Once, after Zhang Yanling was drunk, he defiled the palace women in front of everyone in the palace, and the eunuch He Ding stepped forward and picked up the golden melon of the guards and pounded it. The next day, He Wending told Ming Xiaozong about this matter, but he did not expect that Ming Xiaozong turned around and sent him to prison. A few days later, He Ding was killed in prison by the staff.
Zhang Yanling was the younger brother of Empress Zhang, who was deeply favored by Emperor Mingxiaozong Zhu Youfan, and for Empress Zhang, Emperor Mingxiaozong did not accept other concubines, so during his 18 years of reign, there was only Empress Zhang in the harem.
How much did Emperor Ming Xiaozong love Empress Zhang? Once, Empress Zhang had an ulcer in her mouth, and Ming Xiaozong poured water for her tea, afraid of disturbing her rest, and even did not dare to cough loudly.
Another time during dinner, Ming Xiaozong saw that the tableware used by his mother-in-law was silver, and Ming Xiaozong immediately gave his own gold tableware to his mother-in-law, and Empress Zhang came at this time: "But my father did not have it." Emperor Ming xiaozong immediately prepared another set for his father-in-law.
Originally monogamous, the couple had a deep affection, which was also a good story, but it was also this relationship that added a stain to Ming Xiaozong's imperial career.
Because of his love for Wu and Wu, Ming Xiaozong was also very good to Empress Zhang's younger brother, and once Empress Zhang's younger brother Zhang Yanling wore a crown with wine when Ming Xiaozong was in the toilet.
Originally, this was a great rebellion, and the upright eunuch He Ding was not accustomed to the rampant behavior of the two brothers, so he explained this matter to Emperor Xiaozong.
In the face of the condemnation of the civil and military officials, Ming Xiaozong only said lightly: "I only have this one family affair, so you should stop forcing me." ”
After that, the Zhang Yanling brothers were even more mischievous, not only bullying the people outside, but also exalting gaoli dai under the banner of the imperial family, causing the people to complain. Moreover, it is also rampant in the palace.
Once, zhang Yanling used wine to deliberately misbehave with the palace women in the palace, and the eunuch He Ding stepped forward and picked up the golden melon of the guards and pounded it. The next day, He Ding told Emperor Ming Xiaozong about the incident, and Emperor Ming Xiaozong, fearing that Empress Zhang would be angry, sent He Ding to prison.
Ming Xiaozong's idea was to release He Dingguan for a few days, but she did not expect that Empress Zhang had a grudge against He Ding and found someone to go to prison and kill He Ding.
Until this matter, Ming Xiaozong felt very guilty, so he made He Ding's funeral beautiful.
Seeing He Ding's fate, the civil and military officials did not dare to say anything about the emperor's "brother-in-law", so the Zhang brothers became more and more fishy people and ran amok.
If you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy, the Zhang brothers at that time had the support of the empress sister, the Zhang family also followed one person to get the Tao, and the chickens and dogs also lived a good life. However, what they did was destined to be liquidated after the death of Emperor Mingxiaozong.
Ming Xiaozong was very weak because of his inability to keep up with nutrition when he was a child, coupled with diligent government affairs, and a few years before his death, he was also obsessed with the elixir of immortality, which led to a worse deficit in his body.
At the age of 36, he died young due to a wind chill.
His son Emperor Mingwuzong ascended the throne, but died before he was 30 years old, but Emperor Mingwuzong had no heirs and had to find Emperor Mingwuzong's cousin as emperor, that is, Emperor Mingshizong.
Unexpectedly, the emperor she single-handedly selected would later end the fate of her family.
Ming Shizong had long seen that the Zhang brothers were not happy, so after his foundation was stable, he raided the Zhang family. Empress Zhang went to plead with her scalp, but Ming Shizong avoided seeing her.
In the twentieth year of Jiajing (1541), Empress Zhang died of depression, and Zhang Yanling was dragged to Xishikou and beheaded, and the era of the Zhang family came to an end.
@ Reading Wei Library: After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, foreign relatives are not allowed to interfere in politics, and most of the selected empress concubines are the daughters of ordinary people, and they will not give real power to their mother's family.
However, when emperor Xiaozong of Ming not only favored Empress Zhang, but also gave her great power to her family, directly killed many of the people of the upright eunuch He Dinghe, and also became a stain on him.
There is nothing wrong with pampering his wife, but Empress Zhang directly influenced the affairs of the government, and perhaps from this point of view, there was still a big gap between Empress Zhang and Empress Ma of Zhu Yuanzhang.
