In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the government was corrupt, exploiting the people layer by layer, coupled with drought, taxes were increased, and the people did not have a good life. "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and there are frozen bones on the road." This sentence truly describes the social situation at that time.
Li Zicheng, born in 1606, was originally named Li Hongji, Li Chuang, Huang Wazi, and Zao'er. Li Ji, who lived in Shaanxi Province, moved to the village. When he was young, his parents died early, and he herded cattle for the landlords to maintain his livelihood. In the early years, he borrowed money from Wenju and Aiju, and Wenju forced debts to beat Li Zicheng. Ai Juren forced Li Zicheng to repay the debt, but because he had no money to repay, he was sued to the government. The county magistrate put him in shackles and paraded him in the streets and beat him to death. Later the people rescued him. Li Zicheng hated the government and the rich to the bone. On a dark night, Li Zicheng held a sharp blade and killed Wen Ju and Ai Juren. Then Li Zicheng fled to Shanxi, led several poor people to hide in the mountains, and went out day and night, specifically robbing and killing bureaucrats and gentry. Li Zicheng carried two murders and occupied the mountain as a bandit, and soon became a repeat offender arrested by the government. And posted notices, painted avatars, and arrested Li Zicheng. Soon Li Zicheng was captured by several rich people and sent to the government office.
At that time, Lei Heng was serving as a prefect in Shanxi, and the ancestral home of Lei Heng ChenZhou Fu Xinzhan Ji xiaoyi Village (Wafangzhuang, Xinzhan Town, Huaiyang County, Henan Province) was a descendant of Lei Huan in Xiaoleigang Village, Fengcheng County, Nanchang Province, Jiangxi Province. (Lei Kuan is the 34th grandson of Lei Huan)
Lei Heng ordered several people to tie Li Zicheng to the pillar, casually lift the civilization stick, and come to the front, but saw that Li Zicheng was very handsome with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was less than twenty years old. Lei Heng pointed at him with a civilization stick and asked, "Are you Li Zicheng?" Li Zicheng bowed his head and said nothing. Lei Heng said, "You young man, why did your little age do this bandit thing?" Li Zicheng looked up fiercely, and his eyes glared at the Lei Fu official: "If you want to kill, you have to kill casually, why ask more." "The words are very generous.
Lei Heng wanted such a young man to be solved and executed without a doubt, which was a pity. Then he went back to the back room. Pacing back and forth around the house. In fact, Lei Heng was in an official position and had long been disgusted with the corruption of the official government. How should this case be handled? So I started pacing again.
The next night, the government issued an order: "Interrogate Li Zicheng." Then the two government officials untied him, and one pointed to the lobby. Li Zicheng took a big step and walked inside. When I came to the lobby, I saw that the lobby was brightly lit, but empty. On the desk there are four small dishes and a pot of wine and two steamed buns. Li Zicheng did not eat for a day or a night after he was caught. He wanted to eat enough to say, he couldn't be a hungry ghost. I had the courage to eat it, and it wasn't long before the meal was eaten. No one has yet been seen for arraignment. He sat down and thought about it for a moment, and suddenly understood everything. A pot of cold wine is not a long time considered by the officials of lei fu, four small dishes, dates, pears, mountains made of ginger slices and sweet porridge made of soil, one on top of two steamed buns. If I hadn't left Shanxi early, the officials of the Lei Mansion still had to hide it, and this Lei Fu official was saving me from dying! When he looked around and saw that no one had the audacity to go out of the gate, as soon as he left the palace, he ran like an arrow into the dark night. When he ran far, he saw the lights behind him, and shouted: "Li Zicheng is running!" Quickly arrest Li Zicheng."
Li Zicheng was very touched by Lei Heng's life-saving grace, he knelt down, shouted at the lights, shouted, and bowed three times to the old man holding the civilization stick, and swore: "If I Li Zicheng have a good sun and moon in this life, I will definitely repay the officials of lei mansion for saving their lives."
Later, Li Zicheng joined the rebellion of his uncle Gao Yingxiang. Gao Yingxiang is the king of intruders, and Li Zicheng is a general in the team. Gao Yingxiang was killed in a battle with the Ming army, and Li Zicheng was elected king of Chuang. This contingent kills the rich and helps the poor, pushes back the regime, and represents the interests of the people of the world. The ranks grew larger and larger, and they held up the banner of Da Shun, killing corrupt officials and evil tycoons along the way, and helping the poor.
It was the autumn of that year, and Li Zicheng bloodied henan and killed Gwangju. All the way north to the chenzhou territory, Li Zicheng ordered his men: "All those surnamed Lei will not be killed." One day, came to the north bank of the Shahe River, Chen Zhoufu New Station ji Xiaoyi Village benefactor Lei Heng's hometown. Li Zicheng personally visited the door and gave a generous gift. Talking to several elders in the village, the old people said that Lei Heng was deceased. Li Zicheng was sacrificed to the ancestral tomb (the ancestor of the foreign surname was the highest ceremony at that time). When the elders of lei fu brought Li Zicheng to the tomb of the first ancestor Lei Kuan, the second zu Lei Jing, but saw that the purple qi rose here, the high ground behind the grave, and the ground type in front of the grave stretched forward three up and three down. Li Zicheng went up to xiangxiang and looked at this cemetery again and again, and said in a loud voice that this place is good, good, good, good. Back at the palace, Lei asked Li Zicheng: "That land is good, where is it good?" Li Zicheng said: "When my father was alive, he knew a little about feng shui himself" Then he took out a paper and pen and wrote down eight words: "Ten thousand worlds are prosperous, never prosperous." ”
From the ancestor Lei Kuan to the present more than six hundred years, the Lei surname is here, it is indeed a prosperous person and a rich life. There were many officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties, emperors and jade seals abounded, genealogies were recorded, and there were currently more than 30,000 descendants of Lei Kuan.
The Source Stream of the Lei Clan says that the two princes of the Chongzhen Emperor were surnamed Lei by their mothers. When Li Zicheng arrived in Beijing, the crown prince heard that Li Zicheng did not kill those with the surname Lei, because his mother's surname was Lei, and he also changed the Zhu surname to lei surname, so as to avoid the disaster of killing himself.
The second ancestor of the Lei family in Xinzhan Town: Lei Jing, the general of the Nanjing general during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and the wife of the Su clan was enthroned as the lady of the Order.
Ancestor of the Lei clan of Xinzhan Town: Lei Kuan (ancestral home, Xiaoleigang Village, Fengcheng County, Nanchang Province, Jiangxi Province. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he was enfeoffed as a grand general of the Hussars, with the Yuan dynasty of the Zhang clan, and the Continuing Yan clan was enfeoffed as a lady of the Imperial Household.
(According to the late old man: Lei Bangrui dictated) Lei Youming, Lei from the peak to sort out