Poverty is always easy to breed evil, in a state of poverty many people can give up their conscience for money, but not all the sins of money are because of poverty, and the real source of sin is the wrong direction of human desire.
Just as it is human nature for poor people to want to become rich, and for rich people to want to become richer, but the difference is that it is a personal choice, and it is the real evil to lose one's conscience and use improper means to obtain wealth.
Sadly, however, in contemporary society, there are still many evils caused by money, not to mention the hierarchical feudal society. At that time, the crime of money was even more appalling, such as the human trafficking in ancient society, the clear marking of official positions, unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and so on. Among them, the Qing Dynasty, which is closest to us, has an extremely cruel and absurd incident of "slaughtering white ducks", and their parents personally framed them, and the cruelty is so cruel that the trial officials cannot bear it.
Slaughter white ducks
So what is slaughtering a white duck? Slaughtering white duck, listening to the name is easy to think of the phrase "man is a knife trick, I am for fish meat", in fact, it is true, slaughtering white duck is to describe people like the white duck being cooked can only be manipulated. So what are these manipulated people doing? They are manipulated into taking the lead of the criminal elite.
The term "slaughtering white duck" has been used in all dynasties and dynasties, but it prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty was already at the end of the road, with corrupt officials and the people not having a good life. Corruption in the administration of officials made the officialdom at that time a miasma of smoke, the protection of officials and officials, the exchange of money, the oppression of lower officials by upper officials, and the curry favor of lower officials by lower officials became the norm.
Under the layers of exploitation, these pressures are constantly exerted on the people, the people are poor, and the slightest accident will ruin their homes, so the "slaughtering white duck" industrial chain between officials and the people is born. The rich act recklessly, waiting until they make a big mistake to buy off officials to make others guilty, while the people who can no longer live get a large sum of money by selling themselves or their children to the guilt of these powerful people.
It seems that everyone's needs have been met, and those who have committed crimes are basically voluntary, but because of this, the society at that time was even more frightening. Because this is not just an industrial chain where evil breeds, when the perpetrators of crimes are not punished, the innocent people are unjustly imprisoned and the majesty of the law is gone. And when the law loses its effectiveness, then the governance of society is even less bound by virtue.
The example of slaughtering a white duck
The slaughter of white ducks became more rampant with the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there were incidents of white duck slaughter everywhere. And even if the person who bears the guilt is quite different from the offender, and there are many doubts, the officials responsible for sentencing are basically confused and directly sentenced. It was not until the white duck slaughter incident was later exposed that people found that many white duck slaughter incidents looked particularly absurd.
There are several well-known examples of the slaughter of white ducks, one of which occurred in the last year of tongzhi. At that time, a fast catcher robbed a rich businessman for money, but the rich businessman also had a lot of connections, collected a lot of evidence, and reported the fast catcher Hu Ti'an to a high-ranking official. The official in charge of hearing the case at that time was bribed by Hu Ti'an early, so he sent a message to him in advance.
Hu Ti'an was panicked when he saw this, so he took a sum of money to make his book boy stand up for his crime, and the trial officer saw that someone had confessed guilt, so naturally he sentenced him accordingly. Hu Ti'an was notorious in the local area, the people knew that someone had taken the blame for him, and the trial officials were also bribed by him. However, the higher-level officials were also unwilling to mix this confused account, and just confused the past and hastily closed the case.
Later, this case was exposed, causing the central government to be outraged, and the reason was naturally the injustice of the person who covered the crime. The official in charge of the beheading was also considered a just person, so he stopped the execution and reported the case. With the detailed investigation of the central authorities, the truth of the matter also came to light.
It turned out that when Hu Ti'an paid for the book boy to face the crime, he said that the sentence was only a few years in prison, and there was no fear of life. However, after the trial of the case, the book boy who committed the crime was sentenced to death, and the book boy naturally did not want to lose his life, so he shouted injustice, and the incident of slaughtering the white duck was discovered by the central government.
The cause of the rampant slaughter of white ducks
Hu Tian'an's incident made the slaughter of the white duck widely known, but it was only the tip of the iceberg, and some cases were even more absurd. In "Spring Ice Wild Incident", such a case is recorded, a middle-aged strong man was tortured to death, but it was a young boy who confessed to the crime at yamen.
Whoever could see that there must have been something wrong with the case, and the officials who tried the case could not bear to wrongfully accuse the little boy, but the child insisted that he had committed the crime and could tell all the details of his crime. After careful investigation, it was found that the case was still a white duck slaughter.
But when the case was retried, the boy was still the same as before, and the officials had no choice but to close the case. And what is the reason for the rampant occurrence of this absurd unjust, false and wrongly decided case?
First of all, the nobles need the lowly to bear the guilt for them, and the poor people need a large amount of money, and each takes what he needs, which is the premise. And the people are ignorant, in order to get money, the parents of the little boy can personally send the child to die, the little boy tells the truth and is complained by the parents, the powerful beat, how can the slaughter of white ducks not be rampant?
Second, some officials accept bribes, which naturally means that the punishment of those who have committed the crime hastily closed the case. Even if some upright officials want to try it fairly, the buyers and sellers of the white duck are willing, and the officials do not have much to interfere. Other officials, though sensing something fishy, were impatient with the investigation of the case and the cumbersome process, so some pleaded guilty and sentenced them accordingly. All these are the reasons for the rampant slaughter of white ducks.
epilogue
The cruelty of slaughtering white ducks is not only to bear the sins of others, but also to be morally corrupt, for money, parents can personally frame their children, how does this not make people frightened. This is even a social reality, where the poor are at the mercy of money and can sell their lives and those of their families for a few pieces of silver.
Seeing the slaughter of the white duck in the Qing Dynasty, we can't help but marvel at the soundness of the law in modern society, and understand the importance of legal fairness and justice. The Qing Dynasty slaughtered the white duck precisely because of the imperfection of the law at that time and the inaction of the central authorities. Nowadays, modern society has put an end to this phenomenon of guilt, and the important role played by this kind of law is an important guarantee for maintaining social stability.
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