readx; This time, let's first talk about the soil in the five elements, that is, the sand monk. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info His body mirrors Zhu Wenkui (Zhu Wengui), Zhu Zhanji, and Zhu Zaiyuan.

The appearance of the sand monk is like this, Guanyin observes the terrain of Xizhou all the way, and needs to find a powerful demon as the apprentice of Tang Seng, and he came to the quicksand river on this day.

A demon jumped out of the water waves, very ugly. He was born - green but not green, black but not black, gloomy face, long but not short, barefoot and tendonous. The eyes flickered, like a double lamp at the bottom of the stove, and the corners of the mouth were forked, like a slaughterer's fire bowl. Fangs support the blade of the sword, and the red hair is unkempt and fluffy. A roar was like thunder, and the two feet were rushing like the wind.

The monster had a staff in his hand, and he went ashore to catch the Bodhisattva.

He looks vicious and has a lot of courage, and even Guanyin wants to eat it.

Later, Sha Seng told the Bodhisattva about his life experience, "Bodhisattva, forgive me for my sins, and wait for me to complain." I'm not a demon, I'm the general of the curtain of His Royal Highness Lingxiao. Just because I broke the glass cup by mistake at the Pan Tao Meeting, the Jade Emperor beat me eight hundred, degraded me to the lower realm, and became like this. Once every seven days, I will wear a flying sword through my chest more than 100 times, so I am so distressed. Helpless, the hunger and cold were unbearable, and in the third or second day, I went out of the waves to find a pedestrian to eat. ”

We have already speculated about breaking the glass cup, so we won't say much about it now.

But Sha Seng is the general of the heavenly court, what is he referring to? It turns out that the general of the curtain is actually Zhu Wenkui.

Zhu Wenkui, the eldest son of Emperor Jianwen. Born in October 1396, Zhu Yuanzhang is said to believe that "the sun and the moon are over, and the elephant of great evil". In 1399, he was made the crown prince by Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen, and in 1402, he and Zhu Yunwen lost the sea of fire, or disappeared at the same time, and their whereabouts are finally unknown.

Then the sand monk was demoted to the lower realm, and he had to be pierced through his chest by a flying sword every seven days. It is estimated that it is alluding to the ups and downs of Zhu Wenkui's younger brother Zhu Wengui.

Zhu Wengui, 1401-1457, was the second son of Emperor Jianwen. When Zhu Wengui was a toddler (1402), he was placed under house arrest by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di (his own uncle and grandfather) in Guang'an Palace in Fengyang, Anhui Province.

After Zhu Qizhen was restored in Nangong, because he felt the same way, he released Zhu Wengui, a builder, built a house for him, and married a daughter-in-law. However, Zhu Wengui is too pitiful, maybe in addition to the complicated joy, he passed away that year. Therefore, Zhu Wengui is also a typical representative of creation and manipulation.

Why does Sha Seng eat people, because at this time, the transformation of Zhu Wengui to Zhu Zhanji has begun, and after Guanyin Bodhisattva is enlightened, he will completely become Ming Xuanzong. Therefore, the flying sword piercing the chest was suddenly not mentioned.

Zhu Zhanji, is Zhu Di's grandson, Zhu Gaochi's eldest son, in 1411 Zhu Di set Zhu Gaochi as the crown prince, Zhu Zhanji as the emperor's grandson.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, on the eve of his birth, Chengzu Meng Taizu awarded Dagui and said, "The descendants of the inheritance will be prosperous forever." "Both the moon, Cheng Zu saw it and said, "The child is full of heroism, and Fu Wu dreams." ”

This is to say that before Zhu Zhanji was born, Zhu Di had a dream, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zhu Di a big white gui, and said that it would be passed down from generation to generation. When the moon was full, Zhu Di saw that this child was so handsome, which was in line with my dream.

In the thirty-seventh chapter of Journey to the West, Tang Seng read the scriptures at night in the Wuji National Baolin Temple, and later had a dream. After waking up, he told his apprentice about the dream of the black chicken king, and added, "I remember to leave a treasure as a mark." Bajie replied, "Master, don't be nonsense, just dream, how can you just take it seriously?" Sha Seng said, "If you don't believe in being straight, you must guard against benevolence." We lit a fire, opened the door, and saw what was going on. The walker really opened the door, and looked at the place together, only to see that in the starry moonlight, there was really a golden box white jade gui on the eaves. Bajie approached and picked up the road, "Brother, what is this?" the walker said, "This is the treasure in the king's hand, named Yugui." Master, since you have this thing, I think it is true. Tomorrow's demons will all be on Lao Sun, but I just want you to make three lows. The eight precepts said, "Okay, good, just dream, and recite to him." He doesn't know how to play tricks, so he will teach you three things to make low. ”

If you look carefully at the description of this detail (especially the verbal reminder of Sha Seng - Zhu Zhanji), you will find that it can indeed be linked to the records of Ming history. Lao Wu was also full of emotion, and through the mouths of the monkey and the old pig, he alluded to some things about Emperor Jianwen, but it is difficult to judge what these three creations are. speculates wildly, maybe it's the wife and children and the country.

When he was a child, Zhu Di was very attentive to Ming Xuanzong, for example, he let Yao Guangxiao be Zhu Zhanji's teacher for a while.

Yao Guangxiao is a very controversial figure, and I have said a little bit earlier. This is also a monk who can write and martial arts, and he is also quite good at strategic deployment.

No matter what you say, Zhu Zhanji must have gotten a lot of Lao Yao's true biography, including that ruthlessness, of course.

Zhu Zhanji when he was a teenager began his northern expedition to Mongolia with Zhu Di at the age of 15.

After succeeding to the throne in 1425, in July, the Empress Zhang was appointed as the empress dowager, and the concubine Hu was appointed as the empress.

In July 1426, Ming Xuanzong ordered the establishment of the "Inner Book Hall", which was specially designed for Liu Chong, the director of the Criminal Department, to revise for Hanlin and teach the eunuchs to read. In the beginning, there were only two or three hundred young eunuchs in their teens, but gradually it expanded to four or five hundred, and the number of teachers also increased to four (and even scholars). Since then, the internal officials have been through literature and ink, and then there are eunuchs who are the eunuchs of the ceremonial supervisor and the eunuch who holds the seal. After that, the ministers were sparse, and the emperor himself personally reviewed a few copies, and the rest were approved by the eunuchs, burying the hidden danger of eunuchs interfering in politics (this measure made people in later generations criticize it greatly, of course, why Zhu Zhanji did this, he also has his own purpose and bitterness, but on the whole, it does more harm than good).

After Zhu Zhanji personally quelled the rebellion of his uncle King Han, he imprisoned Zhu Gaoxu in the west of the palace.

In 1428, Zhu Qizhen was appointed as the crown prince, and the queen Hu was abolished and the Sun family was replaced. Because although the Hu family is virtuous but has no sons, she has been in poor health for many years, and the emperor does not like her. Zhu Qizhen's biological mother, Sun, was established as the queen. The Hu family was driven to Chang'an Palace, and was given the title Jingci Immortal Master to be the female Taoist aunt of the Fire House. Ministers such as Zhang Fu, Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, and Yang Rong all objected, but the emperor did not listen. It was Zhu Jianshen's mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, who took pity on the Hu family, so she often asked her to come to her Qingning Palace to say hello (in fact, it was a protective policy, otherwise she might die strangely one day). Every time there was a big banquet in the palace, Empress Dowager Zhang asked the Hu family to sit on top of Empress Sun. For this reason, Empress Sun is often depressed. However, in the seventh year of the orthodoxy of Ming Yingzong, the Empress Dowager Zhang passed away, and the Hu family cried bitterly, and the next year also quietly passed away.

Empress Sun is very beautiful and therefore very favored. And as early as not long after Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he canonized him as a noble concubine and gave him a golden treasure (at that time, the rules of the inner palace were that the queen had a golden treasure and a golden book, and below the concubine, there was no treasure). The noble concubine of the Ming Dynasty Youbao started from the Sun family, and the mother was expensive by virtue of her son, and finally drove away the Hu family and became the queen herself.

So this post-abolition turmoil has made many people dissatisfied with Zhu Zhanji (I'm afraid Lao Wu is also among them).

Also in August 1428, Zhu Zhanji personally inspected the northern border. In September, about 10,000 cavalry of the Mongol Uliangha invaded Huizhou, and Zhu Zhanji personally led only 3,000 elite soldiers to fight against it (it is certain that the Mongol soldiers were not many, and it was estimated that there were only 3,000 people. But this is indeed remarkable, and there is also the Ming Dynasty's fire gun played a vital role), and fought the enemy in the north of Xifengkou at the Kuanhe River. According to historical records, the emperor personally opened his bow and shot three of his forwards. When the Mongol soldiers saw that it was the emperor's personal expedition, they all dismounted and surrendered. Zhu Zhanji killed the enemy's leader, and both sides withdrew.

In 1431, he ordered Zheng He to lead 61 large treasure ships and 27,550 men to the Western Ocean again, and the fleet was from Longwan in Nanjing, and returned to Liujiagang in 1433. However, during his return voyage, Zheng He died in Guri, on the west coast of India.

In 1431, Zhu Zhanji wrote a poem "Compassion for Nong", which was distributed throughout the country. "The importance of the peasant country is the origin of the eight politics. Worry and work each other, half a year can only be given, and the year is not safe. There is no bran core fertilizer, and it is warm and warm. Compliments on the ancestral law, Zhou Zhizhi order to exist. The same view is the same, and the restoration is like a universe. Taste and hear about the ancient followers, and have the grace of their parents. But you should choose carefully and use An Liyuan. ”

In 1432, Zhu Zhanji, who liked Weifu private interviews, lamented the hard work of the weaver women he saw, and wrote "Weaver Women's Words", "I tasted the fields in the past and witnessed the weaving women's labor." The silkworm is cocooned in the deep spring, and the silk can be reeled in May. The reeling silk is quasi-woven as silk, and the silk is carefully selected by both hands. Only when there is a reason to get on the machine, do the weaving under the shuttle window. The weaving has not stopped, and the third is the first to dream. The shuttle rolling is not temporary, and the hard work is the beginning of the silk. Woohoo, raising silkworms as cocoons may not be as urn-oriented. The tired silk is accumulated by inches, and it is for the second wealthy family of the public government, and the weaver has no urn in winter. At that time, they were rich and noble, and Qi Luo Ye Ye was beautiful. Anzhi weaver woman is the hardest, I meditate on a pity alone. ”

In 1433, the Japanese began to cause chaos along the southern coast, and at this time it was mainly the real Japanese invaders.

In the same year, Zhu Zhanji felt the disaster of drought, and wrote "Min Drought Poem", "The drought has not rained for a long time, and the summer scene will come to an end." The crops are all over the place, and the three farmers are looking forward to cutting the three farmers. The ancestral god is useless, and the old man is worried. If you can't continue to eat porridge, why will you be poor? It is a sign of democracy, and the worries are the same as the people. Looking up at Ziwei, calling on the heavens to cherish the essence. Tiande is developing, how can it endure the people's intimidation. Shi Lingui is early, and he will be sensitive. I hope that I will be tired. ”

In that year, Zhu Zhanji was inspired by some small eunuchs to believe in Buddhism, and admonished, "I learned that the small envoys of the supervision bureaus were confused by the monks, some of them were vegetarians all the year round, and some absconded to cut their hair to become monks, so he summoned the director of the supervision bureau and told him: People have their own common ways, they must be loyal to their ministers, and they must be filial to their sons." Loyal and filial people are naturally blessed, so why bother with vegetarian chanting. The Buddha only teaches people to have a good mind, and what they talk about heaven and hell is only in their hearts. If you have good thoughts, you will be in heaven, and if you have evil thoughts, you will be in hell. Therefore, the "Sutra" cloud, that is, the mind is the Buddha. In the future, you will take precepts, but if you have a good heart, you will practice. Those who dare to abscond as monks will not be killed. He also ordered the right capital of the imperial history Gu Zuo to show the guards, the division and the passes, and added the intention to cross-examine. If a small envoy cuts his hair and absconds as a monk, he will be arrested and brought to him; if the monastery hides and turns himself in, he will be punished; and those who are not arrested in the lawsuit and do not hide will be punished to death once they are discovered. ”

In September 1434, Zhu Zhanji personally led the army north out of Juyongguan and went to the northern border area, and even planned to raid Warat. Although he was dissuaded by Yang Rong, this move was also remarkable.

In 1435, Zhu Zhanji died suddenly.

The history of the Ming Dynasty praised it, "Renzong is the prince, and he fell in love with friendship." It is safe and secure, and the grandson is powerful. After ascending the throne, the officials were called their posts, the government was level, the discipline was repaired, the warehouse was full of envy, and Lu Yan was happy. years can not be a disaster. Gai Mingxing is sixty years old, and the people's morale is gradually relaxed, and there is a sign of peace. If it is a strong sudden, it will be flattened immediately, sweeping away the side dust, cunning and deterring, the emperor's heroic posture is strategic, and the ancestor warrior of the rope is a few grams. ”

is to say that Zhu Zhanji was established as the successor by his father Zhu Gaochi because his grandfather Zhu Di likes him. Zhu Gaochi turned the corner many times, all by relying on Zhu Zhanji's strength. After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, the officials were competent, the government and discipline were very virtuous, the warehouses were full, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. At this time, the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 60 years, and the country is growing day by day. The foreign enemy invaded, but was quickly repulsed. Zhu Zhanji's majestic strategy is no less than Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ming Xuanzong knew a lot about the suffering of the people and took a lot of measures. For example, the minister was encouraged to find ways to relieve the disaster, reduce or reduce taxes in the disaster area, and provide food in the disaster area free of charge.

However, the above measures are good, but the effect of implementation is counterproductive. It seems that there are only two ministers sent out to serve the people wholeheartedly (Zhou Chen and Guo Zhong), and the remaining half are indiscriminate, and the other half are "bandits", which has become a way to make a fortune by taking the opportunity. But in general, the officialdom at this time is still much better than the Jiajing (Xu Jie) period.

During the reign of Zhu Zhanji, Jiaolu broke away from the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor wanted to recover, but the military generals below were incompetent, and the ministers were opposed, so he had to give up in the end.

With regard to the northern territories, around 1430, some of the self-conceived "non-strategic locations" were abandoned. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gradually began to take a defensive position against the Mongols.

On the other hand, some people believe that Zhu Zhanji is also an indulgent, which Caesar does not dare to agree with.

Zhu Zhanji lived to be an emperor for ten years at the age of 38, but he only had two sons (Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu were also emperors) and three daughters.

There is another anecdote to insert here, that is, Zhu Zhanji swept away the official Huang.

Zhu Yuanzhang once set up a government-run "compound" (old courtyard) on the bank of the Qinhuai River, of course, also for the purpose of developing the economy (learned from Guan Zhong).

But what Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect was that later there were officials among the customers, and gradually there were more and more of them, and they became more and more unpleasant.

Therefore, in 1429, Zhu Zhanji ordered the official compound to be sealed and officials were strictly forbidden to go to similar places.

However, on the contrary, a large number of women in the "compound" were put into the "good family", and the officials took them in one after another, competing with each other, and opened a "new page". Even in the Ming Dynasty and Ming Wuzong periods, there were "Congliang" who entered the palace.

But we must note that in Journey to the West, why Sha Seng doesn't like women, hates scorpion essence so much, and scolds him for "ignorance of thieves", I am afraid that it has a lot to do with Zhu Zhanji's "Destroying the Official Yellow", which has an important theoretical basis.

Let's talk about it in detail, in 1426, that is, on August 1 of the first year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, plotted to rebel.

Zhu Gaoxu, 1380-1426, was the second son of Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, who made outstanding military achievements during the "Jingnan" campaign, and saved Zhu Di's life several times. Zhu Di also loves this son very much (like himself, but the eldest son Zhu Gaochi is fat and weak). In 1404, Zhu Gaochu was named the king of Han, and changed the title to Yunnan and other places, but Zhu Gaochu refused to go (remote place, where is the place where heroes stay), and finally set up the fief in Shandong.

In 1424, Zhu Di died during the Northern Expedition, but the minister first secretly informed Zhu Gaochi, so Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne smoothly.

In 1425, Zhu Gaochi died. Zhu Gaoxi planned to kill Zhu Zhanji, but it was unsuccessful (it is difficult to judge whether it is true or false).

On August 1, 1426, there was an earthquake in Beijing, and Zhu Gaoxi saw this as a good opportunity. So he planned to collude with the British public Zhang Fu, but he was accused (this is even more doubtful).

Zhu Zhanji drove the expedition in person, Zhu Gaoxu was in a hurry, and his subordinates did not have much strength. As a result, the emperor's soldiers came to the city, and Zhu Gaoxi was captured without much resistance.

The emperor put Zhu Gaoxu under house arrest in Xi'an Gate Xiaoyao Tower, and punished all the people who participated in the rebellion. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji "abolished Gao Xu's father and son as concubines, and built a room in Xi'an Gate." Gao Xu and his sons died one after another." According to other records, "the Han Shu people Gao Xu locked up in the free city", once (the specific time is unknown), Zhu Zhanji came here, and Zhu Gaoxu did not express a warm welcome. So the emperor was furious and taught his uncle a lesson, and when he left, "the people were taken by surprise and stretched out their feet to hook up the ground." These uncles and nephews are both born as war generals, and the emperor was in a hurry, so he naturally fell and squatted, so of course Zhu Zhanji's face couldn't be hung up, "The Urgent Lux is covered with a copper cylinder." The cylinder weighs 300 pounds, and the people are powerful, and the top is negative from the cylinder. The charcoal tank is like a mountain, burning charcoal, and the fire is blazing copper in time, and the people are dead." Soon, Zhu Gaoxi's "all sons died".

So what the real history is all about is difficult to verify. It's just that later generations continue to speculate from it, and it is estimated that Zhu Zhanji has long wanted to kill this uncle and find an excuse. even wondered if Zhu Zhanji had a tradition of killing his relatives, and whether his father Zhu Gaochi was also killed by him?

The people of the Qing Dynasty may have drawn nourishment from this allusion, and arranged for Cheng Yanjin to buckle Li Daozong with a big bell in the novel, which was also roasted alive.

Lao Wu obviously also believed that Zhu Zhanji deliberately found fault and killed his uncle, because "Gao Xu and his sons died one after another". If it was really Zhu Gaoxi who offended Zhu Zhanji, as a Ming monarch, there was no need to kill his own uncle and many cousins. In any case, it is certain that Zhu Zhanji's methods are quite cruel and disliked by Confucianism. Therefore, in Journey to the West, after the sand monk went to the lower realm, he lived by eating people in the vicious sea "Quicksand River", and wore a skull for fun.

Why doesn't Tang Seng like Sha Seng? It is said that fire gives birth to earth. Because Tang Seng reflects Zhu Yunwen and other emperors of the fire generation, Zhu Zhanji's uncle Zhu Gaoxi is also the king of the fire generation. So Tang Seng basically didn't talk to Sha Seng much along the way, but Zhu Bajie is wood, and wood makes fire, so Tang Seng prefers this sweet-mouthed guy.

And Lao Wu obviously has a lot of opinions about Zhu Zhanji, and it is estimated that the biggest possibility is that Zhu Zhanji killed many of his uncles and cousins (but Old Man Wu did not think that Zhu Zhanji had murdered his father Zhu Gaochi, but he thought that he made up all kinds of unwarranted evil deeds of his uncle Zhu Gaoxi).

However, Old Man Wu actually has a lot of appreciation for Sha Seng, but the description is very vague. The most typical is that "Sha Seng is a Lingshan general, and when he sees a lot of things, he is soft and gentle", and he gave Wu Bai a life, a lesson, talking about the past and the present, stating the interests and disadvantages, and eloquence is even for the sake of gain. Indeed, Zhu Zhanji is not only an emperor immediately, but also a "literati and ink writer".

As for the taciturn of the sand monk in the book, it is actually a reflection of the Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaiyuan. In the eighty-eighth chapter of the book, Tang Seng and several went to Yuhua Prefecture. Wukong Bajie Sha Seng has accepted apprentices (three little princes), but the title of the return is "Zen to Yuhua Shi ****, Heart Ape Wood Mother Grantor". Why did this omit Sha Seng, the mother of the earth? Isn't it because Sha Seng and the old prince of Yuhua Prefecture reflected the Longqing Emperor at this time, Lao Tzu taught his son that it was a matter of course, so there is no need to mention it again. also used this loophole to express the mapping relationship that Sha Seng is Emperor Longqing and the father of Emperor Wanli.

We have also said a lot about Zhu Zaiyuan, so I won't repeat it.

Sha Seng does not occupy much pen and ink in Journey to the West, and we will encounter a lot of confusion when we analyze it. So does Journey to the West describe the story of Zhu Zhanji when he was emperor?

Yes, at least the three places in the book: Jindou Mountain, Xiliang Women's Country, and Pipa Cave of Poison Enemy Mountain.

Among them, Taishang Laojun's mount, Qingniu Jing, is a reflection of Zhu Zhanji's early reign, Li Li of Jiaozhi. After three years of fighting each other in 1426-1428, the Ming Dynasty finally withdrew from Jiaozhi, and Li Li established himself as king, and later Zhu Zhanji had to approve.

In addition, there is a small detail from the fifty-second chapter of the book, the monkey first transforms into a diamond bracelet that prompts weaving to steal the monster. This is a corroborative evidence, because Zhu Zhanji has a nickname of "Taiping Tianzi, Promoting the Emperor".

There is even a record in the wild history, "The emperor is good at promoting the weaving of the play, and the Jiangnan is repatriated, and its price is expensive, up to more than ten gold." When Fengqiao was a grain chief, he was sent by the county governor to find the best one and use the horse he rode to change it. The wives and concubines thought that the horses were easy to insects, and they would be different, and they stole at them, but they jumped away. The wife is afraid, and she dies, and the husband returns, hurting her wife, and fearing the law, and she also suffers."

This is to say that Zhu Zhanji likes to play cricket. It is specifically required to purchase it from Jiangnan at a high price, and even dozens of taels and one son. provoked a local petty official, and exchanged his high-headed horse for a capable weaver. As a result, after this little official took the baby home, he went out for something. A bunch of his wives also opened the jar curiously because of the strange thing about this weaving child. Not wanting this cricket to take the opportunity to run away, his wife was afraid of hanging. After this little official came back, he felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, and he was afraid that his boss would punish him, so he also hanged himself.

In the end, although Sha Seng was awarded a great position by Rulai, he was only a golden-bodied Arhat. On the one hand, it was affected by the old pig, and more importantly, Zhu Zhanji at least burned his uncle, committing the Confucian taboo of "filial piety".

That's all there is to say about Sha Seng, next, please listen to the next nonsense Zhu Bajie.