In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was then the king of Wu, founded the country in Nanjing, and was the Ming Taizu, and the Ming Dynasty officially stepped onto the stage of history.
In 1644, Li Zicheng led the rebel army to invade Beijing, and Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen, felt powerless to return to heaven, and hanged himself on the coal mountain with a rope, and the Ming Dynasty was declared extinct.
During this period, the Ming Dynasty enjoyed the country for 276 years, and a total of 16 emperors were transmitted. The 16 emperors of the Ming Dynasty all have a lot of topics, and they can be said to be "remarkable" in their personalities.
Here we can focus on Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen.
Zhu Qizhen, the eldest son of Zhu Zhanji of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, was the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the eighth emperor. He had many nicknames in later generations, such as "Calling the Son of Heaven", "Daming God of War", "Mingbao Sect" and so on.
Of course, these nicknames are not good meanings, because they are all sarcastic and ridicule of him.
The reason why this is so is because Zhu Qizhen's life is really outrageous, it is simply holding a heavenly card, but he was beaten into a mess.
When Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, it was only 68 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the governance of his father, grandfather, and grandfather three generations of emperors, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the contradictions of all classes were not sharp, especially the civil and military ministers and workers were very balanced, which can be regarded as a golden age.
In such an environment, as long as Zhu Qizhen has a slightly higher IQ when he is the emperor, his evaluation in later generations will never be too bad.
At that time, he was not too old when he ascended the throne, so the power of the court was ruled by the empress dowager, and a group of old ministers discussed the court, so he couldn't recognize his own strength after he became in power, and began his journey of being a vegetable and fun-loving.
After the death of the older generation of courtiers, Zhu Qizhen began to favor Wang Zhen, and after Wang Zhen's rainbow fart, Zhu Qizhen was full of confidence, and he always wanted to make some great achievements to prove himself.
Soon the opportunity came, when the northern Warat Department invaded, Wang Zhen began to do what he liked in order to emulate his ancestors and make meritorious contributions to Zhu Qizhen's imperial expedition.
Zhu Qizhen was hot-headed, so he ignored the dissuasion of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs and led the army to the battle. It's a pity that Zhu Qizhen is an embroidered pillow, and the major events of the country of soldiers are a family in his eyes.
Zhu Qizhen, with hundreds of thousands of elite troops, was surrounded by the Warat Army in Tumubao, and finally the whole army was annihilated, and he himself became a prisoner and became a student of Warat.
This is a great defeat that has never been seen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it is too much that when the Warat people caught Zhu Qizhen and wanted to go south, and Zhu Qizhen in order to survive, he actually helped them to call the guards to switch the city as the emperor.
This is the reason why the Son of Heaven and the Castle Sect are called.
But not everyone in the Ming Dynasty was as outrageous as Zhu Qizhen, and at the critical moment, Yu Qian and other ministers supported Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qiyu to ascend the throne, and made every effort to deal with this crisis, but in the end did not let the Warat people succeed.
As soon as the Warat people saw that they couldn't get any benefits, they seized Baozong and released him back after a year, and after such an experience, the prestige of Baozong and his younger brother can be said to be very different, so Baozong can't be the emperor for the time being after he returns.
Fortunately, his younger brother Zhu Qiyu was not a ruthless person, but he put Baozong under house arrest and did not take his life.
After Zhu Qiyu became the emperor, he has been working hard, hoping to consolidate his imperial power, but God treats him kindly, not only his only son died early, but his health is also very poor, and he can't hold on after only eight years of reign.
The emperor is seriously ill, and there is no heir, so this gives Baozong a chance. Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng and others took advantage of Zhu Qiyu's illness to launch the "Change of Seizing the Gate" and re-established the Baozong throne.
The first thing Baozong did after ascending the throne was to attack his younger brother's faction, he not only reprimanded his younger brother for "unfilial piety, unkindness, unkindness, and injustice", and then learned a lesson, and secretly sent the eunuch Jiang An to murder his younger brother, completely strangling the danger in the cradle. (It will be recorded in the history books as sick and dead)
The most ironic thing is that the eunuch Wang Zhen, the culprit of the "Tumubao Incident", was restored to his reputation, and the Great Khan of Warat, who captured him, was also rewarded.
And Yu Qian and other people who supported his younger brother were all executed by him mercilessly, and even the generals who were loyal to the country and did not open the door to surrender when he called the door were executed by him.
As for his younger brother's wife and family, Baozong did not let them go, and dealt with them ruthlessly.
According to historical records, Zhu Qiyu did not indulge in women's sex due to physical reasons and busy state affairs, so there are only 5 wives and concubines who have been recorded.
They are Empress Wang, Empress Hang, Tang Emperor Guifei, Concubine Li Xian, and Li Xi'er.
After Bao Zong re-ascended the throne, he disposed of these younger brothers and daughters-in-law differently.
Queen Wang was able to die a good death because she protected Zhu Qizhen's son Zhu Jianshen, Zhu Qizhen re-named her as Princess Yun, and finally Queen Wang lived until the Zhengde period before she died, and she was the one with the best ending among the five.
Queen Hang gave birth to Zhu Qiyu's only son, Zhu Jianji, and her mother became the queen by virtue of her son. But her son Fubo died early, so she died not long after the loss of her son.
But Zhu Qizhen did not let her go because she died, so after that, Queen Hang not only abolished the queen's nickname, but even the mausoleum was not peaceful, and ordered her body to be destroyed or even destroyed, and the end was very bleak.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty has been implementing the funeral system since Zhu Yuanzhang, and those concubines who gave birth to dragons in the harem must be buried without exception.
Kebaozong abolished his younger brother's throne at the front foot, and did not recognize his younger brother as an emperor at that time, but for his younger brother's concubines, he still ordered them to be martyred.
Therefore, the remaining Tang Emperor Guifei, Concubine Li Xian, and Li Xi'er also fell to the miserable end of all martyrdom.
may be in response to that sentence, the most ruthless emperor's family. I don't know if the moment Zhu Qiyu died, he would regret his choice to take his brother back.
From this point of view, Song Gaozong did not let his brother and father come back, which was the most correct choice for him.