Wanli Xinming

Chapter 174
In the fifth month of Wanli's sixth month, Jiashen, on the anniversary of the death of Empress Xiaomu, she sent Huairou Bo Shi Guangzu to Maoling to worship. - "Shengzong, Zhaotian Qidao was ordered to Xingzhang Wenhong Wuguang and Su Xiaoxian Emperor Records, Volume [-]".

"When Bo Huairou offered sacrifices to Empress Xiaomu, Empress Xiaomu's clansmen were in the southern part of the empire and experienced a painful slaughter." - "Root, the story of a Yao descendant."First Edition December [-].

"After the new army established by the emperor defeated the allied army of the Yao people, the surrounded Zhang Bin's subordinates also rushed to besieged and started killing in Huangjiangdong. From the archaeological discoveries of later generations in the Luoding area of ​​Yunfu, Huangjiangdong to Xishan On the side of the mountain road in Datong, if you dig down less than a meter, you can see many human corpses. It is not seen in the annals of history, but only in legends, but the rape, arson and frantic looting that accompanied the massacre."

"Except for the national first-class cultural relics now stored in the Capital Museum, the bronze drum of Xishan Datong was packaged and dedicated to the emperor, the gold and silver jewelry and even cinnamon hidden and worn by the rest of the Yao people became the soldiers' trophies, and the most The spoils of war are the heads of innocent Yao people. In the battle of Huangjiangdong alone, the history records "830 heads were taken" - which shows the brutality of the massacre."

"It is important to point out that these ancestors of the Yao people whose heads were taken were all prime-aged men, and the large number of corpses of women and children around the ancient village revealed to us a bloody fact. Both attack and defense, the two Guangxi and Guangxi have long-term stability, since the brief record of Ling Yun Yi Shi', there are many killings behind the so-called 'prosperity'."

"Roots", an autobiographical novel written by a later female writer, has won wide acclaim and triggered a wave of "root-seeking".The "three Luos" mentioned in it refers to Ling Yunyi's establishment of Luoding Zhili Prefecture in Luoding after the end of the Luopan War, which was subordinate to the Chief Secretary of Guangdong, and two county governments, Xining County and Dong'an County, were established to implement land reforms. repatriation measures.

Not to mention how many tragic killings and how many Yao people's heart-wrenching pain was buried in the vast mountains of Luoding by Takishui.On a river beach construction site in Zhangde Mansion, Chenghuan Chengzheng, Henan Province, in June of the fifth year of Wanli, when Xu Guangqi, a young man sweating profusely, was tired and nauseated, he finally heard the sound of the gong for the meal.

He ignored the muddy hands, put his head on his shoulders, and ran to the place where the gong was struck with all his strength.After some shoulder and elbow pushes, he took two dark pancakes and a spoonful of salty soup, squeezed out of the crowd again, and swallowed the rough food like a wolf.

After drinking the salty soup with floating yellow cabbage leaves, he carefully tied the half-pulled gourd around his waist, then put his hand into his arms and touched his rib. When he can feel the seven pairs of ribs on his chest clearly, he will soon fall down and be thrown into the distant mass grave by the overseer with the whip.

When Xu Guangqi counted his ribs, the one that was kicked still felt a little painful.Remind by this pain, remorse gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake. ——He received a reply letter from Nanjing Daily at the end of March this year, ran away from home after a big quarrel with his father, and was dragged to the construction site on the way to the capital to apply for Dr.

What the young man who pursued his dream could never have imagined was that when he first entered Henan, he was beaten with a sap on the way.

Fortunately, he was a little clever and didn't say that he was a child who had already entered school.Pretending to be ignorant, he was placed in a team of Shandong people and worked hard every day—according to the people who had been brought in earlier, he could be released after three months of service.

Thanks to the emperor's policy of "two excellent and one son", all local officials who can relate to the "governance of the Huanghuai Water Conservancy Project" are all red-eyed.Li Shanguo, the chief secretary of the Anyang County Workshop of Zhangde House, was forced by the county magistrate, and together with Ma Dianli and others in the torture room, they came up with a crooked plan to selectively press the passing merchants and pedestrians who entered Anyang as the "wandering and causing trouble" Charged, pulled to the construction site to work.

Of course, Anyang County is very particular about convicted pedestrians: needless to say, those who are alone, because there is one person who is alone and without companionship this year, must have no background at all, just a little background. There is no place to complain if there is no evidence; secondly, the merchants who bring the goods must distinguish the size and inquire about the footsteps – only those who do small business and conduct small transactions can be convicted, otherwise they will drag the disciples of a certain prince or earl away, which will inevitably lead to The future will be tangled.

Ma Dianli also instructed the yamen's fast hands and helpers, and not the scholars.The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were very difficult to deal with, and the teacher of the little scholar might be the leader of the Shilin, and the leader of the class, so even the "tongsheng" Ma Dianli was not needed.However, once he pulls it wrong, he must be cleaned up to death. Xu Guangqi did not wear a Tongsheng headscarf when he was pulled out of the house.

After these "wanderers" were dragged to the construction site, they worked more than mules and ate less than rabbits. They were greeted with whips when they were a little lazy. Xu Guangqi saw several people who were cleaned up and carried to nowhere after they died. labor.

During his work, Xu Guangqi also secretly thought about running away, and was held back by a man called Wang Peng who was working together - this Wang Peng was the same Wang Peng who settled down with Taigong Huo's family in the northeast, and went to the Wang family in Henan to work for two years. .

Although this guy has gained a lot of knowledge on the way of the Huo family's migration, he has also been misunderstood by the officials in the northeast - thinking that the officials in the whole world are like those in Liaodong and Daning Yamen who love their people and cherish their voices.

After Wang Peng left the Northeast, he went directly to Wang Congyun with a letter of recommendation from Mrs. Wang. He worked as an accountant for one year and then as a shopkeeper for another year.Wang Congyun has a very high status in Henan merchants, and Wang Peng has done it very smoothly in the past two years.

At the beginning of the fifth year of Wanli, Wang Peng, who consciously found out the doorway of the shopping mall, resigned from his position as the shopkeeper, and was ready to use the savings of the past few years to go to sea and earn a family business.He has more experience on the road than Xu Guangqi, and he traveled with several fellow villagers, but he did not expect to encounter the same experience as Xu Guangqi. He first encountered a hero who robbed the road on the road, and then he was pulled to the construction site on the same day as Xu Guangqi.

Fortunately, what Wang Peng had accumulated in the past two years had been brought back to his hometown in batches through Wangjiashang Road. He only had the last ten taels of silver with him, and the loss was not too big. Otherwise, this sap would inevitably kill most of his net worth—— Only these twelve taels are enough for him to earn three months.

After Xu Guangqi was hit with the sap, his mind became much more mature. Except for talking to Wang Peng, he only thought he was dumb and deaf during the rest of the time, counting the days to work.Although he suffered a few beatings because of the slow progress, under the care of Wang Peng and other Shandong men, and relying on the fat stored at home, he not only lived safely for three months, but also fortunately did not get sick.

The three months passed in a flash, and finally came the last day of hard labor.Xu Guangqi and Wang Peng were greeted by the foreman, each received two coins of ICBC, and slept well in the work shed with exhaustion all over their bodies.

However, life is always full of drama.The second one early in the morning, Wang Peng and Xu Guangqi, who left the construction site of Xiashui Town, Anyang County together, were stunned by the sudden solar eclipse in the sky before they walked ten miles.

The eclipse was not long, nor was it totality, it was over in less than a quarter of an hour.After settling, Wang Peng said to Xu Guangqi: "It is estimated that the court's rescue in the capital is good. There is no total eclipse today - Brother Xian, what's the matter with this solar eclipse?"

Xu Guangqi sneered and said, "What else could it be? The lonely ghosts who died unjustly everywhere in the land of Huanghuai - God is not blind!"

Immediately, several fallen people cursed the magistrate of Anyang County loudly, and cursed the traitorous officials in the court, and then they continued on their way angrily.

Xu Guangqi suffered from this difficulty, and his heart became cold when he went to the capital. He planned to return to his hometown to kowtow to his old father and admit his mistake and continue his business.Wang Peng persuaded him, "Brother Xian, as the saying goes, it's better to eat porridge with eyebrows than rice with frowning eyebrows. Although we have different surnames, my brother also knows your aspirations and thinks it's amazing!"

"You have already come here from Songjiang Mansion, and you are willing not to go to the capital to apply for this job? Brother, although I have experienced such hardships, the mind of this businessman has not cooled down - it is still the same sentence, 'Hundred days of continuous rain, There will always be a sunny day', this world can't be like Anyang everywhere, and it can still be bright and bright, how can you be discouraged?"

Xu Guangqi's youthful disposition, after listening to Wang Peng's words, sneered: "Young brother admires eldest brother's will, it can be said that he is indomitable. However, from the continuous rain and rain in the past [-] days, we can see that this world can still be called a bright world?"

When Wang Peng heard this, he laughed and said, "Brother, don't be discouraged, even though my brother is young, he has traveled thousands of miles. This is the first time that something like this has happened—where is it not a bright world? Could it be that there are still people in the world today? Can't do the opposite?"

Before the words landed, I saw a few ragged men running over from a distance from the official road, looking like laborers on the construction site of Xia Shui Town.A Shandong man who followed Wang Peng grabbed one and said, "Why did you run away before the day came, and Anyang County let you go?"

The one who was caught panting said: "Oh, my God, I dare not say it! A red-eyed stone man was dug out from the construction site, and the nest has been blown up by this time!"

(End of this chapter)