There are many strange cases in the Dynasty, and there are many in the Qing Dynasty.
In the winter of the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, a strange case occurred in the Qing Dynasty, which has never lacked strange things: Li Yuchang, the minister of ChaQiqin, who was personally approved by the emperor, was actually killed shortly after taking office! The murderer is said to be a small county order...
What does this mean, is a county order of the Qing Dynasty so bold? Actually killing the ministers sent by others is not contempt for What is Regal? Can the Jiaqing Emperor endure it, this is simply a realistic version of the tiger pulling teeth out of its mouth - looking for death.
Sure enough, as soon as the Jiaqing Emperor heard the news, he was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and when the water came out, none of the people involved in the case escaped, and the mastermind was sentenced to beheading, hanging, and clamping, and the rest of the auxiliaries were severely punished. It can be seen that the Jiaqing Emperor was really provoked.
So the question is, is this county order really so bold that even the emperor's imperial pen personally approved and the cha-rectification officials who are also ministers of the Same Chincha dare to murder him? Is there any greater inside story in the murder of Li Yuchang?
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Minister Chincha was killed within a short period of his term of office, and the murderer turned out to be a small county order, such an outrageous case, it is really a long story! Let's start with why this Chincha minister, Li Yuchang, was sent to investigate the relief.
Everyone should know that in all the dynasties and dynasties, official corruption has always been a tumor of the imperial court, and it is not clean, and in the Qing Dynasty, this tumor was undoubtedly magnified several times, so what is "he yan one down, Jiaqing is full" is not the best example?
Well, obviously, Jiaqing, as the emperor, was also well aware of this problem, but the Korean and Chinese officials were entangled and interlocked, and it was not so easy to remove the tumor at all. Therefore, Jiaqing, who has no good way, can only try his best to suppress it. However, on that winter day in the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, the death of the pro-dispatch official Li Yuchang made Jiaqing completely angry.
In the winter of the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, the Yellow River flooded, and many counties in northern Jiangsu suffered floods, among which Shanyang County, Huai'an Province, was the most seriously affected. The imperial court attached great importance to the disaster, and immediately allocated a large amount of silver from the national treasury and sent it to Shanyang County for disaster relief.
But as we said above, official corruption is a big tumor in the Qing Dynasty, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver have been exploited by officials layer by layer, and in the end, I don't know how much can be left.
This made the Jiaqing Emperor quite distressed. Finally, after careful consideration, he decided to send the designated official to Shanyang County to check the relief silver two. At this time, Li Yuchang, who had just entered the army and was still just a candidate of Zhixian County, entered his eyes. Therefore, with a wave of his imperial pen, the alternate Zhixian became a cha-rectification official with the emperor's order, and Li Yuchang went with high morale. However, when he came back this time, he was just a corpse.
As a newcomer to the official field, Li Yuchang, who had just arrived in Shanyang County, adhered to the purpose of the emperor's orders and thoroughly investigated corruption, and soon began to investigate the local officials in an orderly manner...
And just when the investigation was in full swing, Shanyang County made Wang Shenhan start to panic, and he deeply understood that once his embezzlement of disaster relief silver was reported to the emperor, then his fate was unimaginable. Therefore, he used a trick that had been tried and tested before, bribing the officials of the inspection and relief. Fortunately, nine of the ten charity officials were bribed; unfortunately, there was one who did not eat this set, and that was Li Yuchang.
Soon, Li Yuchang, who was earnestly collecting public opinion, found out that the officials of Shanyang County had embezzled two silver for disaster relief, and without any thought, he truthfully wrote a recital and prepared to return to Beijing for a prayer. At this time, Wang Shenhan's whole person was already anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and he couldn't help but jump to his feet. As the saying goes, a dog will jump the wall when it is anxious, and this Wang Shenhan is undoubtedly the best example.
Wang Shenhan, who thought he had been forced to a dead end, actually came up with a vicious method to kill Li Yuchang in order not to expose his crime.
The night before Li Yuchang returned to Beijing, Wang Shenhan used the excuse of practicing for everyone, and at the banquet, Li Yuchang was poured a lot of wine, and when he returned to the inn in the middle of the night, it was as if he was going to smoke in his mouth, and he was busy asking the servants to bring tea. The servant Li Xiang quickly brought tea, and Li Yuchang did not want to drink it directly, and after a while he actually spat out blood. It turned out that Li Xiang and others had already been bribed by Wang Shenhan, and the tea they brought had long been poisoned.
However, at this time, li Yuchang, who was poisoned, did not immediately lose his breath, and after spitting out blood, he realized that something was wrong and began to shout loudly. This cry alarmed Li Xiang and the others, who were weak-hearted thieves, who were afraid that the cry would attract others and their crimes would be exposed, so they rushed straight into the room and strangled Li Yuchang.
As soon as Li Yuchang died, several servants breathed a sigh of relief, but soon after realizing that strangling Li Yuchang had left too many traces, so, after several thoughts, they actually hung Li Yuchang's body on the beam of the room and disguised it as suicide. Then, he went to the county court to report the case, saying that his master had hanged himself.
When Wang Shenhan heard this, he was not to mention how happy he was in his heart, so he took a formality with his servants, and then went to inform the lord of the house that he was determined to hang himself. When the prefect heard this, he also pretended to let the servant do a re-examination, but this servant said that Li Da had blood in the corner and should not have hanged himself. When the prefect heard this, he beat him up and said that he was talking nonsense, and then he still passed it up according to the report that he had hanged himself.
Just when everyone thought that this matter would end like this, Li Taiqing, the brother of Li Yuchang, who came to collect the body, found something unusual—a residual letter that recorded Wang Shenhan's bribery of Li Yuchang, but he did not say anything. Soon, when Lord Li's widow was collecting the relics, she found blood stains, and Li Taiqing felt more and more that Li Yuchang was not suicidal. Therefore, he opened the coffin for autopsy, and indeed found the traces of poisoning, and in a fit of anger, he directly sued the imperial court.
At this time, the Jiaqing Emperor was originally depressed about corruption, and when he saw that this imperial decree was almost about to spew out a mouthful of old blood, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the matter. Under the personal promotion of the Jiaqing Emperor, soon, Li Yuchang's death was revealed, the relevant personnel did not escape punishment, and several masterminds were directly executed. The grievances were revealed, and I believed that Lord Li could rest in peace in the spirit of heaven.
< h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > evaluation</h3>
On the surface, this case is just an ordinary case of a daring county commander who killed a court official in order to save himself. But could it really be that simple?
In that corrupt officialdom where flattery is supreme, a small county decree would have the audacity to poison and kill a cha-rectification official who was also a minister of the same Chincha, saying that no one had supported him, who would believe it?
Why did the prefect beat him up and insist on reporting his death according to the report of his death; why was the case that shocked the world so much that it was almost covered by a small prefect and county order to hide the past; why were many officials at higher levels degraded at the same time, and the twists and turns in this are not clear enough? There has never been any so-called hanging death, just a greedy human heart that will never be satisfied on the corrupt official field.
What a corrupt official field gives to a good official will never be hope, but a steady stream of disappointment! The death of Li Yuchang is the best example!
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