Chapter 8: Stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix
Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao came to the small library of the celebrant supervisor, and it happened that the celebrant was on duty with Feng Bao. Qin Tai and Feng Bao nodded, and showed Feng Bao the waist card that Feng Bao gave to Qin Tai, and Feng Bao knew that they were Qin Tai's people. Feng Bao took Qin Tai and his wife to the side, and as soon as Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao spoke, Feng Bao knew that they were Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao. Feng Bao was very envious of their makeup skills, if everyone in Dongchang had such good makeup skills, they would definitely be more capable of detecting more and more important information. Qin Tai also saw what Feng Bao meant, and preliminarily promised to have the opportunity to teach Feng Bao makeup techniques in the future.
Knowing that Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao wanted to go into the library to find relevant information, Feng Bao immediately agreed. With Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao taking action in person, they are faster and more sophisticated than other people in investigating. Feng Bao was worried about who to send to investigate the library, and Qin Tai and Zhan Xiao's arrival just helped. Feng Bao has a lot of cronies, but they are all rough people who don't know much about words. Ordinary eunuchs are not proficient in written work, and learned eunuchs are not good at fully believing it. Feng Bao was worried that this matter would be known to outsiders, especially Meng Chong and Emperor Longqing. If Meng Chong or Emperor Longqing knew that Feng Bao was investigating privately, Feng Bao would be in big trouble. Especially Meng Chong, an old guy, is against Feng Bao everywhere, and Meng Chong must not be allowed to seize Feng Bao's handle.
Feng Bao took the opportunity to take away the little eunuch of the library, and then arranged for Qin Tai and Zhanxiao to manage the library for a day. Zhan Xiaoxiao was responsible for protecting Qin Tai's safety and covering Qin Tai outside. Qin Tai went inside to find out the information, found out the important information, copied it and took it away. Feng Bao also hinted to Qin Tai intentionally or unintentionally that if some important relevant information could not be copied, it could be taken away directly at that time. As long as you find a way to return it in its entirety afterwards, you don't have to worry about someone pursuing it. Qin Tai couldn't help but be surprised by Feng Bao's boldness and the chaos in the inner court.
The library is nominally a royal library, but it is actually a repository of the royal family, recording information about members of the royal family. Information about past emperors and their families is available, including information about their concubines and all the women they have been fortunate with. Qin Tai couldn't help but be shocked by the behavior of the emperors of the past dynasties again, each emperor had hundreds of women, and the amount of information they had was too astonishing. Starting from Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, every emperor has many nominal concubines and famous women. The only exception to the emperor was Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao's father, Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youjiao. He had only one queen in his life, and gave birth to a daughter and a son with this empress, and this only son was the later Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, that is, Emperor Zhengde. Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had eighty-three women, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen had one hundred and seventy-four women, and Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di had nearly two hundred women, and subsequent emperors broke records again and again. Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi reached a new peak, seven hundred and seventy-six women, which is simply an unbelievable number.
The library not only records the romantic past of the emperors, but also records the physical condition of some late emperors. Ordinary people may not be able to see this digital information, but they can't hide it from Qin Tai, who understands the anatomy of the medical association. Qin Tai saw some problems in these numbers, some royal secrets that might surprise people. Qin Tai didn't believe it at first, but after looking and comparing it repeatedly, he was sure that these figures were true.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, really had a problem, before he became emperor, their family was all ordinary people living at the bottom. Zhu Yuanzhang himself farmed the land, herded cattle, starved, worked as a small novice, worked as a robber, participated in the rebel army, and finally established the Ming Dynasty. The people at the bottom can't eat enough, and of course they won't be a big fat man. But in Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, most of the later emperors were fat, and most of the princes of the Zhu family were fat, and they were fatter than pigs. If it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang became rich later, or ate fat, what happened to the later emperors? They grew up in a small imperial family, and they didn't worry about food and clothing since they were young, is it necessary to raise themselves so fat? These generations of emperors, plus these living and dead princes, are simply a litter of pigs, each fatter than the other. Is this a disease that runs in families?
Qin Tai repeatedly looked through the daily life records and prescriptions of these emperors and princes, and found that these emperors and princes all had severe or mild "gout" and "thirst-quenching disease". The so-called "gout" is a blood disease, mainly caused by eating too much meat, or by depositing too much material on the body, and the whole body aches when it attacks. "Thirst Syndrome" is now diabetes, which is mainly caused by high blood sugar and high blood lipid concentration. After a certain level, "thirst-quenching syndrome" can cause other complications that affect the patient's vision and physical strength. Qin Tai discovered that the emperors and those princes of the past dynasties had hereditary "gout" and "thirst quenching disease".
Qin Tai couldn't help but have a bold conjecture, could it be that the biological mother of a certain emperor also had this disease? This is the emperor who passed it on to his offspring? Otherwise, there is only one way to say, they are not Zhu Yuanzhang's species. The descendants of ordinary peasants will not be born with this disease of wealth. Is it mutated? Or is it a skewer? Or is Li Daitao stiff?
Qin Tai found out some problems again, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty had madness and could not eat mutton. It turned out that after the "Battle of Tumubao", Ming Yingzong was captured by the Warat people, and they forced Ming Yingzong to eat mutton raw. forced Ming Yingzong to give birth to "sheep epilepsy", as long as he saw mutton, he would get sick. Later, after Ming Yingzong returned to the court, his younger brother Emperor Jingtai was unwilling to return the throne to his brother Ming Yingzong. Emperor Jingtai imprisoned Ming Yingzong in Nangong Chonghua Palace, and Ming Yingzong lived like a prisoner. Later, if Emperor Jingtai didn't want to make his son the crown prince and was unwilling to return the throne to Ming Yingzong's son Zhu Jianshen, Ming Yingzong actually didn't want to restore. After Ming Yingzong regained the throne, he directly named his son Zhu Jianshen as the crown prince. Since then, the prince has generally been low-educated, and even an illiterate prince has appeared.
Almost all the emperors after Ming Yingzong were sick, and Ming Yingzong is said to have died at a banquet. The new imperial chef forgot the taboo of Ming Yingzong and served a dish of "hand-grabbed mutton". Ming Yingzong went crazy when he saw it, not only bitten several ministers, but also almost bit his original queen to death. For this reason, shortly after the death of Ming Yingzong, the queen ordered the crown prince to ascend the throne at the same time, the royal family no longer served mutton. It is said that the queen mother did not dare to eat mutton in her life, and even sheep did not dare to listen.
Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen is also an outlier, not only a straw bag emperor but also has a deep "mother-love complex". He likes Wan Guifei, who is seventeen years older than him, and even allows Wan Guifei to cause trouble in the harem. Because Wan Guifei has lost the best childbearing age and cannot give birth to children for Emperor Chenghua, Wan Guifei does not allow other women to give birth to children for Emperor Chenghua. It is said that Wan Guifei directly and indirectly killed the blood of more than a dozen Chenghua Emperors, resulting in Emperor Chenghua having no heirs. In fact, there was a palace maid who had already given birth to a son for Emperor Chenghua, but she didn't dare to tell Emperor Chenghua. The child grew up behind the walls under the covert protection of some people. It wasn't until Emperor Chenghua lamented that he was in his thirties one day and still had no heirs, that a bold eunuch told Emperor Chenghua about this child. The child who met outsiders for the first time was a child who couldn't even say a whole sentence. He was the Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youji, who later succeeded to the throne. He can't even say a whole word, of course, he has no culture, so he is the emperor with the lowest degree of Chinese among the emperors of all generations. When he succeeded to the throne, he had not yet completely escaped the level of literacy, and could only roughly understand the words on the cantata.
I don't know if it's the education since childhood, or the personal experience of Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhang, which caused Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu not to have much heart. It is said that he had only one woman in his life, and that was his empress, the biological mother of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao. However, in the materials in the library, there is another way. After Qin Tai's analysis and speculation, he sorted out a strange Emperor Xiaozong, Zhu Youjiao. The emperor was severely stunted due to malnutrition as a child. He wasn't stupid, but he was slower and more wooden than the average child. The book records that the sixteen-year-old Emperor Xiaozong, Zhu Youjiao, was not yet fully interested in women. It's not that Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu doesn't like women and is interested in men, but that Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu has not yet reached maturity. It wasn't until Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu saw the future empress that he expressed his liking for women. But after the queen entered the palace for several years, there was no news of childbirth. The eunuch who served in the bed was tight-lipped, and no one outside knew what was going on. The queen's mother entered the palace unintentionally to find that her queen's daughter was still complete, and then she knew that the matter was big. The mother personally taught her daughter the experience, and the queen finally officially became husband and wife with this filial piety emperor Zhu Youjiao. It can be seen that Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu is not lustful, and he is stunted, plus the queen is strict.
Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao is even more wonderful, not only is he unwilling to be an emperor, but he also doesn't like a rigid woman from a good family. In the information recorded in the library, it is said that half of the women of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao are married women, and ninety percent of the women are not virgins from good families, and they especially like elderly prostitutes. Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao once almost quarreled with the entire court in order to make a prostitute a concubine. Because nine times out of ten the women he likes are not single women from good families, he doesn't want offspring. This directly led to the fact that Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao had no descendants, so after the death of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, he needed to succeed the descendants of the royal family of the side branch as the emperor. It can be said that starting from Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, he destroyed the foundation of the emperor and messed up the legal system of imperial inheritance.