Unofficial History of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty

In a few days, it will be Cold Food Festival and Tomb-sweeping Day, Lu Qing will rush to visit the grave with his family and return to Yongning Prefecture

Emperor Zhengde stood in the Xiyuan and said to Jiang Bin: "Wang Xun has come in these two days, and you follow him to send your sister-in-law to Datong."

Jiang Bin said yes, and he couldn't help but be surprised that Emperor Zhengde would let him go on his own initiative?

"I have to go to Xiaoling to offer sacrifices, you don't like this scene."

Jiang Bin stared at the limp weeds in the hands of Emperor Zhengde: "What can Datong see?"

Emperor Zhengde threw the grass: "Mother."

The lady of Datong, together with the city wall of Jizhen and the teaching ground of Xuanfu, is called the "three wonders" of this dynasty.The beauty of women in Datong, and the essence of things, are not found in the border villages.And the most attractive places for literati and poets are those romantic places.Many famous prostitutes in the capital are all natives of Datong, and there are no fewer than two thousand fireworks women in Datong who are ranked above the flower register.

"Others at my age have indeed grown up with their children."

Emperor Zhengde muttered, "Aren't I also alone?"

"The emperor has concubine Shuhuide Wu, concubine Rong Shuxian Shen, concubine Wang, Ma and Liu in the leopard room..."

Emperor Zhengde smiled, and Jiang Bin stopped talking.Doesn't that sound like a jealous woman?

Jiang Bin looked away, but Emperor Zhengde held him back and handed over a piece of green and white jade Si Nanpei.Jiang Bin didn't know much about jade, but he knew it was worth a lot by touching it.The style of divination prevailed in the Han Dynasty. Sinan was shaped like a small spoon and could be used for divination. There were many jade Sinan pendants imitated in the Ming Dynasty. Jiang Bin often saw some literati hanging around their waists. What's the meaning.

Emperor Zhengde tied the jade pendant around Jiang Bin's waist, and the dark green tassels slid across his fingertips.

"I'm a person who won't look back until I bump into the south wall. May you be like this Si Nanpei, divination a divination about my future, so that I can rein in my horse."

Jiang Bin looked down at Yu Sinan who was slowly turning half a circle around his waist, lowered his head and said, "Chen, I don't have such abilities."

Emperor Zhengde slammed hard, and with a "stab—" he tore off half of his sleeve and handed it to Jiang Bin: "Now there is..."

"..."

The day before the Cold Food Festival, Wang Xun came to Beijing to pick up his sister-in-law Qiu Ying, who was pregnant with Liujia, but Jiang Bin didn't go to pick him up in person to avoid people's eyes and ears.

After several disguised Jin Yiwei led Qiao Yu to Qiu Ying's remote house, Jiang Bin got up to meet him, and was facing Wang Xun who had just stepped up the stone steps.

I haven't seen him for a long time. Wang Xun is darker and stronger. He wears a flat scarf on his head, is dressed in green clothes, and has a red belt around his waist. He looks like a government servant.

"Wang Zaoli!" Jiang Bin cupped his hands.

"You're just laughing at me right now! When we get to Datong..." Wang Xun showed a pair of canine teeth.

Seeing his innocent and cheerful appearance, Jiang Bin also smiled: "Aren't you going to see your sister-in-law?"

Wang Xun was only half a month older than Jiang Bin, and after drinking together, there was no taboo between the two of them.Wang Xun handed over the special product he was carrying to Jin Yiwei who came to pick him up, and thanked them for their hard work. Those people looked at Jiang Bin, and Jiang Bin nodded before accepting it happily.

After Wang Xun followed Jiang Bin to the courtyard, Qiu Ying was feeding the waddling ducklings.These little pompoms were bought by Jiang Bin from a farmer's house to entertain his wife.

Sensing the sound of footsteps, Qiu Ying turned around, and Wang Xun stepped forward and knelt down: "Sister-in-law!"

Qiu Ying's eyes were red, and it was inconvenient for men and women to help Wang Xun, so he could only say: "Uncle, what are you doing? Please get up quickly!"

Jiang Bin helped Wang Xun, but Wang Xun refused to get up, bowed his head and pleaded guilty: "I didn't know that my sister-in-law was pregnant with Liujia, but she lived on the street and suffered like this..." He thought that after Wang Ji left, the Qiu family would take Qiu Ying to another place. marry someone else.Unexpectedly, she was pregnant with Wang Ji's flesh and blood, and wandered away from home alone.After learning about this sister-in-law from Emperor Zhengde, he returned to Datong and bought a house at the foot of Jinping Mountain, and then came to pick her up.

At this time, when the uncle and sister-in-law met each other and remembered their old friends, they were both filled with grief, and Jiang Bin persuaded them to sit in after a while.

The little maid, Qingmei, made a pot of tea, and the two chatted a little about their parents, then packed their bags and headed to Datong.

Jiang Bin didn't expect Wang Xun to be so anxious, Wang Xun smiled bitterly and said, "I've taken a lot of detours here."

Jiang Bin also understood that with Wang Xun's identity, how many civil servants and military generals would be amazed when he returned to Beijing in secret, and it took a lot of trouble to shake those eyeliners along the way.

The maid Qingmei turned around and felt that nothing was left behind, so she came out with her bag in her arms: "Master Jiang, can you go with me?"

Jiang Bin laughed and said, "What you want to ask is 'A Miao', can you go with me?"

"A Miao" is another Jin Yiwei beside Jiang Bin who is closer to Lu Qing. His real name is Tang He, and everyone else calls him A Miao.

Tang He is excellent in martial arts, but not good at words. He followed Jiang Bin to see the women a few times, and became familiar with the maid Qingmei after coming and going. Others often made fun of them, and even Jiang Bin deliberately matched them.

Xiao Nizi blushed when she was upset, and ran to the woman to help her into the sedan chair, and stopped mentioning it. Jiang Bin and several Jinyi guards looked at each other and smiled.

When they arrived at the city gate, they got into the carriage, and a group of people followed them to check their whereabouts.But Jiang Bin said wait a moment, and after a while Tang He, dressed as a servant, came over with two jars of lamb wine.

Wang Xun recognized the wine and wiped his face vigorously when he took it.But there were only two altars in total, and Jiang Bin gave him both...

"I have this." Jiang Bin pointed to the nine-section whip on his waist, and Wang Xun was not polite.

He showed his waist badge to the gatekeeper, and after a routine inspection, three carriages left the capital one after another.

Jiang Bin looked outside at the gradually less populated street, Yu Sinan was hiding a half-cut sleeve in the fan pocket next to him.

Datong faces three borders and is known as "Three Dynasties Jinghua, Two Dynasties Important Town".Taizu also listed Datong as one of the "Nine Frontier Towns" at the beginning of the establishment of the regime, and it was heavily guarded, so there was also the saying that "Datong scholars are in the world".In addition, in order to prevent the invasion from the north and the Yuan Dynasty to the south, the Great Wall was refurbished in the north of Datong, and more than 20 military forts and hundreds of beacon towers were built, including Hongci Fort, Zhenchuan Fort, and Desheng Fort.Datong not only has many soldiers and castles, but also has more than one hundred monasteries, nunneries, and Taoist temples. From a distance, there are many temples, which can be called a Buddhist resort.

Chou Ying believed in Buddhism, seeing the walls of this hall and cigarette smoke from a distance, he couldn't help yearning for it.

Sitting in the carriage, Jiang Bin was very bored, so he found a horse, and walked slowly with Wang Xun in the bridle.

After talking for a while, Wang Xun pointed to the temple in the distance with his chin: "Are you trustworthy?"

Jiang Bin smiled: "How can there be a general who doesn't kill?

"My mother eats vegetarian food, so why don't I follow my father to cut off the heads?" Wang Xun passed the water bag nonchalantly, "In times of peace and prosperity, I have to wait for the soldiers to pay for it with my life."

Jiang Bin turned his head to glance, the handsome young man exuded an invincible spirit.

When we arrived outside the courtyard at the foot of Jinping Mountain, where the flowers were in full bloom, we met the three people who had been waiting for a long time.

The one on the far side with a hulking back and thick eyebrows and beard is the only son of a family of military generals, Sun Zhen, and now he is only a Zaoli in Ningbo Mansion with an empty title.Beside him is a white, handsome and personable son named Zhang Min, who is proficient in formation strategy and is now a private school teacher in Datong.As for the person on the far right, Jiang Bin didn't need to be introduced by Wang Xun--Xiao Jui, the commander of Liaodong.

Xiao Jui was "famous" for suggesting that the frontier army and the Beijing army should exchange drills in Zuoshui before. He deliberately tripped up many civil servants, but he didn't leverage his position.Apart from the fact that Xiao Jui is Shiyin's official position like Wang Xun, it is also inseparable from the secret assistance of Emperor Zhengde.

The three of them were all sworn brothers by Wang Xun, and when they saw Qiu Ying, they all respectfully called sister-in-law.Qiu Ying said he didn't dare to do it, but he accepted their gift as a last resort.Wang Xun then led the woman into the house with Jiang Bin.The house is not as generous as the one that Emperor Zhengde bought in the capital, but it is thoughtful.Qiu Ying believes in Buddhism. At the foot of Jinping Mountain is the cliff stone carvings that have been cut for nearly 900 years since the first year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty. There are five districts and seven groups. Next to the cliff stone carvings is a Buddhist pavilion. An eight-foot-high iron Buddha cast in the 15th year of Dading in the Jin Dynasty, and two opposite bell and drum towers stand halfway up the mountain. Inside the bell tower hangs the big bell of the original Anping Village Anguo Temple cast in the first year of the Tianjuan of the Jin Dynasty. , The evening bells are loud and loud, with a long aftertaste.Coupled with the beautiful and pleasant scenery of Jinping Mountain, it is a good place to raise a baby.

Turn around the hall and drill through the rockery, which is the corner gate of the garden.The garden is full of colorful spring orchids, begonias, clivia, and spring azaleas, and there is a circle of bamboo outside.The few people were dazzled, Jiang Bin with sharp eyes looked at the few trees hanging their heads and hiding in the back, and said: "The flowering period has been invited here in such a hurry, I really don't understand pity!"

Wang Xun smiled shyly, and the others laughed at him for being impatient.

Qingmei followed around, but her mind was on Tang He who was behind Jiang Bin.It's a pity that Tang He didn't understand the style, and didn't feel any difference in the way Xiao Nizi peeked at him.Seeing this scene, Jiang Bin thought that after Qingmei finished the ceremony next year, he would match up this marriage, and Lu Qing would be happy about it.

Thinking of Lu Qing, Jiang Bin frowned again.Wang Xun said that he was tired from the journey, and led him to rest in his mansion not far from here.

As soon as he woke up, several people gathered together and had a drink. Xiao Zi raised his head and said that he came here because of his official business.Liaodong is also one of the "nine borders", and several people talked about the border, excitedly, and asked Wang Xun to find a map and chess pieces to draw on the paper.Sun Zhen looked at the five big and three rough, but he knew the arrangement of the Nine Sides like the palm of his hand, and Zhang Wei, who was listening to them, would occasionally add a sentence, all of which were straight to the point.Xiao Jui and Wang Xun were good at tactics, and they used chess pieces to draw the topic to another place, so Jiang Bin also "talked about war on paper" with them. Those tricks of "attacking the unprepared and taking the unexpected" are convincing.

After spending one night in Wang Xun's mansion, the next day, several people sent Xiao Ju to the city gate. Xiao Ju said to Jiang Bin: "Today I know that Commander Jiang is not a treasure in the pool. If I can do my best in the future..."

"I can't ask for it." Jiang Bin also felt that he had a good affinity with Xiao Fu.

Wang Xun asked Xiao Fu a few more words before saying goodbye.

The lotus hat brings the setting sun, and the green hills return alone.

When walking back, Wang Xun suddenly said: "Tomorrow I will leave for Zhejiang..."

Several people looked at each other, Wang Xun's ancestral home was in Hangzhou, Qingming was approaching, so they wanted to worship.

Jiang Bin glanced at the whip on his waist and said, "I'll go with you."

Sun Zhen and Zhang Min also echoed, and Wang Xun said: "You have already sacrificed, why don't you stay and take care of your sister-in-law."

The two agreed.

Jiang Bin only took Tang He to Zhejiang Mansion with Wang Xun.

All the way through Shanxi, Henan, Nanjing... The two chatted speculatively, but they didn't feel that the road was far away.Wang Xun's identity was a bit embarrassing, but with Jiang Bin, the commander of Jinyiwei, as his companion, it was much smoother.

The two of them rested for the night, and just about to leave Nanjing City, they heard someone say: "My lord, this fan bag is so chic and tight!"

Jiang Bin turned his head, and saw a person sitting in the tea shop, waving his gilded fan leisurely, and sitting beside him were the Jinyi guards that Jiang Bin had left in Datong.

Jiang Bin patted the horse's fur and pretended not to notice it, but Wang Xun couldn't pretend, so he patted Jiang Bin's shoulder unbearably: "I'll go grab the medicine." After saying that, he led the horse and walked towards the pharmacy.

Jiang Bin tied the horse to the side of the tea shop, and glanced at Emperor Zhengde who was supposed to be preparing for the sacrifice.

"Why don't you say anything when you pass by?" Before he finished speaking, he was caught by two disheveled and panting cabinet scholars Liang Chu and Jiang Mian, one on the left and one on the right. "The general" fell behind and panted heavily.

The two old elders pulled Emperor Zhengde aside and lectured him like a curse, only then did they notice Jiang Bin who wanted to get under the horse's belly.

Jiang Bin bowed to the two, and disregarded the relationship with Emperor Zhengde righteously: "I went to Hangzhou with my old friend to worship the ancestors, and passed by here..."

"Private meeting with me." Emperor Zhengde accepted, waving his fan.

The two Ge elders didn't want to know whether they had planned it in advance, and one of them tugged on one sleeve of Emperor Zhengde, for fear that the living ancestor would run away again.Seeing the bitter look on the old man's face, Emperor Zhengde no longer felt embarrassed, stepped forward and squeezed Jiang Bin's wrist: "I lost weight."

Jiang Bin withdrew his hand calmly, led the horse and strode away. When he turned around, he pushed the note that Emperor Zhengde had given him into his sleeve again.

Wang Xun came out with the medicinal materials, and saw the helpless Jiang Bin, so he teased: "Commander Jiang is really a disaster."

Jiang Bin pinched an unripe apricot from the tree and threw it over. Wang Xun took a bite, vomited, and led the horse to the city gate with Jiang Bin.

Tang He, who had bought some tonics and gold, stone and jade objects according to Jiang Bin's account, was already waiting. Jiang Bin couldn't help smiling when he saw that he was hiding a mahogany hairpin in his other sleeve.

After a bumpy journey, I finally arrived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the day before Qingming.

Wang Xun took Jiang Bin to see his aunt and mother. The two women accepted Jiang Bin's gift with embarrassment, and then pulled Jiang Bin to greet him.

"It seems like you are the grandson of the Wang family." Wang Xun couldn't help complaining when he was asked to take Jiang Bin around.

The willows are dark and the flowers are bright and spring is just right, and the fog in the heavy lake disperses the forest and sand.

Looking at the Su Causeway of West Lake, Jiang Bin remembered the note that Emperor Zhengde gave him, so he said, "I heard that some time ago, something went wrong with the Shibo Department?"

Leaning on the camphor tree, Wang Xun said, "I have heard a little about the way here. It is said that two groups of Japanese merchant ships arrived in Ningbo one after another, but the Shi Ship Division first entertained the latter. Looting..."

Jiang Bin nodded: "After the Qingming Festival, I will go to the Shibo Department."

Wang Xun said briskly, "I'll take care of it for you."

On the next day, every household carried the statues, and hung the ingots behind the sedan chairs and horses, and the road was full of plain clothes going to the grave to sweep the grave.

Wang Ji died without a complete body, so he was not buried next to the ancestral grave occupying the geomantic treasure cave.Wang Xun went to worship the ancestors first, and asked Jiang Bin and his family members to go out later.

Wang Ji's grave was designated by Wang Xun, on the hill where Wang Ji played with him when he was a child.On the hill is Wang Ji's tomb. The tomb is built plainly, and an old locust tree is beside it, which can shield Wang Ji from the increasingly poisonous sun.The vertical tombstone is engraved with Wang Ji's name, affiliation, family background, experience, date of death, and place of burial. This inscription and the four-character inscription were all written by Wang Xun himself.

The inscriptions are often over-the-top, but what Wang Xun wrote is sincere and moving.

"When we were young, we always thought that we would grow as tall as this locust tree in the future, but it turns out that we grow, and it grows too, and it will never reach it." Wang Xunxun said to Jiang Bin while cutting the grass and trees in front of the grave.

Wang Xun's mother, who was supported by her aunt and maid, was struggling to fill up the wine. Jiang Bin couldn't bear it when he saw that, but he also knew that it must be done by himself.

Wang Xun weeded and added soil, and then supported his mother, aunt, and Jiang Bin to bow down together.After worshiping, sprinkle the wine on the grave where Wang Ji was buried, and put the money on the grave.

The most bleak, but white-haired people give black-haired people.

Jiang Bin, who was dressed in plain clothes, didn't know how to comfort the two women beside him.Weeping until he was sad, he was unwilling to leave, so Wang Xun weeded and added soil to the grave, and then he ordered the two maids to help the women back first.

Wang Xun took Jiang Bin forward, and when he came to the fragrant tree in the garden, he pulled him to sit down and drink with him.Jiang Bin only drank a few sips with him, afraid of getting drunk, and said something that shouldn't be said in front of Wang Xun, which would only add to the sadness.

Wang Xun never cried from the beginning to the end, just leaning against the tree in a daze.His gaze remained on the ancient temple by the West Lake until the Nanping evening clock swayed layers of rain and fog, Fang whispered: "If there is indeed reincarnation, it is just like this sunset and sunrise..." He shook his head and smiled wryly , "Even if there is, it may not be able to meet...God has never favored one another, I just refuse to accept..."

The green mountains in the rain cage are like blurred ink.

"Back then, I was taller than my elder brother, and there was always such a gap. He comforted me and said, with a lot of accumulation, in the future, I will go farther than him..." Looking at the dark sky, "But who wants this long..."

Yichuan Tobacco is full of wind and wind in the city.

Haitang is still the same, who is still muttering to himself.