Wei Yuan (1508 to 1565) was born in Ma Yuan with the name of Lu Bu. Born in Zhengde, Ming Wuzong lived for three years, and died in Jiajing and Sejong for forty-four years, at the age of fifty-eight. In the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538), he was a scholar. Awarded the editor of Hanlin Academy. The emperor is quick-witted. He often writes a piece of paper in the middle of the night to make a green word, and then he does it with a pen. When you meet Chinese and foreign people, you should pay tribute to beauty. So, according to the imperial edict, he suddenly ordered the minister of does to change the household registration department and find a college student in Wuyingdian to join the cabinet.
According to folklore, Wei Yuan's mother married several husbands, each time she gave birth to a son, and then her husband died. Most of the sons born are promising. For example, her son, Gong Hui, born to one of her husbands, is a native of Luting Village and used to be an assistant minister of industry. According to this version, that is to say, Wei Yuan and Gong Hui are half-brothers. The truth of this legend can be said to exist, but it seems that there is no guarantee.
Gong Hui, born in Luting, was a scholar in the second year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1523). He has served as assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, military affairs prefect of Nangan, governor of grain transportation and governor of Fengyang. During his tenure, he observed the people's feelings, suspended the construction of palace trees, suppressed the giant bandits in southern Jiangxi, and managed the floods in the Huaihe River. His official voice is quite good and memorable in the local area. In particular, Gong Hui said in the article "A Map of Mining and Transportation" that Emperor Jiajing stopped cutting, and few people knew little about it. The people dared not speak, did not flatter the secular and powerful, and exposed the shortcomings of the current dynasty. Finally, they had to stop cutting. "Shu people are virtuous and are with Zhuge Liang." Gong Hui, the author of All Shaanxi Politicians, died at the age of eighty-five, and gave him a suggestion from the right capital.
On one occasion, Gong Hui went out to catch the exam and passed by Ma Yuan, which coincided with heavy rain and hid under one roof. Just listen to the room, there is a woman giving birth. "Wow-"The baby's crying on the ground brought joy to the mountain village. Gong Hui congratulated the parturient in the room and said, "This child must be a four-grade official in the future." The parturient in the room should cry. From the figures alone, four is greater than one. Without knowing the official rank, she said modestly, "Not four big, one is enough." After the rain stopped, Gong Hui left. He didn't expect that the mother in the house was his own mother, and there was no contact for a long time. The baby was Wei Yuan, who really became a senior official in the future.
Wei Yuan was born in a poor peasant family. One day, a foreign rich man took a fancy to a mountain not far from Ma Yuan, called Xiaoling Peak, which has good feng shui and wanted to buy it. This mountain belongs to all Ma Yuan people. With the consent of Ma Yuan, the rich man gave a banquet to all Ma Yuan people and held a wine banquet at the Dojo in front of the ancestral temple in Ma Yuan. People in Ma Yuan are invited to drink and eat meat. Wei Yuan's family didn't receive the invitation. Wei Yuan listened to the excitement in the Dojo and asked his mother, "What's going on over there?" Mom said that a rich man wanted to buy a mountain and treat him. Wei Yuan asked, "Do we have a share in that mountain?" Mom replied, "Yes." Wei Yuan said, "Why don't you invite us to dinner?" Mother said, "Our family is poor and people look down on us." Wei Yuan, a teenager, was angry and said, "I will ask for an explanation."
Wei Yuan went to the ancestral temple Dojo. Because he is young, others will not care if they push a cup to help him. He stood on the threshold and shouted to his father, "Grandfather Tai, you can't sell our mountain." When everyone heard this, they were quiet. The patriarch saw that it was a child who was making trouble. Knowing that his family was poor and there was no man as the backbone, he ignored him and picked up his glass and continued to drink. He said casually, "A glass of wine can't make waves." The tone is almost a kind of disdain and disdain. Hearing this, Wei Yuan immediately shouted back: "The grain fire has reached Chung Shan Man." The heads of families were shocked. How can this poor boy who has never studied be so neat? The momentum of "a fire" versus "a glass of wine" and "Chung Shan Man" versus "a three-foot wave" completely drowned his contempt between words. The patriarch was speechless, and his glass stopped in the air, not knowing whether to drink it or not. When the rich man saw this situation, he had a proposal in his mind and invited Wei Yuan and his mother to the party at once. He said quietly to the patriarch, "The banquet is very interesting, but I won't buy the mountains of Xiaoling Peak. It's no use buying it, because Feng Shui has been occupied. "
In this way, Wei Yuan became famous in Fiona Fang. People often test him out of curiosity. Once, a butcher was killing pigs. When he saw Wei Yuan coming, he said, "I will give you a correct answer. If you answer correctly, you can take the pig head away. " Wei Yuan said, "Very good." After the butcher killed the pig, he looked at the pig blood all over the ground and said, "There is blood all over the ground." At this time, he was cutting the pork belly when a hot air came out. Wei Yuan said: "The spirit is overwhelming." Hearing this, the butcher felt that he spoke neatly and skillfully, and he was amazed. He had to give up, put his hands on the pig's head and let Wei Yuan take it away.
There is a rich man in the stable. He heard about Wei Yuan's talent and knew that he would succeed in the future. He is willing to trust his daughter and wants to be invited to test him face to face first. The servant of the rich man's family rushed to Ma Yuan to inquire about Wei Yuan who went up the mountain to cut wood. After chasing many mountain roads, I saw a young lang in front of me, and when I knew it was, I went forward to strike up a conversation. He said, "My master admires your talent. I hope you go to the stable for dinner today. " Wei Yuan said with a shelf, "When I went down the mountain, I had already passed three mountains. If I want to go back, I need to wait for tomorrow. " Who goes back first and waits for the house in Wei Yuan. When Wei Yuan came back from chopping wood the next day, the servant had already prepared the sedan chair, so Wei Yuan was invited to the stable. Wei Yuan thought, look at each other's sincerity, also not refuse, so he sat on the sedan chair. The rich held a grand banquet, but under Wei Yuan's seat, a layer of dust was buried. Wei Yuan answers guests' questions like drinking, while drinking and eating are gentle. After a banquet, Wei Yuan left. The rich man went to check and found a pair of clear shoe prints on the dusty soil. That is to say, from beginning to end, Wei Yuan's feet did not move after landing on the dusty land. According to folklore, such people have no heirs. The rich gave up their original ideas.
Wei Yuan later married a woman with big feet who raised ducks. It is said that that is his uncle's daughter, that is, his cousin. After that, Wei Yuan gained fame, and this official was respected by the old cabinet. Because there are many poems praising virtue, he was named "Prime Minister of Green Words".