Chapter 13: Secrets
The Blazing Bureau, also known as the Red Flame Bureau, is an extremely vicious grave game. The human soul is yin, strong when it is exposed to water, and weak when it is exposed to fire. The cloth method of the fire bureau is to use six three-foot stone piles to engrave the twelve earthly branches in the middle, noon, not, hai, son, and ugly, and bury them around the tomb. Hai, Zi, and Chou will be the northern fire, these two fires, called the "six fires" in Maoshan art, for the soul of normal people, this is nothing more than the greatest torment. In addition, the grave pit should be based on incense ash, the body is buried at noon on the day of the great heat, the coffin is placed in the north-south direction, and the "Mucuna pruriens (a legendary perennial woody plant, Maoshan is a pure yang wood, produced in Shuzhong, the wood is hard, but it is by no means the material for the coffin, and the coffin is made with Mucuna mucuna, which is purely the individual needs of this scene. According to legend, the ancient wheelchair that Zhuge Kongming sat in was made of Mucuna mucunens. For the coffin, "red nitrate" (a kind of saltpeter powder, Maoshan is yang in the technique, the effect is better than cinnabar, but much more precious than cinnabar, so most of the folk rituals are replaced by cinnabar, and only the royal family or dignitaries have the strength to use "red nitrate" in the rituals. ) for the coffin. In short, this kind of tomb is simply a man-made "infernal purgatory" (Buddhism believes that hell is divided into eight layers, namely equal life, black rope, crowd, call, great call, scorching, great scorching heat and infernal infernal, the deeper the deeper the more tormented. The last layer of Infernal Purgatory, also known as the Abi Hell, represents eternal darkness and suffering)", regardless of whether the tomb owner accumulated virtue and did good deeds during his lifetime, he will experience eternal suffering in this man-made purgatory after death. This kind of tomb is the Ming Dynasty a feng shui gentleman named Liu Chongde was invented at the request of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, in the record of "Maoshan Tuzhi", this tomb bureau as of the end of the Qing Dynasty, only used once, but it is used to toss which unlucky egg, but there is no word.
"It's not enough to cut off your head and raid your home, these ancient people really can't afford to offend..."Zhang Guozhong really didn't expect that this unique fire bureau would let himself meet in such a remote place as Li Village. Driven by curiosity, what Zhang Guozhong wants to know most is who the owner of the tomb is, what a heinous crime he has committed, and he will be punished so heavily, so that he can't even be quiet after death, it stands to reason that there is absolutely no need for general corruption to get this thing, even if it is to assassinate the king and kill a certain criminal, at most, it will be an ancestral grave of the nine clans, and now this uncle of the Ming Dynasty, the nine clans and the ancestral grave are already certain, but who is he himself, what kind of felony he has committed, Will the emperor rack his brains to toss him with such a vicious tomb?
Zhang Guozhong searched around for a long time, but never found the tombstone. Also, how can a monument be erected after committing such a great crime? At this time, Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered the book "Meritorious Names" copied by his younger brother, according to the "Maoshan Illustrated Chronicles", the invention of the Fire Bureau should be in the Yongle Year of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Meritorious Names" was written in the Wanli year, that is, more than 100 years after the invention of the Fire Bureau. At this time, Zhang Guozhong was just holding a curiosity, but at this time he didn't know that this curiosity would change his life.
The next day, the first thing Zhang Guozhong did when he returned home was to tell Ma Zhenren what he had discovered last night, and Ma Zhenren was also taken aback when he heard it, and the match of the cigarette pouch almost burned his fingers.
"Are you mistaken?"
"No way, unless there's another blazing bureau that's about the same, I'll look at four stakes."
"There is only one kind of game that uses the six fires, and there will be no other game. I thought it was a legend. Ma Zhenren knocked the cigarette pouch pot and thought thoughtfully, "Guozhong, don't touch that grave until you figure out which one it is, I'll go over tonight and open my eyes." ββ¦ It seems that Ma Zhenren also wants to see this fiery game for the ages.
In "Fame", Zhang Guozhong quickly got on the name of the unlucky guy of the Ming Dynasty, Yongle Year was the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the absolute peaceful and prosperous era, Zhu Di reigned for 25 years, 4 ministers were sentenced to heavy punishments, one was beheaded for embezzlement of 150,000 taels of silver, and one was raided because of the poem to commemorate the great Jianwen Emperor Comrade Zhu Yunwen (it is estimated that he drank too much and wrote two sentences of dissatisfaction with the court, and was beaten as a counter-revolutionary... The most outrageous is a prefect named Zhou Lianchen, who was assigned to Xinjiang by his family because of his private possession of a dragon robe, this Zhou Lianchen is a four-grade prefect, he has no money and no soldiers in his hand, and it is purely a dream to rebel, it is estimated that he wants to wear a dragon robe to have a good time, but he was uprooted by Zhu Di. "Privately hiding the dragon robe is a serious crime in ancient times, this is not dead, it seems that even the emperor Lao Tzu was also given a lot of joy by this pig-headed prefect..."At this time, a bachelor named Zhao Le of the Hanlin Academy attracted the attention of Zhang Guozhong, and there was no too much description of this person in the book, only wrote: Zhao Le, the word Jingchong, the number of Wangzhi, the ability of the good through the ancients, the palace test of Jianwen Ding Chounian, did not arrive, Yongle Xin Si year entered the Hanlin Academy, Yongle Jiashen was a great bachelor, Yongle Gui Mao Nian Yan was stunned by the government and the opposition, and was surprised by Sheji, the first emperor surrendered to the crime of rebellion, the nine clans, and the ancestors were harmed.
It seems that this Zhao Le is the unlucky guy in the tomb. "It's strange, this person was eliminated in the palace exam when Emperor Jianwen was in power, and when Zhu Di was in power, he directly entered the Hanlin Academy without taking the exam, could it be Zhu Di's descendant?" At this time, Zhang Guozhong was confused by a series of questions, first of all, this person must be related to Zhu Di's coup d'Γ©tat against Emperor Jianwen, otherwise it would be impossible to go directly to the Hanlin Academy through the back door, but this person was executed a year before Zhu Di's death, and it was the Zhulian Nine Clans, all this seems to have come too suddenly, he seems to know what secret Zhu Di has and was wiped out, and according to the record in "Meritorious Fame", this secret is likely to be enough to shake the Ming regime in its heyday, secondly, the content recorded in "Merit and Fame" is very detailed, Including the surname of each official, when and when he took office, what caused the disaster, including what kind of criminal law was imposed where he was buried or where he was distributed, the description of some officials even reached five or six pages, and for this Zhao Le, it seems to be vague and brushed aside, Zhang Guoyan, who wrote this book, also served as the secretary of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, according to the modern position, that is, the Minister of National Defense, the vice chairman of the Military Commission and the president of the Supreme Court. It seems that this huge secret mastered by Zhao Le seems to be an internal secret of the royal family, and even Zhu Di's personal secret.
However, Chairman Mao said: power comes out of the barrel of a gun. At that time, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were sufficient, and the military power was firmly in the hands of the imperial court.
That night, Ma Zhenren and Zhang Guozhong came to the grave of the blazing bureau, Ma Zhenren pulled away the grass with his hands, and saw the stone pile at a glance, "He's a, there really is such a bureau, I said how can this village be dry every year." β
"Drought... Something to do with this? β
"Yes, this stone stake is buried in the ground to nothing, the rain has been heavy in the first two years, and it has been washed out, and the two fires are burned, can it not be dry? This bureau is not big, if it is bigger, I am afraid that the whole of Hebei will suffer from drought. "Since the recent flooding of the year, there has been little rain and no harvest in the area of Li Village for two consecutive years, and it has become increasingly serious, and even the water in the well has bottomed out.
"Twenty miles away under the heavy rain wow, this piece is not a drop of drops, I also want to set up a formation to see what is going on, but this array has not been completed, the yellow flag pole will be folded (before the Maoshan technique, to insert a yellow flag in front of the Dharma platform, the flag is painted to peep at the heavens, in order to peek at the will of heaven, if the flagpole is broken or the flag is down, it is the heavenly machine, or there is the power of the caster to fight, must immediately stop casting, otherwise the light will be broken, and the heavy will be killed. The flagpole is better, if it is broken out of thin air, it means that it is something that must not be touched), I think this is the overall situation, this formation did not dare to cloth, and it was not dry to the point of starving to death. But now you're really bumped into a little rabbit cub, and if you show a little more, you have to die of drought. β
"What then? Dig him? β
Ma Zhenren also fell into contemplation at this time, the so-called mountains outside the mountain, there is heaven outside the sky, although Liu Chongde in the Ming Dynasty is just a little-known feng shui gentleman, but this tomb invented by this person is connected to the heavens, but it can be clothed but unbreakable, as for why it can't be broken, what are the consequences of breaking, even Ma Zhenren doesn't know, but it can't be touched is certain, and the broken yellow flagpole is a strong proof.
"Let's keep him for now, it's really not okay." Ma Zhenren patted his ass and walked back silently, but Zhang Guozhong, as a hot-blooded young man in his 20s, was interested in this tomb to a higher level.