There is such an emperor in history, who trusted eunuchs all his life, was captured because of eunuchs, and ascended the throne because of eunuchs, who was blinded by eunuchs all his life but died unrepentant. He killed Zhongliang without remorse. Only on deathbed did a good thing. He is Zhu Qizhen. The eldest son of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty, he was the sixth and eighth emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the long-term absence of the Xuande Emperor, all Zhu Qizhen was made crown prince and future successor to the throne four months after birth. It can be said that he grew up with a golden key.
In 1435, Emperor Xuande, who had been emperor for only 10 years, died. Crown Prince Zhu Qizhen took the throne for the orthodox emperor, just imagine a nine-year-old child who knows a fart. So the nine-year-old became the ruler of the Empire overnight, and it seemed to me that the happiest person should be his closest confidant. Sure enough, Empress Zhang, who supported Zhu Qizhen's ascension to the throne, became the de facto ruler of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this Empress Zhang is not our Empress Dowager Cixi, and people are still serious. Empress Zhang focused on promoting the extraordinary "Three Yangs" to assist the little emperor, and from time to time attacked and suppressed the eunuchs in the harem. Under the administration of Empress Zhang and Sanyang, the Ming Dynasty rejuvenated its second spring and flourished. If this model continues, I believe that the Ming Dynasty may survive for a few more decades.
However, the good times did not last long, and at the beginning of the fifth orthodoxy, Empress Zhang and Sanyang died one after another. Wang Zhen, the eunuch who was favored by Zhu Qizhen, began to emerge and make waves. The politics of the Ming Dynasty began to slide into a slippery slope. At this time, Zhu Qizhen had grown from a well-behaved child to a young emperor in his 20s, which was the age of boiling blood. At this time, the Tartars in the north began to kowtow to the edge, constantly sending people to rob the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence. At the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, the Hot-Blooded Emperor temporarily cobbled together 200,000 people, claiming to be half a million troops, and the imperial conquest. The ministers strenuously objected, in order to appease the ministers. Zhu Qizhen made his two-year-old son Zhu Jianshen crown prince and had his younger brother Zhu Qiyu oversee the country. The army went out, who knew that in bad weather, it was difficult to march for many days of heavy rain, and the soldiers complained. When the army arrived near Datong, it found corpses strewn across the field, and the lack of food and grass supply in the rear, the army's heart was shaken. Therefore, the emperor had the intention to withdraw his troops. In order to take care of the emperor's face, Wang Zhen did not go out for a long time to return to the division, too humiliated, he suggested a detour to Weizhou. In fact, Wang Zhen's hometown is in Weizhou, and Wang Zhen means that if the emperor returns to his hometown with himself, wouldn't that be more glorious than returning to his hometown? The next thing does not need to be said more oh, you should know more than I do. That's right! He was captured. Zhu Qizhen and a group of ministers were captured and taken prisoner. Think of the emperors of a country who have become prisoners of others. Shame on you and throw them into your grandmother's house.
Subsequently, the Mongols besieged the Beijing Division, Yu Qian was ordered to be in danger, and the defense of the capital was vigorously launched. But the kingdom cannot be without a monarch for a day. Therefore, the ministers supported Zhu Qiyu as emperor, for Emperor Jingtai. In the eighth year of Jingtai, Zhu Qizhen, who was released back, was not willing to be lonely. With the conspiratorial support of Shi Heng, Zhang Yuan, Xu Bin, Xu Youzhen, and cao Jixiang, a eunuch under the former Wang Zhenmen, he launched a mutiny and imprisoned Emperor Jingtai, and Zhu Qizhen was restored to the throne and changed to Yuan Tianshun. The ming dynasty, which has survived, has ushered in a new course.
After Zhu Qizhen was restored to the throne, he did not think about repentance, not only did he not remember the lesson of the last time, but he favored the eunuchs and courtiers even more. He even made a terrible mistake and killed Yu Qian, the Optimus Prime of the Ming Dynasty at this time. Since then, the government has become more chaotic, and the courtiers and eunuchs have conspired to fight and fight. In 1464, the Tianshun Emperor Zhu Qizhen died and died in the seventh Chinese New Year's Eve, known as Ming Yingzong. Before dying, he issued an edict to abolish the vice of martyrdom of palace women. It is also a good thing to do on the verge of death.
Counting his life, he lived for 37 years. He was emperor for 22 years and prince for seven years. He was also imprisoned for 8 years, from prince to emperor, from emperor to prisoner, from prisoner to prisoner, from forbidden to emperor again, and never did a few commendable good deeds for the country and the people in his life. It can be described as ups and downs, tasting all the flavors of the world. Such a life cannot be described as uncomplicated, nor can it be said to be strange.