During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, a major case that caused a sensation in the whole country occurred in Macheng County, Hubei Province. Xiucai Yang Tongfan single-handedly created this unjust case, and the people called him a "tiger in the crown".
At first, Tu Rusong, a commoner in Macheng County, was very dissatisfied with his wife Yang's frequent stay at her mother's house, and after Rusong's mother fell ill, Yang wanted to return to her mother's house, Tu Rusong was sexually aroused at the time, and swung her fist over, and Yang was so frightened that she ran out of the house with a cigarette, and there was no trace of it.
The two families could not find the Yang family, so they blamed each other, and you pushed him to the county. Yang Wurong, Yang's younger brother, initially suspected that his sister had been killed by Tu Rusong and hid the body. When he went out to look for his sister, he happened to meet the local scoundrel Zhao Dang'er, and after Zhao understood his mentality, he said to Wu Rong with a worried heart: "I did hear that your sister was eighty percent harmful." Yang Wurong was horrified and dragged Zhao Dang'er to the county court to complain that Tu Rusong had killed my sister together with his friend Chen Wen and others.
Tang Yingqiu of Macheng Zhixian was a cautious person who summoned the relevant personnel, but did not find solid evidence. At this time, Zhao Dang'er's father confessed to Tangzhi County, and Zhao Dang'er was talking nonsense, which was not enough evidence. Tang Zhixian thought that someone was instigating Yang Wurong, and later found out that it was indeed Yang Tongfan, a student, who instigated it behind his back. Tang Zhixian then wrote to request that Yang Tongfan be stripped of his birth qualifications, and Yang Wurong continued to accuse Tu Rusong and others at Yang Tongfan's behest.
A year later, Yang's family is still missing. One day, a land security guard reported that a corpse was found on the river beach, bitten by a wild dog, and was about to decompose, and asked Zhixian to go and investigate. Zhixian and the others walked to the halfway point, and suddenly encountered a torrential rain, so they had to return to the county.
Yang Tongfan raised an eyebrow when he heard the news, touched the placket that indicated his identity as a member, and said to himself: "This dress can continue to be worn!" He immediately found Yang Wurong's plot, and then took Yin Liang to the home of the coroner Li Rong, asked Li Rong to cheat during the autopsy, saying that the deceased was a woman, and then Yang Wurong identified it as Yang's family, and Li Rong refused.
The two were not reconciled and went to see The inspection site of Tangzhi County together. Tangzhi County went to the autopsy again, and the body was already blurred. I had to ask someone to pretend to be buried and give a notice for people to claim. Yang Tongfan and Yang Wurong, seeing that the plan was going to fail, called dozens of people to the scene to coax.
The matter reached the ear of the governor Mai Zhu, who appointed Guangji County to act as the county commander Gao Renjie to re-investigate the case. Gao Renjie was only an alternate county commander and was trying to gain a seat in Tangzhi County. So he was bent on overturning Yuchi's verdict. This time, the coroner Xue mou has accepted a bribe from Yang Tongfan, who first truthfully reported that the deceased had no long hair, no toes, and no blood-stained dress on his body; finally, he actually lied about the female corpse and said that there were traces of serious injuries in the ribs.
When Yang Wurong and others heard the autopsy report, they further accused Tu Rusong of killing his wife, and also informed the county tang that he should ask for bribes, that Li Xianzong, who handled the case, played with words and bent the law for personal gain, and that the coroner Li Rong lied about the results of the autopsy. Governor Mai Zhu credulously believed Yang Wurong's false accusations, and on the one hand wrote a letter impeaching Zhixian Tang yingqiu, while on the other hand asking Gao Renjie to investigate the case.
Under Gao Renjie's severe punishment, he finally brewed a strange injustice. Li Rong was tortured, but he died tragically in prison, and the others could not survive, so they confessed one by one. Gao Renjie, unaware of the whereabouts of the deceased's hair, toe bones, and bloody skirts and trousers, continued to torture Tu Rusong, who was in a trance and said that he had hidden in a wild grave. As a result, more than a hundred isolated tombs in Macheng County were cut open one by one, but there were no ones. Every time Gao Renjie couldn't dig it, he had to burn the Tu Rusong cannon once, and its appearance was unbearable.
Ru Song's mother really couldn't bear to see the scene of her son being unable to survive, die, and be tortured, so in desperation, she cut off her own hair and picked out the white hair in it, and tied the black hair into a bunch. Li Xianzong also suffered, and his wife cut off her own arm, stained a pair of pants and a skirt with blood, and then used an axe to split the coffin of her dead son and remove the toe bones. The two gathered the evidence Gao Renjie wanted, buried it on the river beach, and then summoned Ya Gong to dig it up, and the murder case was closed by Gao Xian Ling, Tu Rusong and others were sentenced to death, and Zhixian Tang was deposed at the request.
The case file was reported to the prefect Jiang Jianian, who found that there was fraud, withheld the case file, and then ordered the coroners of other counties to examine it, and they all said that the body of the river beach was male. Gao Renjie was frightened, so he falsely claimed that the body had been stolen and asked for a new interrogation. Soon the torrent washed away the body, and the case was not retried, and the governor Mai Zhu actually sentenced Gao Renjie to the imperial court.
The people of Macheng all knew that Tu Rusong and others had been wronged, and for a while there was a lot of discussion, and the city was full of storms. While the prisoners were waiting for execution, the missing Yang family was found in Yang Tongfan's home.
It turned out that Yang was wang Zu'er's child daughter-in-law earlier, and after Wang's death, Yang and Wang's nephew Feng Da hooked up and became adulterous. On that day, Yang Ran to feng everyone to avoid her husband's beating and hid for a month. During this period, Yang Wurong had already reported his brother-in-law Tu Rusong to the county court because of the disappearance of his sister. Feng's mother was afraid of trouble and wanted to tell the truth to the officials, feng Da was also afraid of being exposed, and first told Yang's younger brother Wurong, who then told his friend Yang Tongfan, who was greedy for Yang's beauty, so he said: "I am Xiucai, hide her in my house, and see who dares to snatch her away." The Yang clan was hidden in the wall of Yang Tongfan's home, and he advised Yang Wurong and continued to sue Tu Rusong for tu rusong, hoping to kill him, so that he could achieve the goal of occupying the Yang clan for a long time.
Shortly after the case was finalized, Yang Tongfan's wife was born prematurely and asked the neighbor's old woman to deliver the baby, but the baby's fetal position was not correct, the birth could not be given, and the old woman could not do it alone. Yang Shi heard the noise out of the wall and ran into the house, saw the old woman present, very regretful, wanted to avoid it was too late. Yang Shi hurriedly knelt down in front of the old woman and begged her not to make a sound, at this time Yang Tongfan also came in from outside, saw the situation, and stuffed the old woman with ten pieces of gold, so that she could close her mouth tightly and must not leak it.
The old woman went out of the Yang family, found her son, told him what she had seen and heard, and said, "I must be wronged for this ancient wonder, otherwise I am sorry for the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth." He then asked his son to take the gold to the county to complain.
The new county commander, Chen Ding, had long heard of the grievances in this case, but he did not have the opportunity to participate in the trial. Hearing that yang had been discovered, he immediately informed inspector Wu Yingdi, who in turn relayed it to governor Mai Zhu. Mai Zhu thought that this was ridiculous to the extreme, and his heart was very angry, but it was inconvenient to have a seizure, so he had to order the arrest. Chen Ding took the order and secretly thought, "If you directly pass on the order to arrest, if you delay a little, you may be able to spread the news." Yang Tongfan is cunning and murderous, and if he is allowed to preemptively transfer the Yang clan or kill people, then the case will not be settled." Therefore, Chen Zhixian pretended to go to Yang Tongfan's house to investigate his concealment of secret prostitutes. Personally take the catcher and break into the Yang family. Break through the sandwich wall. Sure enough, Yang was found. Chen Ding called Tu Rusong to identify. When Yang Shi saw that her husband was tortured beyond recognition, he cried out, "I killed you." Yang Tongfan, Yang Wurong and others had to bow their heads and confess their guilt.
The matter did not end there. The Inspector was the tenth day of Ying Di's case to the imperial court, and the original governor Mai Zhu's recital was approved by the imperial court, and the general Tu Rusong and others were ordered to correct the law on the spot. Mai Zhu had no choice, there are new circumstances in the shangqu case, please suspend the execution. Yang Tongfan deduced from this that the governor intended to uphold the original sentence, so he induced Yang to admit that he was a prostitute instead of Tu Rusong's wife; he himself admitted to the crime of harboring prostitutes, and the governor Mai Zhu replayed it based on the confessions of the two and requested that officials be sent to try.
When the Yongzheng Emperor saw that the case was complicated, he transferred Wu Yingdi and Mai Zhu together, and sent Shangshu Shi Yizhi of the Ministry of Households to be the governor of Huguang, and ordered officials from the two provinces to try it together, and the result was consistent with Chen Ding's trial, and the case was finally sentenced to death by Yang Tongfan, Yang Wurong, and others, and Tang Ying of Qianzhi County asked the officials to reinstate them. If there is no Yongzheng's appearance in this case, it is estimated that it will be difficult to show the snow.