Tianzigang (Journey to the West)

Xiao Zhai Xiao enlisted

Chapter 10: Zhu Yuanzhang's dream is the grave of Chen Youliang, who has not become benevolent

Section 1 "Rats Gnaw Sorghum Heels"

It is said that Guanyin Bodhisattva watched the moon in the open air outside the Leiyin Treasure Temple in Tianzhu Lingshan on the night of August 15 (Mid-Autumn Festival) in the crisp autumn of that year, and truthfully reported to the Buddha and the gods the whole process of the "main displacement of the stack" in the dragon vein holy land of Tianzigang.

The reason for the 'main displacement of the stack' in the Tianzigang Dragon Vein Holy Land is intricate. After exploring and thinking, Guanyin Bodhisattva summarized that there are four main factors, and they happened to gather together. First, the Queen Mother blames Guanyin Bodhisattva for acting arbitrarily and despising heaven; The second is that the Queen Mother complains that Guanyin Bodhisattva abused Chang'e as a 'special envoy' to disrupt the Heavenly Court's 'love rules'; third, the Heavenly Court Police Wang Lingguan was jealous of Chang'e's dedication to Zhu Wuneng; and fourth, when he became the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang of Fengyang, Anhui Province, had a better personal quality than Chen Youliang.

[Narrator] At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in 1363 AD, 50 years after Chen Daocai and Zhao Meiling were buried in Tianzigang. It was originally the place of the dragon vein of Tianzigang protected by the immortals, and it only became a treasure of feng shui for the immortals.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the land of the Central Plains was surging, and heroes from all walks of life competed for hegemony. Chen Youliang, the leader of the beggar gang with many disciples, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the helmsman who was in charge of a rudder, fought openly and secretly for decades, but the result was that Chen Youliang had never fought Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang became the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. According to folklore, Chen Youliang failed to fight Zhu Yuanzhang back then, and one of the reasons that could not be disclosed to the world was that Chen Youliang's family was buried in the "Dragon Vein Holy Land" - the cemetery of Tianzigang lost its efficacy. The ancestors of the Chen family in the underworld. failed to "give strength" to Chen Youliang as the emperor. And the homestead of Zhu Yuanzhang's family surnamed Zhu - Zhujiawan (courtyard). It happens to be located on the "Dragon Vein Holy Land" - the "Heart of the Dragon Vein" of Tianzigang. The ancestors of the Zhu family in the underworld. As the emperor for Zhu Yuanzhang, the "force" is very timely and in place.

Chen Youliang, a descendant of the tomb of the dragon vein in Tianzigang, has become the leader of the beggar gang and has signs of becoming an emperor. Xiao Tianfu, the host of Meitang Nunnery, presided over the leakage of "Heavenly Machine", and there is another very important content, that is, in the tomb where the family is buried in Tianzigang, there will be a "golden scale red carp" in the future, and this "golden scale red carp" needs to jump ten jumps by itself before it can jump into the stream. Swim into the Xiangjiang River, enter Dongting Lake, and become a king in order to bless the descendants of the tomb as the founding emperor.

In the fairy machine, it is said that it jumps ten jumps by itself. That is, the "golden-scaled red carp" jumped ten times from the grave pond and then arrived at the stream at the foot of Tianzigang from the spring water of the 'Bottom Enter', and swam into the Xiangjiang River through the stream water to Dongting Lake. And it is not possible to use human strength to grab the "golden scale red carp" from the grave pond and put it in a bucket, and manually transport it from the top of Tianzi Gang to the stream water flowing through the foot of Tianzi Gang from the 'bottom' spring or directly into the Xiangjiang River! If it is like this, the 'dragon vein' of Tianzigang will not work! Therefore, the Chen family must create conditions. Let the "golden-scaled red carp" only jump ten times into the stream.

In order to ensure that the "golden-scaled red carp" in the tomb swims smoothly into the Xiangjiang River, the family surnamed Chen began to dig a pit on the north slope of Tianzigang. Dams are built to store water. From the grave to the stream flowing from the 'bottom in' spring to the foot of Tianzigang, nine cisterns need to be excavated. Eight reservoirs need to be dug on the slope and one reservoir between the bottom of the hill and the level of the stream. The eight cisterns on the hillside are the most difficult, and they are all very hard red rocks. It took several years and a lot of effort for the Chen family to successfully excavate the eight reservoirs on the slope. When there was a reservoir on the ground, an accident happened, and the result was that the "golden-scaled red carp" in the grave of the old man of the Chen family was halfway "waist broken", and the merit collapsed a pool.

Just when the family surnamed Chen was only one reservoir away from being dug successfully, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been fighting openly and secretly with Chen Youliang on the rivers and lakes for decades, suddenly found a "good strategy" to defeat Chen Youliang one day. Maybe this is the fate of God! Maybe this is the 'fairy machine'! Maybe that's providence! It was noon in autumn, when Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to fight, he rested in the field. After days of hardships, Zhu Yuanzhang came sleepy after lunch. Zhu Yuanzhang came to a sorghum field in the field and sat down! As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang's buttocks hit the ground, the upper and lower eyelids of his two eyes were brought together. Zhu Yuanzhang was too sleepy and tired. Although Zhu Yuanzhang was sleepy and tired, he was a person who knew martial arts, and he was vigilant during the war years. No matter how sleepy he was in the wild, he could only nap when he slept, and he didn't dare to sleep lightly. Zhu Yuanzhang was half-awake and half-asleep, as if in a dream, he saw a strange scene: in his sight, there was a mouse on the sorghum ground who wanted to eat a ripe sorghum rice. The rat began to climb up from the root of the sorghum pole to the top of the sorghum spike, and the result was that the rat increased the weight of the sorghum spike, pressing the sorghum rod downward, and the rat fell from the sorghum spike bent into the air. After going back and forth like this many times, the rat was exhausted, but he didn't eat a single grain of sorghum rice. After the rat crawled on the ground and rested for a while, suddenly, it climbed to the base of the sorghum pole and, with its sharp teeth, quickly gnawed at the root of the sorghum pole. After a while, the sorghum pole fell to the ground, the sorghum spike fell to the ground, and the rat crawled over and easily ate the sorghum rice.

After Zhu Yuanzhang woke up from the dream, he had a deep understanding of the dream just now. The first thing that came to his mind was that people and animals should not rush whatever they do! In order to achieve a certain goal, we must find out the joint point of this thing and find the main contradiction. As long as we grasp the main contradiction, we can get twice the result with half the effort! Just now, the rat ate ate sorghum and began to blindly live and climb, but he didn't grasp the main contradiction, although it took a lot of effort, the result was that the particles were not obtained! The rat summed up the experience in time, and finally grasped the key to the matter, gnawed off the root of the sorghum pole, and let the sorghum pole fall to the ground. At this time, the rat grasped the main contradiction, and the problem of not being able to eat sorghum rice was solved! Grasping the main contradiction is the main measure to achieve the desired goal! When a fisherman casts a net to catch fish, he must first grasp the outline of the fishing net, so that he can open the net on all sides and trap the fish and shrimp into the net. can't grasp the main contradiction, grab the eyebrows and mustaches, it's likely that you grabbed the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon!

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered repeatedly, what did the dream just now hint at me?

"Master, come here. Help me interpret my dreams! Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the master who was standing a few meters away and said.

"My lord. What a dream you just had! Master said.

Zhu Yuanzhang told the master about the dream scene.

"My lord. Congratulations! Congratulations to the lord for finding a countermeasure to defeat Chen Youliang! Master said very excitedly.

"The rat hints that I can also grasp the main contradiction like it in order to defeat Chen Youliang!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to the master.

"That's right! Lord! Now our biggest opponent is Chen Youliang. We compare Chen Youliang to sorghum rice, and compare our fight with him in the past few years to a rat climbing a pole to eat sorghum rice but not eating sorghum rice. The next step is to defeat Chen Youliang, we have to gnaw off the root of the sorghum pole like a mouse. Chen Youliang's 'root' should be his family's ancestral grave! The military advisor said very seriously.

"Digging the ancestral grave of the Chen family, how can I do such a thing that is indiscriminate and immoral!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"My lord! Do you know that the ancestor of the Chen clan. As early as a few decades ago, a dragon vein was buried in Tianzigang in the south. We don't really need to dig graves, we just need to let the wind out, we want to dig the ancestral graves of his dragon veins, and we can disrupt their formation! Just destroy his feng shui from the roots! Chen Youliang will definitely lose! The military advisor said with confidence.

"Master, I warn you, let loose and spread rumors, these can be done! Really dig Chen Youliang's ancestral grave, I, Zhu Yuanzhang, will never do this kind of bad thing! "Zhu Yuanzhang told the master very seriously!

"Good! My lord, I'm going to let the wind go right away! Never send someone to dig up the ancestral grave of the Chen family! The military advisor assured Zhu Yuanzhang.

"My dream, the rat hinted that I had to grasp the main contradiction when I defeated Chen Youliang. This main contradiction should be Chen Youliang's descendant (foundational) troops! As long as we organize several big campaign operations. Destroy (can't defeat) Chen Youliang's descendant troops, and Chen Youliang's remnants will destroy themselves without a fight! Zhu Yuanzhang said to the master.

"That's what the lord said! The rat wants to eat the sorghum rice on the sorghum pole. Only by gnawing off the sorghum pole can the goal be achieved! If we want to defeat Chen Youliang, we must first destroy his foundation in order to achieve our goal! The military advisor chimed in! Later, Zhu Yuanzhang really organized several major campaigns, concentrated the main forces, and surrounded and annihilated Chen Youliang's descendants. In the end, the goal of defeating Chen Youliang was achieved!

Later, the master 'let off the wind' everywhere, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to dig up the ancestral tomb of Chen Youliang's ancestor buried in the Dragon Vein Holy Land of Tianzigang!

This rumor was soon known by the people of the two families surnamed Zhu and Chen near Tianzigang. So the people surnamed Chen hurriedly dug a small transitional pit at the foot of the hill and in the middle of the creek flatland, and used the "water wheel" day and night to store water from the creek into the pool that had been dug up. The people surnamed Chen thought that as long as the "golden dragonfish" in the tomb was escorted to the stream to swim into the Xiangjiang River, the land of the "dragon vein" of Tianzigang would be completed. When the eight reservoirs on the slope were filled with water, in a hurry, they ignored the small and shallow water in the puddle in the flat land, and finally ended up with "a pool of failure".

It is said that when the people of the Chen family were storing water day and night, carefully preparing to escort the "golden scale red carp" into the Xiangjiang River, the people of the Zhu family said that they would dig graves and exterminate the fish, and at the same time carefully planned how to prevent the "golden scale red carp" from entering the river. First of all, they widely distributed "hero stickers" and summoned people surnamed Zhu to Zhu's courtyard for deliberations. At that time, the people surnamed Zhu in Zhujiayuan gathered more and more, which created an illusion for the people surnamed Chen: they thought that the people surnamed Zhu wanted to dig graves to "kill fish". In a hurry, the people surnamed Chen ignored the small area of the transitional puddle in the flat land, and decided to open the coffin to protect the fish into the river.

On the day the coffin was opened, there was a sea of people on the Son of Heaven Gang. Not only the members of the Zhu and Chen families arrived, but also the men, women and children of the nearby Deng Family Courtyard, Tang Family Courtyard, Zou Family Courtyard, Xiao Family Courtyard, Nie Family Courtyard, Hua Family Courtyard, Liu Family Courtyard and other families came. There are also Taoist priests in the Taoist temple on the Immortal Mountain, that is, the children and grandchildren of "Xiao Hanqing" and Xiao Tianfu. Today's singing of the "protagonist" is the host and holy monks of Nanyue Hengshan Temple, and the entire coffin opening ceremony is presided over by them.

[Distant view, close-up] The scene of the opening ceremony was spectacular. First of all, the people surnamed Chen burned incense and paper money (dark coins) under the grave; setting off firecrackers; Then the drummers beat the gongs, drums, and locks; The last is the "horn gunner" to put the "cupola". This "horn cannon" is fired with injected iron.

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Chapter 10: Zhu Yuanzhang's dream is the grave of Chen Youliang, who has not become benevolent

Section 2: "Rumors Dig Chen's Grave"

[Distant view, close-up] The scene of the opening ceremony was spectacular. First of all, the people surnamed Chen burned incense and paper money (dark coins) under the grave; setting off firecrackers; Then the drummers beat the gongs, drums, and locks; The last is the "horn gunner" to put the "cupola". This "horn cannon" is fired with injected iron.

The monks presided over the ceremony of "protecting the fish into the (Hunan) River". This ritual is actually very simple, it is still to release whips, burn paper, beat gongs, beat drums, and release horn cannons. The difference is that the horn cannon is the smallest level. The gunner stands in the middle above the grave. The muzzle of the cannon was pointed towards the center of the first pool of water that had already been stored. Some natural phenomena. It is still difficult to explain with scientific knowledge. When the sound of the horn cannon passed, the "golden-scaled red carp" at the bottom of the one-eyed grave pool rose to the sky, jumped seven or eight meters high in the air, and several turned bodies turned over and fell smoothly into the first reservoir. Judging from the shape of the fish that jumped into the air, this "golden-scaled red carp" weighed about more than ten catties.

When the "golden-scaled red carp" jumped into the first reservoir, the Chen people dug a hole in the dam and released water down. The honor guard of the monks, that is, the "drummers". From the sides of the tomb to the sides of the first cistern. Repeat the procedure of whipping, burning paper, beating gongs, beating drums, and firing horn cannons. The difference is that the Horn Gunner stands in the middle of the first cistern and places the smallest (horn) cannon towards the center of the second cistern. After the sound of the cannon, the water of the first reservoir was almost drained, and the "golden-scaled red carp" in the pond rose to the sky again, jumping seven or eight meters high in the air, and several turns turned over and smoothly fell into the second reservoir. The ceremony of "protecting fish into the river" is carried out in this way in a cycle.

[Distant view, close view] It takes about half an hour for the "Golden Scale Red Carp" to jump down into the reservoir. By about 4 p.m. The "Golden Scale Red Carp" has successfully jumped into the eighth reservoir. If nothing happens, the "Golden Scaled Red Carp" comes from the eighth reservoir. Jump into the ninth pool and you're almost done. Because, from the ninth pool, the "golden-scaled red carp" can fall into the "bottom well" spring water flowing into the stream water of the Xiangjiang River passing through here as long as it jumps into the air.

The accident happened in the eighth and ninth cisterns. The distance between the eighth reservoir and the nearest point where the water from the "Bottom Well" flows through it is about 20 meters. The Arowana jumps at a distance of about seven to eight meters. If the Chen people had dug a square-shaped reservoir with a length and width of 8 meters at the center point between the eighth reservoir and the nearest position where the water of the "Bottom Well" stream flowed through it, an accident would not have happened, and the legend of Tianzigang would have been another version.

Because the people of the Chen family at that time were worried that the people surnamed Zhu would "dig graves and exterminate fish", they dug only a square-shaped puddle of about 4 meters at the center point between the eighth reservoir and the stream of the "bottom well" flowing through the nearest position here. It was thought that the "Golden Scale Red Carp" jumped eight meters and could fall into the puddle from the eighth reservoir. In fact, when the "golden-scaled red carp" jumped from the eighth reservoir, the water in the reservoir was almost dry, and the jumping position was not the water surface position, which increased the distance from the puddle. Moreover, the "Golden Scale Red Carp" has jumped eight times in a row, and the physical exertion is greater. So in the ninth jump, it did not meet the expectations of the Chen family. When the "golden-scaled red carp" soared into the sky, jumped seven or eight meters high in the air, several turned bodies and turned over, and as a result, they fell on the ground of the ninth reservoir, which was actually a puddle, and was about two meters away from the puddle. If it weren't for the providence of God, if it weren't for the interference of the people surnamed Zhu, although the "Golden Scale Red Carp" was seriously injured, it could jump into the puddle after a few turnovers. There may be two endings in the future: one is to continue to complete the tenth jump, swim into the Xiangjiang River to become the "Dragon King", and protect Chen Youliang as the emperor; The second is the result at that time, which disappeared without a trace.

The occurrence of the [long-term and near-view] incident provided a good opportunity for the people surnamed Zhu to "block the fish from entering the river", thus achieving Zhu Yuanzhang's long-cherished wish to defeat Chen Youliang from the "roots". On the same day, all the people surnamed Zhu were on the scene to watch the Chen family's "protecting fish into the river". Although they all had the motive of "blocking the fish from entering the river and destroying Chen Feng Shui", when they saw that the golden carp was really excavated from the grave of the old man of the Chen family, they were all impressed by the ingenuity of the host of the nunnery, "Xiao Shenxian". When the Golden Carp made the first eight jumps on the slope, they all gathered around the ninth puddle to watch. Although they have the motive and purpose of "blocking fish from entering the river", under the broad court, they are always not allowed to use fishing nets and harpoons to catch or kill fish in mid-air. If that were the case, it would inevitably cause public outrage. It will not only be opposed by the people surnamed Chen, but also by all other citizens with surnames such as Xiao, Zou, Deng, Tang, and Nie.

So, when the "Golden Scale Red Carp" made the ninth jump. Because the Chen clan made a mistake in digging the ninth reservoir. The puddle width is not enough. As a result, the "Golden Scale Red Carp" fell from the sky. It flew over the heads of the people surnamed Zhu who were standing around the puddle and fell to the land under the feet of the people surnamed Zhu. The people surnamed Zhu immediately sobered up from the shock, a God-given opportunity, how could they easily miss it. They rushed up, grabbed their hands and feet, and pounced on the "golden-scaled red carp". When the "golden-scaled red carp" fell from the air to the ground, it would be severely injured, but it still endured the pain of internal injuries. After a few flutters on the ground, he finally jumped into a puddle. The people surnamed Zhu also poured into the puddle. Because the puddle is not large, the water storage depth is less than two feet, and the people surnamed Zhu are too dense to pour into the puddle, and the human limbs such as hands and feet occupy all the positions of the puddle, so that the "golden scale red carp" not only has no room to swim and jump; And fundamentally lost the space to swim. The people surnamed Zhu stepped on their hands and feet in the puddle for dozens of seconds, and the muddy water in the entire puddle, and the people surnamed Zhu did not see the corpse of the "golden-scaled red carp"; All the people who watched the scene did not see the tenth jump of the "golden scale red carp".

[Long view, close view] just when the people surnamed Zhu were going all out to "catch fish" in the puddle, a cumulonimbus cloud suddenly surged in the sky of Xianren Mountain. Suddenly, lightning flashed and thundered. Wind and rain. The entire Tianzigang area was shrouded in wind and rain. A flash flood ensued, which connected the water from the ninth puddle with the water from the Meitang Spring. The ninth puddle was originally muddy with "red". Soon it flowed into the Meitang Spring to the Xiangjiang River, flowing through the stream here. This thunderstorm came and went, and a few minutes later, the Tianzigang area was sunny and empty. At that time, the people at the scene looked up and saw a rainbow hanging in the sky. One end of the rainbow originates from the spring of the "Bottom Well" at the foot of the Immortal Mountain, and the other end seems to fall on his own head and on the village of Zhujiayuan. Because the site is less than 300 meters away from Zhu's courtyard. As a result, descendants have legends that the "Son of Heaven" and "Xiao Immortal" are out of the Dragon Vein Holy Land of Tianzigang. The people surnamed Chen "protected the fish into the river" and failed in vain. Zhujiayuan is located in the "heart of the dragon vein", Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor "rain to success", and the "water" became a "dragon".

[Distant view, close view] Originally, the Umetang spring water flowed through the stream, and soon formed a waterline of three colors: red, blue, and black. The torrential rain washed away the red soil on the side of Tianzigang into a red flood; Wash the black mud on the side of the Immortal Mountain into a black flood; The original "bottom well" flowed out of the dark blue water. The "tricolor" water soon connected the water from the ninth puddle with the stream through which the water of the original Meitang Spring flowed. The muddy water, which had a "red" tinge in the ninth puddle, soon mixed with the tricolored water. This torrent flowed like a galloping horse into the river leading to the Xiangjiang River as fast as lightning、、、、、、

This sudden storm eventually led to the displacement of the lord of the Tianzigang Dragon Vein Holy Land, leaving behind this heirloom story. To the descendants of Xiao Zhai, Xiao Yingzheng left valuable material for writing this masterpiece!

Although more than 600 years have passed since the legend of Tianzigang, the grievances and grievances of the Zhu and Chen ethnic groups have long become history. At that time, the Chenjiayuan (the birthplace of the author of this article), which was the closest to Xianren Mountain, can now only be told by the elderly people in the area who are old enough to tell you the exact location of the "Sanhetu" homestead of the lord of each surname hundreds of years ago. The address of Zhujiayuan village has not changed, and the whole has lost the style before the "special period", and only a few old residences still retain the blue brick walls, blue brick floors and cyan tiles fired by the brick kiln. But the house is empty, and the Zhu family has long since lost the descendants of the Zhu family. Zhu Jiayuan is now full of descendants of Xiao and Zou. There are dozens of kilometers in the vicinity, and there is no trace of the descendants of the Zhu family. The shape of the grave of the deceased of the Chen clan on the Tianzi Gang is still the same, and the three cypress trees next to the grave are still like the "girl" more than 600 years ago. The eight reservoirs dug by the Chen people on the northern slope are still clearly repatriated today, but the water surface of the reservoir has become dry soil and planted with local daylily. The spring water of the "bottom well" at the foot of the fairy mountain is still the same. In 1958 of the last century, the local people built a reservoir in the middle of Xianren Mountain and Tianzigang. Since the fifties of the last century, the water of this reservoir has been continuously watering the farmland on both sides of the red soil represented by Tianzigang and the blue soil represented by Xianren Mountain. Now it has become a source of water for farmers on both sides of the strait. The nunnery on the top of Xianren Mountain was converted into Meitang Primary School in the fifties and sixties of the last century; In the 70s, the nunnery was demolished, and Meitang Primary School was relocated to Liumu Hall. In a certain year after 2000, in the courtyard of Maowu under the slope of Tianzi Gang, the Zou family came out with a Zou Baoan, who was then the director of the Hengyang City Public Security Bureau, and took the lead in offering love to Meitang Village and donated money to build a new Meitang Primary School, which was located under the reservoir dam. Tianzigang, Xianren Mountain, and Meitang Spring, this "treasure land of feng shui", belonged to the jurisdiction of Qiyang County of Yongzhou City before 1952. In 1952, Qidong County was carved out of Qiyang County, and the Meitang area was under the jurisdiction of Qidong County. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, Qidong and Qiyang counties were under the jurisdiction of Hengyang City. In the eighties of the last century, Qiyang County was placed under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou City. Therefore, when it comes to the legend of Tianzigang, not only today's Qidong people say it with relish; The elderly Qiyang people are even more talkative.

Today, the couplets on both sides of the gate of Meitang Primary School still inherit the couplets on both sides of the gate of the nunnery:

Meiwan seedlings grow into phoenix trees day by day

The living water of the pond should jump out of the Arowana at the right time

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