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Chapter 753 Emperors of the Ming Dynasty
Zhu Zhanji's Wencheng martial arts can be considered extremely outstanding. He not only has outstanding talents in governing the country and military affairs, but also is quite good in literature and art.

Zhu Zhanji Ya Shang calligraphy.You are especially good at painting landscapes, figures, animals, flowers and birds, grass and insects, etc.His calligraphy and painting works are often presented as books to important ministers, with the date and name of the recipient and the seals of "Guangyun Zhibao", "Wuyingdian Bao" and "Yongxi World People".

In other words, besides being an emperor, Zhu Zhanji is actually a talented scholar, and his poems, calligraphy and paintings are also quite famous.Of course, the most famous thing is that Zhu Zhanji likes to play with crickets.

When Zhu Zhanji was the emperor, he was known among the people as "the emperor of Taiping, the emperor of promoting weaving".Those who promote the weaving are also crickets, which are called crickets among the people.

Zhu Zhanji likes to play with crickets, which is a well-known thing in the world, but no one is perfect, no gold is pure, the emperor is an emperor, he is first of all a person, as long as he is a person, there will inevitably be such and such. Hobby.

As the son of heaven, Zhu Zhanji likes to play with crickets. Although this is a bit of a sham, who can say what?Anyway, it is enough for people to manage a huge country well while playing with crickets.Better than his unfilial descendants, right?

In fact, none of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be normal. No wonder later generations said that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all weird.

Let’s talk about Zhu Zhanji’s great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang first. In the Yuan Dynasty, Han people named their names very casually, basically they were arranged according to numbers, so Zhu Yuanzhang’s father named him Chongba.This is like the reason why we named many animals after the founding of our country, such as: Er Gouzi, or Goudan, etc.However, Zhu Yuanzhang's name is very meaningful. The weight of eight is sixteen, and there were a total of sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty. It is really not easy for Zhu Yuanzhang's father, a farmer, to come up with such a meaningful name.

There is also Zhu Zhanji's father Zhu Gaochi, the fourth CEO of the Ming Dynasty.This emperor was the fattest emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and also the most edible emperor.

How fat is Zhu Gaochi?This guy is so fat that he needs the help of two servants to walk around, and he is so fat because of eating.He has never been to the front line, so why can he be emperor?Good luck!His younger brother Zhu Gaoxi is brave and good at fighting. He has the spirit of his father Zhu Di. His father Zhu Di originally wanted to make Zhu Gaoxu the prince, but he is not the eldest son. The fat man is king.However, Zhu Gaochi resigned after being the emperor for ten months, because he died of illness—a disease purely caused by eating!

Needless to say Zhu Zhanji, the cricket emperor!

And Zhu Zhanji's descendants are even more unbearable.Among his gray grandsons is Zhu Houcong, Emperor Jiajing. He was an out-and-out Taoist emperor, but he reigned for a very long time, 45 years.

When Emperor Jiajing first came to power, he worked very hard to govern.Because he himself came to the throne from a foreign vassal, he wanted to make a good name for his parents, but the ministers disagreed, because this matter irritated him, and he didn't have much contact with the ministers afterwards.Regardless of the country's major affairs, he did not go to court, and got into the Taoist profession.Emperor Jiajing grew up in the land of Jingchu, which is the birthplace of Taoism. Therefore, in the later period of Jiajing, he basically did not care about national affairs. He practiced elixir day by day in order to achieve immortality. He was called the "Emperor of Taoism".

Zhu Zhanji's gray grandson also has a man named Zhu Yijun, who is also Emperor Wanli.Emperor Wanli became emperor at the age of ten, but there was always a big rock on his head, and the government was completely entrusted by Zhang Juzheng, who himself was just an empty shelf.Even if the poor Wanli Emperor was so depressed that he couldn't bear to find a court lady to be lucky, Zhang Juzheng would be able to elevate him to the level of subjugation.

Finally, Zhang Juzheng died, and he listened to the rambunctious words of those officials every day, and finally quit the job, and he was forced to stay out of the palace for 30 years. If you don't criticize or talk about it, as for going to court, it is even more impossible, and it is also extremely willful!The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished.
As for Zhu Youxiao, another gray grandson of Zhu Zhanji, who is Ming Xi Zong Tianqi Emperor, that is even more strange, known as "Ming Dynasty Luban".

To say that this emperor is even more strange, because his professional technology is a carpenter, the only carpenter emperor in the history of China, the emperor is only a part-time job, and part-time jobs may not be counted.

Emperor Tianqi's father was not well received since he was a child, so he also suffered from it. He was dull since he was a child, and he didn't read, and he didn't know a few big characters.But his life was good, and he was proclaimed emperor after the "moving palace case".

When he was the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was originally a gangster on the street, because he was good at making money, he entered the palace as an eunuch; and the Rong family was the emperor's nurse, so he naturally had deep feelings. They often join forces to persecute the Donglin Party.The carpenter emperor did not go to court, and Wei Zhongxian also picked the emperor to report the situation when he was doing carpentry. The emperor just said: You can figure it out.The carpenter emperor slowly sent the Ming Dynasty to death.

Anyway, from Zhu Yuanzhang to Emperor Chongzhen, almost none of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were normal.

Zhu Zhanji just likes to play with crickets, which is pretty good.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji not only likes to play with crickets, he also has a great hobby, that is, he likes to play with incense burners. After all, he is also a literati in his heart. A literati, if he doesn’t have some elegant hobbies, can he still be called a literati? ?

When Zhu Zhanji was the grandson of the emperor, his grandfather was very strict with him, so even if he liked to enjoy the incense burner, he didn't dare to do it, because he knew very well that once his grandfather Zhu Di knew about it, , he will definitely be convicted of playing with things and losing his mind.

After Zhu Di passed away, Zhu Zhanji's father only served as emperor for ten months, and after he ascended the throne, no one in this world can control him anymore.Therefore, not long after Zhu Zhanji came to power, the impulse that had been suppressed for a long time finally broke out completely.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji came to power, in order to satisfy his hobby of enjoying incense burners, he ordered to import [-] jins of wind-milled copper from Siam, which is now Thailand, and ordered the royal craftsman Lu Zhen and Wu Bangzuo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to refer to the imperial palace. Designed and supervised the production of incense burners for the collection of famous porcelain styles of Chai Kiln, Ru Kiln, Guan Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, and Ding Kiln, as well as historical books such as "Xuanhe Bogu Tulu" and "Archaeological Map".

In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, Lu Zhen tremblingly told the emperor that to make a good incense burner, the copper had to be refined six times.Refining once, less, after six times, only half of the raw materials will remain.

But who is Emperor Xuande? He is the emperor, not only rich and powerful, but also has a strong sense of quality.So Emperor Xuande immediately decreed that the number of times of refining should not only not be reduced, but doubled, that is, twelve times, and precious metals such as gold and silver should be added.So the craftsmen selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and went through more than ten careful casting and smelting together with red copper.

After great efforts, three years in Xuande, the best copper incense burner was finally successfully produced.

A total of more than [-] incense burners were cast out of this batch of wind-milled copper, which have never been produced since.When Emperor Xuande saw the batch of incense burners that he personally took care of, each of them was unusually atmospheric, radiant with precious light, and he felt a sense of accomplishment.

Most of these incense burners were displayed in various places in the palace, and a small part was rewarded and distributed to the relatives of the emperor, prominent officials, various large-scale temples with strong incense, and envoys from vassal states who came to pay tribute.

The ordinary people of these Xuande stoves only know their names but not their shapes.After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the real copper incense burner cast in Xuande for three years is almost invisible.

The first batch of cast Xuande furnaces are so exquisite that many people covet them.Even after the Xuande furnace was closed for three years, some people still want to continue to imitate the Xuande furnace.

Among them, the supervisor who was in charge of supervising the first batch of Xuande furnaces at that time gathered the original craftsmen again to cast Xuande furnaces separately.However, due to insufficient raw materials, the wind-milled copper has been used up and will not come back. The casters can only replace it with brass, although the workmanship is as exquisite as before.The shape is more changeable, but the copper quality is finally inferior.At the same time, the bottom line has changed.The number of words has increased, such as "made by Wu Bangzuo, an official of the Ministry of Industry Supervision in the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty" and "made by Li Chengde, a foreign minister of the Ministry of Industry", etc., both in regular script and seal script.

In addition to the contemporary imitations of the Xuande Dynasty, there were also imitations during the Zhengde period in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in modern times, there are many imitations of Xuande stoves from the Ming Dynasty on the market, and there are also many imitations from the Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China, but the real Xuande stove produced in the third year of Xuande is hard to find.

At present, in the market, there is no real Xuande furnace produced in the third year of Xuande. Many people even say that the real Xuande furnace produced in the third year of Xuande is gone!
Originally, Yang Jing thought so too. The real Xuande furnace has long since disappeared, and now the collections on the market and in museums are all imitations.However, these two simple and magnificent Xuande stoves appeared in front of my eyes. What's going on?

There is no standard type of Xuande furnace in the third year of Xuande, and the two Xuande furnaces in front of us are also of different styles.

One of the copper stoves is round, open, has a base, and has two plain dragon ears on both sides, which is very unique in style.However, Yang Jing recognized the style of this copper incense burner at a glance. This is the smallest number of long-eared incense burners in Xuande.

This kind of long-eared stove is usually specially used for the emperor's study. It can be placed on an incense table alone, or it can be placed five feet west of the copywriting, or on a table or a bright cabinet. It is more than six inches large. The utensils can be placed in halls, rooms, halls, etc.

Like this long-eared stove, its diameter exceeds [-] centimeters, that is, more than six inches, and it is obviously an incense burner that can be placed outside the study.

As for the other copper censer, its shape is very simple, with three legs and a flat and round belly. Although it looks simple in shape, its lines are extremely elegant.

Yang Jing also recognized the style of this copper censer, which is the second largest censer in existence after the Longer's Ear Stove.

Although the styles of these two copper incense burners are extremely rare, the color of the wind-polished copper is very positive, and the coating is very round. There is also a six-character regular script inscription "Made in Xuande of the Ming Dynasty" on the bottom, which does not seem to be imitated by later generations.

However, just to be on the safe side, Yang Jing used the holy ring to appraise it, and the result was not surprising. These two copper incense burners are exactly the Xuande furnaces cast in 1428 AD, which is the third year of Xuande!
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