For the next half a month, Fang Yan basically stayed at home, concentrating on the writing of the script of "Casting a Name".

Because "Casting a Name" is adapted from the "Horse Assassination Case", Fang Yan read a lot of historical materials to learn more about this famous assassination incident.

As the first of the four strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, the complexity of the situation in the "Stabbing Horse Case" is really inexplicable for a while.

Most modern scholars believe that the "Horse Assassination Case" is not only a strange case, but also a case that cannot be investigated, and there are too many shady scenes involved.

In 1868, Zeng Guofan was transferred to the governor of Zhili, and the person who replaced him as the "governor of Liangjiang" was Ma Xinyi, who was also Cixi's confidant at this time.

Ma Xinyi was stabbed on the way home, and it stands to reason that the governor must have been accompanied by guards when he returned to his house, and at the same time, the streets were full of onlookers.

But at this moment, a person suddenly appeared in the crowd, holding a paper in his hand and shouting about the unjust case, and knelt in front of Ma Xinyi with a plop.

Ma Xinyi is also a person who has seen big scenes, he has seen too many unjust cases like this, so he did not show a surprised expression, but calmly picked up the paper and looked at it, but just when he hadn't finished reading it, the person who had filed a grievance had a new move, took out a dagger and stabbed at Ma Xinyi.

The assassin's knife hit the vital point, and Ma Xinyi died the next day due to ineffective rescue.

The assassination of the Governor of Liangjiang was definitely a major case, and the assassin could not escape death, but the two sentences shouted by the assassin after the assassination of Ma Xinyi made everyone think that there must be someone behind this person.

The Assassin shouted, "The Assassin is me Zhang Wenxiang, who will raise troops for a thousand days."

What is "raising soldiers for a thousand days in one day"? That doesn't mean that Zhang Wenxiang's horse stabbing case is not a personal grudge, but someone is behind it.

But the results of the subsequent interrogation were shocking, Zhang Wenxiang said that his assassination of Ma Xinyi was completely a personal grudge, because his wife was occupied, and the family property was robbed, and he asked Ma Xinyi to file a complaint, but Ma Xinyi did not accept it, so he was angry and wanted to kill Ma Xinyi.

No one believes this reason, you said that this Zhang Wenxiang did not seek revenge on the person who took his wife, why did he assassinate Ma Xinyi, who ignored the case, and killed the court official, isn't there one more crime on his body?

At that time, Cixi was very angry when she saw such a setback, and she thought that there must be an official cover-up in this case, so she issued an edict, ordering Zeng Guofan and Zheng Dunjin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to go to Nanjing for the second trial of the horse stabbing case.

After more than a month of incidents, the two finally submitted a report after the trial, but this report was nothing new, except that there was an extra article in the original report, saying that "when Ma Xinyi was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he had seized a pawnshop that colluded with pirates, thus cutting off Zhang Wenxiang's financial route".

Although there is one more, it is still Zhang Wenxiang's personal grudge after all, and it is not found out who Zhang Wenxiang was instructed by, obviously Cixi is still dissatisfied with this report.

After all, there are too many suspicious points in the case, Zhang Wenxiang, who colluded with pirates, is guilty of the same crime as pirates, which is a big crime that is full of beheadings, how dare he appear in front of the court officials openly, and even come forward to complain.

Cixi was still not satisfied with this result, and the case could not be concluded for half a year, and rumors spread among the people.

The most common saying is love killing, Zhang Wenxiang was the leader of the Twist Army, captured Ma Xinyi who was a general in the Qing Army, Ma Xinyi took the opportunity to persuade Zhang Wenxiang to defect to the Qing court, Zhang Wenxiang was persuaded by Ma Xinyi's words, so he called his two brothers Cao Erhu and Shi Jinbiao and Ma Xinyi to worship together and defect to the Qing army.

Since then, Ma Xinyi's official fortunes have become more and more prosperous, but he has alienated a few sworn brothers because he has forgotten his righteousness, and because he fell in love with Cao Erhu's beautiful wife, he actually designed to kill Cao Erhu, so Zhang Wenxiang was angry and wanted to avenge his brother.

This statement is typical of gossip and gossip, and the people like bloody stories of love and hatred, and do not understand any political struggle.

The credible claim of the "Horse Assassination Case" was a political murder, and the 300,000 Hunan army created by Zeng Guofan was to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and at this time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was no longer there, and the 300,000 Hunan army became Cixi's biggest hidden danger.

The reason why Cixi let Ma Xinyi take over as the governor of Liangjiang in Zeng Guofan was precisely to weaken the beginning of the Hunan army.

And on this statement, there is also a rumor that after the Hunan army captured Nanjing, the huge amount of treasury silver of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was missing.

Cixi gave Ma Xinyi a secret mission, that is, to find the treasure house of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which touched the interests of the Hunan army, and Ma Xinyi was killed because of this. ………………

Regardless of the facts, the story of the "Horse Assassination Case" has been circulated among the people for a long time, and various versions have emerged in an endless stream, and the confusing plot is indeed very suitable for making a movie.

As early as 1973, Zhang Che, the legendary director of Xiangjiang, filmed the movie "Stinging Horse" with this case, and the protagonists were Di Long, Chen Guantai, and Jiang David.

Zhang Che's "Stinging Horse", the plot of the movie is mainly based on love killing, and the overall style is biased towards martial arts films with pleasure and revenge, and the wonderful fighting scenes make the audience feel very cool.

Compared with "Stinging Horse", although "Casting the Name" is also a story of love and murder, the focus of the film is on brutal war and political struggle, highlighting the fickleness and cruelty of human nature.

Because of the involvement of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "Casting the Name" was timid during the filming back then, and many aspects of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not dare to be specifically discussed.

The ban on the theme of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" actually began only a few years later. In 2000, there was a TV series called "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", which was not only successfully broadcast on TV, but also premiered on CCTV in prime time, and there was no problem at all.

Fang Yan is now preparing to shoot "Casting Names", which can be said to be the right time, otherwise he would have to be careful a few years later.

"Whew...... It's finally done!"

After more than half a month, Fang Yan finally polished the script of "Casting a Name".

At this moment, Fang Yan's mobile phone rang, and when he looked at the caller ID, it was Yu Nan calling.

"Hey...... Honey, how are you doing today?"

In order to avoid the stalking of paparazzi reporters, Fang Yan has basically not left the door or stepped out of the door during this time, and usually calls his two girlfriends.

"I'm fine, I went out to watch a drama today, it's quite interesting."

The two chatted casually, although it was just some small daily things, but they didn't feel bored.

"By the way, there's one thing I'd like to ask your opinion on."

Hearing Yu Nan's words, Fang Yan felt a little curious: "What is so important, and you still need to ask my opinion?"

Yu Nan chuckled and said, "Actually, it's not a big deal, there is a movie that wants me to star in."

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