Chapter 129 (21) Don't mess with the big bug in the door

Why did Geng Jingzhong's story about Shuiyue monk shock Fan Chengmo so much? It was a rather bizarre, rather bizarre event.The incident happened before Fan Chengmo was transferred to Fujian as the governor, when Fan Chengmo was an official in Hangzhou.One year, a hunter went up the mountain and found a litter of tiger cubs. Immediately, he took all the cubs home and steamed them in a pot. This cruel act of brutality enraged the tigress, who rushed down the mountain, rushed into Fan Chengmo's mansion, and killed an unlucky horse.Crowds in Fan's residence swarmed up and killed the tigress who had lost her son. The poor national-level protected animal was beaten to death by this group of people.

After the incident happened, Fan Chengmo went to Lingyin Temple to find Master Shuiyue and asked about the good and bad of the incident. At that time Master Shuiyue answered him with this sentence: You can fight the worms on the mountain, but don't mess with the worms in the door. Fan Chengmo pondered carefully, isn't the big bug in this door just a word for Fujian?Min is the abbreviation of Fujian. As long as you are determined not to go to Fujian to be an official in this life, then there will be no problem.When he had just figured this out, the transfer order from the Ministry of Officials arrived, and he was transferred to Fujian to be the top leader.

Fortunately, the people in Hangzhou were noisy at that time and refused to let the honest Fan Chengmo go, so the Ministry of Officials did not insist.But this kind of work can't be hidden from those old bureaucrats. The more you Lao Fan doesn't want to go to Fujian, he has to transfer you to Fujian.So it didn't take long for the second transfer order to arrive again. There was no other way, Fan Chengmo had no choice but to bite the bullet and come. When I arrived in Fujian, I met Geng Jingzhong. What shocked him the most was that even Geng Jingzhong knew about it.Thinking of this, Fan Chengmo said sternly: My family has respected Confucius and Mencius for generations, and their loyalty and filial piety can be taken away by life and death?Even if Shuiyue made a prophecy, she would persuade others with loyalty and filial piety, how could she be willing to talk about disasters and blessings?Go back and tell Wu Sangui, take care of yourself and don't take the disaster of extermination.

Speaking of this, Fan Chengmo and more than fifty followers were all imprisoned by Geng Jingzhong. Among Fan Chengmo's subordinates, there was a man named Zhang Fujian. He was moved by Fan Chengmo's loyalty and bravery, so he decided to risk his life to rescue him.So one day, he had a knife hidden in his body, and when he arrived at the place where Fan Chengmo was being held, he suddenly pulled out the knife, yelled, and broke into the door with the knife.The guard soldiers were eating dinner, and they were caught off guard, and many people were cut down at once, but Zhang Fujian was weak after all, and soon died of exhaustion.

The first rescue failed, and another Mongolian mani came.He had already been named "Sanqi Lang" by Geng Jingzhong, but he tried his best to reject this small official and secretly planned to rescue Fan Chengmo, but in the end it failed, and poor Mani was killed. After that, Fan Chengmo was imprisoned. He hadn't changed his clothes for two years, his body was full of lice, his face was unkempt, and he was plagued by diseases.He turned death into a sacred ceremony, until Geng Jingzhong secretly killed a soldier who wanted to take off his hat, but he sternly reprimanded him, and the soldier dared not come forward.

The death of Fan Chengmo shocked the capital, and it was also the biggest injury that Shilin had suffered since Wu Sangui raised his troops.Li Yu, the most famous literati in the Qing Dynasty, made a big fuss in Beijing, clamoring for the emperor to attend Fan Chengmo's funeral in person.Moreover, Li Yu believes that two spirit tablets should be placed in front of Fan Chengmo's spirit, one belonging to Wen Tianxiang, a national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other belonging to Fan Chengmo. If it is said that Fan Chengmo's death became a stele of Shilin, then the death of another female poet far more famous than Fan Chengmo painted the darkest tone on this war.

Eastern Zhejiang. Yongkang.