabbage - because she often wore green clothes - there was a name for xiao cabbage.
At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement had failed, and the strength of the Xiang Army was the only one in China, so many people in the Xiang Army held important positions in various places, and many Xiang people became officials by relying on their hometown relations, these people themselves had no ability, relying on nepotism, so there was a group of Hunan officials in the Zhejiang officialdom, and the primary member of this group was Yang Changjun, the governor of Zhejiang.
There are also a group of local officials in Zhejiang Province, all of whom are from the Imperial Examination and want to use this case to completely eliminate the Hunan Gang, so the two sides began to fight.
The two sides of the fighting method did not come forward directly, but stood behind the case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage, and each poisoned his hands, which could make Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage miserable, and the two of them became victims of the official struggle, first tortured by the local official Liu Xitong, beaten into a confession, and later beaten into a confession by Chen Luqu, the prefect of Hangzhou.
Fortunately, thanks to the continuous petitioning of Yang Naiwu's sister and wife, and the continuous submission of letters to the Punishment Department and the commander of the infantry, the case was constantly escalated, and Empress Dowager Cixi also wanted to use this case to carry out a purge of the local power faction, so she constantly assigned officials to try this case, and even foreigners paid attention to this case.
The litigation system of the Qing Dynasty could no longer guarantee the fair trial of the case, and finally had to take the three major constitutional trials, Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage overturned all the confessions of guilt, and told the causes and consequences of the case, Yang Naiwu was tortured too much, and the presiding judge allowed him to sit on the ground and say.
At this point, the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty did not recruit any more, so she had to conduct another autopsy, so she dug up Ge Lianping's coffin and transported it to Beijing, wherever it passed, the government had to put a seal on the coffin, and finally transported it to Beijing and placed it in the Haihui Temple, and then carried out an autopsy for the coffin.
At that time, the inquest of such bones that had been buried for more than two years was to look at the skull, if it was white and yellow, there was no poisoning, and the results of the inquest showed no signs of poisoning. At this time, the truth came out, but there were still people who went around demanding that Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage be sentenced to death.
"The ant edge is a big country, and the grasshopper shakes the tree to talk about how easy it is", the Qing court could only revoke the death sentence against Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage in the face of the truth, remove Yang Naiwu's meritorious name, and Xiao Cabbage became a nun. A large number of officials in Zhejiang Province were held accountable, and as many as a hundred people were dismissed, appointed to the army, and exiled, and the Hunan officials in the Zhejiang officialdom were greatly hit, and the power of the Xiang Army was also weakened.
A scholar who dared to criticize a magistrate actually caused such a huge disaster, which is simply heinous, fortunately, the Qing Dynasty has not been a few years old, otherwise I don't know how many unjust cases would be created!