Chapter 38 Feudal Superstition Kills People
Henan is located in the Central Plains, in the troubled times of Chongzhen years, natural disasters and military disasters continued, thousands of miles of red land, chaotic people, local heroes have formed villages to protect themselves, after the annexation process of big fish eating small fish, small fish eating shrimp, gradually developed several famous local forces, Li Jiyu is one of them.
Li Jiyu is a native of Dengfeng, Henan, his family's economic conditions are not bad, he went to private school when he was a child, but he is not a material for reading, and the children in the county can't pass the exam, so he put aside the books and began to mix with society...... Dengfeng Shaolin Temple is famous all over the world, the local people are still martial, Li Jiyu learned a good martial arts, and when he became an adult, he became a big brother in the rivers and lakes, black and white, a tyrant in the place within ten miles and eight townships, and the Chao Gai before outwitting the birth gang.
If it was placed in the Taiping period, he would have been a local hero all the time in his life, but in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Jiyu met a Taoist priest named Chen Jindou, which completely changed his life.
Chen Jindou is a charlatan, claiming that he once received a book of heaven from the immortals, and was able to take advantage of the situation, and calculated a hexagram for Li Jiyu, saying that he was the reincarnation of the carp fairy, and he should take advantage of the situation in the troubled times, and he will be able to be crowned a king and a marquis in the future, which is unspeakably expensive...... Li Jiyu believed in the theory of fairies and ghosts the most, and was convinced of Chen Jindou, and immediately worshipped him as a military advisor, scattered all his family wealth, and rebelled. His subordinates were a group of rabble, and they were quickly defeated by the Ming official army, although Li Jiyu escaped by luck, but his wife and Chen Jindou were caught by the official army and cut off their heads.
It is said that after this heavy setback, Li Jiyu will definitely be finished, but when the typhoon comes. Pigs can fly...... After Li Jiyu escaped, he gathered his old department, started all over again, and seized several key opportunities in the troubled times. In just a few years, it has developed into one of the largest local forces in Henan, with tens of thousands of horses under its command, occupying hundreds of large and small villages, mainly in the Pishan area from Luoyang to Zhengzhou.
In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Jiyu accepted the appeasement of the Ming court, but secretly had an affair with Li Zicheng and helped the Dashun army defeat Sun Chuanting. This battle. The Ming army lost more than 40,000 people, and the Ming exhausted the last of its military strength and soon perished.
After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Li Jiyu at the beginning of the self-respect, take a wait-and-see attitude, when Duoduo attacked Shaanxi, led a large army through Henan, Li Jiyu after some bargaining. Surrender to the Qing army and act as a leading party. led Duoduo all the way to Tongguan, and after the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng, he led Duoduo all the way to Anhui. (On the ninth day of the first month of the first year of Hongguang, Shi Kefa said: "The king of Qing Yu (Duoduo) crossed the river from Mengxian County, about five or six thousand horsemen, and the foot soldiers were still in Qin Huai, and they wanted to go to Tongguan, but Li Jiyu was introduced. The long drive is coming, and the day is coming. Accordingly. Li Jiyu's surrender is indeed ......")
In history, Li Jiyu first descended to the Ming Dynasty, and then descended to the Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng had cooperation and wars, and more often than not, the well water did not interfere with the river water, in general, he was a capricious bandit leader who saw the wind and steered the rudder...... Because the bargaining was too strong when he surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, Li Jiyu violated the taboo of the Qing court, and was later involved in the "Wang Daoshi" anti-Qing nest case, and was killed by the Manchus together with Liu Zeqing.
Li Jiyu's rebellion has a lot to do with Chen Jindou, and when he died, it was because of the "Wang Daoshi" case, summing up his life, there is a feeling of black humor, it is good to have faith, but feudal superstition can really kill people.
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The third prince of Nezha suddenly wanted to go down to Luoyang, and Li Jiyu was very nervous.
He is now the Luoyang general soldier of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, like a prince, Chen Jindou's prophecy back then is about to come true, so he is even more convinced that he is the reincarnation of the carp essence.
"Don't worry, the third prince of Nezha is now a general of the heavenly court, and he will not kill innocents indiscriminately." The chief of the dust-free road is very considerate and comforting.
"That's good, that's good. By the way, how long is the third prince of Nezha going to stay in Luoyang? Li Jiyu breathed a sigh of relief.
"The third prince just came to see, and he will leave as soon as he finishes reading, and he will not stay." When the dustless Taoist said this, Li Jiyu was even more happy, but ......
"But don't forget, one day above the sky, the mortal world has been a thousand years, even if the third prince only comes to the mortal world for a turn, how can he have twenty or thirty years."
Li Jiyu was completely stupid. Even if Nezha has a large number of great gods, he is not as knowledgeable as himself, but he has stayed in Luoyang for twenty or thirty years, and if he does not serve well, his carp essence will still be the first to be unlucky.
"Don't be afraid, Poor Dao had to teach a set of Eight Desolations and Six Formations by the first master back then, which can condense the essence of heaven and earth, absorb the splendor of the sun and the moon, and arrange a cave for the third prince on the bank of the Yellow River, and invite him to go to Pishan to practice and leave Luoyang ......"
At the critical moment, the dust-free Taoist reached out to help.
In order to resist the rebels, there are many earthen villages in Henan.
These stockades are built with tall earthen walls or even stone walls, with a radius of 1,000 to 3,000 steps, that is, a circumference of 35 li...... In addition to the owner of the village, there are dozens to hundreds of households in the village, generally the same surname and the same clan of the owner of the village, each family is also a soldier and a farmer of the village, so such a village is often called "X Jiazhuang", such as Lijiazhuang, Wangjiazhuang, Dujiazhuang and so on.
Dozens of stockades near Luoyang are either attached to Li Jiyu or directly occupied by him, and hundreds of people are stationed in each stockade, supporting each other and protecting the safety of Luoyang City.
Five miles away from the south gate of Luoyang, on the edge of the fork in the road, there is a village called Sha Guozhuang, because there were two village owners, one surnamed Sha and the other surnamed Guo, so it will be called this name. Different from the general square village, the wall of Shaguozhuang is built into an irregular circle, and the stone wall is very strong, which is an important stronghold outside the south gate of Luoyang.
Li Jiyu came here with a team of personal soldiers and accompanied the dustless Taoist.
After walking around Shaguozhuang twice, the dustless Taoist chief solemnly pinched his fingers and shook his head.
"This stockade must be removed as much as possible, otherwise it will be unfavorable to the donor."
"Why?" Li Jiyu was stunned.
"Shaguozhuang, casserole village, the fish is in the casserole, is there still life?" Wuchen glanced at Li Jiyu like a fool, turned around and brushed his sleeves away.
Li Ji was stunned for a long time, and shouted to his officers: "Quick! Quickly transfer a thousand young men to Shaguozhuang, and level the stockade for me, and I can't leave a ...... at all."
Along the official road to the south, to the side of the Si Shui River, there is a pond next to the ferry, garrisoned by a hundred soldiers.
The dust-free Taoist chief held a compass in his hand and took a closer look at Feng Shui: "Flowing water is stagnant water, this soldier pond can't be left, and it has to be removed!" ”
Li Jiyu suddenly realized. Oh, yes! In the stagnant water, will the fish still be alive? (To be continued......)