Chapter 8 unsung hero

A friend asked me to write about Zhu Xieyuan in the Ming Dynasty.I said he had nothing to write about, but it was just that during the civil uprising in Suzhou, someone asked to send troops to suppress it. He said "soldiers, so those who defend against foreign invaders" just refused to send troops. His other deeds were later led to fight class, I don't know.My friend said, then you can write about the Suzhou civil uprising.I wrote with a pen that Sun Long went to the south of the Yangtze River to scrape land, and there was a tax on all the things he ate and used every day.On the sixth day of June in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, there was an old man who sold melons. As soon as he entered the city, he was confiscated for a few melons and used them as taxes. Go for a liter.The old man cried, and the tax collector beat him——Writing here, throwing a pen, you have a bad heart, why do you ask me to write this.The friend also said, then write about the second Suzhou civil uprising, such as Zhou Shunchang, isn't it worth writing about?

I said that Zhou Shunchang's matter involved too much, and it is difficult to make a conclusion hastily.The most touching thing about him is before and after being tortured in prison, but if he writes this section, it will bring back old thoughts and make it impossible to write an article.I occasionally read some old history, and I often feel that there is something missing. When I think about it, countless heroes are reluctant to leave their names, which has caused a gap between history and human relations.Let’s say that Zhou Shunchang, along with Yang Lian and Wei Dazhong who were with him, were subjected to all kinds of torture in prison. You and I don’t even have the courage to describe it. The person who did it was braver than ordinary people, but his name It's a pity not to pass on, not to pass on what's on your mind.

One of the great benefits of committing yourself to others is that you don't need to make self-determination morally, which is very worry-free.For example, if a child is eating a piece of meat, if I snatch it face to face, I will be embarrassed. If the superior orders me, I will take it away and leave with peace of mind.But what I can't figure out is that since ancient times, in countless incidents, those who have left their names are all people who gave orders like Xu Xianchun. The feats of these people who took action are sometimes even more impressive than those who sent people, and they also have a clear conscience. Why not Are you willing to try to leave your name?

Just imagine, when a good man comes home, the shopkeeper asks if there is anything new.This person may say: "I went to Dongshi to buy a piece of dog meat, old lady, take it to a cool place and keep it; and Zhang Laowu is moving, so I have to send some things, look at it at home, if there is anything I don't need, I will give it away tomorrow." Go. By the way, I almost forgot, do you know that there is a guy named Ji Kang? I beheaded him today." The daughter-in-law said: "Oh, this is a big deal. Tell me quickly. I will see you in a while, so I can talk to you. Let them listen." The hero said: "Thousands of people are watching around the court - that Ji Kang has always been very arrogant, I heard that many people rushed to read his poems and essays, what's so great, although I don't think so The word, I cut down, and I didn’t see that his neck is thicker than others.” The daughter-in-law said: “Such a heroic act, when the son grows up, you have to tell him.” If we pass it down, we all know how great our ancestors were back then—it’s best to spend some money and hire a writer to write an article, so that it can be passed on, and it will be engraved on our tombstone in the future, how beautiful it will be!”

Imagine another hero who lived to be seventy or eighty years old and heard his descendants talk about the "Ten Days in Yangzhou" and said, "Come here, come all of you. Grandpa has personally experienced what you are talking about—not only personally, grandpa." He hacked to death more than a dozen people with his own hands, including old and young, men and women, rich and humble, no matter who they were, when they saw Grandpa, they all cried and howled. One woman ran so fast that Grandpa chased her into the well Here, the one who runs slowly, with one knife and two sections, how enjoyable!" Some of the descendants said: "This seems to hurt the yin a little bit, we just know it." The old man said angrily: "Fart! The command issued by the officer, What does it have to do with me? Yin and Yang are responsible for others, so grandpa doesn't care about it. Grandpa's most proud thing in his life, if you let your foolish thoughts go, don't you want to hide it? This is the glory of our family, you must remember it , passed down from generation to generation, so that people hundreds of years later will know that there was such a hero in the old Zhang family."

I think this kind of imagination is reasonable, but it doesn't seem to happen in reality.It is unavoidable that countless heroes, why don't they tell their deeds in detail to their descendants, so that they can be passed down from generation to generation?Not only is it not in the history books, but it is also not in the family tree.In the early Qing Dynasty, there was a play called "The Spectrum of Loyalty", which was about Zhou Shunchang. In it, the Jiecha who was "so angry that our family was so angry that he got Beijing Zhonghuo to kill him" had no name; "Get out of the way, get out of the way! Let Let’s walk! (beat the whip randomly)” Er Zao, who has no name; the junior prisoner who “has a copper cleaver, an iron clamp stick, a king’s bolt, red embroidered shoes, a hemp-wrapped iron, and a copper-clad wooden stick” has no name. In the end, the two heroes, one ugly and one clean, who "covered the head with the bag, pushed the child to the ground, and dragged the rope to the back", have no names-the author Li Yu is too contemptuous of these characters, so he gave them a name , How much can it cost?

In all events in history, there are these people, and their role is no less than that of great people.We tentatively think that the fact that their deeds are not publicized is because no one has made a biography.Well, now that education is popularized and the Internet is developed, everyone can be an author. I only hope that from now on, countless heroes who are the pioneers of the king will tell the story of themselves, so that the neighbors and the world know it. Save yourself from having to be the unsung hero!