Friends of the post-70s and early 80s who still remember this TV series "Thorn Horse", the theme song "Joke About Life" sung by Rowan is very emotional when you think of it.
Ma Xinyi, Zhang Wenxiang, He Lan, Zhao Xiaochan, and Hong Xuanjiao... Brotherhood, wife-snatching hate, deduction of the three points of the wood... The tragic ending is tragic and tragic, but also makes people sigh...
The "Thorn Horse Case", that is, the assassination of Ma Xinyi, the governor of Liangjiang, was heard in the heavens and rumors in the world at that time, and later became one of the four strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, juxtaposed with the "Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage Case", the "Famous Yang Yuelou Case" and the "Taiyuan Case".
For example, in 1973, the Shaw film "Thorn Horse" directed by Zhang Che and starring David Jiang, Dillon and Chen Guantai; the 1992 Taiwanese TV series "Thorn Horse" starring Jiang David and Li Wanhua; and the 2007 blockbuster "Letter of Submission" starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Jin Chengwu , which is also based on the thorn horse case.
Is it justified that so many soldiers were on the spot that an assassin could easily run to the Governor of Liangjiang? What is even more elusive is that the Assassins do not seem to be in a hurry to escape after the assassination. Instead, they went to the soldiers who had come to arrest him, announced the crimes of their governor, and slowly and methodically stated them. Some people said that the imperial court transferred Zeng Guofan to be the governor directly subordinate to the court, which was a strategy for transferring the tiger away from the mountain. Using a new man, Ma Xinyi, to pick up his Viceroy of Liangjiang, sit on an equal footing with him, and was the imperial court's pawn in the territory of the Xiang Army. Take the horse to try the reflection of the Xiang army, and sure enough, the Xiang army gave a counterattack.
Cixi's entanglement can be imagined, because this transfer of Zeng and Ma's position was precisely from Cixi's hand. The stabbing, but the small lotus showed its sharp horns. If one is not handled properly, a mutiny in the Xiang Army is also possible. It is said that when Cixi asked Ma Xinyi to take over as the governor of Liangjiang, she received a secret decree, and she asked Ma to sabotage the Xiang army and reduce the influence of the Xiang army. Second, by the way, find out where the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went when the Tianjing City fell. Of course, Cixi herself did not dare to poke this honeycomb, but she also wanted to touch the bottom of the Xiang Army. If you happen to catch the handle in your hand, you will be able to control Zeng Guofan in the future, which is really a good idea!
"Submission of Names", the prototype of Pang Qingyun played by Jet Li is Ma Xinyi
After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, people rumored that Zeng Guofan had ambitions, but in fact, his subordinates had already instigated him to seek the throne. During the battle against the Taiping Army, the Qing court had to rely on the Xiang Army, but now that the Taiping Army was "flattened", she could allow Zeng Guofan to sit in the southeast of Jiangnan with a tiger lying in the southeast, and she was not at ease sleeping. So she transferred Zeng Guofan away from Jiangning, sent Ma Xinyi to be the governor of Liangjiang, and quickly dismissed the Xiang army.
Jiangning was captured by the Xiang army, and liangjiang had always been regarded as private land by the Xiang army, and they had operated there for several years, so how could they easily give it to Ma Xinyi. Ma Xinyi, who had not had his own army for decades, came to Jiangning alone, like entering the Dragon Pond Tiger's Den. When Ma Xinyi was assassinated, the imperial court knew in its heart that in order not to provoke a mutiny and shake the rule of the Qing Dynasty, it quickly transferred Zeng Guofan back to Jiangning to sit in the town. Since then, the throne of the Viceroy of Liangjiang has long been in the hands of the Xiang clan, and others dare not ask for help.
After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the inferiority of the Xiang army was fully exposed, and they were even more ferocious than the bandits, and they blatantly plundered. After the implementation of the system of reducing courage and changing soldiers at the end of the Qing Dynasty, tens of thousands of Xiang soldiers and soldiers were dismissed, including many generals. These people did not return to their villages to farm, but wandered around and plundered. Some people participated in the Brotherhood, and some were originally members of the Brotherhood. The dismantling of the Xiang Army expanded the black forces, and the scattered soldiers and brave soldiers combined with the black forces and became a major public nuisance in society. Ma Xinyi was very severe in punishing the scattered soldiers, especially when he appointed Yuan Baoqing, who was known for his fierceness, as the chief of the battalion affairs office, and when he caught the scattered soldiers who harmed the people and committed illegal acts, he immediately corrected the law on the spot. The stragglers and the black forces hated him to the bone.
Yan Shizhang, who had given Sun Yiyan a voice, was quite scheming, and he wrote a "Diary of a Journey to the South", which recorded the whole process of going to Ningning. According to his great-grandson Yan Mugao, the diary read: "The horse stabbing case is related to the Xiang Army. "There are big men behind the horse stabbing case."
Zhang Wenshu assassinated Ma Xinyi and pounced on the heavily guarded governor's office. Immediately after Ma Xinyi was stabbed, there was a drama of the "thorn horse case" being staged, and it was the time of the township examination, and Yin Zhaoyong, a scholar and government in Anhui Province, came up with a test question, and even made a mocking remark; Qiao Songnian also came to join in the fun and wrote a crooked poem to testify, and the general of the Xiang Army erected a monument to Zhang Wen in detail, and so on. All of this shows that the horse stabbing case was a planned and organized political murder. From the implementation of the case to the strong cooperation of public opinion, as well as the meticulous planning of the trial and the shrewd design of the conclusion of the case, it shows that it comes from the hands of a high person.
Regarding the truth about Zhang Wenxiang's horse assassination case, it is said that the public is justified and the wife is justified, and the correct history of the Qing Dynasty is that because Zhang Wenxiang "slipped through the net and rebelled against the pirates" and held a grudge against Ma Xinyi for "suppressing bandits", he assassinated Ma Xinyi.
The history of Noji and some literary and artistic works with a background in this case say that Ma Xinyi is a fishing friend, like a beast. It is said that Ma Xinyi befriended the "bandits" Babai during the "suppression of bandits", and with the help of the "bandits" fabricated lies to deceive the Qing government, obtained the military merits of "suppressing bandits", and thus promoted to a higher rank and became rich, but later killed the "bandits" who were kind to him, and occupied his wife. Zhang Wenxiang slipped through the net in Ma Xinyi's massacre, so he took revenge and assassinated Ma Xinyi.
Modern historians have concluded through the study of Qing history that Ma Xinyi probably followed Empress Dowager Cixi's secret intention to investigate the wealth accumulated by Hong Xiuquan during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement that Zeng Guofan had collected, because Zeng Guofan did not hand over all the wealth he had collected to the Qing government, but instead enriched himself and left the vast majority of it. Just when Ma Xinyi was about to investigate clearly, the Zhang Wenxiang horse assassination case occurred, so the black hand behind this case should be the Xiangjun group led by Zeng Guofan.
More than a hundred years have passed since the Zhang Wenxiang horse assassination case, and when the case occurred, people could not understand the truth of the Zhang Wenxiang horse assassination case, the matter has passed for so long, and now people are only speculating everything from the only words left in history, so the truth of the Zhang Wenxiang horse assassination case can be said to be a flower in the fog, it is really not clear.