Chapter 13 Secrets
The Fire Game, also known as the Red Flame Game, is an extremely vicious tomb game. The human soul is Yin, which is strong when exposed to water and weak when exposed to fire. The method of laying out the Fire Game is to use six three-foot stones.
The piles are respectively engraved with the twelve earthly branches: Ji, Wu, Wei, Hai, Zi, Chou,
Buried around the tomb, Ji, Wu, Wei is inside, Hai, Zi, and Chou are outside. Among the "Three Earthly Branches", Ji, Wu, and Wei are three fires in the south; Hai, Zi, and Chou are three meetings in the north. These two
The fire is called "six earth fire" in Maoshan art. It is harmful to the soul of normal people.
In other words, this is nothing but the greatest suffering. In addition to this, the tomb must be based on incense ash. The body is buried at noon on the day of great heat. The coffin is placed in the north-south direction and is made of "Turkey" (a kind of legendary legend).
A perennial woody plant, Maoshan is a pure Yang tree
, produced in the middle of Sichuan, the wood is hard, but it is by no means a material for making coffins. The use of mulberry wood for making coffins is purely due to the individual needs of this scene. According to legend, the ancient wheelchair Zhuge Kongming sat on was made of mulberry wood.)"
Coffin, "red saltpeter" (a kind of powder of saltpeter)
At the end of the day, Maoshan belongs to Yang in the art, and its effect is better than cinnabar, but it is much more precious than cinnabar. Therefore, most folk rituals use cinnabar instead. Only the royal family or dignitaries have the strength to use "red saltpeter" in rituals.) as a coffin. It was clothed
The tomb of Huo Chi Bureau, the spirit of the owner of the tomb
The soul will be trapped in the tomb and unable to be reincarnated, and will have to endure the torment of red flames forever. To put it simply, this tomb situation is simply a man-made "infinite purgatory" (Buddhism believes that hell is divided into eight levels, namely, waiting for living, black and white)
Rope, crowd, call, shout, focus
Heat, great scorching heat and endless, the deeper it is, the more torturous it is. The last level of endless purgatory is also called Abi Hell, which represents eternal darkness and pain). Regardless of whether the owner of the tomb accumulated virtues and did good deeds during his lifetime, he will be in this man-made place after his death.
Experiencing eternal pain in purgatory
.This kind of tomb bureau was invented by a Feng Shui master named Liu Chongde in the Ming Dynasty at the request of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. According to the records in "Maoshan Illustrated Records", this tomb bureau was only used once until the end of the Qing Dynasty, but after all it was used for
Which unlucky guy was being tormented, but not a word was mentioned.
"It's not enough to behead people and confiscate their homes. These ancient people really can't afford to offend..." Zhang Guozhong really didn't expect that this unique Huo Chi Bureau would be encountered in a remote place like Licun. Out of curiosity
Driven by this, what Zhang Guozhong wanted to know most was who the owner of the tomb was, and what kind of heinous crime he had committed, so that he would be punished so severely that he would not even die.
To be quiet, it stands to reason that there is absolutely no need to do this for ordinary corruption. Even if the king is assassinated and a certain criminal is killed, at most the nine clans will dig up their ancestral graves. And now for this uncle of the Ming Dynasty, the nine clans and their ancestral graves have already suffered.
That's for sure, but who is he and what kind of eternal crime has he committed that would make the emperor rack his brains to torture him with such a cruel tomb?
Zhang Guozhong searched around for a long time, but never found a tombstone. Also, how could he erect a tombstone after committing such a serious crime? At this time, Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered the "Famous Famous Book" copied by his younger brother. According to the records in "Maoshan Illustrated Records",
The invention of the fire bureau should be in the Yongle year of the Ming Dynasty, and
"Gong Ming Xu" was written in the Wanli year, more than 100 years after the invention of the Fire Bureau. If the uncle in the tomb had an official rank of fourth rank or above, there should be detailed records. At this time, Zhang Guozhong was just out of curiosity, but at this time
Little did he know that this curiosity would change his life.
The next day, the first thing Zhang Guozhong did when he returned home was to tell Ma Zhenren what he had discovered last night. Ma Zhenren was shocked when he heard this, and almost burned his fingers when he lit the match in his cigarette bag.
"Did you see it wrong?"
"Impossible, unless there is another round similar to the Genhuo Chi round, I just looked at four stakes."
"That's the kind of game that uses six earth fires. There won't be any other games. I thought it was a legend..." Ma Zhenren knocked the pot on his pipe and thought thoughtfully, "Guozhong, that grave is being worked on."
Don't touch it until you understand who it is. I'll go over tonight to open my eyes."... It seems that Ma Zhenren really wants to see this ever-lasting game with his own eyes.
In "Fame and Fame", Zhang Guozhong soon came to terms with the unlucky man of the Ming Dynasty. The Yongle year was the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, an era of absolute peace and prosperity. During the 25 years of Zhu Di's reign, ministers who were sentenced to severe punishments were
4, one was beheaded for embezzling 150,000 taels of silver from a Huai official, and one was beheaded for writing poems in memory of the great
Comrade Zhu Yunwen, the Jianwen Emperor, had his house confiscated (probably because he drank too much and wrote two sentences dissatisfied with the court, and was labeled as a counterrevolutionary...). The most outrageous thing is that a prefect named Zhou Lianchen was arrested for hiding a dragon robe.
The family is assigned to Xinjiang. This Zhou Lianchen is a fourth-grade prefect. He has no money and no soldiers. He wants to
The rebellion was just a dream. He probably just wanted to wear the dragon robe to have fun, but was uprooted by Zhu Di. "Privately hiding the dragon robe was a serious crime in ancient times, but it didn't happen. It seems that even the emperor was tortured by this pig-headed prefect.
I'm so happy..." At this time, a Hanlin Academy bachelor named Zhao Le caught Zhang Guozhong's attention.
There is not much description of this person in the book. It only says: Zhao Le, whose courtesy name is Jingchong and whose name is Wangzhi. He is good at understanding the ancients. He failed the imperial examination in the Dingchou year of Jianwen. He entered the Hanlin Academy in the Xinsi year of Yongle and was awarded the title of Jia of Yongle.
In the year of Shen, he was a great scholar. In the year of Yongle and Guimao, his words shocked the government and the public, as well as the country. The late emperor committed treason, suppressed the nine tribes, and brought disaster to the ancestral line.
It seems that this Zhao Le is the unlucky guy in the tomb. "It's weird, this person was eliminated from the imperial examination during the reign of Emperor Jianwen. When Zhu Di came to power, he entered the Hanlin Academy without taking the exam. Could it be that he is a direct descendant of Zhu Di?" At this time,
Zhang Guozhong was confused by a series of questions. First of all, this person must have something to do with Zhu Di's coup to settle Emperor Jianwen's coup.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to enter the Hanlin Academy directly through the back door. However, this man was executed a year before Zhu Di's death, and he was among the nine implicated tribes. It all seemed to happen too suddenly. He seemed to know some secret about Zhu Di and was silenced.
According to the records in "Famous Records", this secret is likely to be enough to shake the Ming Dynasty regime in its heyday. Secondly,
, the content recorded in "Famous Names" is very detailed, including the name of each official, when and when he took office, what caused the disaster, including what kind of punishment was imposed, where he was buried or where he was assigned.
The description of some officials even reaches five or six pages, but for this Zhao Le, it seems to be vague and vague. The author of this book, Zhang
After all, Guoyan also served as the Minister of War and the Ministry of Punishment. According to modern positions, he is Minister of Defense, Vice Chairman of the Military Commission and President of the Supreme Court. People in such positions are evasive when talking about Zhao Le. I don’t know why. See
The huge secret that Zhao Le holds seems to be an internal secret of the royal family, or even Zhu Di's personal secret.
However, Chairman Mao once said: Political power emerges from the barrel of a gun. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had abundant soldiers and military power was firmly in the hands of the court. What kind of secrets could Zhao Len, a civil servant, master that could shake up the country?
That night, Ma Zhenren and Zhang Guozhong came to the tomb of the Huo Chi Bureau. Ma Zhenren pulled away the tangled grass with his hands and saw the stone pile at a glance.
There is a drought every year.”
"The drought...is related to this thing?"
"Yes, this stone pile was buried in the ground and nothing happened. The rains in the past two years were heavy and it washed out. Can two fires be used to stop the drought? This situation is not big. If it is bigger, I am afraid that the entire Hebei Province will be affected.
We are all suffering from drought." Since the floods lasted for a year, the Licun area has suffered from drought and harvest for two consecutive years, and the situation has become increasingly serious. Even the water in the wells has bottomed out.
"It was raining heavily twenty miles away. Not even a drop fell in this area. I also wanted to set up a formation to see what was going on, but before the formation was completed, the yellow flag pole broke (Maoshan Shu)
Before performing the spell, a yellow flag should be placed in front of the altar, and a talisman drawn on the flag to glimpse God's will. If the flagpole is broken or the flag falls over, it is a secret from heaven, or there is a spell caster who cannot fight it.
With such power, you must stop casting spells immediately, otherwise your life may be shortened or you may die immediately. The flagpole is better, if it breaks out of thin air, it means it is something that must not be touched). I think this is the overall situation, so I don’t dare to set up this formation.
, the drought is not so severe that people will starve to death. But now you, little brat, have really hit you. If you show more of it, people will die of drought."
"What should we do? Dig him?"
Ma Zhenren also fell into deep thought at this time. It is said that there are mountains outside the mountains and heaven outside the sky. Although Liu Chongde in the Ming Dynasty was just a little-known Feng Shui master, the tomb bureau he invented was connected to the heavens and could be deployed but not broken. As for why
It cannot be broken. Even Ma Zhenren doesn’t know what the consequences will be, but it is certain that it cannot be touched. The broken yellow flag pole is proof of this.
Chapter completed!