"Tanuki Cat for Prince" is very famous, first appeared in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", and later interpreted through opera, passed down through the ages. However, today, everyone's understanding of history is far from being comparable to before, and most of them know that this is nothing more than an allusion work produced during the Ming Xianzong period due to dissatisfaction with the phenomenon of Wan Guifei's specialization.
However, the wind is not necessarily without cause. Behind the jokes, there is often a certain factual basis. At least we know that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the heirs of successive emperors were difficult, and the issue of succession was often regarded as the top priority by the entire imperial court, which was taboo but could not be ignored.
Bao Zheng had directly advised Emperor Renzong of Song about the early establishment of the crown prince, but this matter was so sensitive that even Bao Zheng, who dared to speak out in everything, was particularly cautious. He said: "The Eastern Palace has been vacant for a long time, and the whole world is worried about this, so why does Your Majesty not make a decision for a long time?" Emperor Renzong, who had no son, asked unhappily, "Then who do you think should be made crown prince?" Bao Zheng replied very carefully, "The minister's request to establish the crown prince early is for the sake of zongmiao's grand plan." His Majesty asked me who I had made crown prince, which was a suspicious subordinate. However, the minister is already sixty years old and has no son (at that time, Bao Zheng's young son had not been brought back, he did not know that he had a son, for details click here: Hugh abandoned the concubine, the son has a home: can you imagine that Bao Zheng is also a scumbag? There is no selfishness, and it is not for the sake of oneself and future generations. Emperor Renzong listened to this and changed his color slightly, and comforted him: "Let's discuss it slowly." ”
In this way, the emperor had no sons, how many royal nobles stared at the position of prince, and the Manchu Dynasty trembled and trembled, deeply afraid that the song room would change because of the lack of children.
One day, on the street of Tokyo's Bieliang, a young man with strange behavior appeared, and he stopped everyone and shouted: "I am the emperor's lost son in the folk, and I am the prince of the dynasty!" While shouting, he also waved a dragon and phoenix belly that looked like something in the palace.
The news exploded, and the matter was so big that Yin Qianmingyi, the governor of Kaifeng Province, did not dare to be sloppy and hurriedly took the matter to Emperor Renzong.
Emperor Renzong was happy and suspicious for a while, so happy that he did not have a son, if there was really a son who had gone into exile and grew up so big, he was expected to succeed him; the doubt was that he did not know the root, although the other party held a dragon and phoenix belly that could be used as evidence, but he knew where this thing came from?
Originally, there was a custom in the court of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the emperor favored a certain palace girl, but did not want to give her a title, he would give a relic, and when the palace girl was released at a certain age, the relic was taken out of the palace by her. Therefore, the dragon and phoenix hugging the belly at least showed one fact: the emperor must have had sexual relations with the palace maid he rewarded.
Then check the court records, found that the emperor did once spoil a palace girl, gave her this relic, not long after the favor she left the palace, very likely to be pregnant but did not know it.
Song Renzong then assigned Qian Mingyi to investigate the case, and although poor Qian Mingyi also held the title of "Kaifeng Fu Yin", where could he compare with Bao Zheng's behavior, and he was bitter about this tricky case. Knowing that Renzong had pinned strong hopes on this, but that teenager acted strangely and had many doubts, how dare he really go to trial? Unprovoked involvement in royal secrets, if you don't get it right, you will be killed!
So Qian Mingyi interrogated for several months, and the more the trial became more and more chaotic, but the young man who called himself the prince, Leng Qing, began to have crazy behavior. Qian Mingyi had to play the emperor again.
Emperor Renzong was unable to do so and appointed Zhao Huan and Bao Zheng to retry them. Zhao Hao, a scholar of Longtuge University, is also a nomadic minister, but for this case, he is very "clever" to adopt a negative approach, that is, to try from trial to trial, not to give insights, not to produce answers.
Now, the emperor can only look forward to the old bag. Bao Zheng did not disappoint him, and as soon as he tried it, the case was basically clear.
The first half of the story is clearly true. The emperor favored the palace women, and after the palace women left the palace, they took the pregnancy to marry, gave birth to a daughter, and gave birth to a son with the husband who remarried the people, and the name was Lengqing. Therefore, the daughter who is related to the emperor by blood has died prematurely, and this cold has nothing to do with the royal family.
However, Leng Qing was idle, did not learn any skills, and when he grew up, he often claimed to be the son of the emperor to boast of his high status. Once, he met the Taoist priest Gao Ji'an. Gao Ji'an conspired with Leng Qing to jointly make this deception.
So Bao Zheng told the emperor the truth, and Emperor Renzong was disappointed, but he was not a emperor after all, and in the end he only beheaded the two deceivers, and did not anger any other person, even the liars' families, were not harmed.
Emperor Renzong was devastated by this, and he also understood that he could not have a son again, and finally chose one of his close relatives to be crown prince, which was Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu. A year later, Song Renzong died of extreme depression.
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