One person, one sentence of trivia
Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), a native of Dengzhou, Shandong. He was born into a military family. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the heroes rose up and rebelled against the Great Yuan. His ancestor Qi Shen assisted Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world and served for 30 years. Later, Qi was killed in battle during an expedition to Yunnan. The Son of Heaven was grateful for Qi Xiang's meritorious service to the founding of the country, so he named his son Qi Bin as General Mingwei, and his descendants were hereditary commanders of Dengzhou Guard. Dengzhou Wei, that is, the garrison area set up in Dengzhou.
The men of the Qi family seem to be very talented as generals. Qi Jiguang's ancestor Qi Jiguang was very strong when he was young, and he was once alone, fighting tigers with his bare hands, which caused a sensation in the township and became a good story on the Qi family tree.
Qi Jiguang's father, Qi Jingtong, was also a serving soldier and belonged to the Shenji Battalion at that time. The Shenji Battalion is one of the three major battalions of the Beijing Praetorian Guard, and it is a special army that specializes in firearms. Qi's father is resolute and studious by nature, smart and upright, and has made many achievements in battles with the enemy.
Before Qi Jiguang was born, there was a stranger surnamed Zhong at that time, and he had always been accurate in predicting good fortune and misfortune. He said to his father, "General, you will have two sons, but they will be born later. Thirteen years later, on the first day of the tenth month of the leap year of the Wuzi year, the eldest son was born. In the future, he will make great achievements, he is a tiger minister of the three dynasties, a famous general of a generation unparalleled in the world, and he will not have any sorrow in his old age. Five years after the birth of the eldest son, the second son was born. The old man surnamed Zhong, who claimed to be 800 years old, expressed his hope that he would accept his family's son as **, and hoped that Qi's father would not forget.
In the seventh year of Jiajing (1528), which was the year of Wuzi, General Qi suddenly got up in his sleep, as if he was arching his hands. The general's wife was surprised and hurriedly grabbed him. The general woke up from his dream and said, "Just now I dreamed of Zhong Xian, wearing a crown and a silk robe, holding a simple board in his hand, and landing in the courtyard. I was about to greet Zhong Xian, when suddenly he turned into a tiger and jumped directly into the South Hall. ”
General Qi's wife, Zhang, lives in the North Hall, and the Wang Family lives in the South Hall. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the maidservant knock on the door to report the news, and happily said that Wang had given birth to a boy. It was the first day of October. Wang also dreamed of the god man in the silk clothes, and he surrendered to the wat and surrendered. General Qi, who was 56 years old at the time, was considered an old man, which was not easy. As the saying goes, "People are in good spirits when they are happy." When the general woke up the next day, he saw that the sun was all five colors, so he named the son "Jiguang". With Zhong Xian's prophecy and his family's strange dreams, Qi Jiguang was born into the world.
In addition to studying, the nine-year-old Xiao Jiguang built a city with mud, cut bamboo as a pole, cut ribbon paper as a flag, and piled up rubble as a camp. He himself acted as a conductor and played games with a group of children. The neatly arranged little soldiers were as strict as a military brigade. His little sister pulled out the colored flag, and Xiao Jiguang chased after her with a poisonous snake to scare her, and the villagers were surprised to say with no fearless courage: "This child is really unusual." ”
The Qi family's old house has been in disrepair for more than 200 years, and due to disrepair, the house has collapsed, and it has to be repaired. Qi Jingtong is an honest official, and he is extremely strict with himself, and his family has always been very poor. He ordered the craftsman to open only four windows. The craftsman said to Xiao Jiguang: "The little boy was born in Jiangmen, and the house should be built in style, please open twelve carved windows." Xiao Jiguang believed it and really ran to beg his father. Qi's father scolded him: "If you can serve the country and keep the family business of your ancestors, you can make me not offend my ancestors." If you gather a crowd to break the law, you won't even be able to keep this old mansion in the end!”
This year, Qi Jiguang was twelve years old, and in the same year, Qi's father asked him about his ambitions. Qi Jiguang said: "It's about reading. Qi's father said to him: "The purpose of reading is to understand the four words of loyalty, filial piety, honesty, and integrity, otherwise what is the use of reading?"Qi's father asked people to write these four words on the newly built wall.
When Xiao Jiguang was thirteen years old, Qi Jingtong made a marriage contract for his son, who was the daughter of General Wang Dong of Wanhu. Qi Jiguang's maternal grandfather's family gave him a pair of embroidered silk shoes. One day, when he passed by the courtyard wearing these new shoes, Qi Jingtong saw it and scolded his son angrily: "What kind of embroidered shoes is this child wearing?"If you wear embroidered shoes today, you will wear clothes made of silk in the futureWear clothes made of silk and satin, and eat good food and meat. Your father is an honest official, and his money is meager, and he will not be able to satisfy your greed. In the future, you will deduct the salaries of the soldiers and make money from the soldiers. In order to prevent the slightest slight, Qi's father tore the shoes.
has a naughty son, and Qi Jingtong is also quite nerve-wracking as a godson. Qi Jingtong served in the Shenji Battalion, which was in charge of firearms and naturally stored a large amount of gunpowder. In the Ming Dynasty, monasticism prevailed, and many families had alchemy furnaces. Qi Jingtong once learned alchemy Xi with Zhong Xian, and the Qi family also had a copper tripod to burn mercury. He once placed the wooden utensils where the gunpowder was stored on the tall building and told the children not to go upstairs to play.
One day, Qi Jiguang took advantage of people's inattention and secretly ran upstairs to light a fire to play. The miscanthus is flammable, and a little spark is enough to ignite, and the fire suddenly soars into the sky. Qi Jingtong shouted loudly, but Qi Jiguang just didn't respond. When the fire was extinguished, the gunpowder upstairs had been burned out, and the protective plate surrounding the gunpowder around Xiao Jiguang had been burned three inches. It's a blessing in misfortune. Qi Jingtong cried and said: "This child is really fateful, fortunately God blesses him!."”
Qi Jingtong is bold by nature, strong in martial spirit, and his mind is not about the amount of wealth at home. But the people in the township were worried about the general's family affairs, and some people couldn't stand it anymore, so they said to Qi Jingtong: "General, what do you want to leave to your children and grandchildren after a hundred years?"The villagers kindly reminded General Qi not to spend all his money, but to save some and leave some inheritance for his children and grandchildren.
When General Qi heard this, he called his son and said, "Do you really feel sorry because your father didn't have an inheritance for you?"The property I have left to you is immeasurable, and it is stored in the imperial court, and all the riches you have. Implicit in his words was the expectation that his son would inherit his ancestral position and be loyal to the country, Qi Jiguang bowed respectfully: "The property left by my father is high, and my son needs to worry about it." ”
When the young Qi Jiguang was naughty, he went to the house to uncover the tiles, played with poisonous snakes, and built his own military base with clay colored paperBut when he listened to his father's teachings, he respectfully obeyed his orders and obeyed his father's teachings. What ordinary children don't dare to do, he did;What the average child can't imagine, his little head will burst with inspiration. This child, who was prophesied by Zhong Xian before he was born, is about to show the light of the world with the halo descended by fate. To be continued.