"In heaven wish to be compared to a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch", since ancient times, people have longed for and longed for a beautiful love. From ancient times to the present, there are not a few people who are obsessed. From Xun Fengqian, who in the Eastern Han Dynasty in order to cool his feverish wife, ran back to stand in the cold wind and then ran back to hold his wife and used his body to cool his wife; to Xu Deyan, the hero of the Sui Dynasty who did not forget his wife for decades and "broke the mirror and regained his circle"; nalan Rongruo, who always wrote words in the Qing Dynasty to remember his wife Lu Shi, who died in childbirth. However, as the monarch of a country, the Ming Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, and the person he was obsessed with was a woman 17 years older than himself, and he loved life and death, and the two people finally left the world with only 3 months apart.
After emperor Ming Yingzong's zhu qizhen tumu fort rebellion, he was trapped in The Valley, and Zhu Jianshen's uncle Zhu Qiyu was proclaimed emperor and deposed as crown prince, and from then on he lived in the harem with his infant nanny Wan Zhen'er. Wan Zhen'er was seventeen years older than Zhu Jianshen, and she entered the palace at an early age to serve Empress Sun, and was later sent by Empress Sun to Zhu Jianshen's side. From then on, the fates of the two of them were destined to be entangled together and complete their lives together. In the most difficult days before the change of The Gate of Emperor Mingyingzong's palace, Wan Zhen'er gave Zhu Jianshen the same love of her youth and mother, and has always guarded him and never abandoned. Due to the special relationship between the ancient monarch and the maid, Wan Zhen'er played several roles as Zhu Jianshen's nanny, mother, and confidant. In short, Zhu Mishen has a special attachment to this woman all his life, no matter how much she has done too much, he can tolerate and retreat.
Zhu Jianshen ascended to the emperor's throne, this year he was eighteen years old, and she was thirty-five years old. Most people are not optimistic about them, and there are good reasons, and the harem concubines are flocked, one by one, young and young, the ring is fat and thin, beautiful as a flower, casually pull out a million concubines who are stronger than the old pearl yellow, waiting for the ten thousand concubines must be beaten into the cold palace, and then slowly die. However, the development of events is always unexpected. The Chenghua Emperor's feelings for Wanfei did not fade with the passage of time, but on the contrary, their feelings were deeper and their meaning was stronger.
In the first month of the second year of Chenghua (1466), Wanfei gave birth to a son, and the Chenghua Emperor was ecstatic, and paid tribute to the ancestors of the mountains and rivers, hoping to bless the healthy growth of the children, and named Wanfei a noble concubine. Wan Guifei seems to see her own beautiful future, although the current emperor can not appoint her as an empress, but when the child grows up, she will definitely be made a prince, and then ascend the throne as an emperor, the mother follows the son Gui, and she becomes the empress dowager respected by all people. However, the beautiful dream soon fell shortly, the child died of illness not long after, and what was even more cruel was that Wan Guifei lost her fertility forever. Like all mothers, the child's early death made Wan Guifei grief-stricken. After that, she was like a wounded she-wolf, becoming cruel and crazy. She specifically stared at the stomachs of all the women in the harem, and as long as she found any signs of pregnancy, she did not hesitate to let them either have an abortion or die, so many years passed, and the Chenghua Emperor was still empty under his knees, without heirs.
Ji Shufei, whose original name was Li Tangmei, was the daughter of Guangxi Ji's toast, who had rebelled in Guangxi in the early years and was eventually suppressed by the imperial court, and she was captured in the palace as a child of a rebel and became a female official in the palace. Ji Nüshi is proficient in writing and is a talented woman. Zhu Jianshen occasionally came to the library to talk with Ji Nushi and loved Ji's talent. Later, Ji Shi was pregnant with Xianzong, and this news was learned by Wan Guifei. In order to get the favor of the special room, Wan Guifei, who was fierce and fierce, sent a palace maid to send abortion pills to Ji Shi. But what Wan Guifei did not expect was that Ji Shi was known for his good popularity in the palace, and the palace maid sent could not bear to do something to Ji Shi, and when the palace maid reported to Wan Guifei, she lied that Ji Shi was a tumor in her belly, rather than pregnant.
Ten months after Ji Shi was pregnant, Ji Shi gave birth to the emperor's third son, Zhu Youfan, and the birth of the crown prince reached the ears of Wan Guifei. Wan Guifei was very angry after hearing this, and she found a eunuch and wanted him to kill the prince. When he was about to act, the eunuch Zhang Min could not bear the loss of a fresh life, so he secretly hid the prince with poor Ji Shi. With everyone's help, Wan Guifei has never been able to find the little prince, and Zhu Youfan has been eating a hundred meals until he is 6 years old, and Xianzong does not know that the little prince is still alive.
On this day, when the eunuch Zhang Min was combing Xianzong's hair, Xianzong sighed in the mirror and said, "I am old, but I don't have a son yet." Zhang Min heard this and immediately knelt down and said, "The subject is guilty of death, long live already has a son." Xian Zong was stunned and asked where? Zhang Min said: "After the minister says it, he will die, and he implores the emperor to be the master of the little prince." The Crown Prince was now six years old, and he had been hiding the news and did not dare to spread it. Xianzong was very happy after listening to it, and immediately went to pick up the crown prince. When Xianzong first saw his son, who had been emaciated because of his long-term confinement, he burst into tears. Soon, Emperor Mingxianzong officially issued an edict, making Zhu Youfan the crown prince and announcing it to the world. However, on the eve of Zhu Youfan's being crowned crown prince, Ji Shi hanged himself in the palace, and Zhang Min also committed suicide by swallowing gold for fear of Wan Guifei's revenge. The empress dowager saw that Princess Wan Guifei covered the sky with her hands, and in order to protect Zhu Youfan's life, she took him to her own palace to raise him personally, and Zhu Youfan was able to survive.
In the spring of the twenty-third year of Chenghua (1487), Wan Guifei died of illness, and Xianzong died in August due to excessive grief. Crown Prince Zhu Youfan succeeded to the throne with the title of "Hongzhi" (弘治), in favor of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming. However, what Emperor Xianzong left to the 18-year-old crown prince Zhu Youfan was a chaotic government and a withered national strength. On this stage of many holes deliberately arranged by heaven, Emperor Xiaozong used his tolerance and diligence to turn the tide and let the Ming Dynasty get ZTE. After Zhu Youfan ascended the throne, the tragic experience of his childhood left an extremely bad impression on him, and he insisted that the harem was full of killings, all because of too many concubines, so he only married one person in his life and did not marry another person. Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youfan and Empress Zhang were friends of hardship, and they only lived with the empress every day, reading poems and paintings, listening to the piano and watching dances, talking about the past and the present, living together day and night, and living a husband and wife life like ordinary people. This inadvertent move has created a special record in the past and the present, and it can also be regarded as one of the evidences of Zhu Youfan as a generation of Ming Jun. It was precisely because Emperor Xiaozong insisted on favoring only the empress, making him a unique example of only two husbands and wives buried in the imperial tombs of previous dynasties, adding many bright colors to his life of a wise and virtuous lord. The world's first toothbrush was invented in 1498 by the Chinese Emperor Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan by inserting a short, stiff bristle into a bone handle. In 2004, the book "The Complete Book of Inventions" published by Robinsons Publishing House in London listed 300 great inventions of mankind, and also attributed the invention rights of toothbrushes to Zhu Youfan.com.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Emperor Daimyo (June 8, 1505), Zhu Youfan died at the Qianqing Palace at the age of thirty-six. Finally, the last instruction to the crown prince Zhu Houzhao was to "appoint a virtuous minister."