Zhang Yuan
Zhang Yuan of Wu County was about to be transferred from his position as a county lieutenant of Fengtian to a new position. At that time, Li Qi, a concubine, was working in western Zhejiang as a questionable administrator of monopolies, and Zhang Yuan was an old acquaintance of his and was going to visit him for financial support.
He did not wait for Li Qi, but once in a dream, he saw a man come to him with an official document appointing an official, saying, “Zhang Yuan can be the magistrate of Xin Yu County in Yuanzhou.” He thought in his dream that he had been a red lieutenant and was not suitable to be a county magistrate and refused to accept the post. The visitor said, “There are two quarters of salary, and the official document for spending the salary has been issued, why don’t you accept it?” So the official document was stiffly slipped to him.
When Zhang Yuan woke up from his sleep, he was very unhappy, and when he saw Li Qi, he told him that he was going to be transferred to a new post, and said he was very poor. Li Qi kept him for a few days, but when Zhang Yuan insisted on leaving, Li Qi said, “You are still a long way from being reappointed, so can you hold a position here first, so that you can also supplement the cost of firewood and rice.” Zhang Yuan did not dare to resist, and was acting as the official of the salt and iron field of the county of Villeng.
Zhang Yuan accepted it because its position was low, but the oil was thick. When he arrived, he found that the seal used for the account books and documents was actually the invalid seal of Yuanzhou New Yu County. Zhang Yuan’s acting position ended in April and September. “Two seasons of salary”, as stated in the dream.
(from “Ex-Defining Records”)
Mu Chengwen
In the second year of Kaiping of Taizu of Later Liang, the court ordered General Li Si’an to attack Luzhou. The army camped at Hukou Pass and cut wood to build a fence. When the soldiers broke open a big tree trunk, there were six red characters in clerical script among the wood: “Tian XIV Jie Shi Jin”. Li Si’an submitted a report to the court, and the ministers congratulated the emperor, believing that there must be treasures from the remote countries to the emperor in the 14th year of Kaiping.
The young superintendent Xu Hong secretly said to his close people: “Since ancient times there is no one word for the year, the heavenly gift of auspiciousness and the son of heaven, as a proof of the mandate, there will be a lack of words? I think this foretells that in the year of C Shen, there will be a person with the surname Shih as emperor. Because the two verticals of the four characters moved to the left and right of the word heaven, is a C character, the four characters of the outer frame and cross through is a Shen character.”
Later, in the year of C Shen, Gaozu Shi Jingxiu of the Later Jin Dynasty rose to become emperor in Bingzhou, and it was the same as Xu Hong said.
(from “Ji Shen Lu”)
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