In the last year of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, and the Chongzhen Emperor Hanged himself on coal mountain, which is known in history as the change of Jiashen, but the later generations had: "The death of Ming is actually the death of Shenzong." "First, tracing back to the source, the general chaos in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was actually related to a "one-night stand" in the youth of The Ming Dynasty, causing a dispute over the foundation of the country, so the Shenzong neglected the government and refused to go to the dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty began to fall from then on.
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Ming Shenzong, also known as the Wanli Emperor, reigned for 48 years, making him the longest reigning emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty. In the 9th year of the Wanli Calendar, the 19-year-old Shenzong went to the Cining Palace to ask for peace from his birth mother Empress Li, but at a glance he took a fancy to the palace maid Wang clan in Empress Li's palace, and the young and vigorous Shenzong took advantage of the fact that the empress dowager was not paying attention to the Wang clan, but Shenzong indulged one night but was quite regretful and humiliated, thinking that he was a son of heaven, but privately he was with the palace women, so he did not mention this matter.
But according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty palace, there must be a reward after the favor, and the clerk in the clerical room must record the time and reward, Shenzong originally thought that after the Wang clan received the reward, this one-night stand was unknown, did not expect that the Wang clan was pregnant, even if the Shenzong did not want to admit it, but the empress dowager put pressure on the emperor, and the Shenzong could only crown the Wang clan as a concubine in the 10th year of the Wanli Calendar.
Four months after Wang was crowned concubine, he gave birth to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, but Shenzong did not like the mother and son, and then met his favorite woman in this life, Zheng Guifei, in the 14th year of the Wanli Calendar, Zheng Guifei gave birth to the emperor's third son Zhu Changxun, and Shenzong also rewarded 150,000 silver, quite fond of Zheng Guifei's mother and son, which also triggered a dispute over the country.
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the candidate for the crown prince is to establish a concubine first, and if there is no concubine, he is considering the eldest son, but Emperor Shenzong favors the third son of the emperor, Zhu Changxun, and many ministers have written to ask Emperor Shenzong to establish the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Changluo as the crown prince in accordance with the ancestral system, and Emperor Shenzong has tried everything to resign, the dispute over the foundation of the country has lasted for 15 years, and the relationship between the monarchs and ministers has also deteriorated, and Shenzong refused to go to the dynasty, and even more on the grounds of illness, but asking about the government of the ming dynasty led to the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's political affairs, and the Ming Dynasty also declined since then.