Mr. Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall did not leave much in later generations, and as soon as he fell, it was demolished by the local officials who were crying and shouting to build an ancestral hall for him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info After all, if there is still an ancestral hall after Wei Zhongxian's death, it is simply pasted on his head, "Lao Tzu is a eunuch, Lao Tzu worships Wei Zhongxian, come and beat me!" "There's no benefit other than being able to die a little faster.

However, it is undeniable that for the purpose of currying favor with Wei Zhongxian, the ancestral halls established in various places are all magnificent and extravagant, which can be called the crystallization of folk art.

This is the case with the Wei Zhongxian Ancestral Hall in Jiading City.

Although it is called the ancestral hall, it is actually a group of extremely large buildings, at least three or four hundred meters from south to north, Liu Xu walked around, and felt a little unbearable at the thought of destroying this ancestral hall soon.

Originally, the ancestral hall was guarded by local officials and garrisons, but now that the team is large and powerful, these guards have already slipped away when they saw that the situation was not good, and the defense force originally prepared by Liu Xu did not come in handy.

There are three archways and five stone gates at the entrance of the ancestral hall, the plaque is written with different sentences, the two sides are the intervals composed of evergreen trees, the solemn gray archway and the cyan plants cover each other, it is more solemn and solemn to the ancestral hall, and even faintly reveals a mysterious and sacred atmosphere. On the outermost door is the word "Pude" written by Ming Xizong himself, he as the Ninth Five-Year Honored naturally can't say more flattering sentences, but the plaque behind is extremely flattering, such as "Light is four tables" and "Dezhao Sun and Moon" is just the initial stage, "Eternal One Saint" and "Derby Zhou Gong" are barely qualified.

"Childe, these local officials have done everything to curry favor with Wei Biao, and they can even write these shameless words, and what they say is simply a shame for the world's scholars!" Liu Ruyi walked beside Liu Xu, and when he saw that these plaques were doing everything he could to flatter, he couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Hmph, Wei Eunuch is all over the world, if you don't set up a shrine, you won't be able to get along with him, he wants to dismiss you from your official position, and you want your life to be easy, do you dare not stand up? In my opinion, these officials may not all be bad, but if they don't set up a shrine, they will lose their lives and have to be established. Li Fengtian carefully studied the signature of the plaque, and couldn't help but sigh: "In addition to the inscription of the magistrate, the plaque here even has the eunuchs left behind in Nanjing and the high-ranking officials of the six departments in Nanjing, and the prestige of this eunuch can be seen!" ”

"What about the eunuch party's power over the world? Mencius has clouds, self-reflexive and does not shrink, although brown and broad, I am not worried? Reflexively shrinking, although tens of millions of people are gone! Li Fengtian, since you are following Gongzi, you must draw a clear line with the eunuchs, how can you speak to these shameless magistrates! Liu Ruyi accused Li Fengtian with some indignation, his face turned red, and his eyes were full of anger.

"Even if the imperial court cuts Wei Zhongxian in the end, can it still cut down all the magistrates who gave him the ancestral hall? This huge country still needs officials to govern, and being a person can distinguish between right and wrong, and this official can't be too careful, you know, when the water is clear, there are no fish! ”

"You are making excuses for them, they are squeezing the people to build a shrine, and when they watch the eunuch lackeys scourge the people, they don't stand up to protect the peace of the party, and in the end they can escape punishment, this is simply a big joke in the world!"

Liu Xu saw that the two of them were fighting each other, so he had to stand up and make a round: "Okay, neither of you is right or wrong, our main task today is to destroy this ancestral hall, and it is more useful to do this thing than how many words you say!" ”

Childe spoke, and the two had to settle down, but judging from the way they looked at each other, the battle was not over.

It's good that the subordinates have a little contradiction with each other, but Liu Xu didn't say anything, just strode forward, and in front of him was the Dacheng Hall dedicated to the statue of Wei Zhongxian.

There is also a Dacheng Hall in the Confucian Temple in Qufu, which is the main building of the entire Confucian Temple complex. Although this Dacheng hall is pirated, but there should be a point is not lacking, this hall is nine rooms wide, the roof is heavy and the eaves rest the mountain, the form is solemn and generous, the main hall has 28 stone pillars, all of them are from the mountains of other provinces, just to transport these stones cost thousands of people and tens of thousands of taels of silver, these expensive stone pillars are carved with auspicious clouds and dragon shallow carving, obviously countless stonemasons spent countless days and nights to carve quietly.

To be honest, Wei Zhongxian's name for the main building Dacheng Hall is not arrogant, and some people have long proposed to put Wei Gonggong and Confucius together to worship. Liu Xu remembered that a few years ago, a Guozi supervisor proposed to the imperial court to move the statue of Wei Zhongxian into the Confucian Temple to worship with Confucius, and sacrifice Wei Zhongxian's father and Confucius's biological father together, on the grounds that Wei Zhongxian eradicated the "Donglin Party", and his merits were less than Confucius's; Wei Zhongxian's compilation of "The Essentials of the Three Dynasties" is like Confucius's pen cutting "Spring and Autumn". The so-called "the country is about to die, there will be demons", from which people's behavior can be seen that the clowns who jumped off the beam in the late Ming Dynasty took turns to appear, vying to kick the Ming Empire Building, which was about to collapse.

It's just that they forgot that kicking can naturally benefit from it, but the one who kicks the latest and runs the slowest will be buried under the ruins and buried for the Ming Dynasty.

"I'm afraid that these people didn't expect that the dignified Ming Dynasty would be finished in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, you kick, I kicked, kicked around and found that the wall was going to fall, no one in the Manchu Dynasty could run, and it was also a paradox of this dynasty and this era."

Liu Xu shook his head, expelled the thoughts in his mind, and strolled into the Dacheng Hall. The incense in the Dacheng hall is full of incense, taste carefully, the aroma is strong, in the air as if condensed into the substance, into the nose for a long time, only to feel that people are calm, it is the expensive incense of agarwood.

But compared to Wei Zhongxian's statue, this incense is not a luxury.

The statue of Wei Zhongxian sits on a throne, the whole body is carved from agarwood, the outside is covered with a crown robe, the head is wearing a special nine crowns for the Son of Heaven, and the ivory wat board is in his hand. Liu Xu walked closer and observed, every detail of the statue was extremely skillful, even the wrinkles at the corners of Wei Zhongxian's eyes, the lines on the palms of his hands, and the folds on his skin were all carved, obviously it took a lot of effort from the carving craftsman. Wei Zhongxian's head is a bun, but the inside is hollow, which is specially set aside to hold flowers for the four seasons, and every morning a servant collects flowers from the countryside with a fast horse, and then respectfully puts them into it, as if facing a great god.

"Brother Liu, I heard that there was a craftsman who carved his head big when carving the statue of Wei Gelding, and he had to polish it a little smaller, and the little eunuch who supervised the work hugged Wei Gelding's head and cried, which was even more sad than his own head being chiseled!" Su He only arrived yesterday, and today he followed the team to sweep through Jiading City, which was the time of elation. He saw Liu Xu fascinated by the statue of Wei Zhongxian, and walked over to add an interesting story.

"Brother Su is really well-read and has a strong memory, if I remember correctly, the intestines and facial features of this Wei Gelding statue are all gold and jade jewelry, we shouldn't waste it."

"What does Brother Liu mean?"

"It's better to smash the statue, take out the jewelry and buy some rice and flour cloth and send it to the scholars and people, anyway, it is all taken from the people, we might as well use it for the people!"

"Yes, this shows that we are dignified teachers, and we patrol and rebel for the sake of the justice of the world!"

The peasants who came together did not know the significance of this hall, but only knew that these people in long robes in front of them were all talented and juren, and since they dared to destroy this hall and were willing to give themselves money, there was always no problem. When they were ordered to chop this hall with their axes, they did not hesitate to chop the wood axes in their hands towards this well-built hall.

Sawdust flies, knives and axes are vertical and horizontal, and the ancestral hall built for blessings has not even been able to keep itself, and the Dacheng Hall carefully built by the skilled craftsmen of Jiading City is about to turn into a pile of broken wood in the hands of a group of farmers who do not have any artistic cells in a very short time.

"Can't smash, can't smash!" Suddenly, a craftsman-like person rushed out, his face was full of tears, his expression was anxious, and he shouted at Liu Xu: "This ancestral hall was built by everyone with great difficulty, and it is the most beautiful and brilliant building in this Jiading City. ”

The craftsman was no longer young, he wore a blue crewneck shirt, his face was dark, his hands were calloused with calluses, and his eyes were full of the vicissitudes and sorrows of a lifetime of hardship. Experience gave him enough ability to identify the leader of a group of people, he skillfully bypassed a few servants who blocked him, rushed to Liu Xu and knelt down: "This ancestral hall is the last work of my old man's life, Gongzi, you are right to smash the statue of Wei Zhongxian, we all support it, but please leave this ancestral hall behind, this is also built by the people's money and food, leave something for them!" ”

After that, the old man, who had entered his twilight years, knelt down for Liu Xu, and banged his head, and he knocked so hard that his head was obviously swollen.

"Uncle, uncle, don't do this!" Liu Ruyi seemed to be moved by his tears, and he tried to step forward to help the craftsman, but the craftsman has been dealing with civil engineering for decades, and even if he is old and weak, a scholar like Liu Ruyi can not help him.

"Childe, childe, look at this ......" Liu Ruyi's eyes were a little compassionate, and a little helpless, he called Liu Xu repeatedly, looking at Liu Xu with hope, hoping that his son could give a solution.

None of the others spoke, they didn't like to destroy, but at this time they could only show their determination with the most decisive action, sympathy was the same as vacillation at this time, and only people like Liu Ruyi would desperately step forward to help the old craftsman.

"Uncle, I understand your feelings" Liu Xu stepped forward, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the old craftsman's tears, not feeling that the stains on this old man covered in dirt would stain his gorgeous and expensive clothes.

"Although I understand, I have to tell you that this ancestral hall cannot be kept. First, Wei Zhongxian will be defeated, and as soon as he falls, I will demolish your county order if I don't demolish it; Second, if we keep this shrine and do not dismantle it, our action will not be a complete victory; Third, if after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, Shangguan will be angry because you Jiading does not dismantle the ancestral hall, and you people in Jiading will be unlucky. So, I'll give you twenty taels of silver privately, and you can use it to make some small deals, and this ancestral hall-" Speaking of this, Liu Xu's tone was a little unbearable, and after a pause, he immediately said, "I can't keep it!" ”

Zhou Jun heard this, did not give Liu Ruyi a chance to beg again, and said loudly to the farmers on standby: "Gongzi has an order, all the ancestral halls will be demolished, and no one will be left!" Keep the income yourself, and the son will not take anything! ”

For him, Childe's orders are everything, and other things, such as value, such as feelings, such as meaning, are worthless to him.

The slightly shrill voice of the young man drifted in the autumn sky, and it sang and harmonized with the old craftsman's feeble cry, and faded away in the air together.