Talk about the mysterious Taiyuan case, which is the least well-known among the four major cases in the late Qing Dynasty.

"Four Mysteries in the Late Qing Dynasty" refers to four bizarre and complicated cases that occurred in China after Cixi came to power, that is, during Tongzhi and Guangxu years. Generally speaking, these four major cases are Wenxiang Zhang's horse stabbing case, Yang Naiwu and Cai Xiao's case, the famous actress Yang Yuelou's unjust case and Taiyuan's case. These four cases are complicated, and there are twists and turns in the process of investigation and finalization. Some cases even involve the intervention of the ruling high-level, which is still debated by the world.

However, among these four cases, Taiyuan Strange Case lags far behind the other three cases in popularity, influence, social coverage and discussion. Many experts and scholars believe that the Taiyuan strange case is not a real case at all.

The mysterious case in Taiyuan is complicated, and the relationship between the characters is complicated. The general situation is this: there is a millionaire named Zhang Million in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, who betrothed his second daughter, Yuzhu, to Cao. But then the Cao family fell, and Zhang Million was too poor to love the rich, so he went back on his word and married his second daughter to the Yao family. I didn't expect this second lady to be a spoony and virtuous Lord. She would rather die than surrender, and she is determined to talk to her fiance Cao. So with the help of the maid, she eloped with Cao on the eve of her wedding and prepared to go to Chen Dijie, an old friend of Cao's family in Jiaocheng County. When they were resting in a tofu shop before leaving the city, the owner Mo Laohan and his daughter sympathized with their experience and lent them the donkey when they left.

In a word, Zhang Million's daughter disappeared before she got married. Thinking that she had gone to her sister Kim's house, she took someone to find her eldest daughter's house. I don't want to catch up with my eldest daughter, Zhu Jin, who is having an affair with that monk. In desperation, Zhu Jin hid the monk in the closet. Zhang Million mistakenly thought that his second daughter was hiding in the closet, so he took her back to Zhangfu and pried open the lock, only to find that she was a monk who was bored to death! In order to stop the scandal of the eldest daughter and to perfuse the Yao family, Zhang Million lied that Yuzhu died of a sudden illness, and put the "dead monk" in a wedding dress and put it in the mourning hall.

I don't want this monk to be in a coma. He's not really dead. In the middle of the night, the monk woke up from a coma, escaped from Zhangfu, went out of the city, and happened to stop at Mo Laohan's tofu shop. In the tofu shop, he changed his ordinary clothes and fled back to the temple, but he began to flirt with women on the way, and was killed by her husband butcher Wu and abandoned in the corpse well.

Soon the monk's body was found. As we all know, Zhang Million's daughter died. Yang Zhongmin, the county magistrate of Quxian County, held a public hearing to hear the case. Some residents identified the monk's body as Mo Laohan's clothes. Anxious to solve the case, Yang Zhongmin identified Mo Laohan as the murderer and beat Mo Laohan to force him to confess.

A few days later, Cao returned to Taiyuan from Jiaocheng to return the donkey to Mo Laohan. Knowing that Mo Laohan was deeply imprisoned, he pleaded for him. Although the county magistrate knew the grievances, he was afraid of extorting confessions by torture, so he made a mistake and made Cao an accomplice. When the maid visited the prison, Cao told her that on the same day after Wu Tu was killed, he moved to Jinci. When Cao returned to Taiyuan, he passed Wu Tu's hotel. Wu Tu made a slip of the tongue after drinking, exposing his secret of killing the monk. So the servant girl called Wu, the butcher of Jinci, and rushed to Jiaocheng to inform Yuzhu. As it happens, Chen, the magistrate of Jiaocheng County, was promoted to Shanxi, where he was appointed as Taiyuan, where he personally tried the case. His grievances were cleared, and all shall be well, jack shall have Jill.

The case is complicated enough, but after careful understanding, you will find that this Taiyuan mystery is a very common story of selling the poor and loving the rich in traditional Chinese opera. The main characters are the victim's son, the spoony young lady, and a loyal and intelligent girl, who has gone through twists and turns and has her own heart. In addition, the ambiguity between the young lady and the monk is also a gimmick, which is easy to be bec

. In addition, this case has not caused a sensation in society. The horse stabbing cases of Zhang Wenxiang, Yang Naiwu, Pakchoi and Yang Yuelou all caused a sensation in the society at that time, and their influence was far beyond the scope of a province, which not only alarmed the ruling high-level, but also the actual ruler Cixi at that time intervened more or less. However, the highest department involved in the Taiyuan strange case is Shanxi's arrest and inspection office, which is equivalent to the current Supreme Court of Shanxi Province.

And at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many new things were introduced into China, such as new media newspapers and new technology photography. The other three cases were widely reported in the newspaper at that time, and many people in the society published articles in the newspaper to judge. These news reports can be found now, but there is no Taiyuan mystery and no new media reports.

In a word, the importance, popularity and influence of the strange case in Taiyuan are far less than those of the other three cases. The case of Taiyuan Mystery Case is more like a very ordinary drama story, and it is more like being added to make up for the "Four Mysteries".