Zhao Bao, whose name is Weihao, was a native of Dongwu City, Ganling (now Qinghe, Hebei, at the junction of Wucheng and Xiajin, Shandong).

From his brother eunuch Zhao Zhong to the head of the ten permanent servants, he was deeply ashamed and did not associate with him. He was very different from his cousin.

Zhao Bao lived in the era of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when relatives and eunuchs alternately controlled the government and made a mess of the court, while the emperor was drunk and dreamed of death, selling officials (yù) and enjoying the last crazy feast, the raging fire of the peasant rebellion was rushing and rolling underground, waiting to gush out of the crypt, and the nomadic peoples such as Xianbei and Wuhuan outside the country were also eyeing the stormy Han Dynasty.

Zhao Bao, he has had the lofty ideal of "self-cultivation and self-cultivation since he was a child, and he was famous in the township for his bravery, righteousness, filial piety to his parents, and was recommended by the governor of the state and county as filial piety.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no imperial examination system, and if scholars wanted to enter the official career, there were two ways to go: to raise filial piety or to raise Maocai (that is, we are familiar with Xiucai, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the light of Emperor Wu Liu Xiu's obscurity changed to Maocai).

Soon, the imperial court sent Zhao Bao to Guangling (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu) to serve as a county magistrate, and he could finally benefit the people, be loyal to the country, and display his lofty ambitions.

Zhao Bao's cousin Zhao Zhong was already one of the leaders of the "Ten Standing Servants" who were trusted by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, responsible for taking charge of the court documents and conveying the emperor's edicts. He and another eunuch, Zhang Rang, were embarrassed, controlled the government, and played with the mediocre emperor in the palm of his hand.

Many officials are afraid that the "Ten Standing Servants" will not be able to do so, but Zhao Bao, who is clean and self-conscious, feels that Zhao Zhong's soaring prosperity is a great shame for the Zhao family, not only does not meet the stammer, but also is ashamed of associating with Zhao Zhong.

However, it is gold that always shines, even in the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil.

During the six years of serving in Guangling, Zhao Bao was upright, with clean sleeves and a clean breeze, and was deeply loved by the people, while Guangling was politically and relicably clear, and the people were rich and rich.

Zhao Bao's political achievements were affirmed by the imperial court, and he was promoted to the rank of Taishou of Liaoxi County in the sixth year of Xiping (177 AD).

Compared with the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, the area of Liaoxi County in the Eastern Han Dynasty had been greatly reduced, because the northeastern part of the former Liaoxi County was occupied by the emerging Wuhuan regime, while the southeast established Liaodong vassal state.

After Zhao Bao arrived, he actively repaired the city, trained soldiers, reclaimed the land, and pacified the people.

The chief of the Xianbei clan knew that he had encountered a hard bone to gnaw, so he began to put aside the conspiracy of Yang Mou and put his mind on the people around Zhao Bao.

According to the bureaucratic system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, local officials could bring their relatives and family members to live together in the second year of their tenure. Unfortunately, when Zhao Bao sent someone to pick up his mother and wife from his hometown, the news reached the ears of the enemy chieftain, so they set up a sinister and vicious scheme.

In December of that winter, Zhao Bao's mother and wife rushed to the territory of Liucheng (now Changli, Hebei) not far from Yangle City (Liaoxi County ** station), at this time, a team of Xianbei cavalry suddenly appeared, and robbed Zhao Bao's relatives with lightning speed.

The Xianbei chieftain who succeeded in the conspiracy was overjoyed, laughed wildly a few times, and then immediately ordered Zhao Bao's mother and wife to be taken hostage to attack Yangle City.

Zhao Bao led 20,000 soldiers out of the city to fight against the Xianbei people, but he never thought that his mother and wife had fallen into the hands of the enemy.

The Xianbei people carried them in a car to attack the county seat of Liaoxi. Zhao Bao led 20,000 cavalry to meet the battle, Xianbei pushed out Zhao Bao's mother to Zhao Bao in front of the battle, Zhao Bao cried in grief, and said to his mother, "When the son's sin is really indescribable, I originally planned to use a meager amount of money to support you sooner or later, but I didn't expect to bring you a big disaster." In the past, I was your son, and now I am a minister of the court, and righteousness cannot take care of selfish favors and self-destruction, but fight to the death, otherwise there is no other way to make up for my sins. ”

Zhao Bao's mother understood the righteousness and shouted loudly to her son from afar: "Weihao! Everyone has his own life, so why should he take care of each other and lose loyalty and righteousness! The former king's mother made a sword to the Han envoy to consolidate his ambition and encourage him! ”

After that, Zhao Bao tearfully ordered an attack.

The Xianbei chieftain originally thought that Zhao Bao, a filial son, would bow his head and surrender in order to keep his mother alive, so he was not prepared for war, so the Xianbei people could not withstand the rush of the Eastern Han Dynasty soldiers at all, and they suddenly fell into chaos, retreated one after another, and fled until the north of Yanshan before they dared to stop and take a breath.

The enraged Xianbei chieftain killed Zhao Bao's mother and wife on the way to escape.

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After repelling the enemy army, the grief-stricken Zhao Bao decorated the bodies of his relatives and wept blood to pay tribute. He then presented this chapter to the imperial court, asking for permission to escort his mother's and wife's coffins to their hometown. Although Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was mediocre, he was also deeply moved by the deeds of Zhao Bao's mother and son, and he sent envoys to mourn and issued a holy decree to crown Zhao Bao as the Marquis of 鄃 (shū) (鄃, the ancient place name, near Xiajin, Shandong).

After Zhao Bao returned to his hometown to complete the funeral, he said to the villagers sadly: "If an official who eats the country's money evades his duties because of selfish interests, he is not loyal, and he is not filial piety if he sacrifices his mother to preserve his loyalty, righteousness, and integrity. ”

In the following days, the overly sad Zhao Bao kept vomiting blood, and finally died of exhaustion.

The tragic experience of the national hero Zhao Bao who sacrificed his family and filial piety not only made those present cry at the time, but also made those who heard sigh, and two thousand years later, we are also full of anger when we read it, with tears in our eyes, and we can't help ourselves.

282 Dong Zhuo robbed the tomb of his granddaughter

Dong Zhuo did rob the tomb in history, how did he rob it, what was the purpose of the tomb robbery, there are different ways to say it for thousands of years, and what I will say below is just one of the folk legends.

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Since the Western Han Dynasty, the trend of thick burials has reached its peak, and the ensuing tomb robbery has come and gone. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "official thieves" led by Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao (the people's tomb robbers are called "people's thieves") pushed the tomb robbery to the top.

Dong Zhuo has a lot of capable people, and the scale of tomb robbery is also very large, and many of the tombs of the emperors of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty have been stolen and excavated by him.

Few people know that Dong Zhuo's tomb robbery actually originated from the illness of his granddaughter Dong Bai.

In the first year of Zhongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (184 AD), Dong Bai, the granddaughter of the treacherous minister Dong Zhuo, suddenly became dumb.

This Dong Bai has been smart and clever since she was a child, and she was named Weiyang Jun at the age of 10, and Dong Zhuo loves her very much. When her granddaughter suddenly suffered from a strange illness, Dong Zhuo was so anxious that she hurriedly invited the imperial doctor to treat her, but she invited seven or eight famous doctors in a row, and all of them shook their heads and couldn't diagnose and treat.

One day, an imperial physician surnamed Li trembled and reported: "Prime Minister, the illness of my granddaughter is not incurable, but it is really difficult to find a cure. ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard that his granddaughter was still saved.

Imperial Physician Li then came up with a miraculous medicine called "Five Poisons Ganoderma lucidum Grass". It is said that this grass is white all over the body, grows in the ancient tomb of more than 100 years, can not see the light, and dies when it sees the light, and the medicinal effect is not effective. Imperial Doctor Li said that most people have never seen this medicine, and there is only a little record in the history of medicine.

As soon as Imperial Doctor Li left, Dong Zhuo started the idea of an ancient tomb in his heart: "An ancient tomb that is more than a hundred years old? At the moment, only Maoling and Changling are the most suitable. ”

Maoling is the tomb of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Changling is the tomb of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the famous literary scholar Cai Yong (yō

g) was being reused by Dong Zhuo, and when he heard that Dong Zhuo wanted to steal and excavate Maoling and Changling, he was startled, and hurriedly went to stop Dong Zhuo: "You dare to make up your mind about the mausoleum of the first emperor!" Isn't it better than a beast?"

When Dong Zhuo heard this, he also felt that something was wrong, so he smiled and said that he was just joking. But from this moment on, Dong Zhuo had the idea of stealing the royal tomb of the previous dynasty in his heart.

In the first year of Chuping (190), Sun Fu, the assassin of Jizhou, Yuan Shao, Sun Jian and others raised troops to denounce Dong Zhuo, who coerced the Son of Heaven to enter the customs in the west. The remnants of the Yellow Turban Army of the Peasant Rebel Army also re-launched troops in the Kwantung region: the battle ahead was suddenly tight, and the military expenditure was very large, and Dong Zhuo, who was in a hurry, had the idea of stealing and digging ancient tombs again.

During this period, many Han tombs in Guanzhong were excavated by his subordinates, and a lot of treasures were obtained, but the "Five Poisons Ganoderma lucidum grass" was always nowhere to be seen. Dong Zhuo finally made up his mind to excavate Maoling and Changling, the two most important tombs of the Han family, and sent his right-hand man Lu Bu as the pioneer of tomb robbery.

First, Maoling was dug up. This is the largest of the Western Han Dynasty Imperial Mausoleums, and it has been patronized by the Red Eyebrow Army before.

Lu Bu went in to take a look and found that the remaining funeral goods were still very rich and piled up on the ground. Lu Bu returned with a full load and turned Liu Che's coffin into a mess.

Since he has committed evil and dug up other people's graves, Dong Zhuo has to do bad things to the end, not to mention that the "Five Poisons Ganoderma lucidum grass" for treating dumb diseases has not yet been found. He decided to excavate the Changling.

This time, he asked Lu Bu to find a gravedigger named Shi Renfu.

At this time, Renfu was less than 40 years old, less than 5 feet tall, he didn't sit down, he didn't stand up, he was a roe deer, black and not slippery, just like an elf monkey. Don't look at him as amazing, but he is a descendant of a family of tomb robbers. This guy is scheming, and he has never missed a tomb robbery for so many years.

His eyes have already been aimed at Changling, I heard that Changling has been built for 54 years, the underground palace inside is very large, and there are too many funeral goods for Empress Lu to count, as long as you find one or two pieces, you will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with this person, and promised that if he could open Changling, he would let him pick two treasures at random and let him be an official in the court.

Shi Renfu immediately expressed his willingness to serve the prime minister.

Seeing Dong Zhuo and this roe head rat-eyed guy in cahoots, Cai Yong was so angry that he secretly made a heart, saying that he couldn't let Dong Zhuo's trick succeed, and he must keep the royal family's mausoleum.

Two days later, Dong Zhuo took Lu Bu and Shi Renfu to Changling.

The cold here is pressing, and in the cypress grove next to the mausoleum, there are bursts of crows' terrible cries. Dong Zhuo couldn't help but feel a little creepy, and a trace of fear passed through his heart. But he refused to retreat, and ordered the soldiers to surround the entire Changling Mausoleum, and not a single idler could be allowed in.

Shi Renfu is worthy of being a master of tomb robbing, with the family heirloom tomb robbing skills, with the help of all the soldiers, it took only 3 days to open this huge ancient tomb.

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed and asked Lu Bu and Shi Renfu to take the soldiers in, in addition to the gold and silver treasures, he also asked them to carefully search for the legendary "Five Poisons Ganoderma lucidum Grass".

The soldiers entered the burial chamber with torches, and they were all stunned. Because the tomb is full of all kinds of bronze antiques, as well as a large number of gold and silver jewelry. When the inner coffin was opened, the bodies of Liu Bang and Empress Lu were still decently placed.

It turned out that after Changling was robbed by the Red Mei Army in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty repaired and buried the tomb again, re-placed the remains of Han Gaozu and Empress Lu, and added many burial goods.

While everyone was amazed, a sudden gust of wind blew, and a black smoke drifted out of nowhere. The pine torches in the hands of all the soldiers were extinguished at once, and the tomb was suddenly pitch black. There was only a commotion in the darkness, and everyone went crazy to grab the jewels.

Lu Bu was furious, ordered all the soldiers to take off their clothes, go out naked with jewelry, and whoever dared not obey was immediately beheaded, and also ordered everyone to look around for the "Five Poisons Ganoderma lucidum grass". The soldiers did not dare to disobey, so they obediently stripped naked and turned around in a mess.

As soon as he settled here, Hitomo had a problem over there, and I saw that he suddenly shivered, and his head hurt inexplicably. He shouted, "There are ghosts!" Immediately hug your head and run away. The other soldiers panicked and screamed and followed. Lu Bu couldn't stop it, so he had to grab a Gu Ding and leave the mausoleum.

As soon as he ran out of the mausoleum, Shi Renfu was caught by Dong Zhuo's faction.

It turned out that Dong Zhuo was scheming, and he was afraid that the people who went in would hide treasures, so he ambushed a team of soldiers to search for those soldiers who entered the mausoleum, and he couldn't let people take away a treasure.

They searched for a roll of yellow silk from Shi Renfu's body, which read, "Qianli grass, He Qingqing, ten days, no life." ”

Dong Zhuo's strategist Li Ru saw the fame, it turned out that this was a spell, "Thousand Miles of Grass" and "Ten Days of Bu", isn't it "Dong Zhuo"? can't live", is scolding Dong Zhuo for not dying well! He told Dong Zhuo the meaning of the spell.

Shi Renfu said tremblingly, in the chaos, it was not clear where this yellow silk came from, and it was very likely that Lu Housai was lying in the coffin for himself. Dong Zhuo was willing to believe it, and immediately called the guards to cut off Shi Renfu's head and hang his head on the high city to show the public.

did not find the miracle medicine, but was teased and cursed, Dong Zhuo's "evil" was born from the side of the gall, and in a fit of anger, he wanted to drag the bones of Empress Lu out of the coffin to "dry the corpse". Cai Yong hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him, saying that this was detrimental to yin virtue and a shameful evil thing in the world. Dong Zhuo didn't listen, Cai Yong threatened death again, and Dong Zhuo gave up.

Dong Zhuo also sent someone into the tomb to get more burial goods, but no one dared to go down, and everyone was frightened. Dong Zhuo had to send someone to protect the scene, and planned to send someone down tomorrow.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, Cai Yong pointed at Dong Zhuo and scolded, and his daughter Cai Wenji also helped on the side, saying that Dong Zhuo had damaged the ancestral tomb of the Han family and would be punished by God. also said that even if Dong Zhuo really wanted to replace the Han Emperor as emperor, there was no need to dig people's ancestral graves. The intensity of the scolding made Dong Zhuo embarrassed. When the scolding was at its worst, Cai Yong even rushed forward with a sword in his hand to cut Dong Zhuo.

This Dong Zhuo is brutal and usually very domineering, but he loves Cai Yong's father and daughter very much, and he dug up the tomb of the ancestors of the Han family, so he has no confidence, and he is also lenient with the words and deeds of Cai's father and daughter.

Dong Zhuo was very superstitious, and he was afraid that there would be a great retribution, so he sent someone to put back the funeral goods that were moved out, and rebuilt the Changling Tomb. He also erected a monument in front of the mausoleum to record the scandal of tomb robbery, of course, his own name was never mentioned in the text, but the blame was put on the heads of others. He deliberately carved the inscription so small that the soldiers buried it deep in the long mausoleum.

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People may want to ask about the origin of the yellow silk, but in fact, it is just a ploy by Cai Yong. He wrote the yellow silk in advance, asked a henchman who participated in the grave digging to quietly take it with him, and asked him to bring some smoke-making things to cast in the tomb. In the darkness and panic, the soldier stuffed the yellow silk into Shi Renfu's palm and staged a farce that made the gravediggers tremble.