Biography of Zhu Xi (18)
The next day, a notice was posted outside the county hall: "Within a few miles around Houlongshan, east to the stream and west to ... it was originally the ancestral grave of Zhu Lang (). In recent years, it is illegal for people nearby to dare to reclaim land and destroy geomantic omen without authorization. From now on, order them to move away, all cultivated fields will be destroyed and listed as restricted areas, and offenders will pay in hell! "
The news spread, and farmers in several surrounding mountain villages were sensational, and they flocked to the county government to find Zhu Su to reason. Zhu came out and took a timid look. In front of him stood a large group of farmers, all of whom were very angry. His heart panicked and his hands trembled a little.
A farmer rushed to Zhu and asked him, "Why did you destroy the land?"
"I heard that you talk about' maintaining justice' all day. Why do you take our field? " Another farmer rushed up and questioned Zhu.
"Why on earth?" The farmers asked in unison, and their voices echoed in the valley.
At this time, several officials came out of the yamen, glaring and smoothing their sleeves to scare the masses. Zhu is proud again. He said with a straight face: "Wealth and poverty are due to different innate qualities. You have never been given a clear spirit. If you are poor, you will be content, and you will get something for nothing. " Then he roared fiercely: "The forest fields within a few miles around this ancestral grave used to belong to my Zhujiajian family. I have lived in Fujian all these years. Nobody cares about the pipes here, so it is unreasonable for you to recycle them without authorization. I will be very kind if I don't pay the rent for many years! "
A farmer asked him sharply, "Does this area belong to your Zhu family? What evidence is there! "
Zhu, where is the evidence? He scratched his scalp and couldn't answer. At this time, the county magistrate ran out to support Zhu: "How could you lie to Lang? How can the yamen in this county make a notice out of nothing? Houlongshan area is really the ancestral grave of Zhujiajia, and there are deeds in the county government. How dare you? " When he saw it, he quickly took Zhu He and hid in the yamen.
At this time, an old farmer in the backcourt pointed to the back of Zhu and his party and angrily said, "You officials protect each other and oppress the people! What purple gas, internal gas and ventilation are all lies, soft knives that kill people without seeing blood! To put it simply, you dignitaries will ride on our hardworking people for generations to come! "
From then on, Zhu learned the wonderful use of Feng Shui. He was afraid that those "orthodox" Confucians would accuse him of being a heresy and didn't talk much about "Feng Shui" in public, but in fact he and Cai became close friends and ran around, becoming "Feng Shui fans".
He made great efforts to choose a cemetery for his parents and himself. Zhu Song, Zhu's father, was originally buried in Xitashan, Chong 'an County. Zhu said that "Feng Shui is not good" and moved to the foot of Baishui Goose Peak, and later moved to Li Ji on Wuyi Mountain. Hanquanwu, Zhu's mother's cemetery, was originally Liu's cemetery in Chongtai, Jianyang County. Zhu took a fancy to the "feng shui" of this land and colluded with the government to force the Liu family to move out all their ancestral graves and bury their mother.
When Zhu was alive, he managed the cemetery where he and his wife were buried together. He and Cai and other "Feng Shui" experts traveled around Wuyishan for many years, and finally chose Jianyang Jiu Feng. The cemetery was originally owned by the Xu Shi family. After Zhu took a fancy to it, he dug up the tomb of the Xu family. In collusion with the government, Zhu designated thousands of acres of woodland around his father, mother and grave as "forbidden areas". Everything in these three "forbidden zones" is strictly protected by the government, and the masses are not allowed to cut down and mow grass. Offenders will be fined and fined, or they will be imprisoned.
Zhu's theory of "natural spirit" and Cai's theory of "being buried in the earth" are the spiritual shackles to fool the broad masses of the people and consolidate the rule of the feudal landlord class, and are also the reactionary ideological weapons to protect the feudal hereditary nobles from riding on the working people and ruling them.