Lin Zexu is a clean and upright national hero and a master of solving strange cases. A strange case during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty made Lin Zexu, a young man who had just raised people in high school, begin to show his talent for detectives.
It is said that a bizarre case occurred during the Jiaqing period, which made Su Xidong of Zhixian County at that time anxious, and Longxi County was once panicked and the people were angry. Su Xidong had no choice but to turn to Fujian Governor Zhang Shicheng, and the patriotic hero Lin Zexu was brave and resourceful at a young age, and was appreciated by Fujian Governor Zhang Shicheng and accepted as a staff member, and he must consult him for investigation when encountering difficult cases. In the end, it was still young Lin Zexu who accurately analyzed and used the trick of luring thieves into the urn to successfully arrest the flower thief and successfully solve the case.
First, the strange case is full of doubts
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Longxi County, which was governed by Zhangzhou Prefecture, was lively and prosperous. There are many wealthy households, and there are shops everywhere. But there have been dozens of thefts and rapes here over a long period of time, mostly from wealthy families and their beautiful families.
Every time there is a theft, the rich squire is accurate, as if he already knows the rich people in Longxi's territory, the case has not been solved, the dark and panic atmosphere shrouds the county, and once the people were panicked and the people were angry.
Su Xidong, the local prefect of Zhangzhou, and Li Dong, the prefect of Zhangzhou, have been getting nothing and are in a state of distress. According to records, Guo Taishi, a giant gentleman in Longxi County at that time, was also stolen, and there were 27 thefts in the local area, and the loss of money was about 10,000 gold. So Guo Taishi asked Fujian Governor Zhang Shicheng to solve the case, and Lin Zexu, who was admitted to the exam, served as a close aide beside him.
Second, Lin Zexu made a secret investigation
Zhang Shicheng believes in Lin Zexu's detection ability, and he must consult him for investigation when encountering difficult cases, and this time is no exception. They planned not to startle the snakes first, and secretly sent two selected right-hand men to arrest Kuai Tong Shun and Zhong Wenwen as small traders to conduct low-key reconnaissance in an inn in Longxi. They took advantage of their illness to sleep during the day, and at night they went out to lurk near the rich families to secretly ambush and secretly investigate.
For several days, nothing was gained, Lin Zexu analyzed, the previous reconnaissance direction covered most of the county, but there was always something to ignore, and here were the people in the Yamen. Lin Zexu boldly guessed that Tong Shun and Zhongwen changed the direction of investigation and secretly investigated the prefecture.
One evening, when Tong Shun was patrolling the backyard of the county, he found suspicious people, dodged and peeked from time to time. So Tong Shun quietly followed and followed to a corner, where the person secretly changed his clothes and changed into black clothes and black cloth to cover his face. The masked man in black jumped into a house, and soon after that, he jumped out of the nursing home with a bag of baggage, and the thief finally appeared.
Tong Shun rushed forward to chase the thief, and after the two compared a few moves, the masked thief was eager to get out, jumped and rushed away, Tong Shun chased after him, and finally came to the back wall of the county and jumped in. Tong Shun was shocked, this flower picking thief was really a person in the county.
Third, the peak turned around, and the facts of the case surfaced
After half a month, the flower picking thief set out again, this time the whereabouts of the thieves turned out to be highly similar to the last time, after winning from the rich man's house, he finally jumped into the county courtyard wall, such a route is very strange. After Lin Zexu learned about the investigation process reported by Tong Shun and Zhong Wen, he thought that the analysis of things might be fraudulent, which was exactly a trick!
Lin Zexu rearranged the deployment and ordered the catchers to observe secretly and lurk separately, waiting for the masked man to regain his old skills. This time, when the thieves acted again, the two catchers quickly split up, and after the thieves came out of the rich man's house, Zhong Wen stayed to continue monitoring, and Tong Shun detoured to the other side of the county to wait, and sure enough, as Lin Zexu expected, after the thief entered the hospital, he passed through the hall and jumped out from the other side, so it seems that he really wants to blame the county man, Tong Shun can't help but secretly sigh at the young detective's foresight.
Tong Shun continued to secretly track the cunning thief, and this time the flower picking thief rushed all the way, unexpectedly coming to the outside of the mansion wall and jumping into the wall. At this moment, Tong Shun shot out and shot a stone with force, just hitting the thief's head, but finally let him escape and hide in the mansion. Tong Shun and Zhong Wen converged, did not dare to act rashly, and found Su Xidong to enter the mansion to quietly inquire.
After Su Xidong learned about it, he visited the mansion, secretly looked for the injured, and finally found that only the prefect Li Dong was injured in the head, so he left quietly and immediately informed Zhang Shicheng and Lin Zexu of the situation. The real flower picking thief turned out to be the prefect Li Dong, and the case surfaced, but how to get him into the case, Lin Zexu Qi attacked.
Fourth, make a strange move to lure the thief into the urn
After discussing with Lin Zexu, Zhang Shicheng put the plan into account, pretending to convict Su Xidong of the county, and informed the prefect Li Dong to arrest Su Xidong to the provincial capital for investigation, and let him personally escort him to Fuzhou. After Li Dong entered Fuzhou, he caught turtles in an urn.
After receiving the notice, Li Dong secretly thought that the plan had succeeded, and immediately went to arrest Su Xidong and personally escorted him to Fuzhou. When he arrived in Fuzhou to interrogate Su Xidong, Li Dong also ruefully escorted Su Xidong into the hall. At this moment, Inspector Zhang, who was sitting in the hall, ordered people to take Li Dong down and successfully captured the real flower picking thief in one fell swoop.
V. Closure of the Case
After interrogation, it was learned that Li Dong was originally a big pirate in the East China Sea, and his pirate life allowed him to accumulate a lot of stolen money. Later, after getting acquainted with an official, when the imperial court was short of funds, he brought a huge amount of money into the capital, bought the Beijing official, and donated the post of Zhangzhou prefect, thus becoming the prefect of Sipin.
After taking office, Li Dong was difficult to change his thiefdom, and he felt that the money from the prefecture was too slow, so he set his sights on the rich and large households in the city, so he began to live a stimulating life as a prefect during the day and a thief at night. Under the guise of the prefect, no one doubted that the theft had been going smoothly, and he also raped the female relatives of the rich family, and had the name of a flower picker. He thought that with such good conditions, he would be seamless and never exposed. But I never expected that it fell into the hands of Lin Zexu, a young detective wizard, and ended up in prison.
In short, after this strange case, Lin Zexu's detection ability was recognized by many people, especially Zhang Shicheng, the governor of Fujian at that time, was very appreciative, thinking that this young man could be reused, and he was unanimously promoted and reused in the career path, basically teaching it like an apprentice.
Lin Zexu was born during the reign of Qianlong, his father opened a private school, and when Lin Zexu was born, his family was in the middle of the road and he was in debt, and his mother relied on female red to help support him. The poverty of the family made Lin Zexu precocious and hardworking, and Xu's father was attentive to his son's education, so Lin Zexu grew up in private school since he was a child, and at the age of eight or nine he had a certain writing ability, and wrote the verse "The sea to the endless sky commits crimes, and the mountain climbs to the top of me as the peak", which was a blockbuster.
Lin Zexu successfully won the township examination with excellent results, only nineteen years old, and became a staff member of Zhang Shicheng's inspector and received weight. Zhang Shicheng cultivated Lin Zexu as a confidant and passed on many years of experience as an official, which was Lin Zexu's Bole. He demonstrated his military talent in the later suppression of the pirate rebellion and was put to good use.