According to legend, when Cao Xuequan became an official, the upper levels of the Ming Dynasty were in chaos, and officials protected each other, killing and oppressing the people, and the people complained bitterly. Even a servant of a political power can use his master's influence to fish for the village. Cao Xuequan not only heard of these corrupt situations, but even hated them, and always wanted to punish such bad situations.
At that time, the upper class was no longer satisfied with cockfighting. Dog fighting was the most popular at that time. Once, a servant of the royal family had nothing to do, and as usual, he wanted to hurt people and took pleasure in it. He thought so and did so. The fighting dog pounced on a helpless scholar and bit at will. Passers-by were scared away and stunned, but there was nothing to help him. At this time, a pig killer rushed out and began to cut off the dog's head, saving the scholar's life.
When the slave saw this, he quit at once. The life of a scholar is none of his business, but the life of a dog is precious. At that time, he sent the pig killer to the government, wanted to seek compensation and sentenced the butcher to death. Cao Xuequan and Cao Xuequan tried the case, and they wanted to scare people by punishing them. Make an example of others? He was immediately acquitted of killing pigs, and he also had to compensate the scholar for medical expenses. The elite felt that he had lost face and decided to bribe the scholar to change his confession and bite the butcher who killed the pig. The scholar was greedy for gold, silver and jewels, but afraid of his own power, so he gave in.
When he appeared in court again, the scholar retorted that he was a friend of the royal family and was having fun fighting dogs. It was the pig killer who deliberately killed the fighting dog. Cao Xuequan was very disappointed with the scholar, so he imposed a severe punishment. The scholar couldn't bear it. He told the truth about his bribery and revealed the truth to the world.
Cao Xuequan also got angry and said? Every time you kill a dog, you are a scholar. This famous sentence is used to express feelings for people who are humble but can help with righteousness, such as butchers, and people who are afraid of death and distort the facts, such as literati who have read a lot of poems.