Chapter 91 Collecting firewood and hanging the tomb of King Pingnan
As a veteran soldier of the company, Zhang Shuiquan, the leader of the first squad, handed over the truth to Yang Wenbin, and said: "There are two ways to prepare firewood. The first way to borrow www.biquge.info is to borrow it from ordinary people's homes. It is to see which common people have good dry firewood stored in front of their homes, and we borrow them to use directly.
The second way is to go to the mountains and pick it up. Near the troops, there are East Mountain, West Mountain, South Mountain. There are some trees in the mountain. And some dead trees, you can, cut them down as dry firewood, to ensure that they can be used in exercises. ”
Yang Wenbin thought to himself: "The first method is to borrow, what is the difference between robbing and stealing?" You can't do that on your own. Let's use the second method! Although it is a little tiring and troublesome, after all, after completing the task, it does not violate his own principles. ”
The next morning, Yang Wenbin asked the company commander and instructor for leave, and led the soldiers of the platoon to the mountains to look for firewood with axes and saw blades.
They went up to Nanshan first. Because of the South Mountain, the middle is a training ground for the troops. Most of the trees inside are pine and cypress, which are not suitable for dry firewood. Moreover, the age of the tree is somewhat small, and the largest is only as thick as the mouth of the bowl. They went around in the woods for an hour. I only found one or two dead trees, so I cut them down and let the soldiers carry them away.
These two trees are definitely not enough for the task given by the company. So they changed their strategy and went to the West Mountain to find it.
The altitude of Xishan is only about three or four hundred meters.
From Nanshan to Xishan, Yang Wenbin and they walked for half an hour.
Up the mountain, into the forest, they began to search.
On the West Mountain, sure enough, there are more trunks of dry trees and dead trunks than in the South Mountain. Excitedly, they used saws and axes to cut down the dry tree, and then, untangle the branches, taking away only the trunk.
Yang Wenbin, accompanied by Zhang Shuiquan, worked for a while.
He wanted to familiarize himself with the nearby terrain, so he climbed to the top of the mountain and looked around.
Standing on the top of the mountain and looking into the distance, there is a feeling of relaxation and joy.
To the east of the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, there is a row of villages. Across the road from the village, on the other side, is the barracks of the troops. Further west, there are endless rice fields. In the distance, villages and mountains are present.
The south side of the mountain, the north side of the mountain, is still a mountain. Because this mountain runs north-south.
But the west side of the mountain is very different, right?
Because, Yang Wenbin found that three or four hundred meters away from the west, there was an antique building in a mountain col and on the slope of another mountain.
"Ah, are there any other places of interest here?" Yang Wenbin thought to himself.
He studied history, for the places of interest, has an extraordinary love, to travel to any place, he always, like to go to some places of interest and historic sites to have a look.
During my university years, when I graduated from the Department of History and interned, I organized a study tour to Beijing.
They inspected all of them, famous historical monuments. For example, go to the Dragon Bone Mountain in the southwest of Zhoukoudian in Beijing to investigate the cave people on the top of the mountain. Go to the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace, and inspect the manor buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Go to Lugou Bridge, visit the Memorial Hall of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, remember the place where the all-out War of Resistance began, and visit the beautiful scenery of the capital "Lugou Xiaoyue".
Yang Wenbin saw that the soldiers were looking for dead tree trunks, so he said to the second and third squad leaders who led the team: "I and the first squad leader Zhang Shuiquan, go over there to have a look, you organize the soldiers to find them first, and remember to call us when you leave." ”
When he came to the building, Yang Wenbin saw that the courtyard was very large, and there was a stone tablet standing in front of the courtyard door, which read "Shangwang Cemetery" in four red characters.
"Oh, King Shang, is it Shang Kexi?" Yang Wenbin thought in his heart.
Everyone who has been in contact with history is familiar with the history of Emperor Kangxi's pacification of the three feudatories.
One of the three feudatories, there is the king of Pingnan, Shang Kexi.
How could his cemetery be here?
The whole cemetery is composed of royal tombs, ancestral tombs, mausoleum gates, exhibition rooms, etc., and there are walls outside. It covers an area of about 11,400 square meters.
The inscription on the side says that according to Shang Kexi's will, in 1681 AD, Shang Kexi returned to his hometown after his death. In order to commemorate his exploits, the Qing government allocated 8,000 taels of silver to build the cemetery of King Shang, gave ten thousand hectares of land, settled family members, and sent two four-grade top leaders and 100 soldiers to guard the tomb for Shang Kexi for generations, and has been serving for more than 200 years. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the cemetery of King Shang was listed as a local cultural relic.
In the mid-90s, the state encouraged the people to build memorial halls and rescue historical relics. Shang Kexi's 11th grandson Shang Dexin has invested hundreds of thousands of yuan, including descendants have invested more than 2 million yuan, according to the genealogical pattern, in the southeast of the Wen'an Mountain ancestral cemetery, the basic restoration of the Shangwang cemetery, the basic restoration of the historical original appearance of the stone archway and other ancillary buildings outside the park.
Shangwang Cemetery is a Qing Dynasty cultural relics rescued and protected by social forces, and it is also the first historical and cultural landscape of the Qing Dynasty in the province, which is now open to domestic and foreign tourists.
Reputedly. Shang Kexi was born there, then became a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, and later served as a deputy general under Mao Wenlong of the Dongjiang Army.
The Shang family can be described as full of loyal martyrs, his father and elder brother are soldiers, who have died on the battlefield against the Manchus, and even more than 100 men, women, and children have all jumped into the sea to die in order to prevent the Manchus from being captured alive.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan killed the innocent Mao Wenlong in an internal fight, but the new leader of the Dongjiang Army designed to murder Shang Kexi, he defected to Huang Taiji in a fit of anger and became a traitor at that time.
In fact, from the perspective of human nature, if you put yourself in your shoes, if your own father, brother and more than 100 relatives are martyred for the country, in turn, your leader will harm you, you are in that kind of environment, you are wronged or not, will you be hateful psychologically.
For thousands of years, Chinese bureaucrats have not hesitated to kill their own people in order to compete for power and profit. If Yuan Chonghuan had not killed Mao Wenlong for personal gain, perhaps the Manchu Qing would not have been able to reach Guanli and unify China.
Walking into the gate, what you see is the stele where Kangxi personally inscribed the content and wrote the inscription, and not far behind is the joint tomb of Shang Kexi, the original partner and another wife. The tomb is a circular tomb with a diameter of about 20 meters, and a circular wall of blue bricks on the outside protects the tomb inside.
There is a small tomb next to it, which was originally a joint burial tomb built by Shang Kexi for his grandparents before his death, and there is a courtyard next to it that is the burial tomb of the two sons buried in the local area.
Shang Kexi died at home after being placed under house arrest by his eldest son Shang Zhixin, and Emperor Kangxi was still fair to the Shang family, but he killed Shang Zhixin's family, and all the other sons were named generals of the Qing army.
In fact, the Shang Kexi family is not a victim of the feudal system.
Back then, the three feudatories worked so hard for the Qing Dynasty, but in the end, they still cut the feudal domains and died miserably.
Isn't this another portrayal of "all the birds flying, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooking"?
Historical experience shows that "those who know the times are heroes, and those who change through the machine are heroes", and only those who can recognize the trend of the times and are smart and capable can be heroes and heroes. Only by recognizing the trend of the times can we become outstanding characters.
It seems that this sentence is timeless. In which era people are in, they must conform to the trend of history in order to realize the greatest value of life. And those who go against the trend, although they are heroic, have a tragic ending and will not be too good.