Introduction to Mao

Mao was born in Maojia, Sui 'an (now Maojia Village, Fenkou Town, Chun 'an, Zhejiang). In the thirty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1604), he was a scholar and served as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War. During the Apocalypse, Ren Yingtian was the governor, subordinate to eunuchs, and set up a shrine for Wei Zhongxian in Huqiu, Suzhou. On March 15th, the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), Mao ordered his men to arrest Zhou Shunchang, an official who opposed the eunuch party, in order to please Wei Zhongxian. Aroused the indignation of the people of the Guangfu Association, and gathered in succession to see Zhou Shunchang off, redress his grievances and uphold justice. Suzhou citizens also got up to chase Mao and heckle him. Then, in the name of "Wu Min insurrection", he led troops to suppress and killed five people who took the lead in opposing the eunuch party. The local people buried five people on the levee in front of Tiger Hill. Afterwards, Zhang Pu, the organizer of the Rehabilitation Association, wrote down the Monument to the Tomb of Five People, which has been passed down to this day. Mao's henchmen built a memorial archway for the eyes and ears of the Qing Dynasty in front of Yanzhoufu Street, and people who knew about it scoffed at it. According to folklore, for fear of being dug out and whipped after death, Mao Lu Yi was buried in several graves, and later generations could not verify where he was buried. It is also said that his wife was buried with a rockhopper.