Murder photos, folk stories

During Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, there was a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi named Cen Chunxuan, a famous corrupt official. Under the love of Empress Dowager Cixi, he was violent and unscrupulous.

Within a few years when Cen Chunxuan was governor, there were dozens of officials who were not recruited by him. He also arrested local tycoons such as Li Jipei and Yang Xiyan and took their property for himself. The local people were frightened, and Fuji, a famous gentry, fled Hong Kong for safety.

The gentry and businessmen who fled to Hong Kong hated Cen Chunxuan's guts when they saw that their homes were hard to return. So, everyone elected a man named Shen Yaozu as the leader and plotted to get rid of Cen Chunxuan. However, Cen Chunxuan is an unusual person. He not only got the favor of Cixi, but also kowtowed to the eunuch Li. It is not easy to bring down this corrupt official.

After several secret discussions, everyone unanimously decided to assassinate Cen Chunxuan with the martial arts experts.

Shen Yaozu immediately sent someone to secretly search for the murderer.

Under the four rewards, there must be brave people. A few days later, several martial arts experts came to visit Shen Yaozu one after another. In order to ensure that the assassination was foolproof, Shen Yaozu organized a tournament. After several battles, he finally decided to send "cold-faced killer" Hua to assassinate him.

Unexpectedly, shortly after Huaqiao Cliff left, there was news that he was not assassinated successfully, but was killed by Cen Chunxuan's men and hung his body on the flagpole for public display.

It turns out that Cen Chunxuan knew that he was evil, and he gathered many martial arts experts, lived in places and had many secret passages. Usually even mosquitoes don't want to fly near him.

Some martial arts experts who were waiting for information at Shen Yaozu's house were all pale and resigned hastily.

Just when Shen Yaozu and others were desperate, a white-flour scholar volunteered. Said that although he didn't know martial arts, he could take Cen Chunxuan's life without firing a shot and an arrow. This man's name is Chen Shaobai, and he is a photographer. He said that if you want to get rid of Cen Chunxuan, you only need one photo.

Hearing this, all the people didn't believe him. Shen Yaozu asked, "Mr. Chen, how can you get rid of Cen's life with a photo?"

Chen Shaobai smiled and said, "This matter must be kept absolutely confidential, so I'm afraid I can't tell you. But I heard that people don't doubt people's use, and suspects don't need it. If you all believe me, just give it to me! "

Shen Yaozu and others all nodded in agreement when they saw that he spoke well. And agreed to pay Chen Shaobai 300,000 taels of silver first and 700,000 taels later.

Chen Shaobai got a reward of 302,000 yuan, and then began to implement his plan. At that time, Cixi hated Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao the most. Kang Youwei once published an article in Qing Yi Bao, denouncing Cixi and comparing her to Wu Zetian and Yang Guifei. In particular, the phrase "Nala, the legacy of my late emperor" made Cixi gnash her teeth. This is where Chen Shaobai started: he first took photos of Cen Chunxuan, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei and made a photo of them, with Cen Chunxuan sitting in the middle, Liang Qichao on the left and Kang Youwei on the right. The photos are exquisitely made, and there is no trace of patchwork. Chen Shaobai copied and sold this photo in large quantities, and it can be seen everywhere in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and other big cities. He also contacted the newspapers in these cities to publish this photo. At the same time, the group photos will be shipped to Nanyang and America for distribution and sales through Hong Kong.

Those overseas royalists (emperors) thought Cen Chunxuan was one of them when they saw this photo. Cen Chunxuan is a powerful man, and the royalists just borrowed him to increase their strength, so they made a lot of hype. Even when and where the photos of three people were taken, and what covenant there was between three people, they were all made up by nose and eyes.

This is what Chen Shaobai wants. So, he immediately introduced those propaganda articles in overseas newspapers to domestic newspapers in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai and reprinted them. The incident caused an uproar and spread all over the world. Cen Chunxuan is still in the dark. Someone took a newspaper and a photo of the three of them and gave it to Cixi.

Cixi flew into a rage when she read the articles in the newspaper and saw the photos. Even Li, who was on the side, was shocked. How dare she ask Cen Chunxuan for any affection! "This ignorant thing, even if I lie to him, he is impatient!" Cixi threw the photo on the ground and immediately ordered the removal of the governor of Cen Chunxuan and Guangdong, and arrested him.

After Cen Chunxuan was arrested, he didn't know what crime he had committed. When he saw the photo, he was shocked and said to himself, "what ... what's going on?" When have I ever taken a picture with these two people? "

After the job was done, Chen Shaobai got the remaining 702,000 yuan, took over several ship docks and became a millionaire overnight. A friend who knows the inside story joked to Chen Shaobai, "You have to thank Cen Chunxuan. Without him, how could you be so rich today? "

Hearing this, I smiled faintly: "It's all that Cen did too much evil and gave me the opportunity to exploit this loophole!"