Chapter 343: Passing on the Jade Seal of the Country
The monarch said as he walked, and soon arrived at Zhu Youzhen's inner house.
The guards were not ordinary people, they were all fans of the East Factory and the West Factory, and when they saw the arrival of the emperor and Wang Chengen, they hurriedly bowed down and saluted:
"See Your Majesty."
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand:
"Excuse me, open the door."
"Obey"
The captain of the guard immediately took out a key, walked to the door of the library and inserted the key into the lock hole, Wang Chengen also took out a key, and the two keys twisted at the same time to open the inner library door.
It's not that the emperor doesn't believe them, it's also for safety reasons, if either of them is not there, the inner treasury door will not be able to open.
The emperor and the queen also each have an inner key, and if they want to enter the inner house without permission, they can directly open the door without the help of others.
After the door of the inner warehouse was opened, Zhu Youzhen stepped into the warehouse, and there were mountains of gold and silver in front of him, which made Zhu Youzhen a little dizzy, and he was called cool in his heart.
Lao Wang was also happy and couldn't calm down for a long time, worried that the emperor wouldn't know who the gold and silver were, so he began to introduce Zhu Youzhen:
"Your Majesty, this pile of silver is the income of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and it has not yet been fully paid, and nearly one million taels of silver have been paid to the household department.
The princess was kind-hearted and worried about the country and the people, and she ordered the Royal Chamber of Commerce to sell all items below the market price of 20%, otherwise the income would have exceeded 10 million taels.
Here are the gold and silver jewels pulled from Meng Yuan, the number is about six million, and here is the gold and silver jewels pulled from the east, the number is even more about ten million taels. ”
"Ding, congratulations to the host for finding the baby."
Before Wang Chengen's words fell, suddenly the prompt sound of the system sounded in Zhu Youzhen's mind, and Zhu Youzhen was stunned at the time:
"Found a baby? What are you kidding, it's all treasures here, do you still need to find out? ”
"Ding, congratulations to the host, you found the heirloom jade seal."
"What? Where is the jade seal of the country? Tell me! ”
Hearing that the treasure found was the heirloom jade seal, Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, because he was a traverser, Zhu Youzhen never considered whether he had a jade seal.
The emperor didn't think about the jade seal, and of course Qi Jiguang and the others didn't expect that the jade seal in the hands of the Dongzheng would be the real heirloom jade seal, so they didn't care.
In ancient times, the jade seal was a symbol of the emperor, and if you want to sit firmly in the world, you must get the jade seal of the country, otherwise the throne will be considered illegal.
The jade seal in history is the seal passed down from emperor to emperor after the Qin Dynasty.
Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor in Chinese history, ordered the creation of an emperor's jade seal after the unification of China, called the "Seal of the Son of Heaven", which is said to have been cast by He's bi.
According to historical records, this seal is four inches in circumference, and it is a tiger button, and some people say that the dragon fish and phoenix bird are new.
The front of the jade seal is engraved with the eight characters of "Ordered by the Heavens, Longevity and Yongchang" written by Prime Minister Li Si in a large seal, as a token of "divine power of the emperor, orthodoxy and legitimacy".
Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have regarded the jade seal as an important symbol of power and a symbol of domination of the world.
The person who gets the jade seal interprets the jade seal as a manifestation of his "command from heaven"; Once the jade seal is lost, it is pessimistic as a manifestation of the dynasty's "exhaustion of qi".
If any emperor ascended the throne without the jade seal in his hand, he was ridiculed as the "white version of the emperor".
It means that you, the emperor, sealed it yourself, and there is no way to prove it, and the edict they issued without a jade seal is naturally not so convincing.
In October 206 BC, Liu Bang led the peasant rebel army to fight against Xianyang, and Prince Ying of Qin surrendered and presented the jade seal of the country to Liu Bang.
Liu Bang took good care of the jade seal, and after the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, he used it as the heirloom jade seal of the new dynasty.
Liu Bang also hoped that the jade seal could be passed down from generation to generation in the Liu family, calling it the "Han National Seal" or "Han National Treasure". The heirloom jade seal is treasured in Changle Palace.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped power. The jade seal was broken off a corner and was incomplete. Wang Mang and others used gold to fill the missing corners. The jade seal still left a flaw.
Later, the jade seal of the dynasty was not kept, and was invaded by the alien Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang has been looking for the jade seal without success, and it is said that he was taken away by Meng Yuan from Beijing.
Later, Huang Taiji attacked Meng Yuan, and finally destroyed Lin Dan Khan, and obtained the real heirloom jade seal from Lin Dan Khan.
In November 1924, when Feng Yuxiang and others expelled the last emperor Boyi from the Forbidden City, police chiefs Zhang Bi and Lu Zhongfu and others pursued the gold-inlaid jade seal in the palace, but they did not find it.
At this point, people really want to believe that the real heirloom jade seal has long been annihilated by the slow historical sand.
Some people also say that the jade seal of the country was passed to the Republic of China and is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. I don't know what the real situation is?
Although it does not say that it is like a symbol of the Chinese dragon vein, it is the Son of Heaven, and it is so evil, but at least it is a symbol, a symbol that affects hundreds of millions of Chinese people.
As for how valuable is the heirloom jade seal? It is no exaggeration to say that the jade seal, which has witnessed the 2,000-year-old feudal history of China, is absolutely a priceless treasure.
Zhu Youzhen heard the news, could he not be surprised? This is a treasure that even Emperor Taizu didn't get.
Looking at the large pile of gold, silver and jewelry, the jade seal was mixed in and it was difficult to find, and he immediately said to Wang Chengen:
"Quick, let the guards outside the door come in."
"Obey"
Lao Wang didn't understand why the emperor said this, but he didn't ask, and immediately called in more than a dozen people outside the treasury.
"The emperor spares his life, we have never come in, is there any precious treasure missing?"
Those Dongchang fans knelt on the ground when they came in, and they thought that the emperor had found something missing and wanted to ask for guilt.
"I don't blame you, quickly help me find the heirloom jade seal, the real jade seal may be in this pile of gold, silver and jewelry in the Eastern Captivity."
"God, this is a heart disease of all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, if you really find the heirloom jade seal, the first emperors can look at it, look for it......"
Others don't know about this, but as Chongzhen's confidant eunuch, Wang Chengen certainly knows what the jade seal of the country means to the Ming Dynasty, and tears of excitement flowed through his eyes.
More than a dozen people began to rummage through the jade seal, and even Zhu Youzhen directly did it himself, there were too many treasures in it, how could it be so easy to find, and nothing was found for most of the day.
Lao Wang didn't know where the emperor got the news, so he almost rummaged through the gold and silver, but still didn't find it, his head began to sweat, and his mood began to be lost.
But Zhu Youzhen didn't panic at all, he knew that the system wouldn't lie to him, and the jade seal of the country must be in it:
"Don't be in a hurry to find it slowly, the thing must be here, Zhu Youzhen picked up a cloth bag beside him and threw it aside.
Suddenly, a silk underwear appeared from the inside, this kind of underwear was embroidered with a phoenix, and ordinary people couldn't afford to wear it at all, it should be the clothes of the mistress of the palace.
Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt his eyes light up:
"Da Yu'er's underwear?"
Out of the instinct of a normal man, Zhu Youzhen picked up the cloth bag again, feeling that the weight was not light, he looked around and found that everyone else was concentrating on rummaging for the jade seal, and no one paid attention to him.
So Zhu Youzhen's hand reached into the cloth bag, but he touched a hard thing, hurriedly took out the thing to take a look, and shouted at that time:
"......"