Chapter 71: Burial of the Living

Military attaché, the first and second rank painted lions. The third and fourth products are painted with tigers and leopards. Five-quality painting bears. Six-pin painting. Seven products are also painted. Eight paintings of rhinoceros. Nine products painting seahorses.

In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the dragon pattern, there are python clothes, flying fish and bullfighting, as well as the pattern of the unicorn.

On the head: 1. Liang Guan: civil and military officials in the national major sacrifice ceremony, celebrate the completion of the great success, the first day of the first month into the court New Year, the winter solstice, the emperor's birthday, the opening of the holy decree, into the presentation table, etc., all wear the Liang crown. According to the Gong, Hou, Bo, one to nine products, to distinguish by the number of beam lines.

2. Black gauze hat: It is an official hat often worn by officials in the Ming Dynasty to work. The front is low and the back is high, and at the back of the head, there is an oblong wing on the left and right, and there is a net towel inside the hat, and the hair is tied.

Three, the head: is in the major court gatherings, performances, thanksgiving wear, the shape and the Song Dynasty is almost the same, the hat edge on the left and right have two like ruler of the horns, the end of the horn some bend up, and then bend left and right.

Fourth, the square scarf: a hat made of cloth like a cuboid, also known as a square scarf and a corner scarf. In the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the people who made this kind of hat, in order to praise the emperor's merits in pacifying the Quartet, so it was named the Sifang Pingding Scarf, which was a hat often worn by scholars and officials.

5. Piao Piao Towel: The hat is like a triangular roof, and there is a rectangular cloth drape before and after the hat spine, which flutters with the wind, so it is called Piao Piao Scarf. It is the same as the hat worn by Lu Dongbin in the Eight Immortals, so it is also called a pure yang scarf, but the front and back of the pure yang scarf are covered with a circle of moire. Some hats are also draped with a piece of jade, and two long bands hang down the back of their heads.

6. Dongpo scarf: a hat invented by Su Dongpo. The rectangular hat is worn in the shape of a diamond, with a folded line in the center, and a vertical drape shorter than the hat is attached to each corner of each side.

There are also Confucian scarves, flat-top scarves, Han scarves, soft scarves, official scarves, Eryi scarves, 10,000-character scarves, cloud scarves, net scarves, corrugated brown hats, melon skin hats, etc., all kinds of colors, sometimes with shawls.

At this time, I only heard Li Junwen shouting happily: "Daddy! After speaking, he stepped forward and hugged the old man. The demeanor is very intimate. Seeing this, Li Rulong suddenly realized in his heart that this person was Li Xin, the governor of Jiangxi! Li Rulong guessed well, the person in front of him was really Li Xin, the governor of Jiangxi, he was resting in the house, and suddenly heard the servant Zhang Zhong come to report that his son was back, and he was overjoyed, and he just got dressed and followed the servant Zhang Zhong out of the house despite falling asleep. He since the age of twenty-two after a lot of hardships to be admitted to a jinshi twenty-three, was allowed to Jiangxi Yuanzhou to do a small seven pins of the county, because he is not good at the boss, so in Yuanzhou for a full twenty years of seven pins of the county, although to do twenty years of Yuanzhou county, he did not feel how unfair God to him, still every day to do their own county should do things, because of the usual good charity, in Jiangxi rich in high prestige, the local hundred called it Li Haoguan. If this Zhizhou wasn't for the love of a new boss, he might still be his magistrate in Yuanzhou? Li Xin patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Okay, okay, just come back, don't run around in the future, you haven't learned martial arts, what if you run into a robber?" Li Junwen only then remembered Li Rulong, Ke Yun, and hurriedly pulled Li Xin and said: "Daddy, this is my new master, he is amazing, I want his old man to teach me to read in our house, okay?" Li Xin looked at Li Rulong in the direction pointed by his son, and saw that Li Rulong's eyes were introverted, exuding an elegant feeling of fairy wind and bones. nodded with some satisfaction in his heart, especially when he heard Li Rulong read the song "Little Heavy Mountain" by Yue Wangye just now, he knew that this person had some goods in his belly, and seeing that his beloved son respected him so much, he hurriedly nodded and said, "Then there is Mr. Lao!" Li Rulong replied: "Brother said that, Ling Lang is smart and kind-hearted, and he can have such a loving apprentice, it is the old man's Rongxin, how dare you say that it is labor?" Li Xin said with a smile: "Although the child is very smart, but he is stubborn by nature, I hope that the teacher will be strict with the housekeeper and teach the son to become a talent as soon as possible!" Li Rulong nodded and said, "Don't worry, brother, I will do my best to urge Junwen to become a talent as soon as possible!" Li Xin nodded and said, "With the teacher's words, the old man will be relieved!" "Oh, I said old man, why are you standing and talking, Xiaowen and his friends haven't eaten yet?" Mrs. Li complained loudly at Li Xin. Li Xin hurriedly said: "Oh, you see that I only care about talking, and I have forgotten about business, and it is rumored that Zhang Zhong will start eating immediately!" Zhang Zhong answered. Mrs. Li took Ke Yun's hand and sat on the side lovingly, and Li Xin and Li Rulong had to talk. Not long after, several servants came out with bowls and jars, and soon the round table was covered with dishes, it can be seen that although Li Xin is an honest official, he has some family backgrounds at home, and everything on the table can make an ordinary person live for a while. Li Xin saw that as soon as the food was served, he said with a smile: "Teacher, it is not a tribute to prepare a little wine and food, I hope that the teacher and the girl Haihan will be satisfied." Li Rulong replied: "Brother said there, like me, a rough man in the mountains and wilderness, I have never heard of such wine and food, I can eat some today, this is more brother!" Li Xin was very happy when he saw that Li Rulong was speaking decently, and said with a smile: "The teacher is really good at laughing, I think the teacher is also a scholar, and it seems that he has passed through a big temple, but the old man can't figure it out!" Li Rulong said: "Brother, don't you understand anything?" Li Xin said: "It's just that the old man can't understand why a talent like a teacher would get into such a field today?" ”

The imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into three levels: the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination. The township examination was presided over by the political envoy department, and the general examination was presided over by the Ministry of Rites. Anyone who passed the Jinshi examination was appointed as an official. Generally speaking, the champion was awarded the Hanlin Academy for revision, the Bangyan and Tanhua were awarded for the Hanlin Academy, and the second and third class exams were selected as Shu Jishi, and they were all officials of the Hanlin Academy. Those who are not selected in the examination will only be awarded small Beijing officials or non-local teaching positions.

Li Rulong smiled bitterly, and immediately told his life experience to this kind old man, of course, he didn't say anything about the part about "Guanghan Cheats". Li Xin didn't expect Li Rulong's experience to be so miserable, but seeing that Li Rulong could still be so heroic and free, he had more respect for Li Rulong in his heart. Li Junwen saw that his father had a sense of pity for Li Rulong, and he was quite happy in his heart. Mrs. Li on the side had already desperately sandwiched the delicious food on the dining table into Keyun's bowl, and it didn't take long for a small porcelain bowl to be full, until it really couldn't fit it, Mrs. Li could not stop, Li Xin was suddenly surprised that Aiko had also brought a friend, and hurriedly asked Keyun, who knew that he had just seen a good mood, as soon as he heard Li Xin ask, Keyun's eyes immediately turned red, and he whimpered and talked about the incident that happened not long ago. Although Li Rulong and Li Junwen saved Ke Yun, they were very puzzled about why the ten elders of the Hong Gang besieged and killed Ke Yun's mother and daughter, and Li Junwen wanted to ask about it several times, but he was a kind-hearted person, and he was afraid to ask about the sad things of Ke Yun who was touching, so Li Junwen and Li Rulong didn't ask along the way. Seeing Li Xin ask at this moment, although he knew that Keyun would be sad, he still wanted to know the truth of the facts, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks, cleaned up his mind, and listened to Keyun. It turned out that after Emperor Wen launched the Battle of Jingjing to seize the throne of the Ming Dynasty from his nephew, he began to conduct large-scale elections all over the country, and the selected women must enter the palace, which was originally a good thing, but later I learned that this batch of selected show girls was not for the emperor to choose a concubine! Li Junwen interjected: "It's not for the selection of concubines, so what's it for?" Ke Yun glanced at Li Junwen and said, "In order to bury the emperor's empress!" "What? Funeral, there is still such a thing in the world, hasn't the burial of the living been abolished a long time ago? Even the sage of Confucius said that the initiator has no aftermath! 'It is also used for its man's image. "Doesn't Emperor Wen even know this?" Li Junwen roared angrily. Li Rulong sighed: "This burial with a living person, although it is an ancient rite, but this is too inhumane, isn't Emperor Wen afraid of damaging Yin morality?" Li Xin nodded and said: "The teacher is right, although Emperor Wen won the throne by launching the Battle of Jingjing, but seeing that he moved the capital to Beijing, built the "Yongle Grand Canon", set up a cabinet, and consolidated the border defense, he has quite a good political achievement, and he can be regarded as a good emperor with great eloquence and strategy, so it stands to reason that he should not do this hateful thing that angers the people's resentment?" Li Junwen said: "Good emperor, good emperor will be buried with a living person?" Li Rulong said: "Has Emperor Wen died or not, why should he be buried with a living person?" Li Xin sighed and said: "This teacher doesn't know anything, three years ago, Emperor Wen's wife, Empress Xu, died of illness. After Xu's death, Emperor Wen thanked Empress Xu for her kindness and never made an empress. After a few years like this, there was a concubine in the harem, a beautiful woman selected from North Korea, who was beautiful and beautiful, good at singing and dancing, good at blowing the flute, intelligent, and most favored by Emperor Wen. Unexpectedly, in the eighth year of Yongle, the Quan family led the army to the north with Emperor Wen, and died on the way home. Vowed not to pamper anyone again.

But who would have thought, just when Emperor Wen was grieving the loss of his favorite concubine, a palace maid revealed that the Quan family was poisoned with arsenic by Concubine Lu in collusion with eunuchs and silversmiths. Emperor Wen was furious and did not investigate carefully, that is, he ordered the eunuchs and silversmiths who were accused of poisoning to be executed, and tortured Lü, who was directly branded with a soldering iron for a month before dying. Hundreds of people were killed by Lu's involvement. "This Emperor Wen is too cruel, just for the death of a favorite concubine, he has to use such cruel means to deal with a woman, this is ...... This...... It's not the same as Emperor Taizu! Li Junwen said loudly. Li Xin sighed and continued, "Who said it wasn't? But looking at him Yi Ten Clans, sending him to the teaching workshop, his methods are despicable, not inferior to his father Zhu Yuanzhang, and even surpassing it, but the emperor since ancient times is not like this? Li Rulong seemed to be touched by Li Xin's words, and he was quite touched in his heart, and said: "Yes, since ancient times, emperors have been so fickle, and their faces have always been two-faced!" Li Xin nodded and continued: "In order to surpass the undead of the Quan clan, Emperor Wen ordered to draft a draft all over the country to bury the Quan clan, so that her undead could be comforted by smashing the ground!" "This ...... This...... Is it just for people to die? Li Junwen yelled dissatisfied.