The Ming Dynasty was the last Han Dynasty in the history of our country. And thanks to the "no Han foreign relatives, Tang Zhi Fan Town, Song Zhi Nian Coin, Tianzi Shou Guomen, King Death Sheji" The Ming Dynasty has also been highly respected, but as a dynasty of the 276 years of the State Left, among the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there are many "strange things", that is, there are "Grasshopper Emperor" Zhu Zhanji, there are "Carpenter Emperor" Zhu Youxiao, "January Heavenly Son" Zhu Changluo, of course, there are also our "great general" Zhu Shou, that is, Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao.
Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao, as the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, can be said to be polarized in his evaluation. The crowd said he was brave and decisive. During his reign, there was both the murder of Liu Jin, the rebellion of The King of Anhua and the rebellion of the King of Ning, and the merit of defeating the little prince of The Mongols, and the temple title of a Wuzong was well deserved; but opponents said that the king was absurd and grotesque during his reign, and immersed himself in the leopard room.
The cause of his death is even more ambiguous. In the "History of Ming", it is recorded that on his way back from the rebellion of King Ning again, because of fishing and falling into the water, the water eventually choked into the lungs, resulting in a deteriorating physical condition, Zhengde sixteen years, at the age of 31, became a pneumonia and drove to the west.
But as an emperor, even if he is greedy, will he not be protected? What's more, zhu Houzhao's fall into the water was not once, but twice, and the doctor was not replaced, which inevitably made people point the spearhead directly at the absolute power above the court at that time- the civilian official clique.
As an indispensable part of the ruling class of successive dynasties, the civilian official clique has always occupied an important position, but it can be said to have an unprecedented position in the Ming Dynasty. The rise of this status not only had Zhu Yuanzhang abolish the system of ministers and the implementation of the system of officials, Zhu Di established a cabinet, Zhu Zhanji gave the cabinet a high-ranking position headed by Sanyang, the rise of the cabinet, and the loss of Zhu Qizhen's military general Xungui clique in the tumubao revolution, which also caused the so-called moral commanding heights of the civilian officials to have a strong coercive role in imperial power, and also posed a great threat to imperial power.
So what was the cause of death of Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao? Is it related to the conspiracy theories of the civilian clique?
In the impression of many of us, Ming Wuzong liked to fight, and many of them had the act of wearing a strong and sharp deed, which seemed to take for granted that Ming Wuzong was a strong person at that time. However, in many texts such as the Ming Shilu, there are accurate records of the body of Ming Wuzong. In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, Liu Jian, a cabinet scholar, mentioned in his recital that "since this winter, because of the medicine in the Eastern Palace..." After ascending the throne, there was also the "Zhengde second year of the first month, Shang bu yu, the order to temporarily quit the dynasty" Even Zhu Houzhao's imperial physician has many records of Zhu Houzhao's mouth and nose bleeding, sore throat, and the well-known wounded by a tiger. Moreover, this kind of record has emerged in an endless stream as Zhu Houzhao has been in power, and it should be known that this is still Zhu Houzhao in his prime.
For Zhu Houzhao in the fifteenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao fell south into the water, and in the records of Lu Zhi of the Tai Hospital, there were even such "great disrespect" words as "Yu Law is not ruled, I wish to appoint the crown prince, and An Guoben", which is enough to see that Zhu Houzhao is seriously ill.
This disease has also become more and more uncontrollable with the progress of time. Moreover, from the records, we can see that in order to cover up his illness, Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao repeatedly overdrafted, including presiding over the sacrifice ceremony and sacrificing the heavens to work on his body and empty his body.
As the focus of everyone's investigation, it is undoubtedly Zhu Houzhao's favorite minister Yang Ting and the move to prevent Zhu Houzhao from replacing the imperial doctor. In the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao was faced with the illness of Shen Ke and had the intention of visiting those who were proficient in medicine, but Yang Tinghe had the saying that "the national medicine is exhausted". But in fact, as a systematic process of entrusting orphans (of course, Zhu Houzhao did not have children), Zhu Houzhao did not only have the desire to survive before his death, but also the personnel transfer of Shangshu's position, the Bingbu Shangshu Wang Qiongjin as the official Shangshu, and the matter of the sacrifice to Yang Tinghe about the suburbs of Beijing, and it can be clear that the sacrifice of the suburbs of Beijing occurred after Yang Tinghe prevented the change of doctors, which obviously shows that Zhu Houzhao did not pay attention to Yang Ting and the so-called obstruction of the change of doctors, not so much as wanting to change doctors. It is better to say that Zhu Houzhao entrusted himself with major events through such a sentence and told himself that time was running out.
Yang Tinghe was not at all surprised by Zhu Houzhao's death, and immediately supported Zhu Houxi, the son of King Xing, to the throne. Although he had not studied the art of emperorhood, he was more radical than his cousin Zhu Houzhao, and his treatment of the civilian official clique was more radical.
Not only was there a dispute over great etiquette, but also a belief in Taoism after facing the accusations of the civilian bureaucracy, ignoring the government and avoiding the government, of course, his results were no different from Zhu Houzhao's, or he ended up with a failed ending. This kind of ending also made future generations have no good feelings for the civil official clique of the Ming Dynasty, and the cause of Zhu Houzhao's death was naturally pushed forward with "malice".