The real Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage unjustly imprisoned one of the four major strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty The Two Imperial Decrees of the Western Empress

The real Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage were unjustly imprisoned

The "Yang Naiwu and The Little Cabbage" incident, which can be called one of the four major strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, has been repeatedly compiled into a script and put on the screen in the past hundred years. But is what they represent real? According to Yang Naiwu's daughter Yang Mao, "I always feel that the difference with the facts is too great, there are many real plots that have not been put in, but many of them are not real." "The author heard about this drama on the screen for a while in the past few years, and now out of the need for research, I have learned about the plot synopsis on Baidu. Compared with Yang Mao's statement, I feel that the things shown on the screen recently seem to be much more out of tune than Yang Mao's evaluation of the works at that time 57 years ago. Although the plot has been stretched too much, it is all working crooked love. What's more, the main line of creation has tampered with the original, misleading and losing the historical role of yu shiming.

The reason why this case is amazing is, first, it was originally just an ordinary illness and death incident that should not be called a case, but it became more and more noisy, until it alarmed the imperial court and Empress Lausie twice personally approved the decree until it entered the Beijing Punishment Department for a general trial and opened the coffin for autopsy. Second, the process of twists and turns, ups and downs, peaks and circuits are erratic, and the victim never confesses to confessing twice and retracting confessions twice, which is very bizarre. Looking at it all the time, it is thought-provoking. The "Selected Literature and History Materials" published the article "Remembering the Unjust Imprisonment of My Father Yang Naiwu and the Little Cabbage" written by Yang Naiwu's daughter Yang Mao in 1965, and now in order to facilitate readers to quickly understand the details, according to its original text, combing and editing, using the language that is more understandable today, the phased narrative will be described as follows...

It is said that on the morning of October 11, 1873, Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, received a cry of injustice, and Liu Xitong of Zhixian County heard that there was a murder case, and he was ready to lead the forensic doctor to the autopsy in a car. Just at this moment, a Xiucai Langzhong came to see the people in the county court. This person's name is Chen Zhushan, which is also a little famous in the local area, seeing Liu Xitong's position in ZhiXian County to ask for the reason, Fang knew that there was an old woman who complained, saying that her son Ge Pinlian died suddenly and violently, and the cause of death was suspicious but difficult to identify, so he came to the court. Hearing this, Chen Zhushan added oil and vinegar and said that there were already rumors outside that Yang Naiwu and Ge Pinlian's wife Bi Xiugu (a small cabbage) had an adulterous affair. Finally he said that now that such a thing has happened, I am afraid that there will be something wrong in it. As soon as he said it, he immediately pulled Yang Naiwu in. The reason why Chen Zhushan was so enthusiastic about adding oil and vinegar to his words was because he fought fiercely with the people in the county court and had a gap with Yang Naiwu. When Liu Xitong of Zhixian heard this, he was also moved in his heart, and he couldn't help but cut his teeth and silently read: Yang Naiwu, hum! Today you finally landed in the palm of my hand...

You must not only ask, why are these two people so unkind to Yang Naiwu? So, let's first understand the general situation of Yang Naiwu and his people and the situation of related cabbage.

Yang Naiwu was born in Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, and his home was only a hundred steps away from the county Yamen at that time. Since his grandfather, he has been raising silkworms and planting mulberries for his profession, and his family is well-off. At the age of 20, he was admitted to the talent examination. What is different is that he has a straight temperament, and when he sees uneven things in the place on weekdays, he is always good at talking more. He often made up songs about the collusion of officials and gentry and the oppression of civilians. Therefore, the government said that he had written slanderous poems and slandered the government. Cangqian Town, which is more than ten miles away from the county seat of Yuhang, is adjacent to The River and has developed water transportation, and it was the place where the imperial grain was concentrated. There are many bad rules for the people to pay grain, there is fire consumption in handing over silver, there is discounted consumption in grain and rice, when measuring rice, they must kick three feet with their feet, so that the rice spills out of the coffin, and the spilled rice is not allowed to be swept away by the peasants, and the small and medium-sized grain households are bullied and miserable. Yang Naiwu handed over grain and rice on their behalf and wrote a complaint on their behalf, complained to the yamen about the grain officials' withholding of floating harvests, and asked the government to eliminate the drawbacks of money and grain accumulation and reduce the additional burden on grain households. In this way, liu Xitong, who was a corrupt and violent official, thought that he was against him. At the same time, He Chunfang, a petty official in charge of grain collection, falsely accused Yang Naiwu of instigating the peasants to resist grain and not pay it, and on behalf of the peasants, he contracted the state grain for profit. After Liu Xitong received He Chunfang's counterclaim, he summoned Yang Naiwu, and Yang of course disagreed with the arguments. Therefore, Liu Xitong accused Yang Naiwu of noisy public court without a royal law, and the fraud of money and grain remained the same. Yang Naiwu was indignant and helpless, and wrote a couplet for the hatred in his heart and pasted it on the wall of the county yazhao at night, and the joint text was as follows: The Law of the Two Kings of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Two Futai of Zhejiang Province. As a result, Yang Naiwu formed a grudge with the county officials and gentry. From this, it can be seen that it is not surprising that the officials and gentry do not want to see Yang Naiwu.

Besides, the little cabbage is bi Xiugu, YuHangren, the family is poor, the father was lost in childhood, and there is no other relative. He remarried with his mother to live in the hawker Yu Jingtian's family. She was born with a beautiful appearance and a smart person. However, he was not welcomed by his stepfather, and he helped his mother at home to do some rough work, and was often ridiculed and insulted by the scoundrels of the city. She liked to wear a green dress, and tie a white apron around her waist, with a slim figure, so the neighbors gave her the nickname: "little cabbage". And because she married a husband who lived like Wu Dalang, she was as handsome as Pan Jinlian, and also called her Bi Jinlian. Also because her husband is making tofu, some people jokingly call her "tofu Xishi". From this, we can see that the poor are scorned. Ge Pinlian, the husband of Bi Xiugu (a small cabbage), opened a tofu shop with his father since childhood, and after his father's death, he went to work as a partner for another tofu workshop, and remarried with his mother to live with a carpenter Shen Tiren. Because the family does not have a house, that is, it is a marriage that honors the heavenly family. After the two lived a small life, they felt that the house was cramped and inconvenient. So he decided to rent another house outside the house. Coincidentally, Shen Tiren was asked to do carpentry work for Yang Naiwu's family, and the building had just been repaired, and there was still a spare room. Ge Pinlian learned that Shen Tiren had rented it, and from then on, he and Xiao Cabbage lived in Yang Naiwu's house.

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