What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Reading people is always the theme of the times, if there is no reader in an era, the nation will lack a soul, and the country will go downhill. But today the emperor killed the representative of the readers, and also destroyed his entire family, not even his students.
This emperor was none other than the famous Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. Everyone knows that Zhu Di became emperor by usurping the throne, and he rebelled against his own nephew.
At the beginning, when Zhu Di led his army from Peiping, the senior monk Yao Guangxiao left a piece of advice to Zhu Di: "On the day that nanjing city is captured, this person will not surrender, and hope not to kill him." If he dies, the seeds of reading in the world will be extinct. "
So who is the person Yao Guangxiao is talking about? This person was the famous Ming Dynasty thinker Fang Xiaoru, who after Emperor Jianwen succeeded to the throne, Fang Xiaoru served as a Hanlin attendant and a Hanlin scholar.
Soon after, Zhu Di launched the Qing Jun's side and marched south to the Beijing Division. The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao immediately sent troops to the Northern Expedition, and the edicts against the King of Yan at that time were all written by Fang Xiaoru.
But in the end, Zhu Yunjiao failed, and Zhu Di successfully captured the capital. The civil and military officials saw the wind and made the rudder and surrendered to the King of Yan. Only Fang Xiaoru refused to surrender, and as a result, he was arrested and imprisoned.
Fang Xiaoru was only famous in the world at that time, and Zhu Di was also very cherished, could not bear to kill, and tried his best to win him over. However, Fang Xiaoru was not moved, and Zhu Di said to him falsely: "I did not have the heart to take the throne, and now I have entered the capital, but I am only imitating the Duke of Zhou to assist him to become a king." ”
Fang Xiaoru looked up and stared, "Where is King Cheng?"
Zhu Di said helplessly, "He set himself on fire and died." ”
Fang Xiaoru still refused to give up, and then asked, "Why don't you become the son of the king?" ”
Zhu Di said: "The country depends on the adult king. ”
Fang Xiaoru shouted, "What about King Cheng's younger brother?"
At this time, Zhu Di completely lost patience and said angrily, "This is our Zhu family's business, don't bother you!" ”
Zhu Di immediately asked the guards to give Fang Xiaoru paper and pen and said to him: "The edict to the world must be drafted by you, sir." ”
Fang Xiaoru would rather die than write an edict, and Zhu Di was furious and ordered the murder of Fang Xiaoru's Nine Tribes.
Fang Xiaoru said angrily, "What is the point of condemning my Nine Clans, and what if you have the ability to curse my Ten Clans?" ”
What Fang Xiaoru did not expect was that Zhu Di, who was fierce and fierce, did it, and finally cursed him for the Ten Tribes. So how did this tenth race come about?
It turned out that Zhu Di not only destroyed Fang Xiaoru's entire family, but also killed his students, as well as friends who had interacted, adding up to exactly ten tribes.
In the end, more than 800 people were killed. The massacre lasted for 7 days, and Fang Xiaoru was the last to die. In the "History of Ming", it is recorded that Fang Xiaoru died of Ling Chi.
Before he died, he still cursed incessantly, and left a desperate word: "Heaven has sent down war and troubles, who knows the reason for this, the treacherous courtiers have fulfilled their wishes, and they have asked for the control of the country and play tricks." The loyal courtiers were angry and bitter, and the blood and tears flowed; with these blood and tears, they were buried for the king, or had something else to ask for. Whining and mourning, ah, probably not my complaints. "
Fang Xiaoru's foolish loyalty to Emperor Jianwen made him pay the price of his life, and this is where his sincerity lies. Fang Xiaoru was a reader without the strength of a chicken, but the strength in his heart was not many times stronger than those civil and military officials who were greedy and afraid of death!