Chapter 53 From supernatural events to political conspiracy

We have finished talking about the unsolved case of Li Zixing. Now, we need to agree on one issue: When reading history, the most taboo is hearsay, irresponsible, and the most taboo is nonsense that does not respect historical facts.With a serious and objective historical attitude, we must admit that the name and date of Li Zixing's unsolved case have been obviously corrupted. According to Taoist records, this incident happened during the reign of Emperor Xianzong, and the protagonist of the story is Li Zixing.In fact, the real time when this incident happened was during the reign of Emperor Sejong.The funny protagonist is not called Li Zixing, but Wang Jin.

According to official history records, Wang Jin was originally a son of the state, and he went to the mountains to practice Taoism. After returning, he learned a few unique skills, so he entered the palace, taught emperor Sejong the art of the room, and assisted Sejong to control the court ladies. The concubines in the palace were so scared that they hid everywhere.Later, Emperor Sejong died violently after taking the elixir, so the courtiers played one after another, wanting to drag Wang Jin out and behead him.But no one expected that this supernatural event would turn into an unprecedented political conspiracy.

At that time, it was Xu Jie, a scholar, who impeached Wang Jin for feeding the dead Emperor Sejong with pills.Unexpectedly, Gao Gong, Xu Jie's disciple, suddenly turned back and asked his teacher Xu Jie: Teacher, what do you mean?You say the emperor is a fool, let a charlatan cheated to death, is not it?Teacher, you have made a serious political mistake.Who doesn't know that our emperor is the most wise and martial artist, how could he be fooled by a charlatan? When Gao Gong said this, Xu Jie was stunned. As a result, Xu Jie was charged with crimes and kicked out of Beijing on the spot, and Gao Gong has dominated the cabinet ever since.The luckiest thing is the liar Wang Jin. Logically speaking, he should have been beheaded, but if he were to be killed, it would mean that Emperor Sejong made a mistake. Therefore, in order to maintain the glorious image of Emperor Sejong, Wang Jin cannot be recognized as a Liar, on the contrary, he should be rewarded and encouraged...

At that time, the imperial court's final judgment on the case was written as follows: My emperor tests the wisdom of the holy gods, and the blessings of the heavens. Those who live to the end of their lives, enjoy the country and enjoy their years. This is something that emperors have rarely achieved since ancient times. How dare you use prescriptions lightly!But it is blamed on others.Since the matter will be understood, it should be announced and recorded in the History Museum, and it will be shown to all generations.Since Jin and others were not guilty, they played according to the plan.

Speaking of such a story, even copied the imperial edict at that time, in order to prove that Li Zixing's strange incident had indeed been recorded in history. However, our book is about Wang Shouren's road to sagehood, and Li Zisheng suddenly came in halfway and spent so much ink, what is the reason for this? The purpose of telling this story is to prove one thing: Will Wang Shouren and Emperor Xianzong go together in his pursuit of sages? What does this mean? Let's think about Wang Shouren. He climbed Mount Jiuhua and searched for the old Taoist priests everywhere. Why didn't he go to the monk's temple and chat with the monks?Could it be that like Zhu Xi, Confucianism and Buddhism have already opened up, but Taoism is still in need?

However, as we have analyzed above, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, including other types of thought systems, meet at the ultimate wisdom.For example, what Wang Shouren wants to climb is a peak of wisdom, and the thoughts and theories of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism are three small paths leading to the peak.No matter which path you take to climb to the top of the peak, looking back at the way you came, "you will be at the top of the mountain, and you will see all the small mountains at a glance", the three paths are clearly in front of your eyes.And before you have reached the summit, it is absolutely impossible to have a panoramic view of the two paths.

This means that the three schools of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism can all be connected, and if they are not connected, they are not connected. To make this clear, it is: If Wang Shouren has not advanced to the artistic conception of a sage, then he will not understand Taoist tricks, then there is such a possibility that he may be the same as Emperor Xianzong, Believe in the Taoist beauty Lu Ding. All in all, this chapter is rambling and meaningless, but I have collected four pieces of information and put them here for readers to draw their own conclusions: Material 1: Wang Shouren visited Taoism but not monks in Jiuhua Mountain, and put the story of Zhu Xi and Bai Yuchan on himself, and fabricated a non-existent Cai Pengtou out of thin air. What did he want to cover up?

Material 2: Taoist alchemy has been lost to the people, and the foolish people are convinced that it has the theory of a beautiful woman's furnace.This statement is decided. Anyone who believes in this point will definitely dig three feet to search for beautiful women. Information 3: Wang Shouren has six wives in his family, which is a bit too many from any point of view. Information 4: At this time, Wang Shouren had not yet reached a great level of knowledge, so he might not believe in the theory of a beautiful woman. Summarizing the above four data, what conclusion can you draw? However, if anyone draws a conclusion here, it is very likely that Wang Shouren went astray on the road of pursuing sages and stepped into the fallacy of treating beautiful women as alchemy furnaces, so he hugged six of them in one breath. Beautiful women are kept at home - then this statement is absolutely irresponsible and lacks historical evidence.It is entirely possible that these bizarre things are purely coincidental.

That being the case, why did Wang Shouren marry six wives? ……God knows! Anyway, with Wang Shouren's way of doing things, he definitely can't even touch the threshold of a sage, there is no doubt about it.