Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor of Ming Taizu, was a monk but was not superstitious, and he did not care about things like Xiangrui, and the "Records of Ming Taizu" repeatedly recorded his reprimands for those who "falsely reported Xiangrui", but also in the "Records of Ming Taizu", it also recorded a strange thing: a monster that looked like a dragon, lingered in Zhu Yuanzhang's helmet for a long time, and could drink alcohol after coming down.
Zhu Yuanzhang himself and his courtiers relished this matter, but from a scientific point of view, it seems that the thing should be a gecko, but I don't know if the gecko can drink, and what will happen after drinking.
Some people say that geckos are also a kind of lizard, but this is a biological problem, let's not talk about it, because in the eyes of many people, geckos are geckos, lizards are lizards, geckos cling to the kitchen and bathroom walls, and lizards are scattered in the wild grass bushes.
Whether the gecko is a lizard or not and put aside, let's take a look at how the "Ming Taizu Shilu" and the "Huangming Allusion Chronicle" describe the dragon into the Taizu helmet: "When Taizu attacked Chen Yexian, Fang pretended to sleep, there was a snake with an arm and walked, left and right, and looked at it, the snake had feet, dragons and hornless. ”
It is said that the "Records of Ming Taizu" was revised beyond recognition by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, but if you think about it carefully, even if Zhu Di tampers with the records, he will only modify the parts related to him, praising the words of the old father's wisdom and divine martial arts and even the divine right of the monarch, he will never modify it, so Yu Jideng, the zuo shilang who presided over the work of the ceremonial department during the Wanli years (strange things happened frequently during the Wanli years, and the six Shangshu were often missing) Yu Jideng could see this myth and record it in the "Records of the Imperial Ming Classics".
The Ming Dynasty people still use the literary language, in order to facilitate everyone to read, the following story we still use modern Chinese to tell it.
It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang saw this hornless dragon, he also felt that this was not an ordinary thing, so he secretly prayed: "If it is a divine thing, it will perch in my hat." ”
I don't know if the hornless dragon understood, but anyway, it slowly climbed into Zhu Yuanzhang's helmet, and Zhu Yuanzhang put on his hat and went to the enemy camp to persuade him to surrender--according to the record of the "Ming Shi Vol. 1, Taizu Benji", this incident should have occurred in the fifteenth year of the Yuan Shun Emperor (also known as Yuan Huizong), and Zhu Yuanzhang persuaded Liao Yong'an and Yu Tonghai to surrender: "Liao Yong'an and Yu Tonghai of Chaohu Lake were attached with a thousand ships of water troops, and Taizu was very happy, and went to caress his people. ”
Persuaded Liao Yong'an and Yu Tonghai, naturally they wanted good wine and good food to entertain, after drinking for half a day, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that there was a hornless dragon in the helmet, so he released it and drank it together, that thing was really drunk, and after drinking it seemed to be a little drunk: "Meandering around the shrine (the ancestral spirit card set in the shrine), look around, look around, and look down on the top of the god lord, if carved." After a long time, ascend to the house and go away. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang played for half a day, actually did not break the tail to escape, this thing is not only bold, but also a little talented, no wonder the historical materials to the big book special book, and this kind of big book special book, but also left us a problem: something with this feature, it seems that it should not be a gecko, right?
If this hornless dragon ran away, this matter was not yet a miracle, and then the wit of the Ming Taizu Shilu could shock a jaw even more: "Chen Ye first attacked the city with tens of thousands of people, and its sharp edge was very sharp." Da waited to fight to the north of the city, and suddenly a double dragon was seen in the formation, going up to the clouds, and the enemy looked up in amazement. Because of the attack on our division, Ye Xian was attacked by the enemy on his belly and back, and he was greatly defeated, so he captured Ye Xian. ”
The clear-eyed man can see at a glance that this story must have a meaning: two dragons, one is a hornless dragon, and the other is who, then it is needless to say, right?
This story is half-true and half-false, can not be fully believed or disbelieved, the key is that after the literati's brilliant pen and flowers, an ordinary thing is full of mysterious colors - in the author's opinion, the so-called "hornless dragon" should be called "four-legged snake", or call it a gecko, lizard, because there are many lizards, looking like both dinosaurs and dragons.
Generally speaking, the emperor did not look at the history of the dynasty nor did he look at his own records and living notes, which was a rule (Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty and Li Shimin of Tang Taizong did not seem to abide by this rule), Zhu Yuanzhang did not look at his own records, no one knew, but the "Records of the Emperor's Ming Dynasty" recorded a thing that Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe in Xiangrui.
It would have happened in the first year of Wu Yuan, that is, in 1366 AD, the twenty-sixth year of the Yuan Shun Emperor," when a certain Shangshu (provincial minister) came to report to Zhu Yuanzhang: "My men have seen the Taibai God, and the immortal asked my men to send you a letter." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Shangshu with zhu Shimao's eyes looking at Chen Peisi: "What did the immortal say?" ”
Shang Shu reported with great interest: "The Taibai God said that King Wu would rule the world within three years, and when he was finished, he would be gone!" ”
After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he laughed: "This birth is not credible! If the white god is fruitful, when he tells the gentleman, will he speak with the villain? In the future, if everything involves grotesques, don't smell it! ”
The meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's words is very clear: Your trick of using false rumors to blackmail death without proof cannot deceive me at all, and in the future, you will make up less of this nonsense, and I will not believe it when you make it up!
If we look closely at this record, we will find that the "provincial minister" has a very high skill in making up nonsense: the so-called Taibai God is gone, and this word is not the first thing I passed on, if you believe it, give me a reward, if you don't believe it, you can find my subordinates to settle the account - I also heard about it.
Does this scene sound familiar? There are no mobile phones on the ground, thirty hospital ships, no garbage in the island country, and maintenance tools that have been left in the sewers of one country for fifty years (I don't know if there are engineers wrapped in tarps), all of which are collecting IQ taxes.
Zhu Yuanzhang is not good at fooling, and now netizens are even wiser, if Zhu Yuanzhang knows that someone deified his things in that year, he will definitely cry and laugh: "The divine horse hornless dragon, that is a four-legged snake, was later taken by Xu Da chang to spring soup and they took it to brew wine, these three boys are not exquisite, obviously it is my four-legged snake, but they soaked in wine and did not give me a cup!" ”
Auspicious auspicious rui are illusory, my fate is up to me, the magician is whimsical, the son does not speak strangely and chaotically. Zhu Yuanzhang is a generation of heroes, naturally will not believe in those illusory things, readers of the "hornless dragon" should also have their own views, but unfortunately the Ming Dynasty did not have a camera, the historical materials did not have a drawing, we do not know what the thing that drilled into Zhu Yuanzhang's hat is, which requires everyone to use their brains and interpret it with a scientific eye.
Gecko is a kind of lizard, but we often say that the gecko is specifically referred to, and the desert and the seaside lizards are different, so here the author has two questions to ask everyone: First, the "hornless dragon (four-legged snake)" can drill into Zhu Yuanzhang's helmet, must not be large, and not very afraid of people, should this be a lizard or a gecko? Second, can that thing drink, can lizards and geckos drink?
Any tax can be paid, but the IQ tax cannot be paid. Wise readers will certainly not pay the IQ tax, so in the end, I still have to ask the readers to use their brains to make a little mockery of things like "hornless dragons" and "friends saying"...