A movie by Stephen Chow, "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", a comedy directed by Wang Jing, seems to be a comedy movie today, but a case in reality is a very cruel and bizarre case.
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"Nine Pin Sesame Officials" tells the story of Bao Longxing (a descendant of Bao Qingtian of the Song Dynasty) who was a Jiupin alternate county order (or an official who spent money to buy) in the Qing Dynasty, in order to help the wronged Qi Qin clan wash away their grievances, went to Beijing to file a complaint, and finally rehabilitated the grievances after suffering hardships. Bao Longxing also changed his mind from the initial desire to be a corrupt official, went through hardships, became the minister of Chincha by chance, and finally beheaded the real murderer, Admiral Chang Wei, and rescued the Qi Qin clan to uphold justice. However, in order to save himself, he quit the official field and began to sell Indian god oil. Of course this is a form of comedy.
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In fact, the case in this movie has a prototype, the case occurred during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a person in Zhejiang, Yang Naiwu, who had Mulberry Tianping to plant mulberry silkworms to maintain his life. A man named Ge Pinlian took his wife and rented Yang's yard, because Ge's wife looked like a water spirit, and neighbors called her "little cabbage".
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There were rumors before the case, because Ge Pinlian often went out to make money and was not at home, and Yang Naiwu often helped the little cabbage in the family affairs, so for a long time, there were rumors about Yang Naiwu and the little cabbage, and even some people made up the words "sheep eat cabbage". This is the background of the relationship between the people mainly involved in the case.
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The situation of the case was that after Ge Pinlian returned home, he went to see a doctor unwell, but after returning from the doctor's treatment, he drank the doctor's medicine and bled his mouth and nose and died suddenly. The county's servants came to conduct an autopsy, but it turned out that it was poisoned by arsenic. In connection with the previous gossip, it was rumored that Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage poisoned their husbands, and the news spread throughout the county.
No matter what the rumors say, after all, it must be officially confirmed, but it is coincidental that Liu Xitong, the Zhixian county who is in charge of this case, previously had a vendetta with Yang Naiwu and was directly sentenced according to the death penalty without detailed inspection. Before and after the use of large staff beatings, sticks and other criminal laws were used directly against Yang Naiwu, and after Yang Naiwu passed out, Liu Xitong wrote a verdict according to the process and directly sent Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage to Hangzhou Province.
Who knew that when chen Lu, the prefect of Hangzhou, did not verify this, but again tortured and forced a confession to break Yang Naiwu's leg, and Yang Naiwu could not stand the cruel criminal law again and again, and was forced to admit to buying arsenic to poison and kill Ge Pinlian. It was in such a dark official arena that punishment was imposed at every level, and the result was the final result of Yang Naiwu's beheading and execution of Xiao Cabbage Lingchi.
However, the reversal came, and the Yang family was of course not convinced by the verdict of such a confession, Yang Naiwu's sister, who happened to know the soldier shilang during her work in the capital, worked hard through this relationship to find weng Tonggong, the military minister at the time, and handed over the case file, and reported it to Empress Dowager Cixi again, and specially organized a special case team to thoroughly investigate.
Next, the case was re-examined and re-examined six times by Inspector Yang Changtao of Zhejiang, Hu Ruilan of Zhejiang Xuezheng and others, and when things developed to this point, the case had already fermented into another layer of flavor, since even the empress dowager knew, officials at all levels had to protect officials and officials, and the legend was that the Zhejiang officialdom relied on Zuo Zongtang as a thigh at that time. In this way, the case was wrapped up in the interests of all parties, and the result was still the same, and the case was not overturned.
However, Yang Naiwu's sister still did not give up, and entered Beijing for the second time, seeking relations all over again. In addition, the declaration, a newspaper sponsored by britain, which was very influential in the Qing Dynasty at that time, also reported on the case. The case was retried again, this time by Shangshu Sang Chunrong of the Punishment Department, who personally tried the case and opened the coffin for a new autopsy. In the end, Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage were acquitted. More than 30 officials involved in the case were dismissed from their posts. At this point, the Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage cases, which shocked the imperial court, were brought to an end.
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A small case, not even an unjust case that could not have happened, with the blessing of rumors, the favoritism of the trial officials. And slowly, with the involvement of officials from all sides, it actually developed into a strange unjust case that shocked the government and the opposition. It can be seen how corrupt the official government of the Qing Dynasty was.