Introduction:
In the summer of 1630 in Beijing, it was very hot, and everyone fleeing the heat, even in the hot summer, the execution ground in Beijing's West Market was extremely lively.
At this time, on the execution ground was a man with a shawl, this man was the famous general of the late Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan.
Even in the execution ground, Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were like torches, and he was not afraid of the coming of death.
On the execution ground, Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced to death, and the live executioner scraped 3,543 knives on his own flesh until there was no complete flesh on his body, only a head. The people on the execution ground paid for the meat scraped by Yuan Chonghuan and ate it raw with soju.
In the end, Yuan Chonghuan was burdened with grievances and ended with grievances.
On the night after the execution, Yuan Chonghuan's head disappeared!
Yuan Chonghuan's personal bodyguard made a poisonous oath, and the poisonous oath has lasted until this year, which has been executed for 18 generations 392.
Who stole Yuan Chonghuan's head? Who is this personal guard? What kind of poison oath was made?
The cause of Yuan Chonghuan's death
Yuan Chonghuan, a famous military general in the late Ming Dynasty, was born in Guangdong and was a famous anti-Qing general and patriotic general in the late Ming Dynasty.
In the later period of the Daming Dynasty, when the country was politically corrupt, the emperor was suspicious by nature, and the strength of the national army declined, Nur Hachi in the north established the Houjin regime and declared war on the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty sent troops to face the battle at the border pass, but the army at that time was loose and crumbling, and its combat quality was no longer comparable to before.
Under the attack of Nur Hachi in 1622, the 130,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty fled, and Nur Hachi successfully pocketed more than 40 cities of the Ming Dynasty, and the border situation was very critical.
Yuan Chonghuan saw that the situation at the border pass was critical, and proposed to bring his own troops to the border pass to guard it.
However, at that time, Yuan Chonghuan only had more than 10,000 troops, which was far from Nur Hachi's troops, and it was impossible to repel Nur Hachi.
In order to let the soldiers and the people of Ningcheng see his determination, Yuan Chonghuan took all his family members to Ningcheng, determined to coexist and die with Ningcheng.
Since arriving in Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan single-handedly defeated Nur Hachi's army of more than 200,000 under the condition of disparity in strength with the enemy and no reinforcement in the rear, and successfully achieved the "Ningyuan Great Victory".
Yuan Chonghuan single-handedly reversed the precarious situation at the border pass at that time. Since then, the Chongzhen Emperor also trusted Yuan Chonghuan very much, and rose several ranks from a small official in a few years, becoming a bright star that rose rapidly at that time.
In 1629, the "Change of Jiwei" caused Yuan Chonghuan to be instantly defeated from a respected star to being spurned by thousands of people.
Such a big change in just a few years was mainly because Yuan Chonghuan's character led to the nature of the Chongzhen Emperor.
Yuan Chonghuan's courage and resourcefulness are too poor interpersonal relations: after Yuan Chonghuan inspected the border pass, he returned to Beijing to play the emperor: "I only need 10,000 troops, I can guard Shanhaiguan."
As a literati, Yuan Chonghuan liked to kill enemies on the battlefield, and Yuan Chonghuan used his military talents to win a big victory in the "Ningyuan Great Victory and Ning Jin Great Victory". Even though he was distinguished by military merit, Yuan Chonghuan's interpersonal relationship was very bad, and he and his superiors and partners were very stiff, and Yuan Chonghuan believed that it was others who were jealous of him that led to a stalemate with officials and partners.
Because the interpersonal relationship could not be handled well, when Yuan Chonghuan was framed by the villain again, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee seconded the proposal, and no one spoke for Yuan Chonghuan.
Yuan Chonghuan also has a big taboo that is, "exceeding his authority and arbitrarily".
When Yuan Chonghuan was serving as a supervisor, he killed a member of the imperial court without authorization. When Yuan Chonghuan was an overseer, he killed a colonel officer for exceeding his authority, and was severely criticized by his superiors after learning about it, but Yuan Chonghuan disagreed, and killed Mao Wenlong, a military commander with outstanding combat achievements, without the permission of the Chongzhen Emperor, and said that Mao Wenlong was "autocratic."
Mao Wenlong, as a first-class official of the imperial court, dared to kill without authorization, and what did Yuan Chonghuan not dare, the emperor had already begun to suspect Yuan Chonghuan, and after Yuan Chonghuan was framed, the Chongzhen Emperor chose to kill him even if he knew Yuan Chonghuan's achievements.
After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the emperor already had some doubts about him, but Yuan Chonghuan once again violated the taboo. After the death of Nur Hachi, Yuan Chonghuan sent people to mourn without authorization, but it was the enemy, and Yuan Chonghuan did not go to the court to make his own decisions, no matter what the purpose of going to mourn the enemy was, which made the important ministers and emperors of the dynasty suspicious of him.
In the autumn of 1629, the Crown Prince avoided fighting with Yuan Chonghuan and chose to lead tens of thousands of Qing troops from Mongolia to detour and approach Beijing, Yuan Chonghuan had long expected the conspiracy of Emperor Taiji and greeted the emperor in advance, but at that time the emperor did not take Yuan Chonghuan's reminder to heart, and finally the Qing army approached Deshengmen in Beijing,
Yuan Chonghuan eventually risked killing his head to return to Beijing to fight, and after an eight-hour battle, he finally defeated Emperor Taiji and saved Beijing.
The defeated Huang Taiji did not flinch, always needed to find an opportunity to strike, and finally got the eunuchs "Yang Chun" and "Wang Chengde" were captured alive, and immediately thought of using "counter-schemes" to frame Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Taiji had reached an agreement, as long as Yuan Chonghuan cooperated with them, Huang Taiji could capture Beijing.
Huang Taiji's move did completely shake the emperor's trust in Yuan Chonghuan.
During Yuan Chonghuan's imprisonment, the remnants of the castration party within Daming fell into the well and poured dirty water on Yuan Chonghuan's body, and Chongzhen was imprisoned in the winter of 1629.
During the six months of his detention, Yuan Chonghuan had always preferred to die and never said a word against his will, and Yuan Chonghuan's tough attitude and adulterous ears imposed some trumped-up charges on him, and the Chongzhen Emperor decided to sentence Yuan Chonghuan to death.
Even when he arrived at Xingtai, Yuan Chonghuan was not afraid, thinking that he was doing the right thing and had a clear conscience.
In the end, Yuan Chonghuan died unjustly, and the most loyal righteous man surnamed She around him could not bear to see his master in distress, and secretly stole Yuan Chonghuan's head at night and buried his head in his own courtyard.
The Ming Dynasty was overthrown, She Yishi died, and Yuan Chonghuan was not rehabilitated. It was not until one hundred and fifty years later that Qianlong helped Yuan Chonghuan clear his grievances and tell the world the truth.
On his deathbed, She swore to guard the tomb for generations
She Yishi took Yuan Chonghuan's head to his home, concealed his real name and lived alone in the small courtyard of his home, and before dying, he made three poisonous oaths to warn his descendants.
Article 1: The She family has to guard the tomb of General Yuan Chonghuan for generations.
She Yishi also said that after his death, he would bury himself next to the general's cemetery and remain loyal to General Yuan Chonghuan.
Article 2: The descendants of the She family can never be officials.
Although you can't be an official, you must read books, because only by reading books can you understand things and know history.
Article 3: Never go south and return to your hometown in Guangdong.
It turned out that the She family really did it, and they had been guarding Yuan Chonghuan's cemetery for nearly four hundred years.
But the She family has an unwritten rule that only the male in the family can guard the tomb, but until the seventeenth generation of the grave keeper is also a man, because of some setbacks that caused him to break his oath and leave here.
But his cousin She Youzhi stayed to guard the tomb, and he kept it for a lifetime.
During the period of guarding the tomb, there were many setbacks, but She Youzhi did not choose to give up.
She Youzhi's son Jiao Ping changed his name to "She Jiaoping" in order to be able to continue to guard the tomb, but unfortunately Jiao Ping died in an accident, and She Youzhi and his wife lost their son in their later years.
On August 12, 2020, She Youzhi passed away, and since then, the 18th generation of She Nian has stood guard at Yuan Chonghuan's tomb for 393 years.
Epilogue:
Before She Youzhi died, someone asked: "Yuan Chonghuan is not related to your family, why is he willing to guard his tomb for so long?" ”
She Youzhi replied: "Yuan Chonghuan talks about a kind of loyalty, while the She family talks about a kind of benevolence and righteousness, and what we do to guard the cemetery is not only for the family's sense of faith, but only so that our descendants can know, and inherit the national essence and inherit our loyalty." ”