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[Ming Dynasty] (1482 to 1548), the courtesy name Gongjin, was from Guixi (now Guixi, Jiangxi). He was a Jinshi in the 12th year of Zhengde (1517), and served as the Minister of Personnel and the Grand Secretary of Huagai Palace. He was posthumously named Wenmin. He was the chief minister of talent and martial arts, and regarded his calligraphy as a gongbi. He was upright and beautiful, but he was fat and stagnant, and he was old and childish. He was particularly famous. He died at the age of 67. "Yiyuan Zhuyan, Lieqing Records"

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On the 3555.4 square kilometers of Yingtan, the highest official position since ancient times is , Guixi (now the Longhu Mountain Scenic Spot). In the Ming Dynasty, became the prime minister of the court, equivalent to the prime minister who was less than one person and more than ten thousand people. However, the prime minister who had been admired by locals for a long time was persecuted by Yan Song and eventually died in a foreign land. Recently, the reporter went to Guizhou Village, Niyang Town, 's hometown (now Shangqing Town, Longhu Mountain Scenic Spot), and learned many legendary stories that were not even recorded in the local history.

's Life

■ cemetery has hundreds of cemeteries

Xiong Changsheng, who had just retired from the Yuehu District Justice Bureau of Yingtan City, has long studied 's life experience and has also written several books about . He knew 's death very thoroughly. He told reporters that in the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, a government official Zeng Xian. Faced with the invasion of Altan Khan, the leader of the Mongolian Tatar tribe, and decided to recover the Hetao area. strongly supported it, and Emperor Jiajing also agreed. However, this became an opportunity for Yan Song to slander Emperor Jiajing. Yan Song spread rumors that the regaining Hetao was the root of disaster, and he also pulled Emperor Jiajing's confidants to persuade Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing, who did not distinguish right from wrong, then issued an edict to take away the title of , and only retained the identity of Shangshu.

After squeezed away, Yan Song still refused to give up. He released rumors in the palace that was angry when he left the court, and scolded Emperor Jiajing for going back on his word. The rumors reached Emperor Jiajing's ears, and Emperor Jiajing was very angry. Coincidentally, in September of the 27th year of Jiajing, Altan Khan led his army to disturb Xuanfu and headed straight to Beijing. Emperor Jiajing suspected that this must be . Zeng Xian proposed to regain the revenge brought by Hetao, so he put Zeng Xian down. Officials who once supported were either demoted, either seized their salaries, or had their court sticks, and had to put in prison.

and his family walked hurriedly for more than a month, taking a boat from Shandong to Danyang, Jiangsu. But a group of officials rushed to Danyang and drove into the prison car. When he was escorted to Tongzhou, 36 miles east of Beijing, heard that Zeng Xian was killed and cried bitterly, "Oh, I may die at Yan Song this time!" So he begged the helper to borrow paper and ink to express his grievance to Emperor Jiajing.

The next day after living in Tongzhou, had just finished washing up and received an imperial edict from Emperor Jiajing to behead him on the spot. Finally, until noon, knelt down to the south, kowtowed three times, and was beheaded as soon as he stood up.

After 's death, Emperor Jiajing gradually regretted it. Xia Longtai, 67, of the first group of Guizhou Village, Shangqing Town, told reporters that when Emperor Jiajing was regretful, he ordered people to put 's head one after another and found that there were 5 jin and 4 liang. So he ordered people to cast 5 jin and 4 liang 's head with gold and prepare 100 coffins, of which only one of them contained 's gold head, which was buried in 100 places across the country, and all the mourners were killed after the burial. Therefore, as of now, people in Shangqing Town and even most areas of Guixi have no concept of 5 jin and 4 liang to buy vegetables and chop meat, and they are also taboo about 5 jin and 4 liang. If they encounter 5 jin and 4 liang, people will very consciously either trade for 5 jin and 3 liang or 5 5 jin and a half jin.

Xiong Changsheng said that it was not until a long time later that later generations discovered the true location of ’s tomb in the suburbs of Shangrao.

■Yan Song is jealous of his fellow villagers

Yan Song was a talented man from Fenyiren, Jiangxi, and was also the one recommended by to Emperor Jiajing. But why did he harm his benefactor , who went to the capital to serve as an official? This started with 's youth.

Xia Longtai introduced that when Emperor Jiajing went to Jiangnan to visit Guixi, he happened to be so hungry one day. At this time, the young man happened to pass by and wanted to deliver food to his family, so he gave the food to his family. Later, Emperor Jiajing asked 's name and replied, "."

Time flies, and the whole country is generally poor. Emperor Jiajing asked his ministers: "How is the harvest this year?" The minister replied: "This year doesn't work, just look at the next year." When he heard "next year", Emperor Jiajing immediately recalled that there was a young man who delivered food named , who was very similar to "next year". After inquiring, it turned out that was the son of Xia Ding, the prefect of the dynasty, so he proposed to meet . After arrived in the court, Emperor Jiajing got off the dragon throne and held 's hand. The dragon face was very happy, and praised very much. Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing ordered to bow with one hand when he saw him, indicating that the hand he held was as high as the emperor. But he did not know that this became a disaster.

One Spring Festival, Yan Song, who had become the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, drank happily and was very proud at home. At this time, Yan's wife couldn't stand it and told him not to think he was great. She said that Yan Song had to bow with both hands as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and , the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, only bowed with one hand. Hearing this, the proud smile on Yan Song's face flew instantly and he felt jealous. So Yan Song tried every means to suppress 's political future.

In the 20th year of Jiajing, the Hetao area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was occupied by Altan Khan, the leader of the Mongolian Tatar tribe. He often launched troops to harass the border counties. The two sides fought for years and were exhausted and damaged their wealth. Emperor Jiajing asked the ministers what to do, but Yan Song reported disagreement, but made a statement that it would be appropriate to make peace. Emperor Jiajing could not make a decision and announced his retirement.

Yan Song was so angry that he returned home to conspire with his son Shifan to bribe the Taoist priests whom Emperor Jiajing favored, and spread rumors that the envoy of Altan Khan sneaked into Xia's mansion to bribe at night. Emperor Jiajing believed it and drove Altan Khan's envoy out of the capital the next day. One month later, Emperor Jiajing dismissed as the chief minister.

After resigning, returned to his hometown Guizhou Village, Niyang Town, Guixi, while Yan Song still secretly monitored 's whereabouts. Yan Song was quite good at Feng Shui and realized that the terrain of Guizhou Village belonged to the carp beach type and was a good terrain. So he suggested that the villagers change the terrain of the carp beach type, change the river channel from south to north, so he used a lot of labor, and then reported to the emperor that wanted to use his power to recruit soldiers and horses to change the river channel. As a result, the emperor really sent troops down. At that time, the annual Yanghui in Niyang Town was being held, and many people went to the street to sell wooden sticks, iron tools, etc., so he sent back to report that really wanted to lead troops to revolt, which made the emperor ask for 's head.

■Centipedes harm chickens with divine will?

During an interview with Guizhou Village, Shangqing Town, local villagers praised 's achievements, but many villagers, including Xia Longtai, believed that was persecuted by Yan Song because of God's will.

Xia Longtai said that there was a temple on Xianren Mountain at the head of Guizhou Village. Back then, the people in the temple raised a big rooster, and there was a big centipede on the mountain. Every day, the old monk had to go far away and told his apprentice that he would not know how long it would take to come back. He told his apprentice that the rooster and the centipede would fight each other to death sooner or later, so the apprentice had to cut a knife on the head of the chicken after the rooster died, and the centipede was buried on the left side of the downhill road. As a result, the apprentice forgot to cut a knife, and the position was buried in the opposite direction, resulting in the reincarnation of the rooster and the centipede fighting to the capital. This rooster is , and the centipede is Yan Song.

The authenticity of the legend Xia Longtai cannot be examined, but Xiong Changsheng wrote in his historical story that when was a child, he always stood alone to watch the show, and he liked to look to the side or back. The movements he performed were indeed similar to those of a chicken. In 1482, that is, the year when was born, it was indeed the Year of the Rooster in the lunar calendar.

■ has few descendants

In Guizhou Village, there are many villagers with the surname Xia, but there are only 13 people who really belong to .

At No. 46, Guizhou Village, 's former residence, there are currently 7 families with 26 people, but most of them are old people with mixed surnames. The back room is a broken house divided into three grids, and currently the Wu Xiansi family lives. Wu Xiansi told reporters that his house should actually be called No. 47, Guizhou Village, Guizhou Village, but the door sign is dilapidated because the families living there are very poor, so no one cares about the house number. The age of the Xia family's ancestral house has been experienced by the Xia family, but no one knows how many generations he has lived in.
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