The Legend of Jinjiang Tower

Jinjiang Tower is said to have been built by a man named Lin Shengze. In memory of him and his wife, later generations called them Lou Zuma and Lou Zuma.

Lin Shengze is a honest man who has been farming for generations. His father died young, and he and his two younger brothers served his mother. Soon, his two younger brothers also died one after another, and the whole family only depended on him to support them. Later, he married his wife, who was hardworking, smart and good at raising chickens. She asked Sheng Ze to take the chicken to the market to make up for the family's income. Shengze was famous for selling chickens. When his own food was not enough to sell, he became a chicken vendor. One day, he went to the market to sell chickens and found a piece of cloth beside the henhouse. He asked everyone in the market, but they didn't know who left it. Therefore, when he sells chickens in every market, he takes cloth to recruit talents. After more than ten days, a Zhangzhou man came to see his pole and asked him if he wanted to sell the cloth hanging on the pole instead of buying chickens. Lin Shengze told me that this is to be confessed. Frankly speaking, people lost cloth here more than ten days ago, saying that there was a bill of lading in the cloth. When Sheng Ze saw it, it was exactly the same, so he returned the cloth to him. The man was so grateful that he introduced himself and said, "My name is Dai Jing, and I live under the five-star Jukui at the intersection of Zhangzhou." Knowing that Lin Shengze's family was poor, he suggested that Shengze transport the seafood here to Zhangzhou. He can help promote sales, and then bring back goods from Zhangzhou, with a huge profit, ten times more than selling chickens.

Lin Shengze listened to Dai Jing's words and turned to be a "water passenger" in Zhangzhou. Thanks to Dai Jing's help, his goods are easy to sell without bargaining, and the goods he bought are cheap, which is not affected by "50% discount for Zhangzhou customers". And he is tall and strong, and he chooses more goods than others. He bought a satisfactory "Fanzi shoulder pole" in Zhangzhou, which is more than three inches wide in the middle. He picked two or three hundred kilograms of goods to ride on the ground in Jiulongling, and his profit doubled compared with his peers. Later, he simply hired a few helpers and trafficked for a long time. The family is getting richer and richer, but this kind of economic income can only be a situation of "more onions and fewer wives". At that time, this place was not calm, and bandits often made trouble. Lin Shengze wants to build a castle for the safety of future generations and the whole village. But with his current economy, it is not easy to build a castle!

In a blink of an eye, Lin Shengze is 62 years old. This year, he went to Zhangzhou to have a heart-to-heart talk with his old friend Dai Jing. During the conversation, he was disappointed that he failed to realize his ambition of building a building and achieved nothing.

On the same day, Lin Shengze bid farewell to Dai Jing and went home. Dai Jing has been sending him to Kapok Temple. Shengze thanked him for his kindness and told him emotionally that if I were still alive next year, I would definitely come to meet you.

After crossing Kowloon Ridge, I came to Long Bridge. It was getting late, so he stayed in a hotel. Full of worries, until late at night, before I could fall asleep, I went for a walk outdoors. At this time, the sky is full of stars and all is silent. I saw several white cattle running on the hillside in the distance, and then I saw a group of white horses jumping and laughing. Suddenly, an old man came to him with a cane and said to him, "Elder Lin, you have been kind all your life. These ten white horses are yours. Because you have traveled all your life and never stayed here for the night, I didn't have a chance to tell you. Now you should take them back and leave. " With that, people disappeared. This sudden situation made Lin Shengze a little confused. After returning home, he told his wife what happened in detail, reminding her to pay attention to what happened at home.

Strange things really happened. On the first morning of his return, his daughter-in-law got up early to cook and found that there was no water in the water tank. She obviously filled a tank of water last night, and the tank didn't leak. How can there be no water? After observing for three nights, I found the sound of livestock drinking in the water tank at midnight. On the fourth night, they covered the light with a rice bucket. When the sound of drinking water rang again, they quickly lifted the rice bucket and clearly saw several white horses drinking water in the jar. When the light came on, they quickly got under the tank and disappeared. Things have been understood. Are the elders of Long Bridge landlords? These ten white horses have come back with him, hiding under the water tank. It is said that a horse is made of twelve thousand pieces of silver. They began to fill the pots on the ground with water and dug up the place where the water was rapidly infiltrated. Less than a foot deep, they dug up a pot full of silver, totaling 12 thousand So the remaining 92 thousand is also underground in the kitchen.

With money, Gai Lou's wish can be realized. Lin Shengze invited geographer Wen Xian to visit the area and set a date. Start building a building.

The geographer Wen Xian saw the original Jiangtou ancestral temple. Although it is on the back, facing the Danshan Mountain and the big river, the geographical position is not bad, but it is a little west, too far ahead. It should be a treasure house of "Feng Dan's biography", but it has become an ordinary house of "Old Crow Xia Tian". So he chose the garden on the east side, with his back to Danshan and facing the river. This is the punctuality of Feng Dan Biography, and Loubao is the crown of Feng Dan, so I chose an auspicious day to start work.

Just as I was planning to shell the wood, stone and wall, it suddenly rained cats and dogs, and the Weihe River surged and rushed to my door. The rain stopped, and a miracle appeared. Conch shells were piled in front of the door, with tens of thousands of loads. Lin Shengze was overjoyed: "God help me!" With shell ash, stones were also collected from nearby Danshan, except for wood. Shengze went to Zhangzhou to discuss with his old friend Dai Jing, who suggested that he personally go to Sugiyama Mountain in the upper reaches of Beixi to purchase. Two friends went to Shanshan Mountain in the upper reaches of Beixi River and bought 300 Chinese fir trees for the planned three-story inner building. Beixi Hanshan flows to Beixi through a mountain stream, which is called "Xulongchuan". Chinese fir buyers put down Chinese fir from the mountain and wanted to collect Chinese fir under the "dragon beard string", but there were stones in the "dragon beard string". In the past, many Chinese fir trees could not go with the flow. He took the advice of others and knocked down 300 Chinese fir trees together, which was a godsend. Unexpectedly, he collected 1500 large Chinese fir trees under the "dragon beard string". Lin Shengze was overjoyed. He quickly hired someone to tie a Chinese fir raft, hired a boat to drag it into the sea, entered the floating port from Hutou Mountain in Liu Ao and transported it to Wuxi River.

Because of the abundant raw materials, the original design of only three floors of the inner building was increased to four floors, and a circle of 28 buildings on the second floor was designed, and then a circle of 40 or 50 houses was surrounded.

In this way, Jinjiang Tower stands proudly on the southern land of Zhang Nan, becoming the first building here.