A bloody case triggered by "Qingming on the River Map"

Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Upper River Map" has had a bad fate from the beginning of its birth, and after the change of Jing Kang, the "Qingming Upper River Map" first seems to have been involved in the Jinren region, and after several turns, it finally fell to the folk.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty" fell into the hands of a Ming Dynasty official named Wang Shu, who was an official with the ability to appreciate and knew the value of Zhang Zeduan's picture scroll, so from the beginning of the collection, it was very low-key, with the purpose of avoiding attracting the attention of others.

But there are some things that you can't avoid if you want to avoid, and the news of the national treasure "Qingming On the River Map" in his home somehow spread out, and coincidentally, this news fell into the ears of the traitorous minister Yan Song.

This Yan Song is not false, but he is also a literate literati, the poetry and songs are well written, especially the calligraphy is a must, and the "Six Must Live" and "Zhigongtang" lists written by him have not yet been surpassed. On this day, Yan Song heard at a banquet that the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty" was hidden in the home of Wang Shu, the capital of the Central And central Left, and for such a national treasure, Yan Song always wanted to see the real one.

Therefore, after the banquet was dispersed, Yan Song found Wang Shu's intention to borrow this "Qingming River Map" to see.

This made Wang Shu very embarrassed, borrowing such a national treasure to Yan Song, making it clear that the meat bun beat the dog has no return, but it can not be lent to Yan Song, the family is the first assistant of the dynasty, the official residence is a product, the life of the family is in danger, and if it is not good, it will also involve his wife and children.

It is not really borrowed, and it is not borrowed.

Just when he was in a dilemma, the housekeeper reminded him that Yan Song's borrowed painting was nothing more than having never seen this national treasure, neither had he seen it nor knew whether it was true or false, the old man was reluctant to this treasure, and did not want to offend Yan Song, it was better to get a fake painting to show Yan Song, and there were few people in the world who could see the truth and falsity of the "Qingming River Map".

The butler's words made Wang Shumao suddenly open up and decided to take the risk and try it. That night, he invited a painter from abroad at a high price and imitated a painting by Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming On the River". In order not to let people see the authenticity of this picture scroll, he specially arranged for the painter to make a mark in the painting, this secret mark, the average person will not find, Wang Shu thought it was foolproof, but it was precisely this secret note that revealed the flaws.

A few days later, Wang Shu sent the carefully prepared fakes to Yan Song's house, Yan Song looked at it for half a day, indeed did not see any flaws, very happy to receive the painting, and let people send a big gift to Wang Shu, expressing his willingness to borrow the original "Qingming Upper River Map" for his own appreciation.

Wang Shu knew his own family affairs and did not dare to accept this gift.

Things seem to be complete here, yan song is a person who loves to show off, plain and unprovoked to get such a national treasure, Yan Song is very happy, the next morning a banquet invited many colleagues to come to the home to enjoy the "Qingming River Map". The banquet was very lively, and many calligraphy and painting connoisseurs could not see the fault.

Just at this moment, a person walked in from outside the door, this person was named Tang Shunzhi, who was very knowledgeable, had studied astronomy, geography, mathematics, calendar, art of war, calligraphy and painting, and music laws, and was very accomplished, and today he was also one of the people who invited the painting, when Yan Song brought the picture scroll to him, he repeatedly read it several times, and after careful consideration, he came to a surprising conclusion, this painting is fake.

Of course, Yan Song didn't believe it, so he asked Tang Shunzhi's guests that it was true, where do you see that this picture scroll is fake? Tang Shunzhi stood up unhurriedly, pointed to the corner of the scroll, and said, "Adult, please look here?" ”

Yan Song looked in the direction of Tang Shunzhi's finger, and saw that in the corner of the scroll there were several people rolling dice together, which was an entertainment game between ordinary people, which could be seen everywhere in the Northern Song Dynasty's Bieliang City, and there was nothing to be surprised about.

Yan Song looked at it for half a second, but did not see what was wrong, so he shook his head: "Is there anything wrong here?" ”

Tang Shunzhi nodded and said, "Adult, you see, the dice of these five people are showing six points on the dice face, four of them shout out "six points", the lips are closed, and the person on the far left who shouts "six" is open, adults should know that this option is a northerner, and the northerners call "six" mouth is closed, only the Mindi people call "six" When the mouth is open, what kind of character that the selection end is, "Qingming On the River Map" is known as a fine art in the painting How can you make such a low-level mistake! ”

Yan Song still had some disbelief: "Based on this alone, it is a bit arbitrary to conclude that this painting is a fake painting, and besides, wang Shu is honest, I'm afraid I don't have the guts to deceive the old man, right?" ”

Tang Shunzhi said, "If you don't believe me, please look here?" ”

Yan Song saw Tang Shunzhi's words chiseled, could not help but believe a few points, and then looked down at his fingers, and saw that directly above the picture scroll, there was a shop, and on the tiles of the shop stood a sparrow, the sparrow's upper feet and claws, it stepped on the two tile corners, although Tang Shunzhi did not say explicitly, but Yan Song had already understood a rough idea, just the pair of upper feet and claws of the sparrow in the painting, the brushwork line was not a person's words at all, it was obvious that this was the failure of the copyer.

Yan Song, who learned the truth, was furious in his heart, but it was difficult to say anything on his face, if he admitted to his face that he had received a fake, then wouldn't he admit that he had done a wrong in front of the guests in front of the hall, and the first assistant of the hall could not see the truth or falsity of the "Qingming On the River Map", and it would not be a joke to pass it out. So knowing that this painting is fake, it is not easy to say anything.

But yan song remembered this matter thoroughly, and within a few years, the northern nomads attacked Daming, Yan Song let Wang Shu act as an inspector and let him defend, Wang Song lost military defeat at Jimen, Yan Song thought it was a good time, so he arrested Wang Chen and sent him to Beijing, and soon he was ambushed in the city for the crime of "losing the opportunity to govern the army", and the true manuscript of "Qingming on the River Map" fell into Yan Song's hands, and everyone with clear eyes knew that this was the revenge of Yan Song's fake paintings of that year.

Poor Wang Shu did not expect that he would cause a bloody case because of a picture scroll, he lost his true handwriting, and he also ended up with a family raid.

Later rumors said that Wang Chen's son Wang Shizhen escaped this disaster because he was playing outside, in order to avenge, the design was close to Yan Song, and when he learned that Yan Song liked to read novels, he wrote a novel of "Golden Plum Words" and presented it to Yan Song, in order to facilitate the killing of Yan Song, Wang Shizhen deliberately painted arsenic on every page of the book, in an attempt to achieve murder through Yan Song's reading, with his fingers dipped in saliva to reach the point of killing.

Unfortunately, Yan Song is not good at "Golden Bottle Plum Words", but his son Yan Shifan quite likes "Golden Bottle Plum Words", every time he gets the book, he can't wait to read it, because the quality of the book printing is not good, many page numbers are linked together, Yan Shifan, who is anxious to read the book, while dipping his fingers in his own spit, while flipping through the pages, it didn't take long for Yan Shifan to feel top-heavy, fell to the ground, could not get up again, and shouted "Golden Bottle Plum Words" when he was dying to harm me...