Author: Shi Yuchun
At the time of the reform of Jianwen and Yongle, some literati did not show the style and integrity that readers should have, and did not show the reader's insistence on the value of faith.
In this regard, there are many comments in historical materials.
In the second volume of the "Secret History of The Jiang Clan" written by the Ming Dynasty Jiang Qing, when cheng Benli was recorded, he had already expressed something about the Jianwen Wenchen who was attached to Zhu Di.
Jiang Qing, Emperor Wuzong of Ming (Zhu Houzhao) Zhengde sixth year (1511 AD) Xin Weike Temple Examination Second Rank 84 jinshi born.
According to Jiang, Cheng Benli was recommended for his literary prowess and honesty, and the imperial court recruited him to enter the Hanlin Academy to participate in the compilation of the Records of the High Temple. Later, Cheng Benli was promoted to the rank of Duke of Zuo you of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau, and his rank was Zhongshun Dafu (中顺大夫), and he was given the sipin official title. In the third year of Xin Wei [1401 AD)], Cheng Benli was removed due to a mistake in accompanying the ceremony, but remained as a Hanlin repairman. The following year [jianwen 4th year (1402 AD)], the Records of the High Temple were completed, and Cheng Benli was transferred to Jiangxi as a deputy envoy; however, before he could take up his post, Zhu Di's so-called "Jingnan" soldiers had already crossed the river, and after the soldiers of Yan Fan entered the capital, Cheng Benli fulfilled the festival of his subjects and committed suicide, on June 13 of the year of Nongwu (Jianwen 4th year).
After Cheng Benli's death, Zhu Di ordered that he be recovered from the imperial court grace he had received during the Jianwen period, and it turned out that Cheng Benli's family was left without any credit. When people call the elevation original, it is said to be upright.
Before his death, Cheng Benli wrote ten volumes of the Sundanese Collection. Later, Wu Ang (born in the Chenghua period, still alive in the late Years of the Hongzhi Dynasty) published his book in Mindi; the suffragan Lin Yanxuan (whose person is unknown) also wrote a preface to the book, calling it "Present Yiqi".
Here, we will introduce the relevant situation of Cheng Benli.
Cheng Benli, Ziyuan Dao, Chongde people.
He was a descendant of cheng yi, the great Confucian of the Song Dynasty.
Cheng Benli's father, Cheng Degang, was very talented, but he did not become an official. On the same day, the General Lu Cheng of the Yuan Dynasty led his troops through the Soap Forest, and his soldiers violently plundered. To this end, Cheng De just went to see Lu Cheng and explained to him the pros and cons. After listening to Cheng Degang's words, Lu Cheng was very happy, he immediately forbade the people to plunder, and planned to play, asking the imperial court to appoint Cheng Degang to an official position, and Cheng Degang resigned and left.
Cheng Benli had great ambitions when he was young, and when he read, he was never bound to chapters and sentences.
In the middle of Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu Year, Cheng Benli was honored by the imperial court as a filial son.
Zhu Yuanzhang once said to Cheng Benli:
"Those who read books, who are vying to participate in the imperial examinations, are nominally exhaustive in studying the scriptures, but in fact there is no practical learning. You are generous in character, and you should aspire to the study of the sages. ”
To this end, Cheng Benli studied even harder.
Hearing that Jinhua Zhu Kexiu had obtained the true transmission of Zhu Xizhi's learning from Xu Qian, Cheng Benli went to follow Zhu Kexiu on a study tour.
Later, Cheng Benli was recommended as Ming Jing and Xiucai, and was given the title of King of Qin [Zhu Zhu, zhu yuanzhang's second son, Hongwu iii year (1370 AD), the king of Qin, Hongwu eleven years (1378 AD), he was in Xi'an. The house introduced the people and gave them coins and kurama horses.
Because of the death of his mother, Cheng Ben resigned from the government.
After the funeral, Cheng Benli was made the King of Zhou [Zhu Xu, the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, was created King of Wu in the third year of Hongwu (1370 AD), Hongwu was renamed King of Zhou in the eleventh year (1378 AD), and Hongwu was enfeoffed in Kaifeng in the fourteenth year (1381 AD).] The official of the palace, then followed the King of Zhou to Kaifeng.
In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387 AD), Cheng Benli was promoted to Changshi and accompanied the King of Zhou into the pilgrimage. In the twenty-second year of Hongwu (1389 AD), the King of Zhou abandoned the domain to Fengyang, and Cheng Benli was implicated and convicted, and was demoted to the post of governor of Yunnan Malong Ta Lang Dian. He left his family in Da Liang and took only one servant with him. During his tenure in Yunnan, the local tribal leader Shi Kefa instigated a rebellion among the local ethnic minorities, and Cheng Benli rode alone into his lair, and all the tribal leaders were annexed. Soon after, the local tribal leader again led the tribal rebellion. Marquis Muying of Xiping and zhang Zhen, the envoy of the government, knew that Cheng Ben was capable of lixian, so he ordered him to take charge of the military of Ben County on his behalf. For the local people, Cheng Benli soothed and governed at the same time, starting from Chuxiong and Yao An, he successively reached Dali, Yongchang, Heqing, Lijiang and other places. In the meantime, Cheng Benli crossed the mountains, ate and slept in the open air, and went back and forth for a total of nine years, and finally, the people of all ethnic groups were able to live and work in peace and contentment.
In Jiang's account, although he only quoted the content of Lin Yan's preface to Cheng Benli's account, it can be inferred that this is also about Jiang's identification with Cheng Benli.
What kind of person is "Yi Qi"?
"Yi qi" is a dignified figure who has been praised for thousands of years.
Comparing Cheng Benli to "Yi Qi", then, for those who stand on the opposite side of Cheng Benli, how to evaluate it, naturally can be imagined!
When recording Cheng Benli's death knot, the author Jiang Qing also made a special note:
"Shi Tongxiu cultivators Dong Lun and Libu Lang Zhongxia Zhengshan, the historians Qiantang Gao Rang, Luling Wu Qin, Zhao Youshi, Duan Xiaosi, Zhang Bingyi and Tang Geng of Tongjun, Wang Jing, Li Guan, Wu Pu, Yang Pu, Yang Zirong (i.e., Yang Rong), Liu Xiao, and Liu Yanming, all of whom could not die or see the new dynasty."
Although, Jiang Qing did not explicitly rebuke these people who could not die, and did not explicitly condemn those who saw the new dynasty.
However, as mentioned above, from the author's praise for Cheng Benli, some clues may be seen.
Regarding jianwen wenchen's attachment to Zhu Di, the Ming dynasty Huang Zuo (1490-1566 AD) also wrote in his "Removal of Relics" II, which is the same as that described in the "Secret History of Jiang"(it is unknown whether there is an excerpt or quotation relationship between them).
In addition, in the sixteenth volume of the Ming Chronicle written by Gu Yingtai (1620 AD to 1690 AD) at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is also a record of Jianwen Wenchen's welcome to Zhu Di:
"The emperor left and right only a few people, so they closed the palace of the concubines, set fire to it, changed the clothes and fled, the emperor abandoned the third son at the palace gate, and was placed in the division by the Yan army, and the emperor went to the country." On that day, Ru Yan's first ministers prostrated their heads and persuaded them to advance, and Wenchen greeted the well-known ones: The Right Attendant of the Bureaucracy, Xia Yuanji, the Right Attendant of the Household Department, The Soldier Liu Jun, the Right Attendant Of the Servant, Gu Pu, Liu Jichi, the Shaoqing Xue Yan of Dali Temple, Dong Lun, the Scholar of Hanlin, Wang Jing, the Shu Shu, Hu Jing, Li Guan, the Editor of Wu Pu, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, shu Huang Huai, Rui Shan, Shu Huang Huai, Rui Shan, Shu ”
According to this, it can be seen that Zhu Yunjiao was in a hurry and misery when he lost the country on that day:
At that time, there were only a few people around emperor Zhu Yunjiao, who was facing the loss of the country; guess, everyone fled for their lives.
At that time, the queen concubines were closed in the palace and set on fire; I guess these innocent women were probably buried in the fire.
At that time, Zhu Yunjiao changed his clothes and fled with the three princes, but in a hurry, in order to save his life, he even discarded the palace gate, and as a result, the three princes were captured by the army of the Yan King; probably, between life and death, father and son could not take care of each other and could not protect each other.
It was under such circumstances that a group of Emperor Jianwen's courtiers bowed to Zhu Di and bowed their knees to meet him.
Of course, after Zhu Di came to power, most of these courtiers were reused at first.
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