Zhang Santong of Baishui Zhi County
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the first zhixian of Baishui was Zhang Santong, a native of Wu County, Suzhou, who came from the hometown of fan Zhongyan, a famous scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, and left many stories in the history of Baishui, which have been passed down to this day.
Old photo of Whitewater City
Dinghua built a new county seat in Linchuan
In the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), Baishui Temporarily Ignorant County, was managed by Ding Hua, the chief bookkeeper in charge of clerical and affairs, to manage Zang's county affairs. One day, Ding Hua inspected the people's sentiments in the city and saw that the county town had experienced the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the buildings were in tatters, almost in ruins, the official offices were all in ruins, and the people in the city were even more displaced and had a difficult time. Therefore, he presided over the reconstruction of the county seat in the south of the Baishui River (present-day county town south of the ancient city village north) on the south side of the White Water River. In March of the third year of Hongwu, Shi Xiren wrote in the "Records of the Governance of Chuangxiu County": "Baishui County is the ancient Peng Yaye, and the county rule is the fifth in the south of the South River. In the past, the people named its county because of the white color of its river water. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the volunteers competed for dominance, lined up Guan Fu, and attacked each other. The guardians, with their geographical advantages, lost their way and ruined their cities. Migration County governs the Water of the South River... The first to be built was the county, the main book ding gonghua, Jiangnan and Zhou people, since the autumn of the second year of Hongwu in July. At the beginning of getting off the bus, there was no one to live in, and there was nothing to do. In the past few months, the people have felt their virtue, and the people who have revived the market have helped each other. ”
Zhixian Zhang Santong rebuilt the old city
Old photo of whitewater county town
According to the "Records of Baishui County" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Santong took the imperial examination in the autumn of the third year of Hongwu (1370) and became a jinshi. Because of his quick thinking and good at government affairs, the following year, hongwu four years (1371), he was appointed as the secretary of the cabinet as a cabinet secretary to Baishui Zhi County.
During the Tang Dynasty, Baishui County was located at the original head of the southern end of the county. After Zhang Santong of Zhixian County took office, through field investigations and visits to the people's feelings, he found that the county town was newly built in the south of the Linchuan River, across the river and across the ditch, if there was heavy rain, the river overflowed, and the villagers were inconvenient to come and go, so he recruited the public opinion and moved the county town back to the old site. On the basis of fully prepared materials, a new earthen city was built on the original site of the old city, that is, the inner city. Since then, for more than 600 years, the county seats have been in the present county seat.
Lingao Lake
Zhang Santong's "Records of the Governance of Chuangfu County" wrote: "Baishui County... Li Tang and Song Ju lied to Feng Yi. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the army was in turmoil, and it was abolished. In the second year of The Ming Dynasty, Wang Shi purged Shaanxi Right, and the prefectures and counties were all returned to his system. Nai Yi and Zhou Ding Hua Book is Yi, and quan is sent to rule the Linchuan River in the South Wuli. In the autumn of the third year, Yu came to know Siyi. When the township is full of old people, the old people tell you: Linchuan obstructs the river and valley, and the side is close to Pucheng, and when the rain falls sharply, there is a mountain and water impact in the west, overflowing lanes and tilting buildings, and the people are not convenient to stop; In the east, there is a river flooding, stirring up boulders, walking in the wilderness and the villagers are not easy to transfer. If it is restored to the old, the people of a county will be convenient. Yu Shenjia said that there is no time to do it, and the strength is not enough to be timed. This summer and autumn were quite rewarding, and in September, Hefu created and restored the old rule. ”
In order to perform the functions of the official office and establish a new social order as soon as possible, five main halls were built and an yimen was built; Each of the two columns has a gallery house for office purposes; Later, a heavy hall was built for the residence of officials, and the overall layout was clearly layered. At the same time it also guides the city.
Engaged in trade exchanges, less than three months of the city's shops flourished. The new city was completed, and there were three city gates: the south "Yongning Gate", the east "Huanluo Gate", and the north "Jingtai Gate".
However, the frequent construction of large-scale construction will inevitably have an impact on the production and life of the people, and there must be some people who have doubts about the actions of the government, and even criticize. Zhang Santong wrote in his "Records of the Administration of Chuangfu County": "Although those who work for the people must not escape the opinions of the gentlemen and gentlemen, he has no worries about wading in the water, and there is no danger of drifting in the wall house; Those who transfer the losers are easy, and those who provide for the hundreds of millions of people are easy, and those who are in the people can forget the labor of the previous day. ”
Zhang Santong rebuilt the temple
The newly founded state of the Ming Dynasty, in the early years of Hongwu, Baishui was under the governance of Zhang Santong in ZhiXian County, and the people of the four sides rushed to settle down here. At this time, what Zhang Santong urgently needed to accomplish was to create temple cultivation. He wrote in the "Records of the Study of the Creation and Cultivation of Temples": "The Three Tongs came to know that it was Yi at the behest of the Son of Heaven, and they were afraid of falling into the foundation of the church." Meaning: I Zhang Santong came here at the behest of the Son of Heaven to be a Zhi County, and what worries me day and night in my heart is that I am afraid that Whitewater education will be backward. The reality is that the Temple of King Wenxuan (i.e., the Confucius Temple), which was used to teach etiquette and spread culture in Baishui County, has been destroyed and abandoned in the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
Zhang Zhixian attached great importance to the study of rebuilding the temple, and he "gave an auspicious day, bowed to the officials, and ordered the work to supervise the service." The following year, when the temple study was completed, Zhang Santong, as a county magistrate, led teachers and students to hold a grand ceremony to sacrifice Confucius, which was large and serious, and the crowd watching the celebration was full of joy and praise.
As soon as Zhang Santong came to Baishui to get off the bus, he created the restoration of county governance and the creation of temple repair, which was beneficial to the current world and famous in future generations. In the sixteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1521), Hou Ziming, the eldest son of Hou Gong, the deputy capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Inspection Bureau, and the son of Hou Ziming of baishui, wrote: "The study of white water, Hongwu Qizhao was built in Zhanghou Santong. In the sixteenth year of Jiajing (1537), Zhao Guoliang, a member of Tongzhou, commented in his "Records of rebuilding the administration of the county": "In the sixth year of hongwu in the state dynasty, Zhang San, the governor of Wu County, started the new Qitang Yan." In the forty-eighth year of Jiajing, Baishui instructed Li Shihe in his "Inscription of Yi Ling": "Hongwu Chu, Shaanxi Right Puqing, the first to jinshi Zhongshu Zhang Santongshi as Yi Dafu. The practice of the warp grass is called the first. Until the Qing Dynasty, where the temple studies, tree monuments were passed down, and the roots were traced, Zhang Santong was a name that could not be bypassed, showing the memory and gratitude of Baishui's later generations to Zhang Santong in Zhixian County.
Old photo of Cangjie Temple
According to the county chronicle, during Zhang Santong's tenure in Zhiqixia County, "he also decreed that Juneyao had done a lot of meritorious service." ”
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