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In the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Shi Xiangzhen led his troops to attack Anhui. At this time, in the area of Huaihe , the Nian Army , saw the opportunity and took advantage of it and surrounded the Hefei County Government.
At that time, there was an acting magistrate of Hefei County Government, named Ma Xinyi . He was a very scheming person and usually trained the army, so he was not panicked when the Nian Army came, and calmly commanded the village warriors to attack the Nian Army.
Ma Xinyi relied on the strong city wall and repelled the crazy attack of thousands of Nian Army.
The leader of the Nian Army Zhang Zhicheng could not capture it for a long time and was very anxious. At this moment, a member of the twig was about to stand up. This man's name is Zhang Wenxiang, and he asked to lead the suicide squad to charge.
Zhang Zhicheng knew that Zhang Wenxiang was a brave and knowledgeable person, so he agreed happily.
So, Zhang Wenxiang took 200 suicide squadrons with bare hands, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand to attack the city.
Ma Xinyi on the city wall was desperate to shoot an arrow, but Zhang Wenxiang and his suicide squads came down to earth like heavenly soldiers. They fought to the death to buy explosives under the city wall.
There was only a loud bang, and a gap was blown up by the city wall. Zhang Wenxiang attacked the city with a knife, and the local brave men led by Ma Xinyi could not resist the defeat and fled in all directions.
Ma Xinyi was a literati. He knew that running away would mean death, so he simply waited to die, so he was captured by the Nian Army.
Twisting the troops brought Ma Xinyi to Zhang Wenxiang. He saw that the county magistrate had a fair face. He was a literati. Although he could not have martial arts, he had some courage, so he respected him a little.
After the Niang army attacked the city, they snatched a large amount of property and returned the troops. That night, Zhang Wenxiang took Ma Xinyi to his residence. Not only did he not kill him, he also had delicious food and drinks to entertain him.
Ma Xinyi was eloquent. Seeing that Zhang Wenxiang was quite real, he persuaded him with kind words and promised him to do it anyway.
Zhang Wenxiang is a loyal person, and Ma Xinyi's words made him very moved. So, after drinking, he introduced his two brothers Cao Erhu and Shi Jinbiao to Ma Xinyi.
Ma Xinyi wanted to surrender them, so he joined these three people to form sworn brothers of the opposite sex.
Zhang Wenxiang was very happy to hold a drink and congratulate him. So the four of them sang cups and drank very happily. After the banquet, Zhang Wenxiang asked Ma Xinyi to speak more and more in front of the governor and recruit his subordinates, and Ma Xinyi happily agreed. So Zhang Wenxiang released Ma Xinyi back.
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After Ma Xinyi died and was resurrected and returned to the Qing camp, he told the matter to the governor Tang Zongcheng. Tang Zongcheng immediately agreed.
So Zhang Wenxiang, Cao Erhu and Shi Jinbiao led their troops to surrender to the Qing army. Tang Zongcheng appointed these three men as sentry officers, led by Ma Xinyi.
Ma Xinyi is a good speculative person. He has a close relationship with Suzhou Prince Qiao Songnian. Soon after Qiao Songnian was promoted to the governor of Anhui, he recommended Ma Xinyi to the court as the governor of Anhui and the office of the camp.
Soon after, the court approved it. So Ma Xinyi took office and went to Anqing . In this way, the brothers Zhang Wenxiang and Cao Erhu also accompanied him to work in the Anqing Fansi Office. The brothers gathered together when they had nothing to do, and their relationship was very harmonious.
A year later, Cao Erhu wanted to take his family from the countryside to Anqing and settle in an idle house behind the vassal department.
But at this time, Zhang Wenxiang had already felt that Ma Xinyi's feelings for their brothers were becoming increasingly indifferent, and he was quite disdainful to intercourse with them. Therefore, Zhang Wenxiang advised Cao Erhu not to bring his family.
But Cao Erhu refused to listen, so he went to ask Ma Xinyi to place his family in the vassal department.
At that time, Ma Xinyi's wife also lived in the vassal department. Therefore, Cao's wife always went to the Ma's house to greet Mrs. Ma. After a while, she went to the two families and got along very well.
Cao Erhu's wife is very beautiful, and Ma Xinyi salivates him. Cao's wife often came to her house, which gave Ma Xinyi a chance.
On this day, Ma Xinyi sent his wife away and then teased Cao's wife. Cao's wife is also a man of aphrodisiac, so the two of them hooked up and became a gangster. In this way, Cao Erhu became an obstacle to their affair.
In order to occupy Cao's wife, Ma Xinyi often sent Cao Erhu on business trips, and the ones given to him were all beautiful men.
But does not have an airtight wall . Over time, their scandal spread. After Zhang Wenxiang found out, he told Cao Erhu.
But Cao Erhu still doesn't believe it. Later, she believed it when she heard people pointing fingers behind her back.
Cao Erhu couldn't help but become furious when he learned that his wife had cheated on her and wanted to kill her. Zhang Wenxiang hurriedly persuaded him, "Catch the offender and get two. If you only kill your wife, you will have to pay your life. It's better to give her to Ma Xinyi and do personal favors."
Cao Erhu followed Zhang Wenxiang's advice and found an opportunity to tell Ma Xinyi that he would give his wife to him.
Who knew that when Ma Xinyi heard this, he was furious and shouted loudly: "It's really nonsense. Do you know what the crime is that you insulted a dignified national official?"
Cao Erhu asked for something boring and came out to tell Zhang Wenxiang. Zhang Wenxiang immediately said, "Your disaster is not far away. Why not go far away and get out of this place of right and wrong!" Cao Erhu hesitated.
On this day, Ma Xinyi sent Cao Erhu to the Shouchun General Army Office to collect arms. Cao Erhu was very happy after receiving the order and told Zhang Wenxiang about this.
Zhang Wenxiang said, "I'm afraid there will be an unexpected accident when you go here. Shi Jinbiao and I will escort you there!"
So, Zhang Wenxiang and Shi Jinbiao escorted Zhang Wenxiang, and the three of them set off together. They walked all the way to Shouzhou , and no accidents happened along the way. Shi Jinbiao teased Zhang Wenxiang for being too suspicious. Zhang Wenxiang remained silent.
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After Cao Erhu and his brothers arrived at the General yamen, Cao Erhu entered the yamen himself. He handed over a document to request a visit to the General yamen.
At this time, a guard came out to lead Cao Erhu to the hall. When Cao Erhu saw that there was no one in the hall, he was a little confused.
At this moment, suddenly, an officer walked out of the big tent. He held an arrow and shouted: "Tie the bandit-torn bandit Cao Erhu for me!"
Cao Erhu was shocked and was about to defend. Then Xu Zun walked out of it.
Cao Erhu shouted unjustly. Xu Zun sneered and said, " Lord Ma just sent you to leave, and someone told you to have an affair with Nian bandits and to use arms to help them. Now there is a document here, so there is no need to defend yourself! Come and take him down and behead him.
Several warriors tied up Cao Erhu five flowers without saying a word, and then took him to the backyard to behead him.
Zhang Wenxiang and Shi Jinbiao waited for two hours, but did not see Cao Erhu come out, so he asked the guard. The guard said indifferently that Cao Erhu was a robber and had been beheaded.
Zhang Wenxiang and Shi Jinbiao were stunned when he heard this. He paused his feet and beat his chest and cried and said, "Brother, it's brother that he has harmed you! "Then he said to Shi Jinbiao: "If you don't take this revenge, you will not be a human being."
But Shi Jinbiao remained silent, and Zhang Wenxiang understood what he meant. So he said, "We brothers, you are so unfriendly, okay! I will do this alone!"
Zhang Wenxiang and Shi Jinbiao came to the backyard and found Cao Erhu's body. After burying his body, the two broke up. Shi Jinbiao returned to the military camp, but Zhang Wenxiang didn't know where he went.
Shi Jinbiao returned to Anqing, Ma Xinyi learned that Zhang Wenxiang had resigned and left, and did not care. Shi Jinbiao knew that there was no good fruit under Ma Xinyi. So he defected to his fellow villager Shanxi Censor Li Qingao . Li Qingao led his troops to station in Hejin County, and at that time he was in charge of the defense of the Yellow River.
Li Qingao asked Shi Jinbiao to make for the sake of his fellow villagers.
On this day, Li Qingao sent Shi Jinbiao to inspect the defense status of the 11th Battalion of the Naval Division in the River. After receiving the news, these battalions held a banquet on the river bank to entertain Shi Jinbiao.
Shi Jinbiao and everyone were drinking, suddenly a fast horse came from a distance, and an officer sat upright. He came to Shi Jinbiao and reached out to hand him a governor's order, saying that the Governor of Liangjiang had an urgent matter to ask him to return to the camp as soon as possible.
Shi Jinbiao was a little surprised because Ma Xinyi had just been transferred to the Governor of Liangjiang, and he didn't know why Ma Xinyi, the new official, was looking for him? What urgent matters?
Shi Jinbiao rushed to the Liangjiang Governor's Office uneasy. When he saw that it was not Ma Xinyi sitting in the lobby, but the general of the guard and supervisor Kuiyu .
Before Shi Jinbiao could visit, Kuiyu ordered his left and right to tie him up and then dismissed him from his post as a military officer. At this time, Shi Jinbiao realized that something had happened that alarmed the court, and later he died in the frontier.
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It turns out that after Ma Xinyi was transferred to the position of Governor General of Liangjiang, he lived in the Jiangning Prefect's Office because the Governor's Office had not been rebuilt yet.
There is a small path next to the yamen to the back school military ground. Ma Xinyi is preparing to inspect the military soldiers here.
That morning, Ma Xinyi finished inspecting the troops and just stood up and walked out of his seat. Suddenly, a man held up his complaint and shouted injustice.
As soon as Ma Xinyi heard this, he ordered the guard to bring the complainant.
Ma Xinyi took the complaint and was about to see it, suddenly, Zhang Wenxiang, who was mixed in the middle of the soldiers, rushed to Ma Xinyi's side. He raised a sharp knife and stabbed him into his left rib. The knife was not pulled out, and there was no bleeding.
Ma Xinyi saw that it was Zhang Wenxiang and shouted in pain: "So it's you." Then he said to the guards on both sides, "Don't make things difficult for him." After that, he fell to the ground with a plop.
The guards hurriedly carried him back to the bedroom, and then they saw that Ma Xinyi was dead.
After Zhang Wenxiang assassinated Ma Xinyi, he did not escape, but stood still. At this time, the army came up to catch the people who were crying for justice and questioned them. Zhang Wenxiang shouted: "Don't be wronged by others. I am the one who assassinated Ma Xinyi. I will never run away!" After that, he surrendered.
The newly appointed governor of Liangjiang was assassinated, and the news soon reached the Jiangning Prefecture Office. Officials from various prefectures and counties rushed over after hearing the news. The vassal Mei Qizhao ordered Zhang Wenxiang to be detained first.
Early the next morning, Jiangning Prefect Sun Yunjin, and Yuanshi County Zhang Kaiqi and Jiangning magistrate Xiao Fei formed an interrogation team to start interrogation of Zhang Wenxiang.
Zhang Wenxiang was taken to the lobby, and he told the grudges between him and Ma Xinyi in its original form.
Zhang Wenxiang said: "Ma Xinyi is a person with a beastly heart. He occupied Cao Erhu's wife and pretended to be a gentleman on the surface. He secretly wanted to get rid of Cao Erhu. Since my brother was killed by Ma Xinyi, I have been secretly following Ma Xinyi for several years. I made two daggers with steel and then used poison to quench them. Every time it was late at night, I folded the cowhide into four or five layers, and then stabbed it with a dagger to practice wrist strength.
at the beginning, even one layer could not be pierced, so I insisted on practicing every day, spring, summer, autumn, winter, wind and rain. This practice is to prevent him from wearing it in winter. The thick leather-clothed knife could not be stabbed in.
When Ma Xinyi became the governor of Zhejiang, I met him once in Hangzhou Chenghuangshan , but at that time, because of the many guards around him, I could not find a chance to start. Until today, my wish was finally come true. "
Zhang Wenxiang confessed again and said, "The reason why I knew that Ma Xinyi's military parade at the school military field was revealed to him by a mysterious person who did not show up, and said that he would help him arrange to sneak into the army.
But the governor of Jiangning Sun Yunjin knew: "The governor reviewed the school military field, and the school military field was closed and not allowed to enter and exit. On the day Zhang Wenxiang's assassination, the school military ground was open to the public and a large number of ordinary people came in. Therefore, he succeeded in taking advantage of the chaos. Who is the mysterious character behind this?
Zhang Wenxiang has clear ideas, clear organization, and is well-known. After hearing the pre-examination of two magistrates in the
, they were very shocked and did not dare to write down his confession in detail.
The next day, two county officials asked Mei Qizhao for instructions.Mei Qizhao said: "You can't report it to the truth. You have to ask him to change his confession. It was a thief in the Yangtze River and revenge with revenge."
So two county officials came to the prison. They used both soft and hard work to ask Zhang Wenxiang to change his confession, but he just refused to change his confession.
The two county magistrates were furious and ordered Zhang Wenxiang to be punished, beating him to death, but he would rather die than surrender than change his confession.
Mei Qizhao saw Zhang Wenxiang look dead as if he was home, and knew that it was useless to interrogate him. So he reported to the acting governor of Liangjiang Kui Yu, "Zhang Wenxiang is a robber. He has a grudge between him and Ma Xinyi, so he assassinated him!"
So Kui Yu replied to the court as Mei Qizhao said. This incident alarmed the Emperor Tongzhi . Because it was not a trivial matter to walk the laid of Liangjiang Governor, he sent the Grand Secretary Zheng Dunjin to investigate the ministers.
Zheng Dunjin knew that before he came, the court sent the governor of the grain transportation Zhang Zhiwan to investigate. When Zhang Zhiwan heard that Zhang Wenxiang was a thief, he was afraid that he would be in danger, so he sent more than 200 soldiers to protect him and came to Jiangning. But Zhang Wenxiang would rather die than surrender, and he returned in vain.
So this time Zheng Dunjin arrived in Jiangning for interrogation, and he prepared a set of plans in advance. However, Zhang Wenxiang's confession was still the same as before, without changing a word.
Zheng Dunjin had no choice but to follow the requests of the officials in Jiangning and make a decision with robbers to retaliate against revenge.
Yan Siguan, who was responsible for taking notes, knew that they were cheating and abandoned their posts and returned to their hometown after the case was completed. Zheng Dunjin also said he had returned to Beijing with illness.
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3 days after Ma Xinyi was stabbed to death, it was reported that a concubine was hanged in the Ma family. It was said that she was secretly buried in the back garden without using a coffin. The person who committed suicide was Cao Erhu's wife.
Zhang Wenxiang’s case of assassination was also closed after more than three months. Emperor Tongzhi approved the execution of Zhang Wenxiang and Lingchi.
On the day Zhang Wenxiang was executed, Ma Xinyi's younger brother and Zhejiang alternate magistrate Ma Si personally served as the prison officer.
Early in the morning, he ordered people to propose Zhang Wenxiang from the prison of Jiangning Xiaoying to take him to the execution ground. After arriving at the execution ground, several warriors took Zhang Wenxiang, covered in blood, to the execution ground, and then tied him to the pillar.
At this time, Ma Si was a very cruel and cruel person. He gritted his teeth and pulled out a sharp knife he customized from his waist, a steel hook, and ordered the executioner to use the hook hook to hook the flesh on Zhang Wenxiang's body bit by bit, and then chop it up with a knife.
The torture lasted from 7 a.m. to 14 p.m. It took six or seven hours to cut off the flesh on Zhang Wenxiang's body, and finally cut off his stomach and heart to pay homage to Ma Xinyi.
Zhang Wenxiang is a tough guy, he never said anything from beginning to end.
After Zhang Wenxiang's death, his son was castrated and sent to Heilongjiang as a slave. The case ends here. But the case is not simple.
So who is the mastermind behind it? The officials of the court gathered one character, Prince Chun, , Yihuan, . Yihuan was a representative of the anti-foreign ancestral court. He hated Ma Xinyi, who protected the foreign ancestral ancestral, the most, so he secretly arranged for the general Kuiyu to find the assassin.
Kuiyu soon found his brother who was accused of Cao Erhu, because after Cao Erhu was murdered by Ma Xinyi, Zhang Wenxiang disappeared.
So Kuiyu found Zhang Wenxiang through his subordinates, and bribed him with a lot of money, asking him to assassinate Ma Xinyi.
Afterwards, Empress Dowager Cixi casually said to the case officer: "You are all old ministers, what case has not been tried? Your conclusion is the conclusion of this case!"
Empress Dowager Cixi's attitude was ambiguous, and Zeng Guofan was also confused, so she decided to follow the original case file.
Later, some people speculated that the instructor behind the assassination of Ma Xinyi was Zeng Guoquan , because his brother Zeng Guofan was discharged from his army and returning to the field at that time, Ma Xinyi's become the Governor of Erjiang was the biggest obstacle to Zeng Guofan's comeback. Therefore, Zeng Guoquan designed to let Cao Erhu's wife lure Ma Xinyi and use the beauty trick, and then Zhang Wenxiang assassinated Ma Xinyi to get rid of the stumbling blocks.After Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the Governor General of Liangjiang was vacant, and Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Zeng Guofan, who was unemployed at home, to return to serve as Governor General of Liangjiang. The case is full of fog, and in the end, I didn't understand the person behind it.
But Ma Xinyi was retribution. His younger brother Ma Si later returned to Zhejiang. The people hated him so cruelly and cursed him behind his back. His boss was also very rude to him, and soon he died of depression.
, Ma Xinyi's grave in his hometown Heze was breached by the Yellow River several years later, and the grave was also destroyed by floods. Is this retribution or a mystery of fate?
