How cruel was the "slaughtering of white ducks" in the Qing Dynasty?The parents set up the bureau with their own hands, and the county officials felt pity
The ancients:"Pity the hearts of parents all over the world"。This sentence expresses the hardships of parents raising their children. Although most parents love their children and are willing to give up everything for their children, not everything is absolute, and there are some parents who have no humanity and even do not hesitate to harm their children in exchange for some benefits.
Zheng Banqiao, a famous painter of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem:"Branches and leaves are always about love"。This poem is still praised to this day. In fact, behind this poem, there is a hidden belief that he was very popular in the Qing Dynasty at that time"Slaughter the white duck"The accusation of the phenomenon made even Zheng Banqiao feel unbearable.
In 1753, the famous Zheng Banqiao died down, as the magistrate of Wei County, within a few days of taking office, he received the first task - to kill a prisoner who had committed murder and adultery and pleaded guilty. The previous judge also sealed the case file and waited for the time to behead.
Zheng Banqiao had nothing to do, and was going to visit the prisoner who was about to be executed the day before the beheading, but he didn't expect to see that when he arrived at the prison, it turned out to be a ten-year-old child who had committed such a serious crime as murder. Zheng Banqiao thought it was strange and sat down to inquire about his crimes.
The little boy said that some time ago, he had just ** a girl named Liu, because she was disobedient, so he strangled her with his hands, and now they have committed a crime, so they have to be punished. But in the specific process of the crime, the child was vague and incoherent, and Zheng Banqiao immediately concluded that it was likely to be a case"Kill the white duck"of the case.
So, Zheng Banqiao encouraged the child to tell the truth, but after all, he couldn't withstand the pressure of the child's crying, and in order to explain clearly, Zheng Banqiao forced the child to carry the black pot. It turned out that Chen Fu committed the crime of rape and murder, but his family was very rich, so he spent 500 taels of silver to redeem the child's father and let the child take the blame for Chen Fu.
Although the child was unwilling, he was slandered and punched and kicked by his parents, so he had to confess to the local yamen and was imprisoned. Zheng Banqiao listened to the cause and effect, and immediately postponed tomorrow's beheading operation, and he planned to retry the case while treating the people of Wei District fairly.
After reading the Zheng Banqiao case, I think it is necessary for us to understand it in advance"White duck slaughterhouse", almost all dynasties and dynasties, and in the corrupt Qing Dynasty, this phenomenon became more and more common, and even appeared"White duck slaughterhouse"。There are even special pronouns'White duck slaughter'。
When a rich person or a nobleman makes a mistake, he can spend money to buy poor children as scapegoats, these children are like white ducks, they have no right to choose their own lives, they just wait for them to raise their hands and surrender, and turn the real criminals into innocents who can continue to get away with it, no matter what time it is, it is an ugly thing to slaughter white ducks.
While most parents don't want their children to suffer such injustices, sometimes even at the cost of their own lives, they often choose to make false accusations when faced with money that their children will not earn in their lifetime. Some of the most heinous criminals even ignored the law and detained them with knives.
But what is the point of the law in a society where the world is collapsing and darkness is rife?Powerful people can bribe people to be substitutes for the dead, or they can buy local officials, as long as they spend more money, they can break the law at will. Even if he encounters a righteous judge who can't bear to slaughter a white duck, he is actually powerless to change the status quo.
From Zheng Banqiao's encounter, we can also feel the integrity of the **"Slaughter the white duck"There is no way to justify injustice in the incident. After carefully analyzing the original case, Zheng Banqiao found many mistakes and planned to change the case. However, when Zheng Banqiao went to the child a few days later to verify the details, he was surprised to find that the child had confessed to the crime again and denied that he had spoken to Zheng Banqiao before.
Zheng Banqiao realized that he might be hiding something, so he went to arrest Chen Fu. Chen Fu did not expect that he would appear in court with a clear conscience, and under Zheng Banqiao's questioning, the boy denied knowing Chen Fu and denied taking the blame for Chen Fu, and Chen Fu took the opportunity to accuse Zheng Banqiao as well.
At the same time, Chen Fu also took the opportunity to accuse Zheng Banqiao of lawlessness, indiscriminate arrest of the people, and went to the governor's palace to defect to Zheng Banqiao.
Zheng Banqiao had no choice but to release Chen Fu, and his friends also advised him to leave this matter alone, which is done in many places. But Zheng Banqiao couldn't swallow this breath, and using his prestige, he reported the matter to the Criminal Department, and with the intervention of the highest level of power, the matter finally came to light.
After Zheng Banqiao's night talk with the children, it turned out that the children had to re-mention the matter of extortion and extortion of the whole family's lives from the ** who got Chen Fu's news, and the children were killed for their parents, and Zheng Banqiao did not dare to tell the truth again. In the end, Zheng Banqiao sentenced Chen Fu to death, and the child's family collected money to accept the crime and treated him leniently, and the people of Qicheng cheered.
Therefore, the average Qing official does not have the reputation of Zheng Banqiao, which is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also does not have it"Slaughter the white duck"A chance to overturn the case. If you choose to insult the powerful and choose to cooperate with the powerful, in the face of such a choice that can bring a lot of income, how many ** can stick to their duties and duties?
In the final analysis, the Qing Dynasty's wanton ** white duck has a lot to do with the corrupt bureaucracy. As the people's food and clothing parents and fat-headed fathers, not only do not think about how to work for the welfare of the people, but do all kinds of hurtful things for money and interests. This is also the meaning of Zheng Banqiao's poem: even if we are only petty officials in a province and a county, we must care about the suffering of the people.
The cruelty of feudal society can be seen from the white duck quilt. It is difficult for a world full of mud and sand to be mixed with different streams and pollution, so sometimes we cannot blame individuals, but ask ourselves why the system has evolved to this point, and the backwardness of feudal society will be corrected and changed sooner or later.
Nowadays, even if we come from a poor background, we don't have to worry about becoming"White-eyed wolf"。Democracy and the rule of law are our greatest guarantees, but there are still many unfair problems in society, and we must continue to work hard and make continuous progress.