The Story of the Ancestors of the Wang Clan

The Sanhua Wang clan is the largest branch of the Wang clan today, with lush branches and is famous all over the world. Regardless of the north and south of the great river, where there are people with the surname of Wang, almost all the names of "Three Locust Halls" can be seen. It is said that the Three Acacia Kings clan is the most numerous branch of the Prince's Jin descendants, far above Langya, Taiyuan, and Kaimin. The Three Acacia Clan consisted of Liyang Ling Wang Yan Kaiji at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty Warlord Wang HuYiyi successively, with generations of officials, and descendants of successive dynasties and dynasties, scattered all over the world.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, There was Wang You (also known as Wang You), a descendant of Liyang Ling Wang Yan, who was a scholar and a martial artist, and was worshipped by Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin as an overseer of imperial history. Subsequently, he was promoted to shang shu bingbu shilang. Wang Hu was so favored and very grateful in his heart, and in order to show that he was absolutely loyal to the imperial court, he rushed back to his hometown in Xinxian County, the capital of Shandong, and moved all his family members to the capital and settled in Kaifeng. In the spring of the second year of Kaibao (969 AD), someone informed Song Taizu that "Fu Yanqing, the envoy of Wei Prefecture (Daming County, Shandong), is actively plotting rebellion." Taizu listened, his heart was suspicious, and after several days of painstaking thinking, he still couldn't make up his mind. A few days later, Song Taizu called Wang Hu to his side and said, "Wei Prefecture is aiqing's hometown, and today I will let you return to your hometown and return to Wei Prefecture as an official." If you can understand the truth of one party, the position of the prime minister is none other than the secretary of state. Wang Hu listened and Xie En stepped back.

Wang Hu knew that this was Emperor Taizu's request to go to Wei Prefecture to collect evidence of Fu Yanqing's treason, so he rushed to Wei Prefecture to take office. Although he went through dozens of days of overt inspection and covert visits, he was still unable to find any solid evidence. One day, Song Taizu summoned him back to Kaifeng to inquire about this matter, and he bluntly reported: "Fu Yanqing has no conspiracy to rebel, and the subject is willing to guarantee the lives of more than a hundred mouths in the family." Your Majesty must not be suspicious, lest you kill innocents indiscriminately. Taizu listened and was very unhappy.

Wang Hu knew that although he had saved the innocent Fu Yanqing, he had also offended the emperor because of it. Sure enough, the imperial court soon issued a holy decree and sent Wang Hu to Xiangzhou again. From this point of view, the position of prime minister promised by Song Taizu has never been related to Wang Hu again.

Wang Hu returned to his own mansion, stroked his beard, looked around, planted three locust trees with his own hands, and then smiled at the locust trees: "He Zu Daoya, the post of prime minister, if you look at my descendants, there will definitely be those who are ranked among the three dukes." Later, as expected, Wang Hu's second son Wang Dan was re-elected as prime minister for twelve consecutive years during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Wang Dan's eldest son, Wang Yong, was a doctor of Guozijian; When the third son, Wang Su, was in Song Renzong, he also served as an envoy to the Tianzhang Pavilion and huainan county.

Because of the three locust trees in the mansion, Wang Hu and his descendants were called "Three Acacia Halls" by posterity, and the "Three Acacia Halls" not only became the hall name of the Wang Hu clan, but also further developed into an important branch of the entire Wang family - the "Three Acacia Wang Clan". Wang Hu is also revered as an important ancestor of the "Three Acacia Halls".