Chapter 909: Ordained by Heaven, that is, longevity and longevity(2/2)
"Very good, I hope you can remember it."
"I will pass you something else."
Zhu Yihai took out a brocade bag from his clothes and pulled it out under the curious eyes of the officials. It was a piece of jade.
Wen Anzhi, the first assistant, was very close and saw that it was a square jade seal with one corner inlaid with gold.
Gold inlaid with jade.
The jade seal passed down to the country.
On the other side, King Tang also thought of this almost subconsciously.
It has a radius of four inches and is connected by five dragons.
Zhu Yihai lifted up this gold-inlaid jade seal, with eight seal characters engraved on the front, shaped like a dragon, phoenix, and mullet.
"If you receive orders from Heaven, you will live a long and prosperous life!"
"I will pass this on as the imperial seal and pass it on to you."
Emperor Tai'an was even a little stunned when he looked at this imperial seal.
This traditional jade seal is so famous that it is said that the first emperor of Qin unified the world and made a special seal with the treasures and jade handed down from ancient times, and ordered the Prime Minister Li Si to receive the seal script from heaven and say that he will live forever and prosper.
Our imperial power is entrusted to heaven, and the destiny of our country will surely be prosperous forever.
In the past dynasties of China, the jade seal passed down to the country has a very symbolic meaning. It is not just the emperor's seal, but also represents the country and orthodoxy.
"Didn't the imperial seal of the Kingdom of China disappear long ago?"
"I've found it!"
According to legend, the first emperor of Qin was crossing Dongting Lake in a dragon boat. When the wind and waves suddenly rose, the dragon boat was about to capsize. The first emperor of Qin threw the jade seal into the lake and prayed to the gods to calm the waves. The seal was lost and could not be found.
Eight years later, someone presented this seal.
Later, Liu Bang conquered the army, and the prince of Qin knelt down holding the jade seal and offered it to the left side of Xianyang Road. Qin died. Liu Bang punished Xiang Ji, who was the emperor, and passed down the jade seal from generation to generation, which was called the Jade Seal of the Han Dynasty.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, a relative of the imperial family, usurped power and hid the seal in the Empress Dowager's place. Wang Mang came to retrieve it, but the Empress Dowager threw it away angrily. One corner of the seal was broken, but Wang Mang repaired it with gold, so it became gold inlaid with jade.
When Wang Mang was defeated and killed, Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan got the seal. Later, the Red Eyebrow Army killed Liu Xuan and established Liu Penzi. The seal changed hands to Liu Penzi. When Liu Penzi was defeated, the imperial seal was given to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, He entered the palace to kill the eunuchs. The eunuchs fled with the emperor, and the jade seal disappeared. Later, Sun Jian invaded Luoyang and obtained the seal, but was captured by Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu obtained the seal and proclaimed himself emperor, but died in defeat. The Jingzhou governor took the seal to Xuchang
, Cao Cao took the emperor to order the princes, and passed the national seal back to the Han Dynasty.
When Cao Pi founded the Wei Dynasty and usurped the Han Dynasty, he specially had someone inscribe on the shoulder of the jade seal passed down to the country, "The Great Wei received the seal passed down from the Han Dynasty" to prove that he was not a usurper.
Later, the Sima family usurped Wei Jianya and passed the imperial seal to Ya. Later Zhao Shile destroyed the former Zhao and seized the imperial seal. On the right side, he added the four characters "Shi Mingshi".
But only twenty years later, Ran Wei destroyed Zhao, and the imperial seal was passed to Ran Wei.
Ran Min, the king of Wu Dao, begged the Eastern Jin Dynasty for rescue with his jade seal, and the Jin army sent 300 elite cavalry back to Jiankang overnight.
The national seal was not considered orthodox and was called the White Banner. Forty-two years after the seal was obtained, it was called the orthodox Central Plains Dynasty.
After that, the imperial seal passed through the Southern Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty unified China, and the jade seal was also included in the Sui Palace.
Yang Guang was executed in Jiangdu, and Empress Xiao fled to the Mobei Turks with her seal. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan and Li Shimin, their father and son, had no national seal, so they had to carve several jade seals such as "Shou Ming Bao" and "Ding Ming Bao" to comfort themselves.
It was not until the fourth year of Zhenguan that Li Jing led his army to attack the Turks and sent Empress Xiao back to the Central Plains. The imperial seal was handed down to Li Tang.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were many heroes. Zhu Wen deposed the Tang emperor and seized the imperial seal to build the Later Liang Dynasty. Sixteen years later, Li Cunxu destroyed the Hou Liang Dynasty and seized the imperial seal to build the Later Tang Dynasty.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Congke and the Empress Dowager burned themselves in the Xuanwu Tower, and the imperial seal disappeared.
The emperor of the later Jin Dynasty made his own jade seal, which was ordered by the heaven to be virtuous and prosperous.
After that, the later Zhou Dynasty also made its own jade seals and two national treasures. In the imperial edict, Ling Feng Daoshu wrote treasure texts, one of which was written as "the treasure of the emperor who inherited the mandate from heaven", and the other was written as "the emperor's sacred treasure".
Zhao Kuangyin rebelled against Chen Qiao, wore a yellow robe, accepted Zen and proclaimed himself emperor, passed on these two treasures, and made "the treasure of the Song Dynasty". When Taizong, he also made "the treasure of inheriting the destiny of heaven".
The Song Dynasty's Renzong system "the emperor admired the national sacrificial treasure".
It was not until the time of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty that a farmer discovered the imperial seal and presented it to the imperial court while plowing the fields. After extensive research by thirteen academicians, they determined that it was the imperial seal made by the First Emperor.
In the first year of Jingkang, the Jin army defeated Bianliang, and the two emperors of Huiqin and Qin were plundered. The imperial seal of Chuan was snatched away by the Jin Kingdom and disappeared from sight.
After the collapse of Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial seals suddenly appeared in Dadu and were sold in the market. They were snapped up by Boyan, the Prime Minister of the Yuan Dynasty. Later, it was rumored that Boyan polished all the seals collected by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty from various countries and distributed them to princes and ministers to engrave for personal use.
Seal, there are rumors that the national jade seal also suffered accidents.
Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, and then went on the Northern Expedition. Xu Da entered Mobei and pursued him relentlessly. It is said that Taizu gave Xu Da an important task, which was to find the imperial seal, but he could not find it. Later, Li Wenzhong conquered Mobei twice and captured Yuan Yuanzhang.
The concubines and the kings obtained some jade seals from the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, but still could not find the jade seal passed down from the country.
During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, someone offered a jade seal to pass down the country, but it was proven to be fake and was not adopted.
When Huang Taiji destroyed the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan, his wife and children presented him with the Yuan Dynasty's national seal. However, Huang Taiji found someone to verify it, and found that it was not the Qin's national jade seal at all, but a mutton-fat jade seal given to the Huns when the Han Dynasty ordered Zhaojun to go out.
That's all, but Huang Taiji still announced to the outside world that he had obtained the imperial seal and officially changed the country's name to Qing.
The jade seal in Zhu Yihai's hand was not the fake one in Huang Taiji's hand. The jade seal was actually obtained by the prince after the Northern Expedition to eliminate the captives.
The piece in Zhu Yihai's hands was obtained during his tour of the West, and it is also very legendary.
In Mobei, a shepherd saw a sheep digging dirt with its hooves. After he dug it up, he found a crystal clear jade seal inlaid with gold buried underneath. He dedicated it to Waika of the Golden Family.
Erkha Tushetu Khan.
After Tuxie Tuhan got this jade seal, he did not recognize it as a real jade seal passed down from the country, and just kept it as an ordinary jade seal.
Later, he returned to the Ming Dynasty. Tuxie Tuhan sent his daughter to marry the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to cattle, sheep, horses, camels, etc., the dowry also included some jewelry, gold and silver, and this jade seal was among them.
When Zhu Yihai was in the Western Regions, he happened to see this jade seal in the tent of Saren, the daughter of Tushetu Khan, who regarded it as a paperweight for learning calligraphy.
At first, Zhu Yihai didn't quite believe that this was the Chuanguo Jade Seal, but then the more he looked at it, the more it looked like it. He asked many people to verify it, and finally confirmed that it was the Qin Chuanguo Jade Seal. Not only was the fish and bird seal characters correct, but it was also inlaid with gold and jade, especially the
The seal of the Great Wei Dynasty engraved by Cao Pi at that time and the seal of the Han Dynasty engraved by Later Zhao also have the words Tianming Shishi.
It took Zhu Yihai three years to confirm that this was the authentic jade seal of the Qin Dynasty.
Today, at the coronation ceremony of the new emperor, he also officially handed over this imperial seal of great significance to the new emperor.
The imperial jade seal that had been lost for more than three hundred years reappeared on such an occasion.
This is of great significance to the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty and to the new emperor who was enthroned by Zen. This is ten thousand times more auspicious than ordinary auspiciousness.
In the forty-two years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the national seal was not handed down, so it was called the Eastern Jin Dynasty with a blank slate. When Li Shimin came to the throne, the national seal was not handed down when he first came to the throne, and he was also called the "blank-ban emperor".
Zhu Yuanzhang has always wanted to find the imperial seal from the Yuan Dynasty, but unfortunately he has never been able to find it. It has been passed down by the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty for more than 280 years. This is a great regret.
But now, the new emperor Zhu Yihai has abdicated the throne and obtained the imperial seal of the state of Qin.
This is the true destiny of God, and the Ming Dynasty will surely live a long and prosperous life.
The entire Fengtian Palace was shaken like an explosion. Seeing the emperor solemnly delivering the gold-inlaid jade imperial seal to the new emperor, all the courtiers in the palace knelt down.
"Long live my emperor! Long live!"
The mountain shouts long live forever.
"The sun, moon, mountains and rivers will always be there, and the country of Ming Dynasty will always be there!" The new emperor held the imperial seal in both hands, his face flushed with excitement.
Chapter completed!