Chapter 2143 Flower Struggle (51)

The Kitchen God is in charge of everyone's food and drink in every family. Even though he is right next to the world, you cannot flatter him or offend him too casually. Therefore, when the Kitchen God enters the house, you cannot sing, cry, curse or shout. ,Similarly, if you use dirty firewood for cooking, the unclean smoke from the firewood will also harm the Stove Lord.

If you do not pay attention to the eight solar terms, the above mistakes will become more serious. These eight solar terms are the beginning of spring, the beginning of summer, the beginning of autumn, the beginning of winter and the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice, because these eight solar terms are the changes of yin and yang in nature. In real life, similar changes will occur in the human body. Moreover, the gods also make judgments on rewards and punishments for people during these solar terms.

At the moment when the gods uphold justice, people not only cannot make mistakes, but also cannot torture the prisoners. It is because of not following this rule that the famous general Du Fan was punished by the gods. Du Fan was extremely cruel to the soldiers. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty In the winter of the second year of Zhenguan, he suddenly fell ill and suddenly shouted, "I saw someone bringing a plate with a fresh pumpkin on it."

Hearing this, the subordinates were extremely surprised and thought, "Where can I get fresh pumpkins in the middle of winter?"

Du Fan trembled all over, and then said, "The pumpkin is a human head, and it is here to ask for my life."

He breathed his last as soon as he finished speaking.

These sins include, but are not limited to, killing without reason, abusing subordinates, interfering with sick patients, or exposing one's body when getting up at night.

"Tai Shang Induction Chapter" writes: For sins like the above, the God of Commanding will take away a person's life span according to their mistakes. The most severe ones are 12 years, and the smallest ones are 100 days. If the life span is taken away, they will die. If there is still something unfinished after death, His guilt will affect his descendants.

Just like the houses on the ground should correspond to the stars in the sky, human actions will also cause heaven to intervene in human affairs, indicating disaster and auspiciousness. There is a fire temple at the junction of Shichahai and Nanluoguxiang. It was built in the sixth year of Zhenguan. It is the earliest and currently the only royal temple in Beijing.

Whenever there was a fire in the palace, the imperial court would send ministers here to report the disaster and seek blessings from the God of Fire. On every birthday of the God of Fire, a grand ceremony would be held in the temple, and emperors of all dynasties would go there in person or send their ministers to offer sacrifices.

According to the records of Liu Tong's "Scenery of the Imperial Capital", Huangji Palace, Qianqing Palace, and Erluan Palace all experienced fires, and in the sixth year of Tianqi, a fire broke out in the Wang Gongchang area outside the Forbidden City, causing huge casualties. Including the prince of Emperor Tianqi, the Fire Temple of Chongwenmen also seemed to be burning.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng's seismograph detected an earthquake in Gansu, and the emperor asked him who caused the disaster.

If Zhang Heng dared to say a name at that time, it would cause huge political turmoil, and the eunuch group would look for an opportunity to drive him out of Luoyang.

Also at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of eunuchs' monopoly power also appeared. In the fifth year of Tianqi, that is, the year before the big bang, Wei Zhongxian once again established the prison and used false accusations to imprison Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Zhou Chaorui, and Wei Dazhong. , Gu Dazhang, Yuan Huazhong were tortured to death in prison. These six people were later called the Six Gentlemen of Tianqi. Once an unknown "Yan Ke" disguised himself and entered the Zhenfusi Prison to visit. After seeing the Six Gentlemen being tortured, After the tragedy, he wrote the book "Blue Blood Record". He remembered it in detail from beginning to end, and it also aroused strong responses among the people.

Everyone knew that the eunuchs were powerful. The eunuchs who were ordered to go out were not only very majestic and well-dressed with ceremonial guards, but also extorted property and misdeeds along the way. The censors had repeatedly impeached them.

Logically speaking, eunuchs should not marry. When Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he strictly prohibited it. Any eunuch who married a wife would be punished by being skinned, but this was just a formality. Eunuchs not only married wives, but also had concubines, or took in concubines.

Women who married prisoners even married the wife of the late hero Hou Bo, and the daughters of poor people were taken into concubines and used as maids. Anyway, they would have everything that normal men have, including children.

Some eunuchs become eunuchs after they marry and have children, while others are purified by their parents since they were young. They think becoming eunuchs will make them richer. There are also eunuchs in Europe. They mainly want to keep their childish voices like the sounds of nature.

But in terms of power, they cannot be compared with eunuchs. These people will not have descendants, but there is no shortage of people vying to be them "adopted grandchildren" and "adopted sons". After the fire, people were panicked, and people thought that Emperor Tianqi wanted to

Ping Tian's anger, as well as the dead prince, want to catch all the so-called "eunuchs".

However, Wei Zhongxian was deeply loved and trusted by Emperor Tianqi, and the prince's biological mother, Concubine Rong, was rumored to be Wei Zhongxian's "adopted daughter". Wei Zhongxian and the emperor's wet nurse, the Hakka family, were powerful in the palace and had already killed Queen Zhang and other concubines in the harem.

Besides, Nurhachi was developing rapidly at that time and had already posed a threat to the Ming Dynasty. Wei Zhongxian promoted Yuan Chonghuan to oversee Liaodong and gave Yuan Chonghuan great support in politics, materials, military pay, armaments and other aspects. In the years when Wei Zhongxian was in power

, the cities from Ningyuan to Jinzhou were renovated, and the Mingjun who guarded the border was equipped with muskets, chariots, mines, bombs, and even red cannons were moved to the top of the city of Ningyuan and Jinzhou. It was precisely because of the red cannons that damaged the city.

Nurhaci.

Wang Gong Factory is a place that specializes in gunpowder production. Although it caused a huge explosion, it was not a disaster from heaven. It may have been caused by workers' operating errors.

The final result was that the big explosion went unsolved. Wei Zhongxian not only failed to restrain himself, but also set off a second unjust imprisonment. This time, seven people were arrested, but not all of them were brought to justice. When Jin Yiwei rode to Gao Panlong's house

He committed suicide by throwing himself into a well. The other six people were tortured and died miserably in prison, and every family was ruined.

It is said that there was a lot of snow in the north, including Hunan, that year, while Guangdong and other places suffered from severe drought in spring and floods in summer. The power of "mountain bandits" suddenly surged, and Liu Xiang's pirates also took the opportunity to land and plunder.

A few months after the big explosion, Wang Yan, who had served as a promotion official in Yangzhou, published "Illustrated Description of Strange Weapons" on behalf of the German missionary Deng Yuhan. He came with 22 missionaries including Tang Ruowang and Luo Yagu, and only 8 of them arrived alive.

However, Deng Yuhan did not go to BJ, but stayed in Macau. When pirates began to appear, Deng Yuhan went to Hangzhou to take refuge. Later, he was recruited to BJ Qintianjian to participate in the compilation of the "Chongzhen Almanac". At this time, Tang Ruowang was still

Missionary work in Xi'an.

"Chongzhen Almanac" lasted for five years. After Deng Yuhan died in 1630, Tang Ruowang was responsible for the next work. Bi Gongchen, an official of the Ming Dynasty, discovered "An Introduction to the Human Body of Qinxi" in Tang Ruowang's manuscript, which described the skeleton in detail.

The principles and formations of nerves, body fat, skin, blood, senses, vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste, etc. were revised and settled before the book was published. It was already the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong fell into the water while visiting a lake. Although he was not drowned, he fell seriously ill and died after taking the "magic medicine". Ming Sizong came to the throne. The first thing he did was to clean up

Wei Zhongxian and his party.

It is said that Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family were rivals. After the Manchus settled in the Forbidden City, they strictly prohibited palace maids and eunuchs from rivalry, and forbade eunuchs from speaking out or intervening in politics. Palace maids could leave the palace to marry when they were twenty-five years old, and there was no need to do that in the Ming Dynasty.

He died of old age in the palace.

Unless there is a general amnesty, or there is a so-called celestial abnormality, the Ming Dynasty will let a group of palace people out. People believe that too many women in the harem will cause the Yin Qi to be blocked. Most of the Zhenguan stories come from the palace ladies.

Little girls who entered the palace at the age of ten were already close to fifty when they were released. If they did not seek help from relatives and friends, they would have to rely on their own vitality to survive or beg on the streets.

The miserable situation of the palace maids made the emperor feel pity, but he did not reform. This led to private parents to get engaged very early in order to prevent their children from being selected into the palace.

The maids who were forced into the palace could not bear to resist, so much so that Emperor Jiajing was strangled to death by more than a dozen maids, which was known as the Renyin Palace Incident.

European women are not allowed to come to the Qing Dynasty, and the door is closed to our lovely female compatriots.

According to the scriptures, a female body cannot be reborn in the Pure Land unless she transforms into a male body. The Guanyin who looks like the Sistine Madonna and is worshiped in rural temples is actually a male.

However, the Ming Dynasty white jade and gold seated Guanyin statue that Nick saw at Faxing Temple looked like a woman no matter how you looked at it.

After all, women look more kind-hearted, and are more easily associated with the compassionate Guanyin than men with beards and rough faces.

Nick also saw Maitreya Buddha at Faxing Temple. This time it was all golden. Although he also had his eyes open, it didn't look as scary as the white Maitreya Buddha.

It's just that his smile was very stiff, like a very happy person who saw some horrific scene and the smile froze on his face.

"The sedan is here." Juren said behind Nick.

Nick looked away and walked to the door of the Buddhist temple. A beautiful sedan was parked there, and four strong men were preparing to carry him away.

So Nick stepped into this sedan made of bamboo, canvas and oil paper. It felt very comfortable to be carried around. The elastic sedan poles made the sedan gently sway, which was silent and no encounters were encountered.

Troublesome collision.

Just like the admiral was doing now, he didn't dare to continue to blatantly protect Nick, so he sent a small sedan to pick him up.

Compared with the pleasant feeling of gliding along the street, Nick was in a nervous mood, because the sedan would pass through the bustling crowds and might encounter hurried men at any time.

The bearers shouted "Make way" as they walked. After all, he was not a court official and could use gongs and ceremonial guards to clear the way.

But even so, pedestrians still gave way because they couldn't see the person in the sedan, and they thought he was wearing a hat or a rich man.

They arrived at the Admiral's Mansion quickly, and the sedan was carried directly into the courtyard. When Nick got off the sedan, the bearers were smelling of sweat, and the way they looked at Nick made him feel uncomfortable.

At this time, Cao Xi appeared. He was as polite as when he first greeted Nick, and led him to the living room where they first met. The admiral was still sitting on the rosewood chair, smoking with a frown on his face.

"Cao Zuoling is the admiral's right-hand man, and he is also the prospective son-in-law. If you say that he framed you for his fiancée, the admiral will not believe you, and your only support will be gone." Before leaving, Juren said in the temple, "

Don't talk nonsense, just answer whatever other people ask you."

"Adventures are bold, novel and attractive, which makes many young people think about it. If possible, we must create an influence and a degree of trust, which is beneficial to the European family." The priest once said to Nick.

He said that this was also the role he urged Nick to take on.

Before leaving, Nick left a letter to his friend in France. If he doesn't hear from him for a long time after receiving the letter, please come to Faxing Temple in Guangzhou, where someone will know the exact news about him.

From now on, Nick will be transformed into a Chinese scholar, with a Chinese name like those missionaries.

His current name is Ping Xi. Yes, a smart person will not call this name that easily evokes rich associations, but isn't this the behavior of a foreigner who is shallow in knowledge, dull and clumsy, and does not understand this country?
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