The ancient Kuiqiu Lizhuang is located on the southeast side of Kuiqiu.
On the northwest side of Kuiqiu, there is also Wubagang Village.
Both villages have a history of thousands of years, and they have been guarding Kuiqiu (Wuba Gang) for generations.
We had dinner at Li Ji's house that night, and there were several village elders sitting with him. Most of them were surnamed Li, and a few were surnamed Liu.
It is estimated that tourists often visit the village, and they are used to it and are very skilled in tourist reception.
The next day, before Ju Ming got up, incense and candles were prepared in the village.
As a private person, you can just worship casually. You can't do it too formally, especially if you don't use animals, because it involves illegal issues.
Whether it is called Kuiqiu or Wubagang, you can know its topography from the name.
Not a small slope, but a big slope!
The part that rises above the ground is more than one kilometer in diameter. Villagers still live on the slopes, and there are also many farmlands growing corn, sunflower and other crops.
Li Ji pointed to a boundary stone on the slope: "After this stone, you will reach Wubagang Village. We, Lizhuang, and Wubagang Village will jointly worship Kuiqiu every year."
On the boundary between the two villages, there is an earth platform built up. The platform is covered with vegetation, but artificial traces can still be discerned.
There are also several stone tablets around, mostly erected by celebrities who came here to pay their respects. There are also inscriptions indicating that the county allocated funds to repair the Alliance Altar.
After burning incense and worshiping, Li Ji said: "The prefect might as well leave the calligraphy treasure."
The two villages that guard Kwai Qiu are always competing with each other. One of the important projects is to compare which village has more calligraphy works by famous people.
When Zhu Ming came to the alliance altar, he couldn't help but sigh, and turned back to look at Li Bao.
Historically, the Jin soldiers were raging in Shandong, and it was here that Li Bao raised troops to fight against the Jin. He also left a limerick: In the past, the princes gathered here to make an alliance, and the altar was high and the road looked far away at the capital. The shame of Jingkang buried the ambition, and Kuiqiu ordered the soldiers to blow the trumpet.
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"Bring me a pen!" Zhu Ming said.
Li Ji studied ink himself. He had found out clearly last night that Zhu Zhizhou was Tanhua Lang.
The two surnames Li and Liu in the village each sent one person to organize the incense case, and the paper and pen were placed on the incense case.
Li Ji finished grinding the ink and handed the pen to Ju Ming. He saw him writing with a flourish: "Kui Qiu is as domineering as a rainbow. I don't know the origin of the Eastern Strategy. The place where the governor of Kong and Jin met, Qi Huan has already laid his body on the bed."
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“What a poem!”
Li Ji praised: "In the past, Confucian scholars came here to pay their respects, and their poems all wrote about the alliance. Only Zhu Taishou wrote about benevolent government and people's support!"
Li Bao came over and read it over and over again, and said confusedly: "Where are the people's hearts written? Where are the benevolent policies?"
Li Ji was so angry that he slapped him in the face: "Let you read history, let you read history. You were born in Kuiqiu, and you didn't read any history books related to Duke Huan of Qi?"
Li Bao covered the back of his head, looking quite aggrieved.
Seeing that others did not understand the poem, Li Ji explained: "Zai Kong was the Grand Administrator of Emperor Zhou. He said that although Duke Xiang of Jin had strong mountains and rivers, a vast territory, and a large population, he did not practice benevolent governance internally and was not good at diplomatic relations externally.
, will definitely lose people's hearts and die. That year, Duke Xiang of Jin died. And Duke Huan of Qi also followed in the footsteps of Duke Xiang of Jin. While Duke Huan of Qi was still in funeral, Qi State was attacked by Song State."
Ju Ming actually had a deeper meaning. He copied this poem to scold Huizong of the Song Dynasty. He was good at provoking border provocations and did not practice benevolent government. He lost the hearts of the people and would sooner or later die and the country would be destroyed.
Zhu Ming held up his hands and praised: "The old gentleman is familiar with classics and history, and I admire him very much."
"I have a brief knowledge of classics and history, and the prefect is so complimentary." Li Ji stroked his beard and smiled, feeling particularly proud.
He may not be proficient in other historical books, but he was born in Kuiqiu and is familiar with the history of the Spring and Autumn Period.
After paying homage to Kuiqiu, Ju Ming was taken to the southeast of the village, where there was the Sanguan Temple and the Baiyi Palace.
Sanguan Temple is the shrine of Yao, Shun and Yu.
The white palace is the palace of Liu Xiu, the son of the plane. Liu Xiu was defeated here and almost died of illness, but he was entertained by the villagers and recovered from his injuries in the village. After he became emperor, he built the palace in Lizhuang.
Li Zhuang has two major surnames, one is Li and the other is Liu.
People surnamed Liu are the descendants of the officials and soldiers who guarded the palace for Liu Xiu. They have guarded the palace for thousands of years. Although they have experienced many wars, they have remembered the instructions of their ancestors from generation to generation.
However, only a few rooms remain in the emperor's palace, which was once grand and magnificent, and it was rebuilt in the early Song Dynasty.
Looking at the Liu clan members who had guarded the palace for thousands of years, and then looking at the temples of Yao, Shun and Yu, something in Ju Ming's heart seemed to be touched.
He pursed his lips and smiled, looking up at the sky and then at the north.
He seemed to understand why Li Bao insisted on resisting the Jin Dynasty. Even after joining Yue Fei, he thought Yue Fei was too useless to stand still, so he resolutely took dozens of brothers and lurked back to Shandong to fight guerrillas. With only 3,000 taels of Zhejiang troops in hand, he dared to
Rush across the sea to Shandong and take the initiative to attack 70,000 enemy troops!
While Zhu Ming's heart was racing, Li Bao found it boring.
Li Bao has been tired of seeing Kuiqiu, the palace, and the Sanguan Temple since he was a child. He feels that these are useless. When he was a child, he even climbed up the wall of the Sanguan Temple to urinate, and was hung up and beaten by the elders of the family.
Li Bao's attention was all on the cornucopia.
After getting Ju Ming's permission, the man immediately took the horse home and watched the horse being bred with a silly smile on his face.
Three days later, Ju Ming continued on his way, and Li Bao was added to the team.
Ahead is Chengshi County, which is Heze.
Continuing to the north, there are Linpu and Leize. These two counties are both under the jurisdiction of Ju Ming.
There is a God of Thunder in Leize, where Emperor Shun fished.
To the east of the county, there is the tomb of King Yao. Legend has it that Emperor Yao was buried here.
Ju Ming did not alarm the magistrate of Leize County. He paid a private visit incognito to investigate the public sentiment along the way, and stopped by to pay homage to the ruins of Leize Lake. This lake had almost dried up in the late Tang Dynasty. Now there are only a few small lakes left, and the rest have been turned into villages and farmland.
Then we rode horseback to Gulin Mountain in the east of the county. The mountains and plains here are covered with mulberry trees and there is a small river running through them.
Before entering the mountain, Zhu Ming saw a large number of abandoned houses.
He curiously went to check and found that there were many stone troughs and other papermaking equipment inside, which was obviously an abandoned papermaking workshop.
It has been abandoned for a long time and many houses have collapsed.
Ju Ming went to a nearby village to beg for water. When he came to a small farmyard, an old woman was drying her clothes in the courtyard.
Ju Ming said: "I am a scholar from the south. I am here to pay homage to Yao's mausoleum. Can I ask for a drink of water?"
The old woman saw that although there were many of them, but there were still female relatives, she lowered her guard a little. But she still refused to let them enter the yard. She went back to the thatched house to fetch a ladle of water and handed it to the fence in silence.
While drinking water, Ju Ming asked: "Why are the paper mills over there abandoned?"
The old woman replied: "The government does not allow trees to be cut down."
Zhu Ming understood somewhat: "Because of Yao Ling?"
The old woman obviously didn't know about Yao and Shun: "It was said that an emperor was buried in the mountains. He was not allowed to cut down trees or go into the mountains to graze sheep. The farmers in the mountains were also driven away by the government, leaving only five households to keep vigil for the emperor. This is what it looks like
, has been for decades. When I first got married, the paper-making workshops were very prosperous, and there were so many people that they became a town. The government did not allow cutting down trees, so the paper-making workshops could not be used, and there were fewer and fewer people in the town.
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Yao's mausoleum was moved to Pingyang, Shanxi for worship. It was a matter of the Jin and Yuan dynasties. The reason was that Leize was flooded by the Yellow River.
The Yao Tomb of the Song Dynasty was located in the east of Leize County.
Ju Ming asked: "This place is not far from the county seat, and the woods are lush. Are we not even allowed to cut firewood?"
The old woman said: "You are not allowed to chop wood. If you catch it, you will be beaten."
After asking a few more questions, Ju Ming handed back the water ladle, turned around and left with his horse.
Zheng Yuanyi asked: "We are already here, why don't you go into the mountain to visit Emperor Yao's tomb?"
Zhu Ming said: "Yao's mausoleum harms the people, so it's okay if you don't worship him."
Bai Sheng couldn't help complaining: "In the past two days, my husband has been saying that Emperor Yao is a holy king. If his old man knew about this, he would not be able to survive even if he was buried underground."
Deng Chun said: "Where the emperor is buried, it is fine not to cut down trees to make paper, but not to cut firewood is really unjustifiable."
"We are not allowed to graze sheep," Li Bao said in a mocking tone. "We in Kuiqiu just farm and herd sheep. How can we be so particular about it? Our Sanguan Temple in Lizhuang not only houses Emperor Yao,
And Shun and Yu, they are no worse than Yao Ling who was so troublesome. When I was young, I even peed in the Sanguan Temple."
Ju Ming thought about it and said, "Go to Leize County and meet the local magistrate."
Two hours later, Ju Ming arrived outside the county government office.
The official guarding the gate of the county government office held a stick and scolded: "The county government office is an important place. No idlers are allowed to enter. Who is coming?"
Ju Ming said: "Puzhou knows the state."
"Pu..."
Zaoli was shocked. This was the jurisdiction of Puzhou. When Zhu Ming arrived, it was like the mayor made a surprise inspection of the county government.
But Ju Ming was too young and did not look like a governor at all. The official asked bravely: "Do you have any proof?"
Zhu Ming showed his official badge and asked, "Do you still want to read the documents?"
"I don't dare, please come in, sir!"
One official took Ju Ming in, and another official rushed into the county government office to report.
Not long after, the county government was in a hurry, and officials from Leize County arrived one after another.
The official positions here are so bloated that they even have the county magistrate and the county magistrate at the same time.
The county magistrate's name is Cao Yuangui, and he is a Jinshi. It is estimated that there are no vacancies, and this old man's seniority has reached another level, so he was sent to Leize County for a transition period.
The county magistrate is Wang Wei, who was also a Jinshi and served as the principal of a state school for many years.
Although Leize County is not far from Tokyo, these two people have little background and little political information, and they have never heard of Ju Ming.
The two greeted each other cautiously, but they were always suspicious, fearing that Zhizhou was a fake.
Ju Ming simply took out the appointment document and said, "Read it yourself."
Cao Yuangui took it with both hands, glanced at it, and was horrified, and whispered: "Chao Guan."
Court official?
Wang Tian did not read the document again, but shrank his body, became three inches shorter, and became groveling.
Such a young court official must be a son of a powerful person!
The chief clerk and other officials next to him were even more frightened and curious, secretly looking at Ju Ming's appearance.
Wang Tian took two steps back and called the chief registrar to him: "Quickly go to the hotel and invite the governor's family to stay. Prepare the drinks and ask for the best!"
"No need, normal meals will suffice," Ju Ming reminded.
The chief clerk accepted the order and left. Although Zhizhou said he wanted ordinary meals, he did not dare to do so.
Zhu Ming was invited to sit down and went straight to the topic: "I just went to Yao Ling."
Cao Yuangui hurriedly said: "Three years ago, after the officials sent their consorts to offer sacrifices to Yao's mausoleum, archers from this county often patrolled Gulin Mountain. Once they found someone cutting firewood, they would not be spared lightly. More than twenty people were beaten with sticks."
Are you still asking for credit?
Zhu Ming was very angry when he heard this.
(Some book friends said that they were going in the wrong direction. They may have been misled by passing through Dongming County. Dongming County in the Song Dynasty was completely different in direction and location from Dongming County in later generations.)
