A treasure-appraisal maniac

Lu Fei got under the bed and took two photos.

Looking at the photos on his phone, Lu Fei laughed excitedly.

Chen Xiang came close to Lu Fei and looked at the densely packed and obscure scriptures in the photo with a puzzled look on his face.

"Lu Fei, is this a scripture?" Chen Xiang asked.

Lu Fei nodded and said.

"That's right!"

"This is the Ksitigarbha Sutra."

"But why are there scriptures under the bed?" Chen Xiang asked doubtfully.

“As long as there are scriptures.”

"It is precisely because of the scriptures that this dragon bed is truly priceless."

"I really don't understand why ancient people would carve scriptures under their beds. It always feels weird." Chen Xiang said.

"That's right, weird."

"Carving scriptures under the bed can be said to be an eternal wonder."

"But it is precisely because of this wonder that the unique value of this dragon bed is reflected."

"Is there any story here?" Chen Xiang asked.

"Of course!"

To say that carving scriptures under the bed is definitely not something that normal people can do.

But then again, among the twenty emperors of the Ming Dynasty, none of him was normal.

The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was addicted to external killings, and even did not hesitate to persecute heroes.

But at home, he is a complete rake.

The second emperor, Zhu Yunwen, was underqualified but wanted to pretend to be a wolf and started reforms. As a result, he changed his throne to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was a workaholic. During his twenty-two years in office, he never took a day off regardless of New Year or holidays.

The fourth Hongxi Emperor, Zhu Gaochi, started to change his job as a food anchor when Guotai Minan was in power. He died of obesity after ten months of reigning.

The fifth Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji: When he had nothing to do, he started playing with crickets. He often went to the private sector to fight with cricket masters.

The sixth Tianshun Emperor Zhu Qizhen: The imperial commander was captured during his personal expedition.

With his good looks, all the enemy troops became his fans and he was released.

When he came back, he was imprisoned by his brother for seven years, which was simply miserable.

In addition, Emperor Wanli did not go to court for twenty-eight years.

Carpenter Emperor Apocalypse.

Emperor Zhengde, who had fun all his life, played himself to death in the end.

Jiaqing, who was obsessed with alchemy and was almost strangled to death by a palace maid.

Emperor Longqing died suddenly after taking aphrodisiac.

Zhu Changluo, the great emperor of Taichang, who took laxatives and had bowel movements forty times a night, had his hair cut out less than a month after he ascended the throne, and so on.

Anyway, none of these twenty emperors are normal, they are all crazy.

And this dragon bed with scriptures engraved on it is related to one of the insane emperors.

He is Zhu Jianshen, Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty and Chenghua Emperor.

As we all know, the emperor's women are in trouble.

As long as he likes it and has enough energy, it will be absolutely fine if he does it once a day and night until he dies.

However, Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen was indeed a strange person.

Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne at the age of seventeen. The first thing he did after becoming emperor was to sleep with his nanny Wan Zhen'er, who had been with him since childhood, and was seventeen years older than him.

Zhu Jianshen had a soft spot for Wan Zhen'er. If the empress dowager hadn't been forbidden, Zhu Jianshen would have almost made Wan Zhen'er his queen.

Even without status, Zhu Jianshen would have trysts with Wan Zhen'er every day. As for other women, he didn't even bother to take a second look.

After Zhu Jianshen and Empress Wu got married, the young and beautiful empress did not impress Zhu Jianshen. He and Wan Zhen'er were still inseparable.

Because Zhu Jianshen ignored Empress Wu, Empress Wu attributed all this to Wan Zhen'er, and used a cane on Wan Zhen'er, beating Wan Zhen'er to death.

This is a big deal.

Zhu Jian

Knowing this, seeing the scarred Wan Zhen'er made her heartache to death.

Early the next morning, Zhu Jianshen found Empress Dowager Zhou and listed eleven crimes against Empress Wu. He refused to listen to dissuasion and deposed Empress Wu on the spot.

Two months later, the Queen Mother Zhou forced Zhu Jianshen to make Wang his queen.

Empress Wang was much smarter than Empress Wu. She knew that Zhu Jianshen favored Wan Zhen'er. Instead of fighting for favor, she fawned over Wan Zhen'er and was willing to be Wan Zhen'er's puppet.

In this way, Zhu Jianshen and Wan Zhen'er completely let go.

In the second year of Chenghua, the 37-year-old imperial concubine Wan Zhen'er gave birth to the emperor's eldest son. Emperor Xianzong was overjoyed and immediately named her the imperial concubine.

This is also the first imperial concubine recognized in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, a year later, Concubine Wan Gui’s son died in infancy.

What's even more unfortunate is that due to physical reasons, Concubine Wan Gui is unable to have any more children.

In order to continue the family line, Zhu Jianshen had to intermittently favor other women.

But Zhu Jianshen's move made Concubine Wan Gui, who was running for the fourth time, worried, fearing that Zhu Jianshen would be fascinated by other vixens and neglect her from then on.

It was from then on that Concubine Wan Gui's thinking began to change.

Which concubine Zhu Jianshen favored, Wan Zhen'er would definitely hold a grudge against which concubine.

The woman who was hated by Wan Zhen'er would be miserable. Even if she didn't die, she would still lose a few layers of skin.

Not only that, if any vixen is pregnant, she will be the target of Wan Zhen'er's persecution, and no prince will be allowed to be born.

It was not until Zhu Jianshen's tenth year in office that the miserable emperor discovered a real problem.

He is the emperor and is rich all over the world, but he doesn't even have a son to carry on the family line.

This is ridiculous.

If this continues, a hundred years from now, won’t the Ming Dynasty change its surname?

If that were the case, how could I have the face to face Zhu?

The late emperors of our family!

Thinking about the reason, Zhu Jianshen felt that his dragon energy was insufficient and it was difficult to achieve anything.

So he asked the cabinet minister Wan An about how to improve the dragon's energy.

Wan'an gave the emperor an idea to build a bed of one hundred dragons, which would absorb the essence of one hundred dragons at night, and the dragon energy would definitely be improved.

But after the Bailong bed was built, Zhu Jian slept deeply for a year, but still couldn't achieve his dream.

Zhu Jianshen was a little discouraged and told the eunuch Zhang Min about his regrets.

Zhang Min took the courage to tell Zhu Jianshen the great news.

In the sixth year of Chenghua, Ji became pregnant.

Since she usually doesn't fight or grab, she didn't attract Concubine Wan Gui's attention.

However, Mrs. Ji herself was frightened to death, fearing that Concubine Wan Gui would deal with her, so she asked Zhang Min to take the child out of the palace and drown her.

Zhang Min couldn't bear to take action and secretly raised the prince, who was later the Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youtang.

Zhu Jianshen was extremely happy when he knew that he had a concubine.

Asked Zhang Min why Ji wanted to drown the prince, Zhang Min told Zhu Jianshen what Concubine Wan Gui had done over the years.

If other emperors knew that there was such a person who caused trouble in the harem, they would have to execute Concubine Wan Gui.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Jianshen was deeply in love with Concubine Wan Guifei, and he really couldn't bear to blame her.

After taking his son into the palace, Zhu Jianshen did not hold Concubine Wan Gui accountable for her fault.

But from then on, Zhu Jianshen had nightmares every night, dreaming of the women who were killed by Concubine Wan Guifei and Long Zi redressing their grievances against him.

Having nightmares for many days in a row made Zhu Jianshen very upset.

So, Zhu Jianshen found the abbot of Linggu Temple to solve his problem.

The abbot monk personally copied the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" and asked Zhu Jian to press it deeply under his pillow to save those innocent souls in his dream. The result was a miraculous effect, and he really didn't have any nightmares that night.

Zhu Jianshen was afraid that the scriptures would be lost or destroyed, so he simply hired a craftsman to carve them under his bed.