World’s Mysteries

In fact, there are more than eight of the top ten mysteries in the world

1. Jack the Ripper (1888)

August 7, 1888 On the same day, the Whitechapel murder occurred in the East End of London, England. A prostitute had her throat slit with a sharp knife and died from 39 stab wounds to her body. In the next two months, a number of consecutive murders targeting prostitutes and using the same brutal methods continued to occur in the East End, causing panic among local residents and shocking the Scotland Yard in London.

The East End of London at that time was actually a mixed bag, where poor people, gangsters and prostitutes gathered. The public security situation was poor for a long time. The London police were also frustrated because they had no clue about this series of murders. be blamed.

The key to the sudden turn of the case came at the end of September of the same year. At that time, a newspaper received a letter signed "Jack the Ripper" (Jack the Ripper). The content was written in red ink. The letter clearly stated that he He is the real murderer of the serial murders since Whitechapel, and his fingerprints are stamped on the letter. I received the second letter in early October. Judging from the wording used in the letter, it appears that it was written by the same person and is full of provocation.

As a result, after extensive disclosure by the media, Jack the Ripper became a mysterious lurker feared by all British people. In the foggy London, there is an elusive and bloodthirsty murderer hidden.

Jack the Ripper's murderous activities did not stop, and then he committed the last tragic case - Mary. Mary Kelly murder. Mary. Kaili was found dismembered and dead in a rental house by her landlord on November 9. Not only was her uterus removed by caesarean section, the murderer also cut off her ears and nose, removed her breasts, and arranged these organs into a human face. appearance.

The police determined that Mary was brutally tortured for more than three hours before her death. However, just when the police believed that Jack the Ripper was about to carry out a more brutal and larger-scale murder plan, Jack's actions were halted and he disappeared forever, leaving the world with endless suspicion. However, the most consistent statement is that Jack is a doctor.

2. The Ax Murderer in New Orleans (1918-1919)

This may be a white man who seems to have a special hatred for Italian grocery stores. He killed at least eight Italian grocers. He would always pry open the door at night, and then use an ax to hack the people sleeping inside to death. But such murders stopped completely by October 1919 - perhaps because the man with the ax was dead - no one knows what the motive for his murders was, but it was obviously not for money.

3. The Murderer in the Moonlight (1946)

This incident was included in the "Murder Encyclopedia". The book called the murderer a "sexual sadist", but There seems to be no evidence for this. In the first half of 1946, three men and two women were murdered in small towns in Arkansas. They were all murdered on the night of a full moon. A few days after the last murder, a highly suspected man threw himself on the railroad tracks and committed suicide.

4. Cleveland's "Headless" Murderer (1933-1937)

This must be a very powerful guy. Each time he acted, he would kill two people at the same time, then chop their bodies into pieces, mix them together, and just take away their heads! The same murders suddenly stopped in 1937, and it is possible that the murderer voluntarily moved into the Entered a mental hospital. (The famous police chief Elliot Ness was responsible for investigating the case.) According to analysis, the murderer may live in a house in a quiet neighborhood. He certainly has a car, but it is very likely that he does not have a wife and children - — Or a homosexual.

5. Lizzie Boughton (1892)

Many people believe that Lizzie carried out the murder. Although she never admitted it, the jury also concluded that she Conclusion of innocence.

Lizzie Boughton was a 32-year-old girl who was accused of killing her father and stepmother with a knife. Although she was eventually acquitted, it was known that she had always harbored a grudge against her stepmother, and that the day before the murder she had predicted what would happen.

6. The Brighton Truck Murder Case (1934)

This is also one of the most mysterious murder cases. It should have been able to be solved, but it has not been solved to this day. Still a mystery. On June 17, 1934, a smell wafted from a truck parked next to Brighton railway station aroused people's suspicions. The police found the body of a woman inside. She was in her 20s. Judging from her clothing, she was obviously an upper-class girl, and she was 3 months pregnant. Despite the efforts of police across the UK, the identity of the deceased has never been confirmed. Her body was also smeared with olive oil to prevent bleeding. It seemed that the murderer was a person who knew medicine. There is evidence that the truck crossed London Bridge. The police investigated for many years but found neither clues about the murderer nor the identity of the deceased, although both of them may have belonged to the "leisure class." And not knowing the identity of the deceased seems even more discouraging. Later, people described the case as "the perfect murder."

7. The Missing Page Mystery (1947)

The case that occurred in Los Angeles in January 1947 is very interesting from a psychological point of view. The murder was very cruel - the body was cut into two parts from the waist, and the murdered girl (Elizabeth Short) was hung upside down and subjected to all kinds of humiliation when she was alive. The police never found the murderer. In fact, the murderer sent an address book of the deceased to the police station after the incident, and the police investigated everyone in it, but to no avail. Finally, the police discovered that a page in the address book had been torn out.

8. The Wallace Case (1931)

The murder of Julia Wallace reads very much like a detective story. On this day, Wallace received a mysterious phone call, saying it was from the chess club and asking him to visit someone at a certain address. After Mr. Wallace left, his wife was brutally murdered in their home, and the motive for the murder could not be determined. The place where Wallace went was a fake address. Wallace was also tried, but a London court found him not guilty. Some murder experts now believe Mrs Wallace's murderer is still alive, probably still living in London.

9. The Mysterious Case in Melbourne (1953)

On September 12, 1953, Shirley Collins, a 14-year-old girl living in Melbourne, Australia, was invited to attend her first An adult party. The boy who invited her made an appointment with her to meet at Richmond Station at 8pm, not far from Melbourne. But she didn't get there. Her naked body was found the next morning 40 miles outside Melbourne. She was beaten to death with a beer bottle. Although her clothes were in pieces, there were no signs of rape. The mystery of this case is: What happened in the 10 hours between when her mother sent her to the bus station at 7pm and when her body was found the next morning? Because she was a quiet and shy girl, she was determined to Wouldn't follow a stranger away. On the other hand, before she said goodbye to her mother, she once said that she was going to West Richmond Station to meet her boyfriend Ron. West Richmond Station and Richmond Station are two completely different places, so she might have gone to the wrong place. But even so, people still have to ask, since she didn't wait for her boyfriend, why didn't she get back in the car quickly?

10. The Case of the Naked Female Corpse in the Thames (1959-1965)

The newspaper referred to the perpetrator as "Jack who stripped the body of clothes". This case took place from June 1959 to 1965. What happened in London in February 2001 was that all the deceased were prostitutes, and they were all strangled to death by suffocation. There was continued speculation that the murderer was the famous boxer Fred Mills, who died shortly after the murder was aborted. The murderer apparently acted alone, driving around London in a caravan.

In one case, police traced the body to where it had been - in a warehouse in an industrial area of ??London - but the trail ended there. The police sergeant in charge of this case, named John Ross, was convinced that the murderer had committed suicide after the last murder. He also hinted that the identity of the murderer had been identified, but the case was never revealed to the world.

There are also Chinese ones:

Four Mysteries of the Qing Palace

1. The Empress Dowager’s Marriage

The Empress Dowager’s Marriage is the Empress Dowager’s Marriage Regent. The Queen Mother refers to the concubine of Emperor Taizong Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty and the biological mother of Shizu Fulin. She died in the 26th year of Kangxi (1687) and was posthumously named Empress Xiaozhuangwen; the Regent refers to the regent Prince Rui Dorgon. Empress Xiaozhuangwen was Dorgon's brother and sister-in-law. According to Han people's moral concepts, it was a very dishonorable and uncivilized thing. In the Qing Dynasty, this was kept secret, and no clear records could be found.

However, there is a sentence in "The Collected Poems of Cang Shui" published in the late Qing Dynasty: "The longevity is called the Hexinzun, and the Cining Palace is full of doors; the Spring Palace entered the new ceremony yesterday, and the Queen Mother's wedding was celebrated with a great ceremony." That is to say, it refers to the Queen Mother's marriage. The author of the poem, Zhang Huangyan, was born in the early Qing Dynasty, at the same time as Dorgon, so what he said should have its roots. According to "Records of the Lee Dynasty of Joseon" in February of the 27th year of Renjo (1649, the sixth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), there was also "Emperor Father and Regent Dorgon" who removed the word "uncle" and changed his name to "Emperor Father" The record indirectly revealed that Dorgon said that the emperor's father "has become the Supreme Emperor" and was symmetrical to the Queen Mother, which was a circumstantial evidence of the Queen Mother's marriage. What's more, Dorgon's change of name to "Emperor Father" was not only clearly recorded in "Qing Shi Lu" and Jiang Liangji's "Dong Hua Lu", but also in many archives and announcements that were circulated to this day. It is written as regent, and above the regent, it is either titled "imperial uncle" or "imperial father".

Let us not forget another fact: although the nature of society before Manchuria entered the customs had rapidly transitioned from slavery to feudalism, the backward customs of the Jurchens long ago, such as brother marrying brother, It is not surprising that some remnants of the group marriage system among wives, aunts, nephews and daughters-in-law continued into the early years after entering the customs. So, it can be believed that the Queen Mother got married.

2. Shunzhi became a monk

Historical records indicate that on August 19, the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), the imperial concubine Dong E passed away. The ancestor was deeply mourned for his blessing, and he stayed away from the court for five days. Immediately, an edict was issued to posthumously confer the title of queen. Dong E was just a noble concubine, so why did he give her a posthumous title and make her queen?

Some people then spread rumors, saying that this concubine was Dong Xiaowan, a concubine who came to the border area in the late Ming Dynasty. When the Qing army entered the pass, she was plundered to the capital, and later entered the palace and was given the surname Dong E. , and then she was appointed as a noble concubine. Unexpectedly, Dong died unexpectedly after entering the palace. However, Shizu's favor with Concubine Dong Guifei was unparalleled in the Sixth Palace. She was a beautiful woman but had a poor life, which made Shizu depressed all day long. Within a few months, he abandoned the emperor and fled to Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province. He cut his hair and wore it, and converted to the Pure Land. The above is the origin of Shunzhi becoming a monk. This has been passed down from generation to generation. Is it true?

First of all, we should admit that the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty was blessed to be a good Buddha. There were two Zen masters, Mu Chen, Yulin and Wang Xiu in the palace, who treated him with utmost respect and courtesy. Shizu's seal has titles such as "Chenyin Taoist", "Lazy Old Man", and "Crazy Taoist". He also decreed to Mu Chen, "I hope that the old monk will not regard me as the emperor, but treat me as a disciple of the sect in the nunnery." It is a fact that Shizu believed in Buddhism and no one can deny it.

Secondly, a few months before Shizu's death coincided with the death of Dong E, the queen of Xiaoxian. Shizu was so sad that he was amazed by the world. Therefore, some people think that Shizu became tired of the world due to mourning his death, and finally escaped from the dusty net and escaped into Buddhism. Since then, it has been passed down as a legend of "Eternal Love for the Emperor". This is inconsistent with historical facts. Yes, because Shizu loved Buddhism, he did have the idea of ????asking for blessings and becoming a monk before his death. But in fact, a few days before his death, he just asked his favorite eunuch Wu Liangfu to go to Minzhong Temple (today's Fayuan Temple in Guang'anmen, Beijing) to have his hair cut, and he himself went to watch it in person. This also shows that Shizu was not seriously ill at that time. So, how did Shizu die? According to Wang Xi’s "Wang Wenjing Collection· Self-written Chronicle" written by the person involved, "I was summoned to the Yangxin Hall and told: I am suffering from acne and I will not be able to survive.

"Zhang Chen's "Qing Wang Zhou Ji" also said: "People were told not to fry beans, not to light lamps, and not to splash water. Only then did they realize that the disease was acne." "The records of the two men are completely consistent and can be confirmed by each other. This clearly tells us that since Shizu died of acne, then the statement that he escaped to Mount Wutai and became a monk is not credible.

3. Yongzheng was assassinated

There are different opinions on the reasons for the sudden death of Zong Yinzhen in the Qing Dynasty. Some say that he was assassinated. Is this theory credible?

It’s a long story. It originated from the case of Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi in the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729). Zeng Jing admired the character of Lu Liuliang, a late Ming Dynasty man, and took it as his duty to arrange for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, so he sent his disciple Zhang. Xi Gui sent a letter to Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, to persuade him to do justice for his ancestor (Yue Fei), but failed. He was imprisoned and resigned, and Lu Liuliang was severely punished. On beheading. Legend has it that Lu Liuliang had a surviving granddaughter named Lu Siniang. Her swordsmanship was the best among her peers, and she was determined to avenge her father. Later, she sneaked into the palace and finally stabbed Shizong to death and cut off his head. Then he carried it and ran away.

The good people said that based on the records of Ertai's biography, it was said that in the morning of the day of Sejong's sudden death, he "looked at the court as if it were eternity and had no pain." In the afternoon of that day, Ertai was suddenly summoned to the palace, and the news of Shizong's violent collapse was spreading all over the city. Ertai immediately "entered the court, his horse could not be saddled, and he had to ride on the horse. His patella was worn out and he was bleeding." After entering the palace, he stayed for three days and nights before leaving, and he had not even had a meal." People believed that at that time, the world was at peace and the emperor succeeded (Hongli, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, ascended the throne at the age of 25), so there was no big deal to make this happen. Such panic. This only shows that the theory that Shizong was assassinated is not unreasonable.

It is necessary to distinguish between real people and rumors. Lu Liuliang and others were involved in the case of Zeng Jing and Zhang Xi. These are real people and real events, and they are historical facts; but the mention of a granddaughter of Lu Liuliang is a legend, not a historical fact. The date of Shizong's death is a fact, but there is no explicit record of his death, and it is just a legend. , it cannot be confirmed yet.

The above-mentioned biography of Ertai describes the story of the Ecang Emperor's reign, which seems to be true, but at least it is recorded in official history. There are no such records in books such as "Records of the Qing Dynasty", "Biographies of the Qing Dynasty", and "Manuscripts of the History of the Qing Dynasty". Of course, the absence of written records does not mean that there is no such thing; and it cannot be confirmed to this day. This may be confirmed; even if Ertai's rush to court is true, it cannot prove that Shizong was definitely assassinated, because there is no necessary internal connection between the two.

Shizong himself. If you are good at Buddhism and Taoism, you will "befriend many swordsmen and warriors", and it is said that you "became brothers to thirteen people". It is not necessarily credible that the emperor became brothers. But if you are good at Buddhism and Taoism, you will be able to make elixirs. There may be a way to seek longevity. It is also possible to swallow pills to seek longevity. There are precedents for the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty.

Some people have suggested that this third one should be discovered. Tailing in Xiling (the mausoleum of Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty) to see if Emperor Shizong had his head to confirm whether he was stabbed or not. Later, due to the busy excavation work, no results were found. Of course, Emperor Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty died in 1735, and his bones were cold early. Once excavated, if one or two of the remains can be obtained, the case can be finalized, but the price will be too high, so we have to wait for the future.

4. The civet cat exchanges for the prince

This refers to the legend of the exchange of sons between Zong Yinzhen of the Qing Dynasty and the Chen family of Haining, Zhejiang. From the late Ming Dynasty, the hairpin was handed down to Chen Zhilin for many generations. In the early Qing Dynasty, he was promoted to the highest rank. The Chen family, such as Chen Shuo, Chen Shiguan, Chen Yuanlong and other fathers, sons, uncles and nephews, were all high-ranking officials and highly respected. During the Kangxi period, Shizong was the prince, and he happened to have a close relationship with Chen Shiguan. Each had a son, and the year, month, day, and hour were all the same. Emperor Shizong was very happy when he heard that he carried the son into the palace. After a long time, Chen found that the boy he returned was not his own. Moreover, Yi Nan was a girl. The Chen family was extremely shocked, but they did not dare to confess, so they had to keep it secret. Emperor Gaozong visited Haining on his tour to the south and went to the Chen family that day to inquire about the details of his family background.

When he was about to go out and reach the middle gate, he was ordered to close it, and he was told that this gate would not be opened again unless the emperor was lucky. Therefore, the door of Chen's family was closed forever and never opened again. Some people also say that Hongli, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, had doubts about his life experience, so he visited the Chen family in the south to find out for himself. The above legends were popular in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the revolutionary movement was at its peak, and the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were extremely vilified. Rumors and rumors are mixed with truth and falsehood, and it is necessary to analyze them.

It is a fact that the Chen family in Haining, such as Chen Shuo, Chen Shiguan, Chen Yuanlong, father, son, uncle and nephew, are highly respected and respected officials. It is also a fact that Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty visited the Chen family during his southern tour. According to the Qing Dynasty system, the gates of the houses that the emperor visited must be closed and prohibited from being reopened. But just because of these historical facts, it cannot be said that Qing Shizong and Chen Shiguan exchanged women for sons.

In the Qing Dynasty, when a bannerman gave birth to a child, he had to report it to the capital's yamen, and when a clan member gave birth to a child, he had to report it to the clan official's office. The customization was very meticulous. What's more, the entrance to the Forbidden City is tightly guarded. How can one carry a child in and out of the palace at will? Obviously, these were all made up out of thin air by the Han people in the revolutionary wave of Paiman in the late Qing Dynasty.

Then the four most bizarre cases in the late Qing Dynasty

The unjust case of an actress, Yang Yuelou

Yang Yuelou was a famous actress who played a niche role in a Peking Opera troupe. It was so good that it became famous for a while, and it was praised for its jade, standing, pavilion, pavilion, art and civil and military skills. During the 11th and 12th years of Tongzhi's reign, he performed in Jinguiyuan, a famous theater in the Shanghai Concession, which captivated both men and women in Shanghai. Generally speaking, Beijing opera is not a favorite, just for the sake of looking at Yang Yuelou. In the winter of the twelfth year of Tongzhi

Yang Yuelou's marriage to a merchant woman triggered a lawsuit

. Yang Yuelou continued to perform the Brahma King

Palace and other dramas in Jinguiyuan. A mother and daughter named Wei, a tea merchant from Xiangshan, Guangdong, went to watch the drama for three days in a row. The girl's name was A Baonian. Seventeen, deeply in love with Yang Yuelou. After returning home, he wrote a letter by himself to describe in detail his longing for her and his intention to get engaged. Together with Nian Geng's invitation, he sent someone to deliver it to Yang Yuelou to arrange a meeting with him. Yang Yuelou was doubtful and afraid and dared not keep the promise. Wei Nu became ill and became increasingly serious. His father had been doing business in other places for a long time and was not in Shanghai, so his mother followed her daughter's wishes and sent someone to inform Yang Yuelou and asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. Yuelou went to see her and agreed to the appointment. Qian's matchmaker signed a marriage certificate, made a betrothal gift and started to prepare for the wedding. However, Wei's uncle knew about it and insisted on blocking it because of the etiquette of good and bad not marrying, so he retreated.

Wei's mother then secretly arranged for Yang Yuelou to imitate the old folk custom in Shanghai to kidnap his bride. Wei's uncle then brought Yang Yuelou to court with a local gentry and merchant from Xiangshan in Shanghai for the crime of kidnapping. So on the day of her wedding in her new home, county officials and patrol officers went to Zhiyuelou and Wei Nv, and found seven boxes of clothes and jewelry of Wei and her daughter. It was said that there were four thousand gold. On the way to take Wei Nv to the court, it was recorded that the car Sitting in it was a dangerous car. The red clothes that were used to worship the ancestors were still on the body. There were clouds of spectators following along the way. Ye Tingjuanqia, the magistrate of Shanghai who tried the case, also severely punished Yang Yuelou in front of him because of the hatred of the people from Xiangshan, Guangdong. He was beaten 150 times on his tibia. The woman not only did not say any words of regret but instead said that if she married a chicken, then she would follow the chicken and she would have no different ambitions, so she was criticized for being slapped 200 times. Both were imprisoned until Wei's father returned before sentencing. As soon as the case was reported, it immediately spread throughout the streets and caused a sensation in public opinion. Yang Yuelou was a smash hit! It was natural that a well-known celebrity committed such a dramatic affair and attracted attention. At the same time, actors have always been regarded as untouchables, while the tea merchant surnamed Wei not only belongs to a good family, but also has an official title, and has a certain status! Yang Yuelou, a businessman with a small family fortune, marries a daughter of a good family because he is an untouchable, which violates good and lowly marriage. In addition, Wei Yang's marriage had the legitimate form of marrying with a matchmaker, and the township party brought a lawsuit against the county magistrate for kidnapping and severely punished him for kidnapping. These irregular things also aroused people's interest and caused a lot of discussion. One after another. The person who finally clarified the grievances in the case was the Empress Dowager Cixi. However, the Yang Yuelou case was settled in a confused manner. None of the people involved in the making of this case were affected at all, and they were still happily working as officials to make money. Yang Yuelou's wife, Wei Abao, was also kicked out of the house by her father and her whereabouts are unknown. In anger, Yang Yuelou changed his name to Yang Houhou, giving himself a humiliating name to express his dissatisfaction with the darkness of officialdom and the low social status of actors at that time, who were bullied everywhere.

2 Zhang Wenxiang’s Assassination of Horses Case

After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, people rumored that Zeng Guofan was ambitious. In fact, his subordinates had long encouraged him to seek the throne.

When fighting against the Taiping Army, the Qing government had to rely on the Hunan Army. However, now that the Taiping Army had been "annihilated", could she allow Zeng Guofan to gain power in the south of the Yangtze River? There was a tiger lying in the southeast, and she did not feel at ease even when sleeping. So she transferred Zeng Guofan away from Jiangning, appointed Ma Xinyi as governor of Liangjiang, and quickly abolished the Hunan army.

Jiangning was captured by the Hunan Army. Liangjiang has always been regarded as private land by the Hunan Army. They have been operating there for several years, how can they easily give it to Ma Xinyi. Ma Xinyi has not had his own army for decades, and coming to Jiangning all at once was like entering a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. After Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the imperial court understood that in order not to provoke a mutiny and shake the rule of the Qing Dynasty, it quickly transferred Zeng Guofan back to Jiangning to take charge. From then on, the throne of Governor-General of Liangjiang was in the hands of the Hunan clan for a long time, and others did not dare to care.

After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the bad nature of the Hunan army was fully exposed. They were more ferocious than bandits and looted brazenly. After the implementation of the system of reducing bravery and reforming the army in the late Qing Dynasty, tens of thousands of Hunan soldiers were dismissed, including many generals. These people did not return to their hometowns to farm, but wandered around and plundered. Some people participated in the Ge Lao Association, and some were originally members of the Ge Lao Association. The dismantling of the Hunan Army expanded the underworld forces, and the stragglers combined with the underworld forces and became a major public nuisance to society. Ma Xinyi was very strict in punishing stragglers. In particular, he appointed Yuan Baoqing, who was known for his toughness, as the general manager of the camp affairs office. If he caught stragglers who harmed the people and committed illegal acts, he would punish them on the spot. The stragglers and the dark forces hated him.

Yan Shizhang, who had spoken to Sun Yiyan, was quite scheming. He wrote a "Southbound Diary", which recorded the entire process of going to Ning. According to his great-grandson Yan Mugao, it was written in the diary: "The horse assassination case is related to the Hunan Army." "There is a big shot behind the horse assassination case."

Zhang Wenxiang assassinated Ma Xinyi in a heavily guarded building. The superintendent's office suddenly hit the ground. Immediately after Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the drama "Assassination Case" was staged, and it was also the time for the provincial examination. Anhui academician Yin Zhaoyong came up with a test question that was ridiculed. Qiao Songnian also joined in the fun and wrote a crooked poem to testify. The general of the Hunan Army Erect a monument to Zhang Wenxiang and so on. All this shows that the assassination was a planned and organized political murder. From the implementation of the case to the strong cooperation of public opinion, as well as the careful planning of the trial and the shrewd design of the conclusion, it all shows that it was written by an expert.

3 Strange Cases in Taiyuan

There was a rich man named Zhang Baiwan in Taiyuan. Because he disliked his poor son-in-law Cao Wenhuang, he betrothed his second daughter Yuzhu to a family named Yao, but his daughter Yuzhu liked her. The pretty boy doesn't like money, so he elopes with Cao Wenhuang and plans to take refuge with Chen Dijie, the Cao family's old acquaintance and the magistrate of Jiaocheng County.

The two rested in a tofu shop before leaving the city. The tofu shop's father and his daughter, Mo, sympathized with their plight and lent them their donkeys. The next day, Zhang Wanwan couldn't find anyone, so he thought he had gone to his eldest daughter's house. He led his family to the eldest daughter Jinzhu's house to look for someone, suspecting that she was hiding in the closet. Who knew there was a monk in the closet, so they took the closet away. , but the monk fainted. In order to find a way out, Zhang Wanwan lied that his second daughter had died of a sudden illness, so he dressed the monk in a wedding dress and placed it in the tomb. In the middle of the night, the monk woke up, ran away, and went to the tofu shop. He changed his wedding dress into ordinary clothes at Old Man Mo's house and left. On the way, his lower body became excited again, and he molested another woman who had gotten up early. He was killed by his husband Wu Butcher, and his body was thrown away. to the well. The monk's murder case and the case of the Zhang family's walking corpse shocked the whole city. Yang Chongmin, the magistrate of Yangqu County, held a public trial and identified the monk's clothes as old man Mo's clothes. The old man was the murderer, so Old Man Mo surrendered and the case was reported to the Ministry of Punishment. Butcher Wu moved to Jinci Temple after killing people that day. When Cao Wenhuang returned to Taiyuan, he passed by Butcher Wu's hotel. Butcher Wu made a gaffe after drinking and revealed the secret of killing the monk. A few days later, Cao Wenhuang returned to Taiyuan from Jiaocheng to return the donkey. When he learned that the old man had been arrested and appealed to Mo Mo, Yang Chongmin was aware of the injustice, but he was afraid of exposing himself to the torture and extortion of confessions, so he falsely accused Cao Wenhuang as an accomplice. After Yuzhu's maid Xiuxiang learned the entire case during a visit to the prison, she asked the chief security officer of Jinci to monitor Butcher Wu, and on the other hand rushed to Jiaocheng to look for Yuzhu. Yuzhu Shi also found Chen Dijie, who had just been promoted from Jiaocheng County Magistrate to Shanxi Punishment Supervisor, and went to Taiyuan.

As a result, the truth came to light, and the old man and the young master were acquitted.

4 Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai Case

In the late Qing Dynasty, Yang Naiwu, a scholar from Yuhang, held a banquet to celebrate when he passed the provincial examination. The tenant Ge Xiao's eldest wife Bi Xiugu is quite beautiful and is known as "Little Cabbage". She was originally a child bride of the Ge family. She had been a servant in the Yang family. She and Yang Naiwu had been in love for a long time. Due to the etiquette and honor, it was difficult for them to get married, so they had to marry each other. Liu Xitong, the magistrate of Yuhang County, was accused by Yang Naiwu of liaison with a scholar for collecting excessive amounts of money and food. He was accused of this, and his financial path was cut off. He harbored resentment. His son Liu Zihe raped Bi Xiugu with poison and poisoned her husband Ge Xiaoda to death. In order to save his son's life and vent his personal anger, Liu Xitong deceived Yang Naiwu to the county government, tortured him to extract a confession, and made a plan to "scheme a husband and steal a wife", which was punishable by death. Yang Naiwu, his sister Yang Shuying, and his wife Zhan refused to accept the case and appealed repeatedly. It lasted for two years and dozens of sessions. Because Liu Xitong bribed everyone, so that the officials protected each other, they were still sentenced to death and detailed in the Ministry of Punishment. Zhan was also convicted and imprisoned after his appeal failed. Fortunately, he and the imperial examiner Wang Shiping joined the gentry to petition the Ministry of Punishment to plead their grievances. In order to save her younger brother, Yang Shuying went to the provincial capital to visit the prisoner with her nephew in her arms, and begged Xiugu to retract her confession truthfully. Bi Xiugu felt deeply guilty and immediately agreed. Unexpectedly, in order to save his own face and the reputation of many participating officials, Yang Changjun, the governor of Zhejiang, relied on the power of Zuo Zongtang, who supported the troops in the border area, and deliberately disobeyed the order together with the feudal lords and Naitai. , played. Yang Changjun's move aroused the public indignation of the Zhejiang gentry. With their support, Yang Shuying went to prison and asked Yang Naiwu to write a complaint of grievance. She risked her own life and went to Beijing to complain on a nail board. Prince Chun, the biological father of Emperor Guangxu, hated Yang Changjun's contempt for the imperial court and was afraid that the governors of various provinces would follow suit, so he decided to overturn Yang Naiwu's case as a warning. Just when Yang Naiwu saw through the dark government and wanted to sacrifice his blood and heads to the world: "The people of the Qing Dynasty long for a blue sky", Prince Chun received the answer "There is a blue sky in the Qing Dynasty". On the day he was released from prison, Yang Naiwu witnessed Bi Xiugu being escorted to a nunnery to become a monk according to Yi's order. Although he saved his life, he was disabled and almost a disabled person. He was not even allowed to regain his honorary title. He couldn't help asking himself sadly: "I Has this injustice been cleared up? Is there really a clear sky in the Qing Dynasty?..."A song of injustice has been passed down for a hundred years, and the long-lasting regrets talk about the clear sky!

The Three Great Odd Cases of the Late Ming Dynasty

The Three Great Odd Cases of the Late Ming Dynasty refer to three interrelated palace cases that occurred in the late Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, namely "Strike", "Red pill" and "moving palace" cases.

1 Case of Assault

On the evening of the fourth day of May in the forty-third year of Wanli (AD 1615), a man holding a jujube stick quietly broke into the residence where the crown prince lived. Ciqing Palace, and used wooden sticks to injure the people guarding the palace gate. He also broke into the eaves of the front hall and was captured. This is the so-called assault case. The murderer was said to be a madman who was ordered to harm the crown prince. During the trial, the case was repeated several times. The actual situation is that the murderer Zhang Chai was neither crazy nor stupid. He was seduced by the eunuchs in the palace and was escorted to the palace to commit the murder. Due to internal conflicts within the royal family and factional disputes among court officials, many people were implicated.

2 Hongwan Case

At the turn of August and September in 1620 AD, Zhu Changluo, who had been emperor for only 30 days, died. It is said that his death was related to the red pills he took during his illness. Are the red pills a longevity medicine, a Taoist pill, or some other poison? For a time, the government and the public were in turmoil, and even the prime minister and the imperial concubine were implicated in the case. This is the “red pill” case.

3 Palace relocation case,

Some concubines who should not occupy the Qianqing Palace (the palace where the emperor lived) occupied it. Some officials in the court asked them to move for the sake of the system. Come out, and many things will happen from this. First, Emperor Wanli's concubine Zheng Guifei moved into the Qianqing Palace in the name of taking care of the sick Wanli Emperor. After Emperor Wanli's death, she refused to move out, which made it impossible for the new emperor to move into the Qianqing Palace. The ministers felt that it was too much. Concubine Zheng had no choice but to move out after losing her decency and exhausting her efforts. When Zhu Changluo entered the Qianqing Palace, his concubine Li Xuanshi followed him. When the Hongwan case happened and Zhu Changluo died, Li Xuanshi, who had once wanted to be the queen but failed, also followed the example of Zheng Guifei. Not only did she stay in Qianqing Palace, but she also kept the emperor's eldest grandson, who was about to ascend the throne, close to her and not allowed to be seen by anyone.

The ministers tried to find the new emperor who had hidden Li Xuanshi. After several fights, the new emperor escaped from Li Xuanshi, and she had to move out of the Qianqing Palace. During the hasty move, many treasures in the palace were lost.

Later, the evil eunuch Wei Zhongxian came to power, and the three cases were revealed again, and many people suffered from innocence. After the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, came to the throne, he severely punished the Wei Party and reversed the three cases, rehabilitating those who had been tortured to death by the Wei Party.

There is also a chilling nursery rhyme murder case (it should be in the top ten, I don’t know how to rate it):

It originated from an Indian nursery rhyme: Ten Little Indian Boys , choke one to death, leaving nine; nine Indian boys, chop one to death, leaving eight; eight Indian boys, strangle one, leaving seven; seven Indian boys, sting one to death, leaving six; six Indian boys, smash One is dead and five are left; five Indian boys are drowned and one is left alive; four Indian boys are frightened to death and one is left with three left; three Indian boys are thrown to death and one is thrown to death and two are left; two Indian boys are shot and one is left alive. One; an Indian boy, hang them all

In the 20th century in England, ten people who did not know each other received a kind invitation from the owner of the isolated island villa on Oak Island, asking him to go to Oak Island at the same time on the same day. Island guest. These ten people are: retired Justice Wargrave, old general MacArthur, Inspector Maine, Earl Marston, surgeon Chen Armstrong, governess Vera, factory owner Blore, Lady Rogers, receptionist Thomas, maid Miss Miller. They took a car and arrived at the Oak Island Villa in the evening. The owner, Duke Cummington, was unable to land on the island the next day due to official business, so he entrusted the receptionist Thomas and the maid Miller to receive them. Ten people stayed in rooms with their own names on the second floor of the villa.

Meal starts at 7pm. The banquet prepared by Miss Miller was very splendid. Moreover, there were two pots of flowers and a porcelain plate with ten small Indian porcelain figures on the table. Before the dinner started, Thomas gave a welcome speech on behalf of the host and asked everyone to listen to a piece of music. Then turn on the recorder. When the ten people were listening intoxicated, suddenly a powerful voice came from the tape recorder: "Listen to the ten defendants here, you are guilty of murder that cannot be judged by law. In order to comfort the souls of the dead, I was assigned by God to Form a special court and hold a public trial here..." Everyone thought this was a prank. The justice said: "I want to see who is so presumptuous." The recording started again. The voice sounded again: "Defendant Justice Wargrave, listen, on January 27, ten years ago, you wrongly sentenced Blake to death without sufficient evidence, and committed the crime of killing innocent people indiscriminately. Because You are the judge, and the law cannot punish you, so we have to leave it to this court." There was chaos in the restaurant. Justice Wargrave shouted: "Silence! Silence! Let this daring clown continue to play his tricks, so that we can determine who he is. I must find him." The tape recorder rang again: "General MacArthur, nine years ago On February 8, due to suspicion of your wife who is twenty years younger than you