Wang Gangzhong's related anecdotes
Wang Gang went to Levin Academy on the bank of the Yinhe River, which is more than ten miles away from home. Every time it's his turn to go home, his mother will pick him up at the village entrance, but because of the many roads on foot, there will be no delay on the way, and it will be dark when he arrives at the village entrance. It is said that when his mother first arrived at the village entrance, she was anxious when it was dark and her son did not come back. It's dark. Can he see the road just now? Suddenly, two lamps drifted towards me in the distance. When I looked near, it turned out that my son had just come back from middle school, but he didn't have a lamp in his hand. I was very surprised, so I casually asked my son if he could see the way. My son made it very clear. Later, his mother tested some people at home and in the village about the lights, and they all said they had not seen them. When they met for the second time, they found that there were two fires to open the way for Wang Gangzhong, just like last time. His mother understood that his son was not ordinary, and he was sheltered by the gods, and he would do something in the future.
However, once, when his mother went to meet him as usual, she only saw a fire, so she hurriedly asked her son if he had done anything on the road. Wang Gangzhong thinks about it, what to do, no wow! Oh, by the way, when I walked to Maqiao Village, a man asked me how to write "divorce", and I taught him. His mother said quickly, Xiaozai, when you go back to the college tomorrow and pass by his house, tell that person's house that he taught you wrong yesterday, so mend it! This is a sinful thing and can't be done. Sure enough, when her mother greeted her again, she found that the lights in front of her son had changed back to two.
Wang Gangzhong was Zhao Shen's teacher in Song Xiaozong, so after Xiaozong ascended the throne, he was appointed as a doctor in the left dynasty, but he refused to accept his resignation on the grounds of foot disease. Later, he was promoted to enter the Taiping Xingguo Palace, where he received a salary and didn't have to be in charge. However, although Wang Gangzhong had spent a lot of money, he was unwilling to sit on his laurels and retired to his hometown to open up wasteland for farming. Soon, Xiaozong longed for the teacher again and proposed to visit the teacher in his hometown. Hearing this, Wang Gangzhong panicked, fearing that the emperor would leave Kyoto, which would lead to chaos in the imperial court; Second, I am afraid that the road is unsafe. If anything happens to the emperor on the road because he wants to visit himself, he will not become a sinner of history. Third, I am afraid of increasing the burden of receiving driving for my hometown and the people. Therefore, Wang Gangzhong tried to dissuade him, and wrote to tell Xiaozong about his hometown Leping: "There is a boundary between the top and the bottom, with Jinshan on the left and Yinshan on the right, and Tongshan on the iron mountain, and there is a hemp rope tied under Xiashan." Among them, the place names and mountain names (Jietou Jietou < Jietou Jietou >, Gold, Silver, Copper (Children) Tieshan, Masheng Mountain, Box < Narrow > Mountain) have many ominous images, which may be detrimental to the Emperor. " In the end, Emperor Xiaozong didn't visit Leping, which saved the local people a huge driving fee. Later, the treacherous court official headed by Qin Gui's partisans Tang Si-tui wanted to flatter Wang Gangzhong, so he accused Wang Gangzhong of defying the imperial edict and despising the Holy Family on the grounds of making up false place names and mountain names. Perhaps it was because Wang Gangzhong refused it one after another. Emperor Xiaozong was also confused for a while and listened to the slanderers, so he ordered Wang Gangzhong to die. As soon as the emissary left the capital, Xiaozong regretted it, and sent an emissary to chase it, take back the Oracle, and verify whether those place names and mountain names really existed after he confessed to Leping. However, because of Tang Si-tui and others' embarrassment, the emissary behind deliberately delayed, while the emissary in front did not say that he was given a beheading, so that Wang Gangzhong left only the body after his death, but he had no head and no neck. It was later verified that the place names and mountain names listed by Wang Gangzhong did exist in Leping, and none of them were false (nowadays, Jietou Village in Lilin Town, Jieshou Village in Zhongbu Town, Jinshan Village in Zhenqiao Town, Yinshan Village, Tongshan Mountain in Jiedu Town, Tieshan Mountain in Zhongbu Town, Masheng Mountain and Xiashan Mountain in Tashan Street all correspond to what Wang Gang said in the Middle and Southern Song Dynasties). Filial piety was deeply ashamed and very sad. He didn't go to court for three days, ordered the teacher to cast a gold head and a silver neck to fit him, and punished a bunch of messengers. According to his deeds before his death, he gave it to posthumous title who was "Gong Jian". At the same time, his great-grandfather was named Shaobao, Gong Zu was named Shaofu, and his father was Shao Shi, who was sacrificed in three ways. Therefore, the front of the house is divided into upper, middle and lower villages.
It was originally said that the Wangs in the Bird's Nest Village would have a son of heaven, but because of the ignorance of some villagers, the secret was destroyed, resulting in a first-shop minister by mistake. It is said that when Wang Gangzhong's great-grandfather died, a fairy wind man with white beard came to his family, saying that he had chosen a piece of geomantic treasure for the deceased and asked Wang Gangzhong's great-grandfather to bury his great-grandfather in a mountain called "Golden Loach Going to the Sea". Grandfather Wang Gangzhong listened to his words, and ordered the "eight lifters" (eight people who buried people) to dig holes according to the position pointed out by the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest also confessed that he had to wait until the phenomenon of wearing an iron hat, carrying a war horse, carrying a steel gun and a fish on a tree appeared before he could be buried. Those "Eight Lifting Square" dug deep until there was a big blue slate below, and stopped to rest while waiting for the phenomenon mentioned by Taoist priests to appear. From morning till afternoon, it didn't appear, and some of them talked about it: "Don't listen to the nonsense of that Taoist. Is it possible for someone to carry a horse and fish on a tree?" Who has ever seen a man carry a horse, and who has ever seen a fish swim in the water and climb a tree, and a snake is almost the same. "
"is it? Where did the Taoist priest come from, what a treasure trove of geomantic omen, didn't he just dig a big bluestone? "
"Hey, don't tell me, this Taoist priest says he has no skills, but he really has some skills. How come when he points, we dig down and find a big bluestone, which we have never met when burying people in other places?"
"Why don't we lift the big bluestone and see what's down there?"
"that's a good idea."
"ok, ok, let's move it and have a look".
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In this way, these people dig again, clear the soil around the bluestone, and move the big bluestone. As soon as I lifted it a little, I saw a golden light flashing out and went straight to the southwest.
"what is it? I flew away without seeing it clearly. "
"Come again, come again ..."
Just a little up here, there was another bang, and a golden light rushed to the southwest.
"Learn a lesson, don't let it fly again, send two men to guard the front, and be sure to hit it and see what it is?"
when I lifted it for the third time, the golden light just flashed, and it was hit by two shovels. When I fell to the ground, everyone realized that it was a golden loach (with scales and glittering body), but it had been killed. Turning up the whole big bluestone, there was nothing inside, so these people put the killed golden loach back under the bluestone.
Not long after, a man called out, "Look at the road ..."
Looking inside, I saw three people coming from a distance, one with an iron pot on his head, the other with a wooden horse for sawing wood, and the other with an iron straw (made of long wood, with an iron pipe at one end) for selling firewood, with a big fish bought from the market hanging from one end.
"Isn't that wearing an iron hat, people carrying war horses, carrying steel guns, and fish climbing trees?"
"yes! Right! Hurry up and bury it!
In this way, Wang Gangzhong's great-grandfather, who had three golden loaches lying on his back, only laid a dead golden loach. Even if it was a lucky day, the cat was broken, and Wang Gangzhong's later fate was already in it.
It is said that the whereabouts of the two golden loaches have flown to the muddy pond in the south of Shanxi Province, but no one can know the exact location. Otherwise, if we bury them in a ancestral grave, future generations will be prosperous and prosperous, and generations will be princes. There is a saying in the local area:
The head is on the ridge, and the foot is on the mud pond.
Whoever is buried will be the king from generation to generation.