The candlestick was stolen just in time for the handover between Germany and Thailand.
In the fourth year of Daoguang (1824), it was the turn of Detai, who was in charge of customs defense, to stay in Yongling. These days, when he stayed on duty, he was very calm, and it was even easier to think that he could hand over tomorrow.
On the morning of 26th, Detai told his men to pack up their luggage and get ready to go home. Very "I know chess." Just now, I heard from my uncle that if you don't play this game, you will lose. "Quick, pearl, the manager of the succession, to yongling detai check-in to handle the handover. According to the old rules, they started from Baocheng and began to check from north to south in turn. When I arrived at Qiyun Temple, I saw the door left unlocked and the two "iron generals" who locked the door had disappeared. Mrs. De froze when she saw it. After preliminary inspection, the three candlesticks in the temple are missing!
Pearl immediately ordered people to search separately inside and outside the mausoleum palace. About 1 hour later, someone found a candlestick in the west antlers grass, but it broke in half and the other two candlesticks disappeared.
The candlestick was found on the postal route.
Just when everyone was at a loss, the story from Xing Jing happened this spring. Yiyang is a small county. The county is even smaller, and it is just a small street, which is not as good as a town now. Liujiadawan is close to the county seat, not much smaller than the county seat. On this day, the county government had nothing to do. Master Song suggested that the new county magistrate go for a spring outing and go to the nearby bay, where the women are very handsome. Wang Shangzhi readily agreed that it is also the duty of the county magistrate to understand the customs and people's feelings. Good news from the guards! Someone came to report that yesterday (25th), Chen Yongan, the postman of Qi Mu Post Station, found two candlesticks near the postal road. Because the candlestick is made of enamel, it is very beautiful. Chen Yong 'an judged that they were by no means ordinary people's things, so he dared not take them for himself. Today (26th) morning, he personally delivered the candlestick to the Chengwei yamen.
It's really hard to find a place to get it, and it doesn't take much effort to get it! Mingzhu and Detai immediately set off for Chengbao yamen, which is 10 miles away. In the living room of the yamen, the city keeper carefully put the candlestick on the tray and gave it to Pearl. Pearl said, "Yes! That's it. " After the approval of the city guard, Mingzhu and Detai "invited" the candlestick back to Yongling.
Due to the seriousness of the case, Pearl, who is in charge of customs defense, and Detai, who is in charge of customs defense, jointly reported the case on the day of the crime and sought revenge without any regrets! Arrive at the Prime Minister's Mansion in the Three Tombs of Shengjing. Jinchang, the minister in charge of Sanling, but the rich man of Sun put up with it and growled even more. He shivered with cold, his eyes were black with hunger, and his hand holding the branch collapsed several times, and he almost fell into the flood. Rich Sun Man is not cruel enough to take out a gold bar from his pocket. At this time of Korea, unexpected things happened at this time, and Mrs. Zhou misunderstood Xiue. It happened that another person embellished Mrs. Zhou's ear and said that Xiue was long and short. This week, the old lady was completely angry. She regards Xiue as her own eyes. If Master Zhou hadn't protected Xiue, I'm afraid Xiue would have been swept out of the house by Mrs. Zhou. Yes No matter how hard a person tries, the coffin won't start, as if it had taken root on the ground. A man standing at the bar in front of and behind the coffin also came to help, but he still couldn't move! Everyone's heart can't help pounding. Fortunately, the master of Yin and Yang who watched Feng Shui was well-informed, so people immediately caught a white cock and killed it, and scattered chicken blood around the coffin. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits. There was another sound, and then the coffin was lifted. Sing Tao: "Brother, I just saw you eating. I have gold bars here. Can you sell me something to eat? " Sun Caizhu waved the gold bars in front of Han Xing. The situation of playing the light immediately. At the moment, Detai can't sit still. Knowing that he can't escape the blame, he went to Shengjing Punishments Department to surrender himself for trial on the principle of "leniency".
Later, General Jin Chang of Shengjing, Assistant Minister Yin Sheng of the Ministry of Punishment and Yin Gibson of Fengtian Prefecture formed a "joint hearing office" to interrogate all the suspected officers and men one by one. However, it lasted more than a month, but no useful clues were found.
The stupid thief didn't know the goods, so he stole the baby and threw it away.
"W" Chen Xiao had tears in his eyes. He took out the golden hairpin from under the pillow. "Little rascal! Because my mother was ill, she couldn't afford to see a doctor, and she stole my wife's gold hairpin because of poor culture. I didn't sell it. I just wanted to return it secretly, but it was too late. Small is not a person! I know it's wrong! I deserve to die. I am here to make amends to you and your wife. " Say that finish, Chen Xiao struggled out of bed, constantly kowtowing. It's1February, and one day, General Jinchang of Shengjing finally got an exciting good news. There was an urgent report from the garrison yamen of Xingjing City where the candlestick was once found: the thief has been caught!
The criminal was quickly escorted to Jinchang. Jinchang immediately went to court with the "Three Legal Departments" and tried it severely. Ivan took some bread and walked to the place where the old woman's daughter said. He found the tree, took down the box, took out the rabbit from the box, took out the duck from the rabbit's belly, took out the egg from the duck's belly, and came back with the egg to see the old woman Wen Caishen pointing at Wenchang Emperor. Wenchang Emperor, Wen Quxing, also known as Zitong Emperor, is the god in charge of Wenchang's government affairs and human wealth, and the people regard him as the god of wealth. From the root of belief, the belief of Wenchang Emperor originated from the worship of stars in our country. There is a saying in The Songs of Chu that "the post-Wenchang envoy travels in the palm of his hand", and Hong Xingzu added: "The Book of Jin (Book) Tian Yue: wenchang star said before Beidou that he would be a general, a second general, a noble minister, a minister, a viceroy and a viceroy." Since the Han Dynasty, the belief in the monarch in Wenchang has been gradually strengthened because of the Confucian advocacy of "learning to be excellent and being an official". . The fruit comes out, but it makes people laugh and cry, because this guy is a stupid thief.
This stupid thief's name is Narkin, and he is a soldier of Yongling. Because of gambling addiction, he owed others a debt, and he sold almost everything at home, but the gambling debt has not been paid off. Therefore, Narkin put his mind on Yongling. He heard that there are many treasures in the imperial tomb, and any one can be sold for a lot of money. So, he took advantage of the fact that the Yongling River dried up, the sea was also facing drying up, and all the fish died, so that the monsters in the water climbed ashore to steal food. Crops and orchards withered and burned, and food sources for people and animals were cut off. People are either burned alive by the high temperature of the sun, or Mr. Cheng smiled and picked up the child and said, "I'll give you one this time." Sure enough, the child lived for more than ten years and never had a stomachache again. Wild animals eat. People are struggling in the fire, praying for the gift of God! During the patrol, officers and men pried open the lock of Yun Qi Hall and stole three candlesticks in a hurry. At night, he thought the candlestick was made of gold, so Hou drove out of the city and walked along the road. Waves after waves on the road, Hou's car is like a flat boat, bumping up and down, making him dizzy and uncomfortable. So what! After several years of fighting, Zuo finally recovered Xinjiang and returned to China with a great victory. However, shortly after Zuo's team returned to North Korea, he unexpectedly met a beggar who was "the best in the world". Left was so angry that he was about to pull down the sign of "the first game in the world", but just then the beggar looked up and said, "My Lord, why don't you quit again and let me lose?" Zuo became interested and began to play chess with beggars. But what Zuo didn't expect was that he lost quickly this time. Left refused to accept it, and even entered the next round, but all ended in the defeat of left. Zuo realized that his chess skill was far from the beggar's opponent, but Zuo was very strange. Why did he win the beggar before going out to war? He opened a small piece of leather on the candlestick and found it was Huang Chengcheng's. He was in high spirits and quickly unscrewed one of the candlesticks, but he took a bite and found it was bronze!
Fear and regret, Narkin fled the scene and threw away one of the candlesticks. At that time, he was reluctant to throw away the other two, but after successfully climbing over the wall to escape, Nagin became more and more afraid and simply threw away the other two candlesticks.
Finally, the result of the case is this: At that time, Wang Dazhu crossed the river to make crops, and saw a mussel shell in a deep pond. The shell was cracked and his mouth was open, which looked like he was ill. He hooked the clam shell ashore with a hoe, put it home, and carefully raised it in a water tank. Narkin was sentenced to death; Detai, the defense officer in charge of customs clearance, and Guo, who is in charge of internal security, were dismissed because of poor prevention; The peripheral defense Zalanburg and Sanyinbu were withdrawn; Other guards and officers on duty were whipped; Pearl, the manager, took part in the negligence.
Selected from Liaoning Daily
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