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Chapter 2134 Pearl Jade White Jade Soup [Free]

[Two interesting historical stories, which are a little abrupt and out of place to insert, but I wanted to write them anyway, so I just gave them to you for free! ]

Liu Xu has now created the formation of the Ten Great Saints, which looks really awesome, but the consumption is very painful. Liu Xu can only maintain this state for no more than three days. After three days, Liu Xu will even face the risk of exhausting the world's power.

"We can't expect any climax in the Ming Dynasty for the time being!" Liu Xu rubbed his temple. "The Sun and the Moon Are Bright" was quite outrageous. The fake Liu Xu probably wanted to focus on describing the society at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, the alms-begging era of Zhu Yuanzhang, which was rarely mentioned in various dramas and novels, became the focus of the description of this period.

In a classic TV series, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have become a monk when he was only 15 or years old. But in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents died when he was . He had been fleeing from famine for two years. He met the landlord Liu family who needed someone to fulfill a vow and become a monk in Huangjue Temple. In order to have a meal, Zhu Yuanzhang went there.

In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang actually became a monk at the age of 17, which made him an adult at that time.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang had only stayed in Huangjue Temple for a month before the dignified temple ran out of food. The tens of thousands of acres of land in the temple could not produce enough food for the monks. The abbot had no choice but to send all the monks out to wander around and beg for alms for a living. So Zhu Yuanzhang, who had only shaved his head and did not even know the Buddhist scriptures well, began his life as a wandering monk.

This trip lasted for three full years. After three years, when the drought was a little over, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Huangjue Temple to continue being a monk. He did not go to Guo Zixing until he was 24 years old.

So there was a full seven years during this period which was a complete blank period in history books. No history book recorded what Zhu Yuanzhang did during these seven years. It was only roughly confirmed that Zhu Yuanzhang wandered back and forth between Anhui and Hubei.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself never mentioned anything about these seven years, and later generations can only speculate what happened during these seven years through many legends and details.

The most famous of these is probably the Pearl Jade White Jade Soup. This is one of the few stories that Zhu Yuanzhang himself told about what happened during these seven years. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he didn't think much of the many delicacies in the world, but he always praised a dish called Pearl Jade White Jade Soup, and he could not help but reminiscing about it every time he thought of it.

Many chefs were invited, and many precious ingredients were used, but none of them could make this Pearl Jade White Jade Soup. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang's abbot of Huangjue Temple came to visit him, Zhu Yuanzhang told this story again. So the abbot used small pieces of tofu, a handful of rice, a few spinach, and finally a fish bone to cook a bowl of soup. After drinking it, Zhu Yuanzhang praised it and said that this was the Pearl Jade White Jade Soup of that year.

This is actually just a bowl of tofu and fish soup, nothing special, nor is it a delicacy. Many people usually disdain to eat it. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't forget it was that when Zhu Yuanzhang was begging for alms, he didn't get any food for several days in a row and was about to starve to death. Until he met a kind old woman, she used the few remaining ingredients in her home to make a bowl of soup and fed it to Zhu Yuanzhang. After drinking it, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was extremely hungry at the time, thought it was the most delicious food in the world.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely hungry at the time. Even if he was given a bowl of pig food, it would have been the most delicious thing in the world. This shows how miserable Zhu Yuanzhang's life was during these seven years.

There is also Zhu Yuanzhang’s concubine Guo Ning.

When talking about Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, everyone will think of Empress Ma first, but many people don't know which concubines there were after Empress Ma, and think that Zhu Yuanzhang probably only loved Empress Ma in his life. But this is not the case. After Empress Ma died, although Zhu Yuanzhang never appointed another empress, there was a concubine who had the power that only the empress had. With the support of Zhu Yuanzhang, she controlled the harem, allowing Zhu Yuanzhang's harem to continue to maintain stability. Zhu Yuanzhang himself also trusted her very much and called her the second Empress Ma, which shows the status of this concubine.

This concubine is Concubine Guo Ning.

The reason why Concubine Guo Ning was able to hold the second status to Empress Ma was that she, like Empress Ma, was a concubine who had followed Zhu Yuanzhang before he became successful, and could be considered Zhu Yuanzhang's lifelong wife.

The origin of Concubine Guo Ning is quite legendary, and is actually quite similar to Empress Lu in history, because she was forced upon Zhu Yuanzhang by her own father.

There is no record in history books about Concubine Guo Ning's life before that, but in the epitaph of Concubine Guo Ning's father, Guo Shanfu, there is a very magical record.

It is said that Guo Shanfu was also a local tycoon. He was kind and generous and did not like to fight. He only liked fortune-telling and had a deep study of the Book of Changes.

When his daughter was born, Guo Shanfu had his daughter's fortune told, and then he told everyone that his daughter was extremely noble and had the destiny to be a royal concubine. However, people at that time thought it was a joke because according to the rules of the Yuan Dynasty, Han women were not allowed to enter the harem as concubines. Only Mongolian women were qualified to enter the harem as concubines.

Even if they were recruited, they could only be palace maids, not concubines, not even female officials. But the amazing thing is that although Han women were not allowed to enter the palace, Goryeo women were able to enter the harem normally, and many were given various titles of imperial concubines. In the later period, there was even a Queen Ki, who was regarded as a treasure by Koreans in later generations. Several different TV series were filmed to praise this great Chinese queen who was said to be beautiful and virtuous.

As for why such a virtuous Empress Ki finally fled the Central Plains with Emperor Shun of Yuan, ran back to the grasslands to become a Tartar, and became the last empress of the Yuan Dynasty, we don't know, but it's right to brag about it anyway.

To get back to the point, there is no record of any Han concubine in the entire history of the Yuan Dynasty, so everyone at the time thought that Guo Shanfu's words were nonsense, and Guo Shanfu himself also thought it was outrageous.

Until one day he told his fortune again, and then ordered his son to open the door immediately and bring the first outsider in to see him.

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Although the son was puzzled, he still did as he was told. Soon a dusty and ragged monk came to beg for alms, and was then brought into the house by the son as he had ordered.

When Guo Shanfu saw that it was a monk, he was also very surprised, because according to his fortune-telling results, the person who came should be the future true dragon emperor. So Guo Shanfu asked someone to bring a table of vegetarian dishes to entertain the monk, and he personally accompanied the table and began to chat with the monk intentionally or unintentionally during the meal.

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