Yu Hongtu (? -1734), the word Linyi, Haiyan, Zhejiang. In the fifty-first year of Kangxi (17 12), he was a scholar, and in the tenth year of Yongzheng, he was appointed to study politics in Henan. The educational administration is responsible for the school education and various cultural and academic affairs in a province, and the examination for candidates is one of them. In the process of scientific research, he warned his servants to be on duty outside the test center to avoid the disadvantages of test data transmission. Unexpectedly, the servant wanted to take bribes and colluded with his aunt Lin to help them cheat. His concubine put the materials related to the exam in Yu Hongtu's official uniform, and Yu Hongtu put them on. After taking them off, the servant tore them off and gave them to the elevator outside. Servants outside also used the same method to send relevant materials to the examination room, and received more than 10 thousand taels of bribes. Due to carelessness, Yu Hongtu didn't know their activities. Soon, it was full of wind and rain outside. Wang Shijun, then governor of Henan for eleven years, impeached Yu Hongtu and accused him of taking bribes for personal gain. In March of 12th year, Yong Zhengdi sent assistant minister Chen Shuxuan to Henan to try the case of Yu Hongtu together with the governors of Hedong, Shanxi and Henan provinces. This law is very strict, claiming that if you practice favoritism and malpractice, both the assistant minister and the governor will pay the hell price. At first, Yu Hongtu denied taking bribes. But his wife and servant admitted the fact of cheating and taking bribes. In this case, Yu Hongtu had to plead guilty: there was indeed a case of treating inferior papers as qualified papers and accepting bribes of more than 10,000 taels. Chen Shuxuan put forward the idea of beheading in Hongtu to the punishments, and the punishments agreed and reported it to Yongzheng for approval. In the 12th year of Yongzheng (1734), on March 12th, Yongzheng approved the execution of Yu Hongtu. Zou, Yu Hongtu's in-laws, was ordered to succeed Yu Hongtu and was beheaded by Zou. How cruel and inhuman it is to let the relatives of prisoners take over the duties of prisoners and torture them. But Yong Zhengdi's character determined him to do so. Zou was too scared to tell Yu Hongtu. The executioner cuts his waist, and the prisoner must pay if he wants to die quickly. Since Yu Hongtu was tied to the execution ground, Zou told him that it was a waist cut and he had no time to prepare. The executioner gave him a reprieve, and Yu Hongtu was cut off and rolled on the ground, in great pain. He dipped his finger in blood and wrote seven "miserable" words on the ground continuously before he died slowly and painfully. After Zou reported the tragedy, he ordered the knife to be sealed and the waist cut was invalid.

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