The third statement of the assassination case is related to the Hunan Army. After all, Ma Xinyi was sent to thoroughly investigate the wealth of the Hunan Army that was full of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. During Ma Xinyi's stay in Jiangning, he naturally allowed the former Hunan Army veterans who stayed locally and held a large amount of wealth in their hands to be tremble. Once this was found out, it would be a serious crime to behead him.

Bao Chao (1828-1886), whose first name was Chunting, was later changed to Chunting, and was from Outang, Anping, Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing). He was a famous general of the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty. He was definitely a soldier king who won every battle.

Originally from the army, Xiang Rong went to Guangxi to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, and then was transferred to serve as the commander of the Hunan Navy. He fought in Yuezhou, Wuchang, and Jinkou successively, and was given the title of "Zhuangyong Batulu". He was the chief of the navy. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), Xiangyong recruited Xiangyong to establish the fifth camp of the Tingzi and changed to the army. He moved to Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Henan, and Shaanxi, and was awarded the title of "Botongebatulu". He served as the general of Suijing Town, Hunan, and was awarded the title of "Zhejiang Prefecture". He was appointed as the general of the first-class viscount and was awarded the title of "Botongebatulu".

Yunqiwei was in power. In the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867), he led his troops to Shaanxi to suppress the Nian Army. He was impeached and delayed his post in the Battle of Anlu. He resigned from office. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), he served as the governor of Hunan and recruited troops to station in Zhili Leting to prevent Russia. In the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), the Sino-French war broke out and led his troops to station outside Baima Pass in Yunnan to prepare for war. Bao Chao participated in more than 500 battles in his life and was injured 108 times. He died in the 12th year of Guangxu (1886), and was posthumously named Zhongzhuang.

It is rumored that Zhang Wenxiang was once a subordinate of Bao Chao of the Hunan Army. Bao Chao was a famous general of the Hunan Army. His troops were known as "Tingziying" and were the main force of the Hunan Army. However, their military discipline was corrupt and they often openly plundered local people, claiming to be "they were as devastated as Xiang Yu". After Zhang Wenxiang joined the Tingziyingying Camp, he was appreciated by Bao Chao because of his bravery in combat and was promoted to the new camp sentry camp. At that time, the Hunan Army formed a fashionable alliance to protect themselves, and many of them were members of the Gelaohui. The Tingziying Camp also had a Gelaohui organization. Zhang Wenxiang joined the Gelaohui and became a small leader.

The Gelao Society, which originated in Hunan and Hubei, is a secret association organization that is active in the Yangtze River Basin in modern China, with great momentum and influence. The Gelao Society in Sichuan and Chongqing is called Pao Ge.

The Gelaohui is a social group spontaneously formed by the lower class, and is a secret society among the people. The origin of the Gelaohui is a difficult mystery that has long troubled historical workers. The reason is similar to the origin of the Tiandihui. First, the Gelaohui is a spontaneous combination organization of the lower class. It does not necessarily have an accurate time to establish, and no reliable information will be left when it was established; second, during the Revolution of 1911, the revolutionaries vigorously promoted the Gelaohui that was founded by Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian, and others in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and sent Hongmen to sneak into the Hunan Army; third, during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Hongmen, Qinggang and Gelaohui penetrated and integrated each other, and some gang members tried their best to promote the Hongmen and Hanliu (Gelaohui) originated from one family, which was the first in Zheng Chenggong. Is it to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?

In the late Hunan Army, the Ting-character camp was incited by Ge Laohui and made a stake in Jinkou, Hubei, and a mutiny occurred. Zhang Wenxiang took advantage of the chaos to escape to Tianmu Mountain and hid in a temple. It just so happened that the temple elder was the leader of the Tiandihui Society. He used the identity of a monk as a cover to command the Tiandihui Society at the foot of the mountain to engage in anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhang Wenxiang learned the truth, he joined the Tiandihui Society. Later, Ma Xinyi was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang, and in Ningbo and Taizhou, he "suppressed bandits" and captured and killed many members of the Tiandihui Society. The temple elders were very sad and entrusted Zhang Wenxiang to kill Ma Xinyi to avenge the Tiandihui Society.

There are two novels about this case. One is Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's "Details of the Horse" selected from his famous book "The Legend of the Legend of the Warriors in the Jianghu". According to Pingjiang Buxiaosheng, the details of this case were obtained from Zheng Dunjin's son-in-law. Zheng Dunjin's son-in-law was overheard behind the screen when Zheng Dunjin interrogated Zhang Wenxiang. The degree of truth is unknown, but it is beautiful and reasonable to read. Readers can not only know the details of the Horse Anchor case, but also know the ins and outs of the Fire-burning Honglian Temple. It is really a killing of two birds with one stone.

The other is the anonymous book "Zhang Wenxiang assassinate the Horse", which is similar to Pingjiang Buxiaosheng. The two stories are very similar to this version.

There is another saying that Ma Xinyi was killed by foreigners. Rumors say that Ma Xinyi was injured while fighting with Xiaodaohui in Shanghai and was baptized and joined the Catholic Church during treatment at Dongjiadu Hospital. After he took office as the governor of Liangjiang, he had close contacts with Lang Huairen, the bishop of the French Catholic Diocese of Jiangnan, and had a very special relationship. After the Anqing lesson plan occurred, French ambassador to China, Luo Shuya, went to Jiangning to negotiate with Ma Xinyi. Ma Xinyi was extremely friendly to Luo Shuya and everything was handled according to the requirements of the French.

Ma Xinyi and Anhui Governor Yinghan issued a notice, vigorously promoting the good deeds of Catholicism, advising people to protect foreign teachers, and erecting stones to erect monuments to defend the Catholic Church. Ma Xinyi also sent troops to protect the Catholic churches in Jiangning and other places. In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), an anti-foreign church activity occurred in Jiangning, and the organizer was the admiral Chen Guorui. Chen Guorui also received secret support from Jiangsu governor Mei Qizhao, helping to print a large number of materials to promote the murder of Chinese children. Ma Xinyi was very angry when he learned about it.

Send troops to capture Chen Guorui. Chen Guorui fled Jiangning, went to Tianjin through Yangzhou, participated in anti-foreign religion activities, and received support from Prince Chun Yi. After the Tianjin lesson plan occurred, French missionaries and ministers to China publicly threatened by force and demanded punishment of Chen Guorui, but due to Prince Chun's assassination, they were perfunctory by the Military Affairs Office. After Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the missionaries responded strongly, and the missionaries in Zhenjiang City openly held a memorial service for him. It just so happened that Zhang Wenxiang's confession said, "Raising troops for a thousand days, using troops for a thousand days

"The saying " is ", and without inside guidance, Zhang Wenxiang would not be able to enter the archway where Ma Xinyi returned from the schoolyard to the station. It was impossible to kill the Governor of Liangjiang with one sword in broad daylight, among the swords and guns. Therefore, it was said in Jiangning that Prince Chun Yi and Chen Guorui were instructed by Zhang Wenxiang to assassinate Ma Xinyi. What's even more bizarre is that Chen Guorui was later sent to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, and died mysteriously in the Heilongjiang garrison in the eighth year of Guangxu. It is said that he was killed.

The last rumor is that Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang spent 3,000 taels of silver to bribe Zhang Wenxiang and murder Ma Xinyi.

The governor of Jiangsu was a subordinate of the Governor of Liangjiang, in charge of the four prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Taicang Zhili Prefecture, and stationed in Suzhou. Previously, the Taihu Naval Division's squadron, Xu Youde, and Liu Bubiao accompanied the squadron officer Wang Youming to Suzhou for medical treatment. That night, Xu Youde and Liu Bubiao wandered around the brothel and happened to meet Ding Richang tribe Dusi Ding Bing, Fan Gui and others. The two sides had a conflict over a beautiful prostitute and started fighting. It happened that the guerrilla Xue Yinbang of Suzhou's personal military camp led his troops to patrol the night, and arrested both sides who were causing trouble, each hitting forty military sticks to show warning. However, Xu Youde was very dissatisfied, and was beaten with forty military sticks.

Unexpectedly, four days later, Xu Youde died of serious injury and the matter suddenly became a big deal. In order to show his justice, Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang took the initiative to submit a memorial request. At this time, he did not know that his son Ding Huiheng (at the time, an alternate Taoist) and his nephew Ding Jizu were also involved in the fight in the brothel that night. Later, after learning about the incident, he regretted it, but he had no choice but to do anything.

The court handed over the case to Governor Ma Xinyi, Liangjiang Governor Ma Xinyi. After Ma Xinyi received the case, he handled it very seriously and impartially. However, Ding Huiheng never refused to surrender to Jiangning and sent someone to summon him. Ding Richang refused to plead for his son to escape over the wall at night and did not know where to go. In fact, many people saw Ding Huiheng coming and going in the governor's yamen with their own eyes without any scruples. During this period, Ding Richang repeatedly asked Ma Xinyi for his request, hoping that he would be proud of his actions. Ma Xinyi put on airs and believed that Ding Huiheng refused to surrender because he deliberately despised him. Because Ding Richang was Zeng Guofan's confidant, he was very vigilant and ignored it.

Because Ding Huiheng could not refuse the case, the case was delayed for nearly a year and could not be closed. Ma Xinyi was very angry and decided to force the case to close it, dismiss Ding Bing, Xue Yinbang, Ding Huiheng, Ding Jizu and others, and sentenced him to pay 10,000 taels of silver to resettle the deceased. Ding Huiheng relied on his father as the governor of Jiangsu and insisted on refusing to return to the case. Ma Xinyi also had a way to deal with it and submitted it to the court for his resignation.

Forty days later, Ma Xinyi was assassinated. The most suspicious thing is that the day Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the governor and the governor were to participate, as usual, but Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang was not present. He had already rushed to Tianjin from Suzhou on the eve of the assassination case. However, Ding Richang rushed to Tianjin to be ordered to do so. At that time, Zeng Guofan failed to handle the Tianjin lesson plan effectively and was scolded by the whole country. Zeng Guofan felt it was difficult to support it, so he submitted a request to send another minister to Tianjin to handle the case together. So the Qing court selected Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang, known as the "Western Affairs Officer". On June 28, the Qing court issued an order to order Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang to Tianjin to handle the lesson plan. Because the road was long and it was difficult to get there quickly, he ordered Mao Changxi, the Minister of Works, to go to Tianjin first.

Strangely, after receiving the order, Ding Richang did not immediately go to Tianjin, but dragged it until July 14th. At that time, it took about ten days to arrive from Suzhou to Tianjin. In other words, Ding Richang left Suzhou ten days before Ma Xinyi's assassination, and arrived in Tianjin just the day before the assassination case, that is, on July 25th. As soon as he got off the ship, Ding Richang went straight to the Zhili Administration and had a secret conversation with Zeng Guofan for a long time. It was on that day that the heavy rain in Jiangning and Ma Xinyi failed to make a journey.

The next day, on the morning of July 26, Ma Xinyi, who was in Jiangning, was assassinated by Zhang Wenxiang on the way back to the government office. In Tianjin, Zeng Guofan was rushing to visit Ding Richang and had a secret conversation for nearly a day.

On the afternoon of the third day, when Ma Xinyi died of severe injuries, Zeng Guofan was taking a nap and recorded in his diary that his mood was "not calm". Ding Richang then rushed to the Zhili Administration, and the two had a secret conversation until late at night.

After the assassination case, Ding Richang remained in Tianjin until the imperial edict that the court asked Zeng Guofan to return to serve as the governor of Liangjiang arrived. At that time, Zeng Guofan handled the Tianjin lesson plan inappropriately and "repeated people to be charmed by foreigners", which was criticized by China and foreign countries. It was definitely a good thing that he could pull him out of the quagmire after returning to serve as the governor of Liangjiang. However, after repeated discussions with his confidant, he decided to resign from the Governor of Liangjiang on the grounds of being sick. Unexpectedly, the court's attitude was very firm, and he had to go to Liangjiang even if he was sick.

Zeng Guofan was actually quite fair in handling Tianjin lesson plans, but in the atmosphere where Han people were bullied by foreigners at that time, a generation of important officials could only become cannon fodder, leaving a failure on his brilliant resume.

In April and May, in 1870 (the ninth year of Tongzhi), there were many incidents of missing and kidnapping in Tianjin. In early June, the weather was hot and the epidemic was prevalent. Thirty or forty orphans in the nursery hall died of illness. Hundreds of people went to the cemetery to watch the children and dug out the bodies of the children to check. So the people began to rumor that "foreign nuns used nursery halls as shackles, but in fact they kidnapped and killed children as medicinal materials."

On June 20, 1870, a bandit Wu Lanzhen who was sent to the government by a resident, implicated the confession of the congregation of the church, Wang San and Wanghailou Catholic Church. As a result, the people were angry, and the gentry gathered, the academy was suspended, and the anti-foreign church was in high spirits. The next morning, the county magistrate Liu Jie took the criminal Wu Lanzhen to the church to confront him and found that there was no Wang San, nor the mat and fence offered by Wu Lanzhen. "The criminal did not know the people in the church, and he could not prove it." Therefore, it was proved that he thought that he had misunderstandings and misunderstandings about the church and the Renci Hall, but at this time the masses could no longer tell the truth.

Back to the assassination case, day after day, the assassination case has become more and more confusing, and it involves too many things. The above five rumors involve Hui Wang, Hunan Army, Tiandihui, foreign priests, Chen Guorui, Prince Chun and Ding Richang.

Zhang Wenxiang kept revising his confession repeatedly. When he saw who bites whom, the person who tried the case did not dare to use a major punishment. After all, this matter had been broken and everyone in the world knew about it. The superiors kept asking questions, trying to figure it out, but not trying to figure it out. In the end, no one knew who was the real murderer behind the scenes, and the case was so incomplete.

On February 15, 1871, the date of Ma Xinyi's assassination - July 26, 1870, the 9th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1870), half a year later, Zeng Guofan was ordered to be executed and executed Zhang Wenxiang at the execution ground in Jiangning Xiaoying, and pinched his heart to sacrifice. In order to increase Zhang Wenxiang's pain, Ma Xinyou, the fourth brother of Ma Xinyou, customized a knife and a hook, and handed it to the executioner for execution. Lingchi was severely punished, and it was rare for decades to see. Some people said that only "cut eight knives" was enough, and it was enough to cut it. Some people said that "fish scales were cut" and cut it thinly. Zhang Wenxiang was in between, using a custom hook to squeeze the flesh and pull it up, cut it quickly, and cut it, and it was only after the Chen Dynasty to the present.

During the cruel execution, Zhang Wenxiang never said a word, and treated him as if he was home, and was quite heroic. However, his name was deliberately changed to "Zhang Wenxiang" in historical records. The word "Wen" plus water indicates his identity as a thief, which means contempt for him.

There are many people involved in the assassination case. Zhang Wenxiang's son Zhang Changfu was twelve years old and was also implicated. He was castrated and sent to Xinjiang as a slave. His daughter Zhang Baozhen and Zhang Xiuzhen were not aware of the marriage, so they all returned to their husbands. Yu Jisan, deputy general of the Central Army, was neglected to protect the situation and was demoted to the rank of admiral and demoted to the second level. The general Tang Dejin and others were all denied for dereliction of duty.
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