Chapter 680: Eight generations of Jigong’s ancestors

Style: Historical Author: Nan Wu Rotten EggWords: 2132Update Time: 24/01/12 03:36:18
The princess doesn't care about this. People are going to die. I don't care about your process or not. The system is dead, but people are alive. He immediately set out with five or six followers. After the emperor heard about it, he immediately instructed the local government to send troops to chase and escort him.

After Li Zunxu died of illness, the princess strictly fulfilled her obligation to mourn her husband and stayed with her during the period. After the mourning period was over, the princess no longer wore gorgeous clothes. The brother and sister are close to each other. Her brother Song Zhenzong personally helped her with a beautiful hairpin, but she politely declined.

When the princess got older, she accidentally fell down while taking a bath and injured her right leg. Song Zhenzong planned to punish the servant at the time. The princess said that it was her old age and lack of flexibility in her legs and feet, and it was not the fault of anyone around her. Spare your servants from punishment.

Although she is a princess, she never puts on airs or bullies her husband's family (this is a common problem among princesses and the reason why the civil servants do not want to be a consort). She is a good female worker and can treat other children of concubines equally and as her own. She is a good wife and mother that is quite rare in the princess circle.

The princess often teaches her children and grandchildren to study hard, make progress every day, and keep loyalty and righteousness in their hearts. Don't bully others by thinking that "my father is Li Gang", or "my mother is the princess", or "my uncle is the emperor". Don't do evil, otherwise once you break the law and discipline, you will never be tolerated!

Later, the princess became ill and became blind. Song Zhenzong came to visit, kissed her eyes with great pain, and said painfully: "There are 14 of us brothers and sisters in total. Now, you and I are the only ones alive, and you are unfortunately seriously ill..." His words were choked with sobs and his eyes were filled with tears. All the attendants on the left and right were moved to tears.

After feeling sad, Song Zhenzong asked her what unit she wanted to place her children in.

The princess politely declined, "How can I invite evil spirits because of my mother's illness?"

Since he refused to arrange the work, Song Zhenzong simply gave him three thousand taels of platinum. He was declined by the princess again.

"Hey -" Song Zhenzong sat beside the sick bed and looked at the princess affectionately, with three parts sadness, six parts admiration and the remaining part self-blame. Although he is the emperor and has overwhelming power, who among the people in the world would not be submissive? What can't you do by yourself? However, no matter how capable the emperor was, he could not fight against the laws of nature. In the face of birth, old age, illness and death, the emperor was helpless.

After a long time, Song Zhenzong raised his head and said to the passing gods in the sky: "God, I am willing to transfer the princess's disease to me!"

Before the princess died of illness, she warned all the disciples that your father had a legacy and you should not put any gold, jade or jewelry in the coffin for burial. Just put a few clothes that you usually wear. After I die, I will be buried like this.

In March of the third year of Emperor You of the Song Dynasty (1051), the princess died of illness at the age of 64. The then emperor Song Renzong Zhao Zhen (son of Song Zhenzong) personally wrote an elegiac couplet for her and wrote a stele for her; he stayed out of court for five days.

Back then, Song Zhenzong was furious when his newlywed husband cheated on his wet nurse and the scandal became a hot topic. He wanted to kill the scumbag. The princess interceded for Li Zunxu, but in the end she just demoted Li Zunxu from the court. Later he was gradually promoted.

Li Zunxu was very grateful to the princess. From then on, he no longer dared to flirt with women, and began to advocate Buddhism. I am pure and have few desires. Li Zunxu made a huge contribution to Buddhism. He co-wrote the "Gatha" with the monk Chu Yuan, which unfortunately has been lost. He also wrote 30 volumes of "Tian Sheng Guang Deng Lu" by imperial decree, which was compiled into Buddhist scriptures by the Song Dynasty and still exists today. In the "Chinese Tripitaka"; and other works.

And his love and study of Buddhism also had a significant impact on his descendants.

Li Zunxu begat Li Duanyuan, Li Duanyuan begat Li Ping, Li Ping begat Li Juan, Li Juan begat Li Maochun, and Li Maochun begat Li Xiuyuan (also known as "Li Xiuyuan").

Li Xiuyuan's love for Buddhism reached the point of madness, and he eventually became a monk. After converting to Buddhism, Li Xiuyuan got a Dharma name - "Daoji", and then people were more willing to call him "Jigong".

Pulling the perspective from the Southern Song Dynasty back to the early years of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Comrade Li Chongju, who was deeply admired by Guo Wei, was the eighth generation ancestor of the "Jigong Living Buddha".

Among the eight generations of Jigong Living Buddha’s ancestors, his grandfather Li Juan, the great-grandson of Li Zunxu and the fifth-generation grandson of Li Chongju, is the most worthy of mention:

He served as the county magistrate of Chongyang County in Ezhou in the first year of Jingkang. At that time, it was the "Jingkang Incident". The imperial court mobilized soldiers from all over the world to Beijing to serve the king. Ezhou had seven counties under its jurisdiction, with a troop quota of 2,900 people, with an average of 2,900 troops per day. Each county needs more than 400 people.

Li Juan of Chongyang County recruited 600 people, while other counties were dilly-dallying, unwilling to die. Li Juan resolutely led 600 people to attack Bianzhou. Someone advised him not to walk too fast and wait until everyone was gathered before starting the group. Li Juan flatly refused, saying that the country was in trouble and it was not allowed to look forward and backward.

However, strictly speaking, these so-called "soldiers" recruited temporarily are not soldiers at all. They are basically scoundrels and local gangsters, real hooligans and fake righteousness. It's okay to lead the army and pay them, to eat military rations, but to fight? Don't go.

Li Juan had no choice but to spend his own money, destroy his family, buy good wine and meat, and reward them, hoping that they could drive out the Tartars and restore China. Li Juan made an impassioned speech, saying that he was ready to sacrifice his life for the country, and that he would die to serve the country, die for the country, and leave his name in history. This is the true nature of a man!

More than 600 people were moved to tears.

After crossing the Huaihe River, they encountered teams from Puqi County and Jiayu County, so the three counties joined forces and moved forward together. When they reached the ground in Caizhou, they met the people of Caizhou who were fleeing south. The people told them in horror that the enemy soldiers were coming! Li Juan showed no fear and was ready.

Soon, the Jinguo Rangers caught up. Li Juan shouted loudly, took the lead, clapped his horse forward, and faced the Jin cavalry. The 600 men he brought were all infantry, marching forward in formation with shields.

When the Jin Dynasty defeated the Song Dynasty and defeated the Liao Dynasty, they went all the way south. They had never seen such sophisticated Han people. Even the regular army of the Song Dynasty did not dare to fight with them. It was really surprising that this ragtag group in front of them actually dared to attack. The Jin cavalry was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, so they retreated backwards.

Li Juan marched forward and pursued him for more than ten miles. Then they encountered the main force of the Jin Kingdom. "Flying arrow hedgehogs gather", the friendly troops in Puqi County and Jiayu County immediately fled.

Li Juan was seriously injured and bleeding, but he still fought bloody and never left the line of fire. Li Juan cursed the deserters from the two counties and eventually died fighting. The death rate of the 600 people he brought was as high as 70% (sixty-seven of the soldiers died).

However, his political opponents coerced and lured the surviving soldiers, forcing them to accuse Li Juan of fleeing the battle and treating him as "missing". It was not until next year when the Jin people returned to the north that the people of Caizhou collected the body of martyr Li Juan and sent it to the court, so that the truth could be revealed to the world.

In order to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Later Zhou regime, Guo Wei as usual sought out the descendants of the clans of the previous dynasties (Later Jin and Later Han) as the "two queens"; he appointed ten families of tomb-keepers each for Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty Li Cunxu, Emperor Mingzong Li Siyuan, Emperor Gaozu Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin Dynasty, and Emperor Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty. The mausoleum guarding office and other things remain as before.

Guo Wei's leaping "ancestral worship" also reflects the frequent collision and replacement of politically correct and mainstream ideas during the Five Dynasties period.

Guo Wei relied on Liu Zhiyuan and opposed Liu Chengyou; Liu Zhiyuan relied on Shi Jingtang and opposed Shi Chonggui; Shi Jingtang relied on Li Siyuan and opposed Li Congke.

This is the basic political logic of the "rougamo" style unique to the Five Dynasties period, which always denies the predecessor and affirms the predecessor of the predecessor.