Cixi's hometown is in distant Mongolia, and her ancestral name is Ye He. She is a direct descendant of Ye He Na La. Cixi was very scheming and suspicious since she was a child. She always worried that her authority was not stable enough until she listened to politics. One winter was particularly cold, and it happened that tributes were given to the court in all directions. Ye Hejiashan, a relative of Empress Dowager Cixi, sent people to prepare all exquisite tributes, except ginseng, velvet antler, sable, silver fox, bonzi, mountain ballast and white mushrooms. There are also pine nuts for sacrifice, and the annual flag is fragrant, which is full of 44 16 cars of withered flowers.
Yehe is a small place. Why are there so many tributes? It turns out that Ye He was the place where Cixi's ancestors stayed. Every year, the specialties here are sent to the palace in the same way, so that she can have a taste.
This time, unlike in previous years, Kasanda sent his 20-year-old son, Xiletai, to personally supervise the transportation and meet Cixi to get the official position. Old Kasanda heard that anyone who wants to go to the palace to see Lafayette, whether it is a prince or a rich family, Baylor or Beizi, has to pay money, which is called "palace gate fee". Kasanda prepared enough money to bribe officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and palace eunuchs. In order to please Cixi, Kasanda also fabricated an auspicious message as a gift to greet Cixi.
After Xi Letai went to Beijing, he bribed the internal affairs office, paid tribute and gave the money to Li, the eunuch in charge of the palace. With the money Li received, he kept an eye on this kind-hearted man every day so that he could play it by ear.
On this day, Cixi combed her hair, dressed neatly, ate breakfast, did nothing, and was wondering how to have fun.
Seeing the opportunity, Li quickly knelt down and kissed him: "Galeries Lafayette, Old Boiler …" Li encountered a difficult problem. Whenever she is forbidden to report anything to Cixi, she must be amused before opening her mouth. This time, Cixi was amused by Li again. She said, "Lee, what did you come up with again? All women are happy when you say it. " Li Dao: "Lafayette, I heard that Ye He, the hometown of Lafayette, is coming!" Then I counted the tribute.
Cixi listened and said; "Since this year's tribute is so good, let the Ministry of Internal Affairs give more money!" Li Jian Cixi didn't care about these things and said, "Lafayette, I heard that people from Yehe brought a rare good news to Lafayette." As soon as Cixi heard the word "auspicious", she moved her heart and asked Li to call someone for questioning.
In the blink of an eye, Schiller Thai was taken into the palace and fell to his knees: "Schiller Thai, son of Yahya and Kasanda, slave to greet Lafayette!" Although Cixi took a fancy to Ye He Na La Shi, she had never been to Ye He, and she didn't know what it was like there, let alone summoned Ye He's visitors. At this time, I met Xiletai, so I had to make a false inquiry. Schiller Thai also shivered and sang a happy song: "Thanks to Lafayette, Ye He has a good weather this year, and the people live and work in peace and contentment ..." Speaking of this, Li was afraid that Cixi was tired of listening and reminded him: "Happy Taiwan, didn't you say you had something new to tell Lafayette?" At this time, Schiller Thai remembered what Amar had taught him when he left. He quickly knelt down and said, "Lafayette, this slave has brought good news of good luck." Cixi urged him to speak quickly. Xi Letai said, "Lafayette, we have a' two dragons playing with pearls' in Yehe!"
Empress dowager cixi was frightened and asked, "What's the' two dragons playing with pearls'?" Xi Letai said, "Lafayette, two hills have been born on the east and west sides of Yehecheng, like two dragons with a head and a tail, which have been growing towards Zhushan in the north. People say that if those two dragons can touch Zhushan, Ye He can become emperor. I'm here to give you good news! " Cixi became suspicious. These days, she was angry with Guangxu. She was most afraid of hearing the words "out of the emperor" and said in a long voice, "Is what you said true?" Xiletai said, "Go back to Lafayette, my slave is telling the truth.
We Kazan people say that Yehe is a treasure. He had two queens and was about to become an emperor. Cixi then glared and shouted: "Nonsense, only three-year-old dolls will believe these stories!" Xiletai thought that Cixi would be happy to give him an official position as soon as she said the news of her grandmother. Unexpectedly, Cixi suddenly turned her face and turned pale with fear, like a sieve. He kept kowtowing: "Damn slaves! Damn slaves! " Seeing that the situation was not good, Li quickly said, "Get down!" At this time, two eunuchs came up and dragged Xiletai down to the temple.
When Li saw that Cixi was really angry, it suddenly occurred to him that this was a taboo for Lafayette. One year, Cixi heard that there was an ancient cypress in the Spring Palace, which was tall and straight, with a gloomy crown, and was said to have the spirit of imperial soul. She found an excuse to go to Chunwangfu in person, pretending that the palace was short of wood and took a fancy to the tree. Isn't it strange that Empress Dowager Tang wants to build a palace and choose her own wood? Later, the tree was cut down and transported to the palace. Instead of being made into wood, it was burned.
Li used his quick wits when he thought of this. He knelt down and said, "Galeries Lafayette, calm down, don't say two earth dragons, even two real dragons. There are ways to subdue them. " Cixi asked quickly, "How?" Li said: "When I was a child, I often heard the old man say that as soon as the earth dragon appeared, I would dig up Long Mai and cut it off so that it would never reach Zhushan." Hearing this, the Empress Dowager Cixi immediately gave orders and ordered Joy Taiwan to return to Ye He immediately and cut off Long Mai within half a month.
Xiletai did not dare to delay, so he got on the horse and ran to Ye He overnight. Facing the biting cold wind, he galloped his horse and there was a post station three or five miles on the road. Every station has a set of horses waiting there, just like sending important documents, changing horses does not change people. In this way, many good horses are exhausted. Although Schiller Thai riding superb at ordinary times, strong body, but ran to Ye He fell from his horse and was unconscious.
Old Kasanda was pleased to hear that Schiller Thai had returned from Beijing so soon. Hurriedly ran to the west gate, and his son fainted to the ground. The horse was covered with sweat, frost and snow. It took Xiletai a long time to wake up. He said to Kasanda, "Mom, because of your auspicious news, Lafayette blamed it and cut off Long Mai within half a month, otherwise the whole Kashan will suffer!"
Old Kasanda immediately broke out in a cold sweat. God, I wanted to make up something auspicious to make Lafayette happy, so that I could give my son an official position, enjoy a wealth and raise an ancestor. I didn't expect it to be a disaster, and I really regret it. It's been three or nine days now, and the ground is freezing for three feet. How to dig?
The next day, Kasanda selected 200 able-bodied men to dig Long Mai. Who knows, pickaxe removed a white seal, and dug for a whole day, but didn't dig much. The next day, I changed into 200 strong boys, but I didn't make much progress at night. I'm worried that old Kasanda can't eat or sleep. Later, it was the old Mafa in the village who came up with a way to let carpenters and masons build the Sun Temple in Dongling and the Moon Temple in Xiling overnight. Kasanda sent someone to ride a horse to Beijing to report that Ye He dug up Long Mai, built two temples, and pinned down the earth dragon, so that it would never reach Zhushan.
Since then, people in Kazan have borrowed soil from there to burn kilns, build cribs and houses. There is a legend that Cixi digs Long Mai in Yehe area.