I want to ruin the country

When Qi Erjie saw that her husband was really dead, she felt that there was no way out.

His body was humiliated and his innocence was ruined. The other party was a member of the Yellow Belt Banner, so he could not win the lawsuit even if he wanted to.

She got up, ran to the well and jumped in.

Sister Qi screamed,

"younger sister!"

By the time people fished Qi Erjie out of the water, she had already died.

Sister Qi looked at this tragedy and wondered how she would explain it to her parents and how she would face her one-year-old nephew.

She made up her mind, turned her head and ran towards the corner of the wall!

In an instant, three lives were lost!

Seeing this great change, Yang Xiushan's eyes were bloodshot. This honest man was also anxious. He picked up the shoulder pole and

"Hai Lanjiang, you beast, I'm going to fight you!"

Hailanjiang has several thugs around him, and he can't even get close to them!

Hailan Jiang said loudly,

"Hou Er, tie up this treacherous slave and send him to the government!"

Yu Tiechui and Qi Erjie left behind a one-year-old child who became a parentless person.

When Yu Tiechui's parents heard that their son and daughter-in-law had both died, they were so angry that they fainted.

Yu Tiechui's old father also went to fight Hailanjiang, but was kicked to death by Hailanjiang!

Yu Tiechui's mother had no other choice but to file a lawsuit against Hailanjiang.

"Snapped!"

After hearing this, Yining was furious and slapped the table.

"Kill, kill, kill, you beast!"

He said "kill" three times in a row!

In fact, this case is not complicated. According to the law, Hailanjiang should definitely be sentenced to death for rape and four deaths!

But because he is a bannerman or a royal family member, it is impossible to make a judgment now!

What was the reason? It was because of the privileges enjoyed by the Bannermen.

Here we would like to briefly introduce the differences between Manchus and Han people during the Qing Dynasty.

Since the Manchus entered the Pass, they have had better living conditions than the Han people, and the court has granted the bannermen many privileges.

For example, the Manchus were not restricted by the imperial examinations and could enter the government as officials through recommendation, discussion, donation, inheritance, and inheritance of sons.

All levels of government offices had both Manchu and Han official positions, but Han people could not fill vacancies vacated by Manchus, while Bannermen could fill vacancies vacated by Han people.

All vacancies involving important positions such as military affairs, finances, royal family, and ethnic affairs were held by Manchus and Mongolians, and the Han people had no chance of getting them.

(Except for the rare Zhang Tingyu and Liu Tongxun. Of course, Yining traveled through time and space and intended to reuse Han people, which is why Lin Zexu and Du Shoutian became the prime ministers!)

The Grand Councillors who held real power in the court were mostly Manchus and Mongolians, while Han officials mostly served as cabinet officials without much real power.

In each ministry, the Manchu minister was the chief minister and the Han minister was the deputy minister, and the real power was completely in the hands of the Manchu officials.

Bannermen did not have to perform labor service or pay taxes.

The Qing Dynasty carried out three large-scale land enclosures, and the enclosed land and houses were distributed according to the internal ranks of the Eight Banners.

For example, a lowest-ranking Eight Banners soldier (an armored man) could be allocated 30 acres of fertile land and one or two houses.

The bannermen forced Han Chinese peasants to serve as their bondservants and could buy and sell them at will.

An ordinary Eight Banners cavalryman's annual income was equivalent to that of a Jinshi.

The punishment for crimes committed by Bannermen was also very different from that for Han people.

Of course, there were also different levels among the Bannermen.

Starting from the royal family, it is divided into direct line and collateral line.

Nurhaci's father Taksi's branch was a direct line, and all his descendants were called royal family members, and they wore a yellow belt around their waists.

The descendants of Taksi's uncles and brothers were collateral descendants, called Jueluo, and wore a red belt around their waists.

Only the Ministry of Clan Affairs can take care of all matters, big or small, concerning the red and yellow belts.

The "Great Qing Code" stipulates that if a member of the royal family breaks the law, the Ministry of Clan Affairs will be responsible for the trial. To ensure fairness, officials from the Ministry of Justice will serve as jurors.

When the Jurchens broke the law, they were tried by the Ministry of Justice, but the Ministry of Clan Affairs had to be present as jurors and supervise.

The punishments for members of the royal family and Jurchens who broke the law included flogging, caning, shackles, military service, and exile, but they could pay money to offset the punishment.

For example, if someone was sentenced to 10 lashes, he could avoid the lashings by paying 2 cents of silver.

Paying 1 tael 2 qian 5 fen of silver can be used to offset 50 lashes.

Paying 3 taels of silver can exempt you from 60 strokes of the cane, and paying 5 taels of silver can exempt you from 100 strokes of the cane.

You only need to pay 7 taels and 5 qian of silver to avoid one year of imprisonment.

If you are sentenced to exile or banishment, it will cost you 20 taels of silver. As long as you pay 20 taels of silver, you don't have to go to exile or banishment no matter how far away.

If the first offense is committed and the money is not paid, the clan officials will carry out the flogging.

Those who were sentenced to cangue and fixed-term imprisonment were commuted to spanking with a stick and then confined.

Confinement is also different. Those who have committed crimes such as shackles or fixed-term imprisonment are detained, which means they are locked in the clan house for a certain period of time and not allowed to go out.

Everyone understands, this circle just doesn't allow you to leave the yard, but you can wander around the yard.

Prisoners who were convicted of military exile or banishment would be locked up in a room in the clan office.

In other words, you can't go to the yard and can only stay in the house.

If you commit a crime for the second time, you can also pay money to atone for your crime.

Those who were sentenced to exile for the second time, those who were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for the first time and sent to the military for the first time, or those who were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment three times, must be exiled to Shengjing.

Those who were exiled for the second time or sentenced to exile for the third time, or those who committed crimes and were forced to guard the border, would be exiled to the even farther Heilongjiang River.

This is what is often meant by "being exiled to Ningguta to be a slave for armored men" in film and television dramas.

In the case of serious murders committed by members of the imperial clan or the Jurchen clan, the Imperial Clan Court, together with the Ministry of Justice, would first strip them of their official titles and then sentence them to death by beheading or hanging.

However, this requires the emperor's personal approval.

These regulations seem fair at first glance, but in practice they are completely different.

Except for the chancellor and the head of the Han Hall, all other officials in the Zongrenfu were Manchu clan members.

Apart from organizing documents, these two Han people basically have no power. They are completely deaf ears and decorations.

Therefore, when the Manchus committed crimes, they basically made a big deal out of a small matter, or a small matter out of nothing.

There are also records in official history about the Bannermen killing people.

A bondservant of the Zhenglan Banner named Xin Lin beat to death a Han Chinese named Liu Xiyao over some trivial matters.

If a Han Chinese killed a Bannerman, the result would definitely be immediate execution.

But this is a bondservant of the Bannermen, so the situation is different.

After review by the Ministry of Justice, Xin Lin was only sentenced to 100 strokes of the cane and exile 3,000 miles away.

It has been said since ancient times that "a life must be paid with a life, and a debt must be paid with money." Liu Xiyao's life only resulted in Xin Lin being beaten and exiled.

What is most infuriating is that in the end, Xin Lin was not even sentenced to a hundred battles or exile. He was just whipped a few times and put in shackles to be displayed to the public.