People are accustomed to thinking that although the ancient emperor was the ruler of the whole world, the emperor's throne was also the most difficult position to sit in in ancient times. In fact, there is a position that is more difficult to sit on than the emperor's dragon chair, and it is the position of the prince of the Eastern Palace. The emperor had great power in his hands, but the prince could not go up and down, and it was difficult to feel at ease all day, which Zhu Changluo, the crown prince of the Ming Shen Sect, deeply understood.
Mingshenzong was the famous "Wanli Emperor" in history, and his birth mother Li Shi was from a humble origin, originally just a palace girl. Although Li's mother became a noble concubine by virtue of her son, the MingShen Sect was still secretive about her origins. However, history seems to have made a joke on him, and Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of the Emperor of the MingShen Sect, was also born to a palace girl.
In the ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, Emperor Myeongjin happened to visit a palace maid surnamed Wang in the palace, and the eunuch accompanying him wrote down this matter in the "Notes on Inner Living". This palace maid was Empress Li's person, and after she became pregnant, Emperor Mingshenzong was reluctant to admit it, but with the proof of the Notes on Internal Living and Empress Li's insistence, Emperor Mingshenzong was forced to make Wang a concubine.
The following year, Zhu Changluo, the crown prince of a generation of sorrows, was born. The reason why Zhu Changluo was sad was that his father and emperor did not take him seriously at all, he lacked fatherly love from an early age, and lived carefully in the deep palace. Emperor Mingshenzong did not want to see their mother and son, but only favored Zheng Guifei, who gave birth to Zhu Changluo's biggest rival in the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar: Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor who was 4 years younger than him.
After that, the Ming Dynasty began a decades-long "dispute over the foundation of the country". Behind Zhu Changxun stood Zheng Guifei and the eunuch forces, and behind Zhu Changluo were a group of ministers who adhered to the principle of "establishing a concubine and standing a long one". Emperor Mingshenzong had promised Princess Zheng guifei that her son would be made crown prince and empress, so Emperor Mingshen ignored the courtiers' request to make Zhu Changluo.
Zhu Changluo was worried all day, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, the Ming Shen Sect finally could not withstand the pressure and made him the crown prince, and Zhu Changluo was slightly relieved. But it's not over, and being a prince doesn't mean you can relax, because there are countless people who are eyeing his position. Zhu Changluo was more cautious, lest he offend his father.
In May of the forty-third year of the Wanli Calendar (1615), a man named Zhang Cha broke into Zhu Changluo's palace with a wooden stick in his hand, injured many people in a row, and Zhu Changluo was almost killed. Zheng Guifei and her confidant eunuchs were very suspicious, but the Ming Shen Sect only disposed of the eunuchs hastily, and Zheng Guifei's position was as stable as Mount Tai.
Emperor Mingshenzong was the longest-reigning person in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Changluo stayed up for 38 years before sending his father away. In 1620, Emperor Myeongshin died and Zhu Changluo ascended the throne as emperor. I thought that I would finally be able to keep the clouds open and see the moon, but Zhu Changluo had lived in a high-pressure state for a long time, and it was difficult to become an emperor, and it was inevitable that he wanted to relax.
Although he aspired to make a career, his body held him back. On the day of his ascension to the throne, Zhu Changluo was still decent, and since Zheng Guifei sent him 8 beauties, Zhu Changluo's body turned weak and he fell ill a few days later. Zheng Guifei's confidant eunuch injected medicine into Zhu Changluo, but it was just a laxative, and Zhu Changluo's condition became serious, and he began to be anxious.
At this time, Li Kezhuo of the Hongxu Temple said that there were "immortal elixir" red pills that could be dedicated to the emperor. Zhu Changluo ignored the objections of the imperial doctor and took two red pills in a row, however, the medicinal properties of this pill were in conflict with the previous laxatives, and Zhu Changluo soon died violently, known in history as the "red pill case". From his accession to the throne to his death, Zhu Changluo only served as emperor for more than 1 month, which was pitifully short compared with his decades of imperial career.