In the twenty-second year of Yongle (1422), Zhu Di was defeated by Mahamu during the Fifth Northern Expedition and eventually died of illness at Yushuchuan. Before his death, for the sake of national stability, he intended to pass on the throne to Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shiqi kept the news of his death secret, and on the one hand, Zhu Zhanji returned to Beijing to report the letter, planned for Zhu Gaoxu to ascend the throne, and dispatched troops; on the other hand, in order to confuse zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, and Zhu Gaoxuan, the king of Zhao, ordered them to continue to attack.
But there is a problem, that is, after Zhu Di's death, it is inevitable that there will be corpse odor. So in order to cover up the smell of corpses, Yang Shiqi and others ordered people to dry salted fish in front of the big tent to cover up the smell. However, this move also just made Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaoxuan suspicious, and finally broke into the camp and found out.
In fact, regarding The death of Zhu Di, the so-called salted fish covering the smell is just a move by the screenwriter to open his mind and lack basic common sense. Historically, the clearly documented emperors who covered their stench with salted fish were not unheard of.
In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang won the government and made the fifth eastern tour. On the way, he fell seriously ill and died in the sand dunes. The chancellor Li Si joined forces with the eunuch Zhao Gao, and in order to stabilize the situation, he placed salted fish in the rut and rushed back to Xianyang.
So, what did Zhu Di use to cover up the smell of corpses after his death?
In the first month of 1422, the Mongol Tatar Arutai led a large army to invade the border, and Zhu Di led the imperial conquest. The civilian officials accompanying him were Yang Rong, Jin Youzi and others, the eunuch Ma Yun, and the military generals were Liu Sheng, Zhang Fu, Zhu Yong, Xue Lu, and Jin Zhong, who was also the ancestor. After hearing the news of Zhu Di's army arriving, Arutai quickly led the sergeants to escape, which also made the Ming army fruitless.
Subsequently, Zhu Di ordered The Banshi to return to the Dynasty. However, on July 18, 1422, while traveling to the Yumu River, Zhu Di fell ill and died at the age of 65. Before his death, he issued an edict: "The will is passed on to the crown prince, and the funeral ceremony is the same as the legacy of Emperor Gao." ”
But the problem facing the Ming Dynasty at this time is not outside the territory, but inside it. At this time, the crown prince Zhu Gaozhuo was in charge of the country, but his health was not good, and he also had a benevolent personality; although Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, and Zhu Gaoxuan, the king of Zhao, had already taken over the domain, the heart of the tiger and the wolf was not stable.
Therefore, how to achieve a smooth transition of political power has become a problem between the eunuch Ma Yun, the university scholar Yang Rong, and Jin Youzi.
At that time, it was a hot summer day, the heat was unbearable, the news of Zhu Di's death must be strictly controlled, and the disposal of the body was placed in front of the three people. As for the salted fish strategy in "Daming Fenghua", it is more like the wise strategy of no silver three hundred and two here.
The ancients were obviously smarter than the screenwriters, and the three men ordered the generals to melt the pewter into water, pour them into a coffin, and collect Zhu Di's body into the coffin. In this way, the corpse odor emitted by the corpse is placed in the coffin and will not be leaked; at the same time, for a more realistic sense, Zhu Di's three meals a day are still delivered on time.
Yang Rong and Hai Shou, the young superintendent of the Imperial Horse Guards, rushed back to Beijing to report the matter. Zhu Gaozi sent Zhu Zhanji to greet the funeral, so that the handover of the throne was also safely realized.
Tin, one of the hardware – gold, silver, copper, iron and tin – has a long history in human use. The most famous thing is not its alloy with copper, bronze. The Bronze Age is considered a brilliant page in the development of civilization, China also has a record of mining tin as early as 700 BC, and because of the soft texture of tin, strong plasticity, it is also widely used in the manufacture of living utensils, similar to tin pots, tin candlesticks and so on.
During the Zhou Dynasty, pewter was already very common. The reason why the Ming army was able to make the pewter into a coffin so easily was that pewter was widely used in the military; the other was that the melting point of tin was very low, only 232 degrees Celsius, and it was easy to form.