In 2000, the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" came out. It has won a very good reputation with humorous dialogue and gripping plot. And Wang Gang, Zhang Guoguo, Zhang Tielin, the three old drama bones, also won the reputation of "Iron Triangle" because of their wonderful opponent plays. In the anticipation of all, the drama is filmed four times in one go, and each one has maintained a high standard.
In the form of drama, this drama adapts and fictionalizes many interesting historical stories. One of the stories is very special, the screenwriter has turned it upside down with the historical facts, in layman's terms, good people become bad people, bad people become good people. Do you know which story it is? It is the "Haisheng Wife Murder Case" in the second part.
<h1>In the film and television, "Haisheng kills his wife"</h1>
In the play, Hai Sheng is an upright Metropolitan Imperial History. He and his wife, Niu Cobalt, are at odds with each other, and the two often quarrel. The wife was grumpy and sought to scare people without hesitation. Finally, one day, she lost her hand and hanged herself on the beam of the room.
The deceased's brother Guining and his brother-in-law had never been in harmony, so they reported Haisheng to the infantry commander Yamen, but the results of the Yamen autopsy showed that he was indeed "hanged and died". Originally thinking that the case was over, he did not expect that He yan knew about this matter, and he also had an old grudge with HaiSheng, so he took the opportunity to encourage Guining to continue to file a lawsuit, and after the Criminal Investigation Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate checked again, the result was still "hanging himself and dying.". However, this was all expected by him, on the one hand, he let Guining go to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he secretly manipulated the corpse, almost giving these political enemies a pot. Fortunately, in the end, Ji Xiaolan made unremitting efforts to finally clarify the case, and Haisheng was able to sink his grievances.
<h1>The historical "Haisheng kills his wife"</h1>
However, the record in the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" is not so, and it can even be said to be the opposite.
The story takes place in the fifty years of Qianlong, that is, in 1785 AD. Our protagonist Hai Sheng is not the imperial history mentioned in the play, but the rebbe wailang. Department-level cadres, equivalent to the current directors of the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Culture, have official positions that are not big or small. However, he also had a position called Military Aircraft Zhang Jing, which was a temporary position, generally six pins, but his importance was far from being comparable to that of a six pin Zhixian. Because this work was to follow the aircraft minister, and Haisheng was the follower of Ah Gui, the chief military minister at that time. He Yan, who was also the sworn enemy of the Military Aircraft Minister, ranked behind Ah Gui in terms of position.
Back to the point, Haisheng and his wife Uyashi have never been compatible, and the two often fight. One day, Hai Sheng asked Ya Gui to help him light a cigarette, and his wife was very jealous, and the two sides first quarreled endlessly, and then fisted and kicked each other. In a fit of rage, Haisheng strangled his wife to death. He also did not hesitate to fake the scene, making the illusion that his wife had hanged herself, and then hurriedly buried her.
Guining, the younger brother of the Wuya clan, wants to see his sister for the last time. Haisheng was afraid that things would leak out and insisted on refusing. Guining immediately became suspicious and reported Haisheng to the infantry commander Yamen. And the head of the infantry commander Yamen, which is what we often call the Nine Gate Admirals, is concurrently with Hezhen. As soon as he heard about the case, he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to fight against his political enemy Ah Gui, so he carefully designed a trap.
According to the procedure, He Yan asked the people of the Punishment Department to come to the autopsy, but the people of the Punishment Department perfunctorily did things and still characterized it as "hanging himself to death". Of course, this was all expected by Washu. The Punishment Department was under the control of Ah Gui, and of course they did not dare to tell the truth. He Yan let Gui Ning continue to sue, not only to Hai Sheng, but also to the Punishment Department, and his side also continued to stir up trouble in the emperor's ears. So the emperor asked the two attendants of the Punishment Department and Zuo Du Yushi to investigate the case together. The two vice ministers of public security plus a supreme procurator general, this chief procurator is Ji Xiaolan.
However, this investigation team still turned a blind eye and reported a "hanging death." Ah Gui's network of relations is really too big, the two punishment department attendants are Ah Gui's subordinates, and the chief procurator Ji Xiaolan also has a different relationship with Ah Gui. Ah Gui's father, Acton, was his hometown examiner, that is, his chief examiner, and the relationship between the two families has always been close, so it is no wonder that he is perfunctory.
He Yan's side increased its efforts to let Gui Ning bite the case to death, and come to sue every day, suing Haisheng, suing the Punishment Department, suing the Inspectorate, and suing Ah Gui, and making things bigger. This trick of He Yan really worked, and Qianlong heard that Guining was still complaining, and he could not help but wonder in his heart why such a simple case was delayed in investigation. Since the Ministry of Punishment and the Inspectorate are involved, let the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Works investigate.
In this investigation, Wu Yashi was indeed not "hanged himself", but was "strangled to death". Since the case involved various forces in the DPRK and China, in order to leave all parties speechless, Qianlong asked all the officials who handled the case to go to Haisheng's home together to confirm the final result. In the face of the facts, no one can deny it, and the case has finally come to light.
<h1>Judgment</h1>
The case is cleared up, and the punishment is coming. Wailang Haisheng, a member of the ceremonial department, was executed, in fact, according to the law of the time, Haisheng did not have to die, but the case alarmed the highest level, and Qianlong could not spare it. The two punishment attendants were directly assigned to Ili, Xinjiang, and all the officials of the punishment department were fined a year. However, Ji Xiaolan and Ah Gui were only reprimanded by Qianlong, perhaps he was trying to maintain the balance of the imperial court.
This is the whole process of the "Haisheng wife murder case", which can be said to be the opposite of the situation in the play. The screenwriter's kung fu of transferring flowers and trees and stealing the day is really admirable!