Lu Shoushan recounted the cause and effect of the incident. It was really hard for him to remember it so clearly.
A Miao brought them dinner, but everyone forgot to eat it.
Lu Shoushan talked for a long time, and his mouth was already dry, so he drank the remaining tea in the cup in one gulp.
Wang Yuanfang, who was sitting on the side, picked up the teapot and refilled Lu Shoushan's water, and asked: "The Xu family has been arrested?"
Lu Shoushan showed pain on his face and was in a daze for a long time before saying: "We have all been arrested. The housekeeper, me, Brother Xiucheng... none of them escaped." (Historically, during the investigation of the case, inside Dongtai Tuancha Town,
Other distant relatives surnamed Xu, as well as distant relatives of Xu Foufa and Shen Chengzhuo, fled one after another, changed their names and never been traced again.)
"What happened next?" Several people in the tent asked in unison.
"In November of that year, Emperor Qianlong issued an imperial edict. The eldest young master, the second young master, and all the Xu family members who were over 16 years old were to be beheaded. The women, children, and all of us were all exiled to Ninggu Pagoda.
As a slave.”
Deng Fei asked curiously at this time: "Then the old man of the Xu family and Mr. Xu have both passed away, shouldn't they be fine?"
"Dig the grave...dismember Ling Chi's corpse...display the owl's head to the public!" Lu Shoushan summoned all his strength and gritted his teeth to say these ten words. His eyes turned blood red at this moment, and the white porcelain tea cup in his hand "popped"
There was an explosion, and it was shattered by him.
A stream of blood flowed onto the mat along the wound on his palm.
"Go to the car and get the medicine box!" Zhao Xin looked at it and shouted to Liu Sheng quickly.
Several people in the tent gathered around to check the injuries, while Liu Sheng quickly ran out of the tent.
"This..." Deng Fei couldn't ask any more questions.
Zhao Xin patted Lu Shoushan on the shoulder and said softly: "Brother Lu, let go of your hand. I have to help you pick out the broken porcelain pieces."
Several people around looked at Lu Shoushan, his eyes were red and his face was full of tears, and they didn't know what to say for a moment.
In his grief and anger, Lu Shoushan seemed to have forgotten the pain in his hand. He raised his injured left hand to wipe away his tears. Wang Yuanfang on the side quickly pressed Lu Shoushan's arm, and then took a clean piece from A Miao's hand.
The towel was placed on Lu Shoushan's right hand.
Liu Sheng quickly brought the medicine box. As soon as he took out the iodine, he heard Zhao Xin say: "Give me the tweezers first. There are still porcelain shards in the wound."
Zhao Xin took the tweezers and took out the broken porcelain from Lu Shoushan's wound. After cleaning it, he used cotton wool dipped in iodine to scrub around the wound, and finally sprinkled white medicine on it before bandaging it.
Speaking of the small company that Zhao Xin runs, he doesn't have many clients, but he has learned a lot of daily first aid knowledge.
After the wound was bandaged, Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang helped Lu Shoushan lie down and covered him with a quilt. Zhao Xin looked at the fire in the stove and added a few pieces of wood.
Several hours of narration were like opening up healed scars again; the bloody past made this man in his thirties exhausted. After A Miao fed Lu Shoushan some water, he slowly fell asleep.
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When everyone saw this, they couldn't ask any more questions, so they all got up and walked out of the tent.
At this time, Zhao Xin and the others did not know that the final outcome of the "Yizhulou Poetry Case" was far more than what Lu Shoushan described.
In October of the forty-third year of Qianlong's reign, nine ministers including the Imperial Procuratorate, Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, and Guanglu Temple held a joint trial on the "Xu Family Rebellion Case."
In November, the great scholar Agui, Zuo Shilang, He Shen and other nine ministers reported to Qianlong: Xu Shukui's sons, grandsons, elder brothers, younger brothers, and brothers' sons, all those over sixteen years old should be killed, and those under fifteen years old, as well as their wives and concubines, should be killed.
The wives and concubines of the elder sister, younger sister, and son were paid to the hero's family as slaves, and their property was transferred to the official.
At the end of November, Qianlong Ming issued an edict and spread it to the world.
The handling of this case is as follows:
Xu Shukui composed a poem and Xu Huaizu published it and circulated it. It is considered that "father and son rebelled one after another". Although both of them died of illness, "the body was crushed and the head was displayed to the public according to the law of great rebellion." Xu Shukui had been dead for 15 years and his coffin was dissected.
The severed head was hung in Dongtai County for public display.
Xu Huaizu died more than a year ago. His body was crushed and his head was displayed to the public.
Brothers Xu Shitian and Xu Shishu were the grandsons of the criminals and were beheaded.
Anyone in the Xu family who is over sixteen years old will be beheaded.
The Xu family's servants under the age of fifteen and a group of female servants will be assigned to Ning Guta as slaves.
All the Xu family's property was confiscated and the Yizhu Building was demolished.
Lu Yan, as a staff member of Tao Yi, the chief envoy, made random remarks and manuscripts, confounded right and wrong, and wanted to clear up a serious case. According to the crime of committing a serious treason, he had his family property confiscated and his wife, concubines and children were not made slaves of the banner.
Tao Yi, as a high-ranking official of the vassal, did not personally review the rebellion and sent the details to the governor. He wanted to rebel against the person who accused him, so he committed the crime of treason and was beheaded. His property was confiscated, and his wife, concubines, and children were not made slaves of the banner.
.(After Tao Yi was personally interrogated by Qianlong, he was determined by Qianlong that he "intentionally protected and committed treachery" and accepted bribes from Xu Shetian. He later died of illness in prison. However, he still did not escape the knife.
, went to the guillotine together with the above five people, and cut off his body with a guillotine.)
Xie Qikun, the magistrate of Yangzhou, when the case of Xu Shukui's poems occurred, although he was transferred to the feudal vassal and there were no biased words in the text and he was able to sign out the rebellious words one by one, his delay of half a month before reporting to his superiors was considered slowness and indolence, so he should be lenient.
, sent to the military station to serve as atonement. On the same day, he was sent to the military station of Mohe, Heilongjiang. (This magistrate Xie later paid the crime penalty and was exempted from exile. He soon took the seat of Shanxi Chief Envoy.)
Tu Yuelong, magistrate of Dongtai County. When the case of Xu Shukui's poems occurred, he failed to investigate in time. He blamed Jiangning Bookstore and sat back and watched as the serious case was delayed until it almost disappeared. What was his intention? He held a staff for a hundred years and stayed for three years.
He will be sent to Ili today.
Huang Bin, whose original name was Mao Cheng, was a private school teacher at the Yamen of Tuancha Salt Farm. He once wrote a postscript for Xu Shukui's "He Tao Shi". Later, he went to Shaanxi to work as an aide, changed his name, and passed the imperial examination. However, they were not born together.
He was also arrested, but he escaped death.
Qianlong said that he "extremely praised him in his postscript, but it was actually a sign of rebellion, and he later moved to Gansu and Shaanxi. Those who followed Kuanfa and fell, there was a phrase in his postscript, 'Mr.'s holy pilgrimage in his lifetime'. He put on the leather to lift people, and used a staff to lift people.
Hundreds, three thousand miles away, and will be sent to Hainan Island on the same day."
Shen Deqian, a great scholar in Suzhou, once wrote the preface to "Yizhulou Poetry Collection". Qianlong sent the guards of the Qianqing Palace together with the governor of Jiangsu to go to the Shen family cemetery in Suzhou, destroy his burial inscriptions, and move the rubble to other places. All the titles of Shen Deqian were removed.
The palace titles and posthumous certificates were also evacuated. The memorial tablets in the ancestral hall in his hometown were also removed. All the descendants of the Shen family were present, knelt to listen to the order, and watched the destruction process.
As for Cai Jiashu, the accuser who plotted against the Xu family's property, Qianlong believed that he was from the same family as Xu Shukui. "Yizhulou Poetry Collection" had been published long ago, so he should have known about it for a long time, but he did not press charges. It was only because it was so recent.
Reporting on suspicion of land disputes is not "real knowledge and respect for the emperor". However, he reported against the letter and was released on bail. This is a typical case of harming others and not benefiting oneself.
The then governor of Liangjiang, Gao Jin, who was responsible for investigating the case, the governor of Liangjiang under his supervision, Sa Zai, and the governor of Jiangsu, Yang Kui, were also reprimanded by Qianlong in the edict.
The matter has come to this, but the aftermath of the "Yizhulou Poetry Case" continued until three years later.
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, someone traced that Xu Shukui had written a preface for a man named Wang Guodong from Xinghua. As a result, Wang Guodong was beheaded and his father, Wang Zhongru, had his coffin opened and his body slaughtered.
Zheng Banqiao, who has been dead for more than ten years, has also been implicated in this case. Because he was good friends with Wang Guodong, his collection of printed copies, imitation copies, and reprints after the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign were all deleted (replacing "
The three words "Guo Guodong" have been eradicated from the stereotype.)
Let me say a few words. In order to write the two chapters of "Yizhulou Poetry Case", I actually consulted a lot of information. "Qing Shilu" all the edicts about this case in the forty-third and forty-sixth year of Qianlong; "Qing Palace"
Memorial Archives" Memorials on the case by Liu Yong, Gao Jin, Sa Zai, and Yang Kui in the 43rd year of Qianlong's reign; memorials on the investigation of Wang Guodong's case in the 46th year of Qianlong's reign and Qianlong's edict on the final disposition. How many online articles about this case are there?
This article can also be found on the encyclopedia. But I still want to read all the real historical materials before interpreting them into the novel. After reading all the historical materials according to the timeline, I basically understand the whole thing. It’s so tiring.
Alright! I'll go sweep the grave early tomorrow morning and update it in the afternoon.