Strange Injustice
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During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Yingtai, the magistrate of Pingyang County, secretly added land tax and enriched his own pockets. The student member Zhuang Yi came to report the matter. After hearing the news, the magistrate Xu Yingtai went to arrest him, but was rescued by the local martial artist Xu Hongzhi. Therefore, Zhuang and Xu were falsely accused of "inciting civil unrest." The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang ordered the suppression without verification and falsely reported the "civil uprising" to the court. As a result, Zhuang and Xu were arrested. Although they later discovered that there was no "civilian uprising" in Pingyang, they killed Zhuang and Xu in order to maintain the "dignity" of Emperor Jiaqing's imperial edict. During this period, Zhuang Yili's cousin Lin Zhongying was innocent, but was suspected of hiding the criminal. His home was confiscated and his property was destroyed. Lin's mother and young daughter were brutally tortured to extract a confession. The officialdom is corrupt and officials protect each other. Even if individual corrupt officials are punished, in order to safeguard the interests of the system and the authority of the emperor, the truly unjust cases will never be settled. Zhuang and Xu have always kept their injustices secret, resulting in a real "unfair injustice."
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