Tang Bohu, a great talent of the Ming Dynasty, was extremely intelligent since childhood, and he was uninhibited, and the Suzhou government examination took the first place in the examination, and the Tianfu Township Examination took the first place in the examination, and the future was bright. But he did not want to be happy and sad, and two misfortunes led to the hopeless career of Tang Dacaizi, the family was fragmented, and finally the decadent life was completed.
01. Involved in a case of scientific examination fraud, he was deprived of the qualification for the examination
In 1485, the 15-year-old Tang Bohu achieved the first place in the Suzhou Student Examination and became a young talent. Twelve years later, in 1497, Tang Bohu won the first place in the Ying Tianfu Township Examination, which caused a sensation in Jiangnan. Tang Bohu was full of spirits and promised that he would be connected to the Three Yuans, Guangzong Yaozong. However, he did not expect that there was a landing show to report cheating in the Tang Bohu Township test, and after the investigation of the imperial court was partially true, he disqualified him from participating in the examination, sent him to charge the army, and went to Zhejiang to become a petty official with no grade.
How did Tang Bohu get involved in the township test fraud case? There is a detailed record in the Records of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming. Jiangnan's sons Tang Yin (i.e., Tang Bohu) and Xu Jing went to Ying Tianfu to take the exam, privately asked to see the chief examiners Li Dongyang and Cheng Minzheng, and asked the two examiners to write inscriptions for their deceased relatives with heavy money. Cheng Minzheng did not know that the tendon was wrong, and wrote the township examination questions to Tang Yin and Xu Jing. These two are lords who love to show off, and they publicize this matter everywhere. As soon as the results of the test came out, the two of them answered correctly, and even the famous Mr. Wang Yangming answered incorrectly. Tang Yin took the first place, and Xu Jing also won the examination. The candidates who fell off the list were upset, reported upwards, and stabbed the matter to Ming Xiaozong. After investigation, it was confirmed that Cheng Minzheng leaked the examination questions to be true, and he was dismissed from his post and dismissed as a commoner. Tang Yin and Xu Jing ate in the zhenfusi zhao prison for nearly a year and were sentenced to exile and army.
02, get on the thief ship of king Ning, and cut off his career
Tang Bohu, who was full of talent, was disqualified from the scientific expedition because he was involved in the scientific expedition fraud case, lost the basic conditions for becoming an official, and the whole person was very decadent, and even gave up his wife for this reason.
In 1514, Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, sent people with heavy money to hire Tang Bohu as an official. Tang Bohu, who had dreamed of becoming an official all his life, thought that pie fell from the sky, and the fart went upside down. A few days after arriving in Nanchang, King Ning held a "rebellion" meeting, and Tang Bohu learned that this old boy of King Ning was looking for himself to reserve talents for rebellion, and his intestines were remorseful. It was easy to get on the thief ship, but it was difficult to get off the thief ship, and Tang Bohu thought about how to escape the clutches of king Ning all day, thinking about it almost got a nervous disease. I don't know who Tang Dacaizi was inspired by, but suddenly he was "crazy", jumping up and down in the Ning King's Mansion with his bare ass, and losing all of Ning Wang's old face. King Ning, in a fit of rage, drove Tang Madman out of the palace, and Tang Bohu broke away from King Ning's thief ship. After experiencing this incident, Tang Bohu was notorious, and there was no hope of becoming an official.
After Tang Bohu returned to his hometown, he relied on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to pass his life. Fortunately, his painting skills are skilled, and the dignitaries and nobles all hold heavy gold to buy, but they also live a worry-free life. He died in 1524 at the age of 54.
Text/Wang Guodong, Editor/Xuanyi, picture from the internet