If the joke is big, it will make people lose their lives, even if the other party is an emperor.
Official revision history books basically revolve around the core of power, the emperor, and as the "son of heavenly choice", a normal emperor should be a monarch without jokes and without words. But this is only a common situation in theory, and once you meet the unscrupulous Lord, the history books will also leave some ridiculous records that make people laugh.
So how do you find funny, even joking monarchs in the history books? There is a simple and crude way to look at the name.
Whenever an emperor, princes, qing masters, ministers and other important figures died, the relevant departments of the imperial court would give him a coffin conclusion according to his performance and merits during his lifetime, and add a special title, which is the title. Before the Tang Dynasty, the titles were generally more objective and fair, and they followed the "Tan Fa" derived from the Zhou Dynasty.
According to the "Tan Fa", the representatives of the Shang Tan are Wen, Wu, and Ming, while the Qiao and Ling are the most typical Xia.
What is the meaning of the "spirit" we are going to talk about today? Not diligently becoming famous and becoming a spirit, dying and becoming a spirit, dying to see god can know the spirit, chaos without damaging the spirit, good sacrifice ghosts and monsters... Even if you don't understand the ancient text, you can see that this nickname refers to unreliability, absurdity, and confusion.
Below, the author will pick a few strange emperors who made a big fuss because of jokes and were named "spirit" after death.
Taking the joke seriously on the issue of "eating", Zheng Linggong lost his life.
In the early Spring and Autumn Period, under the leadership of a generation of male lords Zheng Zhuanggong, Zheng Guo of the Central Plains once took the lead in defeating the authority of the Zhou royal family and leapt to become a "small bully". But then, due to the influence of geopolitical, strategic, and strength factors, the Zhengguo River was declining day by day and gradually became a fish belly sandwiched between major powers. But this did not prevent the Zheng nobles from continuing their extravagant lives.
In the spring of 605 BC, Zheng Linggong, who had just succeeded to the throne, received a shrew (a kind of yuán freshwater turtle) from the State of Chu. This rare animal, in the eyes of the ancients, is of course the ingredient, so the Linggong ordered people to stew it in soup.
It just so happened that Zheng Guozhong's subordinate family and zigong were about to enter the pilgrimage to see Zheng Linggong on this day. Halfway along, Zigong's index finger suddenly trembled, and he said to Zijia, "My finger has just moved, which means that we will definitely eat rare food later." So the two of them entered the palace with a smile.
After entering the palace, they did see Zheng Lingzheng drinking shrew soup. The unspoken rule of the past and the present is exactly the same: the one who sees it has a share; so the Zigong triumphantly said to the Zi family, "Sure enough." ”
Zheng Linggong naturally saw this scene and asked curiously why. It is reasonable to say that for this kind of innocuous little joke, when the monarch's nature is to laugh and cooperate, then the monarch and his subjects are happy and harmonious, and a harmonious atmosphere is not beautiful.
But Zheng Linggong is a "bar spirit": do you think you can predict the future? The widow will not let you be proud! So he then ordered the two of them to sit down, but he did not give Zigong soup to drink.
Of course, it is not excluded that Zheng Linggong also wanted to deliberately joke, but under the public, this is undoubtedly a humiliation to the zigong. The angry auxiliary minister was also out of control, so he put his hand into the soup pot without permission, dipped it, tasted it, and then flew away.
Now it was Ling Gong's turn to hang on to his face, and in anger, he thought about getting rid of this disobedient courtier. However, in view of the strength of the other family, he did not make up his mind for a while. There was no match, but the Zigong was the first to strike strongly, and he killed the Linggong in the summer of that year.
What is impressive is that after Zheng Xianggong took the throne, considering the stability of the political situation, he did not act on the zigong and his family, and zheng Linggong, the emperor of the tang dynasty, hung up because of a joke, and was also added the evil name of "spirit". The Spring and Autumn Period of Li Collapse can be seen from this.
Making excessive jokes on the issue of "color", Chen Linggong sought his own death.
"Eat color, sex also", Zheng Linggong was killed for eating 6 years later, chen guo next door also had a similar incident of the following crime, Chen Linggong planted a heel on the issue of color.
At that time, Chen Guo had a famous social flower, known as Xia Ji. Coincidentally, this woman was born in the Zhengguo Gongfu, and because she was married to Chen Guo's grand master Xia Yushu, she was given a "Xia Ji". Less than nine months after the two became intimate, they gave birth to a son, Xia Zhengshu.
When Zheng Shu was 12 years old, Xia Yushu died of illness, and Xia Ji, who was young and beautiful and smiling like a flower, was not willing to be lonely, and wandered in the aristocratic circle of Chen Guo, from Chen Linggong down to many gongqing doctors who became her "good friends".
One day, Chen Linggong, Kong Ning and Yi Xing's father were drinking and having fun at Xia Ji's house. The contents of the cup often confuse people's sanity, this is not, drink to the fullest, Chen Linggong pointed to Xia Zhengshu on the side, and joked with Yi Xing's father: "Zhengshu looks very much like you!" The other party smiled back with a bad smile: "I look like you too!" ”
Xia Zhengshu, who was 18 years old at the time, could not bear it, and years of humiliation made him angry from the heart, evil to the side of the bold, after the banquet dispersed, he led the family to besiege these faces of this mother, and personally shot Chen Linggong in the stable.
After Chen Linggong was killed for a joke, the follow-up story was even more exciting.
Xia Zhengshu killed Jun, giving the Spring and Autumn Dynasty a strong and powerful Chu state an excuse to hang the people for their crimes, and their large army suppressed the territory and annexed Chen Guo without bloodshed, killing Xia Zhengshu.
As for the red face and the misfortune of water Xia Ji, it stirred up a bloody rain in the Chu kingdom:
First of all, King Zhuang of Chu once had an idea for Xia Ji, but he remained sober under the persuasion of Shen Gongwuchen and then rewarded her to the widowed Chu nobleman Lian Yin Xianglao.
Two years later, Lian Yinxiang was killed in battle, and his son Hei wanted to quickly make up for the throne and mixed up with his stepmother;
However, the wuchen who had previously been righteous and righteous stabbed out, and he completely impressed Xia Ji with his rhetoric, and the two of them left everything behind and fled to the country.
The family of Wu Chen who remained in the Chu state was exterminated, and in retaliation, he helped the Jin state to support the state of Wu. Since then, a strong enemy has emerged in the east of the Chu state, and the pattern of the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony has changed.
Chen Linggong's joke not only lost his life, but even changed the pattern of Spring and Autumn, which can be described as "priceless words"!