How did Ma Xinyi get stabbed in the late Qing Dynasty?

On July 25th, the ninth year of Tongzhi,1August 20th, 870, it was the day when the governor read out the projection of martial arts. It suddenly rained heavily that day, so the governor's reading had to be postponed. On the 22nd, the weather cleared up, and Ma Xinyi, the governor of Liangjiang, went to the tinker hall on the west side of the viceroy early in the morning to read and shoot in person.

The annual governor's reading and shooting was a grand ceremony for people to visit in Jiangning at that time. Therefore, both sides of Ma Xinyi's arrow path are crowded with onlookers after reading it. When he went outside the backyard, a man suddenly knelt down and asked for help. This person is a fellow countryman of Ma Xinyi, a native of Wangxian Town, Vu Thang, Yuncheng City, Shandong Province. Ma Xinyi has given financial aid twice before. Wu toured Ye Hualong and pushed him away. Tang Dejin came forward to ask questions, and the others kept going. After two or three steps, another man shouted injustice and rushed to Ma Xinyi, only to see a bright dagger flash and quickly pierce Ma Xinyi's right side. Alas, Ma Xinyi threw himself on the ground. Follow Fang Bingren to catch the man's braid and grab the dagger in his hand. Other boys running errands flocked to take it. Yu, the deputy commander of China army, heard the cry and rushed to the scene, asking him to bind the murderer. The prisoners neither resisted nor fled, but tied them calmly and kept saying, "You can use them once for a thousand days. A gentleman works alone, works hard today, and is a hero 20 years later. " When she finished laughing, Zhang Rong quickly helped Ma Xinyi up, only to see her lean forward, her hands clasped to her chest, her right arm tightly holding his right rib, her body shrinking and she could no longer stand. The messenger took off the door panel and took it into the inspector's office.

The deputy commander of China Army ordered a patrol to take the murderer to the inspector's office for further information, and at the same time sent a message to Jiangning General Wei Xiao and his officers. Kuiyu was shocked and flew to the Ministry of Supervision to visit. Ma Xinyi was lying on her back, breathing hard, listless and dying. The dagger pierced the wound, a few inches to the right. After seeing it, Kuiyu immediately walked out of the building and questioned the murderer. After repeated interrogations, the criminal only admitted that he was from Henan and his name was Zhang Wenxiang. Hearing the reason for his assassination, he flashed blindly, but he didn't tell the truth. Wei Xiao was in a hurry and ordered the murderer to be taken to Shangyuan County for torture.

Ma Xinyi was dying, knowing that his life could not be guaranteed, and his dictation was sparse, so he asked his successor Yu Zhen to write a ghost letter and asked Wei Xiao to present it to the court. In the afternoon, Ma Xinyi could no longer speak, and it was postponed until 2 pm on the 23rd. Because of the injury, the treatment was ineffective and he died suddenly. Dying Ma Xinyi suddenly fell from the peak to the ground, drowned in the vast sea of officials, and became a passer-by in the world of life.

Since then, the assassination of Ma Xinyi, one of the four unsolved cases in the late Qing Dynasty, has been tried for more than a year. After the first trial of Kuiyu failed, Cao Lian's Governor Zhang joined forces with General Kuiyu of Jiangning, Minister Zheng Dunjin of the Ministry of Punishment and Zeng Guofan, the new governor of Liangjiang, and conducted two trials before and after, full of twists and turns.

After the initial joint trial, Zhang and Kuiyu put forward a carefully planned plan: "The trial-and-murder system makes the bandits guilty. If the circumstances are serious, please refer to the outrageous plan to convict the criminals in the case." It is said: "The murderer Zhang Wenxiang once took refuge in pirates, because Ma Xinyi was in charge of Zhejiang, suppressed pirates in Nantian and killed many Iraqi gangs. Because Yi Ji's wife Roche lured Wu to escape, when Ma Xinyi went to Ningbo, Yu was stopped from suing and was not allowed to be tried. The criminal bears a grudge. Qi Long, an escaped pirate? After ordering Zhang Wenxi to avenge his partner, himself? Hate, Zhang Wenxi was stimulated to agree. Criminals went to Xincheng to make a small gamble privately, but Ma Xinyi just banned it, making both profits and losses. Forced revenge, the more you kill. In the seven or eight years of Tongzhi, he went to Hangzhou and Jiangning many times, trying to take the opportunity to assassinate him, but failed. On July 26 this year, the entourage sneaked into the inspector's office, stressed the murder, repeatedly questioned and refused to give in to his confession. No other leader is still credible. " After hearing the case together, Zheng and Zeng also played together: "We will review the reasons for the assassination of the murderer. Please draw up another draft according to the original charges and the criminals in the case."

It was a great surprise that the long trial was finally over. Is the case so complicated that no one can solve it? Later data proved that the mastermind of the assassination of Ma Xinyi, the biggest suspect is Ceng Guoquan!

We can't blame the official officials of the Qing dynasty for coming and going like a lantern, and the case is still a fog without a verdict. As long as it is a person in officialdom, who doesn't know that Xiang of the Tseng brothers has become a great event since he won Jiangning? Ceng Guoquan occupied Tientsin and the Xiang army plundered it for several days. In order to destroy the traces, another fire was set, and the fire burned for several days and nights. Xiang all pocketed their own money, and carts and cars transported their belongings back to their hometown in Hunan. In recent years, children of Xiang Army have snapped up land in Hunan and Hubei. Xiang army has become a southeast tiger endangering its rule. Zeng Guofan is also very aware of the abuses of Xiang. He said: "I set up a navy division, which can't kill the Yangtze River, but it will harm it."

Ma Xinyi's death occurred in the seventh year of Tongzhi, when Cixi summoned him to investigate the whereabouts of the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the Xiang army captured Tianjing. After he took office, his primary task was to cut down arrogant soldiers and experts, and he was "good at nuclear work and took his time" (Biography of Ma Xinyi in Qing Dynasty). The so-called "superior to comprehensive nuclear" refers to Ma Xinyi's arrest of Xiang Army, which has become a triad force. In particular, Yuan (Yuan Shikai's stepfather), who is famous for his bravery, was appointed as the general manager of the operation, and the stragglers who endangered the people and committed illegal acts were caught on the spot. Stragglers and black forces hate him. Guo Baiyin, the former governor of Jiangsu and governor of Huguang, said to his grandson Guo Gongduo, "There was an instigator behind the assassination of Wenxiang Zhang (Wen Xiang), and it should be such a person. At first, they deliberately created rumors. " Gao Baiyou said in "The Spurs Case and the Xiang Army": "The Spurs Case ended in the Qing Dynasty, and the truth is unknown. In fact, the horse died because of the arrogance of the Xiang army. " Yan, who participated in the trial, wrote a diary of going south, describing the whole process of going to Jiangning with Zheng Dunjin to handle the case. According to his great-grandson Yan, the diary reads: "The Spurs case is related to the Xiang army." "There's a big shot behind the Spurs case." Ceng Guoquan's careful planning flashed behind the scenes.

Whether it is to catch Xiang criminals or to trace the whereabouts of Taiping rebels' property, they all approach or point to Ceng Guoquan. Ma Xinyi touched the money and power of the underworld boss and approached his own death step by step. The hidden rules of officialdom are rampant and intertwined. Can one person shake it? Ma Xinyi's blood, also can only be in vain. The declining Qing dynasty turned a blind eye and let it become a "mystery" that is not worth exploring. Just 40 years after the death of Ma Xinyi, a famous minister of ZTE, the Qing Dynasty collapsed in decay and instantly turned into dust, leaving behind the "Four Mysteries of Manchu Dynasty", which lingered among the beams again and again after the people's spare time.

However, Ma Xinyi's achievements in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces are quite commendable: he presided over the grain reduction movement in Zhejiang and approved the floating harvest of grain leather in Dingdi. On March 22nd, the fourth year of Tongzhi, Ma Xinyi, the governor of Zhejiang Province, said, "Sanzhai in the west of Zhejiang Province is a rich place, and thieves are also deeply ravaged. In recent years, the backcountry has been exhausted, and the once prosperous village is now a wilderness. " First of all, he asked the three governments to apply for an extension of the exemption of money and food. In leap May, he and Zuo scored the score applied by Zhejiang Cao, that is, according to the ratio of 8/30, all the grain in Zhejiang Cao was reduced or exempted. * * * According to the statistics of 1 147300 stony rice in Zhejiang Province, except that Nanjiang consumes 133863 stones and white grain does not reduce 13039 stones, rice should be reduced by 266765 stones respectively. It greatly lightened the burden of Zhejiang farmers who suffered from bandits and chaos in Hongyang, and stabilized the social order.

When Ma Xinyi was the governor of the two rivers, he began to rectify the salt policy and determined the provisions of the Huaihe River salt law. Later, he actively participated in river engineering, and in December of seven years, he played the story of river engineering in Jiangnan. He said that the most important thing in Jiangnan river affairs is to build dikes. Since the Huaihe River was changed to a canal to go to sea, the dikes have become increasingly heavy. In addition, after the abolition of the South River, the East-West Dam fell into disrepair, which is worth the turn of summer and autumn. On the way to his post, I visited Xiaoluobao and other places along the way, and found that the water potential of the west levee was so great that it was difficult to build it, so I had to choose Lidong levee first. "The water is dry this winter and next spring, and the whole project should be completed first" (Volume 7, 60% discount on discretionary matters, December 9, Tongzhi seven years). In June of eight years, when the east and west dikes of the Canal were completed, Ma Xinyi personally went to check and accept them, and suffered from heatstroke on the way, "sore throat, even eating" (June of the sixth year of Tongzhi). In eight years, while the winter water dried up, he made it clear that the Salt Administration would raise money to repair the west dike project of Xiaoluobao. In addition, all the dikes in Anhui were washed away by water, and they also held a meeting with Anhui officials to raise funds to build them. 1March, 999, he personally visited the river engineering in Xiaoluobao and other places. According to the script, he climbed the embankment line by line. "Try the cone section by section, but it is still full." (Volume 9 "Returning to the Province after the completion of Huikan Canal Dam Project", April 23, 2009) After these efforts, the canal channel has been guaranteed and both sides have benefited a lot.

Ma Xinyi did not expect, however, that he had to rectify the bureaucracy and the army, and he died before he could lay hands on him. I wanted to crack down on the black forces and stabilize the order, but I was swallowed up. ZTE's wish became an unreachable dream. I can't help but sigh.

When a society where evil forces can manipulate at will collude with officials who have already been overwhelmed by money to create all kinds of strange cases, murders and headless cases, I am afraid that a big change will only be in sight.