The short videos I watched from all dynasties

Funny video: [Why did people in ancient times say thank God for his grace after being beheaded? ]

[Question: In ancient times, when someone was about to be beheaded, why did they still say thank God for His grace? Since they were going to die anyway, why not curse a little?]

[Answer: Thank you for the invitation. I just came back from prison after serving my sentence. I will be executed by lingchi tomorrow. Oh, by the way, my parents, my aunts, and some relatives I don’t recognize live in the cell next to me.]

＜Guess why he thanked God for his grace? It was because he was the only one killed and he died a quick death.＞

＜Image Comment: Nine Clans Map＞

＜Nine tribes: "Listen to me and say thank you. Because of you, I buried two acres of land~~"＞

＜Prince's Rebellion: If you have the guts, wipe out my entire clan!＞

＜Now, please let Fang Xiaoru speak Fang Xiaoru: 6＞

＜Fang Xiaoru's Ten Clans: You are amazing, you are noble!＞

＜Since all nine clans have been exterminated, and the death is the most cruel, why not curse the emperor again? [狗头]＞

＜The Ten Clans Are Watching You［Dog Head］＞

＜Since all ten clans have been exterminated, and the death is the most cruel, why not curse the emperor again? [狗头]＞

＜Good boy, you want to take all the punishments before you die, right? [Dog head]＞

＜I'm going to be tortured to death anyway, why not try to stab the emperor before I die [狗头]＞

＜Great, everyone in the comment section is afraid that there will be no rooster crowing in a thousand miles.＞

＜Vile＞

＜I’m afraid I won’t be able to find someone with the same last name as you in the future.＞

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The comment section is really interesting, there are talented people all over the world.

Ming Dynasty Hongwu 26th year

"Fang Xiaoru? The leader of literature in eastern Zhejiang?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered in his heart, "Humph, these people don't deserve to die!"

Suddenly he turned around and stared at Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen suddenly felt uneasy when being stared at by Zhu Yuanzhang, and asked, "Grandpa Emperor? What...what happened...?"

Zhu Yuanzhang retracted his gaze, "Alas..."

Fang Xiaoru was only a few generations old, so he would neither use him nor kill him. But what about Yunwen? Yunwen was a good boy, filial and gentle, and would not use such a method. Who else could he be? Who had the ability to kill ten generations of a clan?

The surprise and horror in his heart made Zhu Yuanzhang eager to get Zhu Di back to Nanjing.

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Ming Dynasty, the second year of Jianwen

"..."

Fang Xiaoru: “???”

Fang Xiaoru's ten clans: "???"

Fang Xiaoru couldn't help but feel panicked. What serious matter could warrant the execution of his entire clan?

King Yan? Did he succeed...

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Ming Dynasty, the 12th year of Yongle

Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, looked at the words on the sky curtain and fell into deep thought. Then he became furious and said, "Who the hell killed Fang Xiaoru's ten clans?!!!" I killed his ten clans? How come I didn't know?

"Dad, don't be angry. It must be those literati who spread it." The second son Zhu Gaoxu comforted his old father very considerately.

"Not necessarily..." Before the Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi could finish his words, he was glared at by his father. He had no choice but to change the subject and say, "Well, Fang Xiaoru's relatives are still alive. These are all fabricated stories."

Zhu Di thought of Zhu Youjian mentioned earlier, and the Ming Dynasty was only passed down for 12 generations! He became even angrier and simply kicked his fat son.

"Dad?" Zhu Gaochi was a little confused. I know Dad is very angry, but I didn't spread these rumors...

When Zhu Di saw how fat his eldest son was, and then looked at Zhu Gaoxu's gloating expression, he decided to kick Zhu Gaoxu again.

Zhu Gaoxu: "???"

Zhu Gaochi: "!!!"

Zhu Di: Smile

If you are in a bad mood, ignore it.

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Han Gaozu 7th year

Liu Bang completely let go of himself and sneered, "What kind of hatred or grudge is this?"

"This emperor is so cruel!"

After making a comparison, Liu Bang realized that he was extremely kind.

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Emperor Wu of Han (3rd year of Yuanshou)

“Ten clans?!” Everyone took a deep breath, it was too cruel.

The court officials could not help but look at the emperor on the high throne, thinking to themselves, His Majesty seems to be quite good, he doesn't kill nine clans for no reason, let alone ten clans. Our Majesty is just a little bit warlike, and everyone still agrees to fight the Huns...

Liu Che did not notice the psychological changes of his courtiers towards him. He just frowned when he saw the video on the sky curtain. Who would be so boring as to scold the emperor in front of him?

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There are a lot of funny people in the comment section, but why do so many people think that it is true that Zhu Di killed Fang Xiaoru's ten clans?

Li Ranran clicked on a comment to clarify

[Detailed explanation: Was Fang Xiaoru really executed along with his entire clan? ]

[Hello everyone, here is a historical story every day. I believe that everyone is familiar with the story of Fang Xiaoru being exterminated with ten clans, after all, the TV series also used the saying that Fang Xiaoru was exterminated with ten clans. ]

[First, let's take a look at the recent "Fengtian Jingnan Ji" from the early Yongle period. This book says that Fang Xiaoru was captured and kowtowed for mercy, and then he was executed by slow slicing together with Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng. The "Ming Shilu" does not mention that Fang Xiaoru was executed along with his entire clan.

Next is the Tianshun reign, the reign of our Baozong. The death of Fang Xiaoru in Tianshun Diary written by Li Xian, the then chief minister of the cabinet, is completely different from that in Fengtian Jingnan Ji. Tianshun Diary wrote that Yao Guangxiao recommended Fang Xiaoru to Zhu Di to draft the imperial edict, but Fang Xiaoru refused to draft the edict because he was fearless of death. Zhu Di was furious and executed him by slow slicing and exterminated his clan. It was the content of this book that laid the foundation for the story of Fang Xiaoru in later generations. You have to know that it took thirty or forty years from Tianshun to Yongle.

A few decades later, during the reigns of Emperor Xianzong and Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Song Duanyi, then Guangdong Censor, wrote Lizhai Xianlu. Song Duanyi checked the archives of the Jinyiwei Zhenfu Division in Nanjing and found that about 847 people were implicated in the case of Fang Xiaoru, but the claim of exterminating ten clans was not seen in these two books.

In the early years of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, more than a hundred years after Fang Xiaoru's death, Zhu Yunming, a great calligrapher and one of the four talents of Wuzhong at that time, wrote "Zhishan Yeji" for the first time about the extermination of Fang Xiaoru's ten clans. The first half of the story followed the "Tian Shun Diary", while the second half added a plot in which Fang Xiaoru said: "Yan thief, no matter how cruel you are, you can only exterminate my nine clans."

It's very funny, Fang Xiaoru came up with this paragraph very abruptly. I was confused when I saw it, and I guess the other nine tribes were also confused, hahaha.

Then Zhu Di cooperated very well and said, "Yes, yes, I can also wipe out ten of your clans!" This confused everyone around him: "Which clan is this extra clan?" Zhu Di said, "Friends are also considered a clan." So he not only killed Fang Xiaoru's nine clans, but also his friends.

His friends are basically his classmates and friends who studied together.

However, the authenticity of "Zhishan Yeji" is very low. When Fang Xiaoru wrote this book, he had already been there for more than 100 years. The author Zhu Yunming also said: "The content of this book is based on hearsay and cannot be regarded as real history."

There is a volume in Zhishanyeji that says: Fang Xiaoru's father killed the entire clan of pythons despite his mother's dissuasion, so the Fang family was later exterminated. This is karma.

Look at what this is all about. Why is it suddenly related to the Buddhist theory of karma?

So, there may be some authenticity, but it should not be much.

Huang Zuo, a Hanlin scholar of the same period, wrote a book called "Gechu Yishi", in which there was no mention of exterminating ten clans.

After several years, Emperor Zhengde dissolved into water, and Emperor Jiajing, who was in charge of the Yin-Yang merits and demerits and was known for his nine-day mission to spread Buddhism and save all living beings, ascended the throne as the Great Daoist of Yin and Yang, the Immortal Zi Ji, the One Yang Zhenren, Yuan Xu Yuan Ying, the Enlightenment Emperor and the Loyal and Filial Emperor.

In the early years of the Jiajing reign, a Jiang surnamed Taichang Temple official, "The Secret History of the Jiang Family", mentioned the extermination of ten clans for the second time. This book added a new plot. Yao Guangxiao commented on Zhu Di's killing of Fang Xiaoru: "If Fang Xiaoru is killed, the seed of scholars in the world will be extinct." Zhu Di used Zhou Gong to assist King Cheng to debate with Fang Xiaoru.

Of course, these are all unverified plots, so we can ignore them.

In the 34th year of Jiajing, the county magistrate Chen Jian compiled the "Huang Ming Tong Ji" and mentioned for the third time that Fang Xiaoru exterminated ten clans. In this case, Zhu Di took the initiative to say that he would exterminate ten clans. It also said that every time Zhu Di wanted to kill Fang's family, he would come to see Fang Xiaoru, but Fang Xiaoru still refused to write the edict on his behalf, so after killing all nine clans, he would kill his friends.

This book even describes the names of the victims in detail, which greatly increases its credibility (laughs).

More than a decade later, Zheng Xiao, the Minister of Justice, compiled the "Wu Xue Bian" which included the contents of the previous books and detailed the debate between Zhu Di and Fang Xiaoru, Duke of Zhou, who assisted King Cheng. The death toll also increased from 847 to 873.

Considering that it was already the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the novels and rumors of the middle and late Ming Dynasty were very relaxed. Even if you made up stories about the emperor of the time, it would be fine. There is no need for the upmaster to tell you how popular novels of the middle and late Ming Dynasty were.

After the Wanli reign, the story of Fang Xiaoru's extermination of ten clans became increasingly detailed, and the descriptions by literati became increasingly vivid.

If before this the official story was that Fang Xiaoru died while serving as an envoy, this changed completely in the late Ming Dynasty. Literati and scholars began to directly regard the extermination of the ten clans as a true fact, and used it to discuss and express their feelings in poems.

Even during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, the matter of the ten clans appeared in official documents of the imperial court. Perhaps this was because unofficial history became true after being talked about so many times. In any case, the fact that Fang Xiaoru's ten clans were exterminated became a consensus in the late Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor himself believed it without a doubt.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, a masterpiece commemorating Fang Xiaoru appeared, "Chronicle of Mr. Fang Zhengxue", created by two Donglin people, Lu Yan and Weng Mingying.

The literati in the late Ming Dynasty disliked Zhu Di and scolded him for being mean, saying that Fang Xiaoru was a loyal and righteous man.

So how do you see this matter? It's different for everyone. Anyway, I tend to believe that there was no extermination of the ten clans. Zhu Di may have killed many of Jianwen's old ministers after entering Nanjing, which is why there are rumors that Zhu Di was murderous by nature and exterminated the ten clans. 】