Speaking of Chinese emperors, which dynasty emperor has the most distinct personality, of course, the Ming Dynasty is the only one, some people are addicted to carpentry, some people like to stay in the palace, some people are bent on cultivating immortals, some people are defeated and captured, so many people think that the Ming Dynasty is in charge, in fact, most of the Ming Dynasty are Ming Emperors who are working hard, otherwise how can the Ming Dynasty continue for 276 years.
No incommunicado, no indemnity, no cut land, no tribute, the son of heaven guards the gate of the country, the king dies in the community, this is the royal attitude of the Ming Dynasty, today we look back at the history of the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, look at the 16th emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who is a hero, who is a strange person.
Portrait of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang all year round
First of all, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he really started a bowl, beggars to build an empire. Zhu Yuanzhang can be described as a model of grassroots counterattack. He worked as a cattle herder, a monk, and during the famine he begged and wandered around, who knew that this bargain actually won the world. Zhu Yuanzhang joined the peasant rebel army at the age of 25, and became smoother and smoother on the road to resisting the Yuan Dynasty, and directly embarked on the peak of his life at the age of 40.
He ascended the throne as emperor in 1368 and established the Ming Dynasty, in order to make the old Zhu family sit more stable and longer, Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard, reigned for 30 years, created the rule of Hongwu, the political economy and culture blossomed in an all-round way, social production also gradually resumed development, and almost killed his teammates of that year, but in Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, his favorite son Crown Prince Zhu Biao died suddenly, so the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen became the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
When Zhu Yunwen was still the emperor's grandson, he was worried that the king of the clan would use soldiers to respect himself, and after succeeding to the throne, he immediately ordered the cutting of the clan and cut his uncles to pieces, who knew that he encountered the iron plate of the fourth uncle Zhu Di, and finally cut his own throne. In 1399, Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan in the name of Fengtian Jingnan, and in 1302 he invaded Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts were unknown in the chaos of the war, so Zhu Di ascended the throne and became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
During Zhu Di's reign, the Ming Dynasty's economy developed rapidly, and Zheng He was sent to the West for diplomacy, creating the Yongle Prosperous Era, in addition, Zhu Di was also a well-known war maniac, and the emperor could fight better than the general. Zhu Di, who was in the year of the fight, had personally conquered Mongolia five times, pressed Mongolia to the ground and rubbed it, and at the age of 64, he did not obey the old age, and finally died on the way back to the dynasty for the fifth time. Fortunately, his sons and grandsons were well educated.
Tianzi shouguomen is a tradition that the Ming emperor has always practiced, starting from Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beiping, just to guard the northern border. Every time Zhu Di went out to fight a war, the crown prince Zhu Gaozi was responsible for taking care of the government at home and had been conscientious, but Zhu Gaozi's biggest hobby was eating and drinking. Because of his overweight body, he needed two people to help him to walk, and he only became an emperor for ten months, and because of his obesity, he went to establish the patriarchs. In 1425, the throne was passed to the eldest son Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Zhanjiwen was able to write a pen to settle the world, and wu could go to Ma Ding Qiankun, and was cultivated by his grandfather as an heir from an early age. Also following Zhu Di on a crusade against the Mongol brush experience, military strategy, quelling the rebellion of the Han king, rectifying the bureaucracy and finances, unprecedented social and economic development, Zhu Zhanji is not only a calligrapher and painter comparable to Emperor Huizong of song, but also a famous "cricket emperor" in history, who has always been a mystery here and cannot extricate himself, at that time, from the members of the imperial court to the people at dawn, catching crickets is a top priority, and no one dared to take it lightly. However, Zhu Zhanji, like his father, died young at the age of 38, and in 1435, it was passed down to zhu Qizhen, the eldest son who was only 8 years old.
After Zhu Qizhen grew up, he followed the example of his great-grandfather's imperial conquest, but he encountered the change of Tumu Fort, the soldiers were defeated and captured, and the Wallachians originally wanted to threaten the Ming Dynasty with Zhu Qizhen, but they did not expect that the Ming Dynasty came to draw a trick, and the ministers headed by Yu Qian proposed to establish a new emperor, honor Zhu Qizhen as the Emperor Taishang, and support his half-brother Zhu Qiyu as emperor.
After Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, he quickly repelled the invasion of the Wa people, and only a year later took the Taishang Emperor Zhu Qizhen back to the palace. Although Zhu Qiyu had a good relationship with his brother, he could not withstand the temptation of the throne, so he put Zhu Qizhen under house arrest in the Nangong for seven years, the emperor was good but also in good health, Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill and bedridden at the age of 29, and his brother Zhu Qizhen took the opportunity to regain the throne. He killed Yu Qian, the Taibao who proposed to become a new emperor, and in order to get revenge on his brother, Zhu Qizhen did not allow Zhu Qiyu to be buried in the imperial tomb.
In 1464, Zhu Qizhen's eldest son Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, the emperor was wise and broad, for Yu Qian and other Ming courtiers Ordinary Zhaoxue, exempted taxes, reduced provincial punishments, so that the social economy gradually recovered, but although the harem beauty of three thousand, but Zhu Jianshen only favored Wan Guifei alone, to know that Wan Guifei was 17 years older than the emperor.
In 1487, the ninth emperor Zhu Youfan ascended the throne, during his reign he was diligent in political affairs, not close to women, he was the only emperor in China to practice monogamy with practical actions, he only lived an ordinary life like ordinary people with his empress every day, husband and wife ate together, chanted poems together, talked about the past and the present together, Zhu Youfan also had more energy to use in national governance, reuse the virtuous, and strive to reverse the corruption of the government, historians praised him as a generation of Ming emperors. However, his son did not give strength, the second son died early, and the eldest son Zhu Houzhao became the only seedling. It can be said that Zhu Houzhao grew up in the midst of thousands of expectations, and the result was crooked.
In 1505, Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, during his reign, his personality was rebellious, he abandoned the government, mixed with eight eunuchs all day, indulged in fun, played a bag without a word, or climbed over the wall to go out of the palace to play in the mountains and rivers, a year and a half to return, at the age of 31, he fell into the river and was scared to death during a cruise. Without even a son left, the throne could only be given to his cousin Zhu Houxi.
In 1521, Zhu Houxi ascended the throne, and after he ascended the throne and seized the imperial power, he implemented the Jiajing New Deal, strictly enforcing the law, governing the people with leniency, rectifying the imperial program, and reducing service, but in the later period of his reign, he went astray, superstitious Taoists, resulting in corruption in the government, and he was almost strangled by the palace women. Zhu Houxi, who was reborn after the disaster, changed his temperament greatly, and for a long time ignored the government, and the Mongols and the Southern Wokou took the opportunity to invade, which had a great negative impact on the Ming Dynasty.
In 1556, Zhu Zaikun ascended the throne, he was the third son of Zhu Houxi, because the two brothers in front of him died, and successfully stole the throne. In the early days of His reign, Zhu Zaikun was also busy wiping his father's ass, while eliminating the maladministration of the former dynasty, he negotiated peace with mongolia, and he was also busy implementing the Longqing New Deal, keeping the Ming Dynasty in good order, and it was difficult to get the social economy back on the right track. He was destroyed by his son Zhu Yijun.
In 1572, Zhu Zaiquan died and was succeeded by Zhu Yijun, who was only 10 years old. He is the famous Wanli Emperor, reigned for 48 years, of which 28 years did not go to the dynasty, the first with the help of the teacher Zhang Juzheng, a series of reform measures to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, created the situation of Wanli Zhongxing, wanli three major signs also consolidated the territory of the Ming Dynasty, as a result of Zhang Juzheng's death, Zhu Yijun began to be a demon, drinking day and night, indulging in female sex, and finally taking an overdose of drugs, dying violently. The Ming Dynasty gradually declined.
In 1620, Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, contrary to his father, Zhu Changluo was the shortest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial experience card was invalidated after only one month, due to excessive absurdity, he fell ill on the day of succession, and then because of taking red pills, he drove the crane to the west.
Zhu You was buried in the Ming Dynasty Mausoleum
In 1621, Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, during Zhu Youxiao's reign, the castration party led by Wei Zhongxian ran rampant, creating unjust cases such as "Yi Ugly Zhao Prison" and "Ying Yin Zhao Prison", compared to being an emperor, Zhu Youxiao preferred to do carpentry, loved wood and house construction, and hated the government, because all three sons died prematurely, and Zhu Youxiao passed the throne to his younger brother Zhu Youjian after his death.
In 1627, Zhu Youguan ascended the throne, and wanted to do something, get rid of Wei Zhongxian and other rebels, rectify the officials and rectify the unjust prison, but unfortunately, the Ming Empire at that time was already in danger, internal and external troubles were powerless to return to heaven, the peasant revolt broke out at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, Zhu Youjian ning died and did not move the capital, in 1644 he was martyred, hanged himself on coal mountain, and left a letter before death: "Let the thief split the corpse, do not hurt the people alone."
Later generations commented that the Ming Dynasty was the most backbone dynasty, and some people said that the Ming Dynasty was faint. What is right and wrong?