Chapter 13: Secrets
The Fire Blaze Bureau, also known as the Red Flame Bureau, is an extremely vicious tomb bureau. The human soul is Yin, strong when it meets water and weak when it meets fire. The layout of the Bureau of Fire and Blaze is to use six three-foot stone stakes, respectively, carved on the twelve Earthly Branches in the already, Wu, Wei, Hai, Zi, U, buried around the tomb, already, Wu, Wei within, Hai, Zi, U outside, "three Earthly Branches" in the already, Wu, Wei, three will be the southern fire; Hai, Zi, U, three will be the north of the fire, the two fires, the art of maoshan called These two fires, known as the "six earth fires" in Maoshan arts, are the greatest torment for a normal human soul. In addition to this, the tomb pit should also be based on incense ash, the body in the great summer day of the noon burial, the coffin to the north and south of the direction of the place, and to "sallow wood (a legendary perennial woody plants, maoshan art of pure yang wood, produced in shuzhong, the wood is hard, but never hit the coffin of the material, with the sallow wood to hit the coffin, purely the individual needs of this curtain bureau. (It is rumored that the ancient wheelchair that Zhuge Kongming sat in was made of sallow wood.)" For the coffin, "red nitrate" (a kind of saltpeter powder, maoshan magic belongs to the yang, the effect is better than vermilion sand, but much more precious than vermilion sand, so most of the folk rituals with vermilion sand instead of, only the royal family or the nobleman has the strength to use "red nitrate" in the rituals.) For the outer coffin. Tomb by the fire blazing bureau, the tomb owner's soul will be trapped in the tomb can not be reincarnated, will have to endure eternal torment of red flames, in short, this kind of tomb is simply a man-made "infernal purgatory (Buddhism believes that the hell is divided into eight layers, respectively, such as live, black rope, the crowd together, call, call, big call, scorched heat, big scorched heat and infernal, the more the deeper it will be the more tormented. (The last layer of the infernal purgatory is also known as the Abyssal Hell, which represents eternal darkness and pain.)" Regardless of whether or not the tomb owner has accumulated virtues and done good deeds during his/her lifetime, he/she will experience eternal pain in this man-made purgatory after death. This kind of tomb bureau was invented by a feng shui gentleman named Liu Chongde in the Ming Dynasty at the request of Ming Emperor Zhu Di. In the record of Maoshan Tuji, this tomb bureau was used only once as of the end of the Qing Dynasty, but which unlucky person was actually going to be used to torment him was not mentioned in any word.
"Beheading and copying the family is still not enough, these ancient people really can't afford to be offended..." Zhang Guozhong really didn't expect that this one-of-a-kind Fire Blazing Bureau would let itself be stumbled upon in such a remote place as Li Village. Driven by curiosity, Zhang Guozhong most want to know is the tomb owner is who, committed what heinous crimes, will be so heavily punished, so that even after death are not quiet, according to the general corruption absolutely no need to get this thing, even if it is the assassination of the king to kill the driving force against a certain offense, at most, but also a strain of a nine families planing an ancestral tomb, and now this Ming Dynasty uncle, nine families and ancestral graves have been suffering for sure, but he himself! In the end, who has committed what kind of ancient crimes, will let the emperor racked his brains with such a vicious tomb bureau to toss him?
Zhang Guozhong searched around for half a day and never found the tombstone. That's right, how could one erect a monument after committing such a great crime? At this time, Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered his brother copied out of the book "merit floss", according to the "Maoshan Atlas" records, the invention of the fire bureau should be in the Ming Dynasty Yongle year, and the "merit floss" was written in the Wanli year, that is, more than 100 years after the invention of the fire bureau, if the tomb of this uncle's official position of the fourth grade or more, there should be a detailed record. At this time, Zhang Guozhong held just a curiosity, however, at this time he did not know, this curiosity, will change his life.
The next day, Zhang Guozhong returned home the first thing is to tell Ma Zhenren their own last night's discovery, Ma Zhenren heard was also taken aback, light the cigarette packet of matches almost burned his fingers.
"You saw it wrong, right?"
"Impossible, unless there are still root fire blazing bureau almost the same bureau, I just looked at four stakes."
"The bureau that uses the six earth fires is that one, there won't be any others. I thought that was a legend. ..." Ma Zhenren knocked the tobacco pot, pondering "Guozhong ah, that grave in the figure out which consumptive before don't touch, I'm going over to open eyes this evening." ...It seems that for this thousand years of a bureau of incandescent bureau, Ma Zhenren also quite want to see with their own eyes.
In the "merit floss", Zhang Guozhong quickly on the number of the Ming dynasty unlucky, Yongle year is the heyday of the Ming dynasty, absolute peace and prosperity, Zhu Di reign of 25 years, was sentenced to severe punishment of the ministers on four, one for the embezzlement of the rule of the Huai government silver 150,000 taels and beheaded, one for mentioning the poem in memory of the great Jianwen emperor Zhu Yunzhu comrades and was plagiarized (presumably also drink too much to write a couple of dissatisfied with the court, the result was branded as counter-revolutionaries), the government of the Ming dynasty. The most outrageous is a called Zhou Lianchen's governor, for hiding the dragon robe was sent to Xinjiang, this Zhou Lianchen is a fourth-grade governor, no money in the hands of no soldiers, want to rebel is purely a dream, it is assumed that you want to wear a dragon robe to get over the addiction, the result was Zhu Di uprooted. "Possession of dragon robe in ancient times is a felony, which did not die, it seems that even the emperor's old man was also this pig-headed governor to the gas music..." At this time, a called Zhao Le Hanlin Academy bachelor caught the attention of Zhang Guo-zhong, the book of this person does not have a lot of description, only to write: Zhao Le, the word Jingchong, the name of the hope of the good through the ancient ability, Jianwen Dingchou, the ancient of the world. Ancient can, Jianwen Ding ugly years of the temple test, not and, Yongle Xin Si years into the Hanlin Academy, Yongle A Shen years in the position of the University of the very first, Yongle Dec Mao years of the words shocked the field, surprised the gods and goddesses of earth and grain, the first emperor descended to the crime of treason, Zhu Jiuzi, the scourge of the ancestor of the first.
It seems that this Zhao Le is the unlucky man in the tomb. "Strange, this person in the Jianwen emperor when the temple examination was eliminated, to the reign of Zhu Di did not test directly into the Hanlin Academy, could it be that Zhu Di's direct line?" 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 d'état to put down the Jianwen Emperor, otherwise it is not possible to directly enter the Hanlin Academy through the backdoor, but this person was executed one year before the death of Zhu Di, and it is the nine clans, all this seems to have come too suddenly, it seems like he knew what Zhu Di's secret and was silenced, and according to the records of "Merit and fame floss", this secret was probably Enough to shake the heyday of the Ming regime, and secondly, "merit floss" in the content of the record is very detailed, including the name of each official who, when and when to take office, because of what happened in the east window, including what kind of criminal law to be buried in where or where to be sent, the description of some officials and even up to five or six pages, and for the Zhao Le, it seems to be a vaguely one-off, write the book of Zhang Guoyan at least also served as the Ministry of Defense At least Zhang Guoyan, who wrote this book, has also been the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice, according to modern positions, that is, the Minister of Defense, Vice Chairman of the Military Commission and the President of the Supreme Court, this position of people talk about this Zhao Le, are flickering, do not know why, it seems that this Zhao Le mastered the great secret seems to be still the royal family's internal secrets, and even Zhu Di's personal secrets.
However, Chairman Mao said: power comes out of the barrel of a gun. At that time, the Ming dynasty's soldiers were fine and sufficient, and the power of the army was held in the hands of the court, Zhao Le was a civil official, what kind of secrets can be held enough to shake the earth and grain?
That night, Ma Zhenren and Zhang Guozhong came to the grave of that fire blazing bureau, Ma Zhenren used his hand to pick open the messy grass, and saw the stone pile at a glance, "Damn it, there really is such a bureau, I said how this village drought every year."
"Drought...related to this thing?"
"Yes, this stone pile buried in the ground to nothing, two years ago the rainfall, washed out, two fires a burn, can not drought? This bureau is not big, if bigger, I'm afraid the whole Hebei have to drought." Since not long ago flooded over a year, Li Village area for two consecutive years of rainfall, and increasingly serious, even the wells are at the bottom of the water.
"Twenty miles away from the rain downpour of wow, this piece is a drop of ta do not fall, I also want to set up a formation to see what is going on, but this formation is not yet finished, the yellow flagpole on the folding (maoshan art before casting spells, to be inserted in front of the law table a yellow flag, the flag on the painting of peeping heaven symbols, in order to peep the heaven's will, if the flagpole is folded or the flag down, it is the heaven's opportunity, or the power of the casting person can not fight, must immediately stop casting spells, or else light, light, light, light, light, light, light. Must immediately stop casting spells, otherwise the light will be broken life, heavy will die. (Flagpole down okay, if it is broken out of thin air, it is absolutely can not touch the thing), I see this is the big picture, this array did not dare to cloth, more or less not drought to the point of starvation. But now really let you a little brat to bump into, if in more exposed point, non-drought death."
"Then what to do? Dig him up?"
Ma Zhenren at this time also fell into contemplation, the so-called mountain outside the mountain, the sky outside the sky, the Ming Dynasty, although that Liu Chongde is only a little-known feng shui gentleman, but this person invented this tomb bureau connected to the heavenly plane, can be fabricated and can not be broken, as for why it can not be broken, broken in the end what are the consequences, even Ma Zhenren also do not know, but can not be touched is certain, the broken yellow flag poles is the force of evidence.
"Keep him first, really can't say." Ma Zhenren patted his ass and silently walked back, however, Zhang Guozhong, as a hot-blooded young man in his 20s, took his interest in this tomb to the next level.
