When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, I think there are only three emperors who can be remembered with painstaking memories, one is Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming taizu who worked hard and worked hard to start a business, the chongzhen emperor Zhu Youjian, who is silent and strives to govern, and the other is Zhu Di, who started a business for the second time. Zhu Di has a lot of mysteries around him in this life, and the one that impressed me the most is the mystery about Zhu Di's birth mother, some people say that there is some mystery about this, looking at the Ming history, the record is very clear, Zhu Di's mother is written in black and white as Empress Ma. This recognition is also accepted by everyone. However, during the Wanli period, some people took the lead in questioning and expressed doubts about the records of Taizu Shilu. What is going on here, is it the hype of people at that time or it is true, and how this suspicion was raised by people.
This is to talk about the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, there is an institution called Taichang Temple, and Taichang Temple has a "Nanjing Taichang Temple Chronicle", which records nothing important, just a book that records some architectural sacrifice activities, etc., but there is a record of one thing, in the Nanjing Taimiao Temple, there is a god name called Concubine, and the main sign of the god says That Zhu Di is her child. This matter was recorded by the famous scholar He Qiaoyuan during the Wanli Dynasty, who carefully wrote in his notes that "I saw the Chronicle of the Taichang Temple in Nanjing, emperor Yun was born to a concubine, and in the "Tianhuang Yumu" he was the fourth son of Gao Hou", and he also had some doubts about this: "The "Jade Butterfly" was compiled by the envoys on the day of the publication, and there was no doubt about it." So He Qiaoyuan wrote down this matter, "I would like to prepare it for posterity." This "Tianhuang Yumu" was written in the Yongle period, which is recorded as the genealogy of the Zhu royal family, but many of the records in it are made up, such as saying that Zhu Biao was not born to Empress Ma, born to concubines, so strict inheritance system in the Ming Dynasty, and the prince was not born to the empress, how is it possible.
But through He Qiaoyuan's description, we know that another thing is that in the "Taichang Temple Chronicle", Zhu Di was born to the concubines, and definitely not to Empress Ma. And as a sign of caution, he also said at the end of the sentence with "Posterity Bo Kao". This statement is equivalent to leaving a suspense for posterity, but after all, this matter is a record that He Qiaoyuan saw, and did not see the evidence, so everyone has not believed this matter. However, when chongzhen was fifteen, someone saw the main plaque of the Concubine God, and it said that Zhu Di was born to her. This witness was Zhang Dai, who recorded in his "Tao'an Dream Memories" that "in July of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen,...... During the Zhongyuan Festival, Dai Guan Zhi..., in front of the table, there is a concubine ranking "A little ahead, for the concubine" above it records that she is Zhu Di's mother, "is the birth mother of Cheng", which probably means that the Taichang Temple zhongyuan festival is going to carry out memorial activities, Zhang Dai just happened to visit, and happened to see that the main card of the concubine god wrote zhu Di as her birth. This was the first witness, and his account is clear.
This record also made posterity begin to question, so some people wanted to confirm the origin of the matter. After Chongzhen's death, Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, and the ministers who had previously been in the capital ran to Nanjing to continue to serve the Southern Ming. However, they also had a question, that is, whether Zhang Dai's record was true in the end, so Libu Shangshu Qian qianyi, Dali Temple Cheng Li Qing, with doubts opened the "Nanjing Taichang Temple Chronicle" there was indeed a previous record of He Qiaoyuan, but at this time, Qian Qianyi, who was known for his knowledge, did not dare to say that this matter was true, because after all, it was a record on paper and had not witnessed it with his own eyes.
However, on the New Year's Day of the first year of Hongguang, Qian Qianyi and Li Qing, who took the opportunity of sacrifice, finally saw the actual object, which clearly stated that Zhu Di was born to Concubine Qi. Li Qing's original words in his "Notes on the Three Walls" are "and into the sight, sure enough". Here is a mention of Li Qing, who once served in three departments of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and later ran to Nanjing to serve as the left servant of Dali Temple. He was a man who was very cautious about what he wrote, he wrote what he saw with his own eyes in the "Notes on the Three Walls", and wrote what he heard about it in the sub-record, which also shows his rigor of history, and his book was forbidden in the Qing Dynasty, and it was not seen again until the end of the Qing Dynasty, so his credibility in his testimony was very high, and the doubt about Zhu Di's life was also revealed.
The Notes of the Three Walls prove the theory of the Taichang Temple Chronicle. This makes many historians very excited, and as to why Zhu Di did this, the historian Mr. Meng Sen once said that in the early Ming Dynasty, the distinction between concubine and long is very respected. Prince Yiwen was established as the eldest son, even if he died, he should also be inherited by his son Jianwen, the King of Yan Jing was difficult, and there was no way to express the rightness of the throne, so he claimed to be born to Empress Ma, and the prince and the king of Qin and The King of Jin were all born to Empress Ma, and they were all deceased, so Zhu Di was the eldest concubine, and the order of the wheel was not easy. Zhu Di was also unavoidable, and only in this way could he prove his legitimacy.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, It is indeed very likely that Zhu Di will do this, because after he is in trouble, the problem of getting the position has become a nightmare that he has been haunting all his life, although he has struggled so much and wants to erase this matter, but once the information happens, it will spread in all directions, just like Zhu Di has modified the Taizu Record twice. However, he could not have imagined that a TaiChangzhi who recorded the construction sacrifice would actually expose all his efforts. However, when we look at history, we definitely do not look at his character, but at his historical contributions, and although Zhu Di has done such things, it does not affect his contribution to history.