In the 1860s, a Suzhou Yamen headhunter named Huang Bingquan took only 3 days to crack a bizarre treasure theft case for a famous family, which became famous in Suzhou Province for a while. His son was Jin Rong, who later became the leader of the Shanghai Youth Gang.
Shanghai Youth Gang leader Jin Rong
Huang Bingquan lived in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, and there were no great people in his ancestors, and when he reached his hands, he broke out of a little fame. In 1861, the Taiping Army and the Qing Army fought fiercely in Zhejiang, and in order to avoid the war, Huang Bingquan moved to Suzhou With his family. After being introduced, he entered the Suzhou Yamen to do fast catching, because of his outstanding ability, it did not take a few years to achieve the position of catching the head, and he was quite famous in Suzhou Province.
In Shiquan Street, Wu County, Suzhou Province, there lived a famous family named Duan Baoqing, who was said to have been a prime minister in the late Ming Dynasty, who was arrogant and arrogant, and regarded antiques as his life. He has a secret room locked by a thick iron door with a complex code, which is dedicated to his rare antiques such as pearls and jade ceramics, celebrity calligraphy and paintings.
The door lock of this secret room was extremely complicated, and even Duan Baoqing himself often could not remember these passwords, so he had to take out the password dialing order table from the compartment of the study drawer, and he could open the iron door of the secret room against this table. Moreover, even Duan Baoqing's wife could not enter the secret room, and every time he entered the secret room, he had to lock the door of the secret room from the inside, which was reassuring.
Among the many treasures treasured by Duan Baoqing's secret room, three treasures of the town house are particularly precious, and it is not too much to say that they are of great value: jasper Ruyi from the famous Ming Dynasty jade worker Shangjiulang, colored green jade Rulai Buddha, and "Jingke Thorn Qin King" vertical axis from the yuan dynasty calligrapher Zhao Mengfu. Every time he came to the Secret Room, Duan Baoqing had to carefully examine these three treasures, but one day, he suddenly found that these three treasures of the town house had disappeared! This shock, he only felt that the sky was spinning, and he almost fell to the ground.
Duan Baoqing was horrified to recall what was wrong to let people steal these three treasures of the town house, he had never let anyone into the secret room, the key to the secret room was also in his waist all year round, besides, even if the key was taken, without the password dialing order table, it would not be possible to open the iron door. Duan Baoqing couldn't think of what was going on when he wanted to break his head, so he had to go to Wu County, Suzhou Province, to report the case.
Today's Suzhou Shiquan Street
Duan Baoqing was a well-known and prestigious family in Suzhou Province, and he had a good friendship with Suzhou Prefecture Yin, and Tao Minquan, the Taiye of WuXian County, was naturally particularly dedicated to his case, but the arresters of Wu County Yamen were busy for a month and still had no clue. The county grand master Tao Minquan was dumbfounded, thinking that if he couldn't solve the case again, Suzhou FuYin would not be able to account for it. In desperation, he had no choice but to give a death order to The head catcher Hong Jinfang: If he could not get all the stolen goods within half a month, he would be removed from his post and investigated!
Under tremendous pressure, Hong Jinfang, the head of Wu County, made secret visits every day with the catchers and inspectors, and checked all the places and people that could be checked, but still did not find a trace. Hong Jinfang couldn't help but sigh, thinking that this was god not allowing him to eat this yamen's meal, so he had to think that he was unlucky! At this time, suddenly someone tapped him on the shoulder and asked, Brother, are you in any trouble?
Hong Jinfang realized that it was his old friend Huang Bingquan, the head of suzhou province, and when he saw Huang Bingquan, Hong Jinfang was overjoyed. At the beginning, Hong Jinfang had also gone to Huang Bingquan to ask Huang Bingquan for help, but unfortunately, Huang Bingquan had not returned from going out to handle the case, and now Huang Bingquan suddenly fell from the sky in front of him, how could he not be overjoyed? The enthusiastic Huang Bingquan did not say a word, and the next day rushed to Wu County Yamen to go through the formalities and volunteered to take over the case.
On the first day, Huang Bingquan took the commission and waist card, changed into the head of the arresting officer, and came to Duan Baoqing's house with Hong Jinfang, where Huang Bingquan observed in the secret room for a whole day, recording the theft process and the device of the secret room in detail. The next day, Huang Bingquan came to the Duan family again, and after investigating for a while, he brought the two elderly servants who had been in the Duan family for many years back to Yamen for interrogation. The 2 servants were frightened and sifted through the chaff and heard Huang Bingquan say that they only wanted to know about the situation from them, and they had told Huang Bingquan in detail about the situation of the various servants of the Duan family for so long.
Through the briefings of the 2 servants, Huang Bingquan had an important piece of information: 2 years ago, the Duan family had entrusted their grandmother to the little official to ask for a wet nurse named Aunt Feng, because she was neat and neat, the owner liked it, and after the child was weaned, the owner still left her at home. But unexpectedly, one night not long ago, Aunt Feng suddenly fell ill and died.
Qing Dynasty Yamen headhunter
At dawn on the third day, Huang Bingquan sent a capable catcher to find Aunt Feng's coffin, and then sent a capable female catcher to quickly wear plain clothes to approach her grandmother-in-law, and then rushed to Duan Baoqing's home again to inquire about the unlocking of the iron door of the secret room. Moreover, Huang Bingquan also learned that Aunt Feng had entered Duan Baoqing's study.
When Huang Bingquan returned to Yamen, he told him that Aunt Feng's coffin was missing; a moment later, the children's coffin also returned, saying that the grandmother was very suspicious, and that she had a dry daughter named Cuihua who was also suspicious. Huang Bingquan immediately ordered the arrest of his grandmother-in-law. After the grandmother-in-law arrived at the case, she confessed without a few tortures, saying that she was just a matchmaker, and the real mastermind of the treasure theft was her dry daughter Cuihua and her husband Wan Qiang.
Therefore, Huang Bingquan took more than a dozen capable captors to arrest Cuihua that night, and after returning to Yamen, Huang Bingquan opened the lamp for a night trial, and when he saw That Cuihua denied it, he took Cuihua to a dimly lit room, pointed to a black figure in the corner of the wall, and said, He has confessed all of them, what are you still saying? Don't die? The man in the corner of the wall came from a faint, vague voice urging her to hurry up, lest she be beaten half to death like me.
Cuihua did not know what the plan was, thinking that Wan Qiang really confessed all of them, so she had to use Wan Qiang's mastermind and grandmother-in-law as a lead, send Aunt Feng to the Duan Mansion to steal the treasure, and then kill Aunt Feng to destroy the mouth and destroy the corpse, as well as the location of the nest. It turned out that this was a "matchmaking robbery" case planned by Wan Qiang, a small leader of the Green Gang. Wan Qiang sent a capable cadre to get Aunt Feng out of the horse and asked her grandmother to introduce Aunt Feng into the Duan family, and Aunt Feng soon won the trust of the Duan family and waited for the opportunity to get the unlock dialing order table of Duan Baoqing's secret room.
Then Wan Qiang personally disguised himself as a vendor selling supper, and was quietly brought into the secret room by Aunt Feng, stealing Duan Baoqing's three treasures of the town house. Three days later, Grandma Sun invited Aunt Feng to her house in code language, and after Aunt Feng drank a cup of tea that Cuihua poured for her, she was poisoned and killed the night she returned to the Duan family. When the Duan family saw Aunt Feng die violently in the middle of the night, they quickly sent someone to inform Grandma Sun, who took another female accomplice to take the body away pretending to be Aunt Feng's relatives. As a result, Duan Baoqing's treasure of the town house was recovered by Huang Bingquan, who became famous in Suzhou for a while.