Chapter 22: Spilled Blood and Grievances
"Sure enough, it's a eunuch pretending to be a brocade guard!"
I frowned every day, looking the three demons up and down, and soon, I wondered, "Coveting treasures?" Old man, you should be more careful, I didn't understand, what do you covet treasures? What does this have to do with treasure? Is this why you were slaughtered?! β
"Exactly, Mr. is really a god and a man, and his eyes are like a torch, it is precisely because of the treasure that more than 100 people from up and down our Sujiazhuang have been killed overnight by these eunuchs, pretending to be Jinyi Wei, although our villagers fought hard at the last moment and killed these eunuchs, but this matter was also buried under this Shuanglong Peak, more than 300 years...... Alas! β
Old man Su said, already in tears, stretched out his hand to wipe his tears, and continued to tell me about this earth-shattering century-old unjust case.
Speaking of this unjust case, I have to talk about the dynasty at that time, during the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo Emperor's eldest son, Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen's half-brother, the fifteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne at the age of 16, Xizong was a good carpenter, and ignored the government after taking the throne, so it promoted the government to become more and more popular, and the fierce party struggle gradually showed clues.
As early as the Wanli period, Gu Xiancheng lectured at Donglin College, and a group of officials in the field followed one after another, so he had the name of Donglin. The ministers of the DPRK and China also echoed each other from afar. The Donglin Party was gradually formed.
After the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, the so-called Apocalypse was the name of the year of Ming Xizong's accession to the throne, so it was called the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, ** Xing, Gao Panlong, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli and many other upright people held important positions in the court, and Fang Congzhe and other traitorous ministers have been gradually squeezed out, and the official system is a little clearer. With the assistance of the Donglin Party, Emperor Tianqi quickly promoted Yuan Chonghuan.
In the second year of the Apocalypse, an edict was issued to rehabilitate Zhang Juzheng, record the heirs of Fang Xiaoru, give preferential treatment to the fathers, and give funerals and nicknames. On the issue of the occupation of Macao by the West, he took a tough attitude, and fought many battles with the Dutch colonists in Penghu, and won them. And there was a move to strike the mine supervisor and pacify Liaodong.
All in all, in the early years of the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party was huge, and anyone who opposed them was denounced as an evil party. The tree attracts the wind, and the extreme of things must be reversed. The radical words and deeds of the Donglin Party have made some people quite dissatisfied, among which the three parties of Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang are quite strong. As a result, disputes between the Donglin Party and the non-Donglin Party arose. After Wei Zhongxian gained power, he united with people from various factions who were not part of the Donglin Party to form a "Eunuch Party" to directly confront the Donglin Party.
In the third year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian took charge of Dongchang and used the power of the eunuch party to balance the Donglin Party, which was in the limelight.
It coincided with the turbulent era of the country, with the invasion of Jin soldiers outside and the uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty inside. Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao did not do his job, did not listen to the teachings of the sages to "Zufa Yao Shun, Charter Wenwu", but had a strong interest in carpenter work, dealing with axes, saws, planers all day long, only knew how to make wood, build a small palace, left the national affairs behind, and became a veritable "carpenter emperor", Wei Zhongxian always took advantage of his engrossed attention in carpentry, and took important chapters to ask him for approval, Xizong said casually: "I have learned!" Thou shalt do it for thyself. β
At this point, Wei Zhongxian gradually became good at court politics!
Wei Zhongxian has five tigers, five biaos, ten dogs, ten children, forty grandchildren, etc., they are all in collusion, ostracizing dissidents, especially the Donglin party members as a thorn in the side, and they will want to get rid of them. Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others all died tragically at his hands, and Xizong didn't realize that even the high-ranking official Yang Lian was killed for many days, he didn't know that he was dead, Wei Zhongxian's atrocities, the government and the opposition knew everything, and the people were even more miserable, he not only formed a party in the court for personal gain, but also called the king in the outer court, and those who did not obey would inevitably be persecuted by Wei Zhongxian.
Below Sujiazhuang, there is a huge gold mine buried, and this news somehow reached Wei Zhongxian's ears, Wei Zhongxian was in private collusion with Yao Zuoyu, the capital of Shanxi, Yao Zuoyu was originally a bully, and then recommended by Wei Zhongxian's righteous son Ni Wenhuan, and was reused by Wei Zhongxian, all the way to the position of the capital division, naturally he was grateful to Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian heard that at the foot of Shuanglong Peak here, an ancient village has guarded a gold mine for generations, and began to disbelieve, He ordered his men to come here and check with Yao Zuoyu.
The people of Sujiazhuang knew that the gold mine buried underground was learned by the traitors, so they had no choice but to send a person to the ministry to find a principal, trying to pass the matter to the Donglin Party cabinet at that time, if Wei Zhongxian occupied the gold mine here, it would be simply a difficulty for the people, it was better to expose the matter to the world and hand it over to the imperial court for disposal.
The naΓ―ve ideas of the villagers of Sujiazhuang have not really been implemented, but the head of the ministry is also Wei Zhongxian's person, Wei Zhongxian knows this, is convinced that there must be a gold mine here, so he ordered the eunuchs to pretend to be Jinyiwei, and pretend to be bandits, come here, and kill the villagers of Sujiazhuang, large and small, to say that there is a providence in the dark.
On the second day of the night when Sujiazhuang and the eunuchs who came to slaughter the village died together, Wei Zhongxian's side did not send anyone to investigate the gold mine, and the rest of the capital and Zhongshu provinces did not have any movement, and the villagers did not know why, they had been ghosts for more than 300 years.
After dying at the hands of the eunuchs for more than 300 years, with this grievance, they are willing not to be reincarnated or reincarnated, but also to completely eradicate the evil ghosts that these eunuchs have turned into, and find justice for themselves!
"Ming Xizong reigned for only seven years, if it is calculated according to the momentum of Wei Zhongxian's development, it should be at the time of great changes in the political situation, well, at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, he vigorously eradicated the eunuch party and placed Wei Zhongxian in Fengyang to guard the imperial mausoleum. Wei Zhongxian hanged himself in fear of sin. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the corpses of Wei Zhongxian and his party Cui Chengxiu to be killed. β
I nodded, and then said: "Fortune and misfortune lurk, misfortune and fortune rely on, although Sujiazhuang guarded the gold mine and was not known to outsiders, but he lost his life, and this shocking bloody case was naturally sealed in this bottomless valley for more than three hundred years......
"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo...... We're dying so badly......"
"It's not a pity for these eunuchs to die, pity our Zhuangzi, old and young, women and children, all of them were killed by them, and the blood is deep, if no one presides over this justice for us, we will wait another thousand years, and we will find this justice!"
Old man Su looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "Sir, now that you know the cause and effect, it shouldn't stop us from killing these three evil ghosts, right?" After killing the three demons, we volunteered to go to the underworld to be judged......"
"Kill them!"
"Kill !!"
The angry villagers rushed forward one after another, holding "red lacquered iron hooks", sharp hooks, as if to hook out the hearts and livers of these three evil ghosts, in order to resolve their grievances, I was slightly shocked, but still didn't say anything, if I encountered such a thing, would it be the same as them?
This scene is out of control, and it would be counterproductive if I stopped the brutality of the villagers, but if they were allowed to do so, what difference would be between what they were doing now and what the eunuchs had inflicted on them?
Alas!
I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain......
"Hahaha...... What kind of people in the Dao Gate of Heaven and Earth?! A few Diao people arranged an ethereal story at random, and then you played a group of things, more than 300 years ago, who can say a certain thing? Mr. Xiaojiu, why don't you listen to what my brothers and others have to say? Do you believe what Diao Min says, but you don't believe what we say? If that's the case, you're a fool who doesn't distinguish between public and private, hahaha! β
"Huh?"
I made up my mind and hurriedly stopped: "Villagers, don't be impatient, since these evil spirits are not convinced, then we will listen to what they have to say, and then you can refute them one by one, if they are willing to die, you can also be exempted from the sin of repaying grievances with grievances!" β
"Mr. is reasonable, then let's listen to what they say, as the so-called body is not afraid of shadows, we villagers in Sujiabao will not be afraid of their refutation, because they have no chance to refute at all!"
Old man Su waved his hands angrily and motioned for all the villagers to stop.
"Mr. Xiaojiu, as a person in the Daomen, you naturally want to do the way for heaven, punish evil and promote good, and you are now in a neutral position, so, what these Diao people said may also be true, or it may be false, and frame our brothers, if you kill us so inexplicably, we will definitely be angry, and he will return to take revenge!"
One of the demons shouted in rage.
"Oh? So, do you not admit what this old man said? In other words, you think they are evil ghosts, and you are good ghosts, don't you?! β
I frowned, and smiled bitterly in my heart, these obsessive evil ghosts actually died without repentance, it is really sad and lamentable......
"Yes!"
The three evil ghosts responded in unison, and when they heard this, the villagers present all looked at each other and were at a loss.
Yes, more than 300 years ago, if you don't have an in-depth understanding of these internal information, it is a bit hasty to rely on a single statement, and the villagers have been guarding their grievances for more than 300 years, and at this moment, they don't know how to reveal it.
"Sir, you are a member of the Daomen, you should know the difference between good ghosts and evil ghosts, we only need to prove that our villagers are all good ghosts, then these evil ghosts are veritable evil ghosts!"
Old man Su suddenly took out a thin needle and said loudly.
"Well, the good ghost is the red vein, the evil ghost is the black vein, you only need to take a drop of the bloodline, you can easily distinguish, you three, are you convinced?"
I nodded, and explained this method in detail, and when I heard this, the faces of the three demons were as gray as ashes.
(Tianjin)