Paranormal incident investigation notes

It is not easy to find all the families that have appeared in the vast sea of ​​scattered historical materials.

At best, these families can only be regarded as rural tycoons, far from enough to leave their names in official history, or have someone specially write a biography for them.

To collect them, you can only collect them from the list of benefactors who built bridges and repaired roads in XX, the list of temple donations, or if there is any famous person, mention the XX squire casually when introducing the person, for example, the XX person won the Jinshi, official to magistrate, when introducing him, he said that his family was poor when he was a child, and he received help from XX good people, etc. Only in these places can he find scraps of information, and then sort it out.

During this process, since he could not leave the field hospital area and had nothing else to do, Lu Ming also participated in this matter, staying with Huang Weimin all day long, immersed in a sea of ​​books.

The investigation of Organization X must be kept confidential after all, and there are many things that cannot be disclosed to Huang Weimin. Under such circumstances, it is only right that Lu Ming, a person who knows the inside story well, should be involved and take charge of the overall situation.

It's just that Lu Ming didn't provide any help in this process.

There are too many historical materials and too many ancient books. Just reading makes Lu Ming dizzy all day long, let alone collecting any useful information.

In addition to Lu Ming, Lu Qingliang and He Wei returned to Woye County again and began to cooperate with Huang Weimin's data collection work through actual investigations. The two of them were busy on the road all day long, busy visiting old people and historical sites, such as a stone tablet somewhere, a stone carving somewhere, taking photos of them and sending them to Huang Weimin.

Some officially collected books and materials, which Huang Weimin had never had the opportunity to see in the past, were all opened to Huang Weimin under the coordination of the two.

Seeing the ancient books delivered almost box by box, and the electronic documents one after another, Lu Ming's head grew a few times. On the other hand, Huang Weimin was full of excitement, his eyes almost shining.

During this period, Huang Weimin's life was extremely happy.

Without the noise of my wife, there are dedicated people to take care of food, clothing and accommodation. There is an unlimited supply of good wine and food. I can immerse myself in ancient books every day without worrying about anything else. In the evening, I can listen to opera and drink a few glasses of wine. , shaking his head and singing a few lines, especially since all this was done with money, and there was a lot of money, it was like a day in heaven.

Lu Ming, on the other hand, not only felt dizzy from reading every day, but also had to be dragged by Huang Weimin to accompany him for drinks at night. He wanted to stop drinking, but was afraid that it would affect Huang Weimin's work, so he had to drink cup after cup of wine, which was painful. Unspeakable.

Fortunately, the delicious fried duck that He Wei brought over was frozen, and eating a little every day gave me some comfort. But later on, I even got tired of eating fried duck, and life was completely no longer fun.

But Lu Ming still gritted his teeth and persisted.

Time slips away slowly in this state. About half a month after Huang Weimin started working, the task finally had preliminary results.

From the Wanli Year of the Ming Dynasty to modern times, a total of about hundreds of years, with the full cooperation of the Second Action Team, Huang Weimin combined these numerous historical materials with the memories in his head and decades of research, Finally, a list of hundreds of families within Woye County, or not far away, that could be called squires was compiled.

After this, the task of data collection will continue and become more arduous than ever. Because Huang Weimin needs to find out further detailed information about each squire family on the list.

Only in this way can we finally judge whether they meet our screening conditions and whether they are suspicious enough to warrant in-depth investigation.

"The Hong family of Mazhuang lived around the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Historical records say that at the peak of the family, the family's farmland reached more than 600 acres. There are children in the family who work as clerks in the county government, and they are famous local tyrants from all over the country. "

Most of Woye County is mountainous. In a place like this, having more than 600 acres of land is not a bad thing.

"How the family started cannot be verified, nor how it died. However, another historical record records that in the last years of Qianlong, a 'big epidemic' occurred in the Woye County area. The patient suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, high fever, and died within ten days. At that time, Almost every household in this place wore linen and mourning. Originally, the Mazhuang Hong family was mentioned from time to time by other historical materials when describing other events before this, but after the great epidemic, it was never mentioned again.

It is speculated that the family fell into decline during this great epidemic, or perhaps the whole family died. "

This obviously does not meet the filter conditions. After all, if you can steadily obtain benefits from the mountain god, it is just some infectious diseases and cannot have a big impact on the family.

In the past, there was an example of a poor boy asking for three doses of medicine from the mountain god and curing his son.

The Hong family of Mazhuang was excluded.

"The Zhang family of Sanliuzhuang. During the Tianqi period in the late Ming Dynasty. The family was engaged in timber business. They served as county magistrates twice. The family owned more than a thousand acres of land. Well, let me look for it, here.

Woye County Chronicle records that at the end of Tianqi, a major corruption case broke out in the county. The county magistrate at that time was punished. The Shangguan who came to handle the case also investigated and found out that several local families were involved, and all their homes were confiscated. Among them was a family that was engaged in the timber business - no mention was made of which family it was, but it was said that approximately one thousand taels of silver were seized from this family. Calculated based on common customs at the time, the family's total assets were around ten thousand taels of silver, which was the same as Sanliu's. The assets of the Zhuang and Zhang family roughly match, and it is basically certain that it is this family. "

The family perished because their home was confiscated. And this shows that the family is not powerful and has no foundation, and it also does not meet the screening conditions.

After all, this incident clearly shows that the Shangguan is trying to make money by investigating corruption. If the Zhang family had enough background and heritage, they would not be subjected to surgery.

"Luo Cun Luo, the family has a talented person to make a fortune, so he does not meet the conditions."

"The Tong family in Liuli Town has accumulated more than 200 acres of land over ten generations, which is not consistent."

It is not easy to select families that meet the criteria. So far, out of a total of 326 families, more than 200 have been excluded, and only more than 30 have been listed as suspected.

These are classified as suspected and require further data collection to ultimately determine if they are or are not.

"Shanghe Village Tang Family...huh?"

According to data, the Tang family in Shanghe Village appeared around the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. His family owns tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. The family business involves timber, private salt, wine making, medicinal materials, etc., and the family is extremely wealthy.

This family has been mentioned in several ancient books. Among them, the most interesting one among the authors is the family history of the ancestors of the Tang family.

The ancestors of the Tang family originally lived in a poor household and made a living by working as helpers for official government servants in the county town. But then I somehow got money in my hands, and money opened the way, and I soon became the clerk of the county government office. He also recruited gangsters to intervene in the casino and brothel business, and soon became a tyrant in the fertile field.

According to common sense, even if you have money, you will not be able to keep a poor settlement, let alone expand your business. But what amazed the author most was the luck of the Tang family's ancestors.

His luck always seems to be particularly good. Always encounter disaster at critical moments.

For example, once, he offended a certain big family in the county, and the big family threatened to kill him. But within a few days, the wealthy family seemed to be hit by a plague, and the whole family died inexplicably. From this, he took the first step to make a fortune and won the establishment of a genuine government official.

After that, he once offended the county magistrate, who wanted to beat him to death with a big board. But within a few days, the county magistrate also died inexplicably, and he escaped.

Later, he used a dose of medicine to cure a certain high-ranking official in the government, and was appreciated by the other party and gained a backer.

Later, the business grew bigger and bigger, buying houses and land, and owning tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, which no one dared to mess with.

According to common sense, such a wealthy person should live in a big place, at least in a county town. But for some reason, the ancestors of the Tang family were very stubborn and wanted to stay in their hometown, Shanghe Village.

There are rumors that Shanghe Village is a blessed place for the Tang family. Only by taking root here can they maintain wealth for generations. But in Lu Ming's eyes, he felt that the ancestors of the Tang family chose to stick to their hometown and not develop in a larger place closer to the center of power, but it might be to keep a certain secret and stick to a certain "fundament".

If the ancestors of the Tang family relied on the "Mountain God" to make their fortune, then what is the foundation?

Only the mountain god is fundamental. In this case, the head of the family must of course be stationed in the place closest to the mountain god.

That wasn't the only thing that caught his particular attention. Subsequently, the Tang family prospered for a generation in Shanghe Village, surviving the turmoil of the late Ming Dynasty and the massacre by the Qing soldiers. The family has always been rich and noble, which is not easy for a hundred years.

However, no matter how big the family grows, under the strict requirements of the Tang family's ancestral precepts, each generation of Tang family heads must stick to the remote and backward Shanghe Village.

"This Tang family is suspected."

Lu Ming quickly came to a conclusion in his mind.

but……

Huang Weimin soon found more historical materials about the Tang family. Historical data records that from the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty to the Daoguang period in the Qing Dynasty, after more than 200 years of inheritance and at least a dozen generations of people, this family finally ushered in its demise.

But the process of this family's demise also seems to reveal a strange atmosphere. Historical records say that he died in an attack by bandits, but it is also recorded that this group of "bandits" were described as skinny and ragged, and there were even women and children among them.

There are also records from the same period that because of the prosperity of the Tang family, surrounding bandits did not dare to invade for many years. This time, I don't know what happened, but the powerful Tang family was wiped out in one fell swoop.

Historical data also records that after this group of bandits broke into Tangjiazhuangzi, they actually "digged their ancestors' graves", "did not leave any chickens or dogs in their homes", and "divided their bodies and soaked them in the dung cellar", etc. It seems that they were not just trying to Wealth, but with deep hatred.

This is rather strange.