Pushing open the wooden door of the ear room, the sandalwood door that had fallen into disrepair creaked with the wind, and the room was covered with a thick layer of dust, and there was a smell of rotting dead leaves.

Feng Baobao pinched his nose and walked in, walked around the bookshelf a few times, and on the innermost bookshelf, he found a thick copy of "Wang Clan Chronicles". She pulled the book out and kicked up a thick puff of dust that floated in the sunlight.

Feng Baobao hurriedly went out of the ear room with the book, and took a few breaths of fresh air before sitting on the ground and reading it carefully.

Feng Baobao spread out the book, flipped it back vigorously, and finally found the book belonging to Wang Mang, which had a record about the well, which should be the well in Yizhuang.

The origin of this account begins with a case of injustice:

"During the Suihe period, in the spring season, the palace of Jinan County.

Wang Yue found another beautiful woman for his father, the daughter of a tenant in a neighboring county, named Lu Ying.

thought that spending some money would be gone, and he could make his father happy again, but as a result, Lu Ying hanged herself that night.

This incident completely stabbed the hornet's nest among the people and turned into a tragedy that caused a sensation in the whole county, and the government and the opposition were shocked and the people were indignant.

Wang Yue's father, Wang Mang. There are many protégés in the government and the opposition, and they are also very prestigious people, so they forced the matter down and severely 'reprimanded' their son.

Despite this, Wang Yue and his family's outrageous and gangster behavior in the fish and meat township of "sealing up people's houses, locking up men and women, and doing nothing for a day" has already aroused the anger of the people: "It is not a day to complain about the army and the people, and it is not a person who wants to eat meat and sleeping skin; As for the matter of peeling the cheeks, poisoning and adultery, the heavens are angry, and the subordinates are provoked, and the evil is beyond control. The people will have it, and vice versa. ”

Due to the misdeeds of Wang Mang and his son Wang Yue, the prestige of the Wang family fell to a record low.

Among the people, a spontaneous raid by the people was launched, and it was naturally Wang Mang's hometown.

The people of Jinan County vented the resentment that had been accumulated in their chests for many years, and some people recorded this process, called "The Facts of the People's Copying of the Eunuchs".

Copied Mr. Wang's home, and someone posted a sharp and extremely angry text, and the announcement was made, which made people's blood tremble:

"There is no public indignation in the hearts of men. All my kind, don't be a bystander, think of the sad fox, don't be afraid of throwing rats, pursue heavenly bargaining, and please people's hearts.

When asked if his words are not Confucius and Mencius, his paintings are not stupid, his articles are not Sima Zongmen, and Han is not Ouyang's class, how can he be lucky to be a villain and use the name of the family. and counted its dangers as Lu Qi, obscene and extravagant as Wang Xuan, arrogant as a thief, and stealing the voice of a gentleman with great evil.

Alack! If you kill a soldier without a crime, you should go to the four provinces, and you will be ambushed and punished, and you must still punish your three sins. If it is tolerated, it is not kingly. As soon as the public judgment arrived, all the drums rang out in unison, and the deadline was ten days, and the four murderers were condemned.

Respectfully. ”

Therefore, from the 10th, 11th to the 12th day of the first lunar month, articles were posted all over the streets, and children and women competed to say: "If you want to be strong, you must first kill Mang and Yue." ”

Everywhere people put up big-character posters and cartoons denouncing Wang Mang, saying that he was a "beast eunuch" and a "tyrant," so that merchants in Huizhou, Huguang, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and all those who had been bullied by Mr. Wang participated in the ranks of exposing and criticizing. Even the pleasure boats of prostitutes and prostitutes carried such newspapers and circulated them.

There are real complaints, and there are many people in the world.

But after all, the arm can't twist the thigh, and the people finally used the court relationship to force down the matter, and even deceived the emperor, and within two months, Wang Yue made a big mess again.

Not far from Jinan County, Changsui, there is a restaurant called Yingbin Building, and another tragedy happened in Yingbin Building.

On that day, three guards, led by seven horsemen and dozens of men with swords, came here on a rampage and surrounded a merchant group on the west side of the welcome building.

The Shangfu is a cloth village, and the cloth merchant of the cloth village saw that the house was besieged, and knew that there was a disaster, so he hurriedly went out to bow and ask the reason.

A Ti Qi pointed to the official master next to his wide body and introduced: "He is the imperial envoy of the imperial court, Shandong Taishou Wang Yue, the prince, he still kneels when he sees the prince!" ”

The cloth merchant knelt down, and the official who was known as the 'prince' said: "The bottom of your house is a big silver mine, you can move the things now, and this official will start digging the silver mine in the afternoon!" ”

The cloth merchants naturally understood that this was blackmail, but this kind of 'robbery by order' had already occurred more than a dozen cases in the local area, all of which were for the survival of the Gu and the death of the rebellious. He wanted to move for a long time, but the civilian boats on the surface were also banned, and he couldn't move for a while, but the catastrophe came first.

Without saying a word, the cloth merchant waved his hand and asked the shopkeeper to move out all the silver. After a while, the shopkeeper brought out three heavy boxes of silver treasures.

The cloth merchant said to Wang Yue with a courtesy: "All the silver that the lord wants to mine is here, I hope the lord will accept it with a smile." ”

Wang Yue glanced at the box, opened the lid of the box himself, estimated that the silver was no less than five thousand, nodded slightly, and ordered it to be carried away.

At this time, one of the attendants said with a smile: "Lord Wang, how can you open these three boxes of silver from a huge silver mine?" Too little! Do you want to check it again? ”

Wang Yue nodded with a smile, and the two entourages led a group of sword-wielding men into the hall like hungry tigers.

But hearing the sound of ping-pong in the room, the sound of scolding mixed with the frightened cries of the women, the thugs came out with their pockets bulging. At the same time, two big men walked out with a delicate girl and a little boy. The girl's shirt had been torn off a large piece and was struggling to call for help.

"Daughter!"

"Kid!"

Seeing that his daughter was being held hostage, the cloth merchant rushed over, but was kicked to the ground by the big man.

"Is there any silver in the collection?" Wang Yue asked the thugs who entered the house.

An attendant smiled lewdly, reached out to the girl's chest, and smiled: "Isn't this it?" ”

"Haha... Good...... One is a maid, the other is a little yellow door... Take......! ”

The girl and the boy struggled desperately and cried out for help. The girl's mother, disheveled, cried out in the hall, and the merchant cried out and begged for mercy.

The citizens on the field gradually gathered and gradually gathered forward.

At this time, a man and a woman walked in the welcome building. The man wore a green shirt, and he was young, a prisoner. That woman is naturally his wife.

The prisoner came out of the crowd, very angry, and scolded loudly: "In the peaceful world, there is no reason to rob during the day, and there is no royal law for plundering women!" ”

At this time, the crowd became more and more surrounded by people, and the crowd was indignant. The cavalry and the entourage thugs were also unsheathed.

The chubby official named Wang Yue piled up his face full of meat, and sneered:

"Are you with the Emperor? If you are not by the emperor's side, how can you know what the real royal law is? Today's emperor is getting depressed day by day, and he needs this little girl like a flower and jade and a little boy with fine skin and tender flesh to wait. ”

"Lord Wang, this budding bird must be beaten!" An attendant spoke.

"Good! Let him see the true royal law today! ”

As soon as Wang Yue's voice fell, several thugs swarmed up, punching and kicking, and the prisoner immediately fell to the ground, rolling in pain, and his whole body was completely skinless.

The prisoner's wife rushed into the crowd and sacrificed her life to save her husband, crying out for help.

The onlookers were all moved, but no one dared to come forward to rescue them.

Wang Yue laughed for a while, and said: "This woman is not evil-looking, you can't let her mess around here, you have to treat her well." ”

With this hint, the prisoner's wife was immediately put on the welcome building by several villains, and then there was a terrifying scream from upstairs, and the prisoner downstairs was also knocked unconscious.

After a while, the prisoner's wife was naked and tied to a pillar below the welcome building. Hang a white cloth on your chest and read:

Five thousand silver to ransom people, smugglers, kill! Not! Pardon!

The words were handwritten by Wang Yue with the blood of the prisoners.

When they had finished writing, the gang carried the silver and took the merchant's daughter and the boy hostage.

The prisoner woke up in a pool of blood, and when he saw his wife so humiliated, he struck his head against a pillar and died. The wife also bit off her tongue and went away with her husband.

The next day, tens of thousands of residents surrounded Wang Yue's yamen, and the crowd was excited. The crowd carried the bodies of the prisoners and their spouses, armed with sticks, and roared.

Wang Yue, who usually does no evil and goes on a rampage, only then did he realize his insignificance: just a retinue of about 100 people, hundreds of guards, and hooligans of about 1,000 people. And the hooligans are all locals, and when they see that the people are angry, they will scatter early; The guards will only deceive the good and fear the evil, and when they see that the situation is not good, they will scatter most of them, and they can no longer wait.

The indignant citizens killed several evil servants on the spot, Wang Yue was wounded and fled over the wall in the chaos, fled to the governor's yamen for help, and even used his father Wang Mang in the name to borrow 3,000 soldiers from the governor and returned to the yamen to suppress the rebellion.

This incident alarmed the Shandong Command and Embassy. There are tens of thousands of regular forbidden troops in the field under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Command Embassy, which are transferred by the marshal in wartime. In peacetime, the commander is under the command, responsible for training, and assists in local law and order.

At that time, due to the shortage of commanders, all matters were managed by the servants. Qin Xiao and Qin knew that Wang Yue had done many evils and owed countless blood debts to the people of Shandong, so he immediately ordered 5,000 soldiers and came to Wang Yue's yamen at a gallop.

That Wang Yue thought that the reinforcements were here to assist in the massacre of the people, and shouted: Today, the official is going to kill!

Unexpectedly, Qin Yan galloped over and shouted to stop. He came to Wang Yue, brandished his sword and angrily pointed at Wang Yue and the soldiers under the governor behind him, and asked sharply: "Those ordinary people are thieves?" ”

Wang Yue and the governor's department said no.

Qin asked the matter, "Then why do you want to kill ordinary people?" ”

Wang Yue and the governor's subordinates were silent.

Qin Xiao immediately ordered the soldiers to attack.

Which of the governor's subordinates were the opponents of the regular Praetorian Army? In an instant, they retreated on their own, and the girl and the little boy were trampled to death by the hooligans in the chaos, and Wang Yue slipped away with the governor's subordinates.

Qin Yanshi knew that the matter was not over, so he personally went to inspect the body of the prisoner and his wife, and took away the bloody characters of Wang Yue's handwriting, and persuaded the people to disperse, and then led the troops back to the command of the envoy.

That night, he wrote a note on the impeachment of Wang Yue and Wang Mang's father and son overnight, and the next day, he sent someone to send the note to Chang'an along with the blood letter.

Qin Yanshi explained the origin of this turmoil in great detail in his recital, and listed the crimes committed by Wang's father and son over the years, thinking that the emperor would be angry with thunder, and Wang Yue would definitely die without a place to be buried.

As a result, the imperial court really sent someone down, but it was not Wang Yue who was arrested, but Qin Yanshi.

At this time, Wang Yue became more and more unscrupulous, killing people and setting fires, raping and plundering, and being a thief. The people couldn't bear it anymore and rioted again.

They took eighteen wicked servants and tied them to the pillars of the guest house. Some people say that these wicked servants love gold and silver treasures, and they must be fed today!

So he took a large basket of broken silver from the ya, and stuffed it into the mouth of the wicked servant one by one. After they were "stuffed", they threw them into the Yellow River one by one and let them "take a bath", and then set fire to the yamen.

In the end, the people still couldn't save Qin.

Qin Yanshi thought that he was loyal to the country, and it was not difficult to explain the rights and wrongs of this battle in front of the emperor. But when I arrived in Chang'an, I realized that the emperor had not been in court for many years, and many first-class officials could not see the emperor, let alone him, a third-grade official?

In this way, he was sent to prison in an unknown and confused way, and in prison, he was tortured and unjustly died.

It happened that the prince Huai of Huai at that time had an old relationship with Qin Xiao, and after learning that Qin Xiao had died tragically in prison, he began to investigate the matter. Huai Wang Ye dispatched guards to raid Shandong, and found the unjust death of the prison couple and a pair of children who were trampled to death by hooligans, Wang Yue was caught off guard after learning the situation, under Wang Mang's intervention, Wang Yue bought the guards sent by Huai Wangye, and transported the four corpses overnight and brought them into the Yizhuang of the underground palace, threw them into the well, destroyed the corpses, and completely let the Huai Wangye have no chance to ask himself. After learning that the corpse was missing, Prince Huai also sent his henchmen to search in Jinan County, but the corners and corners of the mountains and official roads were not found, and it was not until a few months later that King Huai gave up the investigation.

After two months of stability, four corpses were thrown into the well for half a year, Wang Yue suddenly received an urgent letter from Yizhuang, which said that three people had died in Yizhuang for three days in a row, and the cause of death was strange, all of them committed suicide by jumping into the well, and the people in Yizhuang were panicked.

Wang Yue didn't believe in these evils, so he rushed back to Jinan County overnight with a few followers and entered Yizhuang.

On the first day of his return, Wang Yue thought he was pretending to be a ghost, and on the second day, when he was about to leave, the people of Yizhuang found that one of the entourages brought by Wang Yue had committed suicide in the well. Wang Yue ordered the corpse to be salvaged, the dead body was stiff, there was no sign of decay, the hands and feet were broken, the seven orifices were bleeding, the face was unrecognizable, and the death was extremely miserable.

Wang Yue realized the strangeness of this well at that time, and returned to Chang'an overnight to report to Wang Mang. Wang Mang invited the masters to go to Yizhuang everywhere, and invited three masters one after another, all of which failed.

The three masters were all suddenly foaming at the mouth when they were doing the law, and then a gust of black wind blew at the bottom of the well, and in full view of everyone, the Taoist priest bled from his seven orifices, and the sound of broken bones and tendons on his body continued, crying and laughing and jumping into the well to commit suicide.

After this incident, the people of Yizhuang ran away, and almost no one dared to stay anymore. Wang Mang felt ashamed of his ancestors, so he tried every means to solve the scourge in the well. Finally, I heard that the Taoist sect near Wudang Mountain taught Taiping Zhenren to be proficient in the art of subduing demons and eliminating demons, and sent his son Wang Yue to visit Maoshan three times, and finally agreed to the three conditions of the Taoist priest before inviting him out of the mountain.

Condition 1, Wang's father and son must truthfully admit their mistakes on the stele pavilion in Yizhuang, and the same is true for the genealogy, and they must not be falsified; Condition 2: Wang's father and son should bury all those who suffered because of this well, and treat their families well; Condition 3, the Wang family returns to the government, and the people must no longer be oppressed, and the violator will die.

After agreeing to the three conditions, Taiping Zhenren got up and went to Yizhuang. When he came to the well, Taiping Zhenren shouted three times in a row, "Sin!" Sin! Sin! After that, the practice of setting up altars began. Taiping Zhenren said that it was because the four corpses that had been tragically killed before were resentful after their deaths, and the four grievances gathered together became stronger and stronger, and after half a year, they had become evil, and seven or eight lives had been taken to bury them, and two more were made, and these evils could come out of the well, and it was even more difficult to get rid of them at that time.

Taiping Zhenren carved 7749 mantras on the edge of the well, and ordered Wang Yue to find a meteorite stone to the yin, which must be found at the foot of Mount Tai with his back to the sun. It must be boxy, transported from Shandong thousands of miles away, and pressed on this well. The Taiping Zhenren sat cross-legged on the stone, day and night, and it took seven days in a row to come down from the top, which was said to be complete, so that people should not go near this well again, the evil spirits trapped in the well will be weakened year by year, until they are wiped out, but it is a pity that the four unjust souls will be scattered and enter the place where they cannot be reborn forever.

Wang Yue thought that his death was innocent, and after Taiping Zhenren left, Wang Yue violated the agreement and interfered in the government again, and Wang Mang was sick at home. Soon, Wang Yue was impeached, the criminal department asked and beheaded, Wang Mang came back from hiding for several years, once again controlled the government, and opened a new dynasty.

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