The "Thorn Horse Case" is no stranger to everyone, it is called the "Four Strange Cases of the Late Qing Dynasty" together with the "Yang Naiwu and the Little Cabbage Case", the "Famous Yang Yuelou Case" and the "Taiyuan Case".
Thorn horses, thorn horses, this ''horse'' but there is a big deal, that is, Ma Xinyi, the governor of Liangjiang at that time, what did this Ma Xinyi do in Liangjiang before he was assassinated, so that he invited the disaster of killing himself.
To figure this out, we must first let everyone know what the concept of the seat he was sitting in at the time was.
The Viceroy of Liangjiang was one of the nine most senior feudal ministers of the Qing Dynasty. He is in charge of the military and civilian affairs of Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces, and the official residence is from Yipin. It can be seen that the position of the Viceroy of Liangjiang at that time, this "Two Rivers" refers to Jiangnan and Jiangxi, jiangsu and Anhui before they were separated, both belonged to Jiangnan Province. What is this governor here for? The main duty is to manage military affairs, concurrently manage grain and wages, salt administration, and other administrative affairs, that is, the military and government are grasped by the military and the government as we are talking about now.
Among the nine viceroys in the history of the Qing Dynasty, the viceroy directly subordinate to the viceroy and the viceroy of Liangjiang were the two most powerful local officials in the north and the south, and generally also served as the minister of the south and the north, taking the viceroy of Liangjiang as an example, his territory was the rich and powerful land of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan Needless to say, since its development, it has been called 'the land of fish and rice', when the Qing Dynasty conducted each scientific expedition, the number of people on the list in Jiangnan Province was close to half of the number of people on the national list, and there was also the saying of ''the world's talents, half out of Jiangnan'."
This kind of good place where people are brilliant, and the GDP is also too high. Although Jiangxi is slightly inferior, in general, it is mixed in this position, and life is more moist than that of the governor directly under the governor. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, the Governor's Palace was once moved to Nanchang and renamed the Viceroy of Jiangxi. This was also the ruler's sake for the stability of his rule, but by the Kangxi period the two provinces were under the jurisdiction of the Viceroy of Liangjiang.
It is now clear that this is equivalent to the head of a modern province, even more powerful than the governor, and the fiscal revenue paid by the three provinces under its jurisdiction accounts for one-third of the central revenue. Then everyone should think about it, what kind of noodles does the governor travel? Ma Xinyi in the late Qing Dynasty must have been even bigger, such an important figure, such a big pomp, Ma Xinyi was actually assassinated? Anyone who listens to it will think that this must be catty.
With the progress of the case, the main criminal, Zhang Wenxiang, confessed the motive for the crime in three words and two words -- revenge and private anger.
Such a big case, such a simple reason, so the wild history is endless: Ma Xinyi was originally a defeated general in the war against bandits, and the reason why he was prosperous and prosperous was obtained by falsely reporting military merit and marrying the powerful. After he failed to suppress the bandits and was captured, he later married a brother with the bandit leader in order to save his life, and then his brother directed a farce of Ma Xinyi's recovery of the lost land, deceived the imperial court, and thus climbed to the high position of the feudal governor step by step.
After the flying yellow Tengda, those brothers who thought they could cling to him came all the way to surrender. Kema Xinyi was not the kind of person who shared wealth with his brothers, not only that, he also designed to kill his brothers and dominate his wife's room. Zhang Wenxiang escaped his clutches for accidental reasons, and only then did he make this big case of revenge for the thorn horse.
Based on the above factors, many people do not know much about the historical Ma Xinyi, here we still have to emphasize to you that there is still a difference between the image of literature and art and the image of historical figures, sometimes the image of literature and art is very close to historical figures, and sometimes even in the opposite direction, so we must look at it correctly.
The real Ma Xinyi is definitely different from what everyone knows.
Ma Xinyi's family was an official in the ancestors, and his talent was good, so he was admitted to the jinshi at the age of 27, and after the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Ma Xinyi also began to make meritorious achievements, because of his meritorious counterinsurgency, his reputation was greatly shocked, he was first promoted to the prefect of Luzhou, then he served as an envoy to Anhui, an envoy to Anhui, and then an inspector of Zhejiang. Because of his outstanding political achievements, in 1867 Ma Xinyi was promoted to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and then only half a year later, he was transferred to the governor of Liangjiang.
During his tenure, he not only did not do those so-called bad things, but also actively developed the local economy, actively dealt with the maladministration of water transport, salt administration and river work, and in some aspects of governance, it can be said that he did his best, and at the same time he also made a lot of achievements. For the sake of the people, many people's livelihood problems have been solved.
Everyone also knows that just after experiencing the baptism of war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, bandits in the Jiangnan area were rampant, and the people were not happy, and despite the rectification of Zeng Guofan, it was still a mess in ma Xinyi's hands, so his task was to clean up this mess.
First, he reorganized and trained the army. Through the imperial court, 2,500 elite soldiers were selected from various battalions of the Xiang Army in Jiangnan, personally trained, and the chief soldier Liu Qi led the search and arrest of violators; these were the troops of the real imperial court, and this practice of course caused harm to some people in the Xiang Army.
In view of the problem that a large amount of land is abandoned and no one has planted it, Ma Xinyi ordered: First determine who owns the land, and the old landlords who have been abandoned before must cooperate with the government to determine ownership, otherwise they will be punished. In the end, it was determined that there was no lord of the land, and the government came forward to recruit people to reclaim it. It is stipulated that whether it is a person from this province or another province, as long as he is willing to cultivate the land, the government will give the greatest preferential treatment.
In order to reflect fairness, Ma Xinyi stipulated that military officers from other provinces who came to Jiangsu were not allowed to reclaim land, which also maximized the benefits to the peasants. After a series of measures were introduced, many ordinary people who were originally worried about it were relieved, the owners of the original land returned, and the displaced people also had the enthusiasm to cultivate the land. Jiangsu's agriculture has gradually recovered its vitality and developed, and objectively speaking, Ma Xinyi has a great merit.
In addition, Ma Xinyi was an upright official, and when he arrived in Jiangsu, he went around impeaching officials who were ineffective in handling affairs, and showed no mercy. Because Ma Xinyi was the governor of Liangjiang, his face was big, and he was accurate with one bullet, the officials were afraid of Ma Xinyi, and they also converged a lot. But this also laid a hidden danger for his later accidents.
In addition, he also advocated cultivating people's livelihood and reducing the burden on the people, and where floods often occurred, Ma Xinyi provided timely relief, which won the hearts of the people. In terms of resuming agricultural production, Ma Xinyi inherited Zeng Guofan's policy of opening up pits and wastelands during the Liangjiang Period, and took advantage of the harvest year to collect grain for relief and relief in the year of poor harvest. Ma Xinyi also paid great attention to the construction of water conservancy. In the ninth year of Tongzhi, Ma Xinyi went to the field many times to investigate, "Draining water and obstructing many obstacles, discussing the dredging of this river to benefit the people", but before he could carry it out, he was assassinated.
Therefore, during his tenure as governor of Liangjiang, Ma Xinyi not only did not do anything bad, but instead dutifully did things for the people. That is why such a good official was assassinated, and it is almost certain that his actions touched the interests of some local groups.