On August 13, 1885, in the eleventh year of QingGuangxuan (1885), a civil lawsuit occurred in Qingyi Town, Southwest Township, Haizhou, in which the plaintiff Zhang Zhenzong accused the townsman Ni Daoyi and his son Ni Zhenwu of "colluding with hundreds of bandits, worshiping the Brotherhood of elders, gathering crowds to loot, occupying fields and acres, and shelling and killing many people." Since this case involved anti-Qing organizations, Zhizhou Yang and Zhai did not dare to be sloppy and immediately sent an errand servant, Dai Deming, to verify it. However, when the facts were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, Dai Deming credulously believed the plaintiff's claims and reported it to the imperial court.
Two years after the incident, on August 16, the thirteenth year of guangxuan, the Qing court issued an edict stating: "Member Dai Deming delayed the seam, fearing a great disaster", and demanded that it be remanded for retrial and investigated the case thoroughly. After receiving the edict, Zeng Guoquan, then governor of Liangjiang, Yu Lu, governor of Huguang, governor of Liangjiang, Lu Shijie, governor of Caoyun, and Song Jun, governor of Jiangsu, immediately sent capable men and horses to Haizhou to verify the case.
According to the file, the plaintiffs Zhang Zhenzong (Wusheng), Zhang Yuchen (Jiansheng) and others lived on the southwest shore of Qingyi Lake and had no conflict with the defendant Ni Daoyi's father and son. Previously, Zhang Yuchen had sold thirty acres of lake land to Ni Hongkuan, a member of the Ni clan, and afterwards Ni Hengzhang (who was related to Ni Dao's distant uncles and nephews) claimed that the land was the ancestral property of the Ni clan, and the Zhang clan had no right to sell it, demanding that it refund the purchase price. At this time, Zhang Yuchen only redeemed twenty-five acres of them because of the tight pockets in hand. In order to claim the remaining land, Ni Hengzhang repeatedly accused Zhang Yuchen to the prefecture on the grounds of "crossing the border to occupy seeds", but in the end he was dismissed because of Zhang's meritorious name.
After that, After inquiring, Ni Hengzhang learned that Ni Daoyi, who had served as a county teacher, had a document that "during the Jiaqing period, it was concluded by qianzhou that qingyi lake was not allowed to be planted into a case.", so Ni Hengzhang told him "to inform him of the reasons and help him in the prosecution." Knowing that it was a matter of clansmen, Ni Daoyi did not resign, so he "copied the old case and went to the state to file a lawsuit."
After this lawsuit, the news that Hutian on the southwest shore of Qingyi Lake belongs to the ancestral property of the Ni clan has not gone away. Many ni clan people have taken out their home land titles and verified the fields. As a result, this investigation does not matter, and many "hidden" problems have been revealed.
At that time, Ni Daoyi's clan, Ni Dazong, was suspicious of Wusheng Zhang Zhenzong's Bo family's local tianmu, which was also silted up in Guanhu Lake, arguing with each other", and at this time Ni Daoyi was busy in Haizhou with the land property litigation of the Ni and Zhang families, so Zhang Zhenzong became angry with him, saying that "Ni Dao and his son Ni Zhenwu were in the middle of the gang" and sued the two of them to Huaiyang Haidao.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court strictly forbade readers to participate in civil litigation. According to the provisions of the Twenty Articles of the "Academy" promulgated in February of the ninth year of shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, those who encounter litigation are not allowed to "do not do their own work." However, just as Huaiyang Haidao instructed Haizhou Zhizhou to investigate the matter, the Ni and Zhang families had another incident.
It turned out that at this time, when the rice was ripe, Zhang Zhenzong was worried about the retaliation of the Ni clan, so he led the hired workers Du Xiaosi and Liu Wanjing, the clan wives Zhang Yisheng, Zhang Jiutai, Zhang Guocheng, Zhang Ruiyun, and his cousins Zhang Baosan and Zhang Yuchen to guard the fieldside. Ni Hengzhang, on the other hand, claimed that his "firewood in the field had been stolen repeatedly", so he ordered people to build a polder ditch by the lake, and lived with his brother Ni Hengqin, the clan ni liu, and Ni Jiu lived in the polder to guard.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night on August 13, Zhang Zhenzong, who was asleep, heard that someone had "stolen rice", and he immediately got up and went out to chase after him, but at this time, the person who stole the rice had already fled, and Zhang Zhenzong thought that this person must have been sent by the Ni family. Therefore, he asked his family members and others to "take the equipment and chase them to Ni Hengzhang's wei together."
At this time, "Ni Hengzhang and others were already asleep", Zhang Yisheng "pushed the door with his hand", found that the door was locked, and he threw the torch in his hand into the polder, and for a time the flames in the polder soared into the sky. At this time, Ni Hengzhang, who was awakened by the cry for help, quickly took out the shotgun from the house and "scared it outward", and as a result, the bullet hit Zhang Yisheng's key point, causing him to die. At the same time, Ni Hengqin, who was burned by the fire, also took up a shotgun and shot it out of the polder, "causing Du Xiaosi to be injured."
When Zhang Zhenzong saw that someone on his side was injured, he shouted and scolded the wei, and at this time, "Ni Hengzhang heard the voice and stopped his hand", but out of fear, he hid in the wei and did not dare to open the door. After dawn, Zhang Zhenzong hurried to the prefecture to report the case, saying that the "stealing of rice" and "shooting and killing of villagers" were the father and son of Ni Dao.
In order to find out the truth, in August of the thirteenth year of Guangxuan, "Wang Zhilan, Luo Zhang, and Feng Jichun, members of the three major constitutionalists of the Governor, Fu, and Cao, visited the place together," and the results can be imagined. It turned out that at the time of the incident, Ni Daoyi was in the prefecture to help the lawsuit, and his son Ni Zhenwu "escorted the grain from the Fengjiang'an Grain Road Committee", and both of them had alibi, so it was determined that Ni Daoyi's father and son had nothing to do with the case. Zhang Zhenzong committed false accusations and stripped him of his meritorious name, "Zhang surnamed Tian Mu ... All are confiscated". And Ni Hengzhang, who "arbitrarily unleashed shotguns to kill people because of fighting," was sentenced to be beheaded and imprisoned according to the law, and executed after the autumn; "wounded" Ni Hengqin was sentenced to a hundred canes and "sent clouds and gui, two broad smokes, less smoke, and less light places to charge the army."
In March of the nineteenth year of Guangxu, after the trial of Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Song Chun, the governor of Caoyun, it was found that Ni Daoyi had "no collusion with bandits and other circumstances in this case, but he did not do anything and stepped forward to intervene in the lawsuit, which was really a good lawsuit... According to the law of violation, a hundred rods are proposed", but because he died in the thirteenth year of Guangxu due to illness, the punishment can be waived. His son Ni Zhenwu was "not at home because he was sent out on a mission" and was not responsible for his father's lawsuit. At this point, the case is concluded.
concentrate:
Guqingyi Lake is located between the east entrance of the present lake, Gao Hui, Chen Dun, Xinggu, Sang Hui and Flood Flood, with a circumference of about 100 miles. There is a cloud in the "Chronicle of Jiaqing Haizhou Zhili Prefecture": "The old zhi has Sangxu Lake, wuqingyi Lake, and the cover is made of Sangxu Lake, which is even greater than Sangxu Lake." "It can be seen that the formation time of this lake was after the Longqing Dynasty.
According to the ancient map, the town of Qingyi should be located on the north bank of the ancient Qingyi Lake, somewhere east of the present-day Fangshan Mountain. Today's Qingyi Lake Town is an indiscriminate flood in the 48 towns of Haizhou in the Qing Dynasty. According to the book "List of Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province", it is confirmed that Qingyi Lake Commune was "a flood town before 1958, and after the establishment of the people's commune in 1958, it merged with the original Qingyi Lake Farm, because it was located in the former Qingyi Lake, so it was named Qingyi Lake Commune, and in 1962, the field community was separated, and the commune station was moved to The Flood. The Qingyi Lake Farm was founded in 1948 and the site is "mostly in the territory of Qingyi Lake Commune, and a few are between the three communes of Gaoxu, Hudong and Qingyi Lake." Therefore, the present-day town of Qingyi Lake is not related to the ancient town of Qingyi.
"Jiaqinghai Prefecture Zhili Prefecture Chronicle" State Map (Partial)
Qingyi Lake Azimuth Map
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Author: Liu Yang