Chapter 37 When is the dragon robe replaced by cassock?

I have never been a mystery seeker. I always feel that all secrets are a scab. If you want to know the answer, it means that you have to uncover other people’s scabs and make the wounds that have stopped hurting hurt again.History is innocent, dead ancestors are innocent, and silent secrets are also innocent.But we always persevere in digging and searching, because everyone has a curiosity.In fact, many secrets are buried under the dust of history and never see the light of day.No matter how future generations pursue it, the puzzles once set will never have answers. I happened to see a few poems left by Emperor Jianwen on a website. It is said that he fled to the southwest and wrote them after he became a monk.I can't help but be surprised, the whereabouts of this Ming emperor after losing his country has always been a mystery.Could it be that he really escaped from the palace, became a monk instead of an emperor, and became a monk who liked to write poems?The whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen's life and death has always been an unsolved mystery left over from history.At that time, because Emperor Jianwen cut down the vassal, his uncle King Yan launched the "Battle of Jingnan".Emperor Jianwen's position as emperor was forced to step down after only four years. He disappeared in a fire.

Zhu Di, the King of Yan, still refused to believe that the body in the dragon robe that had been burned to ashes was Emperor Jianwen.He preferred to believe that Emperor Jianwen had secretly escaped from the palace, so he sent soldiers to search for him, because Zhu Di was afraid that one day, Emperor Jianwen, who still had a chance of survival, would return to the country.Although the weak Jianwen Emperor's military strategy was far inferior to Zhu Di's, Zhu Di's throne was not justifiable after all.Did he really sit so peacefully in exchange for the country he gained by treason and seizing the throne?Even though he is more courageous than Emperor Jianwen, he has the domineering and courage to rule the world, and even Ming Chengzu's reign was called "the prosperous age of Yongle".But to usurp power, seize the throne, and murder his nephew, it was a nightmare for him after all.Every time he dreamed back at midnight, he would hear Emperor Jianwen's mournful cry, resounding through the huge palace.In the 19th year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu moved his capital to Beijing and took Nanjing as his capital.This may be regarded as Zhu Di's escape.

Where did Emperor Jianwen go?Was he buried in that ruthless sea of ​​fire and became a dead soul of the underworld, or did he really escape from the palace and become a bitter monk in the mountains under the condition of being displaced?I remember watching an episode of "Looking for Emperor Jianwen" on TV. Not far from the Ming Dynasty Imperial Palace in Nanjing, I found a cave and drilled through the entrance of the cave, which can lead directly to the palace.Could it be that Emperor Jianwen escaped through that passage and saved his life?In other words, he had long expected that King Yan would break into the city one day, so he ordered people to dig a tunnel secretly, so that he could escape one day?But did he have any entourage by his side when he left?The eldest son was left to burn to death, and the two-year-old second son became Zhu Di's captive. He was imprisoned until he was 56 years old before he regained his freedom. Did he expect all these?

This is the helplessness of being born in the emperor's family. If one person gains the Tao, chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven; if one person loses power, the grass and trees will wither.Countless descendants followed the remaining traces of Ming Dynasty history to find Emperor Jianwen.Emperor Jianwen was described by his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang as a precocious, filial and upright emperor's grandson, whom he was very fond of.His father, Prince Zhu Biao, died early in his prime, and Zhu Yunwen, as the eldest son of Zhu Biao, was established as the heir apparent.The 21-year-old Emperor Jianwen succeeded to the throne in Nanjing. He was gentle, soft-tempered and inexperienced in national policy.What he sincerely yearns for is to implement the ideal benevolent government, but he doesn't know that there are too many strife and struggle in the palace.He listened to Huang Zicheng's advice to deprive the power of the vassal king, but he was actually worried that some ambitious uncles would attack him, and the one who worried him most was Yan Wang Zhu Di.However, his act of cutting the vassal directly led to King Yan's determination to fight against the imperial court. In the end, Zhu Di broke through the imperial city in one fell swoop, and what he saw was the chaotic scene of the palace compound on fire.

Zhu Di couldn't believe that one of those charred corpses belonged to Emperor Jianwen.But did Emperor Jianwen really escape?This unsolvable mystery has been buried for nearly seven hundred years, and there are still different opinions about the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen.There are faint traces of his visits in many places, but they are all blurred like paper and ink soaked by water.No one can come up with a definite and correct answer, proving that Emperor Jianwen is really not dead, but living as a monk in a certain temple, or in a certain village, living the life of ordinary people, and having life and death. Endless offspring.No matter what kind of ending it is, Emperor Jianwen is a declining emperor, who lost his country and throne, and then chose to flee, leaving his whereabouts unknown.

This poem expressing feelings is obviously not from the imperial pen of Emperor Jianwen.If Emperor Jianwen is still alive, but wants to be unknown and live in the world, how dare he write "I forgot to fly the phoenix chariot for a long time, and the cassock is replaced with the dragon robe. Where will the officials return today? Only the crows will sooner or later The verse of "North Korea" has been handed down to the world?No matter where he wandered, he could only keep his name incognito, and he couldn't let anyone see the slightest clue, otherwise he would inevitably be killed.This poem indeed describes the desolation and helplessness of a down and out emperor changing his dragon robe to cassock——looking at the imperial city in the distance across Wanli Pengshan Mountain, where do all the former officials belong?The imperial city fell, and the scepter and jade seal were lost. He was just a prisoner who drifted around to save his life.With his weakness, even if he is alive, he will not have the ambition to revive the mountains and rivers.

Emperor Jianwen's dream of being an emperor had long since awakened in the smoke of the Jingnan war.Without this war, Emperor Jianwen would have been a stable emperor for several years or even decades in his own land like many ordinary emperors.With his gentleness and cowardice, he will not leave a crucial mark in the annals of Ming Dynasty.There are countless emperors in the past dynasties, and there are only a few who can be passed down through the ages and remembered by the world.The rest of the emperors just underestimated, according to the arrangement of fate, after sitting on their thrones, they left quietly.In each dynasty, how many emperors, how many can we remember?In the turbulent tide of history, the emperor is just a grain of sand, and like ordinary people, he disappears when the tide ebbs.

Where was the sand and stone of Emperor Jianwen buried?Since there is no trace to follow, it seems that there is no need to look for it.Even if he is alive, in a secret place, so what if he lives until his hair turns gray?After losing the throne, he is no different from ordinary people.As for this poem, it doesn't matter who wrote it.I believe that in the long sea, Emperor Jianwen's hatred of subjugation should also be diluted by the wind of the years. If Emperor Jianwen really became an eminent monk and realized the principles of Zen, why would he still care about an old event that cannot be reversed?He has long been used to the silence of yellow rolls and green lights, and the simplicity of vegetarian meals.Let the emperor's dream burn to ashes with the fire, let those who pursue it continue to pursue, let those who seek mysteries continue to explore, let Emperor Jianwen become a mystery that never ends in history, a mystery that can never be understood .