One hundred and eighty-four chapters coveted

Wen Huangci's actions confirmed Zhang Hu's earlier judgment: he must have suffered a great grievance before he made up his mind to take refuge! At that moment, he quickly left his seat and hugged Wen Xiucai with both hands: "Mr. Wen, you can come to help Zhang, no matter what it is for, it is righteous to Zhang first." Mr. has a grievance to tell Zhang, Zhang has no ability, but it is not a problem to cut off a few enemy skulls for Mr.! ”

Wen Xiucai got up and returned to his seat after another bow, and told the truth of the matter with tears: "Xie Dashuai." Handsome and graceful. The student was a native of Shangshui Nandun (now Xiangcheng, Henan, and Xiangcheng County in the Ming Dynasty was about 70 miles to the south). Our hometown is not far from here, one hundred and twenty miles southeast of Xihua. ”

"Although we are rare in the history, but also called the outstanding people, the Han Guangwu Emperor lived in Nanton when he was young. Our people are a big clan in the local area, and there are about 60,000 or 70,000 people with the surname Wen. ”

"Ah, there are so many people with the same surname in one town? Your ancestors of the Wen family must have accumulated great virtues to be so prosperous! Zhang Hu sighed and interjected.

Wen Huangci nodded: "The big handsome is right." The prosperity of our clan is indeed the blessing of our ancestors. Don't dare to deceive the handsome, we have a ancestral hall, built according to the Yingshui, there is green water in front, green mountains in the back, excellent feng shui, it has been more than 500 years. Every festival, the clansmen worship their ancestors here, feast and drink happily. Behind the ancestral hall is a academy, which is also funded by the clansmen and hired a gentleman, and the children are literate in the academy. The mountain breeze is blowing, the book is loud, although there are few people with the title of the gold list, there are people who show talents, but most of the people can also be called cultivating and reading heirlooms. ”

Zhang Hu was an orphan who didn't know who his parents were, don't look at the decisiveness and terrifying momentum on weekdays, why don't you think that you can have a large group of relatives sitting around the fireplace to share the family when you are alone? After listening to Wen Huangci's narration, he was envious: "Alas, the ancestral hall of Mr. Wen's house is well built, but it can be cherished, and there is no shortage of incense to worship." ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Wen Huangci actually cried out with a "wow", which frightened Zhang Hu, and choked up for a while: "The ancestral hall is gone, and it has been burned to the ground......

"Huh? Who did it? Could it be ...... What do you have to be a sworn enemy? This time Zhang Hu was really shocked. In his logic, whoever offends whom, the other party is angry and makes a fuss, no matter how ruthless, kill your whole family, well, that's just the case - destroy the ancestral hall of a clan, what a hatred this must be!

"Back to the big handsome. We really don't have any enemies. It's just coveted by villains. Wen Huangci wept.

"This ...... Is Mr. Wen serious? Zhang Hu was a little incredulous.

"Da Shuai listened to the student slowly start from the beginning." Wen Huangci paused slightly, sorted out his thoughts, and said, "Things have to start from three years ago. Shang Shui changed to Xinzhi County, called Geng Libin. I heard that the family road is quite bumpy: five brothers and sisters have died four successively, and they have three sons, the eldest died just after birth, and the second is very talented, and he was ordered to Hanlin at a young age, but in less than two months, he died of a violent illness for no reason. The rest of the one is stubborn, eleven or twelve years old, and he hasn't even finished three hundred thousand*. That Geng Libin looked at the master and said that the ancestral tomb was chosen in the wrong place, which was not conducive to the descendants of the descendants. When he arrived at Shangshui, he would learn that the prosperity of the clan should be in this ancestral hall, so he moved his mind and taught people to buy it. If the clan refuses, it is just a matter of selling houses and land, how can there be unscrupulous descendants who sell the ancestral ancestral hall? ”

"That's right. Selling houses and fields and children is a person who loses himself, and sells his ancestors, is he still a person? Zhang Hu said in kind.

"Yes. In recent decades, although our clan has not produced any Hanlin Jinshi, there are a few people who show off their talents, and the local Baojiali is also full of people surnamed Wen. Everyone argues with reason, although Geng Libin is a parent, he is helpless. However, his thief's heart did not die, and for various reasons such as insufficient autumn grain and poor river work, in the past two or three years, he successively changed the surname of Lizheng Baochang to his cronies, and found various excuses to change the reputation of many clansmen. The most hateful thing is that the student has an uncle who lifts the human race, and tells his children and nephews "History of the South" in the academy, and when it comes to Xue Yuan's story to teach the younger generations righteousness, he was actually reported to the Beijing master by this guy on the grounds of "committing the name of the first emperor", and the fame of the people was also dismissed! ”

"Who is Xue Yuan? What's going on, tell me about it first. Zhang Hu has also been choking enough these days, and when he heard Wen Xiucai say this, he already had some feeling of listening to a book review, and interjected with interest.

"Alas, it is also fate, Uncle Yi tells the story of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At that time, the north and south of the world were divided, and after the Northern Dynasty, it was called the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Zhou; The Southern Dynasties were Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen. Xue Yuan's real name is Xue Daoyuan, and he is the nephew of Xue Andu, the assassin of Xuzhou in the Song Dynasty. Xue Andu surrendered to Wei with Pengcheng, and his relatives moved to the north to enjoy the glory, and Xue Daoyuan went south alone and joined Xiao Daocheng, who guarded Huaiyin. Xiao Daocheng later became the high emperor of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Xue Daoyuan was loyal and brave, and finally was named the Marquis of Jingling. Because the name was against the Son of Heaven, there was a word for 'Dao', so he had to change it to Xue Yuan, but later in Tang, the word 'Yuan' offended Gaozu Li Yuan, so the historians changed his name again, and when it came to his person, he was called Xue Shen. Uncle Yi also smiled dumbly when he talked about this, and said, "If the historian of later generations dies and meets Xue Yuan himself in the Netherworld, and Xue Shen calls him back, I am afraid that the Marquis of Ling will not be able to think that it is himself." This sentence was caught by the dog official Geng Libin, saying that Uncle Yi deliberately violated the name of Emperor Chenghua (Zhu Jianshen) of Xianzong and reported to the Beijing Division, and his reputation was lost. ”

Zhang Hu was dumbfounded by his words, and his eyes were as big as cow eggs: "The descendants changed the name of the predecessors? Wouldn't every dynasty and every generation have to turn over the history books and change them again? And then maybe I'll have to change it back in a few years, isn't this a pain in the ass? ”

Wen Huangci smiled bitterly: "What the big handsome said is right. For example, the Ban Gu work "Book of Han", Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was called Liu Zhuang, so Zhuangzi wrote "Yanzi", until the fall of the Han Dynasty, the name was changed back. What's more interesting is the Great Song Dynasty minister Wen Yanbo, the ancestor's original surname is 'Jing', in order to avoid the Jin Gaozu Shi Jingjiao's obscurity, he had to change his surname to 'Wen', and it was easy to stay up until the Later Han Dynasty changed back to the Wen surname, but I didn't expect to enter the Song Dynasty not long after, Song Taizu's grandfather's name was Zhao Jing, so he had to change his surname back to Wen. If others don't say it, it's your name, if it's in the Tang Dynasty, it will never be called - Tang Gaozu's grandfather's single name is a 'tiger' word......"

"I am God, I dare to be affectionate and pay so much attention to it! That...... If I have a day in the future...... That, that ...... "Previously, Zhang Hu just wanted to be a giant who was helpless to be a giant in the Ming Dynasty, and he really didn't think about anything to plot a big rebellion to overthrow the court and change the dynasty - it seems that there is no difference as long as the official is killed and rebelled, but the ancients, the difference between "rebellion" and "rebellion" is too big: the former can be recruited, such as Song Jiang or Guan Shengyun, but the latter is a major crime of extermination, which belongs to the first article of the "heinous and unforgivable" (the main symbol is to establish the country name and call the emperor)! Speaking of this, Zhang Hu looked a little fascinated, "Then won't anyone be able to say the word 'tiger' in the future?" If someone gives birth to a fat son, and a friend comes to praise 'this baby is born with a tiger brain', what should I say, 'This baby was born with a dog head and a dog brain'? Hahahaha. ”

Hearing this, Wen Huangci, who was full of sorrow, couldn't help but burst out laughing. Zhang Hu immediately noticed it and hurriedly said, "I'm so embarrassed!" I'm a rough guy with a straight belly, and I can't bear it when I hear Mr. talk about this, Mr. Wen is not strange! You go on, what happened? ”

Wen Huangci continued: "That dog official saw that he still refused to give in to the framing of the clan in every possible way, so he wanted to come hard. He picked up a few death row prisoners from the prison and taught them to escape into the ancestral hall of our clan at night, and then led the archers in the yali, Ma Kuai, and called the soldiers of the Yingqi Institute to come together to 'hunt down' the fugitives, and kept saying that they would dig three feet into the ground and raze the ancestral hall where the 'key criminals were harboring'......"

"Smack!" Zhang Hu patted a few cases beside him, and said angrily, "Dog official bastard, he is so vicious!" Mr. Don't worry, Zhang gathered people and horses, and after a day or two, he knocked down the merchant water, and pulled the dog official's family to the ancestral hall of Mr. to dig out the heart and liver sacrifice! ”

Wen Huangci hurriedly left his seat and bowed down: "The student thanked the handsome first!" Dashuai, please be patient and listen to the students, the destruction of the ancestral hall is not this time, this toss, the ancestral hall is still saved. ”

"Oh? Even the soldiers of the 100 households were dispatched? No matter how many of your clansmen there are, how can you fight against the officials and soldiers, you are all good citizens, not me...... Obviously, you didn't rebel, otherwise I would have heard about it a long time ago. Zhang Hu was a little curious.

"yes. Originally, many clansmen were indignant, thinking that since the ancestors were difficult to protect, they would simply fight with the dog officials, and it would be a big deal to break the net! But I was stopped by Uncle I. Uncle Yi is the one who was dismissed and famous, and he is also one of the respected elders of his clan. He said that it is absolutely impossible for the Wen clan to keep the Wen family ancestral hall by their own efforts. To openly confront the official army is to rebel, no matter how many clansmen there are, how can they fight against the official army of the Ming Dynasty? Even if there are 100 households living in the resistance today, a thousand households will come tomorrow, and a guard may be transferred the day after tomorrow...... At that time, reasonable will become unreasonable, and a major crime of killing officials and rebelling will never be able to get away, and the clan will be slaughtered. ”

"So what? Is it possible to watch the dog officers and soldiers demolish the house? Zhang Huqi said. After thinking about it again, Wen Xiucai just said that this time the ancestral hall was still a false alarm, so he swallowed the words back into his stomach and continued to listen patiently.

"Uncle I said, it was the dog official Geng Libin who coveted the feng shui of the ancestral hall, and he was wronged and had a debtor, so we only identified him! Seeing those village warriors, the ancestral hall beat the drums, and the clansmen came enthusiastically, and there were as many as 20,000 men gathered. The human wall first blocked the officers and soldiers, and then in full view of everyone, several elders of our clan came out and asked the clansmen to draw a lot of life and death on the spot - those who won the death lot were responsible for killing the dog official by all means! ”

"Good! That's how it should be! Zhang Hu applauded.

"The number of people who won the lottery is confidential, it may be five, it may be ten, it may be twenty, thirty, the people who won the lottery are confidential, no one knows which of the tens of thousands of people is the dead man chosen by the ancestors, and the time to complete the task is tentatively set for three years, that is to say, in the next three years, the whole family of the dog official must be careful at all times, and at any time it may be taken by a stranger who passes by, and I don't know when a catastrophe will come, as for the wife and children of the dead man, the whole clan will protect and support them together!"

"Beautiful! In the end, he is a scholar, in the end, he is a master, and his knowledge is not a star and a half higher than Zhang! Zhang Hu raised his big fingers with both hands and praised sincerely, "Presumably that dog official must be cowardly, right?" ”

A smile flashed on Wen Huangci's face: "The handsome man is not bad. When the dog official heard this, he was scared on the spot, and he ran to the ancestral hall to bow to everyone to apologize, and kept saying that it was a misunderstanding, patting his chest and swearing to the sky that he would never touch any of the ideas of the ancestral hall of our clan again. ”

"Hahaha!" Zhang Hu listened to this narration, and suddenly felt unspeakably comfortable. However, thinking of what Wen Xiucai had said just now, the ancestral hall had now been destroyed to the ground, so he hurriedly stopped laughing and asked cautiously, "Can ...... Mr. Wen just said...... What happened next? ”

*The collective name of "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text". If you add "Poems of a Thousand Families", it is called "Three Hundred Thousand Thousands", which are all introductory textbooks for ancient school children.

* Xuezheng, also known as Xuetai, Xuexian. One person per province, from the imperial court in the Shilang, Jingtang, Hanlin, Kedao, subordinate and other officials and scholars. He is in charge of the provincial school decree and the two examinations of the year and subject. Three-year term, each with the original title: that is to say, there is no fixed grade of academic administration, if you teach academic politics to serve Lang is from the second grade, and those who teach academic politics to Langzhong are positive five grades, but to do academic politics must be two lists of Jinshi background.