Chapter 105 Chapter 9 The dog bites the hedgehog and has nowhere to bite
The Empress Dowager Cixi knows how to employ people, and the investigation team she sent is absolutely objective and fair.
One must know that Prince Chun Zaifeng hated Yuan Shikai deeply. If Prince Qing and Lao Qing hadn't sidelined each other, Yuan Shikai would definitely have been shot by him at the last constitutional reform meeting.Therefore, with this person present, the conclusion drawn logically would not favor Yuan Shikai.
But things in this world are hard to say. Since ancient times, no matter how objective and fair the stance of the investigation team is, the final conclusion can't escape these eight words: there is a reason for the incident, and there is no factual evidence!
Prince Chun, who wished to swallow Yuan Shikai alive, personally investigated, how could it be such a result?
Speaking of this incident, it is estimated that Prince Jin Zaifeng himself is the most indignant.
It is said that when Prince Chun went out to Beijing to investigate, he opened a newspaper on the way, and suddenly his eyes popped out.He saw a piece of unbelievable news.
Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao" and "Suntian Times" all made corrections to Yang Cuixi's case. The corrections stated that due to a proofreading error, the report on Yang Cuixi's case the day before yesterday mistakenly wrote Tianjin rich businessman Wang Xiying as Duan Zhigui, Yang Cuixi's redemption price 3,500 yuan was wrongly written as 12,000 gold, and Wang Xiying bought Yang Cuixi only because there was a lack of a sweeping girl in the family, and she did not intend to curry favor with the powerful...
This... this... this is a ghost!
Obviously, Yuan Shikai put pressure on the media and forced the media to make corrections...
Then how to investigate this case?
I can only catch that girl Yang Cuixi and ask what happened.
Furious, Prince Jin went aggressively to the home of wealthy businessman Wang Xiying to arrest Yang Cuixi, and wanted to interrogate him personally to obtain her confession.
The result of the interrogation by Prince Chun is that there is such a strange thing in the files of the Qing court. There is also a bright red handprint:
Yang Cuixi sold to Wang Wu as a handmaid
The presenter, Yang Cuixi, stated the facts for the facts:
Stealing himself to sing an opera in Tianxian Tea Garden, in the early February of Guangxu thirty-three years, Wang Wuye told his mother that he would buy it for 3,500 yuan and use it as a maid.Shen Sui stopped performing at Tianxian Tea Garden on the third day of the lunar new year and returned to Dong'an County on the fourth day of the new year.Returned to Tianjin on the tenth day of the lunar new year and temporarily lived in the building of Wang Wuye's Japanese Concession.On March 18th, he returned to Wang Wuye's residence to serve, and what he had was true, and there was no harm of falsehood.For this reason, I begged the imperial envoy to check and implement it.
Presenter Yang Cuixi (in charge)
March 29th, Guangxu Thirty-three Years
Holding this strange page, Prince Jin really wanted to cry.
Yang Cuixi refused to recruit, what else can you do?
Waiting for the big punishment - it's better to avoid it, don't make troubles, everyone go back to Beijing.
The Empress Dowager Cixi was delighted after hearing Prince Jin's report: I knew this was the case, and that Zhao Qilin was immediately dismissed as a warning.
But the matter was not over yet, seeing that even Prince Chun was protecting Yuan Shikai, the censors were in an uproar, so Jiang Chunlin walked out and questioned the investigation team:
The story of buying and presenting a singing girl began in a Tianjin newspaper, and Wang Xiying was a rich businessman in Tianjin, and Yang Cuixi was a famous courtesan in Tianjin. If they bought it as a maid in early February, the newspaper office is close at hand, so why misreported it?Handmaiden, another name for maidservant, buying a maidservant in Tianjin is worth tens to hundreds of gold, nothing more expensive, and Wang Xiying bought a maidservant for 3,500 yuan, she is so foolish.Yang Cuixi's beauty and art are intoxicated for a while, why is she willing to act as a maid?And if you are not good at labor, how can you be a maid?People can be deceived, can heaven be deceived?
Jiang Chunlin's letter was well organized, fresh in writing, accurate in argumentation, and upright. It would be even better if he could produce some more evidence.
However, Prince Chun just couldn't get evidence.
Not only Prince Chun couldn't get the evidence, but the upright censors couldn't get it either. The most undisputed thing about everyone's memorial is that Zhen Guogong Zaize did stay in Tianjin, and he was watching Yang Cuixi's performance. At the time, it was indeed drooling... But for everything behind, everyone can only rely on logical reasoning, but no matter how thorough your reasoning is, without factual evidence, no one can do anything against Yuan Shikai.
In fact, there is such a thing as evidence, in a place that no one can imagine.