There are many stories about Shi Kefa's death. Shi Kefa (160 1- 1645) was born in Xiangfu, Henan. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng defeated Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged Jingshan Park. Zhu Yousong (1602- 1646), the axe king, set up a small court in Hong Guang, Nanming, and appointed Shi Kefa as a university student in Dongge and a minister of the Ministry of War. Therefore, historical materials often refer to it as the "division cabinet department". In April of the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1645), the Qing soldiers besieged Yangzhou, and Shi Kefa, who was guarding the city, refused to surrender and persisted, and the city was captured and unyielding.
There are different opinions about the death of Shi Kefa. Some people committed suicide and died, some people drowned in the river, and some people were killed by the Qing soldiers. Roy's "The Legacy of Shige Department": "Yangzhou is broken, many people commit suicide (die), and soldiers flock to Xicheng. When they met the Grand Commander (Dodo, Prince of Qing Yu), they asked him,' I am Shi Gebu.' ""The guards advised him to surrender, and the public cursed him. " "Scold more and more folded, the guard drew his sword to cut it, and all stood up to meet it. Handsome retreat sigh:' my hero'. Kill it left and right. "In addition, a record of Shunzhi Dynasty was beheaded in front of the army, which should be regarded as a letter.
There are also two versions about Shi Kefa's cenotaph. First, more than ten days after he was killed, his adopted son, Lieutenant Steve, was released. "Looking for a corpse, corruption is unknown. He was buried in the ridge wearing a robe. " (Qu Shan's Miscellaneous Notes on Salt Law of Huaihe River) Another story is that after the destruction of Yangzhou City, Shi Kefa fought a bloody battle with the Qing soldiers and finally "exhausted himself". People and horses are mixed, and the public bodies are trampled on as mud. People in Yangzhou mourned, picked up their clothes and buried them by the river. "("Shi Zhai Chronicle Draft ")
Emperor Qianlong praised Shi Kefa. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was an effective monarch. In order to win over the intellectuals of the Han nationality and consolidate the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he did it for forty-two years, praised the loyal ministers who died in the late Ming Dynasty, gave Shi Kefa "loyalty" and ordered him to build Shi Kefa's ancestral home in Meihualing, Yangzhou. Later, he inscribed four characters "Praise and comfort the loyal soul" for Peng's collection of Shi Kefa official clothes, and wrote a poem, also known as a minister poem, which was later mounted into a book. The imperial edict is "paste two Huai salt policies in this volume, put them in Kefa Temple in Meihualing, and listen to stone carvings to preserve them for a long time." (Quoted from Selected Poems of Qianlong)
Shi Kefa's suicide note is not long, and its main content is: "Mrs. Wan 'an. The northern soldiers (referring to the Qing soldiers) besieged Yangcheng on the 18th, and have not attacked yet. However, my heart has gone and I can't clean it up. Fa is long dead. I wonder if your wife will go with me? Life is useless in such a world. Might as well die early. "
At the end of the letter, he wrote, "At least let him go. At this point, this book is deeply grieved. April 2 1 day was mailed according to law. This letter was written three days before the city of Yangzhou was breached, which shows that he has made up his mind to die for his country.
Shi Kefa's residence in Nanjing is called "Stone Pier". Shi Kefa once wrote a well-known poem "The Battle of the Swallow in the Rocks": "It's a long way to go home without my mother. The rock head shed tears and dripped into the bottom of the river. " This is a kind of humiliation and anger when he was ordered in danger in the small court of Nanming, where the monarch was unconscious, the ministers were treacherous and the infighting was fierce. Resisting foreign invasion, defending the country and giving up family ties are also the embodiment of his noble personality.
As can be seen from the first sentence of the poem, Shi Kefa's home was in Nanjing at that time, but the specific location can't be verified. It is called "Stone Shield" in Qing poetry. Wang Youliang (1742- 1797), a poet in Jinling, has a poem "Stone Dun", the title of which is betting: "The cabinet of Ming Dynasty was separated from other businesses, and now it is a restaurant." There is a cloud in the poem: "violet invited guests, but he built a stone pier." So I have more than two cypress trees, and I will give one in my spare time. Ma Pan Cao Fang Road Butterfly Luan cauliflower village. I don't think the bell is weak because of the long time. "
Chen Wenshu (177 1- 1844), who was later than Wang Youliang, wrote three poems entitled "The stone pier is a different business of the pavilion, and now it is a restaurant". The preface says, "I don't know where I am." The first poem said: "Moling is always charming on a moonlit night, and there are still villas in those years." Leave it to the Southern Dynasties to talk about the legacy, Xie Gongdun and Shi Gongdun. "
Grandson was taken care of when he was studying in Nanjing. According to some historical records, Shi Kefa had no children, and Stevie was his heir before he was captured. However, Shi Kefa once mentioned "two" in "Desperate Letter". It means he has a son named "". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yingsheng Jin, a poet and Yang Shan (now Huai 'an), wrote a poem "Send a Tomb to the Plum Blossom Ridge in An". Ruan Kuisheng said, "Yu 'an is a neighbor of Taoism. After its reform, it flowed to. "I wonder, is this' stupid temple' and' son' the same person?
According to the descendants of Shi Kefa, when Governor Shi Kefa went north, he sent his family to Nanking. "I was pregnant and gave birth to a son after vicissitudes of life, because my family has continued the blood of the Stone Family." The last sentence is that Shi Kefa's concubines and sons have settled in Nanjing.
In the fourth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty, Tang Zhongyue, a scholar of Kangxi Dynasty (real name Dong Chang, now a native of Liaocheng, Shandong Province) came to jiangnan province as a prefect to study politics (equivalent to the vice governor in charge of education). In an entrance examination in Shangyuan County, there was a boy named Shi in his forties. When he filled in the register and other materials, he wrote Shi Kefa's name in the column of grandfather.
Deng Zhongyue had doubts. In addition to checking with Shi Sheng, he also inquired about all the old gentlemen in Shangyuan County School that Shi Sheng was Shi Kefa's grandson. After reading Shi Sheng's paper, he is full of defects (faults and mistakes). Deng Zhongyue told everyone that it is impossible to criticize history students. In other words, Shi Kefa's descendants can't just read articles. So he admitted that Shi Sheng was a county student. And embedded this matter in the wall of the county school for the successors to follow suit. "Therefore, Shi Sheng was able to die young and his family was slightly wealthy."
"Green" refers to the blue-collar robes worn by ancient students and is synonymous with scholars. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a provincial academic administrative institution admitted a limited number of "students" (commonly known as Jinshi), so it was not easy to pass the exam. If you pass the exam, you will become a scholar. Even if you have fame, you can go to county schools and official schools to study, you can receive food distributed by the government on a monthly basis, you can refuse to obey officers, and you can avoid kneeling before the magistrate.
Shi Kefa's grandson was taken care of, admitted to a scholar, and his family was getting better and better. This is Deng Zhongyue's painstaking sympathy for the orphans of loyal ministers. As for whether his father is Shi or An, it is not clear.