Gao Wuzhen is now quite allergic to the word "princess", and he doesn't want to have anything to do with these two words at all, and he doesn't want to have any relationship with them.
In his opinion, the incident of the little princess writing a love poem the year before last was nothing more than the fact that the little girl had never met a man before, and suddenly saw a man whom everyone praised, and she subconsciously had a liking for her. In fact, this kind of hazy feeling It can't be called love at all, it might as well be regarded as an adolescent impulse.
Besides, to say the least, even if it’s true love, what’s the use? She is a princess, and she is determined to be the prime minister. The political system and structure of the Ming Dynasty will never tolerate the emergence of a consort.
What's more, the princess may be interested in him, but he has no such interest in the little girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old the year before last. Even now, since he hasn't seen her for more than two years, the image of Zhu Yaonao in his mind is still that half-grown girl who looks gentle, quiet, and harmless to humans and animals.
If there is any outstanding impression, it is that this little girl talks very little.
Other than that, I really can't remember much.
Zhu Yijun was also a little embarrassed. He didn't even know what to say and walked ahead with a stinking look on his face.
Gao Pragmatic walked behind him with a look of despair. After a while, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with Zhu Yijun's movements. He looked at it carefully and suddenly asked: "Your Majesty... have you been feeling unwell lately?"
Zhu Yijun suddenly stopped in front, turned his head, and asked: "What?"
Gao pragmatic looked at his right leg and asked, "For example, leg or foot disease?"
Zhu Yijun's face changed slightly, and he finally sighed: "That's not to mention, but when the weather changes, whether it turns from rainy to sunny, or sunny to rainy, my legs will hurt or even cramp, and my toes will sometimes... Swelling...I often wake up in pain in the middle of the night."
Gao Pragmatic was shocked. He remembered that there was a saying in later generations that the bones of Emperor Wanli showed that he had severe leg disease, so the corpse was in the coffin with its left leg straight and its right leg curled.
Gao Pragmatic also believed this statement in his previous life, but he soon learned after time travel that there was a serious problem with this statement - this posture was made after death, and it was called "Seven Star Burial".
The rules of this funeral should be that the head should face west and the feet should face east. The whole body should be lying on its back, but the position of the limbs is very distinctive.
The head is turned upward; the right arm is bent upward, and the right hand is placed next to the face, supporting one's cheek; the left arm is bent downward, and the left hand is placed on one's lower abdomen. If you believe in Buddhism, you can also hold a string of rosary beads in your hand. If you believe, you can take a whisk.
The two legs are also different. The left leg is straightened normally, but the right leg is bent outward, with both feet facing outward.
This regulation is the "seven-star burial", that is, the whole person is in the shape of the Big Dipper. The Wanli bones unearthed from Dingling in later generations basically follow this regulation.
In fact, the two empresses who were buried together in Dingling at that time, Empress Xiaojing and Empress Xiaoduan, were not buried in the usual way of lying on their backs. Empress Xiaojing is similar to Emperor Wanli, with her lower limbs bent, her left arm bent and drooping, her hands on her waist, and her right arm bent upwards, with her hands beside her head. Queen Xiaoduan's left arm is the same as that of Queen Xiaojing, but her right arm is vertically downward, with her two feet folded together.
But why is it different?
Logically speaking, the burial postures of these three people should be the same. It may be that the bumps in the transportation process after the corpses were placed in the coffins led to the final difference in postures.
Because according to records, on the way from the Forbidden City to Dingling, the journey was relatively long. The rope carrying the coffin broke several times, and a corner of the coffin fell to the ground, causing bumps. In this way, the difference in posture was not enough. Why.
From a purely regulatory perspective, Queen Xiaojing's posture should be the original posture, because as a whole, her entire body looks like the shape of the Big Dipper in the sky.
Why did the emperors and empresses of the Ming Dynasty have such a funeral posture?
For later generations, the Big Dipper is nothing more than the most common constellation in the sky in the northern hemisphere. The handle of the dipper points to the North Star, which is very common. When adults teach children to recognize the stars in the sky, they often start with the Big Dipper.
But in fact, the Big Dipper has always been valued by Chinese people in ancient times. Many ancient Chinese Feng Shui and celestial phenomena are closely related to the Big Dipper. Even each star is given a name. The stars are Tianshu and Tianxuan. , Tianji, Tianquan, the handle of the bucket is Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Fluctuating Light. The position and movement of several stars have very important symbolic meanings for the ancients.
More importantly, the Big Dipper has also been given political significance. The ancients believed that the emperor's residence was facing the Ziwei star in the sky - this is why the imperial palaces in the Ming and Qing dynasties were called the "Forbidden City", and the Big Dipper belonged to the Ziwei star in the star theory. They are the heavenly counterparts of the human emperors. They live near the Big Dipper in the sky.
In this case, the emperor and the emperor should be buried in the shape of the Big Dipper. This would make it easier for them to walk to the horizon of the Pole Star and provide a more convenient passage for the emperor to go to the sky after death.
However, this emphasis seems to have only started in the Ming Dynasty. Although no underground palace was excavated in the Xiaoling Mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, judging from the above-ground buildings, it is not straight and symmetrical like ordinary cemeteries, but crooked and not in a straight line.
On the one hand, this is to comply with the topography of Meihua Mountain and adapt to local conditions, but more importantly, the cemetery shrine is also shaped like the Big Dipper, which is the only one among the imperial tombs in China.
Therefore, it can be seen from the Shinto of the Xiaoling Mausoleum that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, paid special attention to the shape of the Big Dipper and built his tomb into a curved shape. It is not enough for Wanli, as his descendant, to be buried in the style of the Big Dipper. Weird.
After listening to Zhu Yijun's words, Gao pragmatically suddenly remembered that when he returned to Beijing last year, Zhu Yijun had a suburban welcome. At that time, Gao pragmatically discovered that Zhu Yijun's right leg seemed to be a little weak, but at that time Gao pragmatically saw his walking movements. It was pretty normal, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.
But now it seems that he is really sick.
Gao Pragmatic became serious and asked: "Your Majesty, if you are ill, I have to hear about it. I wonder what the Imperial Hospital said?"
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand. They said it was 'Bi Syndrome', and also 'dampness and turbidity', 'the spleen fails to function well, and dampness and turbidity arises from within', and 'when dampness and turbidity flow in, the qi and blood will not flow smoothly'". , causing paralysis. A group of people talked about it for a long time, but I didn’t understand what was going on. Finally, I was so angry with the pain that I pounded the table and asked them, and they said that this is what emperors, generals and ministers have done since ancient times. There is no medicine or stone that can cure common diseases. I just advise you to drink less."
Gao pragmatic frowned when he heard that. He didn't understand the terms of traditional Chinese medicine very well, but judging from the symptoms of Zhu Yijun's disease, he knew what was going on!
It's simple: gout!
The word gout comes from the Latin Guta, which means joint damage caused by a drop of harmful liquid. The pain is like a gust of wind, coming and going quickly, hence the name gout. In ancient times, gout mostly affected emperors and generals, but with the improvement of living standards, gout has long since become a common disease in later generations.
In his previous life, his father, who was highly pragmatic, had this disease, and he had it when he was young. He often woke up in pain in the middle of the night. Gao Pragmatic remembers that when he was a child, he was woken up by his father turning on the light several times. He saw that his father's calves were so cramped that the flesh was almost invisible - all the cramps were near the knee joints.
Even when he was a child, he still remembered an embarrassing incident about his father. At his grandfather's house, his father suffered from gout cramps the night before and was walking with a limp the next day. A colleague of his grandfather quietly asked: "Your husband has trouble with his legs." ?”
This matter, until Gao Pangshi grew up, he often used it to make fun of his father.
It turns out that Zhu Yijun's so-called "foot disease" that was recorded in various history books was actually gout.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not surprising that Zhu Yijun suffers from gout. Although there is no way to completely cure gout until later generations, human beings' understanding and control of gout are much more advanced than in ancient times. There are at least the following factors, which are closely related to gout: obesity, alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, and high blood pressure. Blood sugar, purine.
Well, Zhu Yijun has perfectly accounted for all of the above...
The first four items can basically be detected visually, because Zhu Yijun has now begun to gain weight. Although it is not an exaggeration, being slightly fat is still fat, and he usually does not do much exercise. It is estimated that he may continue to gain weight in the future.
Needless to say, drinking alcohol, no one can even restrict him from this - in the Ming Dynasty, when he became a adult at the age of sixteen, he could drink alcohol.
As for food, there is no need to mention it. Gao pragmatism is Zhu Yijun's background. In addition to loving donkey intestines and pig intestines like his father Longqing, Zhu Yijun also experienced "frugal diet" in the market at the suggestion of civil servants - eating various kinds of food. Soybean products.
Wonderful, it’s all a high purine diet.
What the hell... If you don’t have gout, who has gout?
Now that he has figured out the cause, although Gao Pragmatic does not have the ability to treat this disease that cannot be cured even in later generations, he has a solution after all, and he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I do understand this disease."
Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide in surprise: "You still know medical skills? Why didn't I know?"
Gao pragmatic waved his hand and said: "It's not that he knows medical skills, but he happens to know what this disease is. When I was in Annan before, I had met a Buddhist missionary - Monk Fan. That monk knew some medical skills and had once met him. When I talked about this disease with my ministers, I told him that his country calls it 'gout'."
"Gout?" Zhu Yijun asked, "Is there any cure? Where is that monk?"
"Fan Monk is traveling everywhere, so it's hard to find people. However, he said that there is really no cure for this disease, but it can be improved by improving your daily diet, work and rest, which can greatly reduce the chance of the disease, and can also greatly alleviate the disease. The pain of the time.”
Zhu Yijun was a little disappointed when he heard that there was no cure, but when he heard that as long as he paid attention to his diet and daily routine, he could greatly improve it, he suddenly became interested again and asked: "What should I pay attention to?... Don't say anything about girls." I don’t believe in things like Chu Kui.”
Gao Pragmatic laughed loudly: "The emperor doesn't believe it, and neither do I. In fact, this method is quite simple. Eat less offal and soy products, and then maintain a certain amount of exercise to avoid being overweight."
