Emperor Mingmuzong was the third of Emperor Sejong's eight sons.
Muzong Zhu Zaiyuan seated statue
Sejong's eldest son, Zhu Zaiji, was born to Concubine Yan Guifei and was born for two months before falling ill and dying. The second son, Zhu Zaiyuan, was born to Princess Wang Guifei, who was born in jiajing for five years and was made crown prince in the eighteenth year of Jiajing. In the twenty-eighth year of Xijing, he also fell ill and died.
Muzong was born in the sixteenth year of Jiajing (1537), and his mother was Princess Du Kang. He and Sejong's fourth son, Princess Lu Jingfei, were both crowned kings on the same day when He was made crown prince. He was given the title of King of Yu and Zaizhen the Prince of Jing. Sejong's four sons all died less than a year after birth.
Sejong listened to the Daoist priests and thought that he had killed Kezi, so after the death of the prince, he not only delayed the appointment of the crown prince, but also did not meet with Muzong (Yu Wang) and King Jing, and asked them to move out of the palace and live in the Yu Wangfu and the Jingwang Mansion respectively. Muzong was relatively generous, but King Jing was ambitious, and between words he hoped that Yue Ci would be made crown prince. Sejong received information and ordered King Jing to leave the capital and move to the so-called "fiefdom" of De'an, Hubei Province, in the 40th year of Jiajing. Four years later, King Jing died of illness in De'an. However, Sejong still refused to make Muzong crown prince.
Muzong Zhu Zaiyuan stills
By the time of Emperor Sejong's own death in the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), muzong was the only surviving son left. Therefore, the ministers adhered to the "testament" and established Muzong. At this time, Muzong was thirty years old.
Muzong was a sage, but unfortunately he died shortly after his death in the sixth year of Longqing (1572).
When he ascended the throne, the cabinet's university scholars were Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Guo Pu, and Gao Gong, all of whom were upright people. Li Chunfang is a native of Xinghua County, Yangzhou Province, Jiajing twenty-six years of the champion, peaceful temperament, integrity and clean, he tried his best to break between Xu Steps, high arch, no effect, in Longqing five years resigned home, treat Tai parents, enjoy the joy of heaven. Guo Pu was a native of Anyang, a jinshi of Jiajing for fourteen years, and a scholar of the Xuanshu Jishi "Hanlin", a servant of the official ceremonial department and a shangshu of the official department, who was loyal and loyal, and was introduced into the cabinet by Xu Jie, and was emotionally close to Gao Gong. Gao Gong and Xu Jie could not get along, he was caught in the whirlpool, but he could see the opportunity, and resigned in September of the first year of Longqing to return home, and spent more than twenty years at home before dying.
Xu Jie Portrait
High arch stills
Gao Gong was a Xinzheng person, a Zhongjin soldier, and a Xuanshu Jishi, six years later than Guo Pu: he entered the cabinet at the same time as Guo Pu, and was also recommended by Xu Jie. He was loyal to the country but insufficiently measured, and could not always cooperate with Xu Jie. Xu Jie wrote Sejong's will and testament, and without consulting him, he held a grudge. He was impeached by Hu Yingjia, a fellow villager and official of Xu Jie, who was in the middle of the affair, for a trivial matter, and thought that Hu Yingjia was instructed by Xu Jie, and in anger, Hu Yingjia was demoted to the people. For this reason, more people impeached Gao Gong, and he had to hang up his crown in May of the first year of Longqing. Two years and seven months later, he was recalled to the cabinet and concurrently served as a court official, and in June of the sixth year of Longqing, when Muzong died, he was deposed and returned home by Shenzong's mother-in-law and birth mother because he and Zhang Juzheng could not coordinate, and he died of depression.