Chapter 140 The Empress Dowager is furious

   Regarding Zhu Houzhao, the Empress Dowager is actually more caring than Queen Zhang!

  In fact, the Empress Dowager has seven or eight grandchildren, but except for Zhu Houzhao, most of them are not in Beijing, such as Zhu Houcong, the son of King Anlu, and so on.

   Compared with the Empress Dowager, Zhu Houzhao\'s father, Emperor Hongzhi, was raised by himself in Renshou Palace, which has a completely different meaning, and Zhu Houzhao has been watching since he was a child!

Outside the Renshou Palace, some people may slander Zhu Houzhao, thinking that His Highness the Crown Prince is sometimes not very good looking, but in Renshou Palace, His Highness the Crown Prince\'s reputation is simply a good person through the ages, whoever dares to say no , probably to be dragged out to feed the dogs.

  At this time, Zhu Houzhao was rarely obedient and said: "I\'m not hungry, I\'m here to send you a copy of Taoism scriptures."

As soon as she heard the scriptures copied by hand, the Empress Dowager was very happy, and said with a smile: "It\'s rare that you have filial piety, and you are not exhausted. You, as long as you usually come to say hello, Ai\'s family will be satisfied, so why bother?" .”

   As he spoke, Liu Jin, who followed Zhu Houzhao, forwarded the scriptures copied by hand to Wang Yan, the chief **** of Renshou Palace.

  Wang Yan was around forty, with a big belly and a healthy body. He quickly took the copy from Liu Jin\'s hand.

  The Empress Dowager said casually: "Come, show the Ai family."

Wang Yan then presented the copy, and the Empress Dowager took it. As Zhu Houzhao said to Fang Jifan, the Empress Dowager\'s eyes were a little dazed, and she only saw a group of blurred handwriting, and then she smiled: "This is the crown prince himself. Aijia was really happy to copy it, Wang Yan..."

   "The servant is here."

  The Empress Dowager said: "Read it to the Ai family."

  It seems that for the Empress Dowager, the Daoist scriptures handwritten by the prince always have different meanings.

  Wang Yan was able to understand it, and hurriedly took the manuscript, so she shook her head and read the Tao Te Ching first.

   But when he was preparing to read, his eyes were obviously in a trance.

  This handwriting... is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

  But when he came back to his senses, he glanced at the prince cautiously, and saw Zhu Houzhao bared his teeth at him. He shuddered. Where he dared to go any further, he coughed and said, "Dao Ke Dao...very Dao..."

  The Tao Te Ching has 5,000 words, and it is the supreme scripture of Taoism. After reading this, although Zhu Houzhao was extremely boring, the Empress Dowager enjoyed it.

  The Empress Dowager respects Taoism, which is known inside and outside the palace!

Since Emperor Chenghua, because Emperor Chenghua was a believer, there were many Taoists in this palace. Emperor Chenghua preferred Taoism because he chose his techniques, and he preferred alchemy and medicine. Under the influence of the empress dowager, But she also firmly believes in this, but... she is more inclined to the scriptures, thinking that these scriptures can give her inner peace.

   After reading the Tao Te Ching, Wang Yan began to read the scripture notes. Wang Yan only glanced at the scripture notes and raised her head, and was taken aback again.

  The Empress Dowager was still waiting, she opened her eyes and said, "Read."

  Wang Yan took another cautious look at Zhu Houzhao.

  Zhu Houzhao was a little annoyed, why, you still want to expose me and ask someone to copy it?

  But in an instant, Wang Yan\'s forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and even the hand holding the sutra was trembling slightly.

  The Empress Dowager seemed to have noticed something strange, she looked at him unquestionably and said, "Read!"

Wang Yan\'s face was startled, so she had no choice but to say in earnest: "For Taoists, Yuan X is nothingness, chaotic and natural, and the two instruments are born from it, and all things are formed, and they are named after they cannot be obtained, and they are called Tao... "

  Hearing this, the Empress Dowager was equally taken aback.

   Sure enough, she also sensed something was wrong, but...she didn\'t make a sound, but her face became extremely serious.

  She was silent, while Wang Yan raised her eyes cautiously to see the expression of the Empress Dowager.

   "Continue reading." The Empress Dowager said.

  Zhu Houzhao looked suspicious, and he was not stupid, so how could he not feel the unusualness of this moment?

  Wang Yan was even more trembling: "Therefore, the first chapter of the first chapter should end with one word of Dao, just like the chapter that uses the middle Dao of the scriptures, it is also the first to reveal a word..."

  The empress dowager\'s complexion became even more serious, and her body even trembled slightly.

   After a long time, she closed her eyes and said with a straight face, "Why don\'t you continue reading."

   "Servant..." Wang Yan hurriedly knelt down and said with a mournful face, "Your servant will die."

  The empress dowager opened her eyes and stared at Wang Yan: "What does this have to do with you? Why are you dying?"

"The old slave served the empress for twenty years..." Wang Yan was out of her wits, and said: "I have been reading scriptures by the empress\'s side all the time. In Renshou Palace, I have collected all the annotations of the Tao Te Ching from all over the world. I have never heard of this edition. This... this It is distorting the scriptures and meaning, it is deviant from the scriptures, the servant girl read it out, polluted the mother\'s ears, and made the mother lose her Taoist heart, the servant girl is guilty of ten thousand deaths, the mother forgives the sin."

  There is no such edition of Dao Jing Jing Annotation at all?

  Zhu Houzhao\'s jaw was about to drop.

   No wonder when Fang Jifan was copying the scriptures, he came to the scripture commentary and felt that the original scripture commentary was not good. Dare to say that this scripture commentary...was written by himself.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao never thought that this commentary was written by Wei Dayou, the most outstanding Taoist school in Ming Dynasty. Wei Dayou was a Taoist in the period of Hongwu and Emperor Wen. The first "Tao De Zhen Jing Ji Yi" has naturally been handed down to the world, not only handed down, but also respected by the world, otherwise, how could this edition of the scriptures be handed down to future generations?

   But what Fang Jifan never expected was that the books of this era are different from those of later generations.

  People of later generations, whoever writes a book, can be published. After all, the cost of publishing is not much, and the cost of ink and paper is not high. Even if it can\'t be published, it will be put on the Internet, and people will naturally spread it.

  It was an era of knowledge explosion, and Fang Jifan just happened to...

  He really didn’t realize this, he only thought that since the book was written in the early Ming Dynasty, it should have been circulated in the early Ming Dynasty!

  How do you know that this "Tao De Zhen Jing Ji Yi" was made early, but it was not handed down to the world at all. It was not until the end of Ming Dynasty, when a large number of tomb robbers emerged due to the chaos in the world, that it finally began to be handed down.

This is like "The Analects of Qi". People only remember the general version of the Analects of Confucius, and the Analects of Qi had been compiled into a book as early as the Warring States Period, but because it was not circulated, it was lost in later generations. It was not until the tomb of Haihunhou was excavated , People found traces of "The Analects of Qi" from the tomb of Haihunhou.

  The Empress Dowager attached great importance to Taoism. But in this era, Taoism can never be interpreted by any cat or dog, otherwise, in the eyes of people, it is deviant.

   This is especially true for people like the Empress Dowager who admire Taoism.

  In the Renshou Palace, there are hundreds of versions of the annotations of various "Tao Te Ching", each of which is the painstaking work of successive emperors and Taoist real people.

The empress dowager is familiar with these scriptures, and Wang Yan has been with the empress dowager for twenty years, and she has also been fascinated by them. Just reading this "Tao De Zhen Jing Ji Yi" knows that this sutra does not exist at all, and one does not exist. How did His Royal Highness copy the Taoist scriptures?

  What\'s more... This Taoist scripture without reason dares to comment on Taoist classics such as the Tao Te Ching privately.

  At least he knew that the Empress Dowager was bound to be furious.

   Sure enough... the empress dowager showed an extremely displeased expression!

  In her opinion, this is an extremely serious matter. How serious is it? What\'s even more frightening is that the prince actually copied such a thing. In this way, isn\'t someone misleading the prince? The crown prince was deceived by these unorthodox words, as a great-grandmother, why didn\'t he not worry?

   "Zhao\'er, where did you copy this?" The Empress Dowager asked sharply with a sullen face.

  Zhu Houzhao is also a RI dog, copying a book, can you copy something?

  Seeing that his always loving great-grandmother suddenly turned his face, he hesitated for a long time, and then said with a sigh of relief: "My son, I don\'t know... I just copied it..."

   Clearly, he just wanted to get away with it.

It\'s a pity that for the Empress Dowager, this matter is too serious. It\'s like a scholar who believes in the Four Books and Five Classics, knowing that the prince actually gave an alternative interpretation of the Four Books and Five Classics. What a worrying thing it is! , even, such a thing can be listed as a mistrust and traitor.

Wang Yan looked hesitant. He naturally knew the consequences of this matter, and it was of great importance. He clearly saw that although this handwriting was deliberately copied from His Highness the Crown Prince\'s handwriting, it was obvious that it was not copied by His Highness the Crown Prince. Of course, he dared not tell the Empress Dowager about this incident, after all, he did not dare to offend His Highness the Crown Prince.

But now...it\'s different now, the empress dowager is furious, and she will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, as long as she checks, she will know that it is not the prince\'s handwriting, and she is still hiding it for the prince, this... Isn\'t it courting death?

  So Wang Yan hurriedly said: "My servant... I think... I feel that the scriptures copied here are not the handwriting of His Highness the Crown Prince."

  As soon as these words came out, Zhu Houzhao\'s face collapsed instantly.

   is worse.

  However, he seemed to be very experienced in this sudden situation, and he didn\'t become flustered all of a sudden, but immediately looked at the Empress Dowager with a pitiful look.

  But the Empress Dowager has experienced so much in this deep palace, how can she be so easy to fool?

  Even if she regards this great-grandson as a treasure in her heart, she can naturally be considerate of Zhu Houzhao\'s help in copying the scriptures, but what she can\'t understand is that this scripture is actually deviant, who knows what lies in it?

  She snapped and asked, "Who copied it carelessly?"

   "This..." Zhu Houzhao said without hesitation, "It\'s Liu Jin!"

  (end of this chapter)