Author: Our special guest author Qian Qiuyuan
At the beginning of 1524 AD, in a miserable rain, a half-old man of 54 swallowed his last breath in the human world, saying goodbye to this life forever.
For many people, death is a difficult choice, but for this half-old man, death is a complete relief, and his desperate poem is written like this: Born in the yang and scattered, why not return to the earth. The Yang Dynasty is similar, only when drifting in a foreign land.
This old man who had no joy in life and death was named Tang Yin. Yes, he is the male number one in the comedy movie "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang". But in real history, Tang Bohu may have lit a mosquito coil several times, but he never lit autumn incense.
The old Tang family once had a broad: the ancestor Tang Jian followed Li Yuan to raise an army and was named the "Duke of Juguo"; his grandfather Tang Tai served as the head of the military department and followed Ming Yingzong to participate in the Battle of Tumu Fort. Tang Yin himself was clever and clever, with a glorious posture of the Tang family.
If the normal development continues, Tang Yin is indeed likely to escape for a lifetime, and even "light autumn incense" as described in the film and television drama. However, in 1494, Tang Yin's father, mother, wife, son, and sister died almost the same year.
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However, for Tang Yin, the biggest watershed in his life was a "fraud case in the field".
All this has to start from 1498, 28-year-old Tang Bohu gradually freed himself from the misery of losing his family, and he even had some spring breeze in high school, and this year, he was ready to enter Beijing to participate in the final examination.
On the way to the exam, he met a person- Xu Jing. In a few years, this person named Xu Jing will have a descendant who is famous all over the world- Xu Xiake. At this time, Xu Jing was not only a rich man, but also a scholar, and he admired the talented Tang Yin very much, and the two of them went to Beijing together.
At that time, Tang Yin and Xu Jing, one talented, one rich, two young talents who were in their youth, their words and deeds were not generally high-profile. Of course, in those years, high profile was not only a shortcut to fame, but also a shortcut to the door of scientific research. I think that in those days, in order to become famous, Chen Ziang once played the piano and became famous.
After entering Beijing, Tang Yin and Xu Jingbai entered Cheng Minzheng's door. Of course, this Cheng Minzheng is not an ordinary person, he is not only a Hanlin bachelor, but also once a high school leader, and he was a first-class academic bull at that time. Under the system at that time, students who went to Beijing to catch the examination received guidance under the door of the cattle people, which was also a routine operation, which was roughly equivalent to us taking the civil servants today to find a cattle person to receive pre-test counseling.
Due to the entry into the door of the famous teacher Cheng Minzheng, coupled with the high profile, among the students who entered Beijing to catch the examination at that time, Tang Yin and Xu Jing instantly became traffic Internet celebrities.
Coincidentally, the second year's scientific expedition, the chief examiner is exactly Cheng Minzheng. Following the right teacher, this is naturally a great benefit for Tang Yin and Xu Jing. But the good is more than that, as an academic cattleman, Cheng Minzheng, this time on a whim, came up with a biased and difficult exam question - "scholars govern their lives, the most important task", which means that readers should have the ability to survive independently in the economy.
This topic, for us today, is nothing, but for the candidates who have read the eight strands of text, it is impossible to write.
As a result, many candidates directly turned in the white paper! As for Tang Yin and Xu Jing, they followed Teacher Cheng for nearly 1 year, but they were effortless in this exam question.
After the exam, looking at the bitter melon faces of the other students, Tang Yin and Xu Jing were very excited, one said "Must Zhongzhuangyuan", the other said "ZhongdaKui", this posture completely regarded the pain of others as their own happiness.
Looking at Tang Yin and Xu Jing, who had gone through the luck, the other students had an infinite hate intention on the basis of envy and jealousy, and many people said: The rich businessman Xu Jing bought the test questions in advance, which was unfair! In other words: Tang Yin, Xu Jing, and the chief examiner Cheng Minzheng colluded with the scientific examination fraud! As soon as these words came out, the traffic immediately covered everything!
Scientific expedition fraud was definitely a big melon in the Ming Dynasty, and the former "North and South List Case" provoked Zhu Yuanzhang to kill him.
For the sake of rubbing traffic or other purposes, there was an official named Hua Chang at that time, who immediately wrote a letter to impeach the chief examiner Cheng Minzheng.
The result of this impeachment was that Cheng Minzheng, Xu Jing, and Tang Bohu were all invited to "drink coffee", and it was not long before the relevant departments issued the results of the investigation: Although the examination questions were difficult, in addition to Xu Jing and Tang Yin, there were also more than a dozen candidates who also handed over good answers! Xu Jing and Tang Bohu did win the list, but they were not Cheng Minzheng's personal point! In other words: Cheng Minzheng did not malfeasance, and the so-called scientific expedition fraud case was a oolong.
The matter has become very clear at this point, but for the results of the investigation, the melon-eating masses and other candidates have resolutely not bought it, believing that this is still a dark scene.
In order to calm public opinion, the Ming Dynasty made a final ruling: Hua Chang demoted officials and transferred; Cheng Minzheng retired early; Xu Jing and Tang Bohu's grades were cancelled, they were expelled from school, Xu Jing was not allowed to participate in scientific examinations, and Tang Bohu was released to Zhejiang as a small errand boy.
For this result, public opinion has calmed down, but several parties have been miserable: Cheng Minzheng died of grief after 4 days from prison; Xu Jing, who wanted to wash himself through another scientific expedition, was never able to recover his academic status, and after 8 years of suffering, he also died depressed, only 34 years old; our protagonist Tang Bohu was depressed and depressed from then on.
After the death of his family and the fraud case of scientific expeditions, Tang Yin's life once again fell into a low point, although he was only thirty years old at this time, but the blows in the world had already made Tang Bohu enter the old age in advance.
At the age of 35, it was easy to have a virtuous and virtuous Shen Jiuniang to accompany him, and his little life had just improved, but in just a few years, even Shen Jiuniang died in a hurry, leaving Tang Yin, who was alone. If there is one word to describe the state of mind, it is probably - the heart is like a withered mallet.
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He saw through everything in the world, and he got tired of seeing it, and he became cautious, and he didn't dare to mess with everything in this world anymore.
However, in 1514 AD, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who was far away in Jiangxi, issued him a letter of appointment and invited him to come out of the mountains. Tang Yin, who is 44 years old, has a long-lost glow in his eyes - can life still be turned against the wind? So he accepted the invitation.
However, when he arrived at the ning king's mansion, he found that things were completely wrong: this king of Ning was recruiting soldiers and buying horses, and he was also making a wish from an official, which clearly meant rebellion!
Tang Yin was unlucky in this life, but he had not yet thought of becoming a rogue thief, and there was only one way he could think of: to pretend to be crazy and sell stupid to escape from King Ning.
The routine of pretending to be crazy and selling stupid can refer to Sun Zhen in the Warring States period: gibberish, naked, open defecation... In other words, how not to face how to come!
Anyway, Tang Yin had passed through the Ning King's Mansion! Finally, he returned to his long-lost hometown in Jiangnan, but without his relatives, his home was no longer home! After his daughter got married, he became a real loner.
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Since then, he has made a living selling paintings, and has painted famous works such as "Baohe Tu", "Meizhi Tu", "Danyang Jingtu", "Songtao Cloud Shadow Map" and so on. In addition to painting, Tang Yin also wrote epitaphs for people.
The words and paintings he passed down in later generations are very valuable, for example, the starting price of his "Songya Beiye Picture Scroll" is 24 million yuan, but in that year, the money he sold for paintings was not even enough to eat for himself. He once wrote: "Three days without smoke and hunger", which has reached the point where you can't afford to eat for three days. Many times, even rely on the help of friends Such as Zhu Zhishan to survive.
In his later years, Tang Bohu had a blank under all his paintings - the white tiger, which represented the "Lone Star of Heaven", symbolizing that everyone around him would be unfortunate. This boundless despair and pain finally turned into his final pen: "Born in the yang and scattered, why not die and return to hell." ”
For this human world, Tang Bohu was really afraid, tired, and tired!
Therefore, order autumn incense or something, or forget it, point mosquito coils are more realistic!
References: "The Real Tang Bohu in History: Poor and Destitute, Only Married Two Wives in His Life" Deng Xiaodong's "Tang Yin Research", Shen Jianfei's "Tang Bohu In the Ancient Winds and Currents - Tang Bohu's Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Three Absolute Art Appreciation"