If it were not for these two movies and TV series, Ma Xinyi would most likely be buried in the lengthy Qing history draft, Ma Xinyi became a scumbag who forgot his friends in the thorn horse case, and the assassin Zhang Wenxiang became a big hero who was willing to be righteous with his blade.
Politics is a thing, black can be said to be white, upright people can be said to be treacherous villains, to see that it meets the needs of people at the highest level. A dignified feudal official, who dominates one side, but does not even have the basic security force in place, let an unruly assassin easily succeed, the water is too deep. Regardless of which, Ma Xinyi is a Hui, how did he stand out and become a prince of the party?
Ma Xinyi Character Gu Shan, Yanmen, Shandong Heze people, the family situation is very ordinary, has been growing up unremarkably, and most people, painstakingly read the four books, five classics and eight strands of text, in the 27th year of Daoguang, in 1847 passed the entrance examination. When a jinshi gets his hand, it is equivalent to crossing the threshold of being an official. In just 49 years of life, Ma Xinyi's promotion speed was like a rocket, from Zhixian to the envoy, the envoy, the inspector, and finally to the highest peak - the viceroy of Liangjiang. At the age of 49, it was the age of the man who was rich and powerful, but it was unfortunately destroyed by a broken knife by the assassin Zhang Wenxiang.
After he passed the entrance examination, he was assigned to Zhi County in Anhui Province, working in Jianping and Hefei first, he was particularly eager for meritorious names, worked particularly diligently, that is, he had been busy in the office for several days and did not go home, and was a workaholic who implemented 996.
In 1853, the burning momentum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom burned all over the Central Plains, and the times created heroes, and the people from all sides who accumulated thick and thin hair came out one after another, taking chestnuts in the fire, smashing their heads into it as chips, winning the high-ranking official Houlu, and losing a big deal and having no brains. The Taiping Army attacked Anhui, and the bandits in the north and south of the Huai River rose up, and Ma Xinyi, Zhixian County, Hefei, keenly felt that it was faster to be a civilian official than to be a military general to win fame and fortune! He used the resources at his disposal to recruit warriors, buy weapons and equipment, practice regularly, and prepare for battle.
In the fifth year of Xianfeng, Ma Xinyi followed the Qinchao chancellor Yuan Jiasan to lead troops to attack the Taiping Army in Chaohu, Luzhou, Ma Xinyi was able to wenneng wu, quite a military, led the army to defeat the Taiping army that came to help, attacked the Taiping army of Shengjiaqiao, Sanhe Town, and Gargao, and cooperated with Yuan Jiasan to conquer Luzhou, from Zhi County to prefect, and obtained Hua Ling. In the seventh year of Xianfeng, the Twist Army and the Taiping Army attacked Taozhen and attacked the upper and lower rivers, and Ma Xinyi learned that he led his troops to break the Twist Army and the Taiping Army at Shucheng.
Often defeating the Taiping Army, making Ma Xinyi a little drifty, but don't forget that the Taiping Army is not a vegetarian at all, as long as they have contempt for them, they will pay a very heavy price, Ma Xinyi, who was promoted to the post of envoy, soon encountered an opponent of the emperor's superstar level, Chen Yucheng, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ma Xinyi and Chen Yucheng met in Luzhou for a big battle, Chen Yucheng used his troops to be cunning, did not face the duel head-on, but appeared from a remote path, attacked Luzhou, Ma Xinyi's army collapsed, the official seal was also removed, the imperial court immediately removed his official position, and Dai Sin stayed in office. Until the Xianfeng decade, after the protection of his good partner and good boss Yuan Jiasan, Ma Xinyi resumed his original post.
In the first year of tongzhi, Ma Xinyi followed Yuan Jiasan to conquer Luzhou again, and was promoted from an envoy to a political envoy, equivalent to the current governor, Miao Peilin rebelled, ma Xinyi and inspector Tang Xunfang defended the city, leaving the Miao army to return in vain. In the Tongzhi Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which lasted for more than ten years, was finally extinguished, but the Qing Dynasty was not happy, and everywhere was a wasteland poisoned by the flames of war.
The imperial court was worried about internal and external troubles, and while it wanted to fight, it was also necessary to appease the people's livelihood that had been breathless because of the war, and why the people rebelled, it was not that they could not go on. Realizing this, the imperial court carried out a large number of campaigns to buy people's hearts. Among them, the tax reduction campaign is the most important, mainly to check the grain in the ground and reduce the excess floating income. In the second year of Tongzhi, the imperial court originally put Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, in charge of this matter, but Zuo Zongtang wanted to go to Fujian to suppress bandits, and the matter of reducing taxes was handed over to Ma Xinyi, the newly appointed governor of Zhejiang.
In the ten years of Tongzhi, Ma Xinyi began to conduct tax reduction investigations in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Huzhou, and then asked the imperial court for approval, and in May, according to the percentage that Zhejiang Cao should levy, according to the ratio of 8/30, all the grain in Zhejiang was reduced, and Zhejiang levied a total of more than 1.1 million stones of cao rice, except for 130,000 stones that could not be reduced, the remaining 260,000 stones that should be subtracted were subtracted, and the imperial court approved Ma Xinyi's plan and implemented it.
In fact, before the Taiping Rebellion, Zhejiang had a great problem of floating income, And Ma Xinyi also knew this, he first went to investigate, after understanding clearly, he formulated a charter, summed up is 3 points: First, normal taxes should be collected or collected, only the taxes of Hangjia Lake should be subtracted; second, all bad regulations are prohibited, leaving only a little as office expenses; third, there will be no distinction between large and small households, and the unified should pay as much as they want.
Through accounting, Hangzhou can reduce the floating harvest by 60,000 stones, Jiaxing by 280,000 stones, and Huzhou by 130,000 stones, a total reduction of 480,000 stones. Ma Xinyi has greatly alleviated the very serious grain tax crisis in Zhejiang Province.
In addition to reducing the floating harvest of grain, the two Huai salt laws were also formulated, and Ma Xinyi's achievements in river work were quite good.
In addition to the war and the river conservancy, the biggest headache of the imperial court is not a joke, and a little carelessness will lead to the destruction of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, which will cause turmoil. The stakes in Zhejiang's haitang are high, but they are no joke. Ma Xinyi not only sat in his office and pointed fingers and played tricks, he personally led Duan Guangqing, Hangjiahu Daosu Shijing and others to investigate along the side of the river pond, and as soon as they investigated, they found big problems, from Li Jiaxun to Jianshan. In the more than 150-mile section, the gap in Shitang has exceeded 100. How did this come about? Ma Xinyi decided to set up a general bureau in the provincial capital, and let Jiang Yifeng and Gao Qingpei prepare for the work needs and handle the restoration project with Su Shijing and others. Ma Xinyi himself drew a pattern of the gap in the sea pond, reported it to the imperial court, and then inspected the river workers once a month to check whether they cut corners and whether the officials were conscientious of their duties.
In the sixth year of Tongzhi, Ma Xinyi and Wu Tang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, inspected Haitang and inspected the project, starting from Lijiabu in Renhe County, circling the Jianshan Mountain in Coastal Ningzhou to Haiyan, inspecting Haitang for more than 140 miles, and allocating 800,000 taels per year. It was not until December that Haitang was about to be completed, and Ma Xinyi applied for the Western Defense Project to start, but he left his post from Inspector of Zhejiang to governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and before he left, he explained that the section of the Haitang Project had been completed by more than 70%, and the task had been completed with quality and quantity. In addition to repairing the sea pond, Ma Xinyi also paid special attention to the maintenance of daily river channels, Wucheng and Changxing Counties in Huzhou, Taihu Lake, are silted up, Ma Xinyi dispatched in many ways, not only from the imperial court to ask for money, but also to find rich people to ask for money to donate, dredging and sinking sand.
Ma Xinyi not only attaches importance to water conservancy, but he takes into account the actual situation, the imperial court now has no money, everywhere uses money, Hanlin Yuan said to spend a huge amount of money to restore the huaihe river old road, Ma Xinyi did not agree, because the restoration of the Huai river first wants to dredge the Yellow River, this is a super giant project, to millions of two smashed into it, the imperial court has no money, so it can only be prioritized first, the river that is in urgent need of dredging is on the line, and the rest are slow.
In August of the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), Ma Xinyi was transferred to the post of Governor of Liangjiang and Minister of Trade and Commerce.
This official achieved this point by relying on countless political achievements, if there is no accident, he can be ranked with Zeng ZuoHu Li as a famous minister of Zhongxing, but he did not expect to be easily robbed of his meritorious name by a broken knife.
On July 26, the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), Ma Xinyi went to the west side of the official office to train soldiers in archery, and walked back to the official office after the end. Just walked to the door, a person like a ghost broke through the defense, close behind, suddenly drew a knife and stabbed at Ma Xinyi's armpit, Ma Xinyi was caught off guard, a long howl was paralyzed on the ground, unable to move, the assassin had sneered and put down the knife, surrounded by the guards, and confessed that he was Zhang Wenxiang.
This is the famous thorn horse case, the water in it is too deep, I will not elaborate, just a capable feudal official, there will never be any further possibility.