Shadow of the Tomb Raider: A Complete Record of the History of Tomb Raiders in China

Chapter 68 The Ancestral Grave Digging Event in the History of Chinese Tomb Raiders (2)
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty killed his father and succeeded to the throne, becoming the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty.After ascending to the throne of emperor, Emperor Sui Yang's true nature was revealed, and he implemented cruel tyranny over the people, which aroused the public indignation of the people all over the world.As a result, uprising armies surged everywhere, and one of them was led by the Li Yuan family in Taiyuan.

After hearing the news that the Li Yuan family was against the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty knew that the Li Yuan family was powerful. Instead of reflecting on his tyranny, he fantasized about attacking the Li family group by cutting off the dragon veins of the Li Yuan family. However, not only did he not I found it, and ended up dying unexpectedly, which is really sad and deplorable.

After Li Yuan raised his troops, he made "twelve rules" to the people of Chang'an. In addition, all the harsh laws and regulations of the Sui Dynasty were also abolished.At that time, Yin Shishi and Gu Yi, ministers of the Sui Dynasty, ordered Jing Zhaoyin to find the location of Li Yuan's Wufu ancestral tombs and dig them all up according to the decree that all those who commit rebellion must dig up his ancestral tombs and insult his ancestors. and cast their bones into the field.Li Yuan was very sad about this, and shed tears every time he mentioned it.

It is said that Yin Shishi understands yin and yang feng shui quite well. On the afternoon when he sent soldiers to dig Li Yuan’s ancestral grave in Hedong’s hometown, when the soldiers just dug the grave of Li Yuan’s grandfather Li Hu, suddenly, a huge green snake jumped out of it, with a bucket in its body. Thick, the snake raised its head high, whistling and rushing towards the soldiers, the soldiers dodged one after another, Yin Shishi swung his sword and stepped forward, unexpectedly the python spit out a cloud of mist, Yin Shishi fainted on the ground at that time.At that time, there were three green snakes of different sizes and two golden toads beside the boa constrictor, and they scattered to escape from the soldiers. One golden toad ran away, and the rest were all killed by the swords of the Sui army.When Li Yuan's army conquered Chang'an, the soldiers who surrendered confessed to Yin Shishi's evil deeds. Li Yuan was filled with grief and indignation, and immediately ordered Li Jiancheng, Duke of Longxi, to kill Yin Shishi and others on Zhuquedao.

Li Yuan's ancestral grave was excavated by Emperor Sui Yang, but Emperor Sui Yang did not achieve the purpose of attacking Li Yuan's family, let alone destroy the "royal spirit" of the Li family.With the continuous rise of the peasant uprising army at the end of the year, the Great Sui Dynasty was finally replaced by Li Tang.

Irrigate Taiyuan City with fire and water

In 951 A.D., Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor. After the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin served as an officer of the imperial army, and the officials of Zhou Shizong went to the front of the palace to check.After Zhou Shizong Chai Rong died, Emperor Gong came to the throne.In the first year of Jianlong (960 A.D.), in the name of "stabilizing the two prefectures", he lied about Khitan's alliance with the Northern Han Dynasty to make a large-scale southward invasion. .It was called the Northern Song Dynasty in history.The establishment of the Song Dynasty ended the fragmented situation that had formed since the end of the Tang Dynasty, brought China back to unity and gradually entered the heyday of China's economy, culture, and technology.At its peak, the Tang Dynasty had a population of more than 5000 million, and at its peak, the population of the Song Dynasty exceeded [-] million.Song people said: "Since the birth of the people, those who can help Dengzi have not been as prosperous as the Song Dynasty."

At the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, in order to ensure that the Song Dynasty could maintain long-term stability and not become the sixth short-lived dynasty after the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty formulated a series of policy guidelines and vigorously implemented the policy of "strong stems and weak branches". Committed to ending the split and separatist situation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, especially when Song Taizong heard that Jinyang, which was still ruled by the Northern Han Dynasty at that time, had several emperors. After being a "Dragon City", he personally led troops to capture Taiyuan City , and set fire to Taiyuan City, and then flooded Taiyuan City...

In the long history of 2500 years, Taiyuan used to be the hometown of Tang Yao, the famous city of the Warring States Period, the hometown of Taiyuan, the hegemony of the Northern Dynasties, the Northern Capital of Heavenly Kings, the North Gate of the Central Plains, the important town of Nine Borders, and the hometown of Shanxi merchants... Wangbingzhou is my hometown.” Anyone who has been to Taiyuan will be deeply intoxicated by its long history and splendid culture.

The plaque on the main entrance of Jinci Temple is in Jinci, and the spirit of Taiyuan is in Jinci. "Shuyu lives in Hefen, where he lives in Hefen. The emperor carved tung leaves, and wrote in heavenly scriptures. Rituals make virtues, and music inspires them with songs. The emperor has no drama, but Tang has his king." This is Yu Yu, a great poet who lived in the Northern Kingdom during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. A letter written by "Cheng Wang Carved Tong Ye Praise".What is described in the poem is the famous story of "Tong Ye Fengdi" in history.King Cheng of Zhou sealed Shuyu in Tang Dynasty.Shuyu governed well, making the country rich and the people strong.According to Shuyu's biography, his son Xie's father, Xie's husband, saw that the source of Jin water was flowing continuously to nourish the people, so he changed the name of the country to "Jin". This is the origin of Jin.

Because in ancient times, Taiyuan was once the hometown of Tang Yao. After Li Yuan and Li Shimin, father and son who raised troops in Taiyuan at the end of the Sui Dynasty, won the world, they named the emerging country "Da Tang". The Tang Dynasty became the most prosperous period in Chinese history.To this day, Chinese living overseas are proud of the descendants of the Tang people, and even named a large area of ​​Chinese gatherings "Chinatown".Tracing back to the source, the birthplace of Tang culture is in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Taiyuan is an ancient civilized city in northern my country with a long history. The discovery of the "Gujiao Paleolithic Cultural Site" proves that humans lived and multiplied on the land of Taiyuan as early as 10 years ago.The "Neolithic cultural sites" in Yijing and Dongtaibao also tell us that the ancestors of Taiyuan created a splendid culture in the early days of the matrilineal clan commune seven to eight thousand years ago.During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Taiyuan was the ancient country of the Northern Tang Dynasty. Archaeologists once discovered cultural sites of the Shang Dynasty in the area of ​​Xutan Village in Taiyuan, and named it "Xutan Culture".It is said that Tai Tai, the initiator of Taiyuan, was honored as the "God of Fenshui" because of his governance of Fenshui and the development of Taiyuan Basin.In the first year of Lu Zhaogong (the 8000th year of Duke Ping of Jin Dynasty, 17 BC), Xun Wu of Jin State led his troops to conquer the north, and defeated Jiuru (Yingao) of the Wuwu and Chidibie tribes who occupied the area of ​​Taiyuan today. Into the territory of the state of Jin.At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, in the 541th year of Jin Dinggong (15 BC), the famous Jinyang Ancient City came out on the banks of the Fen River and Jinshui, and has a history of 497 years.The ancient city of Jinyang was the capital of Zhao State for 2500 years in the early Warring States period.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, he divided the world into 36 counties, and set up Taiyuan County on this ancient land, and the county government was Jinyang.In the Han Dynasty, the Bingzhou Governor's Department was established to govern Jinyang. This was also the beginning of Taiyuan's name Bingzhou, and Taiyuan's abbreviation "Bing" also came from this.At that time, Taiyuan had become one of the administrative offices of the thirteen prefectures in the country and was well-known far and wide.During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Jinyang was also the "other capital" of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and it always maintained the status of a "dominant mansion".In the Sui Dynasty, Taiyuan was the third largest city in the country, second only to Chang'an and Luoyang.The powerful Tang Dynasty originated in Taiyuan. Because Jinyang was known as the Tang Dynasty in ancient times, after Li Yuan and his son established Chang'an as their capital, they took "Tang" as the country name.Several emperors in the early Tang Dynasty expanded Jinyang City several times, and named it "Northern Capital" and "Beijing" one after another. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Northern Han, Jinyang either made its fortune or took it as the capital of the country. For a time, Taiyuan was famous all over the country, and it was said to be "Dragon City".

In 979 A.D., Song Taizong personally led an army to the city of Taiyuan to command the siege.Jinyang City is tall and strong, which caused heavy losses to the Song army. Wang Tingyi, the head of the inner and outer horse infantry, was killed in battle, and Shi Hanqing, the commander of the front of the palace, was killed. Generals Li Hanqiong, Jing Si, Hu Yanzan, and Han Qi were seriously injured. .At that time, it was mainly because the Song Dynasty had unified the Central Plains, pacified the south, and attacked Jinyang with all its strength. The isolated city of Jinyang was difficult to defend, so the Northern Han Dynasty had no choice but to surrender to Song.Since then, the ten states of the Northern Han Dynasty have all been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty.During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the last divided dynasty was eliminated.

Because he hated the tenacious resistance of the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan to the Song army and feared Taiyuan's reputation as "Dragon City", he ordered to burn Jinyang City, and cited Fen and Jinzhishuiyi Jinyang City as ruins. An ancient city with a long history of 1476 was destroyed. to total devastation.

After the old city of Taiyuan was destroyed, Song Taizong ordered the Taiyuan government to be moved from Yuci to Tangming Town (now Taiyuan City).The people who fled the city gradually gathered here to settle down.Three years later, the new Taiyuan City re-emerged in Tangming Town, more than forty miles north of Kuching Yangcheng.In 982 A.D. (the seventh year of Taiping Xingguo in Song Dynasty), Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi sent Sanjiao to deploy Pan Mei on the basis of Tangming Town, expand the scope, build city walls, and build Taiyuan City.The Taiyuan City built in the early Song Dynasty is an earthen city with a circumference of 5.28 kilometers.Four gates were built: Chaoxi in the east; Kaiyuan in the south; Jinsu in the west; Huaide in the north.From the southwest of the city to the north of the current Yingze Street, to the west to the east of the Xinjian Road, Houxiaohe and Donghouxiaohe were the moats on the east side of the north at that time.It is said that when Zhao Song rebuilt the streets of Taiyuan City, they built T-shaped streets, which were homophonic, and "nailed" to break the "dragon vein", so that there would no longer be "true dragon emperors" in Taiyuan, endangering the world of Zhao and Song.It is also taboo to use the names of "Jinyang" and "Taiyuan", but it is set as a tight state military, and Pan Mei and Yang Ye are sent to guard it.

Yuan Haowen, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, said in "Books of the Old City of Jinyang" when he talked about this matter: "The ghosts and witches in the south are very lucky, and Wanfu spread out Liangang. The cross on the official street was changed to T, and the Bingzhou Canal was nailed Also perish.” The old city of Jinyang was destroyed, but Taiyuan’s strategic position has not changed. At that time, the Liao ruled Datong, and the Liao Khitan was a nomadic people. Their cavalry could go south to Taiyuan at any time. The streets of Taiyuan were built in the shape of a “D” to block The gallop of the Liao cavalry played a positive role.

Difficult to enjoy Feng Shui treasure

Among the emperors of the Song Dynasty, there was more than one person who was also superstitious about Feng Shui.Song Shenzong Zhao Xu (xū) was a very superstitious emperor.

Song Shenzong, the eldest son of Yingzong, the posthumous title Ti Yuan Xian Dao Fa Gu Lixian Emperor De Wang Gong Yingying Lie Wuqin Rensheng Xiao Emperor, the eldest son of Yingzong Zhao Shu.In the eighth year of Jiayou (1063 A.D.), he was granted the title of Duke of Guangguo; later, he was granted the title of King of Huaiyang County with Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi; in the first year of Zhiping (1064 A.D.), he was granted the title of King Ying.In the third year of Zhiping, he was established as the crown prince, and the next year he became the emperor. He was named Shenzong. He was 20 years old at the time.Reigned from 1067 to 1085 AD.After ascending the throne, because he was deeply dissatisfied with the weak politics, and he had always admired Wang Anshi's talents, he ordered Wang Anshi to carry out reforms after he ascended the throne, with a view to revitalizing the Northern Song Dynasty.Because the reform was too hasty, the law was not right, and it ended in failure. However, Shenzong still maintained the new law for nearly 20 years.

In the traditional thinking in ancient China, there are three kinds of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is having no descendants.If the emperor does not have a "dragon seed", it is a big taboo for the country and the country.Zhao Xu gave birth to many sons successively, but they died one after another.Someone told him that it may be that there are too many tombs around Kaifeng, the capital city, and the Yin Qi is too strong, which affects the royal Fengshui and suppresses the Zhao clan.So they planned to force the people to move the tombs here.

When Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anli heard about it, he wrote a letter to dissuade him from doing something, so that the large-scale "digging of ancestral graves" was avoided. "Song History Biography of Wang Anli" (Volume 320 VII) records as follows:
"The emperor lost his prince several times. The Taishi said that the tombs of the people were more than the capital, so it was not good for the heirs of the country. The edict was changed and the divination was made. There were hundreds of thousands of captives. The people were afraid. An Li remonstrated: King Wen's [-]th century, his government was prior to covering his bones. Buried, I have never heard of the tomb of the relocated person for the benefit of his heirs. The emperor feels sorry for him."

People in the Song Dynasty were superstitious about feng shui, not inferior to the Tang Dynasty. "Hui Ji (zhǔ) Hou Lu" records the story of Fan Zeshan, a Song Dynasty native, who buried his father.

Fan's father went to Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, and died of illness in a temple on the way.The old monk in the temple told Fan Zeshan after hearing about it, "There is a cave in the middle of the mountain at the back of the temple. If you don't want to bury it, you won't have to move it."From then on, Fan Zeshan suddenly became a dignitary, and he became an official in the capital and held important positions in the court.So Fan Zeshan wanted to move his father's bones back to his hometown for burial.At this time, the head monk of the temple was still alive, and he urged Fan Zeshan not to give up the auspicious Zhang, but Fan Zeshan refused to listen to the good words of the head monk of the temple, and finally relocated his father's remains.Unexpectedly, not long after the burial was moved, Fan Zeshan offended Qin Hui, the Minister of Power, because of his inadvertent words.The imperial court listened to the slander and exiled Fan Zeshan to death.In fact, Fan Zeshan's poor official fortune did not hinder his relocation. The direct reason was that he offended Qin Hui, a nobleman in the dynasty.

In the past, people believed in fate, misfortune and good fortune depended on the heavens, and some fates would come, but it would be unlucky to get them if they didn't.The same is true for Fengshui treasure land, you shouldn’t get it, the landlord who buried Fengshui treasure land in the ancestral grave is fierce.

Li Zhu's Controversy for Qing Deli

Li Zicheng and Chongzhen lost both in digging the dragon's veins, which also made Dorgon, the general of the Qing army.On the basis of his achievements, Emperor Shunzhi became the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, opening a chapter in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

Li Zicheng (AD 1606~AD 1645), the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.Formerly known as Hongji.When proclaiming emperor, Li Jiqian was regarded as Taizu.He lived in Li Jiqian's village in Mizhi, Shaanxi.

When he was a child, he shepherd sheep for the landlord (it is said that the family was very rich), and he was a postman in Yinchuan.In the second year of Chongzhen (1629 A.D.), he revolted and later became a Chuang general under Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang. He was brave and insightful.During the Xingyang General Assembly in the eighth year, the plan of dividing troops and attacking from four directions was proposed, which was approved by the leaders of all ministries, and its reputation is growing day by day.After Gao Yingxiang died the following year, he succeeded him as King Chuang. He was defeated at Tongguan in 11 years, and only led Liu Zongmin and other ten people to hide in the mountains of Shangluo (luò) (in the Henan-Shaanxi border area).The following year he came out again.

In 13, he was trapped in Yufu Mountain in Brazil (Fuyi Zuofu), broke through with fifty riders, and entered Henan.At that time, the Central Plains suffered severe famine and class conflicts were extremely sharp.Li Yan put forward slogans such as "Equalizing the land and exempting taxes", which was welcomed by the people, and spread the ballad of "Welcome the King of Chuang, but not pay the grain".The army grew to one million and became the main force in the peasant war.In the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643 A.D.), he was called King Xinshun in Xiangyang.In the same year, he annihilated the main force of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, in Ruzhou (now Linru), Henan, and took advantage of the victory to occupy Xi'an.In the first month of the following year, the Dashun regime was established, with the reign name Yongchang.Soon conquered Beijing and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.Wu Sangui's family members were persecuted because the leader of the rebel army made the mistake of being proud of victory.Forced to rebel against Wu Sangui, the Manchu nobles entered the customs and jointly attacked the peasant army.The Peasant Army was defeated by the joint attack of Wu Sangui and the Manchu Qing army, and Li Zicheng also died.Some people say that Li Zicheng and Chongzhen lost both because they cut off each other's dragon veins, so that Dorgon of the Manchu Qing took a big advantage. What's the matter?

Regarding the theory of the dragon veins of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, according to "Zhu Zuzhang's Chronicle of Years", Zhu Yuanzhang lived in Zhujia Lane, Tongde Township, Jurong County, Jiangsu Province.In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather, Zhu Chuyi, took his whole family and fled to Sizhou and Xuyi in order to escape the hard labor of the government, and lived in Sunjiagang, 13 miles north of the ancient Sizhou city. "Sihong Hezhi" records such a legend: Yangjiadun's family has a hollow, and Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather Zhu Chuyi often lies in it.Once, a Taoist priest passed by here, saw the terrain and said, "If you are buried here, the son of heaven will be born in future generations." The Taoist apprentice asked why, and the Taoist said: "If you don't believe it, just take a dead tree branch and plant it here. You can be resurrected within ten days." Zhu Chuyi tried it secretly, and it was true.So, Zhu Chu told Zhu Yuanzhang's father Zhu Shizhen the words of the Taoist priest.Ten years later, in the fourth year of Taiding (1327 A.D.), Zhu Chuyi died of illness and was buried here as the Taoist said.Six months later, Zhu Shizhen's wife Chen was pregnant with Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the 12th year of Zhizheng (1352 A.D.), Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Turban Army led by Guo Zixing.

In the first year of Hongwu (AD 1368), after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he respected his great-grandfather as Emperor Xuan, his great-grandfather as Emperor Heng, his grandfather as Emperor Yu, and his father as Emperor Chun.Zhu Yuanzhang's strong idea of ​​honoring ancestors and honoring ancestors prompted him to build ancestral mausoleums at any cost. It seems that otherwise the goal of consolidating the Ming Dynasty could not be achieved.Therefore, in 1386 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu Biao, the crown prince, to lead civil and military officials and craftsmen to Yangjiadun, north of Sizhou City, and began to build the ancestral mausoleum.After 28 years, it took a lot of money, and it was not until the 11th year of Yongle (AD 1413) that all the mausoleums of his great-grandfather, great-grandfather, and grandfather were successfully built.At this point, Yangjiadun was renamed Ming Zuling.

After Li Zicheng broke through here, in order to destroy the dragon veins of the Ming Dynasty, he completely destroyed the Ming Zu Mausoleum.

Ironically, in order to fight against Li Zicheng's rebel army, Emperor Chongzhen also sent people to dig Li Zicheng's ancestral grave.

Li Zicheng is a native of Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province. He has suffered a lot since he was a child, and joined some poor people in the uprising army led by Gao Yingxiang.Later, because of his bravery and wisdom in combat, he was appreciated by Gao Yingxiang. In the end, he succeeded Gao Yingxiang as the leader of the rebel army.At this time, Emperor Chongzhen did not know who had listened to the suggestion, and hoped to cut off Li Zicheng's "dragon vein" and vent his "royal spirit" by digging up Li Zicheng's ancestral grave, so that "thieves should be destroyed by themselves", so as to save the building. It will fall. It seems that the Ming court thought that as long as Li Zicheng's ancestral grave was dug and Li's "wind vein" was broken, Li Zicheng's defeat would be certain.

Because of the seriousness of the matter, the eunuch took a lot of effort when delivering the decree in Mizhi County: In order not to reveal the news, the eunuch pretended to be a businessman, and when he came to the county government, he knelt on the ground and claimed that he was selling money. Suan, suddenly a soldier snatched Suan, so I came to ask the county master to make the decision.Immediately, the eunuch moved his knees and crawled in front of Bian Dashou, put his hands on Bian Dashou's feet and whispered, "There is an edict." Bian Dashou was shocked, and immediately called the eunuch to the second hall.When they came to the second hall, the inner eunuch asked Bian Dashou to retreat to the left and right, and then revealed his identity, took off his hat, and took out the edict from the crack in the hat.Bian Dashou understood everything after reading it.

The two came to the lobby again.Bian Dashou pretended to be angry, and shouted: "It's really a trivial matter to be robbed of selling garlic. Do you want to intimidate me by acting like this?"

In order to accurately find the grave of the Li family ancestors, Bian Dashou first found Li Cheng, Li Zicheng's fellow villager who had participated in the burial of Li Zicheng's family.At first, Li Cheng refused to tell. Later, after being tortured, Li Cheng provided Bian Dashou: "I remember that when Li Chuang's grandfather was buried and excavated, there were three holes in the ground, and a black bowl was found in one of the holes. At that time, two cavities were filled with soil, buried in one of them, and a lamp was lit with black oil and placed in front of the coffin in the tomb. Therefore, as long as you find the tomb with the black bowl, it is Li Chuang's ancestral tomb."

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