Chapter two hundred and eighty second hidden treasure secret
"Miao Lao, is there anything else worth saying about Ma Xinyi?"!
Qin Feng looked at Miao Liuzhi with some doubts. Although Ma Xinyi was a high official in the Qing court at that time, his power and reputation in later generations were far inferior to those of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang. He was not even comparable to Zhang Zhidong.
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Therefore, Qin Feng didn't understand why Miao Liuzhi was so interested in Ma Xinyi's house. To say that thieves do not make short work, the man in front of him is the real ancestor of thieves. Miao Liuzhi must have a reason for doing what he did.
Hearing Qin Feng's question, Miao Liuzhi didn't give in and said, "Master Qin, you are right. Ma Xinyi's fortune came with the pacification of the Taiping Army..."
In 1853, the third year of Xianfeng reign in the Qing Dynasty, when Ma Xinyi was appointed magistrate of Hefei County, he led troops with the Imperial Envoy Yuan Jiasan to quell the rebellion of the Taiping Army, and broke through the Shengjiaqiao, Sanhe Town and other strongholds occupied by the Taiping Army.
Later, Luzhou City was occupied by the Taiping Army. He recruited brave men and trained them to defeat them.
Because the Taiping Army had just arrived, Ma Xinyi temporarily avoided their attack. Later, taking advantage of their unpreparedness, he set fire to the Taiping Army camp at night, defeated the Taiping Army, and captured Luzhou. Because of his contribution to quelling the Taiping Army, he was promoted to the prefect of Luzhou.
In the eighth year of Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, when Ma Xinyi was appointed as the inspector, Shucheng, Lu'an and other prefectures and counties were lost. Chen Yucheng led his army to attack Luzhou. Ma Xinyi accompanied the Qing soldiers to fight, and was severely defeated by the Taiping army.
Luzhou was again occupied by the Taiping Army. Therefore, he was dismissed by the Qing government and remained in office. In the 10th year of Xianfeng reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial Envoy Yuan Jiasan recommended Ma Xinyi to be reinstated.
In the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Ma Xinyi went home for a hundred days to attend the funeral, and went to the camp to handle military affairs. He was stationed in Luzhou, Fengyang, and Yingchuan military preparation roads. In the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Ma Xinyi defeated the Taiping Army in Mengcheng and was promoted to the chief envoy of Anhui.
After that, Ma Xinyi rose through the ranks. In February of the seventh year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, he was appointed governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. In August, he was appointed governor of Liangjiang and minister of commerce. He was in the limelight for a while.
But throughout Ma Xinyi's family history, he had a constant relationship with the Taiping Army. Until he was assassinated, there was still the shadow of the Taiping Army behind him.
"Miao Miao, this guy named Ma is very powerful."
Xie Xuan, who was driving, listened with great interest. His favorite thing in the past was listening to books on Jintian Antique Street, but he rarely talked about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
"Lao Miao, why are you talking about this?"
Qin Feng was a little confused about what Miao Liuzhi meant. Ma Xinyi had been dead for 123 years, so how did he get rich and have nothing to do with him?
"Master Qin, do you know how Ma Xinyi died?" Miao Liuzhi smiled but did not answer.
"How he died is none of my business?"
Qin Feng shook his head. If he, Ma Xinyi, could survive until now, maybe Qin Feng would be surprised.
But how he died has nothing to do with him.
"Ma Xinyi died at the hands of Cixi!"
Miao Liuzhi's eyes flashed. This secret had been buried in his heart for more than half a century, and this was the first time he told it to outsiders.
"Cixi? Cixi killed a lot of people back then, so what's there to talk about these old ladies?"
Qin Feng was a little dissatisfied with Miao Liuzhi's words. When he saw the car arriving at Panjiayuan, he waved his hand and said, "Old Miao, let's go to the store first and make a payment of two million for you. You can go and trade with Ma Yuetian tomorrow."
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"Okay, don't regret not asking." Miao Liuzhi was almost injured internally by Qin Feng and had a hard time telling him this old secret, but Qin Feng still didn't want to hear it.
The old man was so angry that he simply stopped talking and got out of the car. He came to "Zhen Yufang" and talked to the finance manager. The finance manager quickly went to the bank. Qin Feng made several copies of his ID card, and now he was free.
Come down.
"Miao Lao, you haven't finished telling your story yet. Why did Cixi and her ladies want to kill Ma Xinyi?"
Qin Feng had forgotten about that incident, but Xie Xuan, who liked listening to stories, kept it in his mind. After a few people went up to the second floor to make a pot of tea, he brought up the topic again.
"Some people don't want to listen..." Miao Liuzhi glanced at Qin Feng and said angrily: "The old man doesn't want to talk anymore."
"Old Miao, please don't provoke me. I'm really not interested in this part..." Qin Feng smiled, poured a cup of tea for Miao Liuzhi, and said: "It happened more than a hundred years ago, and we
What does it matter?"
Qin Feng is now waiting for the finance department to handle the payment. Tomorrow he and Xie Xuan will go their separate ways.
In addition to the 2.4 million used in dividends and the 2 million used to purchase the courtyard house, the remaining 16 to 7 million must be taken out.
You know, the money also includes part of Fang Yazhi's payment for goods. When such a large sum of money is involved, Qin Feng is a little distracted from other things.
"Master Qin, don't tell me, it really has something to do with us."
Miao Liuzhi also saw that Qin Feng was not focused on this, and immediately lost his grudge, saying directly: "Ma Xinyi received a secret order from Cixi back then, asking him to investigate the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
"The treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?"
Hearing the last few words of Miao Liuzhi's words, Qin Feng, who was still absentminded at first, his eyes suddenly widened and he said: "Old Miao, is it true or not? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom looted countless people, but in the end there was no treasure.
You know where it went, is it in the hands of Ma Xinyi?"
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a leading group composed of Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, and Shi Dakai, who launched an armed confrontation against the Manchu Qing court in Jintian Village, Guangxi. They later established their country as "Taiping Heaven" and captured Jinling in 1853, known as Tianjing.
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At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept almost half of China, destabilizing the Aisin Gioro kingdom. Although it failed in the end, the eight-year war allowed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to plunder huge wealth.
You must know that at that time, almost all of the richest provinces in the country were captured by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. They also made their own currency to trade with foreign countries, and established holy treasuries to store treasures.
However, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell apart, the treasures in the holy treasury mysteriously disappeared. No matter how the Qing court interrogated and captured important Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officials, they could not find out the whereabouts of those treasures.
In later generations, even the copper coins circulating in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were very rare and therefore extremely valuable. It can be said that everything about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a mystery, and as for those treasures, it is a mystery within a mystery.
"I don't know if it's in Ma Xinyi's hands or not." Miao Liuzhi shook his head and said, "But I believe Ma Xinyi knows about those treasures..."
"Then why haven't we heard any news about the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the past hundred years?"
Qin Feng took a deep breath. What Miao Liuzhi said was really shocking. Whoever can get those treasures can become rich immediately.
"Let's start from the beginning. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry..." Seeing Qin Feng's anxious look, Miao Liuzhi laughed, but still told the story clearly.
It turned out that during the war to annihilate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army Group rapidly expanded and its military strength was second to none in the country. This also made the Qing court feel uneasy.
Empress Dowager Cixi promoted Ma Xinyi with the intention of restricting Zeng Guofan.
However, the Empress Dowager Cixi never expected that although Ma Xinyi was respectful to the court on the surface, he actually had a very good personal relationship with Zeng Guofan, and his military group showed signs of integration with the Hunan Army.
In the Qing Dynasty, only tens of thousands of people entered the pass. Ever since they took power, they had been wary of and restricted the Han people. After Cixi received the secret report, she immediately became murderous.
In front of Jiangshan Sheji, any treasure is naturally unimportant.
The so-called horse stabbing case was actually done by Cixi to prevent Ma Xinyi and Zeng Guofan from joining forces! While cutting off one of Zeng Guofan's arms, she also warned him.
"Old Miao, what does this have to do with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's treasure?"
Qin Feng listened for a long time and didn't hear anything that interested him, so he couldn't help but said: "Don't talk about irrelevant things. Also, how do you know this? By the way, the transcripts of the assassins are still preserved in the Palace Museum."
The murderer who assassinated Ma Xinyi was named Zhang Wenxiang. According to his confession, he assassinated him because Ma Xinyi failed to accept his case, which ruined his family, and because Ma Xinyi explicitly prohibited Zhang Wenxiang from opening a pawn shop, which cut off his livelihood.
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This transcript was preserved in a painting, and has always been kept in the Palace Museum. However, later generations found out that Zhang Wenxiang had a background in the Taiping Army, so there was a theory that Zhang Wenxiang was assassinated out of revenge.
But this was the first time Qin Feng had heard of the reason mentioned by Miao Liuzhi. It had risen to the level of a national struggle and would probably not be spread among the people.
"Then what's the use of the confession? Are there not many confusing accounts in history?"
Miao Liuzhi smiled disapprovingly and said: "According to the information I know, Ma Xinyi found the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and drew a treasure map. However, after his death, the treasure map disappeared...
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What Miao Liuzhi said next really touched on the core of this secret. As for how he knew it, it was also a very accidental thing.
The incident dates back more than fifty years, when Miao Liuzhi was preparing to assassinate his senior brother Yanzi Li San in the capital. In order to hide his whereabouts, he lived all day in the outer city where nine people gathered at that time.
In the small courtyard where Miao Liuzhi rented, there lived an old man over ninety years old. This old man had no children, was alone, and was very pitiful.
Miao Liuzhi felt pity for his old age and was sentimental about his master's experience, so he served the old man wholeheartedly for more than a month. On the day before the old man died, he told him a shocking secret.
It turned out that the old man's name was Li Santai, who was born in 1848. Since there were many brothers in his family, he was too poor to blame. When Li Santai was ten years old, his father had his eggs removed and he paid to be sent to the palace to become a eunuch.
It should be said that Li Santai was very smart since he was a child. He only entered the palace for just seven or eight years, and he was sent to serve the powerful Empress Dowager of the West... Cixi.
At that time, Li Lianying's eggs had probably not been cut yet. Li Santai followed Cixi and was very favored and enjoyed great glory.
But within a month after one night, Li Santai and the hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs who were with Cixi were suddenly transferred to some insignificant places, and they were considered to be in the cold palace.
Others didn't know the reason, but Li Santai, who happened to be serving Cixi that night, knew that it was Ma Xinyi who the Empress Dowager Cixi met that day.
And out of curiosity, Li Santai overheard some conversations between the two. The content of the conversation was that Ma Xinyi told Cixi that he had found out about the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and would soon draw a map of the treasures and present it to the Queen Mother.
After Ma Xinyi left that day, Li Santai overheard that Cixi arranged for someone to kill Ma Xinyi. This frightened him so much that it took several days before he returned to normal.
However, since ancient times, eunuchs and maids in the palace have a tradition of "eating each other".
The so-called "double food" refers to the fact that in order to relieve loneliness and comfort each other, eunuchs and palace maids fell in love privately and formed a relationship like husband and wife, friends or family.
The palace maids and eunuchs who "eat each other" would usually eat together and take care of each other, forming a relationship of mutual trust that the other would pay homage to each other every year after one party dies.
Naturally, Li Santai also had a fondness for food, and she was one of the palace maids who served Cixi closely.
Because he was favored at a young age and wanted to show off in front of the palace maid "Dui Shi", Li Santai told the palace maid about the treasure hidden in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during a chat with the palace maid "Du Shi".
But what Li Santai didn't expect was that his "eating" attitude was so lax that it spread throughout the palace and finally reached Cixi's ears.
At that time, Cixi was furious and arrested the palace maid for interrogation. Li Santai's "confrontation" was quite affectionate and he actually did not confess to him, but only said what he overheard.
At that time, Empress Dowager Ci'an was still alive, and Cixi could not cover up the sky with one hand, and she was not as cruel as later generations, so she only killed a few maids and replaced a group of people to serve her.
Li Santai, who was well aware of the catastrophe he had caused, changed his personality drastically from then on. He no longer dared to say anything in front of others, and he grew cautious and cautious from a young eunuch to an old eunuch.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Li Santai, who was already 60 or 70 years old, was kicked out of the palace. Eunuchs could not go home to recognize their ancestors. Li Santai, who still had some money left, lived alone in that
In the small courtyard.
Li Santai had always buried this mysterious assassination case deep in his heart and never dared to tell anyone. It was not until the last moment of his life that he told Miao Liuzhi who was serving him.
As for Miao Liuzhi, he analyzed the circumstances of Ma Xinyi's assassination based on what Li Santai said and combined with the social conditions at the time.
After all, both Ma Xinyi and Zeng Guofan were powerful at that time. Cixi still had to bear certain risks if she wanted to kill Ma Xinyi openly, so she had someone arrange the assassination.
"Lao Miao, what's the original story of the stabbing case?"
Even though Qin Feng had heard Master Zai tell a lot about the secrets of the Qing court back then, he was also stunned by what Miao Liuzhi said. He wondered what the expressions of those who studied history would be like if they knew about this matter.
Taking a deep breath, Qin Feng said: "Old Miao, do you suspect that Ma Xinyi hid the so-called treasure map in his home in the capital?"
"I don't know. I don't even know if there is such a treasure map."
Miao Liuzhi shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Ma Xinyi is very courageous. Since he dared to have a secret conspiracy with Zeng Guofan, he also lied to Cixi. I just suspect that he has already made the treasure map.
Shortly after Ma Xinyi met Cixi, he was assassinated in office. For more than a hundred years, the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have never appeared, which means that they are neither in the hands of Cixi nor Zeng Guofan, but have not been born..."
When Miao Liuzhi said this, Qin Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had completely understood what Miao Liuzhi meant. He dared not believe that this old boy was not sure about anything, but was just gambling and guessing.
"Come on, Lao Miao, what you said is too unreliable."
Qin Feng shook his head and said: "Not to mention whether there is a treasure map, even if there is, Ma Xinyi will take it with him...
Let’s take a step back. Even if Ma Xinyi is placed in his old house, more than a hundred years have passed and at least a dozen groups of people have lived there. Do you think others won’t notice?"
"Master Qin, isn't this just a gamble?"
After hearing Qin Feng's words, Miao Liuzhi smiled and said: "I also know that the chance is slim, but since Ma Xinyi is involved in investigating the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there is some hope..."
In fact, Miao Liu said that he didn't have much hope in this matter. He only found out about it by chance and happened to meet the descendants of the Ma family who wanted to sell their ancestral home, so he connected it.
