On the anniversary of the death of Empress Xiaomu in Jiashen in June of the fifth year of Wanli, Emperor Huairou Shi Guangzu was sent to Maoling to offer sacrifices. ——"Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty, who initiated the great fortunes of the Ming dynasty, established the imperial constitution, revived the divine power, and restored civilization, Wu Xiaocheng, Zhonghe, and the Holy Emperor, Volume 5"
"While Huairou Bo was worshiping Queen Xiaomu, Queen Xiaomu's people were experiencing tragic massacres in the south of the empire." - "Gen, the story of a Yao descendant." First edition, December 2242.
"After the new army established by the emperor defeated the Yao coalition, the besieged Zhang Bin's troops also broke out of the siege and went on a killing spree in Huangjiangtong. Judging from later archaeological discoveries in the Luoding area of Yunfu, from Huangjiangtong to Xishan On the mountain roadside of Dadong, if you dig down less than one meter, you can see a lot of human bones. What is not seen in the history books, but only heard in legends, is the rape, arson and crazy looting that accompanied the massacre."
"In addition to the national first-class cultural relics now in the Capital Museum and the bronze drums from Dadong in Xishan that were packed and presented to the emperor, the gold and silver jewelry and even cinnamon worn by the Yao people became trophies for the soldiers, and the most The trophies are the heads of innocent Yao people. In the battle of Huangjiangtong alone, history records that '17,830 heads were taken' - which shows the brutality of the massacre."
"It needs to be emphasized that these beheaded ancestors of the Yao people were all men in their prime of life, and the large number of bones of women and children around the ancient village revealed to us a bloody fact. The subsequent so-called 'set up three Luo' By both attacking and defending, Guangdong and Guangxi will achieve long-term peace and stability, starting from Ling Yunyi. Behind this brief record, there are many killings hidden behind the so-called 'prosperity'."
The autobiography "Roots" was written by a later female writer. It received wide acclaim and triggered a "root-seeking" craze. The "establishment of three Luo" refers to the establishment of Luoding Zhili Prefecture in Luoding by Lingyunyi after the Luopang War, under the Chief Secretary of Guangdong, and the establishment of two county governments, Xining County and Dong'an County, to implement land reform. Returning measures.
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Not to mention how many tragic killings and how many Yao people's heart-breaking pain were lost in the vast mountains of Luoding, Longshui. In June of the fifth year of Wanli, at a riverbank construction site in Zhangde Mansion, the Prime Minister of Chengxuan County, Henan Province, Xu Guangqi, a young man who was sweating profusely from work and was tired and nauseated, finally heard the sound of the gong for setting rice.
He ignored the mud on his hands, put his head on his shoulders, and ran towards the place where the gong was being struck with all his strength. After some squeezing and pushing, he squeezed out from the crowd with two dark pancakes and a ladle of salty soup, and wolfed down the coarse food.
After drinking the salty soup with yellow cabbage leaves floating on it, he carefully tied the half gourd around his waist, then reached into his arms and touched his ribs - according to the servants who worked together, if a person When you can clearly feel the seven pairs of ribs on your chest one by one, you will soon fall down on the road and be thrown into a mass grave in the distance by the overseer with a whip.
When Xu Guangqi was counting his ribs, the one injured by the kick was still a little sore. Being reminded by this pain, regret gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake. ——He received a reply from Nanjing Daily at the end of March this year, ran away from home after a big quarrel with his father, and was pulled to the construction site on his way to the capital to apply for Dr. Gewu.
What the young man pursuing his dream never expected was that as soon as he entered Henan, he was beaten up on the road, had all his money taken away from him, and was even turned into a civil servant by the government servants of Zhangde Prefecture.
Fortunately, he was smart and didn't say that he was a child who had already entered school. Pretending to be illiterate, he was placed in a group of Shandong people and worked hard every day - according to the civilian husband who had been brought here earlier, he could be released after working for three months.
Thanks to the emperor's policy of "two excellent men and one son", all local officials who could have anything to do with the "Huanghuai Water Conservancy Project" were all red-eyed. Li Shanguo, the general secretary of Anyang County Gongfang in Zhangde Prefecture, was forced to do nothing by the county magistrate. He and Ma Dianli and others from the execution room came up with a crooked trick to selectively label passing merchants and pedestrians who entered Anyang as "loitering and causing trouble". For a crime, he was dragged to the construction site to work.
Of course, Anyang County is very particular about criminalizing pedestrians: Needless to say, those who are alone, because in these days, every person who walks alone without a companion must be counted as one who has no background at all, just a small background and has no credentials. There is no place for those who have no evidence to complain; secondly, merchants carrying goods must distinguish between big and small, and inquire clearly about whereabouts - only those who travel and do small business can be convicted, otherwise the disciples of a certain prince or earl will be dragged away, which will inevitably It will be messy in the future.
Ma Dianli also ordered the yamen's quick hands and assistants, not to mention scholars. Scholars in the Ming Dynasty were very difficult to deal with. The teacher of the little scholar might be a scholar leader, the head of the Qingyi class, so even the "child born" Ma Dianli was not wanted. However, if you pull the wrong one, you will definitely be punished for death. Xu Guangqi went out without wearing a Tongsheng headscarf. If he was pulled down on the construction site and his identity was exposed, his life would most likely be in danger.
After these "wandering troublemakers" were pulled to the construction site, they worked more than mules and ate less than rabbits. If they were lazy for a little bit, they would be whipped. Xu Guangqi saw several of them being packed up and carried to unknown places. labor.
While working, Xu Guangqi also secretly thought about running away, but he was caught by a man named Wang Peng who worked together - this Wang Peng was the same Wang Peng who settled Huo Taigong's family in Northeast China and went to Henan to work for Wang's family for two years. .
Although this guy gained a lot of knowledge during the Huo family's great migration, the officials in the Northeast also had some misconceptions - thinking that all the officials in the world loved the people and cared about their reputation as much as the Yamen in Liaodong and Daning.
After Wang Peng left Northeast China, he went directly to Wang Congyun with Mrs. Wang's recommendation letter and worked as an accountant for one year and then as a shopkeeper for another year. Wang Congyun had a high status among merchants in Henan, and Wang Peng had done his job very smoothly in the past two years. The dirty tricks he had seen were all in the civil wars in the official business, but he had never seen the dirty tricks used by the bottom of the empire to treat the common people harshly.
At the beginning of the fifth year of Wanli, Wang Peng, who felt that he had figured out the way of shopping malls, resigned from his position as shopkeeper and planned to use his savings in the past few years to go out to work and earn a share of the family business. He had more traveling experience than Xu Guangqi, and he was traveling with several fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, he encountered the same fate as Xu Guangqi. First, he encountered a gangster on the road, and then he was dragged to the construction site on the same day as Xu Guangqi.
Fortunately, all Wang Peng's savings in the past two years were carried back to his hometown in batches through the Wang family trade route. He only brought the final ten taels of silver with him, so the loss was not too great. Otherwise, this sap would have wiped out most of his net worth—— Just these ten taels are enough for him to earn in three months.
After Xu Guangqi was beaten, his mind suddenly matured a lot. Except for talking to Wang Peng, he only thought that he was mute and deaf at other times, counting the days to work. Although he received a few beatings due to his slow progress, under the care of Wang Peng and several other Shandong men, and relying on the fat he saved at home, he not only survived safely for three months, but was also lucky enough not to get sick.
The period of three months passed in a blink of an eye, and finally it was the last day of hard labor. At the greeting of the foreman, Xu Guangqi and Wang Peng each received two coins of industrial silver, and slept well in the work shed with full body fatigue - they could bid farewell to this suffering early tomorrow morning and return to their hometowns.
However, life is always full of drama. Article 2 Early in the morning, Wang Peng, Xu Guangqi and others who left the construction site in Xiashui Town, Anyang County together were stunned by the sudden solar eclipse in the sky before they had gone ten miles away.
Fortunately, the eclipse was not long, nor was it total, and it ended in less than two-quarters of an hour. Wang Peng, the god of tranquility, said to Xu Guangqi: "I guess the imperial court has done a good job in rescuing people in the capital. The sun is not fully eclipsed today - dear brother, tell me what's going on with this solar eclipse?"
Xu Guangqi sneered: "What else could it be? The lonely ghosts who died unjustly everywhere in this land of Huanghuai - God is not blind!"
Then several destitute people loudly cursed the magistrate of Anyang County and the treacherous ministers in the court, and then continued on their way angrily.
After Xu Guangqi experienced this difficulty, his heart became cold when he went to the capital. He planned to return to his hometown, kowtow to his old father, admit his mistakes, and continue his career. Wang Peng advised him: "Brother, as the saying goes, it's better to eat porridge with an open eyebrow than rice with a frown. Although we have different surnames, my brother also knows your ambition and thinks it's great!"
"You have come here from Songjiang Prefecture. How can you be willing not to go to the capital to apply for the imperial examination? Brother, even though I have experienced such suffering, the businessman's mind has not gone cold. It's still the same sentence, 'It rains continuously for a hundred days. There will always be a sunny day. The world cannot be like Anyang everywhere, and it can still be a bright and bright world that can make people get ahead. How can we be discouraged?"
Xu Guangqi, a young man with a young mind, listened to Wang Peng's words and sneered: "Foolish brother admires my elder brother's determination, which can be said to be indomitable. However, from the continuous rain for a hundred days, we can see that the world can still be called bright and prosperous?"
After Wang Peng heard this, he laughed and said: "Brother, don't be discouraged. Although I am young, I have traveled thousands of miles. This is the first time I have encountered something like this - where is the world? Is it possible that there are still people in the world today?" Is it possible to rebel?"
Before he could even finish his words, he saw several ragged men running over from the far side of the official road. They looked like laborers on the construction site of Xiashui Town. A man from Shandong who was following Wang Peng grabbed one of them and said, "Why did you run away before the time came and Anyang County let you go?"
The one who was dragged gasped: "Oh, my God, I dare not say that! A stone man with red eyes was dug out on the construction site, and the nest has already been blown up!"
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