The Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage case 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 unfairness between Yang Naiwu and Cabbage begins with Yang Naiwu's upright nature, he dares to fight for the legitimate rights of the people, and dares to criticize the corruption of local officials.
However, Yang Waswu was not protected at the time, which secretly angered local officials. The corruption of the Qing Dynasty had reached its bones, and no official would accept criticism from the people, so these officials would only retaliate against Yang Naiwu.
Ge Lianping's death became a heavy cannon for local officials to attack Yang Naiwu, and Yang Naiwu's fate was doomed. Cabbage is a hard-working child. It is said that her father was a Taiping Army and died early. She and her mother fled from Nanjing to Hangzhou and married Ge Lianping, a worker in a tofu shop. The house she rented was Yang Naiwu's house, and Yang Naiwu's family liked the beautiful and industrious cabbage, because she often wore green clothes, so she had the name of the little cabbage.
At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement failed, and the strength of the Xiang Army was dominant in China. Many people in the Xiang Army held important positions in various places, and many Hunan people relied on their relationships with their villagers to become officials. These people themselves are incompetent, and they rely on nepotism to form a group in the Zhejiang officialdom, and the chief member of this group is Yang Changjun, the governor of Zhejiang.
There are also some local officials in Zhejiang Province. They were all from the Imperial Family and wanted to use this case to completely end 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. They poisoned each other and killed Yang Naiwu and Cabbage. They were first tortured by the magistrate Liu Xitong, first tortured by the magistrate Liu Xitong, and beaten into confession, and later beaten by Chen Luqu, the prefect of Hangzhou.
Yang Naiwu's sister and wife continued to petition, constantly handing over petitions to the Punishment Department and the infantry commander Yamen, and the case continued to advance. Empress Dowager Cixi also wanted to use the case to clean up local factions, so she kept appointing officials to hear the case, and even foreigners followed the incident closely.
The litigation system of the Qing Dynasty did not guarantee the fair trial of cases. In the end, three constitutional trials were held. Yang Naiwu and Cabbage overturned all the guilty statements and explained the reasons for the case. Because Yang Naiwu was sentenced to too many sentences, the presiding judge asked him to sit on the ground and say.
At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to examine the body again, so she dug up Ge Lianping's coffin and transported it back to Beijing.
At the time, examinations of the bones, which had been buried for more than two years, were done to examine the skulls. If it is white and yellow, there is no poisoning, and there are no signs of poisoning in the examination results. At this time, the truth came out.
The Qing court revoked the death sentences against Yang Naiwu and Cabbage, stripped Yang Naiwu of his meritorious name, and Xiao Cabbage became a nun. A large number of officials in Zhejiang Province have been held accountable, and more than 100 officials have been removed from their posts and exiled. The power of the Xiang army had been greatly weakened.
A scholar who dared to criticize a local official provoked such a big thing. Really outrageous. Fortunately, the Qing Dynasty did not last long, otherwise I don't know how many unjust cases would be created!