The ancients left us a vast number of books and a large number of precious cultural relics, from which we can peek into the historical truth and trace the historical footprints of the ancients, but some things are always confusing and difficult to find. The whereabouts of these four celebrities in ancient times on the mainland are historical mysteries.
1. The missing Emperor Jianwen
Zhu Yunwen is the eldest grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty after defeating strong enemies such as Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, and the Yuan Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he set up his eldest son Zhu Biao as the crown prince. Zhu Yuanzhang carefully cultivated Zhu Biao and wanted him to become a generation of Ming Jun, but God did not fulfill people's wishes, and Zhu Biao died before Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered the pain of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person, and at the same time, he also had to re-elect a prince for the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang has 26 sons, after Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang still has 25 sons to choose from, from which it is not difficult to choose a son who has both ability and political integrity, wisdom and courage to be the prince, but the ancient prince candidates, follow the principle of "there is a grandson, no grandson is long", after Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang also has 2 sons-in-law, the second son Zhu Zhang, the third son Zhu Li. These two were both debaucherous and cruel people. Zhu Yuanzhang once scolded Zhu Fan for "not knowing people, stupid as a beast", disliked them very much, and was unwilling to let Zhu Fan and Zhu Li inherit the throne.
The fourth son, Zhu Di, who has both civil and military skills, is a suitable candidate for the prince, but according to the research of historians, Zhu Di is not the son of Queen Ma, not Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law, and making him the crown prince may make Zhu Fan and Zhu Li dissatisfied, trigger infighting between the princes, and make Zhu Yuanzhang feel Li Yuan's suffering. After weighing the pros and cons, Zhu Yuanzhang gave up setting up Zhu Di as the prince, and Zhu Biao's son-in-law, and Zhu Yunwen as the prince.
In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne. During the reign of Zhu Yunwen, he felt that the strength of the vassal king was too strong and threatened his own position, so he began to cut down the feudal domain. Zhu Yunwen found various reasons to deprive the five vassal kings of Zhou, Zhu Lu, Qi Zhu, Zhu Gui, Min, and Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, of the five vassal kings, which caused dissatisfaction among the vassal kings of the world. When Zhu Yunwen was about to cut Zhu Di, the king of Yan, he did not tie his hands and became a fish and meat to be slaughtered by Zhu Yunwen, but rebelled on the grounds of "Qingjun's side".
After the Battle of Jingyan broke out, because Zhu Yuanzhang was in front of him, he killed Lan Yu and many other heroes, resulting in Zhu Yunwen being unscrupulous. Coupled with Zhu Yunwen's mistakes in employing people and making mistakes in deployment, the vassal kings in various places hated Zhu Yunwen and were unwilling to send troops to help him, resulting in Zhu Yunwen's defeat at Zhu Di's and the world being taken away by Zhu Di. In 1402, when Zhu Di attacked the city of Nanjing, the palace was on fire, and Emperor Jianwen disappeared from there.
Regarding the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, it has become a historical unsolved case since then. Emperor Jianwen may not want to be captured and humiliated, and die in the raging fire, or he may have taken advantage of the chaos to escape. After Zhu Di became emperor, he sent Hu Hu to visit various places secretly, and Zheng He went to the West to find Emperor Jianwen, but the ending became a mystery.
Second, Xu Fu Dongdu
Birth, old age, sickness and death are the fate that everyone can't escape, but some people want to change their lives against the sky and pursue the art of immortality. In the ancient myths and stories of the mainland, there is an elixir that can make people immortal by eating one pill. This is just a myth and legend, which does not exist in reality, but many people in ancient times believed that they existed, indulged in alchemy, or visited famous mountains and rivers in search of the elixir of immortality.
After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty, in order to pursue the art of immortality, he sent alchemists to various places to find immortal elixirs for himself. Xu Fu was a famous scholar of the Qin Dynasty. When Xu Fu went overseas for the first time to look for immortal medicine for Qin Shi Huang, he was blocked by a big Jiaoyu and failed to reach Xianshan and failed. The second time, Xu Fu took more than 3,000 boys and girls and craftsmen from all walks of life to cross the sea to the east by boat to find immortal medicine overseas. As soon as Xu Fu left, there was no news and his whereabouts were unknown.
Where Xu Fu went has become a historical mystery, and during the Qin Dynasty, it was almost impossible to cross the vast sea to reach Japan.
III. Lao Tzu, the founder of the Taoist family
Lao Tzu, whose real name is Li Er, the ancestor of Taoism, created the famous school of Taoism, which later evolved into Taoism. Lao Tzu was the history of the Zhou Dynasty's Tibetan room and was very learned. In 501 B.C., Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, came to Lao Tzu's hometown and asked Lao Tzu for advice.
It is rumored that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu rode a green ox from Luoyang to Hangu Pass, and the local Dasanguan made Yin Xi look at the stars when he "looked at the qi", and saw a purple gas coming from the east, and he deduced that there was a real person coming. Soon after, Lao Tzu came to Hangu Pass. Yin Xi felt that after Lao Tzu went out of the customs and traveled, there was no chance to see each other, so he left a book. This work is the famous "Tao Te Ching". After completing the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu rode his big green ox out of Guguan and went to Guguan, and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since.
Fourth, the beauty of Xi Shi
Xi Shi is the first of the four beauties in ancient times on the mainland.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, when Wu Wangfucha's father Lu attacked the Yue Kingdom, he was injured and died. After Fucha succeeded to the throne, in order to avenge his father, he sent troops to attack the Yue Kingdom. After the defeat of the Yue Kingdom at the hands of the Wu State, the Yue Kingdom Gou Jian was worried that the Yue Kingdom would be destroyed by the Wu State, and dedicated the beauty Xi Shijin to Wu Wangfucha.
After the husband got the beauty, he indulged in pleasure and let go of Goujian. In order to take revenge, Gou Jian tried his courage and worked hard to make the country stronger. After the Yue Kingdom became strong, Gou Jian began to send troops to attack the Wu State and destroyed the Wu State. Wu Wangfu committed suicide and died.
After the destruction of the Wu Kingdom, Xi Shi, the great beauty of the country and the city, followed the Xiangguo of the Yue Kingdom and the Doctor Fan Li to the Five Lakes, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.