In February of the forty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1614), Empress Dowager Cisheng finally came to the end of her life, and before she died, she did a thing that was enough to make the blood of the courtiers boil and make Wanli very embarrassed

In February of the forty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1614), Empress Dowager Cisheng finally came to the end of her life, and before she died, she did a major event that was enough to make the blood of the courtiers boil, make Wanli very embarrassed, and make Zheng Guifei hate it to the bone.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the king of the feudal domain must live in his own fiefdom and must not enter the capital unless he is ordered. However, Princess Zheng Guifei's son Zhu Changxun was so spoiled by his parents that he did not go to luoyang for more than ten years in the imperial palace. In order to preserve the results achieved and to show loyalty to the country, the ministers repeatedly advised Wanli to let King Fu Changxun go to the feudal state. In this matter, Wan Li once again showed his cunning talent that was not clever.

He first threatened his ministers on the grounds that the Fu Wangfu had not yet been built, causing the Ministry of Works to step up its construction; after the completion of the palace, Wanli, also known as the cold winter waxing moon, had many inconveniences in moving, and waited for the next spring to go to the feudal state; but in the spring of the following year, Wanli said that if he wanted to go to the feudal state, "the Fu King should not go to the forty thousand acres of farms and should not." The courtiers, who had long been impatient, saw that the emperor was so rebellious and untrustworthy, and immediately rose up and attacked him. Cabinet University Scholar Ye Xianggao first resisted Shu and said that the "DamingHui Code" stipulated that Prince Lumi was 10,000 stones and could not be increased arbitrarily. The number of fields in the empire is limited, and the number of divine sons and grandchildren is continuous, so in the past, not only the people were without land, but even the imperial court would have no land. King Jing and King Lu wanted 40,000 acres of land, which was considered by everyone to have corrupted the ancestral system. The overthrow of the front car and the lesson of the back car, I hope that the emperor cannot follow suit.

Just as the emperor and his courtiers were fighting each other, the dying Empress Dowager Cisheng appeared, and she first summoned Concubine Zheng Guifei: "Why didn't King Fu go to the feudal kingdom?" ”

The extremely clever and clever Concubine Zheng Guifei, not as flustered and stupid as the last time the Wanli Emperor was in front of her mother, replied calmly: "The empress dowager will celebrate her seventieth birthday next year, and King Fu will stay behind to wish you a happy birthday." ”

After all, Empress Dowager Cisheng was deeply pregnant with the city government, and she coldly asked, "My second son, King Lu, is in charge of Wei Hui, and I would like to ask him if he can come back to wish for his birthday?" Concubine Zheng guifei was speechless, and had to promise to urge King Fu to quickly go to the feudal kingdom.

The Wanli Emperor could not resist the repeated attacks of the empress dowager and his ministers, and a month after Empress Dowager Cisheng's death, he finally sent King Fu to Luoyang. On the morning of the departure, the sky was overcast, there were scattered snow particles falling, and the cold wind from the north country blew from outside the plug, making people shiver. In front of the palace gate, Zheng Guifei and her son faced each other, tears welling up. The Wanli Emperor said goodbye to his son in front of the noon gate and repeatedly said: "The road is far away, and the child should be cherished..." When the Fu King entered the car and set off, the Wanli Emperor, who was already two white sideburns and long beards and floating chests, could no longer control his feelings. He lifted the dragon sleeve to hide his hot eyes, but the muddy tears still flowed down.