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Author: Drizzle silk bamboo, also known as asa bottle drinking sea
"With ZhiXian on one side and the local guard station on the other, can't we work together to repay the emperor's father?" Just after the Spring Festival, The Ming Dynasty Dali Temple Secretary Wang Huan hurriedly read a file, and could not help but sigh, "Which of the two sides is right or wrong?" You have to read it carefully..."
During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Shiweiming (1465-1487 AD), Chen Rang of ZhiXian County, Weibaodi County , Tianjin ( present-day Baodi District , Tianjin ) reported: "On the 29th day of the eighth lunar month of the first year of Chenghua (1465 AD), local traders Bao Jie, Wang Quan, and others drove several donkeys and mules to transport a batch of rural native cloth to "Liu Songjiazhuang" overnight to sell.
At dawn, the caravan stopped at a pasture to rest and feed the cattle. In case the two big men rushed over on high-headed horses, Bao Jie and his party had not yet woken up, and the two of them had already opened their bows and arrows to block the way back and forth, and the fierce god smouldered twice like a fierce voice: "Dare to shout, kill!" (Note: This is true of the original text.) "Stay and buy the road money!" Bao Jie, Wang Quan, and others were unarmed, and they were afraid of the ruthlessness of the arrows, so they did not dare to call for help. Two robbers carried the cloth carried by the donkey and mule to their horses and flew away.
Later, Bao Jie, Wang Quan, and others were shocked and made up their minds, pinching their fingers to calculate the losses suffered during this trip, and their hearts were heartbroken, and they were very unwilling, because they cheered each other up, and rode up on donkeys. They chased after "Chen Jiazhuang" and asked pedestrians about the whereabouts of the robbers. The pedestrian replied that there were indeed two men riding horses passing through this place, but they were not strange faces, but acquaintances of the local town, one named "Liang Zhi" and the other named "Sun Qing", both of whom were guarded and managed by the commander of the WeiShou Ji. According to pedestrians, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing rode to "Zhangjiazhuang" on horseback and on cloth.
Bao Jie and Wang Quan had a friend nicknamed "Xue Er" in Chenjiazhuang, and immediately entrusted the remaining luggage and excess donkey mules to the custody of Xue Er's family, borrowed horses and bows and arrows, drove two spare donkey mules, and chased in the direction of Zhangjiazhuang, searching and listening to Liang Zhi and Sun Qing's movements along the way.
Halfway through, Bao and Wang learned that Liang Zhi and Sun Qing were eating in the small restaurant opened by the Fushan family in Zhangjiazhuang, and they heard that they would return to the Ji Commander's farm after eating. Bao Wei and Wang Quan quickly agreed on a plan to "guard the plant and wait for the rabbit", rushed to the home of Yin Liang, an acquaintance of "Lin Tingkou", to store a bow and arrow, changed into a dress for camouflage, borrowed a pig hook and a wooden stick, sneaked to the small river of "Lin Tingkou", ambushed by the stone bridge, and waited for Liang Zhi and Sun Qing.
When waiting for Shen, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, who were full of wine and food, arrived at the small river on horseback. Bao Jie and Wang Quan took advantage of their dismounting horses to cross the bridge (bows and arrows were placed on horseback), neglected to take precautions, and immediately took action. Bao Ji intercepted Liang Zhi with a wooden stick, and Wang Quan beat Sun Qing upside down with a pig hook, causing Sun Qing to faint. In the process of wrestling, the cloth carried by the horses was scattered in a crop field next to the stone bridge, and Bao Jie and Wang Quan immediately joined forces to subdue Liang Zhi, and then tied Liang Zhi and Sun Qing strongly, calling for Yang Zeng, the "fire armor" of the village, and others to come and inspect. Bao Wei and Wang Quan told Yang Zeng: "These two people engaged in the business of robbers, robbed our cloth in the grassland, and we chased them to this side to find and hold them. ”
"Huh?" Yang Zeng felt that something was wrong, "Sun Qing's family's field property is here, that is, the land where your cloth fell--he and Liang Zhi robbed their neighbors around their own field property?" Sounds weird..."
"Bao Jie and Wang Quan hurt people unreasonably, and they spewed blood!" Liang Zhi shouted, "Sun Qing and I gave Ji command to take care of Zhuangzi, and we wanted fields and houses, and the villagers in the township did not look up and look down. As we all know, if we commit a robber's journey, we will die, and we are not crazy or stupid, so how can we have the idea of not enjoying the blessing and hitting them with our heads? ”
Yang Zeng was in a dilemma. Bao Yi and Wang Quan proposed that even the people carry the stolen goods and send them to the county court for judgment, and the authenticity was self-evident. Yang Zeng thought, there is no better way, just do it according to Bao Tie and Wang Quan's proposal!
After being interrogated by Baodi County, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing confessed to Bao Ji and Wang Quan's accusations. The above report is from Chen Rang of Zhixian County, Baodi County, and the content is based on the testimony of Bao Jie, Wang Quan, Yang Zeng and others. Based on this, Yousi decided to execute Liang and Sun. However, at the review stage, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing retracted their confessions with the support of Commander Ji, [claiming that they had earlier measured the land for the farmstead commanded by Ji, and demarcated the boundary with the field property of Chen Rangxiang in Zhixian County, and some disputes arose and they formed a vendetta against each other. According to Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, on August 29 of the first year of Chenghua, they rushed to the early gathering at "Liu Song Jiazhuang" and returned to eat a good meal at the restaurant of the Fushan family in "Zhangjiazhuang", planning to go to "Chen Jiazhuang" to take care of the fields of Sun Qing's family, and then return to the Zhuangzi of the Ji commander's family to take care of affairs.
On the way back, they dismounted and crossed the bridge, and happened to see Wang Quan, Bao Jie, and others resting in Sun Qing's field, luggage and cloth casually thrown in Sun Qing's field, overwhelming the crops, donkeys and mules trampling on the arch in the field, Wang Quan and Bao Jie did not care, just eating dry food and bragging about themselves. Sun Qing was very displeased, and went forward to scold with a black face.
"Why do you follow the season's command to eat and drink spicy food, and talk to donkeys and mules about this idea of grain and grass?" Wang Quan and Bao Ji sneered at each other. The two sides did not agree in speech, quarreled continuously, and then rose to "stepping on". Liang Zhi and Sun Qing said that they put their bows and arrows on horseback, and at this time they did not take bows and arrows to help the battle, "Thinking that after all, it is not a big deal, we must be measured." Liang Zhi and Sun Qing said that who knew that Wang Quan and Bao Jie did not pay attention to proportions. That Wang Quan, feeling for the self-defense pig hook he was carrying, injured Sun Qing and caused Sun Qing to fall unconscious. Liang Zhi looked for Wang Quan's theory, but Wang Quan and Bao Ji denied it, but instead tied Liang Zhi upside down, framed Liang Zhi and Sun Qing for robbing first, and falsely claimed that they were "capturing bandits"! Later, Yang Zeng arrived, listened to Bao Jie and Wang Quan's proposal, and sent Liang Zhi and Sun Qing to Baodi County.
"Yang Zeng, they didn't know that the two of us had a vendetta against Chen Rang of Zhixian County, Baodi County." Liang Zhi and Sun Qing said, "Chen Rang was overjoyed to see that we were in trouble, where do we need to ask what Qing Hong? A severe torture forced the two of us to bow our heads and admit it against our hearts. Bao Jie and Wang Quan were also crooked! As for the so-called testimony of the gang bao and Wang who corroborated their arguments, they must have been concocted by Chen Rang at the behest of the little minions. He is zhi county, small people who are not afraid of him? He Chen Rang wanted to make out a few witnesses, what pedestrians, Xue Erla, Yin Liangla, that is not hand to hand? ”】
"There are contradictory testimonies on this matter, there is no objective evidence, the facts are unclear, and they are dismissed." Wang Liang, the secretary of the Dali Temple, angrily threw down the pen and paper. Although Lord Wang did not say it directly, the truth of the matter was actually relatively clear. First, from the statements of both sides, it can be seen that Bao Zhi, Wang Quan, Liang Zhi, and Sun Qing are villagers living in neighboring Zhuangzi, and they are familiar with each other, and according to the words of Chen Rang's report, any pedestrian who encounters them knows Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, and if Liang Zhi and Sun Qing really fight in the grassland and rob Bao Zhi and Wang Quan of their soil cloth, Bao Zhi and Wang Quan will definitely recognize them. However, according to Chen Rang's report, when Bao and Wang were robbed, they did not know (did not recognize) Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, which was simply unbelievable, and they were simply "pretending to be confused with understanding."
Secondly, I didn't hear that the Stone Bridge of The Small River in Chenjiazhuang's "Lintingkou" was the only way from the "Zhangjiazhuang" Fushan Family Restaurant to the Ji Commander's Tianzhuang, so why did Bao Ji and Wang Quan deliberately set up an ambush here? Did they not predict that after Liang Zhi and Sun Qing left Zhangjiazhuang, they would surely pass by the "Lin Tingkou" river?
Third, according to Chen Rang's report, Bao Jie and Wang Quan claimed that in order to hunt down the "robbers," they first borrowed horses and bows and arrows from Chen Jiazhuang, apparently in an effort to be on an equal footing with the "robbers," and then discovered the identity of the "robbers, and then deposited the bows and arrows in Yin Liang's house, replacing them with pig hooks and wooden sticks to facilitate ambush at the Stone Bridge of Xiaohe at Lintingkou. It seems that they are quite capricious, but the question is, how do they predict that Liang Zhi and Sun Qing will definitely get off their horses and cross the bridge, and leave their bows and arrows on horseback?
Finally, in terms of economic conditions and their status in their hometowns, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing had absolutely no reason to risk "making a decision" for a group of Tubugan, who were exclusively sold in rural markets. So, in summary, the course of this matter should be:
[Just like the previous articles in this series (such as "Ming Dynasty rich people save a fallen beauty and accept her as a concubine, but a few years later they were severely punished by the government, why?"] As repeatedly expounded, the gentry and nobles in the middle and late Ming Dynasty wantonly annexed land, and the phenomenon of "big fish eating small fish, small fish eating shrimp and rice" was common, for example, in this article, Chen Rang of Zhixian and Wei Suoji commanded, because of the dispute over the land and land, Chen Rang "hated Wu and Wu" liang zhi and Sun Qing, the "dog-legged son" of Ji's command.
On August 29 of the first year of Chenghua, Bao Jie and Wang Quan drove donkey mules to transport soil cloth to "Liu Song Jiazhuang" for sale, but did not encounter robbery in the grassland on the way, but rested in the field of Sun Qing on the small river of "Lin Tingkou" in Chenjiazhuang, indulging donkey mules, arbitrarily placing goods, and damaging the Crops of the Sun family. Unexpectedly, Sun Qing happened to be accompanied by Liang Zhi in his own field to take care of it, and Wang Quan and Bao Jie's behavior was caught by them.
Next, the two sides clashed, Wang Quan knocked Sun Qing unconscious, and Liang Zhi threatened to report it to the officials for disposal. Wang Quan and Bao Wei were afraid, and simply took a bite back, and said that the cloth they had previously scattered in Sun Qingtian was first robbed by Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, and then rolled off the latter's horse during the fight and scattered to the ground.
When the county government intervened, Chen Rang of Zhixian county took a look at it, and it was really "heaven help me", sending the two watchdogs commanded by the first season, Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, into his tiger's mouth, and he had to line up troops, look for "witnesses", fabricate a detailed "fact", and take revenge. However, Commander Ji was not a vegetarian either, supporting Liang Zhi and Sun Qing, turning clouds and rain, arguing according to reason, and finally turning defeat into victory. At this point, the author suddenly thought of a question: "If we travel back to the Ming Dynasty, what kind of life will we live?" ”
We like to judge the heroic deeds of the ancient emperors and generals, secretly substitute for the peak of their lives, point out the country, call the wind and rain, and at the same time indifferent to the living conditions of ordinary people in ancient times - even if ordinary laborers are the vast majority of the ancients, and we ourselves are also ordinary laborers (suitable for most people). We sometimes forget that the emperors and generals and Wan Zhao LiShu are both creators of history, and that history belongs not only to big people." Ordinary ancients fought hard, worked hard to live, experienced sorrow and joy, reproduction, inheritance, and the traces of their survival, whether fortunate or unfortunate, are also the right history.
If we travel back to the Ming Dynasty, we become Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Chang Yuchun, Wang Yangming, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng... The probability is slim to none. It can be said that even becoming Liang Zhi and Sun Qing and guarding the farmstead for the "Commander of the Guard House" is a great fortune. The most likely thing for a crosser is to become an unknown farmer around the farm, and if the timing is not good, it is unknown which day he will be taken away by Ji Commander or Chen Rang to survive on an acre and a third of land. And look at Liang Zhi and Sun Qing's fall, there is Ji commanding the rescue; when the crosser is in distress as a Ming Dynasty farmer, who will rescue him? Exploring such questions is the motivation for this series to turn over the old paper and try to pay attention to the fate of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty.
About the author: Drizzle silk bamboo, also known as shallow bottle of the sea, literary and historical control, reasoning fans, romantic obsession, examination of evidence. His major works include the Tang Dynasty historical background novels "Divine Detective Princess" and "Fish Mystery", which have been published or signed for publication.
References for this article: Ming Dynasty Wang Que "Wang Gongyi Gonggong Refutation", "History of Ming", etc.
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