Chapter 1146 Postscript It has been 131 years since the founding of the three Ming Dynasties
Chapter 1146 Postscript 3: It has been 131 years since the Ming Dynasty was founded
Why did Xie Yan ask about telegraphs and trains?
Because it is mentioned in this history book.
Xie Yan carefully checked the dates of birth and death of the Ming Emperor, but there was no information about Emperor Dingtai. It is estimated that the time of death was too recent and the relevant textbook content has not been compiled yet.
The Yellow Emperor Calendar has also been canceled from textbooks. Even the calendar used in daily life does not exist.
Xie Yan excused himself for having a headache and went back to the bedroom with his history textbook. Wang Sheng said goodbye and left without disturbing him.
After returning to the bedroom, Xie Yan took out a pen and paper.
He fainted and rubbed the ink stick for a while, then realized that he was grinding the ink subconsciously.
Maybe it's because daily activities like talking, dressing, and studying ink have long become habits of this body. It's like a person who has suffered a concussion and lost his memory. He can't remember his name, but he still knows how to speak.
In the pen holder on the desk, there are two pen-like things.
There is a nib and a pen tube, but there is no leather tube to hold the ink. It seems to be stuffed with cotton or something to absorb the ink.
There are also ink bottles with glass bodies and cork stoppers.
Xie Yan opened the history book, dipped his pen in ink, and began to write down in his writing pad——
Zhu Guoxiang abdicated from the first year of Hongwu to the sixth year of Hongwu. (He reigned for 6 years and died at the age of 93.)
Ju Ming, abdicated, the first year of the restoration of China - the eleventh year of the restoration of China, the first year of Shenfu - the forty years of Shenfu. (Reigned for 51 years, died at the age of 90.)
Zhu Yang died of illness in the first year of Duanxi - the seventh year of Duanxi. (He reigned for 7 years and died at the age of 67.)
Zhu Tang died of illness in the first year of Yanchun - the eighteenth year of Yanchun. (He reigned for 18 years and died at the age of 69.)
Zhu Xiaochi died of illness in the first year of Longsheng - the fourth year of Longsheng. (He reigned for 4 years and died at the age of 55.)
Zhu Jingjun died of illness in the first year of Dingtai——? (The year of his reign is unknown and his age is unknown.)
Zhu Hepei is currently on the throne, from the first year of Jiaqing to the third year of Jiaqing. (The emperor's grandson succeeded to the throne.)
If we do not count the reign of Emperor Dingtai Zhu Jingjun, it has only been 89 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
But Wang Sheng said that it had been more than a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, so Emperor Dingtai had been in power for at least 11 years.
Looking at Emperor Dingtai's father, he reigned for four years and died at the age of 55, so he himself may have succeeded to the throne in his 30s.
Moreover, Emperor Dingtai even killed his son and directly succeeded him to the throne with his grandson who was less than 10 years old. It is estimated that he will also have a long waiting period.
Xie Yan even suspected that the Emperor Jiaqing, who was succeeded by his grandson, might have some identity issues, which led a prince to dare to stage a coup.
If the reign of Emperor Dingtai is set to 35 years, it would have been 124 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
124 years after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, should it be the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, or has it already reached the Yuan Dynasty? Xie Yan's history is so poor that I can't figure it out at all.
Grass!
Xie Yan slapped his forehead fiercely. He just forgot to ask Wang Sheng how long the Dingtai reign was used.
This Emperor Dingtai should be very powerful, because Wang Sheng said before that Emperor Dingtai suppressed the rebellion in the Western Regions and the grasslands, and built the railway to the Western Regions and the grasslands.
"Bang bang bang!"
There was a knock on the door.
Xie Yan quickly tore off what he had just written, crumpled it into a ball and put it in his pocket: "Please come in."
A little girl jumped in and pushed the door open: "Brother Six, are your injuries healed?"
"Are you the little sister?" Xie Yan asked.
The little girl was a little unhappy and pouted and said, "It seems it's not healed yet. Even I don't recognize it."
Xie Yan covered his head: "I get a headache just thinking about things. Please help me recall it. What's your name?"
The little girl said: "My name is Xie Wan. I am the thirteenth in my family. I usually call me Thirteenth Mother."
"It turns out to be Thirteenth Sister, I kind of remembered it." Xie Yan started to talk nonsense.
"Really?" Xie Wan became happy again.
Xie Yan took the opportunity to ask: "Thirteenth sister, how old is Dingtai?"
Xie Wan said: "Forty-two years. In the forty-two years of Dingtai, I have just entered the first grade of elementary school. Brother Six, why are you confused again?"
"Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget." Xie Yan explained.
Xie Wan said with concern: "Then you should rest more and take the medicine prescribed by the doctor on time."
Xie Yan said a few perfunctory words, but he was counting the years in his heart.
If Dingtai is 42 years old, it means it has been 131 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
"You guys finish school so early?" Xie Yan glanced at the clock and had nothing to say.
Xie Wan said: "In girls' school, school ends early."
Xie Yan asked: "Do all girls go to girls' schools? Are there any government-run girls' schools?"
"No, all girls' schools are private schools," Xie Wan walked over and looked in the mirror, "I heard that during the Dingtai period, government-run girls' schools were opened in both the east and west capitals, and famous Confucians were hired as professors of girls' studies. But there was an important minister. My granddaughter was pregnant, and it was found out that she was the daughter of a lecturer. That incident caused such a big fuss that all government-run girls’ schools were closed after only opening for a few years.”
Xie Yan could imagine the situation at that time.
Whether it is a mutual love or a teacher seducing a female student, it would be ridiculous to get the granddaughter of an important minister pregnant.
The lecturer had the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, and probably wanted to take a chance on cooking the raw rice into cooked rice and take the opportunity to become the grandson-in-law of an important minister.
Xie Yan asked: "Private girls' schools have not been affected?"
Xie Wan said: "It must be affected. All girls' schools now are no longer allowed to use male teachers, and even school handymen are all female."
Xie Yan asked again: "Can women take the imperial examination?"
"The only option is to take the child prodigy exam. First, study in Piyong for three years, and then take the exam to enter the Imperial College."
Xie Wan was full of energy when she said this, and she recounted the details: "It's very difficult. The child prodigy test is not easy to pass, and Piyong and Taixue have to study for seven years. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only four women have successfully graduated from Taixue. .One of them became the imperial concubine, two became the crown princess, and one passed the imperial examination and became an official."
Xie Yan was surprised and said: "A woman can take the imperial examination and become an official?"
Xie Wan nodded vigorously: "For more than a hundred years, there was only one woman who became a scholar and became an official. On the first day I entered school, the teacher told the story of that strange woman. All the female students admired her. It is a pity that her ending
Very bad.”
"What's the ending?" Xie Yan asked.
Xie Wan said: "Everyone opposed her becoming an official, and only Emperor Dingtai supported her. After becoming an official, she was often slandered, and the censor always impeached her. She has never married in her life. She is in her forties.
I resigned and became a Taoist nun."
Xie Yan was silent.
Xie Wan added: "The teacher told us that when she was an official, everyone criticized her, but when she became a Taoist nun, everyone praised her. Every day, people come to the Taoist temple to talk to her about the past and the present, and discuss academics and poetry.
.One day, she suddenly disappeared and never appeared again.”
"It's quite ironic." Xie Yan commented.
Xie Wan continued: "Among those four strange women, one of the crown princes also ended badly. She was three years older than the prince, with mediocre appearance and stronger personality. The prince did not like her, and the emperor insisted on marrying her.
. She never gave birth to a son, the prince was deposed in the second year after he ascended the throne, and the civil and military advice of the entire dynasty was useless."
Xie Yan thought it was okay. At least this woman from the Ming Dynasty could, in principle, take the imperial examination and become an official, and it would be easier for her to be selected by the powerful after studying at Imperial College.
Xie Wan whispered: "The current Queen Mother is a child goddess who was born in the Qihe Protectorate. She was selected as the crown prince's concubine when she was studying in the Imperial College. The crown prince's main concubine was in poor health, and several of her legitimate sons also died. This
It is the emperor's turn to be the emperor's grandson. Today's empress dowager and emperor have foreign blood, so the civil and military ministers support King Yong's coup."
Xie Yan was surprised and said: "You know this kind of secret? You haven't graduated from elementary school yet!"
"I'm eleven years old, what don't I know?" Xie Wan said, "I was at school and eavesdropped on two teachers. Many teachers were discussing this matter."
As expected of an all-girls school, those female teachers are quite capable of gossiping.
Actually, the current Queen Mother is a serious Han woman.
Her ancestors immigrated to Qihe in the late Taizong Dynasty, married a foreign woman, and had children. After that, they all intermarry with Han people, and all they read were Han books. Her grandfather even became a regular official in his generation.
However, the appearance does have some alien characteristics, because among the so-called Han women who have been intermarrying for several generations, two of them are Qihe mixed-race children.
Looks very beautiful.
The prince was already in his forties at that time. When he inspected the Imperial Academy, he fell in love with her at just one glance. When he returned, he applied to Emperor Dingtai to be a concubine.
Xie Wan eavesdropped on the gossips of the female teachers, but what she knew was not all the information. The sources of information for those female teachers were limited.
The real reason for King Yong's coup was that the wise and powerful Emperor Dingtai became extremely dim during the last few years of his reign.
Upright ministers were squeezed out, and treacherous villains came to power one after another. While Prince Yong was currying favor with the dim-witted Emperor Dingtai, he secretly made friends with eunuchs, civil servants and military generals.
Although King Yong himself was just a Hanlin official with no real power, many eunuchs, civil servants, and generals had close personal relationships with him.
In addition, Emperor Dingtai lived too long, and the two empresses, the prince and several of his direct descendants died of illness, which further fueled their ambitions.
These guys took advantage of Emperor Dingtai's critical illness, isolated the inside and outside, blocked news, and forged imperial edicts. They were almost 100% sure that the coup would be successful.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, the crown prince's concubine from the Land of Seven Rivers ran away with her son who had only been made the crown prince for half a year!
No one knows how they escaped from the East Palace, but they quickly arrived at Chang'an Tongdianqinwang. They were accompanied by a civil servant who has now become the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty.
The still-charming Queen Mother, the young new monarch, and the sudden rise to power as Prime Minister returned to Luoyang and joined forces to carry out a bloody purge of the court.
Too many civil and military officials have been implicated, causing rumors to spread everywhere. Some people are secretly making crazy rumors, saying that the Prime Minister often sleeps in the Queen Mother's bed.
Some people even say that the little emperor is the illegitimate son of the prime minister.
After chatting with my sister for a while, Xie Yan’s father and brother came home one after another.
His older brother had a lively personality and joked with Xie Yan, who was "not smart".
My father looked sad.
While eating, my mother asked, "Is there something difficult in the Yamen?"
The father first asked the servants to disperse, and then sighed: "The New Deal has spread everywhere. The emperor and the cabinet have issued orders to reduce the number of civil servants and servants in all levels of government offices."
"This is a good thing. All the clerks in the yamen are idle and do nothing. Reducing the number of white officials and white servants will allow the clerks to work more easily," my mother said.
The father shook his head: "You don't understand. There are too many messy things. The new monarch and the prime minister are trying to change the law. Rectifying the administration is only the first step. We don't know what to do next. They have cleaned up the court, and now
It’s my turn to tidy up the place, and I’ll be killed if I don’t pay attention.”
