Before I knew it, night fell.
Lu Shoushan recounted the cause and effect of the incident. It was really hard for him to remember it so clearly.
A Miao brought dinner to them, but everyone forgot to eat.
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 next to him, picked up the teapot and refilled Lu Shoushan's water, and asked, "Have all the Xu family been arrested?"
Lu Shoushan showed a painful look on his face and was in a daze for a long time before saying: "We have all been arrested. The housekeeper, me, and Brother Xiucheng... none of them ran away." (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 found their whereabouts.)
"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 sixteen years old were to be beheaded. The women, children, and us were all exiled to Ninggu Pagoda. Slave.”
Deng Fei asked curiously at this time: "Then the old man of the Xu family and Mr. Xu have passed away, right?"
"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 broke into pieces with a loud bang.
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 saw it and quickly shouted to Liu Sheng.
Several people in the tent gathered around to check the injuries, while Liu Sheng ran out of the tent quickly.
"This..." Deng Fei couldn't ask any more questions.
Zhao Xin patted Lu Shoushan's 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, then took a clean towel from A Miao's hand and placed it 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.
When it comes to 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.
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 and other nine ministers reported to Qianlong: Xu Shukui's sons, grandsons, brothers, younger brothers, and brothers' sons, all those over sixteen years old should be killed, and those under fifteen years old, as well as his wives, concubines, The wives and concubines of the elder sister, younger sister, and son were paid as slaves to the family of the hero, and their property was transferred to the official.
At the end of November, Qianlong Ming issued an edict to inform 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, "they still followed the law of Lingchi, crushing their corpses and displaying their heads to the public." Xu Shukui had been dead for 15 years. His coffin was cut open and his 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.
Anyone under the age of fifteen and a group of female servants of the Xu family 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 criticisms and manuscripts, confusing right and wrong, intending to eliminate a serious case, and be executed according to the crime of committing a major treason. The family property was confiscated, and the wives, concubines, and children were not made slaves of the flag.
Tao Yi, as a high-ranking official of the feudal dynasty, did not personally review the rebellion and sent the details to the governor to report. He wanted to rebel against the person who accused him, so he committed the crime of rebellion and was executed. The family property was confiscated, and the wives, concubines, and children were not made slaves of the flag. (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, Together with the above five people, he went to the guillotine 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 it to his superiors was considered slowness and indolence, so he should be lenient. , sent to the military platform to serve as atonement. He will be sent to Mohe Military Station in Heilongjiang today. (This magistrate Xie later paid the crime settlement fee 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, blamed Jiangning Bookstore, and sat back and watched as the serious case was delayed, almost disappearing. What was the intention of the two sides? With a staff of one hundred, he stayed for three years and was sent to Ili on the same day.
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 a staff member, changed his name, and passed the imperial examination. However, the eggs were not found, and they were still arrested, but they 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 into disgrace had the phrase "Mr.'s holy pilgrimage during his lifetime" in his postscript. He put on the leather to lift people, and used a staff to lift people. One hundred, it will travel three thousand miles and be sent to Hainan Island on the same day."
Shen Deqian, a great scholar from 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 the burial inscriptions, and move the rubble to another place. All of Shen Deqian's official titles, palace titles and posthumous titles were removed. The memorial tablets in the Xiangxian Temple were also withdrawn. All the descendants of the Shen family were present, kneeling to listen to the order and watch 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 the property was involved in a recent lawsuit that he reported it on the basis of suspicion. This was not "real knowledge and respect for the emperor." However, he was informed by the inverse letter and released on bail. This is a typical example of harming others without benefiting oneself.
The then governor of Liangjiang, Gao Jin, the governor of Liangjiang, Sa Zai, and the governor of Jiangsu, Yang Kui, who were responsible for investigating the case, 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 was opened in the coffin and killed.
Zheng Banqiao, who has been dead for more than ten years, was also implicated in this case. Because he was a good friend of Wang Guodong, all of his collections of printed, imitated, and reprinted editions written after the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign were eradicated (the three words "Guo Guodong" were eradicated from the printed editions).
