Chapter 214: Skinning and Removing Corpses

Of course, even Ma Xiao, who was a disciple of Xi Yingzhen and Yao Guangxiao, was also skinned and shredded, and was not spared.

After Yao Guangxiao dealt with all this according to the order, he reported to the emperor to ask for an order to build a three-view building in the location of this "Bliss Palace" to warn future generations. After obtaining the emperor's consent, Yao Guangxiao ordered the complete demolition of the original Yuquan Temple, Anxing Temple, and Ciyun Nunnery, and then personally supervised the construction of a three-story three-story Sanguan Building.

And used the ancient seal to write three lines of warning words on a dark iron plate, and ordered the craftsman to engrave the general process of all this on another stone tablet.

After the completion of the Sanguan Building, the specimens of the three most evil human skins and dried corpses had just been brewed, and Yao Guangxiao ordered them to be hung upstairs, and forced a large number of foreign officials and ordinary people to take turns to observe here.

In the end, after three months of continuous exhibition, Yao Guangxiao ordered the three human skin specimens to be put away and secretly stored in the underground palace below the Sanguan Tower, so that they could be stored forever for future generations to warn future generations. The dungeon mentioned here should be where everyone is now.

After everyone listened to Xiao Qingfeng's story, they couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded and unbelievable, and laughed Maitreya slowly said to himself: "The so-called 'three temples in one building, the monk cuts off people's heads', dare to understand this way." That is to say, this original Sanguan Building was combined by the Yuquan Temple and Anxing Temple and Ciyun Nunnery at that time, and what monk should be Yao Guangxiao, who is famous for Buddhism. It was he, the 'royal monk', who cut off the heads of many 'little monks who were indiscriminately cultivated', not only the 'big monk' who cut off other people's heads, but also the 'little monk' who was beheaded by others, hehehe. ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "The cruel torture of 'human skin ancient corpse', isn't it only Jing Qing, the great loyal minister of Emperor Jianwen, that is clearly recorded in history? ”

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Yes, there is indeed a clear record in the official history that Jingqing was punished by Ming Chengzu with the punishment of 'stripping the corpse alive', and the text of the original record was 'peeling its skin, grassing it, and smashing its flesh and bones'." And this Jingqing was also really imposed by Ming Chengzu with the so-called 'melon vine copy' system, and he was the first person to be punished by his 'ten clans'. ”

Laughing Maitreya said: "It seems that this Ming Chengzu Zhu Di still really likes this kind of inhumane torture, and he should also have some obsessive-compulsive disorder gene." Okay, let's continue to look at the remaining two stone tablets below, maybe what Brother Wolf said may be a 'special cultural relic', or it may be some strange human skin specimen. Hurry up, take a good look at the text on the remaining stone tablets, and see if there are any specific storage locations for these three human skin specimens. ”

Saying that, he squeezed forward, and after helping the prodigal son put the stone tablet just now, he carefully took out the remaining two stone tablets inside and handed them to Xiao Qingfeng and Jingxin respectively.

After the two looked at it seriously for a while, it turned out that these two stone tablets were not written by Yao Guangxiao at the beginning, but were continued and supplemented by later people. On this stone tablet in Jingxin's hand, it is the fact that Ming Chongzhen rebuilt the Sanguan Building in three years, and Xiao Qingfeng is in his hand

On the stone plaque, the record is the past of the three view buildings in the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty and finally destroyed in the war.

Jingxin took the lead in telling everyone the content on her stone tablet, since Yao Guangxiao completed the construction of this three-view building, until the end of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen has not been officially repaired.

The first reason is that this kind of punishment of stripping the corpse alive is too cruel, and it has rarely been mentioned since the Yongle period, let alone used with great fanfare. The second reason is that the things involved in this Sanguan Building were indeed too absurd in that era, and no one was willing to mention it again.

Therefore, after more than 200 years of wind and rain, this Sanguan Building has already collapsed and damaged most of it, and the unspeakable old story it has slowly been forgotten, not to mention the three human skin specimens that are treasured in it, and no one cares about it.

Even during the Xuande period during this period, the emperor had specially decreed the abolition of this torture of 'skinning and removing corpses', and deliberately hinted to the historians at the time to delete the records that were really offensive to morals.

In the Ming Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty was already sunset, and the Xishan Mansion was about to fall, not only the Ming regime had been corrupted to the bones, but also natural disasters were one after another, ravaging the land of China in turn. At the same time, the iron cavalry of the Jurchen tribe in the north took the opportunity to invade and plunder in the south from time to time.

At this time, in order to protect the safety of the local party, the virtuous squire near Fangshan Village spontaneously raised funds to rebuild a solid walled building on the basis of the original Sanguan Building.

This walled tower is 13 meters high, with a total of five floors, not only with high stacks and thick walls, but also with a bell tower set up at the top with a special person on duty all day. As soon as the personnel on duty above found that some bandits were approaching from afar, they immediately rang the giant bell and urgently summoned the sturdy men from the nearby ten miles and eight towns, and quickly entered the walled building to defend and fight.

Not only that, but they also specially cleared out the three hidden passages excavated by Shi Miaozhen at the beginning, as an emergency safety passage in times of special crisis, and built a number of arch guard positions on the periphery with the walled building as the center.

In this way, the local villagers will be able to come and go more freely, mobile and flexible to resist those foreign invasions, and when it is really impossible, they can also go underground or withdraw to the mountains in time, avoid huge casualties, preserve their strength as much as possible, and wait until the enemy retreats and then return again.

It's just that on this stone plaque, I don't know why there is no mention of the existence of the three human skin specimens, I don't know if it was deliberately obscure by the original engraver, or whether the people at that time did not really see the three treasured human skin specimens at all.

In addition, not only is the name of all the fundraisers and their respective donations clearly recorded on this stone plaque. It also roughly describes the major defensive functions played by this three-view tower after its reconstruction, as well as its special landmark function at that time.

One of the most famous battles, that is, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the local villagers relied on this Sanguan Tower to resist the strong attack of more than 3,000 rogues. In that battle, more than 3,000 bandits took turns to attack, and the local villagers stubbornly resisted for three days and three nights.

In the end, the enemy was left with more than 800 corpses and fled in a hurry, while the local villagers were only killed or wounded

More than 500 people, almost entirely on their own, resisted those vicious armed horse bandits.

In this battle, the rebuilt Sanguanlou became famous, and the nearby villagers and fugitive outsiders flocked here again to seek the shelter of Sanguanlou. Soon, a large number of people gathered, and for a time merchants gathered, and gradually regained its former prosperity, and quickly became a populous town again.

Not only that, because there were very few obvious buildings in the local area at that time, and this 13-meter-high Sanguanlou naturally became a local landmark and a belonging building in the hearts of the local people. Since then, there has been the name of the three view towers in the west of the city.

After Jing Xin finished telling the contents of the second stone tablet, he asked the prodigal son to carefully put it back, and Xiao Qingfeng began to tell the content recorded on the last stone tablet.

It's just that this stone tablet is separated from the second stone tablet by more than 200 years, and it was engraved in the fourth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Don't look at these three stone tablets, they are also in small block letters, but a discerning person can see at a glance that this is not from the hand of one person at all, it is definitely the work of three different craftsmen in three periods.

This third stone tablet mainly records a period of the past when the Sanguan Building finally died. After the rebuilding of the Sanguan Building during the Ming Chongzhen period, it did play a powerful defensive function in the era of cold weapons at that time, and to a certain extent, it protected the people and merchants in this area, and played a great role in the development of the local area.

Therefore, later, the local squires of the wang clan spontaneously repaired it regularly and never gave up its function as a walled building.

Especially in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, Shandong also broke out many times of rebel activities one after another, and even the local government paid more attention to the actual defensive effect of this kind of walled tower, and sent people to be responsible for reinforcing and improving similar walled towers in various places.

The ground part of this three-view tower, more than 60 meters from east to west, more than 40 meters from north to south, is even stronger than the ordinary city tower, plus its three underground tunnels can communicate with the three hills outside, which also enhances its own defense depth.

In addition, this area has always been a prosperous place where merchants gathered, and naturally the weapons they possessed at that time were relatively sophisticated, which was of course to better protect their own vital interests.

Eventually, the local government tried to send troops into the area, making it an important defensive fortress. However, they were rejected by the local gentry with all kinds of tricks, because they knew that these officers and soldiers were coming, and they were probably no better than those rebels and rogues.

The rebels and rogues of the people are just plundering and retreating, and they generally will not be entrenched and harassed for a long time, even if they have a few occasional bloody battles, in exchange for peace and quiet most of the time.

But these officers and soldiers are different, they will not only suck blood, but they may also chew up all the bones and swallow them, and then they will not think about any more peaceful days.

In the end, a compromise method was adopted, and the local gentry themselves recruited and supported a certain number of villagers, who were stationed on the walled tower all year round, mainly to protect the safety of this side. Of course, when the government needs it, it must also assist the officials and troops to send troops as required to attack and defend against those large groups of rogues.