Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The original manuscript of "Yongle Dadian" was stored in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Nanjing Imperial Palace. In the 14th year of the orthodoxy of the "God of War" Yingzong, there was an inexplicable fire and all of them were burned.

In the 36th year of Jiajing's reign, the Forbidden City caught fire again. If the eunuchs in charge had not worked hard to save it, the original "Yongle Dadian" would have been destroyed!

Emperor Jiajing, who "only cared about refining elixirs and ignored government affairs", hurriedly summoned 109 people to copy the "Yongle Dadian".

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It was precisely this time that there was an inexplicable fire that gave rise to the biggest doubt——

There was a man in the Ming Dynasty named Liu Ruoyu, whose real name was Liu Shimin.

He is the second son of Liu Yingqi, deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang.

The Liu family were the founding generals of the country, and they were rich and powerful for generations. (Equivalent to provincial deputy commander)

However, 14-year-old Liu Ruoyu said that he had a dream and then committed suicide with a knife.

Three years later, it was the 29th year of Wanli.

Liu Ruoyu entered the palace as he wished, but because of his family background, he soon got a job as the Chief of Ceremonies.

He became the Secretary of Li Jian Feng Yu, which meant he was responsible for copying and other clerical affairs.

The Si Li Jian was the head of the 24 supervisors in the Ming Dynasty and had great powers.

After the fire in the 36th year of Jiajing, more than 40 years later, Liu Ruoyu, as a full-time clerical eunuch, had an unusual record.

During the Chongzhen period, Liu Ruoyu was implicated and imprisoned. He was in prison for 12 years and wrote "Ziuzhongzhi".

This book is the most detailed record of palace life. If you want to restore the real life of the Ming Dynasty palace, this book cannot be avoided.

He said that when he was on duty in the inner palace, he heard about such a thing——

One day, Zhang Juzheng saw the servant of a deceased official named Zhang (posthumous title Wen Jian) ​​selling "Cefu Yuangui" in front of the cabinet. (The largest series of historical materials compiled in the Song Dynasty)

Zhang Juzheng then said: "This book was taken out by Duke Wenjian from the cabinet. I would like to return it to its original owner and return it to the palace. Is that okay?"

The servant agreed.

Liu Ruoyu wrote in the book:

"I have studied Zhang Juzheng carefully. He is a man of his word and will definitely return "Cefu Yuangui" to the cabinet.

However, I don’t know whether Zhang Juzheng went back later!

I don’t even know if this book is still in the cabinet! "

Liu Ruoyu sighed:

Peace has passed, and the situation everywhere is different from previous years. However, if this book does not exist, where is the storage of "Yongle Dadian"?

Who dares to ask about it?

Sigh, it’s hard to say! (original)

Liu Ruoyu was the foreman of the eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies at that time. The incident he recorded illustrates exactly one problem -

Officials in the middle and late Ming Dynasty already regarded it as commonplace to steal rare ancient books from the royal cabinet.

Otherwise, Zhang Juzheng would not have handled this matter so lightly!

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History is nothing to take for granted!

Only by clearing away the layers of fog, peeling back the cocoons from the rare to pitiful bits of history, and gradually restoring them, can we depict a real world.

From such a small record, we can draw such an inference:

In the late Ming Dynasty, the palace guards were so lax that they were almost abandoned.

(In the 43rd year of Wanli, a commoner named Zhang Cha, armed with a big jujube stick, swaggered into the palace where Prince Zhu Changluo lived, and almost beat Zhu Changluo to death.)

If the palace is lax, then the morality of officials is even more worthy of mention.

Stealing the original copy from the palace cabinet!

At this point, Zhang Juzheng, who has all the power in the government and the public, did not find it strange, and even easily exposed it——

The character of officials in the late Ming Dynasty is evident!

In such an officialdom, with Matteo Ricci’s promise, what will happen?

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Then look down:

It was not until April of the first year of Longqing after Jiajing's death that it took six years for the copy of "Yongle Dadian" to be hurriedly completed.

If the original manuscript before copying is added, there will be three editions (Zhu Youtang's edition was incomplete, only the medical part was copied, and was given to Taiyuan Hospital after copying).

The original manuscript is stored in Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing (destroyed), the original is stored in the East Pavilion of Wenyuan Pavilion in Beijing (disappeared for no reason), and the copy is stored in Huang Shicheng of Wenyuan Pavilion (all that can be found today are this version).

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Although Emperor Longqing is known as the "Lord of ZTE", he is actually a compromising emperor.

During Longqing's reign, Jiajing finally locked the wealthy gentry in a cage for a while, but was let go again.

Even turned into a wild horse!

Before Longqing, the structure of the imperial court was a struggle between the civil official group and the imperial power.

Beginning with the Long Qing Dynasty, the civil servant group, which had become completely enlarged, started a mode of party struggle in which they fought against each other.

This illustrates something:

The gentry class, represented by civil servants, has seized most of the power to distribute benefits. In order to expand the interests of their own faction, they have begun to attack the alliance!

Therefore, Longqing's "Lord of ZTE" is really worth pondering.

In the same way, it is foreseeable what the lax palace and the increasingly powerful civil servant group will do.

It was precisely during this period that the original copy of "Yongle Dadian" mysteriously disappeared...

This is not a pearl, not a piece of silver!

Put it in your sleeve pocket and take it out.

This is a vast masterpiece with 95 volumes and 2 volumes!

Even if it is pulled by a horse-drawn carriage, it will still be able to pull dozens of cars!

Such a huge pile of things suddenly disappeared without a trace!

The time when he disappeared happened to be during the Longqing period, the "Lord of ZTE" advocated by civil servants...

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(Guo Moruo dug the Wanli Tomb just to find the "Yongle Dadian". After failing to find it, Guo also planned to dig the Jiajing Tomb...

Because there are rumors that the original copy of "Yongle Dadian" is in the tombs of Jiajing and Wanli.

After the Wanli Tomb was opened, there was no "Yongle Dadian", so some experts and professors categorically said that the Yongle Dadian was in the Jiajing Tomb.

The reason is that after Jiajing's death, his burial was suspended for three months!

Why did Jiajing not be buried for so long? He was waiting for the completion of the copying of "Yongle Dadian" so that he could take the original copy and bury it with him!

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"The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty": The emperor is buried in the seventh month, and he will be in the same position; the princes will be in alliance in the fifth month; the officials will be in the same position in the third month; the scholar will be in marriage after a month.

China is a country of etiquette, and there is a fixed set of etiquette for how to behave.

Looking through the history books, there were only a few emperors who did not abide by this system due to various reasons.

Among the other emperors, who among them has not been buried for several months?

In other words, if Jiajing was a descendant of Zhu Yunwen, he would still dare to take down the "Yongle Dadian" and bury it with him——

Whoever allowed Zhu Di to rob someone else's empire would be considered too light to bury you with your hard work. If your grave is not dug, you can just enjoy it secretly!

Who is Jiajing?

Zhu Di's direct grandson. kun

The sixth generation descendant of Emperor Yongle!

Emperor Yongle didn't even take the "Yongle Dadian" to be buried with him. How dare Zhu Houcong take it to be buried with him?

Zhu Houcong was an emperor who cultivated immortality and asked questions!

Isn't he afraid that Zhu Di won't be able to kill him? )

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