HLnovel Chapter 265 The Man Whose Clan Was Exterminated
Chapter 265 The Man Whose Clan Was Exterminated
"In the early Ming Dynasty, because their ruler Zhu Yuanzhang was a voracious reader, officials during the Hongwu era only had about eighteen days of vacation per year."
"He abolished all the miscellaneous days of the Tang or Song dynasties, retaining only New Year's Day, the Winter Solstice, and the Lantern Festival, which are the 5th, 3rd, and 10th days respectively."
"However, after Zhu Yuanzhang died, Ming Dynasty officials began to suggest increasing the number of days off. Fortunately, they succeeded and managed to increase the number of holidays from a dozen days a year to several dozen days!"
The optimist Su Dongpo: How tragic!
A Song Dynasty official: Isn't this terrifying?!
"Their days off were usually determined by their official rank, with different days off granted for each rank. For example, a junior official would have one day off every five days."
"There are also family visit leave and personal leave, which are granted in a number of days based on the travel time, usually one to two months."
"As for sick leave, Old Zhu stipulated that it was not allowed to take sick leave casually, especially resigning due to illness—don't even think about it! If you were to ask which dynasty's officials had the hardest time getting by, it would probably be the Hongwu era!"
Zhu Yuanzhang: Want a holiday? Dream on! Get back to work!
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han
Hearing this, the civil and military officials felt a strange sense of agreement and almost nodded in agreement with Miss Lin's words!
However, their emperor is not the kind of emperor who can be satisfied with just a slight increase in salary; one day he might be unhappy and could just die!
I never expected that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was such a hot-tempered ruler!
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"Next, let's talk about something related to Judy. As everyone knows, Zhu Yuanzhang loved his eldest son Zhu Biao the most. After Zhu Biao passed away, he wanted to pass the throne to his eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen."
"He probably didn't expect that this grandson would immediately start to weaken the power of the princes after taking power. Princes such as the Prince of Zhou, the Prince of Dai, the Prince of Qi, and the Prince of Xiang were either demoted to commoners or died."
"When it came to Judy, I don't know what Zhu Yunwen was thinking. He started by weakening the weaker ones. Maybe he's playing a new game of stirring up trouble!"
Zhu Bajie of the Ming Dynasty: ...
Crown Prince Zhu Biao of the Ming Dynasty: ...
"So Judy quickly realized that Zhu Yunwen had ill intentions and immediately became wary. In order to buy some time, the first thing he did was to pretend to be crazy."
"He's not just faking madness; it's said he once ate pig manure in a pigsty. Who could tolerate that?!"
Big-Handed Liu Zhuzhu: Is this for real?! He actually pretended to eat pig poop! He's ruthless!
General Judy, the Northern Expeditionary Army: !!! This is a rumor! Who the hell spread this?! ...? %! ...
First Emperor: ...Unbelievable, Judy would endure to this extent!!?
Li Erfeng of the Tang Dynasty: Pfft! How tragic!
A scion of a prominent family in the Song Dynasty: It's both hilarious and tragic!
Judy, the Grand General of the Northern Expedition (furious): Upstairs! Didn't you hear what I said?! I never did such a thing! This is slander!
Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty
Zhu Di was almost furious. He had seen people say that he ate pig excrement before. He swore that he had indeed pretended to be crazy back then, but there was absolutely no truth to the story about him eating pig excrement. Who the hell spread the rumor that he ate pig excrement?!
Zhu Di took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, but when he looked at his three brothers who were trying not to laugh, a surge of anger rushed to his head!
In particular, Zhu Gaoxu added a sarcastic remark: "Whether you ate it or not, everyone knows you did!"
Zhu Di was so angry that he didn't want to say anything. He immediately grabbed the tools at hand and started beating the three Zhu brothers!
Zhu Gaochi & Zhu Gaosui: Wait! What does this have to do with us!
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Back to the live broadcast room.
"However, there are many accounts of Judy being forced to feign madness to lower Zhu Yunwen's guard."
"But overall, there are records of him running around frantically or making a scene to snatch food, but there is really no record of him squatting in the pigsty to eat pig manure."
"So this matter might just be a rumor, a piece of gossip. But besides this rumor, Judy has other gossip, such as his extermination of ten clans."
"Fang Xiaoru, a man whose ten clans were exterminated, there are several versions of why he was purged by Zhu Di. The general version is that when Zhu Di captured Nanjing, he asked Fang Xiaoru to draft an edict in order to legitimize his imperial throne."
"But this guy refused to do it, thinking that I was a rebel leader, and it is said that he eventually cursed Judy as a traitor."
Judy: Okay! I'll remember you! Nine generations of your family will be warned!
"Just like that, Fang Xiaoru, who was not afraid of trouble, angered Judy. He originally threatened him with the threat of nine generations of relatives, but unexpectedly, this guy said that if he had the ability, he could exterminate ten generations of his relatives. Just like that, Fang Xiaoru happily got the ten generations of relatives to eliminate."
Ten clans: Having you is our blessing!
"However, it is hard to say whether this is a rumor or not. There is still controversy about it today. However, neither the History of Ming nor the Siku Quanshu compiled in the Qing Dynasty specifically stated that Fang Xiaoru was executed along with his entire clan of ten."
A spoiled young man from the Song Dynasty: Is this melon authentic?
A skilled farmer in the Tang Dynasty: But his father is quite cruel! It's hard to say!
Judy, the Grand General Who Conquers the North: ...