When Qianlong and Liu Yong visited secretly with the three surnames, they once encountered a case in Jiangbei. Originally, it was a petty crime of the village bully breaking into a private house with the strength of wine, but Qianlong changed the paper, and the bully was directly sentenced to beheading after the autumn.
On this day, Qianlong and Liu Yong were playing in a tunzi in Jiangbei, and when they were chatting with people in a farmhouse, they heard that an incident had just happened, there was a bully named Zhang Da in this tunzi, relying on his arms and strength, and he was doing evil in the tunzi, and no one dared to provoke him.
The old lady trembled and tore with him, but Zhang Da tore the old lady's clothes and snatched the silver hairpin on her head, and the old lady was so frightened that she shouted for help. It happened that the old lady's son came back from shoveling the ground, heard his mother's call for help and hurriedly entered the house, and with the help of the neighbors, Zhang Da was caught and tied up, and sent to the yamen of the three surnames.
After hearing this, Qianlong was very angry and said: "I know a little bit about writing and ink, you take me to the old lady's house to see if the form has been written." Then went to the old lady's house with Liu Yong, the old lady's son didn't know a few big characters, and discussed with a few elders in the tunzi for a long time before writing a complaint, the crime of tearing clothes and snatching hairpins, Qianlong read the complaint and said: "The complaint must hit the point, as long as this statement is changed, I will ensure that he can't eat and walk around." ”
Subsequently, Qianlong took up the pen to change the tearing hairpin to tearing the hairpin to tearing the hairpin. The old lady's son took the case, went straight to the county office the next day, and presented the case. After receiving the complaint, the deputy commander immediately interrogated Zhang Da, Zhang Da was taken to the hall by the official to kneel, and the deputy commander asked: "Did you rob the old lady's silver hairpin?" Zhang Da said: "Yes." Then he asked, "Have you torn the old lady's clothes?" Yes. ”
Zhang Da thought that the crime was not serious, so he happily recruited, and the deputy said: "Since you have all admitted it, sign and draw the charge." After Zhang Da finished pressing his handprint, the deputy capital announced the verdict: "The criminal Zhang Da grabbed the hairpin to rob property, and he wanted to rape him by tearing his clothes." The punishment for the two crimes is combined, so you are sentenced to be beheaded in the autumn. Only then did people know that Qianlong had changed a lot.
Reference: Chinese Folk Tales
