The word "suicide" is a new word popular on the Internet in recent years. The general idea is: a person who has no suicide motive suddenly dies because of some accident; There were signs of suicide at the scene of death, or suicide was arranged by others. The White House in Fuyang, Anhui Province exposed the mysterious death of prisoners, and a young man in Anyang, Henan Province committed suicide by hitting a wall at the police station, all of which are powerful interpretations of the meaning of "suicide". In fact, this "abnormal" secret way of killing people is not a modern product, but a remnant of China's feudal decadent system and bureaucratic evil breath for thousands of years. In history, there are countless cases of covering up the truth, evading responsibility, trampling on the law and killing people to cover up their mouths. The death of Li Yuchang, a relief official in Jiaqing period, is a typical case of "suicide".

Li Yuchang (1771-1808), a native of Jimo, Shandong Province, was a scholar in the 13th year of Jiaqing, and was later sent to Jiangsu as an alternate magistrate. That autumn, the Jianghuai flood, Huai 'an famine everywhere, the capital was shaken. Although the government allocated 402,000 yuan for disaster relief, few of them actually reached the victims under the deduction of local officials. Emperor Jiaqing was furious and had to allocate another 302,000 pieces of silver. At the same time, he ordered the governor of Liangjiang to send effective officials to the disaster area to supervise the distribution and find out that the relief funds were misappropriated. As a result, honest and clean Li Yuchang led Li Xiang, Gu Xiang and Ma Liansheng to set foot in Shanyang County, which suffered the most. However, this trip became a heroic one, in which Li Yuchang died.

The king of Shanyang County has been in the officialdom for many years and has rich experience. However, he was still worried about the arrival of this new face, especially when he learned from the victims that he had embezzled donations, verified the ironclad evidence that he had made false accounts from the county government files, and secretly drafted an investigation report and reported it to the governor's office, Wang began to get nervous. In order to get away with it, Wang first bribed to buy peace and was rejected; Later, he bribed Li Yuchang's entourage to steal official documents, but failed. In desperation, Wang decided to kill the man. One night, follower Li Xiang poisoned Li Yuchang's tea, then strangled Li Yuchang with ribbons with two other followers, and then faked the scene of hanging himself. Afterwards, Wang colluded with the Huai 'an magistrate and hastily reported the "suicide" case.

Li Yuchang's sudden death made the Li family feel suspicious. When Li Yuchang's uncle Li Taiqing was transporting the coffin, he found that there was a handwritten manuscript in the relics of the deceased, "Shanyang County took relief for Yuchang, and Yuchang dared not accept it"; When Li Yuchang's wife was packing her husband's clothes, she found blood on a leather coat. The more suspicious Li Guren was, he immediately opened the coffin for inspection. They saw the dead man's nails were black and blue, so they put a silver hairpin in their throat and immediately changed color to confirm the poisoning. There are signs that Li Yuchang died "abnormally". So Li Taiqing rushed to the capital and complained to Douchayuan. After hearing this, Emperor Jiaqing paid great attention to it, read it carefully, and quickly sent a telegram to the military, pointing out that Li Yuchang's death was "full of doubts, and there must be unjust cases, which need to be clarified urgently". He ordered Lun Ji, the governor of Shandong Province, to transport Li Yuchang's body back to the provincial capital for detailed inspection, and ordered Yang Shan magistrate of a county and relevant people to assemble the certificate back to Beijing immediately, and the minister of military aircraft, in conjunction with the Ministry of Punishment, directly interrogated him.

Although Li Yuchang's body has rotted, it was found that most of his bones were black and blue, but his sternum was dark yellow. Obviously, he died before all the toxicity happened. At the same time, the military ministers, together with officials from the Ministry of Justice, interrogated Wang, Bao Xiang, Xiang Li, Gu Xiang, Ma Liansheng and others one by one. In the face of conclusive evidence, they can't deny that they have given the cause and effect of the murder of Li Yuchang and the means of committing the crime. Love words are consistent and obvious. At this point, the high-profile suicide case of disaster relief officials finally came to the fore. Subsequently, Emperor Jiaqing severely punished all those involved. Tie Bao, governor of Liangjiang River, was sent to Urumqi after being removed from office; Jiangsu Governor Wang was dismissed; The king of Shanyang County was sentenced to "beheading" and his son was sent to Yili; Huai' an magistrate jade pivot was "twisted"; Bao Xiang, the servant of the king, helped the abuse, and "wrote the book and cut it"; Li Yuchang's entourage Li Xiang, Gu Xiang and Ma Liansheng were all executed in this year. Among them, Li Xiang, the principal offender, was taken to Li Yuchang's tomb for execution, and after his death, he "gouged out his heart to worship heaven".

After Li Yuchang's "suicide" case was solved, Emperor Jiaqing praised the Li family for "showing his gratitude". Li Yuchang was specially appointed as the magistrate, and personally made an heir for Li Yuchang, and was named as a "juren", and his uncle Li Taiqing was also named as a "military man". In addition, when Emperor Jiaqing thought of Li Yuchang's heroic life and tragic experience, he couldn't help feeling deeply and had something to say. To this end, Emperor Jiaqing personally wrote an imperial poem called Thirty Rhymes of Benjamin's Loyalty Poems, with 300 words and 95 1 word. It is extremely rare for Emperor Jiaqing, who doesn't write much at ordinary times, to make such detailed comments on Long song for a vassal. After the poem was written, Jiaqing ordered Lun Ji, the governor of Shandong Province, to carve a stone and build a monument, which was printed and engraved with precision, and stood in front of Li Yuchang's tomb. For an honest official like Li Yuchang, this kind of mourning may be the greatest comfort.

Just as I was about to start writing, I was shocked to hear a new report about a suspected suicide in Zhao Yan Metropolis Daily. Reporter Guo Zhikun reported that on June 29th, Jasmine Zhang, a 465,438+0-year-old farmer from Caizhong Village, Beinancai Township, Dingxing County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, was taken away by the van of the township police station for some reason. Half an hour later, Jasmine Zhang's family saw him lying in the yard of the town, his face covered with blood, dead. The county politics and law committee made a preliminary investigation, saying that Jasmine Zhang was "killed by hitting a wall". This "one story" of officials protecting each other deliberately hides the whole incident, and what is presented to the world is only the tip of the iceberg. Obviously covering up the truth. No wonder the families of the deceased felt "incomprehensible", and even the author who was outside the bureau could not help but shake his head again and again. The society has developed and the legal system has been improved. Why are such "suicide" cases still being updated?