The fog that hung over the Red Pill case had not yet dissipated, and the third largest unsolved case in the late Ming Dynasty, the Palace Transfer Case, had already begun to rub their fists and prepare for action.
In the content of the previous issue, we learned that Zhu Changluo, the Mingguang Sect, died suddenly in his sleep after eating the red pills offered by Li Kejin because he was in a hurry, and only one month after he ascended the throne.
When the emperor died, the most urgent thing for the courtiers was to support the establishment of a new monarch.
As for the candidate for the new monarch, there was nothing to bother with, after all, before the Wanli Emperor died, there was a will left, that is, Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of Zhu Changluo, was made the emperor's grandson.
It was under these circumstances that Zhu You was proclaimed as the Lord of the New Generation of The Great Ming, and the Yuan Heavenly Revelation was changed for the Ming Xi Sect.
Ming Xi Zong Zhu by school
By the way, he is the emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty who neither loved Jiangshan nor beauty but only wanted to be a carpenter.
The birth mother of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was Wang Cairen, however, she did not give birth to the emperor's eldest son as people imagined, and she was as expensive as people thought, and she was like a fish in the harem.
Because, she was not favored by The Ming Guang Sect Zhu Changluo. Therefore, even with Zhu Youxiao's trump card, Wang Cairen's life in the palace was not as good as Li Xuanshi, whose status was lower than her but who was deeply favored by Zhu Changluo, died when Zhu Youxiao was young.
Since then, Li Xuanshi has become the adoptive mother of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Heavenly Revelation.
However, Li Xuanshi, who had won the sacred heart, was not satisfied with this, and when Zhu Changluo was seriously ill, she repeatedly asked Zhu Changluo to make herself empress, but at that time, Zhu Changluo was sick, and before he could discuss a result with the ministers, he returned to the west under the influence of the red pill.
Hearing of the emperor's death, the cabinet ministers Yang Lian, Liu Yiyi and others rushed into the palace to pay their respects, and at the same time, they also wanted to invite the new king to the Wenhua Hall to hold an enthronement ceremony.
However, this move was blocked by Li Xuanshi. The reason is very simple, when Zhu Changluo was alive, she did not become an empress, Zhu Changluo died, Zhu Yuxue succeeded to the throne, that as his adoptive mother, Li Xuanshi's wishful thinking was crackling, how, but also to live a addiction to being an empress dowager.
Will the ministers agree? Of course not!
After all, Li Xuanshi was not the empress of the previous emperor Zhu Changluo, the second was not the birth mother of the Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Heavenly Revelation, and the third was not contributing to the Daming Jiangshan Sheji. Is it just a favored concubine of the former emperor, and also delusionally wants to ascend to the throne of the empress?
The ministers did not allow it, which made Li Xuanshi feel very faceless.
Don't you agree? Then it will be consumed, I will not let Zhu Youxue take a step out of this Qianqing Palace, you will not want to come in from here, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, I can afford to wait, it depends on you ministers who are full of rivers and mountains and society.
Therefore, she instructed the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace to guard the palace gate with sticks and prevent the courtiers from entering.
I have to say that Li Xuanshi's idea is too naïve.
I don't want to think about it, who are the ministers who are guarding the gates of the Qianqing Palace?
The Donglin Party members began to exert their strength from the time when the Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo was young, during which the Wanli Emperor, who did not hesitate to force the Wanli Emperor to secure Zhu Changluo's position as crown prince, sent his young son Zhu Changxun to the land, and finally waited until the Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo ascended the throne as emperor, and the Donglin Party members were excited!
After years of suffering, I finally saw some achievements.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and the political achievements of the Donglin Party for many years turned into powder at the moment when the Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo died.
As mentioned in our previous issue, Cui Wensheng, who gave Zhu Changluo laxatives, was once the person who favored the Wanli Emperor's concubine Zheng Guifei, and Fang Congzhe, the leader of the Zhejiang Party who created the will in the tone of Emperor Taichang, was close to Zheng Guifei.
This made the Donglin Party members involuntarily stamp Zhu Changluo's sudden death with a conspiracy theory hat.
We all know the outcome of the Red Pill case, Cui Wensheng was demoted to Nanjing, Li Kezhao was exiled to the frontier, and Fang Congzhe had to resign from the post of first assistant and return to the countryside.
The forces behind Zheng Guifei were almost blown by the Donglin Party.
Therefore, in this contest, the Donglin Party once again won.
Therefore, for the threat of Li Xuanshi, will the Donglin Party people pay attention to it? Obviously, the arms can't be twisted on the thighs.
The courtiers broke through the door and hugged crown prince Zhu Youqian to the Wenhua Hall and asked him to perform the enthronement ceremony immediately.
However, Zhu Yu said that he would wait for six days before succeeding to the throne.
And because Li Xuan's attendants overpowered the Qianqing Palace and did not give in, the Qunchen had to let the emperor's eldest son live in the Ciqing Palace. But the Qianqing Palace has always been the residence of the emperor, and now it is occupied by a small selection of servants.
Therefore, Zhou Jiamu and other ministers joined forces with Shangshu and unanimously requested Li Xuanshi to move out of the Qianqing Palace so that the emperor's eldest son could return to live after he ascended the throne.
However, until the day Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, Li Xuanshi did not move out of the Qianqing Palace. Yang Lian therefore also had a fierce dispute with Fang Congzhe over this, in Fang Congzhe's view, Li Xuan's transfer of the palace could be postponed for a few days; Yang Lian insisted: "The Son of Heaven has no return to the Eastern Palace ceremony, and the selection of the attendant will not move now, how can it be tolerated, and how dare the Ru generations do so!" ”
Under pressure, Li Xuanshi had to move away from the Qianqing Palace.
However, after Li Xuanshi moved away from the Qianqing Palace, there were li Xuanshi who were forced to commit suicide in the palace, and Li Xuanshi's daughter Huang Bamei was also forced to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well.
Just after ascending the throne, Zhu Youxiao's head was topped with the hat of persecuting his adoptive mother in spite of Yang En, and his narrow-mindedness could not tolerate the brothers and sisters of his hands, which had a self-evident impact on the new jun who had not yet covered the dragon chair.
It was not until the cabinet minister Yang Lian wrote a "Beginning and End of the Moving Palace" to play the imperial court, proving that Zhu Youxiao had never forced his adoptive mother, that the reputation of the Emperor of The Apocalypse was preserved.
The third major case of the late Ming Dynasty, the transfer of the palace, also came to an end.
There are also many people who say that the palace transfer case has a clear context from both the timeline and the previous causes and consequences, why do later historians refer to it and the bizarre attack case and the confusing red pill case as the three major unsolved cases of the late Ming Dynasty?
Why?
First of all, the first suspicious point, Li Xuanshi is just a concubine, how did she have the courage to control the emperor's eldest son and threaten the courtiers?
Perhaps, this is just a farce directed and performed by the Donglin Party.
This is not without reason. We all know that under the in-depth influence of Song Ming's theory, the Ming Dynasty bureaucratic doctor system has actually developed to the peak, with the inherent mode of thinking to consider the problem, the entire system has been obviously rigid.
As can be seen from the strength of the Donglin Party when Emperor Taichang was young, it can be seen that they are not so much defending orthodoxy as they are betting.
The stakes were the Donglin Party's control over the imperial court, and this acquaintance with the Dragon Gong was their greatest political capital.
In order to win, the Donglin Party members can be described as painstaking and disregard the bottom line.
There is such a group of people chasing after them, who can feel better?
Secondly, Zhu Youxiao was not like his father Zhu Changluo, and he endured and passed.
But for Zhu Youxiao, from the attack case to the Red Pill case to the palace transfer case, the donglin party's unlimited operation has violated the bottom line of an emperor.
Therefore, it is imperative to liquidate the Donglin Party. As a result, Zhu Youxiao used his Wang Explosive Card, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.
Because, Wei Zhongxian was obedient enough.
But where did the Emperor of the Apocalypse at this time want to get, that is, this obedient house slave with a low brow and a good eye would become a "nine thousand nine hundred years old" in the future, purging dissidents, and arbitrarily ruling the country's government? So much so that in the later period, people "only know that there are loyalists, but they do not know that there is an emperor."
The impact of the three major cases on the political situation of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively far-reaching. In the beginning, although the ministers fought with each other endlessly, they all had only one purpose, that is, to find out the truth, and they all went to the purpose of stabilizing the program.
However, with the fermentation of the case, the three cases became a political whirlpool of partisan struggle, with the chancellor and the emperor competing; the chancellor and the empress dowager seizing power; the donglin party and the Zhejiang party fighting endlessly; the duel between the courtiers and the eunuch party... This farce caused the courtiers to be purged again and again, the originally clear political structure was stirred up, and the national strength of Daming was rapidly being consumed.
As a result, after the Chongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, he failed to clarify the priorities and made the cleaning up of Wei Zhongxian a top priority.
Not necessarily.
As we all know, during the reign of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to consolidate military power, he directly abolished the official post of chancellor. It can be said that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had a rather good control of power.
Therefore, Zhu Zhanji can fight his cockroaches without distraction, because he has three Yang under his hands.
Therefore, the Jiajing Emperor could single-mindedly ask the immortals, because the imperial court had Yan Song.
Therefore, the Wanli Emperor can set a Guinness record of not going to the dynasty for twenty-four years, because he has the trump card Zhang Juzheng.
Therefore, the Emperor of the Apocalypse could develop his hobbies and become a carpenter without any pressure, because he had Wei Zhongxian, who was nine thousand years old.
Their cleverness is that decentralization is not the same as dilution of power. The art of the emperor lies in the way of mastering people, and there is no need to rush to the front of everything.
Of course, this is the view of the King of Shoucheng.
But the Chongzhen Emperor was different, he did not want to be as absurd as the emperors of previous dynasties, and did not do anything to the government. He wanted to solve the castration party once and for all, reorganize the imperial program, and clean up the rivers and mountains.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Wei Zhongxian died, the Donglin Party members looked up again, and all the people underneath became a pot of porridge. The treasury was empty, heavy taxes were levied on the people, and as a result, there were uprisings everywhere, and the Chongzhen Emperor embarked on the road of counterinsurgency, but he did not expect to be planted in the hands of Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, and ended the ming dynasty's national zuo with a rope, which was really regrettable.
If the Chongzhen Emperor had made a slow attempt against Wei Zhongxian's party, would there have been other directions in the history of the Ming Dynasty? Hard to say, hard to say...
What do you officials think?
Source:
"The Beginning of the First Pull"
Ming Dynasty Northern Sketch Volume 1, Volume 2
《The Kingdom of The Republic》
The Book of Sin
Ming Shi Vol. 114
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