After the death of Xiao Shenyang, his mausoleum was submerged, but a pair of lions were left behind. In the eyes of these stone lions, Bian Xiao discovered the secret of the destruction of Little Shenyang. What's the secret?
Xiao Shenyang is a corrupt official through and through. To the Qing dynasty, he was just a "mouse" gnawing at the bottom of the old cabin of the Qing dynasty. In modern times, someone calculated an account for Xiao Shenyang, and he alone embezzled 820 million silver. At that time, the Record of the Emperor (1page 57) recorded that the emperor was in the Qing Dynasty for six years, and the total population of the country was 1434655.
After Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, it was thunderous to treat a big corrupt official, Shenyang. Once a first-class loyal minister, "xianggong", a college student in Wenhua Hall, a chief college student in the cabinet, and a captain minister of military aircraft, he was declared by the emperor as the top 20 sins, and then he was given a white silk to commit suicide.
When Xiao Shenyang was in power, he was actually secretly preparing for his own hundred years later. Twenty miles east of Jizhou, he found a cemetery. This cemetery is not only spacious, with Taohua Mountain as the barrier in the north, Cuiping Mountain as the screen in the south, and the thistle canal flowing through Lingnan. This is a land of feng shui.
Small Shenyang hired many masons, carpenters and masons and began to repair the mausoleum for itself. According to the normal rules, spiritual craftsmen are still well paid. In addition to higher wages than ordinary craftsmen, eating well and sleeping well is the basic standard.
But the power of Xiao Shenyang is so great that the supervisor he sent to the construction site is fiercer than tigers and wolves. None of the above three conditions can be guaranteed, and the supervisor relies on the whip in his hand to talk to the craftsman.
Craftsmen don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes. Not only do they not get much salary, but they are often whipped and treated worse than livestock. The resentment in their hearts can be said to be soaring into the sky!
According to historical records, the mausoleum in Little Shenyang surpassed the system at that time. Weng Zhong, who guards the mausoleum, is even taller than the imperial tomb. To cover up the truth, he ordered Weng Zhong's legs to be buried with sand.
However, before his mausoleum was restored, Xiao Shenyang was killed by Emperor Jiaqing. When the craftsmen got the news, they gathered together and smashed the memorial archway, stone tablet and Weng Zhong in front of the mausoleum.
In 1960s, when Yuqiao Reservoir, now Cuiping Lake, was built in Jixian County, the tomb of Little Shenyang would be submerged in the reservoir. However, when the reservoir was not filled with water, a pair of stone lions left on the huabiao in front of the tomb of Xiao Shenyang were moved to the door of the local Dule Temple.
This is the focus of this article. Why do the eyes of Shishi reveal the secret of Xiao Shenyang's death? In the eyes of the stone lion, all that flashed out was evil light.
The lion is honored as the king of beasts. Putting stone lions at the entrance of graves and other places not only has the function of exorcising evil spirits, but also has the function of decoration, as well as the beautiful implication of promoting to a higher position and making a fortune (the lion is the surname, which is the homonym of Shao Shi). However, no matter where the lion is placed, the most important thing is that masons should carve a majestic atmosphere for the lion, instead of carving the lion into a pair of "wolf eyes" and becoming a fierce-eyed "evil beast".
That's why the lion in front of the tomb in Shenyang reveals lost face. In other words, freemasons are full of resentment towards Little Shenyang, and their hatred is enormous. They have expressed it through their own stone carvings, and they can know the meat and see the whole picture. A big corrupt official who is hated by all people is bound to be punished by God.
It would be unreasonable if little Shenyang was not executed by the emperor. Let's remember this sentence. Although justice is sometimes late, he will never be absent!