Song Lian once had a drink with a guest, and the emperor secretly (secretly) sent a detective to inspect it. The next day, the emperor asked Song Lian if he had drunk yesterday. Who is the guest in the seat? What did you eat? Song Lian answered all the facts. The emperor smiled and said, "Indeed, you didn't cheat me." The emperor secretly summoned (Song Lian) to ask about the quality of ministers, and Song Lian only mentioned those good ministers. When the emperor asked him why, Song Lian replied: "I only make friends with good ministers, so I know them;"
Those bad ones (I don't associate with them, so) don't know them. " At this time, Master Ru Taisu wrote more than 1, words on the throne. The emperor was furious and asked the courtiers in the DPRK. Someone pointed to Ru Taisu's memorial and said, "There is disrespect here, and the criticism here is illegal." (The emperor) asked Song Lian and replied, "He is only loyal to your majesty. Your majesty is talking openly, and there is no crime to be blamed." Soon the emperor read Ru Taisu's memorial and found something worth adopting. He called all the courtiers to reprimand him, so he called Song Lian's words and said, "(If) there is no Jing Lian, (I) will wrongly blame the person who advised me."
Original text:
Song Lian tasted and drank with the guests, and the emperor sent people to spy on him. The next day, I asked Lian if he had drunk yesterday. Who is the guest? What is it? It's true to be true. Laughing, he said, "It's true that you don't bully me." I sometimes ask the ministers whether they are good or not, but only those who are good. The emperor asked him why, and said to him, "I know the good man and his friends;" Those who are not good can't know. "
Master Ru Taisu wrote more than ten thousand words. The emperor was angry and asked the courtiers. Or referring to his book, "This is disrespectful and this slander is illegal." When asked, he said, "He is loyal to your majesty's ear, and your majesty will speak out. Evil can be a deep sin." Now that the emperor has read his books, he has enough readers. Knowing that the courtiers were called to reprimand him, he shouted, "It's a small scene, and it's a few mistakes. "
This article comes from the expanded materials of Zhang Tingyu's Ming History Song Lianchuan in Qing Dynasty
Writing background:
Song Lianchuan is an article describing Song Lian's life, and Song Lian (131-1381) was named Jing Lian,No. Qian Xi, alias Xuanzhenzi, Xuanzhen Taoist and Xuanzhen Dun. Han nationality, a native of Pujiang, was a writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. He was once praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, and scholars called him Taishigong. Song Lian, Gao Qi and Liu Ji are also called "the three great poets in the early Ming Dynasty".
The History of the Ming Dynasty is the last of the 24 histories, with 332 volumes, including 24 volumes of biographies, 75 volumes of chronicles, 22 volumes of biographies and 13 volumes of tables. It is a biographical chronology, which records the history of 276 years from the first year of Hongwu (AD 1368) of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of Ming Dynasty, to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian (AD 1644).
in the fourth year of Kangxi (1665), he emphasized the enlightened history museum, but stopped because of compiling A Record of the Qing Ancestor. In the eighteenth year of Kangxi (1679), with Xu Yuanwen as the supervisor, he began to compile the Ming history. In the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), it was finalized and submitted for publication. The History of Ming Dynasty is the longest one among the official history books in Chinese history. From the opening of the Ming History Museum in the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1645) to the official presentation to the emperor in the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), it lasted for 94 years. If from the 18th year of Kangxi (1679) when the official organization team was compiled to the submission, it would be 6 years.
On the other hand, the lack of historical materials and manpower is the reason for the lack of achievements in the first stage of compiling Ming History. At that time, there was not only no power to sort out the official records and files of the Ming Dynasty, but also few people offered books when soliciting books. Even the most basic historical materials, the records of the Ming Dynasty, were incomplete. The records of the Apocalypse Dynasty lacked parts after seven years, and the Chongzhen Dynasty had no records because of national subjugation. All these have also limited the progress of the compilation of Ming History.