Who is the strangest murderer in ancient history?

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiang Minzhong, the prime minister, once handled a bizarre case of killing a monk, which caused a sensation. Let's talk about how a timid monk was falsely accused of being a murderer and how Xiang Minzhong avenged him.

One day, a traveling monk passed by a village. Seeing that it was getting late, he found a large family to spend the night. But the master is not a Buddha worshipper, and he is very disrespectful. He was asked to rest in the big carport outside the yard and told not to enter. The monk had no choice but to stay in the carport for one night.

Sleeping until midnight, I suddenly heard a thief enter, but the monk was afraid to tell anyone. After a while, I saw the thief bring another woman and a package out of the wall. After a while, the monk felt that this place was a place of right and wrong, and it was the best policy to leave as soon as possible, so he groped outside the village in the dead of night. Who knows, in desperation, I accidentally fell into a dry well, and the monk wanted to cry without tears, and only called for help after dawn.

After dawn, the monk observed the environment of the dry well and found a body sitting below. He was shocked and immediately called the police for help. At this time, the stolen owner also found that his home was stolen and his wife was gone. They also look around for their neighbors and friends. They heard someone shouting under the dry well and hurried to check the dry well, only to find that their wife had been killed in the dry well, and the monks in the well were covered in blood. So they pulled the monk to the wellhead, beat him and handed him over to the government.

When the monk arrived at the yamen, he began to cry foul, denying that he had stolen money and killed someone. But under the torture of the yamen, he quickly changed his mind and admitted the murder. He confessed: I have contacted the hostess's family. I lured her to elope tonight. After seeing a lot of property, it caused a murder. So after killing and robbing, I threw myself into the corpse well, slipped and accidentally fell into the well. Stolen goods and weapons are on the well. I don't know who picked it up . When the government closed the case, it sentenced the monk to behead, and then executed it after the executioner examined it.

Speaking of this, I have to admit that the legal system of the Great Song Dynasty was humanized. Every human life, even the most heinous, can only be executed after the county road, the Ministry of Punishment and the emperor's Zhu Pi, and this process is precisely the opportunity for monks to be reborn from death.

At this time, he just sentenced Minzhong to Dali Temple and presided over the prison. When he saw the case, he thought that the most critical murder weapon and stolen goods were gone, and he should not make a hasty decision. So he interrogated the case himself, and the monk was afraid of being punished again, so he kept saying, "This is what I got in my previous life, and I will pay it back in this life, nothing else!"! ? Xiang Minzhong was even more suspicious and was repeatedly questioned and persuaded. The monk slowly told the truth, detained Xiang Minzhong and launched a secret investigation.

He sent a Commissioner disguised as a passer-by to enter the village where the crime occurred, and talked with an old lady during a break in the village inn, and mentioned the case. When the old lady heard that he came from a big city, she asked the monk what he was like. The Commissioner said:? Did you get hit? . The old lady sighed again and said, What happens if the real killer is caught? ? Commissioner:? The official has no regrets, and the offender is dead and will not be investigated? . The old lady added:? In that case, it doesn't hurt to talk about this case. The murderer was actually the work of a gangster in the village. First, he hooked up with the woman's house, became a traitor, and then he killed people to get money. ? Commissioner hurriedly inquired about this person's situation and reported it to Xiang Minzhong.