"Xijing Miscellaneous" recounts a story of Cao Chang's funeral.
Cao Chang is not surnamed Cao Mingchang, but refers to **Yun Chang, surnamed Yun Mingchang. The meaning of "Cao" here is to refer to the official who is in charge of something. "Cao Chang's funeral" is actually ** Yunchang funeral. Many people misunderstand.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a ** named Yunchang, the word young Confucian, a native of Pingling (now Qindu District, Xianyang, Shaanxi). When he was young, he worshipped Wu Zhang, a native of the same county, as a teacher.
Wu Zhang, the word Weijun, a generation of famous Confucian, served as a doctor. More than 1,000 students followed him in his studies. Wang Mang's eldest son, Wang Yu, was also his student.
Yun Chang studied under Wu Zhang, Xi read "Shangshu", studied Xi Confucianism, and respected the teacher very much. But he often likes to criticize other people's faults, and everyone thinks he is frivolous.
In the second year of Yuanshou (1 BC), Liu Yin, the 9-year-old king of Zhongshan, officially ascended the throne as Emperor Ping of Han. At that time, Emperor Hanping was young, and Wang Mang became the general Da Sima and became the de facto ruler of the Western Han Dynasty, and his power was already equal to that of the emperor, and Emperor Hanping was just Wang Mang's puppet.
In order not to prevent Wang Mang, who was in power during the reign of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang did not even let Emperor Han Ping's biological mother Wei Ji and her family enter the capital to prevent him from competing for power.
Wang Mang's eldest son Wang Yu was deeply dissatisfied with what his father did, in his opinion, it is good to say that the emperor is young now, but when the emperor is older in the future and has real power, once he remembers today's events, it will not be our Wang family who will be unlucky at that time. However, Wang Yu also knew that he could not persuade Wang Mang, so he went to his teacher Wu Zhang for advice to discuss how to curb Wang Mang's various behaviors.
Wu Zhang believes that Wang Mang is in power at this time and insists on going his own way, and he can't listen to anyone's advice. However, at that time, Wang Mang in order to compete for power and profit, had many times with the help of auspicious rui to say things, Wu Zhang thought that Wang Mang believed in the theory of gods and ghosts, and believed in the words of ghosts, gods and monsters, so it was better to push the boat down the river and engage in some ghostly and supernatural events to scare and scare him, so that Wang Mang was afraid and his behavior was restrained. When the time comes, he will use this to write a book, and persuade Wang Mang to agree to Wei's entry into Beijing with remarks such as "contrary to human morality, disasters from heaven", until Wei's return to power.
Wang Yu felt that this method was very good, so he found his wife's brother Lu Kuan, and asked Lu Kuan to carry a bucket of dog blood, and secretly sprinkled the blood on Wang Mang's door in the dead of night.
Who knows, when Lu Kuan ran to splash the dog's blood in the middle of the night, he was accidentally discovered, and Lu Kuan had to run away in a hurry. Although Lü Kuan was not caught, Wang Mang soon sent someone to find out the truth.
After the matter was revealed, Wang Mang, who had lost his conscience, was angry, and ordered his own son Wang Yu to be arrested and imprisoned, and soon he was killed with poisoned wine, so that more than 100 people were involved. And Wu Zhang, who came up with the idea, was ordered to be tortured by the extremely cruel Wang Mang, cutting off his limbs section by section, and discarding his body outside the gate of Chang'an East City.
Wu Zhang's disciples had more than 1,000 people, and no one dared to collect and bury his body.
And in order to avoid the sudden disaster, they all openly declared that they were not Wu Zhang's students, and they had already changed their courts, studied under others, and were no longer under Wu Zhang's sect.
At that time, Yunchang Guanju Situ Peng, only he stepped forward, knelt down all the way to the teacher's corpse, shouted that he was Wu Zhang's student, and carefully wrapped the teacher's corpse piece by piece, crying silently and going back, and burying Wu Zhang's corpse.
Yun Chang openly buried the teacher's body in the coffin according to the teacher's etiquette, and his mournful wailing poured out the government and the opposition, and the entire Jingshi people wept for it.
People were ashamed when they remembered their original views on Yun Chang. Only then did I understand that an upright person is not in the company of mediocrity, and therefore is not understood by mediocre people.
Later, in order to praise his character, the people of Pingling erected a life monument for him on the side of Wu Zhang's tomb when he was alive, on the south curtain ridge of Longshou Mountain.
Xijing Miscellaneous Records" sixty-nine "Cao Chang's Funeral".
Original text: When Yu was young, Wen Pingling Cao was open under Wu Zhangmen, and he often reprimanded people, or thought it was light, and everyone in the world thought it was true.
After the chapter, Wang Mang was killed, and no one dared to accept the burial, ** changed their names to follow his teacher.
When it was open, it was Situ Peng, who was called Wumen**, and buried his corpse, and he knew that the straight person was not allowed to be in the redundant generation.
Pingling life is to erect a monument on the side of Wu Zhang's tomb, on the south curtain ridge of Longshou Mountain.
Translation: When I was young, I heard that Pingling County**Yunchang was a subordinate of Wu Zhangmen**, and I often liked to criticize other people's mistakes, some people said that he was very frivolous, and everyone in the world thought so.
Wu Zhang was later killed by Wang Mang, and he didn't dare to go to the funeral, so many of his previous ** changed their names, so they changed their doors and went to other teachers.
Yun Chang was Situ Peng at the time, and only he claimed to be Wu Zhang's disciple ** and buried Wu Zhang's body. Because of this, people understand that upright people do not associate with mediocre people, and they are not the same as mediocre people.
Later, when he was alive, the people of Pingling erected a monument for him on the side of Wu Zhang's tomb, on the south curtain ridge of Longshou Mountain.