Happy Tycoon

Zhu Zhanji's Wencheng martial arts can be regarded as extremely outstanding. He not only has outstanding talents in governing the country and the military, but also quite good in literature and art.

　　 Zhu Zhanji Ya Shanghanmo. You are especially good at painting landscapes, figures, animals, flowers and birds, and grasses and insects. His paintings and calligraphy works are often used as books to give to important ministers, the date of the letter and the name of the recipient, and the seals of "Guangyun Zhibao", "Wuying Palace Bao" and "Yongxi Shiren".

　　 That is to say, in addition to being an emperor, Zhu Zhanji is actually a talented man with great talents, and his poetry, calligraphy and painting are also quite famous. Of course, the most famous one is Zhu Zhanji's love to play with crickets.

　　 When Zhu Zhanji was the emperor, he was known as "the emperor of peace, the emperor of weaving". Promoters, crickets, folks called crickets.

Zhu Zhanji likes to play with crickets. This is a well-known thing in the world, but no one is perfect, no gold is perfect, and no matter what the emperor is, he is first of all a person. As long as he is a person, it is inevitable that there will be such and such. Hobby.

　　 Zhu Zhanji, as an emperor, likes to play with crickets. Although this is a bit of a bad idea, who can say anything? Anyhow, apart from playing crickets, people can manage a huge country well, which is enough. Better than his unfilial offspring, right?

　　 The emperors of the Ming dynasty are counted as examples. It seems that none of the emperors of the Ming dynasty are normal.

　　 Let's talk about Zhu Zhanji's great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people gave names very random, basically arranged by numbers, so Zhu Yuanzhang's father gave him the name Chongba. This is just like the reason why many animals named after our country was the same in the early years of the founding of the country, such as Ergouzi, or Gougan and so on. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's name can be very meaningful, eight is sixteen, and there were sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty. It is really not easy for Zhu Yuanzhang and his father to name a farmer with such a profound meaning.

　　 There is also Zhu Zhanji and his father Zhu Gaochi, who is also the fourth ceo of the Ming Dynasty. This emperor was the fattest emperor in the Ming Dynasty and the emperor who could eat the most.

　　 How fat is Zhu Gaochi? This guy is so fat that he needs the support of two servants to walk around, and he is so fat that he can eat it. He has never been to the front, so why can he be emperor? Good fate! His younger brother Zhu Gaoxi is brave and good at fighting. He has the spirit of his father, Zhu Di, the ancestor Zhu Di. His father Zhu Di originally had the idea of ​​making Zhu Gaoxu the prince, but he is not the eldest. Fatty is emperor. However, Zhu Gaochi stepped down after serving as the emperor for ten months, because he died of illness-purely from the illness!

　　Zhu Zhanji needless to say, the emperor cricket!

　　 And Zhu Zhanji's descendants are even more unbearable. One of his gray grandsons was called Zhu Houhu, that is, Emperor Jiajing. He was an out-and-out Taoist emperor, but he had been in power for a very long time, forty-five years.

　　 Jiajing Emperor was very diligent when he took office. Because he was the foreign domain, he wanted to make a good name for his parents, but the ministers disagreed. Because of this, he was irritated, so he didn't have much contact with the ministers. Regardless of national affairs, he did not go to court, and got into the Taoist industry. Emperor Jiajing grew up in the land of Jingchu, which was the birthplace of Taoism. In the later period of Jiajing, he basically did not take care of major national affairs.

　　 Zhu Zhanji’s gray grandson also has another named Zhu Yijun, the Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli became emperor at the age of ten, but there was always a big stone on his head. Even if the poor Emperor Wanli couldn't bear to find a court lady to be lucky, he would be able to rise to the height of subjugation by Zhang Juzheng.

Finally, Zhang Juzheng died. He listened to the officials every day, and finally he just quit. He didn't go out of the palace for 30 years, ignored the government, the suburbs, the temples, the courts, and the courts. , Do not approve, do not talk, as for the upper court, it is even more impossible, and it is also willful to the extreme! The most important thing is that this is the case, the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished...

　　 As for Zhu Youxiao, another gray grandson of Zhu Zhanji, that is, Emperor Tianqi of Mingxi Zong, it is even more exotic, known as "Ming Dynasty Luban".

　　 I want to say that this emperor is even more exotic, because his professional skills are carpenters, and the only carpenter emperor in the history of China. The emperor is only a part-time job, and it may not be counted as a part-time job.

　　 Emperor Tianqi’s father has not been seen since he was a child, so he also suffered from it. However, his fate was good, and he was adopted as the emperor after the "moving palace case".

When he was the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was originally a small gangster on the street. Because he was good at camping, he went to the palace and became a eunuch; while Rong was the emperor’s nurse and naturally had a deep affection. Often unite to persecute the Donglin Party. The emperor carpenter did not go to court either, and Wei Zhongxian also selected the emperor to report the situation when he was doing carpentry. The Emperor Carpenter so slowly sent the Ming Dynasty to death.

　　 Anyway, from Zhu Yuanzhang to Emperor Chongzhen, there was almost no normal emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

　　 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 bones, literati, if he doesn’t have a taste for elegance, 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 did not dare to do it, because he knew very well that once this matter was known by his grandfather Zhu Di , He will definitely be convicted of being playful.

　　 After Zhu Di passed away, Zhu Zhanji's father had only been emperor for ten months, and after he became the throne, no one in the world could manage his people anymore. Therefore, not long after Zhu Zhanji came to power, the impulse that had been suppressed for a long time finally broke out.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji came to power, in order to satisfy his hobby of enjoying the incense burner, he ordered the import of 39 thousand catties of wind-milled copper from Siam, now Thailand, and instructed the royal craftsman Lu Zhen and the Ministry of Industry Minister Wu Bangzuo to refer to the imperial palace. Design and supervise incense burners including the styles of famous porcelains from Chai kiln, Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln and Ding kiln, as well as historical records of Xuanhe Bo ancient catalogues.

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

　　 Who is Emperor Xuande? He is the emperor, not only rich in wealth, but also has a strong sense of quality. Therefore, Emperor Xuande immediately made a decree that the number of refining was not only undiminished, but also doubled, that is, twelve refining, and adding precious metals such as gold and silver. Therefore, the craftsman selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and went through more than ten meticulous castings together with red copper.

　　 After a huge effort, the best copper incense burner was finally made successfully in Xuande for three years.

　　 More than 3,000 incense burners have been cast from this batch of wind milled copper, and they will never be produced in the future. When Emperor Xuande saw these incense burners that he had personally dealt with, each of them was unusually atmospheric, radiant and radiant, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

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

　　 The ordinary people of these Xuande furnaces only know their names but do not see them. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the copper censer that was really cast in Xuande three years is almost invisible.

　　 These first batch of Xuande furnaces were so exquisite that they aroused the coveting of many people. Even after Xuande's three-year palace closed the furnace, some people still want to continue to imitate the Xuande furnace.

　　 Among them, the supervisors who were responsible for supervising the construction of the first batch of Xuande furnaces gathered the original craftsmen and cast the Xuande furnaces separately. However, due to insufficient raw materials, the wind-milled copper has been used up and will not come back. The caster can only replace it with yellow miscellaneous copper, although the workmanship is as exquisite as before. The shape is more varied, but the copper is finally not as good as it. At the same time, the fund has changed. The number of words has increased, such as "Supervision by Wu Bangzuo, Minister of the Ministry of Engineering in Xuande Five Years" and "Supervision by Li Chengde, Minister and Foreign Minister of the Ministry of Engineering".

　　 In addition to the contemporary imitations of the Xuande Dynasty, there were also imitations during the Zhengde period of the mid-Ming Dynasty. There were also a large number of imitations in the late Ming and early Qing, Qing Dynasty, and the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.

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

　　 Currently on the market, there is no real Xuande furnace produced in the third year of Xuande. Many people even say that the real Xuande furnace of three years is gone!

　　 Originally, Yang Jing thought so too~www.readwn.com~ The real Xuande furnace has long disappeared. Now the collections on the market and in museums are all imitations. However, these two quaint Xuande furnaces appeared in front of me. What's going on?

　　 The Xuande furnace of Xuande three years ago did not have a standard shape, and the two Xuande furnaces in front of them are also different in style.

　　 One of the copper furnaces is round, open, with a base, and there are two long ears on both sides. The style is very unique. However, Yang Jing recognized the style of this copper incense burner at a glance. This is the Xuande furnace with the smallest number of scorpion ear burners in the world.

This kind of scorpion-eared stove is usually dedicated to the emperor’s study. It can be placed on an incense table alone, or it can be placed five feet west of the copy, or on the table or on the bright cabinet, which is larger than six inches. The device can be placed in halls, rooms, halls, etc.

　　 Like this scorpion-eared stove, it is more than twenty centimeters in diameter, which is more than six inches. Obviously, it is an incense burner that can be placed outside the study.

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

　　 Yang Jing also recognized the style of this copper incense burner, which is second only to the dragon ear stove in existence.

　　 Although the styles of these two copper incense burners are extremely rare, the color of the wind-milled copper is extremely positive, and the patina is very round. There is also a six-character regular script "Daming Xuande Year" at the bottom, which does not seem to be imitated by later generations.

　　 But for the sake of safety, Yang Jing still used the holy ring to appraise it, and it turned out that it was no accident. These two copper incense burners were in 1428 AD, which was the Xuande furnace cast in the third year of Xuande!