Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 192 0187 [Emperor Yao Harms the People]

Ancient Kuiqiu Lizhuang is located on the southeast side of Kuiqiu.

On the northwest side of Kuiqiu, there is also Wubagang Village.

Both villages have a history of thousands of years, and the real one has been guarding Kuiqiu (Wubagang) for generations.

I had dinner at Li Ji's house that night, accompanied by several village elders, most of whom were surnamed Li and a few surnamed Liu.

It is estimated that there are often tourists in the village, they are used to it, and they are very skilled in tourist reception.

The next day, before Zhu Ming woke up, incense candles were prepared in the village.

In a private capacity, you can worship casually, and you can't make it too formal, especially don't use animals, because it involves violations of regulations.

Whether it is called Kuiqiu or Wubagang, you can know its terrain from the name.

Not a small slope, but a big slope!
The part that rises above the ground has a radius of more than one kilometer.There are still villagers living on the soil slope, and there are also many farmlands, where corn, sunflower and other crops are planted.

Li Ji pointed to a boundary stone on the slope: "Passing this stone is Wubagang Village. Our Lizhuang Village and Wubagang Village worship Kuiqiu together every year."

In the border area between the two villages, there is an earthen platform built up. The platform is covered with vegetation, but artificial traces can still be discerned.

There are also several stone steles around, most of which were erected by celebrities who came here to pay their respects, and there are also steles in which the county allocated funds to repair the League Altar.

After burning incense and paying homage, Li Ji said, "The eunuch might as well keep the calligraphy."

The two villages guarding Kuiqiu are always competing with each other. One of the important items is to compare which village has more famous calligraphy.

Ju Ming came to the League Forum, couldn't help feeling emotional, and looked back at Li Bao.

In history, Jin soldiers ravaged Shandong. Li Bao fought against the Jin here, and left a doggerel: In the past, the princes met this alliance, and the altar was high and the road looked far away at the capital.The shame of Jingkang buried ambitions, Kuiqiu mobilized troops and blew horns.

"Bring a pen!" Zhu Ming said.

Li Ji studied ink himself, and he had already inquired clearly last night. It turned out that this Zhu Zhizhou was Tanhualang.

The two surnames Li and Liu in the village each send one person to organize the incense table, and the paper and pen are placed on the incense table.

Li Ji grinds the ink, holds the pen and hands it to Zhu Ming, and sees him scribbling the book: "Kuiqiu is domineering like a rainbow, I don't know why Donglue is so sudden. When the prime minister Kong Jinhou met, Qi Huan had already written his corpse on the bed. "

"Nice poem!"

Li Ji praised: "In the past, Confucian scholars came here to pay their respects, and their poems all wrote about the alliance, but Zhu Taishou wrote about benevolent government and the hearts of the people!"

Li Bao leaned over to read it repeatedly, and said in a daze, "Where is the public opinion written? Where is the benevolent government?"

Li Ji was so angry that he slapped him across the face: "Let you study history, let you study history. You were born in Kuiqiu, so you don't read any history books related to Duke Huan of Qi?"

Li Bao clutched the back of his head, looking rather aggrieved.

Seeing that other people did not understand this poem, Li Ji explained: "Zai Kong is the Taizai of Zhou Tianzi. He said that although Jin Xiangong has mountains and rivers, a vast territory, and a large population, he does not cultivate benevolent government at home and is not good at diplomatic relations with others. , He must lose his heart and die. Back then, Duke Xian of Jin died. Duke Huan of Qi also followed in the footsteps of Duke Xian of Jin. Duke Huan of Qi was still in his funeral when Qi was attacked by Song State."

Zhu Ming actually had other meanings. He copied this poem to scold Song Huizong.If you are good at provoking frontier quarrels and don't practice benevolent government, you will lose the hearts of the people, and sooner or later you will die and the country will be destroyed.

Ju Ming clasped his hands and praised: "The old man is familiar with the classics and history, and I admire him very much."

"This old man has a little knowledge of classics and history, and the prefect praises him a lot." Li Ji stroked his beard and smiled, feeling particularly proud.

He may not be proficient in other history books, but he was born in Kuiqiu, and he is familiar with the history of the Spring and Autumn Period.

After paying homage to Kuiqiu, Zhu Ming was taken to the southeast of the village, where there is the Sanguan Temple and the White Clothes Palace.

Sanguan Temple is the shrine of Yao, Shun and Yu.

The white clothes palace is the palace of Liu Xiu, the son of the plane.When Liu Xiu was defeated and almost died of illness, he was entertained by the villagers and recovered from his injuries in the village. After becoming emperor, he built a palace in Lizhuang.

Li Zhuang has two surnames, one is Li and the other is Liu.

People surnamed Liu are the descendants of officials and soldiers who guarded the palace for Liu Xiu.They have guarded the palace for thousands of years. Although they have been through many wars, they still remember the teachings of their ancestors from generation to generation.

However, there are only a few rooms left in the magnificent emperor's palace back then, and it was rebuilt in the early Song Dynasty.

Looking at those members of the Liu clan who guarded the palace for thousands of years, and then looking at the temple of Yao, Shun and Yu, something in Ju Ming's heart seemed to be touched.

He pursed his lips and smiled, looked up at the sky, and then at the north.

He seemed to understand why Li Bao insisted on resisting gold.Even after taking refuge in Yue Fei, he thought that Yue Fei was too useless to stand still, so he resolutely took dozens of brothers and lurked back to Shandong to fight guerrillas.With only 3000 Liangzhe troops in hand, he dared to attack Shandong across the sea and take the initiative to attack [-] enemy troops!
While Ju Ming's heart was surging, Li Bao felt that it was meaningless.

What Kuiqiu, what Xinggong, what Sanguan Temple, Li Bao has been tired of watching since he was a child, and feels that these eggs are useless.When he was a child, he even climbed up the wall of the Sanguan Temple to urinate, and was hanged and beaten by the elders in the family.

Li Bao's attention is all on the cornucopia.

After obtaining Zhu Ming's permission, the guy immediately led the horse home and watched the horse breed with a smirk on his face.

Three days later, Zhu Ming continued on his way, and Li Bao was added to the team.

Ahead is Chengshi County, also known as Heze.

Continuing to the north, there are Linpu and Lei Ze.These two counties are under Ju Ming's jurisdiction.

There is Thunder God in Lei Ze, where Emperor Shun fished.

To the east of the county seat, there is the tomb of King Yao, where it is said that Emperor Yao was buried.

Zhu Ming didn't disturb the magistrate of Lei Ze, and made a private visit to investigate the people's sentiments all the way, and stopped by to pay homage to the ruins of Lei Ze Lake.This lake has almost dried up in the late Tang Dynasty, and now there are only a few small lakes left, and the rest have become villages and farmland.

Then I rode a horse to Gulin Mountain in the east of the county seat, where there are dog trees growing all over the mountains and plains, and there is a small river running through it.

Before entering the mountain, Zhu Ming saw a large number of abandoned houses.

He went to check curiously, and found that there were many stone troughs and other paper-making equipment inside, which were obviously abandoned paper-making workshops.

And it has been abandoned for a long time, and many houses have collapsed.

Zhu Ming went to a nearby village to ask for water, and came to a small farmyard where an old woman was drying clothes.

Zhu Ming said: "I'm a scholar from the south. I come here to pay homage to the Yaoling Mausoleum. Can I ask for a drink?"

The old woman saw that although there were many of them, there were female relatives, so she lowered her guard a little.But they were still not allowed to enter the yard, and went back to the thatched cottage to fetch a ladle of water, and silently handed it to the outside of the fence.

Ju Ming asked while drinking water, "Why are the paper mills over there abandoned?"

The old woman replied: "The government does not allow trees to be cut down."

Zhu Ming understood a little: "Because of Yaoling?"

The old woman obviously didn't know Yao and Shun: "It is said that an emperor was buried in the mountain, and he was not allowed to cut down trees, and he was not allowed to go into the mountain to herd sheep. The farmers in the mountain were also driven away by the government, and only five households were left for the emperor to guard the spirit. It looks like this It has been decades. When I first married here, the paper workshops were very prosperous, and there were so many people that it became a town. The government refused to cut down trees, and those paper workshops failed, and the number of people in the town became less and less. .”

Yao Ling was moved to Pingyang, Shanxi Province for worship. It was a matter of the Jin and Yuan dynasties. The reason was that Lei Ze was flooded by the Yellow River.

The Yaoling Mausoleum in the Song Dynasty is in the east of Leize County.

Zhu Ming asked: "It's not far from the county seat, and the forest is lush, so you won't even be allowed to cut firewood?"

The old woman said: "You are not allowed to chop firewood. If you catch it, you will hit it with a board."

After asking a few more words, Zhu Ming handed back the ladle, led the horse and turned to leave.

Zheng Yuanyi asked: "It's already here, why don't you go into the mountain to visit Emperor Yao's tomb?"

Zhu Ming said: "Yaoling harms the people, so it doesn't matter if you don't worship it."

Bai Sheng couldn't help complaining: "In the past two days, Xianggong has been saying that Emperor Yao is a holy king. If the old man knows about this, he may not be buried in the ground."

Deng Chun said: "The place where the emperor is buried is not allowed to cut down trees to make paper. It is really unreasonable not to cut down firewood."

"You don't even let the sheep go," Li Bao said in a mocking tone, "We in Kuiqiu just plant the land and herd the sheep casually. How can we be so particular about it? In our Sanguan Temple in Lizhuang, there are not only Emperor Yao, And Shunyu, no worse than Yaoling in Laoshizi. When I was young, I urinated in Sanguan Temple."

Zhu Ming thought about it and said, "Go to Lei Ze County and meet the local magistrate."

Two hours later, Zhu Ming arrived outside the county office.

The official guarding the gate of the county government office scolded with a stick: "The county government office is an important place, and idlers are not allowed to enter. Who is coming?"

Zhu Ming said: "Puzhou knows the state."

"Pu..."

Zao officials were taken aback. This is the area under the jurisdiction of Puzhou.Ju Ming's arrival here is equivalent to the mayor's surprise inspection of the county government.

But Zhu Ming was too young, he didn't look like Zhizhou at all, so the official dared to ask, "Do you have a certificate?"

Zhu Ming showed his official badge and asked, "Do you still need to read the paperwork?"

"Don't dare, Shangguan please come in!"

One official took Zhu Ming in, and the other official rushed into the county government office to report.

Not long after, the county government was flying like dogs and dogs, and officials from Lei Ze County came one after another.

The official positions here are bloated, and there are both county magistrates and county magistrates.

The county magistrate is called Cao Yuangui, who was born as a Jinshi.It is estimated that there is no vacancy, and this old man's qualifications have arrived again, so he was thrown to Lei Ze County for a transition.

The county magistrate is Wang Tian, ​​who is also a Jinshi, and has been the principal of the state school for many years.

Although Lei Ze County is not far from Tokyo, the two of them have no background and have no political information, so they have never heard of Ju Ming.

The two greeted each other cautiously, but they were always suspicious, fearing that Zhizhou was a fake.

Zhu Ming simply took out the appointment papers: "Look for yourself."

Cao Yuangui took it with both hands, only glanced at it, then he was horrified and said in a low voice, "Court officer."

court official?

Wang Tian didn't look at the documents anymore, but shrank his body, shortened three inches out of thin air, and became groveling.

Such a young court official Zhizhou must be a son of the rich and powerful!
The master secretary and a group of officials beside him were even more frightened and curious, secretly looking at Zhu Ming's appearance.

Wang Tian took two steps back, and called the master to his side: "Go and sweep the hotel, and invite the prefect's family members to live in. Prepare all the drinks, and ask for the best!"

"No need, ordinary meals are fine," Ju Ming reminded.

The master took the order to leave, although Zhizhou said that he wanted ordinary meals, but he didn't dare to really do so.

Zhu Ming was invited in to sit down, and went straight to the point: "I just went to Yaoling."

Cao Yuangui said hastily: "Since the government sent son-in-laws to sacrifice to Yaoling three years ago, archers from this county have often patrolled Gulin Mountain. Once someone is found to be woodcutters, they will never be lightly forgiven. More than [-] people have been punished with sticks."

Why is this still asking for credit?

Zhu Ming was so angry when he heard it.

(Some book friends said that they were walking in the opposite direction. They may have been misled by Dongming County. Dongming County in the Song Dynasty was completely different from Dongming County in later generations.)
(End of this chapter)