Seventy, Demolition of the Temple of Life

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  "You don't dare?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered with a chuckle.

  "Zhu Ba Ge... Wei Zhongxian's ancestral temple... Demolishing this thing is more serious than killing an official or rebelling, isn't it?" A bold young man said: "That's a 9,000-year-old temple, only 1,000 years younger than the Emperor. If we demolish his ancestral temple, the crime will be worse than killing the county magistrate, no, even worse than killing the prefectural magistrate."

  "That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly, "Even if we pierce a hole in the sky, we wouldn't be afraid of offending Wei Zhongxian. What? Are you all scared?"

  "Don't worry!" a young man said proudly, but his voice was slightly trembling, apparently he was still quite scared.

  "Didn't you just say that if Zhu Ba Ge took a liking to some family's daughter-in-law or daughter, you'd dare to go and snatch her? What happened now, why are you being such a coward?" Another young man laughed loudly: "Listening to your tone, I'm shaking with fear. I'm not afraid, if Zhu Ba Ge says demolish, I'll demolish it, who cares whose ancestral temple it is, at worst we can just become bandits after the demolition."

  "Cut, as a result you are also afraid, once opening mouth says to fall into outlawry, that is the road of fearing officialdom person."

  A group of young people started arguing.

  Zhu Yuanzhang swept his gaze across their faces one by one, discovering that they were indeed a little afraid, but this fear was a very normal reaction. After all, people are not machines and it's impossible to be fearless in the face of everything; truly being afraid of nothing is something only children do, and it's not enough to accomplish anything.

  A mature person knows to fear enemies they can't provoke, respect heroes with greater abilities, and have a sense of trepidation, only then can they protect themselves in intense battles.

  He was very satisfied with the reaction of these young people, and chuckled in a low voice: "As I said earlier, I'm testing your courage. If what you want to do isn't scary enough, then what's the point of testing your courage? How about it, are you going?"

  "Go! Of course go!" Although there was a look of fear on their faces, none of the young people retreated.

  Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that they couldn't retreat. Men, at this time, always have to consider their own face. If everyone around you says go, and you're the only one who says no, then you're a coward and will be looked down upon by everyone. This mentality is called the mass binding psychology. From ancient times to the present, many people didn't want to rebel but were bound by this psychology and ended up rebelling. However, this doesn't mean they'll become surrenderists. Many people who were bound by others and rebelled went on to achieve great things.

  For example, Xu Da, a great general who founded the Ming Dynasty, was one of them. He was Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood playmate and had herded cattle together with him, so he could also be considered a cowherd boy. After Zhu Yuanzhang rose to prominence in the rebel army, he returned home to recruit soldiers and asked Xu Da, "Do you dare to join me in rebelling?" Xu Da's forehead heated up: "You're a cowherd boy, I'm also one, if you dare to rebel, what don't I dare?"

  As a result, this brain-hot cowherd was tied up by Zhu Yuanzhang... Later, Xu Da became a famous and powerful general in the world, invincible in battle, unbeatable in attack, with outstanding achievements, becoming the first meritorious subject of the Ming Dynasty. His story also shows that the world is not only dominated by Zhu Yuanzhang, this cowherd, but also by Xu, another cowherd who is not inferior.

  Tying up this group of young people, but it's not just a matter of tying them up and being done with it. They also need to be reassured that what they're doing is righteous and beneficial to the people, so as to maintain stability in the team. Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Everyone listen up, I'm having you all go dismantle Wei Zhongxian's ancestral temple, not just to test your courage, but for another reason - to rid the people of a scourge."

  He said with a stern face and a just tone: "How abhorrent Wei Zhongxian is, everyone must have heard the book master talk about it... He ousted Xu Xie, monopolized state affairs, harmed good ministers, and made the world dark and gloomy. In order to build his ancestral temple, he also occupied good fields, making people miserable... We demolish his ancestral temple to demonstrate our noble and just spirit!"

  In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's description of Wei Zhongxian was not entirely his own opinion. After several hundred years of observing the wandering souls, he knew that Wei Zhongxian was a man with both merits and demerits, and could not be simply condemned to death. However, in order to arouse the sense of justice among these young people and give them a noble reason for action, it did no harm to temporarily tarnish Wei Zhongxian's reputation.

  As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, the young men's faces showed excitement, and they cheered: "Well said! Brother Zhu Ba, we'll follow you!" At this time, in addition to fear, there was also a sense of pride and determination in their eyes. This is where Zhu Yuanzhang was more clever than Zheng Yanzhong, whose troops only had the idea of "killing officials and rebelling", lacking a glorious and just goal, so when they entered the county city, looted the silver from the county warehouse, and quickly degenerated into bandits.

  But Zhu Yuanzhang first gave his young subordinates a righteous goal, making them constantly remind themselves that what they did was for the people, for the people of the world, and not for themselves. In this way, the team's mental state is easier to maintain for a long time and will not become corrupt so quickly.

  After the mental preparation, it's time to start making some substantial preparations. Zhu Yuanzhang let the young people go back home and bring the tools needed for dismantling houses, including iron shovels, hoes, iron scoops, etc., and also had someone bring several large baskets to prepare for loading valuable items after dismantling the house, and designated a gathering place after dismantling the house.

  One night later, everyone set off, following the small path along the edge of the fields, rushing towards Wei Zhongxian's ancestral temple. By midnight, they arrived near the temple.

  This ancestral temple was built on the roadside less than a mile away from the Shanyi House, and it was originally built by Shanyi Dazhu. It took tens of thousands of taels of silver to complete, and it is extremely magnificent and solemn, with vermilion doors and carved beams, glazed yellow tiles, which are not inferior to those of the palace.

  Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the young people to be silent and lie down under the rice straw several hundred meters away from the ancestral temple, while he himself sneaked over to see if there were any night guards inside.

  As expected, the temple's gate was tightly closed. Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at the wall and threw out a rope, lassoing one of the eaves on the gate. With a light movement, he flipped over the wall and landed softly inside the temple. The temple had lanterns lit, and two servants from the Shi family were dozing off by the hall. Zhu Yuanzhang crept up quietly and swiftly chopped at the back of their necks with his palm. Before they could even wake up, the two servants were knocked unconscious.

  He walked around the temple again, didn't see anyone else, so he turned back and opened the temple door, beckoning to the young people hiding outside.

  A group of young people with great courage jumped out from their hiding place and ran over with excitement.

  Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his voice and instructed, "This place is very close to the Shi family's mansion. Everyone must be quiet, or we'll attract the attention of the Shi family's guards and things will get complicated."

  "Uh-huh, we're fine." The young people responded in a low voice.

  "Alright, let's move all the valuable things away." Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and said: "These things were all forcibly taken from poor people by the eunuch party. Wei Zhongxian doesn't deserve to enjoy these things. Let's take them to help poor people make a living."

  "Good!" The young people were very excited and began to walk around the hall, Zhu Yuanzhang also followed them to take action. In the center of the temple, there was a statue of Wei Zhongxian, with a mud body and gold powder on the outside. In front of the statue, there was an incense table, displaying many melons and fruits as offerings, two candle holders lit up, emitting soft red light, and in front of the statue, there was also a silk curtain hanging.

  Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a candle holder with one hand, and smiled: "This candle holder is made of silver, it's quite heavy, we can use it to buy rice to eat." He threw the candle holder into the bamboo basket carried by two young men behind him, and those two young men laughed softly.

  One of them jumped onto the table, pulled down the high-hanging mosquito net: "We'll take this net away, at least we can exchange it for two dou of rice."

  Another person then wrapped up all the melons and fruits on the table in his clothes, put them into a bamboo basket, and smiled: "Take these back to eat, there are several children in my village who are starving, they will definitely like these offerings."

  They had just finished sweeping the table clean, when two other young people came over and chuckled: "You're so stupid, how could you even leave this table behind? This is a high-quality sandalwood table, let's take it away!" The two young people lightly lifted the table used for offerings and ran off swiftly.

  In the ancestral temple, people's shadows were chaotic, everyone was searching for valuable things, and everything that could be moved was taken away. A few young men stacked up a human pyramid and sent a smaller, more agile guy to the rooftop, where he lifted up the glazed yellow tiles and chuckled quietly: "These tiles are valuable, let's take them all."

  "Then hurry up and throw it down, let's continue!"

  "Be careful with this tile, if it falls to the ground, it will make a loud noise and alarm the people in the house..."

  "Shh, don't worry, I'll catch it..."

  The little ones on the roof began to throw down glazed tiles, one by one, and the people below used their clothes to catch them, then neatly stacked the tiles in bamboo baskets. When the baskets were full, someone would lift them up and run out of the temple, carrying them far away to the assembly point designated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

  There are fewer and fewer things in the ancestral hall, bamboo baskets were loaded one after another, and the people who stayed behind to dismantle the house also became fewer. A young man even used a small knife to scrape off the gold powder on Wei Zhongxian's statue, and then wrapped it in his handkerchief...

  Zhu Yuanzhang smiled angrily: "What's the point? This broken porcelain, smash it before leaving, what's the use of scraping off gold powder?"

  "This gold dust is also money!" The young man laughed and said: "I don't want to leave a single copper coin for Wei Zhongxian."

  "Fool, gilding is a delicate task, you won't finish it even by dawn, hurry up and leave! What if someone comes, they'll catch you first."

  The young man reluctantly gave up his action of scraping gold powder and retreated with others.

  By the time it was almost daylight, the temple had become empty and desolate, with nothing left; not to mention the things in the house, even the tiles on the roof were gone.

  Young people all carried bamboo baskets and withdrew, Zhu Yuanzhang was the last to withdraw, he took a look at the temple that was left with only four walls, and couldn't help but think: what a pity, these walls and wooden beams can't be taken away, just leave them for the government to demolish and sell.

  He walked out of the temple gate, just about to rush back to the gathering place agreed with the young man, when he suddenly saw in the morning light of Li Min, a horse carriage was coming from afar at high speed, it seemed that it was heading towards the Shi family's mansion.

  "What's going on? A horse carriage is rushing over, it seems like something unexpected has happened." Zhu Yuanzhang's heart couldn't help but move.

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