We can often see in movies or TV series that the eldest brother commits a crime and needs the younger brother to take the blame in the underworld.
Every time the eldest brother will say: "The day you are released from prison is when you become the eldest brother."
How many people have become big brothers?
In fact, it is not all the gangsters who like to use this method.
During the late Qing Dynasty, foreigners were murdered in China.
In order to calm the anger of foreigners, the late Qing government often failed to find the murderer.
Make the people take the blame.
There is a church at the mouth of the Sancha River in Tianjin, which the people call Wanghailou Church.
This church was built by French missionaries in the early years.
It was used for missionary work.
It also took in abandoned children and established an orphanage and a school for the blind for blind children.
It did a lot of good things.
At that time, ordinary people were closed-minded and believed that as long as they opposed foreigners, they were patriotic.
They always felt that foreigners had no good intentions.
Among the missionaries were two female priests who knew some medical skills and often went to poor people's homes to treat them.
Ignorant people thought they were taking things from the patients to prepare medicines.
Not long after the church was built, child abduction and trafficking occurred in both urban and rural areas.
I don’t know if it was a rumor or if it was true.
People gathered in groups to make trouble in the church.
They never thought that this trouble would be trivial.
They discovered a large number of blind children.
They thought this was the abducted child with his eyes gouged out.
In a rage, they burned the church and killed eighteen missionaries.
At that time, another female priest was practicing medicine outside, but she did not escape the disaster.
This incident caused a great sensation.
France was very dissatisfied with this and wanted an explanation from the Qing government.
This frightened Cixi and sent the imperial envoy to Tianjin to deal with the matter.
The traces of burning were still there, but the murderer did not know who it was.
The imperial envoy was worried that he would be convicted, so he asked the general to find a hero to take the blame.
The phenomenon of "taking the blame" is very common in Tianjin.
When wealthy families commit crimes, they find gangsters to take the blame.
They will pay a large sum of money to the family of the guilty person, but the crime will not lead to death.
Later, after the guilty person is released from prison, he becomes Becoming rich has become a relatively common phenomenon.
The commander-in-chief hired eighteen carpenters to take the blame, and each family would receive two hundred taels of gold.
But when the imperial envoy gave the order to kill for life, all eighteen people were dumbfounded.
Secretly, the imperial envoy persuaded them, saying: "The culprits are all heroes, and it is well known that killing people must pay for their lives.
If no one in China pays for their lives, foreigners will laugh at the fact that China has no heroes.
Tianjin is a place that produces heroes.
How can we be greedy for life and afraid of death?"
Lose your reputation."
More than a dozen people were deceived, and they all said they were willing to die to protect the dignity of the country.
During the execution, more than a dozen people joked and died calmly, and France calmed down.
The imperial envoy completed the tasks assigned by Cixi and was greatly rewarded and promoted to a higher rank.
But all of these eighteen people died unjustly: