In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a ridiculous past that not only took the life of Yang Shen, the first talent of the Ming Dynasty, but also almost let the tablet of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di move out of the Taimiao Temple. After several years of fighting, the farce finally ended with the victory of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, and the Yongle Emperor, who had almost suffered, also escaped the disaster, and the only unlucky ones were the ministers under the Jiajing Emperor, as well as the acclaimed Akihito Zhu Gaozi, who reigned for less than a year.
What is going on, we may wish to continue to look at it.
Ming Wuzong
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Speaking of this farce, we have to mention Ming Wuzong, one of the many strange emperors of Daming.
As the only surviving son of Emperor Mingxiaozong (Emperor Mingxiaozong had two sons in total, and one died prematurely), his life can be described as extremely willful. Although he was a "good father" during his reign and received one hundred and twenty-seven righteous sons, in the end, he did not have a single biological son. On a trip back to Beijing, the good emperor did not do, had to run to experience the joy of being a fisherman, the result was that the fish was not caught, but he fell into the water from the boat, although the person was rescued ashore, but the shock was coupled with the infection of wind and cold, and soon after returning to Beijing, he died.
Emperor Mingwuzong himself died, but he could kill a cadre of ministers under his command. Emperor Xiaozong had no other heirs, and Emperor Mingwuzong himself had no descendants, so even the selection of heirs to the imperial throne became a problem.
Finally, in the discussion of the courtiers, it was decided to make the person closest to the five sects the new king. As a result, this opportunity also officially fell to the grandson of Emperor Mingxianzong and the cousin of Emperor Mingwuzong, Zhu Houxi, the son of King Xingxian, who was also known as the Jiajing Emperor.
At that time, Zhu Houxi was still guarding filial piety for his father and was preparing to succeed him as the King of Xing in the fiefdom, and he did not realize that one of the biggest pie in the whole world was about to fall on his head. Until the ministers rushed to Anlu, read out the will of Emperor Wuzong of Ming and the will of the empress dowager, and ordered him to go to Beijing to take the throne.
Yang Tinghe
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Originally, according to the situation at that time, as long as Zhu Houxi successfully ascended the throne, Daming Jiangshan would be at peace, but a gunfire between Daming's monarchs and courtiers also quietly filled the air.
The previous emperor was difficult to persuade, and Yang Tinghe, who was the first assistant of the cabinet at the time, was also distressed, so in order to avoid the new emperor repeating the same mistakes, he decided to give the Xing king a dismount and let him know the strength of the Ming Dynasty. According to the old system of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Tinghe sent people to convey the news, let Zhu Houxi enter the palace from the Donghua Gate, rest in the Wenhua Hall, and then take the throne the next day. But Zhu Houxi had already done his homework and stopped outside the palace, insisting that according to the will, he had come to be the emperor, not the prince. In this regard, the two sides have not yet met, and they have reached a stalemate.
Seeing this, the empress dowager rushed out to fight the round field, let the ministers persuade both sides, and finally Zhu Houxi entered from the Daming Gate, and then he became the emperor at the Fengtian Temple, becoming the famous Jiajing Emperor.
Since he was succeeded by a cousin, according to traditional practice, the Jiajing Emperor should posthumously recognize Emperor Xiaozong as his father and change his biological father, King Xingxian, to emperor. However, emperor Jiajing was very resistant to this, and ingratiated himself with the civil leaders Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng, intending to cancel the ceremony and add a honorific title to his father. However, Yang and Mao were unmoved, and claimed among the courtiers that "those who disagree are adulterous and evil, and should be beheaded." In the face of pressure exerted by the courtiers, the Jiajing Emperor, who had just ascended to the throne, was weak and could only accept it.
Of course, he was not without a counterattack. When welcoming his birth mother into Beijing, he insisted on the etiquette of the empress dowager, which was strongly opposed by Yang Tinghe and others. Emperor Kejiajing also learned to be wise, and began to retreat into the future, indicating that he was willing to abdicate and accompany his mother back to the fiefdom. This move can also be called a killer, and Yang Tinghe and others can only agree to it.
Jiajing Emperor
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In the third year of Jiajing, the Jiajing Emperor's throne was stable at this time, and he found an opportunity to let Yang Ting and Zhi Shi get rid of this big problem. With Yang Tinghe's departure from the dynasty, a long-dormant plan suddenly surged into the heart of the Jiajing Emperor.
At the beginning of his reign, the Jiajing Emperor wanted to honor his father as the first emperor and let his tablet enter the Ming Dynasty Taimiao Temple to enjoy the continuous incense offerings of the Ming Dynasty. However, due to the weak strength at that time, it was repeatedly blocked in the DPRK, so it had to give up. Now, seeing that the time was ripe, he wanted to repeat the old story.
After this heavy news was put forward, it was immediately opposed by many courtiers, and Yang Shen, the head of the yuan, said bluntly that "the state has been a hundred and fifty years old, adhering to the righteousness of the festival and dying, just today." Ignoring this, Emperor Kejiajing, in anger, arrested all the disobedient courtiers and executed sixteen ministers, making the hundred officials dare to be angry but dare not speak out. Although Yang Shen escaped a disaster, he was also degraded and never reused.
Although the tablet of King Xingxian was allowed to enter the Taimiao Temple under the violent orders of the Jiajing Emperor, problems also arose.
Yongle Emperor Zhu Di
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the main hall of the Taimiao Temple can only place 9 tablets, and the other imperial tablets are stored behind the hall. Coincidentally, when I arrived at Jiajing, the Taimiao Temple was just full. Therefore, if Jiajing wanted to place the father's card in the Taimiao Temple, he must first invite a big man from the main hall tablet to the back of the temple.
So who should I invite? This question was also pondered in the mind of the Jiajing Emperor for a long time, so he simply ignored it and decided to decide according to the closeness of the relationship. For him, there is no doubt that the most distantly related are Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.
As the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, the tablet of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, could not be moved, but the Ming Dynasty was personally played by this old ancestor, and the tablet that moved him could not be scolded to death. The Jiaqing Emperor was not stupid either, so he set his sights on Zhu Di, who was in the second place.
Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di was slightly more active, but this old ancestor was not easy to mess with, and he was wise and divine in his life, saying that there were more things done during the emperor than in the later generations combined. Therefore, when the Jiajing Emperor was preparing to move Zhu Di's tablet, he was strongly opposed by the Qunchen. Even in order to dispel the idea of the Jiajing Emperor, they also managed to get the Jiajing Emperor to give Zhu Di a push, so that his temple name changed from "Ming Taizong" to "Ming Chengzu". At this point, Zhu Di had also become a being of the same level as Zhu Yuanzhang, and he could still get his hands on it.
Since Ming Chengzu Zhu Di could not move, the Jiajing Emperor had no choice but to continue to move his gaze downwards and look at the tablet of Emperor Akihito Zhu Gaozi. Probably because he had already rejected Emperor Jiajing once before, and because Akihito was a good person, he had only reigned for less than a year, and the chancellor did not continue to oppose it. As a result, Akihito's tablet was sadly thrown to the apse by the Jiajing Emperor.
At this point, this farce has finally come to an end.
Taimiao
As a rare benevolent monarch in the Ming Dynasty, Akihito can be said to have suffered inexplicably in the fighting methods of the Jiajing Emperor and the Yongle Emperor, and the tablets were thrown out of the Taimiao Temple. Fortunately, the descendants of the Jiajing Emperor were also ashamed of this move, and after his death, they carried back the tablet of Emperor Akihito Zhu Gaozi and invited King Xingxian out again. And the Jiajing Emperor tossed for so long, in the end it was still a bamboo basket to hit the water empty.