Sheep statue
Yang Hu (羊祜), also known as Uncle Zi (字叔子), was a famous military and literary scholar of the Wei and Jin dynasties whose ancestral home was Mount Taishan Nancheng (present-day Xintai, Shandong).
Born in the second year of the Huang Dynasty of Cao Wei (221 AD), he was born into a family of official eunuchs, his grandfather Yang Xu was the Taishou of Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his father Yang Wei [dào] was once the Taishou of cao Wei Shangdang, his biological mother Cai Shi was the daughter of the famous Confucian Cai Yong, and his aunt was Cai Wenji, one of the four talented daughters.
When Yang Hu was twelve years old, his father died of illness, and "filial piety and mourning exceeded the usual etiquette", and he served his uncle Yang Yu with great courtesy.
Once, yang hu was playing on the shore of Wenshui, and he met an old man, who saw his appearance and said, "When this child is less than sixty years old, he can establish immortal merits!" ”
When Yang Hu was a teenager, he was erudite and upright, born with beautiful eyebrows, seven feet and three inches tall, and had an extraordinary temperament, and when he became an adult, he married Xiahou Ba's daughter as a wife.
In the last years of Cao Wei, when the powerful ministers Cao Shuang and Sima Yi competed for military and political power, Yang Hu was sober-minded and realized that Cao Shuang's clique would be defeated, so he stayed away from the open and secret struggle between these two factions and remained neutral.
In the first decade (249), Sima Yi staged a coup d'état at Gaopingling, killing Cao Shuang and his henchmen.
Yang Hu's father-in-law Xiahou Ba, who was also a henchman of Cao Shuang, surrendered to Shu Han in order to escape persecution, and many relatives were afraid of being implicated, and they avoided it, indicating that they were disconnected from Xiahou Ba's family.
However, Yang Hu took the initiative to comfort and take care of his father-in-law's family, even more than in the past, winning the praise of the government and the public officials.
Yang Hu repeatedly refused the conscription of the powerful minister Sima Zhao, and the imperial court later used the bus to worship as an official, and together with Xun Xun controlled the confidential documents of the imperial court.
Sima Yan proclaimed Wei emperor, and after establishing the Jin Dynasty, he planned to annex the state of Wu, send YangHu to guard Xiangyang, and supervise the military forces of Jingzhou.
For more than ten years, Yang Hu studied in Tuntian during his tenure, stored military grain widely, and adopted a policy of Huaijue, which won the support of the local military and people.
During the confrontation with the Eastern Wu shou general Lu Kang, he preached faith and morality, inspired the Eastern Wu soldiers and civilians, and returned the captured cross-border prey to the Wu people, Lu Kang fell ill, and Yang Hu also sent people to send medicine to visit.
During his serious illness in his later years, Yang Hu recommended Du Pre to the imperial court to replace his official position, and Du Pre did not live up to expectations, built building ships, made sufficient military preparations for wu, and participated in the destruction of the state of Wu.
In November of the fourth year of Xianning (278), Yang Hu died of illness in Luoyang at the age of fifty-eight, and Emperor Wu of Jin personally mourned in plain clothes, and tears flowed on his beard, and they actually froze into ice lumps.
The people "mourned, and the cries of the people in the boycott lanes were connected... General Wu Shoubian also wept for it. ”
Even the Shubian soldiers of the State of Wu wept for it, and people built a temple and erected a monument on Gangshan Mountain, which Yang Hu often climbed before his death, and those who looked at the monument all shed tears, so they called this monument "Fallen Tears Monument", also known as "Sheep Monument".
Sheep Monument
In the first month of the first year of Taikang (280), Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, adopted the plan formulated by Yang Hu before his death, and sent Sima Ling, the evil king of Lang, Wang Hun, the general of Andong, the general Hu Fen of Pingnan, the general Du Pre of Zhennan, and Wang Jun, the general of Longjun, to lead an army of 200,000 troops, divided into six roads, advancing on land and water, destroying Sun Wu in one fell swoop and unifying the world.
When the Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and unified the world, Yang Hugong was indispensable and was called "Qigong".
When Emperor Wu of Jin summoned the Wenwu hundred officials to celebrate, he raised his wine glass and said with tears in his eyes: "This sheep is too Fu Zhigong!" ”
Yang Hu not only made a miracle, but also a legendary strange person.
The Book of Jin records that when Yang Hu was five years old, one day, he suddenly asked his nursing mother to play with a golden ring for him. The nursing mother felt very strange and said to him, "Ru Xian has no such thing." "When did you have a golden ring toy?"
Yang Hu then ran to the mulberry tree near the low wall on the east side of the neighbor's house and found a gold ring.
Neighbor Li Laohan said in surprise: "The lost property of my deceased son is also what Yun He holds." "This is something that my son who died many years ago lost, why did you take it?"
The nursing mother told the truth, Li Laohan was overwhelmed with "sorrow", the matter spread, people were very surprised, thinking that the son of the Li family was the predecessor of Yang Hu.
There is a person who is good at looking at the tomb of the yin house, who once showed feng shui to the ancestral tomb of Yang Qi, he believes that the feng shui of the ancestral tomb of the Yang family is excellent, and there will be an emperor in the future, if the tomb is moved, the person who digs the grave will have no heirs.
Yang Hu felt that passing on these words would bring ruin to the family, so he excavated the ancestral tomb and destroyed the feng shui. The tomb bearer said, "Three dukes with folded arms." ”
Even if you destroy feng shui, this family will still have three dukes with broken arms.
Later, when Yang Hu was riding a horse, he broke his arm, and the official was taifu, ranked third duke, and indeed had no son.
Emperor Wu of Jin ordered his eldest brother Yang Fa's son Yang Zhang to be the stepson of Yang Qi, continuing the incense of Yang Qi.