China's history has a long history, and in the history and culture of the past five thousand years, more than two thousand years have been in the feudal period, during which countless dynasties have been born.
Dynasties are the most normal thing, and the revision of history by successive dynasties for the previous dynasties is a practice handed down for thousands of years in our country, one is to summarize the previous dynasties, and on the other hand, it is for the inheritance of orthodoxy.
The history book "History of the Ming Dynasty" has been revised for more than ninety years, which is no longer such a simple problem as "compiling properly" before and after the Qing Dynasty.
In reading the "History of Ming", the qing dynasty writers described the Ming Dynasty the most is demeaning, like the record of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, in addition to the 17-year-old Wan Guifei who favored herself, she also specially recorded many scandals in the palace that were very eye-catching.
Wan Guifei was favored and ran amok in the harem, and even forced pregnant concubines to beat the fetus, and even Ming Xiaozong almost died because of this, and Xiaozong's birth mother Ji Shufei was killed by Wan Guifei.
This lawless and evil "demon concubine", Ming Xianzong except sighed
"The old man is dead, childless
"Outside, there is no other action.
Finally, there was a eunuch Zhang Min who sacrificed his life to protect Emperor Xiaozong, and because he feared that Wan Guifei would retaliate, he finally committed suicide by swallowing gold.
Judging from various explanations, Emperor MingXianzong was an incompetent emperor, and the Ming Harem was intrigued, so was the truth really as unbearable as in the records?
The fact is that the record of the Xianzong Dynasty in the "History of Ming" itself has many unclear and unreasonable places, the first Ming Xianzong originally had 20 children, and when Ming Xiaozong succeeded to the throne, he gave 10 brothers the title of king.
If he was really a person who was confused by the demon concubine, and could only spoil her alone, and if he looked at others more, that person might die, then how could Emperor Xianzong explain that he had such a descendant?
This sentence is even more flawed, when Emperor Xiaozong was born, the crown prince Zhu Youji was still alive, how dare Zhang Min say the words "the emperor has no son"? Aren't you afraid of losing your head?
In addition, in the "Records of Emperor Ming Xianzong" and "Records of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Ming Dynasty itself, there is no mention of Wan Guifei's persecution of the imperial heir, and when it comes to Emperor Xiaozong's birth mother, it is more clearly stated that he died of illness. After Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, he did not pursue any responsibility for Wan Guifei's family.
Therefore, there are two possibilities: one is that Ming Xiaozong did not want to make it public in order to maintain his father's image, after all, the ugliness of the family cannot be publicized, and the second is that the Qing Dynasty tampered with history and fabricated rumors to slander the Ming imperial family.
Later generations found the answer from the "Zhang Clan Genealogy", and the "Zhang Clan Genealogy" of Tong'an County, Fujian Province, left a large number of information on the three ming Dynasty eunuchs Zhang Min brothers.
The History of Ming only mentions Zhang Min as a doorkeeper, and mentions that he died in the year when Emperor Xiaozong's identity was exposed, while the Zhang Family Genealogy does not say that he committed suicide, but was a eunuch with great status and power.
Speaking of which, how did Zhang Min die? The answer has long been given in the "Zhang Clan Genealogy", Chenghua twenty-one years (1485), Zhang Min stayed under the eyes of Wan Guifei for 10 years, after Zhang Min's death,
Emperor Mingxian also dispatched the eunuch Chen Mian to make a sacrifice
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It is not difficult to see that Zhang Min's final cause of death was illness, and Ming Xianzong was even less likely to be as bad as described in the "History of Ming", nor could he be incompetent enough to let a woman do something wrong, after all, a noble concubine did not have so much power to kill whoever she wanted.
The records in the Zhang Family Genealogy and the records in the Ming Shilu corroborate each other, and break the scandal of the Ming harem that has been circulating for thousands of years, and at the same time confirm that the Qing Dynasty rewrote history when it revised the Ming History.
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