In 1912, shortly after the restoration of Changshu County, in order to prevent riots by soldiers and bandits, a patrol bureau was set up in the city, and a sub-bureau was set up in the famous town of Meili. Soon after the establishment of the sub-bureau, a tragic case occurred that shocked the whole province:
One night, the town suddenly made a loud gong, and the dibao shouted in the street with his throat to catch the thief. The townspeople woke up and listened, only to learn that the family of Huang Shoucheng, the richest man in the town, had been robbed by bandits, and the heavily armed patrol police rushed to catch the thieves. When the crowd rushed to the Huang family, the bandits had long since disappeared, leaving only corpses on the ground.
That night, the Huang family was home with Huang Shoucheng and his wife, two sons, two relatives and a maid. In the middle of the night, there was a sudden heavy knock at the gate. Before Huang Shoucheng could get up to check, a dozen masked bandits broke through the door with knives. A fierce man grabbed Huang Shoucheng and tied him to the living room, stuffing cotton in his mouth and firecrackers in his ears.
The leader of the Hanzi pointed a command knife at Huang Shoucheng and said viciously that he would wish him a happy birthday. Hanzi said and took a hard breath of smoke, spit the smoke on Huang Shoucheng's face, and then smiled and lit the firecracker. The firecracker lead burned to the point of explosion, the firecracker exploded in his ears, and Huang Shoucheng only felt a swelling pain in his head and passed out.
Huang Shoucheng passed out, and the bandits did not spare him, they gathered around him and competed to cut the flesh of his face with a dagger. Every time the bandits cut a knife, they asked Huang Shoucheng how much silver was this knife worth? Every time he cut a knife, he asked Huang Shoucheng for a few dollars. Huang Shoucheng was slaughtered, his fingers trembled in pain, his body twitched, he woke up in pain, and passed out in pain. Huang Shoucheng woke up again, begged the bandits to spare their family, and told them all the locations where the silver was hidden in the house.
The bandits got the whereabouts of the hidden silver, and instead of letting Huang Shoucheng go, they intensified their torture of him. Huang Shoucheng's face was cut off, the bandits used a knife to cut his limbs and abdomen, Huang Shoucheng's flesh was cut off a lot, and the bandits cut off his head with a knife.
When the bandits committed the crime, some thieves broke into the Huang family's bedroom, Huang Shoucheng's wife was abducted to the hall and tied to a pillar, and the bandits came forward in turn to torture Huang's wife, and Huang's wife died of humiliation. The bandits kill people when they see them, and they are simply unconscionable, without any trace of humanity. Huang Shoucheng's nine-year-old eldest son was killed, his three-year-old younger son did not escape the demon's capture, and the two cordial thieves who were guests at home were cut into several pieces with knives.
There was a maid in the Huang family who heard the evil man committing the murder upstairs and was too frightened to speak out. The Huang family's wolfdog suddenly burst out and bit the leg of the leader, and the wolfdog was shouted and chopped to death with a knife, ready to go upstairs to continue the murder. When the maid saw the danger approaching, she was so frightened that she quickly escaped through the window and fled into the neighbor's house, where she hid in the toilet of the neighbor's house and survived.
The scene of the murder was chaotic, and almost all the Huang family was killed except for one servant who escaped, and all their closest relatives were exterminated. The patrol officers went to the scene to investigate the bodies one by one, and found that the Huang family closets, cabinets, and dark cabinets had been excavated, and some scattered pearls and rings had fallen on the ground. I am afraid that this case is not a simple robbery, the robbers are cruel in their means of killing people, not only robbing money, but also cutting people into pieces and cutting people into several pieces, which is simply mad and unimaginable.
After the murder occurred, the county bureau ordered qian Laoding, the director of the patrol bureau, to be responsible for solving the case, and Qian Laoding came to the scene of the murder and inspected all the bodies of the victims one by one. After some investigation, it was preliminarily determined that the bandits had come to rob money and property, and second, to kill people in retaliation, and the bandits and Huang Shoucheng must have a lot of hatred.
At this time, the maid who fled into the neighbor's house to hide came to report the crime, she said the story of the robber's killing, and specially explained that the command of the murder and robbery was a black-faced man, the man ripped off his mask when killing, he was wearing a military uniform, holding a command knife, he was bitten by a wolf dog when he went upstairs, Qian Laoding could follow this clue to track down, she could identify the murderer. Qian Laoding immediately wrote down the maid's words and asked people to secretly search for the murderer. As a result, more than a month later, the whereabouts of the bandit leader remained a mystery.
The world's affairs, sometimes it is very coincidental. One day in the second month, the maid who had changed her new master took the new master's children to Shanghai for medical treatment. While the maid was shopping at a shop near the hospital, she stumbled upon a patient with a calf injury walking through the crowd. The maid fixed her eyes on it, and suddenly closed her mouth in surprise, this person was the black-faced man who had brought people into the house that night to rob and kill people. He had a leg injury, and he must have been bitten by a wolfhound.
The maid found the murderer, did not dare to call the police, she quietly followed the black-faced man, followed him all the way to his hiding place, remembered the location of the murderer's hiding place, and then the maid turned back to the police station to report the crime. The Shanghai police immediately dispatched 10 patrol officers to round him up, and when the black-faced man found that the situation was not right, the police had blocked his escape, and the patrol officers rushed up and knocked him to the ground, put handcuffs on his hands and returned to the office.
When the bandit leader was arrested, the Shanghai County Bureau issued a document to Changshu and sent someone to transfer the bandit leader back to Changshu for trial.
The bandits were arrested and repatriated, and the people of Changshu rushed to watch, vying to see what this vicious man really looked like. Who knew that after taking off the hood, everyone found that this person was not another person, it was Yan Qing, director of the Meili Town Patrol Bureau, who was a confidant of Qian Laoding, director of the Changshu Patrol Bureau, qian Laoding, who was the eldest and the second director. The Changshu County Bureau knew that this matter was bad and had a great impact, so it personally interrogated Yan Qing, and after some severe interrogation, clarified the causes and consequences of the matter:
Originally, Qian Laoding, who had made meritorious contributions to changshu and appointed himself as the head of the county self-defense regiment and the director of the patrol and defense bureau, was in chaos at that time, and soldiers and bandits were running rampant. Qian Laoding's group of people were all reckless, and later after recruiting An, they put on military uniforms and worked as Qing court guards while privately extorting and extorting money and robbing their homes. After the restoration of Changshu, Qian Laoding took the opportunity to expand his power, the bandits doubled, but the money in his hands became less and less, because he could not make ends meet, so he asked his subordinate Yan Qing to set up a sub-bureau in Meili Town, and distributed a huge amount of military pay to Huang Shoucheng, the richest man in the local area.
Huang Shoucheng, the richest man in Meili Town, inherited a huge amount of family assets, but he was stingy by nature and kept his wealth as his destiny. Yan Qing came to the door several times to ask for the apportionment of military pay, but Huang Shoucheng refused several times. When Yan Qing came to the door, he was also met with white eyes by Huang Shoucheng and his wife. Qian Laoding then asked Yan Qing to pretend to be a bandit to rob the Huang family, then wipe out his entire family, and then use the Huang family as a "homeless household" as a police salary.
It was precisely this vicious plot that eventually led Yan Qing to lead people to break into the Huang family, they brutally killed the six members of the Huang family, and then looted the silver hidden in the family, waiting for the case to be closed and selling the Huang family house. What they didn't expect was that a maid in the Huang family witnessed the tragedy, and the maid was lucky enough to escape. After the tragedy, in order to hide his eyes and ears, Yan Qing secretly went to Shanghai to treat his injured leg, but he did not expect to be accidentally bumped into by a maid, so the murderer was captured.
After Yan Qing was arrested and imprisoned, Qian Laoding visited Yan Qing in prison and promised to try to avoid his death, but he had to bear all the charges and did not allow him to bite out of himself. Qian Laoding thought that he could cover the sky with one hand, but Yan Qing's cruel behavior had already aroused strong public indignation, and the governor of the county bureau was an honest and just person who would never protect and shield his subordinates, so Yan Qing was sentenced to be shot according to the law, and the 12 soldiers who committed the crime were all arrested, the most serious ones were shot together, and the lesser crimes were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor.
In the autumn of the same year, Yan Qing and 5 of his bandits were publicly shot, and the money stolen by the Huang family was returned. After Yan Qing was shot, some of the terrified bandits confessed to Qian Laoding. The county governor asked the province for approval, led the troops to round up Qian Laoding, first dismissed all his subordinates, and then searched his home for stolen goods. Qian Laoding was placed under house arrest, three meals a day were brought in, and soldiers surrounded his house with guns and waited for the final verdict of the province.
Qian Laoding was placed under house arrest at home, originally expecting his old friends in the province to help rescue him, but he did not expect the wall to fall down and everyone pushed, at this time he was already notorious, the former friend did not fall into the well, who dared to come forward to save him? Moreover, after the restoration, many warriors committed fierce acts and plundered local rich households to arouse the indignation of the people.
In order to stabilize the situation, the authorities have made up their minds to kill a hundred people, so Qian Laoding just crashed into the muzzle of the gun, what good fruit can he eat? Qian Laoding was so worried that he became ill and hanged himself at home.
After Qian Laoding's death, the county bureau published a list of the two men's criminal acts, which calmed the people's resentment.
This case is known as the Changshu Strange Case, the six members of the Huang family were destroyed, but the chief of the patrol was the biggest evil. In order to covet selfish interests, two people who were greedy for profit went so far as to become bandits, slaughter the Huang family, and plunder their property. His heart is vicious, his deeds are cruel, his crimes are extremely great, and he enforces the law justly on the surface, but in private he is even more ruthless than the robbers, so that the director is not only not a blessing for the people, but a disaster for the people. Qian Laoding, Yan Qing, and 5 of his bandits were shot and executed, which was really self-inflicted, and there was more than enough to lose. After this case, someone wrote a poem:
The yellow and white things are the most pleasing, and the overall situation has become a thief in the second round.
The slaughter of the Huang family was the most ferocious, and the maid identified himself as being shot.
Exhort those who are greedy for money today not to leave half a penny when they die.
Since then, the Republic of China has extinguished the Menqi case and declared it closed.