Emperor Mingyingzong Zhu Qizhen (1427–1464) was the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming. Because he was still young when he ascended the throne, some people asked the empress dowager to bow to the government, but she refused. In fact, all major matters of the imperial court must be clarified by Empress Zhang in advance, and then sent to the cabinet for deliberation and implementation.
In the TV series "The Biography of the Female Doctor Ming Concubine", Zhu Qizhen is a stable and elegant imperial prince. Moreover, the history of Zhu Qizhen's being a prisoner of Wara is also a matter of whitewashing and beautification.
However, the historical town of Zhuqi is very different from this. He favored the villain, and in the face of the flattery of the imperial court and the arbitrariness of the eunuch Wang Zhen, he turned a blind eye, but instead thought that Wang Zhen was a rare talent, which eventually led to him being captured by the Wallachians in the north.
Later, after the "Civil Engineering Revolution" and the "Cao Shi Rebellion", it was too late for Zhu Qizhen to appoint a virtuous minister and exert himself to rule with great efforts, and the national strength was gradually declining, and his body was also declining.
Zhu Qizhen did not make any great contribution to the throne, and on the whole, he was an emperor who was full of legends in his life, and even his origin was very mysterious.
Zhu Qizhen's father was Zhu Zhanji of the Ming Xuanzong, but it is said that his birth mother was a palace girl, is this true?
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, Zhu Zhanji's political achievements were not bad, and his Empress Hu of the Zhenggong Palace was also a good empress of virtuous and gentle shu, but Zhu Zhanji also had a very favored Concubine Sun. This Sun Guifei was the daughter of the lord Bo Sun Zhong, who entered the palace at the age of 10, and was crowned as the concubine of the emperor in the fifteenth year of Yongle (1417), and after Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, she was also named a noble concubine.
This Sun Guifei was deeply favored by Xuanzong, but the only thing that made her feel sorry was that she never got the position of empress, so Sun Guifei tried everything to get rid of Empress Hu and stand on her own.
The opportunity came in the blink of an eye, Ming Xuanzong's heirs had not been many, and this Empress Hu had not been able to give birth to a son for Xuanzong. Although Sun Guifei was also like this, she thought of a clever plan to steal beams and change pillars.
She sent people around to inquire which palace maid was pregnant after being blessed by the emperor, and finally she found such a palace girl. She hid the palace maid in a secret room and sent someone to deliver food and take care of the palace maid every day. Then he bought the imperial doctor in the palace and announced the news of his pregnancy.
Because Sun Guifei was very favored at that time, this matter did not leak a little wind. In this way, after the palace maid was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy in October, Sun Guifei immediately asked people to hold the child to herself, and claimed that it was her own child, and then secretly executed the palace girl.
This little boy justifiably became the child of Sun Guifei, and this baby boy was the later Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen.
Emperor Mingying's life was not glorious, he had favored evil villains, lost battles, been a prisoner, had been a prisoner, had killed loyal subjects, and was not a good emperor at all.
But, in a way, he was a good guy again. He believed in almost everyone around him, from Wang Zhen to Xu Youzhen to Shi Heng and Li Xian, no matter whether these people were loyal or adulterous, no matter what kind of environment, he was able to treat people kindly, calmly and calmly, captured his Mongol soldiers, guards, Boyan Timur, Ruan Lang, and finally became his friends.
Emperor Ming Also did a great good deed, that is, to abolish the system of burial of concubines. Since the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor has formulated an extremely cruel rule, that is, when the emperor dies, the harem must find someone to be buried.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di needless to say, even the honest Akihito Emperor Zhu Gaozi and the generous and benevolent Zhu Zhanji were no exception, and this inhuman system was finally abolished by the famous bad emperor in history, which cannot but be said to be an irony.
This article is referenced from: "The Story of Old Beijing", "The Three Hundred and Fifty Emperors of China"