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Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen They Are All Dead

Beijing Fayuan Temple 李敖 11010Words 2023-02-05
The coffin was parked in the back room of Fayuan Temple, with two long benches supporting it underneath. There was no writing on the front. Only those who knew whose coffin belonged to it.The old family members helped to carry the coffin and set up the benches, sweating profusely.Hu Lichen took out a towel from his waist, he didn't wipe his sweat, he only used it to wipe the coffin clean and carefully, just like washing the little master's bloody face a few hours ago.In the end, the incense table was set up, they knelt down and kowtowed together, and they finally cried aloud, telling the young master's hard life and misfortune one by one.

At the door of the coffin room, an old monk stood there silently. He was Master She, and beside him stood the grown-up Pu Jing.They said nothing, but their faces were sad.Soon, they walked away together, walked to the old stele in front of the Daxiong Palace, and were silent. Pujing, Master She finally spoke.You see, this is what happens to those who take the improved route!A full ten years ago, Kang Youwei met us in front of this ancient stele. Over the past ten years, he persevered, tried again after failure, tried again after failure, and tried again after failure. Finally, he persuaded the emperor, won the king’s way, and joined forces with Tan Sitong and the others to engage in The law has been reformed.However, the superficial success is actually a failure in the bones.Kang Youwei spent ten years of painstaking efforts to prove only one thing, which Tan Sitong proved with his blood: the road to reform will not work.They failed to prove that this way was impracticable, and concluded that to save China, everyone had to go to the revolution.Tan Sitong could not die but was willing to die. The biggest reason was to prove this conclusion.I'm old and can't do anything, I think, from today onwards, you should prepare to leave the temple, go to the ends of the earth, go to the ends of the earth, throw yourself out, and become a real revolutionary party!For those who truly have a Buddha heart, a temple is at most just a starting point and an end station. Because of the temple, the Buddha heart is born, and because of the Buddha heart, if you leave the temple and save the world, maybe one day, you will return from the world and die in the temple; Maybe one day, you failed to save the world, and like Mr. Tan, you can stop in the temple.No matter what, no matter which kind, it is more real and beneficial than eating vegetarian food, chanting Buddha, and knocking wooden fish in temples at a young age.I think it's time, and you are also twenty-six years old, so you should prepare according to Master's instructions!

As Master She said, she patted Pu Jing on the head, and Pu Jing looked at Master affectionately.Lower your head for a while.He raised his head again, bit his lip and said: Since I came to the temple at the age of eight, I have been worried that one day the master will not want me. Eighteen years have passed, and today I finally heard such words from the master.Of course, I knew it wasn't that Master didn't want me, but that he wanted me to do what I should do, so I followed Master's instructions and went to the ends of the earth.The only regret is that I can't take care of your elderly from morning till night.

Master She smiled and patted Pu Jing's head again.Look at Pujing, Mr. Tan is dead. He has his father in the hall and his wife in the room.Who does he take care of from morning till night?In front of 400 million Chinese compatriots, he abandoned all selfishness and family affection, and cared for no one, only sentient beings.This kind of heart is really the heart of a monk.Confucianism is the old and the old of the people, but Buddhism is the old and the old of the people. People with big feelings don't care about small feelings. So, Master, why did you become a monk after the age of thirty?Pu Jing said a word.Why don't you take the temple as the starting point, and escape into Buddhism when you are young.Use the temple as the final stop?

Master She was shocked.But he quickly recovered. He turned around and faced the temple gate without looking at Pujing: This is a question you asked me ten years ago, and I didn't answer you, only saying that one day you will know.That day has not come yet.I can only tell you that since I became a monk after I was 30 years old, I have always suspected that Fayuan Temple is my final stop. There is another thing waiting for me to make up, to continue, to finish, and I don't quite know what it is until today, but I can tell you that it is not.That is: I will not end my life here, Fayuan Temple is not my final stop.Pujing, we will meet at Fayuan Temple, and we will also be separated at Fayuan Temple. Let's get together through separation!

Just as Master She said this, two burly men walked in from the temple gate.When approaching, one of them with a bearded face kept looking sharply.Looking at Master She, he stared at Master She unfriendlyly, Master She noticed it, immediately had a different expression, lowered his eyebrows and remained silent.The two big men passed by and walked in without even saying hello.Pu Jing saw it very strangely. Master, you seem to know who they are, but they don't seem to be very friendly to you. Master She looked at the ground, then looked up at the sky, and sighed softly. Pujing, you are very observant, I do know who they are.The one with the big beard is none other than the Great Swordsman Wu.

Great Swordsman Five!Pujing was amazed. Great Sword King Five.Master She said calmly, this Kwantung hero is now fifty-two years old, and he is ten years younger than me.But he was only seventeen when I knew him, and that was thirty-five years ago. Master knew Dao Wang Wu so early? so early. Just now, the Great Swordsman Wang Wu obviously recognized his master.Have you not seen each other for many years? Not seen for more than thirty years.Master She said, I see, let me tell you.You never knew the secret of my becoming a monk back then, but now we are about to break up, let me tell you!

Da Dao Wang Wu had the same experience as me. This experience, which no one wants to disclose, is that we have all been long-haired thieves.The so-called long-haired thief is the name of the Taiping Army in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the Manchurians.During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, they called for the restoration of the custom of the Han people not to shave their hair, and to resist the Qing government's system of shaving their hair and leaving their braids, so they were called long-haired thieves.Nearly 50 years ago, during the Jintian Uprising, the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan was thirty-seven years old, the other kings were all in their thirties, and the winged king Shi Dakai was only twenty years old. When they invaded Nanjing City and conquered half of China's mountains and rivers, they began to corrupt and fight among themselves, but among them Shi Dakai was still decent.He was in front of Wuhan, and when he heard that the comrades in the capital were fighting among themselves, the king of the east, Yang Xiuqing, was killed, so he rushed back to save the split in the revolutionary camp, but in return, his whole family was also killed.In the end, he was not tolerated by Hong Xiuquan again, so he had no choice but to leave, and hundreds of thousands of people followed him.His whereabouts were uncertain in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces. In the end, he was defeated and retreated to Yunnan. In the end, only 40,000 remnants remained. He failed to cross the Dadu River in Xikang. Army and natives surrounded.At that time, Wang Wu and I were around him, we had no food to eat, we ate weeds; when the weeds were gone, we killed war horses and ate horse meat; when the horse meat was gone, the remaining 7,000 people desperately broke through and fled to a village called Laoyaxuan place, encountered the enemy again, and could not advance.Two days later, Shi Dakai disappeared. It is said that in order to save the 7,000 lives of the last 7,000 people, he voluntarily went to the Qing army and surrendered.However, when we put down our weapons and surrendered together, the Qing army went on a rampage. Thousands of people were killed and thousands of people fled for their lives.Shi Dakai's family members were killed by his own people as early as in Nanjing, but a fourteen-year-old daughter named Shi Qixiang escaped by chance. She was beautiful and could write articles. After studying, Shi Dakai took a fancy to him, took charge of the copywriting for him, and met Qixiang sooner or later, and fell in love with him after a long time. Shi Dakai also intended to accept me as his son-in-law, but it was inconvenient to get married when he was fighting all day in the north and south.Shi Dakai disappeared in Laoyaxuan. We didn’t know it beforehand. Later, it was said that the one who voluntarily walked to the Qing army to surrender was a subordinate who looked very similar to Shi Dakai. He pretended to be Shi Dakai and was killed by the Qing army in his place. fled.When the Qing army was on a massacre, more than a hundred people including Qixiang and Wang Wu and I traveled across the mountains and hid in the mountains, waiting for a turnaround. Because of the desperate situation, many people advocated smuggling across the Dadu River.Before the smuggling, we searched around and got a strange news.Let’s talk about a boatman who took an old gentleman across the river one evening, and the old gentleman and the boatman had a good chat.The boatman was a caring person, and he felt that the old man's background was not simple, but it was inconvenient to ask more questions.Finally, the old man got off the boat, looked back at the mountains and rivers, and said with emotion: The wind and the moon are still there, but where are the mountains and rivers?It quickly disappeared.According to the boatman, the quick steps are all young people's movements.After daybreak, the boatman found an umbrella left in the boat. The handle of the umbrella was made of hard iron, and there were four small characters of Yuyi Wangfu on it.This news made everyone excited.Because we all know that Shi Dakai has such a big umbrella.Qixiang was even more excited and insisted on finding the boatman and following her father's footsteps, so everyone set off together.But by the river, we were ambushed, and the Qing army rushed up, and we turned around and fled in all directions. During the escape, I heard Qixiang's cry, and it seemed that something had happened, but I ran desperately despite everything. Gao, I was sick again, and the unexpected incident made me suddenly lose all courage, and I didn't even have the courage to go back to save Qixiang.Afterwards, I heard that Shi Dakai's daughter was captured and gang-raped by the Qing army to death.Although I explained myself afterwards and said that even if I turned around to save her, I might not be able to save her, but with my relationship with her, in the chaos army, I really shouldn't just care about my own escape. I really have no face to face people.So, I went back to Beijing, back to Fayuan Temple, which is somewhat related to our She family, saw through the world, and finally became a monk.It has been thirty years now, and I think back to that night thirty years ago. To this day, I still can’t figure out why I was so timid and courageous all of a sudden.

Master went to Fayuan Temple to be a monk, did Wang Wu and the others know? I think they know.Everyone has been in the north for so many years, and they all have heads and faces. They should all know what the old comrades were doing later.However, we have no relationship.They think that I should die with Qixiang, they regard me as a person who is just trying to survive, and they look down on me. On the surface, Master became a monk, Wang Wu and the others broke up, and everyone stopped engaging in revolution.Yeah? right.Master She said calmly, his eyes were still looking outside the temple gate.He walked forward in a daze, and slowly, he came to the lilac tree.Du Fu's lilac poem written by Kang Youwei ten years ago floated in his mouth, and in his mind, thousands of troops roared towards him.It was almost dusk at this time, but suddenly dark clouds appeared on the horizon.Even if the sun is setting and the sky is about to change, I won't wait for the setting sun.

☆☆☆☆☆☆ Two years later, on the 20th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1900, it was late. Sitting alone by the water on an isolated island, I don't wait for the sunset.He is young, but his face is full of sickness. What sunset can we wait for?He himself is the sunset! Today is the twentieth of July again, he thought.Exactly two years ago, on July 20th, I promoted the four minor officials, the alternate minister of the cabinet, the alternate head of the Ministry of Punishment, the alternate secretary of the cabinet, and the alternate prefect of Jiangsu, to the rank of fourth minister. Participating in the New Deal, it was the day when the reform was in full swing, but everything was short-lived. The four of them, together with the other two, died in the execution ground within 24 days of taking office.He himself became a puppet emperor.The most infuriating thing was that the order to kill the six of them was issued in his name.He can also recite that kind of bureaucracy.It was said in the last edict that after these six people were dismissed and handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for interrogation, someone told them that if there is a delay, there may be a change. Fearing that the plants will be tired, it was ordered yesterday that the criminals should be punished immediately before the replay.This matter is an extraordinary change, and the canonical punishment has been declared for agreeing with the treacherous party.That is to say, after the emperor thought about the trial and punishment, he had already determined that their circumstances were serious and they could not escape the law.This kind of order proves that those who want to kill do not need to obey the laws set by the emperor himself.According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the execution of the death penalty must go through the procedures of beheading the prison or beheading the prisoner. The beheading is to lock the prisoner until the autumn, and then go to the court in the autumn. If there is no room for discretion, the autumn sentence is approved; Just save him from death, or have a suspended sentence until the next autumn.As for the decision.Then don't wait for autumn, as long as the Fuwen arrives, you can kill people.The Ministry of Criminal Affairs is in charge of killing people, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of picketing. The death penalty requires a separate reply from Dali Temple.Therefore, according to legal procedures, it is impossible to kill so quickly, it is impossible to go to the first trial and kill the next day.Now the emperor issued an order, blatantly saying that he would kill people before the reply, what kind of emperor is this!

He thought again: the four orders in those six days were all issued in the name of the emperor. In form, the emperor came to kill the person who was with him a week ago in the reformation. This is really a mockery of fate. , Mocking myself as a fool! He sat by the water, his thoughts floating like duckweed on the water.But, who is worthy to compare with duckweed?Duckweed still has roots, but I, the emperor, was imprisoned on the island, and even the roots were pulled out. Suddenly, there was the sound of cannons in the distance.How could there be gunfire, he wondered.He would not ask the eunuchs who guarded him, because it was useless to ask, and he could not ask anything. These eunuchs were all close friends of the empress dowager, and everything was kept secret.Just when he was puzzled by the sound of the cannon, he realized that there were four people standing behind him. He turned around, and the four people in civilian clothes knelt down, and the leader was Li Lianying. Good luck to the emperor!Li Lianying saluted with a sharp guttural voice, she hadn't come to pay her respects to the emperor for a long time, and asked the emperor to forgive her.As he spoke, he kowtowed.The other three followed suit. Get up, why are you all wearing this kind of common people's clothes?asked the emperor. To tell the truth from the emperor, Li Lianying reported that something happened outside.Since last year, the Boxers have emerged among the people. After worshiping the gods, they can descend into their bodies and recite mantras.Golden swords can't penetrate, guns can't hurt, they say: don't wear foreign cloth, don't use matches, promote the Qing Dynasty, and destroy foreign religions.Kill foreigners everywhere, kill those who believe in foreign religions, burn churches, burn trains, fortitude waited for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to believe in them, and the old Buddha also believed in them, which caused the foreigners to form the Eight-Nation Allied Forces. Now they have come to Beijing, and the Boxers simply resisted Can't stop.Lafayette ordered to pick up the emperor and escape together, and now we are here to pick up the emperor.Please come in and change your clothes right away, Your Majesty!Taking advantage of the turmoil, pretending to be a refugee, and leaving before it's too late! Emperor Guangxu took off his dragon robe and changed into a black gown and blue trousers.He went straight to the outside of the palace with them and got into the mule cart. In his panic, he asked frequently: Where's Concubine Zhen?Where is Concubine Zhen? The car is ahead.Li Lianying pointed, all the female relatives were with Lafayette, and they will come soon!Li Lianying agreed.The emperor stays here first.I will pick them up!With that said, he walked forward. I go with you!I would like to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager first.Emperor Guangxu shouted.Immediately, he got off the mule cart and rushed to the palace with Li Lianying and all the eunuchs.When they arrived at Zhenshun Gate, they saw a group of people in front of them, surrounded by something, mixed with the wailing of a woman.When they caught up, they saw Concubine Zhen being pushed to the side of the well by the eunuchs. Emperor Guangxu yelled and ran up, but it was too late. He grabbed the emperor first, and was dragged to the ground by the eunuch ten steps away from the well. An old woman dressed as a rural peasant woman stood by the Zhenshun gate, surrounded by a group of men and women in disguise, and they were all petrified.As if nothing had happened, the old woman slapped her hands up and down alternately, and said coldly: "Pull the emperor up, let's go!" A group of people waited and started on the road in a state of embarrassment. They didn't have time to take anything, couldn't take it, and didn't dare to take it.After walking for hundreds of miles, there is no one inhabited.When I was thirsty, I went to the well. Either there was no bucket for fetching water, or there were heads floating in the well.It wasn't until I got to Chahar's arms that I got the supplies.After that, I traveled from Chahar to Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi. After two months, I finally arrived in Xi'an. Seventeen months after leaving, the chaos calmed down.China apologized, punished the perpetrators, and paid compensation to the eight countries.The total amount of indemnities was 450 million taels, and there were 450 million people in China at that time, so it happened that each ordinary person had to pay one tael on average, which was equivalent to the total income of China for five years.The Chinese people put on heavy shackles again for the fatuous and vicious empress dowager, but are the heavy shackles limited to paying foreigners?Seventeen months ago, when the empress dowager left Beijing, she had no possessions; when she returned from Xi'an sixteen months later, there were as many as 3,000 carriages and horses loaded with boxes and cages, and the convoy stretched for 700 li (250 miles). , elated, not like returning from a defeat, but like a meeting to welcome the gods.The last part of the journey, from Zhengding back to Beijing, is still by train.The Empress Dowager finally carried on to Western culture.Twenty-one trains finally entered the city of Beijing. Six years later, in 1908, on November 15, the thirty-fourth year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (October 22 in the old calendar), the 73-year-old Empress Dowager finally died, but after her death The day before, the thirty-eight-year-old Emperor Guangxu died mysteriously first. Was it poisoned?Is it a coincidence?Only the Queen Mother who is buried in the luxurious tomb knows.This luxurious tomb is called Dongling, which is 90 miles away from Beijing. It cost 8 million taels to build, and another 1.5 million taels was spent on funeral expenses, making the total close to 10 million taels.During the forty-seven years of her reign, the Chinese people spent countless sums of money on her behalf, and the last 10 million taels of funeral expenses can be said to be what everyone is most willing to spend.When her golden coffin was carried out of the city gate of Beijing, the 120 bearers couldn't squeeze it out, and when the number was reduced to 84, they had to get out of the coffin.Since then, the city of Beijing has lost its afterglow, the setting sun has fallen, and the Qing Empire has been squeezed dry.Three years later, the revolution was successful.The Republic of China was established. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ The death of the Empress Dowager brought some people back to life.Concubine Jin, another concubine of Emperor Guangxu, was the older sister of Concubine Zhen. She set up a tablet for her sister who died tragically, and hung a plaque of Zhenyun Jincao as a memorial and mourning.That horrible well, which was called Zhenfei Well by people, was sealed with iron bars running through the stone pillars on the side of the well, and thick wooden blocks were placed on it. At first glance, it feels gloomy and desolate. Another resurrected person is Zhang Yinhuan.After he was arrested, because he was actually in charge of diplomacy for many years, he had been to the United States, Spain, and Peru, and he also served as a special envoy at the 60th celebration of Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom. Finally, the British and Japanese ministers came forward to express serious concerns.The Empress Dowager was apprehensive, so she issued an edict in the name of Emperor Guangxu, saying that Zhang Yinhuan had a bad reputation, but he was not a member of Kang Youwei's party. The governor was strict.As a result, Zhang Yinhuan had a dramatic narrow escape. As a prisoner, he was transferred from the Ministry of Punishment to the Ministry of War and sent to be garrisoned outside the Great Wall.He was quite cynical, and he was very relaxed on the road. He said to people: This old lady is joking with me, and even taught me to walk outside the customs once.However, good times don’t last long, and bad times don’t last forever. Two years later, the Boxers began to help the Qing Dynasty and wipe out foreigners.The chief official of the frontier informed him, and he looked calm. Before his execution, he drew two pages of fans for his nephew. After finishing the drawing, he shook his sleeves and walked to the execution ground. Finally, he smiled at the executioner and said, "Come on!"Just die calmly.One year later, the Qing government negotiated peace with the Eight Kingdoms. Foreigners believed that Zhang Yinhuan's death was wronged.Zhang Yinhuan became an official of Uehara after his death in order to maintain diplomatic relations, and the old lady lost all face. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ The old lady went from xenophobic to xenophobic in just one thought, but it changed in one thought.But how many people died in vain. The old lady has ruled China for forty-seven years. At first glance, she seems to be invincible, but her ability is only good at internal fighting, fighting against Chinese people, but she appears ignorant and naive when encountering foreigners.The extreme of this kind of insider fighting insider and outsider fighting outsider is manifested in her farce of using the Boxer Regiment to set off a cultural chaos.The Boxer is a product of local culture and local culture. It is a branch of low-level folk religion. It has developed from a mysterious belief to a secret organization, and finally developed into an open militia.The basic attire of the regiment members is to wrap their heads in red or yellow cloth, tie a belt of the same color around their waists, wear shorts and pants with trousers tied, boots on their feet, and a bellyband on their upper body.One of the eight trigrams in the "Book of Changes" is embroidered on the bellyband.From the belief in gossip, they believe what they catch, and they are not shy, but it is all Chinese standard culture, and most of them are low-level.They believe that swallowing amulets and chanting mantras can make them invulnerable to swords and guns. They believe that steel forks, flower guns, single swords, and double swords can resist foreign guns and cannons. , Fire Card, Flying Sword, etc., as the name suggests, demons can be known; their idols are the Jade Emperor, Hong Jun Patriarch, Lishan Old Mother, Jiutian Xuannv, Erlang God, Nezha, Tang Seng, Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, Jiang Taigong, Guan Gong, Zhang Yide, Zhao Zilong, Tuota Tianwang, Yu Chigong, Qin Shubao, Huang Santai, Huang Wuba, Yang Xiangwu and other novel and opera characters, the only one above the level is Li Taibai!Their entrance ceremony is shaman-like, from punching and kicking to foaming at the mouth, from jumping and fainting to chanting, everything is available.Most of the mantras chanted are Zuo Qinghu, Right White Tiger, the heart of Yunliang Buddha in front, and the heart of Xuanhuo God in the back, first invite the king of heaven, then invite Heisha god, etc., and pass it on from word to mouth. With one finger, the residence of foreigners can be burned down by sky fire. The ignorant and superstitious Empress Dowager Xi actually believed them, and they linked up in Beijing. Led by the empress dowager's cultural rebellion, they carried out the culprit in the most benevolent area, murdering and arson, and crazily xenophobia.They saw that the western pharmacy was going to be set on fire. As a result, 4,000 shops and residences were affected, and they were not allowed to fight the fire.However, their ability is only to deal with Chinese people, and their abilities are not enough to apply to foreigners.Their slogan is: God help fist, Yihe Kingdom, Just because devils trouble the Central Plains: Advise to teach, God damn it Disrespecting gods and Buddhas forgets ancestors. Women are innocent and men are not virtuous, Devils are not added by man, If you don't believe me, Please take a closer look: The devil's eyes were blue. God is angry, Buddha angry, Send me down the mountain to spread the Fa. I am not evil white lotus. A mantra is a mantra. rising yellow watch, Burn incense and invite the gods of the eight caves. god out of the hole, Xian Xiashan, Help Daqing to practice boxing. no soldiers Only use regiments. It is not difficult to kill devils. burn the railway, Pull the pole, Go to overturn the big ship in the sea. Great France is terrified. Britain, America, Russia and Germany cry again and again, Kill all the devils, I am in the Taiping Year of Qing Dynasty! However, the slogan is the slogan, and the real kung fu can't even attack Dongjiaominxiang, the embassy district of the foreign devils. There are only 400 foreign soldiers in Dongjiaominxiang. The Eight-Power Allied Forces came from overseas, and the ability and consequences of resisting foreigners can be seen.However, although the Boxers were limited in their ability to deal with foreigners, they showed off their might to the Chinese themselves.They smashed everything related to foreign affairs. Those who smoked foreign cigarettes (cigarettes), those who held foreign umbrellas, and those who wore foreign socks were killed. If a family of eight found a match, all eight of them were killed; There are six students with a pencil beside them, and all six are killed.As for those who believe in foreign religions (Catholicism, etc.), they must be killed.They call foreigners Da Maozi, religious Chinese called Er Maozi, and those indirectly related to foreigners called San Maozi. , cooking, burial alive, everything is available.There are other tricks to burying alive. Some religious women are buried alive with their heads down and their feet up, burying their waists up in the ground; below their waists, they are exposed, and candles are inserted in their genitals, and they are lit with fire for fun.However, the standard for determining who is a second-haired and a third-haired boy is very wide. Sometimes, in order to show their achievements, they will arrest farmers, hundreds of men and women once they are arrested, and all of them will be beheaded.Farmers howled and cried in the execution ground, not knowing how they were killed The Empress Dowager used the Boxers to set off a farce of cultural chaos. This farce caused cultural challenges and catastrophe. The foreigner’s strong boats and guns made new challenges and proved the fragility of Chinese culture and national power. On the one hand, the rampant and reckless movement of the low-level culture in China's native land has caused new catastrophes, and it has further confirmed the fragility of Chinese culture and national power.According to the classic Chinese culture, when two countries engage in war, they don’t kill pedestrians or beheaded. However, when the local low-level culture rises out of control, all the foreign ministers and down will lie dead on the streets. . The Empress Dowager West’s cultural level is low, but her power has risen to the top, but her cultural level has not risen. As a result, she nodded and agreed to define the Boxer, and she took the lead in condoning the Boxer. cultural chaos.In this kind of turmoil, not only Chinese farmers were killed, foreign envoys were killed, Chinese ministers with clear heads were killed, and many people with lofty ideals and benevolent people were also killed.People's heads fell in all parts of China, not only in the city of Beijing;In Luxiang and small streets, different tragedies have been reported continuously.On the side of Fayuan Temple in Xizhuan Hutong, there is just such a rumor. One evening, dozens of Boxers chased and killed a big man in black robes. The big man was already wounded. He rushed into Fayuan Temple and the gate of the temple was closed.The Boxers arrived. They didn't respect any temples. After a while, they forcibly opened the temple door, pushed the monks away and rushed in. They saw the big man in black robes lying on the stone steps of the Daxiong Palace. Next, he hacked the big man in black robe to death, and then roared away.Who is the big man in black and why the Boxers hunted him down? The truth is unknown. However, follow-up claims also emerged.According to people near Fayuan Temple afterwards, the big man in black was heard to be none other than the Great Swordsman Wu, but why the Boxers hunted him down is still unknown. Thirteen years later, Bazhidutuo, a traveling monk from the south, lived in Fayuan Temple. His sacrificial spirit is well-known in the north and south. Everyone admires and believes in him, and only then got the truth from the mouth of the witness monk in Fayuan Temple.It turned out that after Tan Sitong's coffin was moved to Fayuan Temple, Master She drove Pu Jing away, and he didn't want Pu Jing to become a monk like him again.After Pu Jing left, Master She's whereabouts also became mysterious. I heard that he participated in the rescue of Emperor Guangxu. This operation was entrusted by Tan Sitong to the Fifth King of Swords before his death.Due to the tight protection of the Manchu government, the operation failed.But Master She still keeps in touch with the people in the Bureau.Two years later, the Boxers colluded in Beijing and caused a great uproar. I heard that the Great Swordsman Wu wanted to fish out of troubled waters, find out Emperor Guangxu, and re-fulfill the entrustment to his dead friend Tan Sitong.However, the Boxers chased him for some reason, and Wang Wu fled to the temple. Master She told the monks to gather in front of the gate to try to delay the time with the Boxers, while staying alone with Wang Wu.Later, the monks in front of the gate couldn't stop them, and the boxers rushed in in front of the main hall, hacking the big man in black to death.After the Boxers left, everyone discovered that it was Master She who was hacked to death in a black robe!As for Wang Wu, he had already been changed into a monk's clothes and was dying.Everyone tried their best to rescue them.However, it was useless. Three hours later, Wang Wu also died.Before Wang Wu died, he only left one sentence intermittently: I have wrongly blamed Master She for more than 30 years.Would like to be buried with him if possible.Everyone is not clear about the mysterious relationship between Master She and Wang Wu. It is only heard that Wang Wu has always looked down on Master She and said that he is a coward.However, it was only when Master She dressed in a black robe and pretended to be the injured Wang Wu, and saved Wang Wu with his own death, that everyone suddenly realized.After they died, the temple did not dare to say anything, but secretly bought two coffins and buried them behind Yuan Chonghuan's tomb in Guangdong Yiyuan in Guangqumen.At that time, in order to find out, everyone searched the pocket of the black robe and found a piece of paper with a poem written on it: Looking at the door to stop thinking about Zhang Jian, To die for Duggan, I smile to the sky, To keep the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun. The poem indicated below is the work of Mr. Tan Sitong's "Inscription on the Wall in Prison".Everyone studied for a while, but they couldn't fully understand it, so they gave up.Bazhitutuo is also a poet. He studied this poem in the ancient temple by lighting candles at night, and suddenly realized something.He could understand the first three sentences: "Wang Men's Punishment Thoughts on Zhang Jian" was written when Zhang Jian of the late Han Dynasty was arrested by the government. Covering him and being implicated.Tan Sitong used this allusion to express that he did not want to hurt others, so he did not want to escape.The second sentence is to endure death and wait for Dugen for a while. It is written that after the emperor was old, Dugen wrote a letter to persuade the queen mother to return to power, and the queen mother ordered him to be thrown to death in a bag.Fortunately, the executor secretly manipulated him, so that although he was injured, he was able to pretend to be dead and escape. Tan Sitong used this allusion to express that he failed to achieve anything in returning the empress dowager to the emperor, but he endured his death for a while with a different purpose.The third sentence, I laughed at the sky from the sword, is to write that he has regarded death as home, and calmly martyred.Bazhi Toutuo was amazed, and he thought to himself: It is easy to be generous and benevolent, but it is difficult to be generous and righteous.Generosity and calmness are two different high-level attitudes towards dealing with affairs, facing difficulties, and sacrificing.The expression of generosity has a very strong passion, or the eyes are wide open, or the mouth is swearing, or the spirit is full, or the expression is righteous.People who are generously prepared to deal with hardships and sacrifices have full justifications in their hearts, but on the outside, they are emotional, and they are in the form of passion and strong passion. Using human metaphors, this is called Fang Xiaoru Mode.Fang Xiaoru of the Ming Dynasty opposed Ming Chengzu's usurpation of the throne. Ming Chengzu said that this is our family's business, sir, don't worry about it, just write the imperial edict for us.But Fang Xiaoru cried and scolded, saying that he would kill him if he wanted to, and I didn't write the imperial edict.Ming Chengzu said that you are not afraid of death, but you will not only kill you alone, but also the nine clans.Fang Xiaoru said that even if I killed my ten clans, I would not be afraid.Ming Chengzu said, okay, I will kill your ten clans.According to the traditional Chinese algorithm, the nine clans are in the direct line, killing four generations from top to bottom, that is, from the sinner's great-grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather, and father to his own son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson; Kill three brothers (mother clan and wife clan).But there is no such thing as a tenth family.Fang Xiaoru said that he didn't care if he killed the ten clans. Ming Chengzu was going to invent a ten clans, so he included his friends and students.In order to increase a certain effect, Ming Chengzu showed Fang Xiaoru every one he caught, but Fang Xiaoru didn't care.At last count, a total of 873 people were killed.Fang Xiaoru himself is generous and benevolent.The Chinese say that it is easy to be generous when it comes to benevolence, because when generosity becomes benevolent, it is always at the climax of the event. People at the climax are the most impulsive and passionate. There are many great actions of great courage and great sacrifice, without calmly considering other interests and difficulties, and there will be no frustrating and weak emotions such as fear, sadness, pain, and loneliness.In fact, not long after the climax, the person involved is also a benevolent person, and died without flaws, without procrastination, very simply.Therefore, it is easier to be generous and benevolent.Just because it is easier to be generous, some people believe that if the parties are not given a chance to be generous, the result may be different.So he tried every means to soften him in prison and make him submit.But some people still do not give in.Wen Tianxiang is the greatest example.However, compared with Fang Xiaoru's style, this Wen Tianxiang's style is of a higher level.Years of prison life, that kind of prison, can only be sat by strong passion, but by a calm and calm attitude, and Wen Tianxiang just showed this attitude.In the end, he finally got your enemy to kill me.At Chaishikou, he looked calm, walked to the execution ground, and died calmly.In the third sentence of Tan Sitong's poem, I laughed to the sky. It was written so well, so well, especially in the word "laugh".The word "laughter" fully expresses his calm attitude, but laughter is a kind of passion and a little bit of generosity.Therefore, Tan Sitong's death was not only easy to be generous and benevolent, but also difficult to accept righteousness calmly.But what does the fourth sentence refer to to keep the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun?This is puzzling. They are all dead, Bazhi Toutuo was thinking under the candle, who will test their past?Now, the Qing Dynasty has fallen and the Republic of China has been established. As time goes by and times change, the past is drowned out. However, who is the mystery of the two Kunluns?
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