In 1919, on the stage of Qingfeng Tea Garden in Harbin, a commentary on "Yang Sanjie's Complaint" was being premiered, and the audience under the stage watched intently and made a burst of applause from time to time, the play was a great success, and has been widely concerned by the people since then.
People say that drama comes from life, and the same is true of "Yang Sanjie's Complaint", which was a sensational real case in the Republic of China period, and now after a hundred years, it is still widely circulated in the land of China, which can be described as a household name.
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In particular, the image of Yang Sanjie, who is not afraid of power, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and is well known after being adapted into various film and television drama versions, but the real version of Yang Sanjie's case in history is even more tragic.
So, what is the real story behind Yang Sanjie's complaint? What will be the ending of Yang Sanjie, who finally became a star because of the complaint?
All this must start from Yang Sanjie's father, Yang Yuqing.
Yang Yuqing is a villager in Dianzizhuang, Luan County, Hebei Province, who usually has an honest duty, relies on the craft of playing cotton to go from village to village, goes out to earn money to support his family, and can barely maintain his family's livelihood.
One day, Yang Yuqing went to the city to earn money, and happened to get acquainted with the noble chapter of the Gaojia Dog Zhuang who also went to the city to sell groceries, and the two walked together, talking along the way, and slowly became acquainted.
After that, the more they talked, the more speculative they were, the temperament was compatible, they often went out to do business together, and their family situation was similar to each other' families.
Yang Yuqing has a son and three daughters, the son Yang Guoen, the daughters are called Da'e, Er'e, And San'e, respectively, in the old days, the villagers used to call them the eldest sister, the second sister, and the third sister. Gao Guizhang had several sons, so he picked the second sister of the same age and Gao Zhanying to betrothed dolls, and issued a dowry according to the old regulations, only to wait for them to grow up and become relatives.
As the saying goes: "Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi". Noble Zhang has been walking the streets and alleys for many years to carry flat shoulders to sell groceries, and gradually found out some doorways for doing business, and later opened a porcelain shop in Tangshan, because of the good management, slowly accumulated rich family property, from a poor seller to the richest man in the village.
As soon as people have money, it is easy to be confused, and the noble chapter not only buys land and buys a house, but also builds two large mansions, and the days are more and more comfortable, completely bidding farewell to the previous poor life.
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What about Yang Yuqing? Still as before, he got up early and went dark, continued to work and earn money by playing cotton, and was still destitute, even his son Yang Guoen could not marry his daughter-in-law.
When the two families are compared in this way, the difference between the door in the secular concept appears, that is, the so-called "door to door", but the doll relatives agreed upon in the early years were legally effective at that time.
Moreover, the people of these ten miles and eight townships all know this matter, and the Gao family is not good at doing things that will retire when they get rich, so as not to ruin their own reputation.
In 1915, seeing that the two dolls had grown up, the two families chose a good day and auspicious day, and the scenery sent Gao Zhanying and Yang Erjie into the cave room to marry.
Gao Zhanying is the younger son of the Gao family, from an early age is clever and clever, the son relies on his father's nobility, receives a good education, and when he grows up, he is admitted to the luan county training center, and is one of the few people in the village who knows how to read and get good.
After graduation, Gao Zhanying returned to his hometown to run a private school, specializing in teaching children in ten miles and eight townships to read and write, and became a well-known mr. teacher.
Third Sister Yang
According to the theory, this second sister Yang married such a gentle and elegant teacher, should be happy and happy, but this person, who knows the face and does not know the heart, Gao Zhanying looks down on this daughter-in-law at all.
Since getting married, gao Zhanying as long as he is slightly dissatisfied, he will speak ill of Yang Erjie, punch and kick, is an authentic domestic violence man, often beat Yang Erjie's nose and face swollen, and bruises everywhere on his body.
At first, The two elders of Gao Guizhang would persuade them, perhaps since they were young, they had been doting on Gao Zhanying's younger son, but later they were not accustomed to it, turned a blind eye, and let him act arbitrarily.
Second Sister Yang has always been quiet and reticent, her personality is weak, and the concept of "marrying a chicken with a chicken and marrying a dog with a dog" in the old society has made her never dare to resist her husband's atrocities, and her life in the Gao family is more bitter than that of Huang Lian.
However, Second Sister Yang endured everything and swallowed her anger everywhere, which would only be exchanged for Gao Zhanying's more brutal and unreasonable beatings, and sometimes she really couldn't stand it, so Second Sister Yang ran back to her mother's house to temporarily avoid it.
Seeing Yang Erjie's nose and blue face swollen running home, Yang Yuqing began to regret it, but he was helpless, this married daughter, spilled out the water, then it was too late to regret it.
Yang Sanjie has a straight temper, while tearfully using herbs to help the second sister to cover the wound, while persuading the second sister to resist, really can't go on and divorce and go home, but the second sister thinks that Gao Zhanying is just grumpy, as long as there is a child, it will slowly change.
Sure enough, since Sister Yang gave birth to her daughter, Gao Zhanying's temper has been curtailed, and her attitude towards Second Sister Yang has been much better, and sometimes she will take the initiative to care for her wife, which makes Second Sister Yang overjoyed.
However, unfortunately, Yang Erjie's daughter suddenly fell ill and unexpectedly died, and Gao Zhanying was furious about it, venting all his dissatisfaction on Yang Erjie, and insulting and beating her more fiercely than before.
On March 14, 1918, the Gao family sent someone to the Yang family early in the morning to deliver a letter, saying that the second sister of Yang died last night due to blood collapse!
This news is like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, how come the good people are gone?! Yang Sanjie and her mother hugged each other and cried to death, because the Yang family father and son went out to work and did not come back, so the Yang family mother and daughter had to go to the Gao family to mourn.
Yang Sanjie was only 16 years old at the time, carefully supporting her mother along the way, the two cried and cried, walking and stopping, and finally entered the gate of the Gao family.
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Seeing that Second Sister Yang had been wrapped in a white cloth on the bed, Yang Mother saw this scene, and could no longer control herself, and fainted on the spot, frightening everyone to rush to help her to the side room to rest.
Although Yang Sanjie was young, her courage was relatively large, so she ran to her sister's spiritual hall by herself and told the Gao family that she wanted to see her sister for the last time
In fact, she really did not believe that her sister would suddenly die of an acute illness, and she felt that things must be strange.
Yang Sanjie opened the white cloth to take a look, found that the second sister's face was miserable, the corners of her mouth could faintly see some blood, the finger of her right hand was wrapped in a white cloth, it seemed to be injured, the probe entered the second sister's pants and touched, and actually touched a handful of lime, which made her more confused.
At this time, the Gao family suddenly rushed up, on the pretext that the deceased was big and needed peace, and Yang Sanjie did not understand the rules, and it was wrong to do so, and forcibly took her to a nearby room.
Yang Sanjie was originally suspicious, and the Gao family did not let herself get close to her sister's body anymore, which made her feel strange, but now that the Gao family's wealth is great, and her sister has just passed away, there is no fuss at this thought, and the doubts in her heart are temporarily put down.
A few days later, Yang Sanjie's Dianzi Village held a temple fair, and people from many nearby villages rushed to participate, and several villagers who came from Gaojia DogZhuang to catch the temple fair met Yang Sanjie and talked to her about Yang Erjie.
These villagers revealed that on the night of Yang Erjie's sudden death, when someone in the village went to the toilet, they heard this cry coming from the Gao family, and the noise was still very loud at that time, and it took a while toss before stopping.
As soon as Yang Sanjie heard it, she immediately rushed home to tell the words of the villagers of this high-level dog village to the eldest brother Yang Guoen, who had just returned from going out.
The eldest brother listened to his sister's words, and felt that something was wrong in his heart, and the more the brothers and sisters thought about it, the more they felt depressed, so they found Gao Zhanying and confronted him face to face, asking to explain the reason for the matter.
Unexpectedly, Gao Zhanying was forced to be anxious, and actually brazenly said: "Yes, Second Sister Yang was killed by me, you have the ability to file a complaint, even if you sue, you can't win!" After saying that, Gao Zhanying took a bite to the ground, and then flew away.
Yang Guoen was very angry in his heart, and wanted to catch up with this brother-in-law and squash him, but his sister Yang Sanjie pulled it aside, so that he could talk about evil before returning home.
In the end, after deliberating, the brothers and sisters decided to go to the county to file a complaint, is there no royal law in this world? Buddhas fight for incense, people fight for a breath, we must seek justice for Second Sister Yang!
However, this complaint is not an easy task. In the Republic of China era in which Yang Sanjie lived, the land of Shenzhou was not peaceful everywhere, either warlords were fighting each other or foreigners invaded, which could be described as a people's livelihood.
In this chaotic world, the county town yamen are also relatively poor, where there is any justice to speak of, seeing a girl from a poor family in the countryside who has no money and no power to come to file a complaint, a love and disregard attitude.
At that time, Luanxian County Yali accepted the lawsuit by a gang trial named Niu Cheng, temporarily acting as the county magistrate, who although he knew a little about the law, seemed to be more interested in money.
Since sitting in this position with the care of his brother-in-law He Guozhu, Niu Cheng's eyes have no lawsuits, only silver tickets, and whichever gives more money is basically judged which one wins.
Therefore, after Niu Cheng received Yang Sanjie's complaint, he didn't take it seriously at all, but when he saw that Yang Sanjie was actually suing the Gao family in this county, he immediately came to the spirit, knowing that the Gao family would definitely send someone to send money.
After listening to Yang Sanjie's narration, Niu Cheng pretended to be relieved, and then pretended to have no evidence or physical evidence, and ordered Yang Sanjie to collect evidence and then come to file a complaint.
When the Gao family heard that the Yang family brothers and sisters really went to the county to file a complaint, they were actually a little panicked, and immediately entrusted people to the Yang family to say that they were willing to take out 20 acres of land and a cow as compensation, and asked the Yang family to withdraw the lawsuit.
In this regard, the Yang family brothers and sisters sternly refused, and in their hearts they even more believed that this Gao family had a ghost in their hearts, and at the same time strengthened their determination to file a complaint in Shangxian County.
As soon as the Gao family saw that this soft one was not working, they immediately found the squire Shi Yuling and sent Niu Cheng 500 pieces of the ocean and asked Gao to raise his noble hand.
Niu Cheng smiled with an eyebrow, took the money and put it into his pocket, and said to the people who came: "A small matter, go back and tell the Gao family to relax and wait for the good news!"
The Yang brothers and sisters were not reconciled, and came to the county again, accusing Gao Zhanying of murdering his wife Yang Erjie, taking people's lives, and asking the adults to severely punish the murderer.
Niu Cheng took advantage of the benefits, immediately changed his face, and asked loudly: "Do you have evidence that you sued Gao Zhanying for murder and murder?!" ”
Yang Sanjie replied: "The day before the second sister was killed, she also visited the eldest cousin's house to prove that it was not a disease and death, there was a knife wound on the finger, and on the day of the funeral, the Gao family did not let us check the body, and was hastily buried in the funeral. ”
Niu Cheng said, "You are speculating out of thin air, and you clearly want to see that the Gao family has money, and you want to use this to make false accusations, extort money, and speak in disbelief." ”
The Yang brothers and sisters demanded that the coffin be opened for autopsy, but Niu Cheng, on the pretext of having no empirical evidence, did not accept it, but instead took the Yang Guoen party into custody for the crime of "roaring in court" and drove Yang Sanjie out of the court.
This cow man dared to go outside. Gao Jiasheng is now mostly the dog of my son Yang family, and China alleviates your animal, and is not willing to leave heartache. Healthy operation, and then the 3rd time came, this cow can only be born of the wind.
Yang Sanjie did not want to lose the case in a vacuum, prepared to fight with death, secretly hid a pair of scissors in her arms after returning home, and then came to the county court for the third time.
Niu Chengyi saw that it was Yang Sanjie again, extremely angry, without saying a word, directly ordered Yang Sanjie to be expelled from the court, Yang Sanjie took out the scissors, and was about to commit suicide in the public court, fortunately, a patrol chief was quick in his eyes and rushed forward to take the scissors down.
Unexpectedly, Yang Sanjie was so stubborn, and Niu Cheng was also a little afraid that she would die in the court, and she would not end well, so she pretended to smile and comfortEdan Yang, and she would definitely seriously examine the case.
Under the pressure of Yang Sanjie's death, Niu Chengcai issued a county summons to the Gao family, asking Gao Zhanying to confront him in court.
After all, Gao Zhanying was a reader, and knowing the set of rules for the county court's judgment, he immediately spent money to get Gao Zuoqing, the village doctor in the village, to prescribe a prescription and let him testify perjury, insisting that Second Sister Yang had indeed died of a blood collapse.
After some meticulous preparations, the next morning, Gao Zhanying took a group of people and sat in a big car together and went straight to the gate of Luan County to wait for the interrogation.
In order to ensure that nothing was lost, Gao Zhanying entrusted someone to send Niu Cheng a silver ticket of a thousand oceans, so it was just a formality in the courtroom, and who lost and who won was actually already doomed.
Sure enough, above the lobby, Gao Zhanying sang a harmony with Niu Chengyi, plus there were witnesses such as village doctor Gao Zuoqing, and it was quickly concluded that the murder case was not established.
Gao Zhanying took this opportunity to oppose the general Yi army, believing that the Yang family brothers and sisters were red-eyed and the Gao family had money and did not borrow well in ordinary times, so they held a grudge in their hearts and were suspected of blackmailing yang erjie's death.
Niu Stereotype is good to receive, put forward a compromise method, Gao Yang and the two families are after all close relatives, but yang second sister unfortunately died of an emergency is also a fact, perhaps the Gao family usually has a place where care is not thoughtful. The Yang brothers and sisters have doubts about this and are forgivable.
Therefore, the Gao family had to compensate the Yang family brothers and sisters for the cost of 150 yuan of travel expenses for several lawsuits, and the case was closed.
Through several trials, the Yang brothers and sisters also understood that this unjust case involved improper interests here, so they decided to go straight to The Province of Zhili to Tianjin to continue the complaint, and even Niu Cheng also filed a complaint.
At this time, a local lawyer surnamed Zhou heard about Yang Sanjie's case and was very sympathetic, so he asked the Yang brothers and sisters to go to Tianjin to find their colleague Xu lawyer, and wrote a letter for this.
Unexpectedly, after reading the letter, Lawyer Xu casually said to Yang Sanjie: "Alas, this kind of thing has gone a lot, the director of the department is quite busy these days, I'm afraid I can't take care of your case."
Coincidentally, Lawyer Xu's aunt was next to her, and seeing that Yang Sanjie had been kneeling on the ground, it was really too pitiful, so she helped Yang Sanjie to say good things, saying that it was not easy for other girls to come from afar, so help her.
Lawyer Xu listens to this little wife the most in his daily life. Therefore, the next day, he and his aunt and wife took Yang Sanjie to see Yang Yide, director of the Tianjin Police Department.
Yang Yide was born as a warlord, did not read much, but had excellent understanding, and his career was smooth, and he had just been promoted to the director of the provincial police department and the director of the Tianjin Police Department.
Yang Yide
After listening to Yang Sanjie's crying, he immediately expressed his willingness to help the Yang family brothers and sisters to apply for injustice, so why was Yang Yide so happy? There's a reason for that.
It turned out that Yang Yide, with He Guozhu, the brother-in-law of Niu Cheng, the acting governor of Luan County, had some old grudges in the early years, and when he heard that this case was handled by his brother-in-law Niu Cheng, he wanted to kill He Guozhu's prestige, and he could also fish for the good name of "Yang Qingtian".
In order to find out the truth of the case, Yang Yide actually personally paid a private visit to Luan County, and after some careful investigation, he soon had his own judgment.
After returning, Yang Yide decided to take someone to the scene to open the coffin for autopsy, and the Gao family panicked at this time, and prepared a whole basket of oceans to buy Yang Yide and beg for peace.
However, Yang Sanjie's complaint has long been widely spread in society, and where Yang Yide still dares to accept bribes, he still insists on deciding on the scene of the autopsy.
On that day, it was drizzling in the sky, but the villagers of the eight townships rushed to see the liveliness and surrounded the autopsy site.
Yang Yide personally commanded the grave excavation, and when the coffin was finally pried open, a shocking scene appeared, Yang Erjie's body had begun to decay, but several fatal knife wounds were still clearly visible, and a sharp knife was taken out of her pussy on the spot!
The forensic doctor handed the murder weapon to Yang Yide, which was simply outrageous! Yang Yide took the sharp knife, extremely angry at Niu Cheng, who was accompanying him, and raised his hand to slap him, And Yang Erjie was indeed murdered!
Everything has no great significance, what exactly made Gao Zhanying murder his wife? Even if this couple didn't have a common language, they wouldn't be able to poison Second Sister Yang, right?
In fact, this is also the reason why Yang Yide presided over justice and decided to open the coffin for autopsy.
It turned out that when Yang Yide was in a private visit to Weifu, he learned that Gao Zhanying's fifth brother had a concubine named Jinyu who had been a prostitute, and he was frivolous in nature, and took advantage of the opportunity of her husband's outing to hook up with Gao Zhanying and become an adulterer.
After Second Sister Yang knew about it, she kindly advised her husband Gao Zhanying to go lost and returned, but she did not expect that Gao Zhanying not only did not listen, but instead held a grudge in her heart, often speaking ill of her wife, and beating her even more severely.
Not only that, Gao Zhanying, because he hated Yang Erjie's family poverty, tried to marry another woman and proposed to divorce Yang Erjie, but after Yang Erjie learned of this, she refused to agree.
Therefore, Gao Zhanying killed Yang Erjie, and on the night of March 13, 1918, he had just returned from his mistress Jinyu and heard Yang Erjie's endless rambling, because Gao Zhanying was a little drunk and out of control, and immediately stabbed his wife to death with a knife.
Yang Yide was still investigating and found a direct witness, that is, Liu Erzi, a neighbor of the Gao family. According to Liu Erzi's recollection, in the middle of the night after March 13, when he came out to go to the toilet, he heard the Gao family next door, and there was a scream, and he hurriedly climbed up the chimney to watch, just when he saw this Gao Zhanying killing his wife with a knife, he was frightened and ran back to the house quickly, and he did not sleep all night.
Because there was enough evidence, the truth was revealed, and after the autopsy was completed, Yang Yide ordered people to bring this Gao Zhanying back to Tianjin. Subsequently, a public indictment was instituted before the Court.
However, although the evidence and physical evidence of the case were all there, the courtroom was unable to make a judgment on gao Zhanying, who was maddened, and could not make a judgment for a long time.
It turned out that Gao Jia's wealth was great, and he made dots everywhere, and also encouraged people in academic circles to come forward to lobby "Yang Qingtian", so that his psychology gradually began to loosen, but Gao Zhanying has always been detained in prison, and there is a possibility of getting out of prison at any time.
There is a miracle in the history of Chinese theater, because the critic "Yang Sanjie's Complaint" came into being, because the famous critic Cheng Zhaocai directly put the case on the stage, so that the case had a turnaround.
In 1919, from the premiere of the Qingfeng Tea Garden in Harbin, the performance team sang all over the Tangshan, Tianjin, and Beiping along the line, and directly choreographed the play "Shoot Gao Zhanying" in advance, which became the common voice of the people at that time, which also made the Tianjin High Court Hall condemned by public opinion and social conscience.
As a result, the Gao family actually paid for the police station, and for this reason, smashed the drama garden, and Cheng Zhaocai was also beaten and injured, and finally directly admitted to the hospital.
However, after Cheng Zhaocai was discharged from the hospital, he was not afraid of power and still insisted on performing public performances throughout the country.
In the face of boiling public cries, the High Court could only hold a trial and sentence Gao Zhanying to death for murder, and on October 6, 1919, Gao Zhanying was hanged.
Gao Zhanying's father, Gao Guizhang, escaped before the crime and was punished separately after being arrested and arrested. Luan County's helper Niu Cheng was dismissed from his post after the case because of corruption and perverting the law.
Yang Sanjie's reputation was greatly enhanced because of this incident, and after returning to her hometown, the local villagers were proud of her, and finally married a family surnamed Xue in Shuangliushu Village in this county, and lived a happy and satisfying life.
However, After that, Yang Sanjie was no longer willing to mention to others about her complaint that year, because she knew that in the social environment at that time, if it were not for the promotion of public opinion, and the lawyers and department heads with conscience who came out to preside over justice, perhaps her sister's grievances would still not have been able to get Zhaoxue.
In 1980, Yang Sanjie received political and economic care from the party and the government, and successively served as a member of the Tangshan Municipal CPPCC Committee and a member of the Luannan County CPPCC Committee. In 1984, Yang Sanjie died of illness at the age of 83.
Gu Wenyue, Yang Sanjie, Zhao Lirong
The reason why the story of "Yang Sanjie's complaint" has always been liked by the masses, adapted into various film and television works is still prosperous, and the biggest reason for its artistic charm is that it is very close to the real life of the people, in the face of the cruel reality of society, and has the aspect of human warmth, but because of various coincidences, there has been a success in the complaint.