Live streaming life: The ancients begged not to stop

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Qi Cheng found some information and first introduced the case. This case happened in the late Qing Dynasty, and most ancient people did not know about it.

Yang Naiwu was from Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, and he was also a juren. In ancient times, the status of a juren was already good enough, and one could directly become an official through the Da Tiao examination.

And it’s tax-free.

Therefore, there is a saying that Juren is gold and Jinshi is silver.

Of course, in a place like Zhejiang Province with rich cultural heritage, a Juren is not very impressive, and he also has some conflicts with officials.

Xiao Baicai and her husband Ge Pinlian rented a house in Yang Naiwu's house. They usually lived together. He often taught Xiao Baicai to write and read, and some neighbors had already started gossiping about it.

Later, Ge Pinlian unfortunately passed away, and his family felt that there was something wrong with the cause of his death, so they reported it directly to the authorities.

Tang Dynasty

Wu Zetian frowned. She felt that this was very much like a conspiracy to murder her husband. Could it be that there were political factors at the time that led to Yang Naiwu being acquitted?

"Your Majesty, this case is actually very easy to investigate. It's easy to tell whether Ge Pinlian was poisoned or not," Di Renjie said. "But even if Yang Naiwu is innocent, his behavior is not good."

The social atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty was very open, but teaching a married woman to write was still somewhat shocking, especially between a successful scholar and a tofu seller.

Ming Dynasty

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted. This scholar had read so much that it was like a dog's stomach. There was nothing good about a single man and a single woman getting together.

Another point he expressed interest in was how the Qing Dynasty dealt with this kind of military group. If the method was good, he wanted to use it to deal with the Huaixi Group.

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"At the time, Yuhang County Magistrate Liu Xitong brought his coroner to investigate. To determine if the victim was poisoned, they wanted to prick the victim with a silver needle. However, the coroner made an unforgivable mistake: he didn't clean the needle with soapy water, so it turned black when it was removed."

"He later tortured Xiao Baicai and Yang Naiwu to extract confessions, hoping to have them both killed on charges of murdering their husband."

Daqin

Qin Shihuang asked Li Si to record it quickly, saying that a silver needle washed with soapnut water could be used to detect whether a person was poisoned.

If there is such a case in Daqin in the future, this method can be used to detect it.

Southern Song Dynasty

Song Ci listened to the case carefully and felt sad that the coroner could make such a low-level mistake. He wondered if these coroners had read their own records of clearing their names carefully.

From an official's perspective, this matter was fraught with problems. He felt it wasn't that simple. A county magistrate who had ruined a family, a provincial governor who had wiped out an entire clan, there might be problems here that others didn't know about.

"If that were all, at most the coroner had problems and the magistrate was a little confused, but there is actually a twist in the case because Yang Naiwu was not in Yuhang when the crime occurred."

"But Xiao Baicai had already been tortured, so Liu Xitong refused to accept the testimony in favor of Yang Naiwu and reported it directly to the prefect at the time."

"The Yang family didn't give up and kept on appealing. His sister went to Beijing twice and gained sympathy from some Zhejiang officials who were there at the time. Eventually, the case reached the highest level, the two Empress Dowagers."

"The power struggle among the upper echelons began. A few years later, the imperial court publicly opened the coffin at Haihui Temple in the capital and conducted an autopsy. The Daxing coroner confirmed that Ge Pinlian had indeed died of illness and had nothing to do with poisoning."

"Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai were acquitted, and Empress Dowager Cixi directly stripped over a hundred of their official hats and feathers. Most of these people were from the Hunan Army."

Tang Dynasty

Di Renjie nodded. It was almost as he guessed. There must be something wrong between the county magistrate and Mr. Yang. If there were no testimony, he would probably have no problem convicting her of murdering her husband.

Yang Naiwu would eventually be wrongly accused and killed.