(Yu Shenxing image)
In the second year of Wanli, in 1574 AD, there was a minister named Yu Shenxing in the Ming Dynasty who discovered something amazing.
Yu Shenxing, the word can be far away, Shandong Dong'a people, Jinshi was born, Wanli two years, he was in the Hanlin Academy to do editing, the main work is to revise the previous emperor Ming Muzong Zhu Zaikun record.
Yu Shenxing is a historian, so in addition to referring to the written materials left by his predecessors, he also needs to visit some witnesses of those eras in the palace and outside the palace, only in this way can he write a more vivid and vivid history, as well as a history with high authenticity.
So because of work, he got acquainted with an old eunuch in the palace.
This old eunuch didn't know much about the affairs of the Mu Zong era, but he told Yu Shenxing a court secret of the Chenghua era.
The old eunuch said that Zhu Jianshen, the emperor of Chenghua of Ming Xianzong, went back to the palace to rest one night, and caught up with the concubine who was supposed to serve him at that time who was sick and couldn't sleep, so the palace maid Ji was temporarily pulled to sleep, but Ji and the emperor were just a night of spring breeze, and then they became pregnant, so they gave birth to Zhu Youji.
But we have to know that Zhu Jianshen, the emperor, is still the kind of infatuated, in the harem he favors the concubine Wan, Wan's flying and domineering, of course, other women in the palace cannot be allowed to give birth to children for the emperor, because Wan's has no children, and the rest of the other concubines are good, whether they are palace maids, it has nothing to do with the emperor's sleep, but if she is pregnant with the dragon seed and is still born, then she can rely on her son, and then her Wan's life will not be easy.
Wan Guifei has this sense of crisis, so after she learned the news, she began to do everything possible to give Ji an abortion, first sending an anonymous palace maid, and then sending a eunuch named Zhang Min, but I don't know if the palace maid eunuch found out or Ji's personality is too charming, and the people who were sent out by Wan Guifei to have an abortion turned against each other and began to help Ji.
The palace maids spontaneously joined the army of raising Zhu Youji, while the eunuch Zhang Min lied to Wan Guifei that the child had been killed, but in fact, the child was safely transferred to a secret place in the deep palace to continue to be raised.
(Guifei Wan's image)
Later, Zhu Youzhu grew bigger and bigger, and he couldn't hide it, and it was impossible to hide it for a lifetime, just at this time, Zhang Min was also transferred from Wan Guifei's inner servant post and transferred to Emperor Zhu Jianshen's side.
At that time, Zhu Jianshen's age was actually quite old, but he didn't know that he already had a son, and even he didn't remember that he had been fortunate to be such a palace maid as Ji.
The old eunuch said that the Ji family was temporarily assigned to serve the emperor, but the record in the History of the Ming Dynasty is more specific:
Chenghua conquered the barbarians, captured the court, taught the history of women, was vigilant and sensitive, and ordered to guard the inner hidden... The emperor is hidden inside, and he should be satisfied, happy, and fortunately, so he has a body.
What does that mean? That is to say, this Ji family, she is not a palace maid who entered the palace as a draft, but a family member of a prisoner of war, who was charged into the court in the midst of the war, and her identity is more miserable, but the Ji family is smart and very capable, so she was transferred to Neiku to do female history after only working as a coolie in the palace for a period of time.
The inner warehouse is equivalent to Zhu Jianshen's private warehouse, and the female history is equivalent to the administrator of this private warehouse.
It is precisely because of this that it was probably when Zhu Jianshen went to the warehouse to access things that he stumbled upon Ji's, and the emperor saw that this looked good, and people also had temperament, so he temporarily gave Ji's luck.
The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, not to mention the people and things in the Forbidden City, every grass and tree essentially belongs to the emperor's private property, that is, everything in the world, Zhu Jianshen can also have whatever he wants.
(Ming Xianzong, Zhu Jianshen, portrait)
Therefore, for Ji's family, she has no way to refuse this sudden luck, let alone resist, she can only bear it silently.
However, Zhu Jianshen was obviously not a responsible man, and after the merry and happy, he patted his ass and left, leaving Ji alone in a daze in the cold wind.
For Ji, the gears of her fate began to turn at this moment, and the trajectory of her life began to change from this moment, but for the emperor, this thing was as ordinary as eating, brushing her teeth and washing her face, which was equivalent to nothing happening.
The emperor wouldn't remember who the Ji family was, and the emperor wouldn't remember it, so when Zhang Min poked out this kind of thing, it could be regarded as shocking Zhu Jianshen.
Later, as soon as the emperor verified that Zhu Youzhu was really his own child, he was so beautiful that he immediately took Zhu Youzhu out of the deep palace and named him the prince, and he also made the Ji family a concubine.
The matter is basically completed here, but there is always one person who is not satisfied, and this person is Wan Guifei.
Thinking about it carefully, this Wan Guifei is also quite miserable, it doesn't matter if she is deceived by a palace maid, it doesn't matter if she is deceived by a eunuch, but suddenly looking back, Wan Guifei found that the entire Forbidden City went up to the concubines and nobles, down to the palace maids and eunuchs, and everyone actually joined forces to deceive themselves.
Because, in the process of raising Zhu Youzhu for five or six years, almost hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs participated in it, and they had the money to contribute and make powerful contributions, while raising Zhu Youji, they also had to strictly guard against this secret, and later even Zhu Jianshen's first queen Wu participated in the work of raising Zhu Youji.
(Wu abolished image)
How can it be said that it was the first queen, because the Wu family was abolished at that time, and there was no position, and the reason why she was deposed as the queen was also very strange, that is, when the Wu family was the queen, she was really angry that Zhu Jianshen favored the Wan family, so she beat the Wan family in the palace, and Zhu Jianshen was furious and directly took off the queen hat of the Wu family.
If it is said that the reason why Wu abolished Zhu Youzhu was because he had a grudge against the nobles, then the motives of these palace maids and eunuchs who went forward to help Ji and Zhu Youzhu are really difficult to understand.
Although Ji was fortunate by the emperor, the emperor turned his head and forgot about it, so although Ji gave birth to a prince, she was an ordinary palace maid at that time, what can she get by helping such an ordinary palace maid? Of course, she can't get anything.
Not to mention Zhu Youzhu in infancy, he was born a black household, and he has been hiding and hiding all his life, whether he can grow up or become an adult depends on whether he can grow up, and what can he get by raising such a child? The answer is the same, he can't get anything.
Moreover, these people not only won't get anything, but they will also take huge risks because they collectively deceived Wan Guifei, and once the incident happens, they will definitely have no good fruit to eat.
Therefore, the motives of these palace maids and eunuchs have long been incomprehensible, and people wonder why they are thankless, why they do not seek good fortune and avoid harm but take risks, why do they not focus on interests, why do they make such unrewarding actions?
In fact, the answer is very simple, that is, although they are slaves, subordinates, insignificant small characters in the river of history, and a grain of dust in the process of the rise and fall of the dynasty, they have the most dazzling brilliance in human nature, that is, kindness.
Confucius said to be benevolent, and Mencius said to take righteousness.
(Concubine Ji image)
In the environment of human society, when faced with a thing, our first reaction is often whether I can do it, but in fact, what we really have to ask ourselves is whether we should do it.
Kindness, which explains everything they do.
Even, before they decided to do so, they had already thought of their own end.
Zhu Youzhu became the prince, Ji became a concubine, Wan Guifei can be said to be red on the spot, and soon after he used various means to kill a group of palace maids and eunuchs, as well as the eunuch Zhang Min and the imperial concubine Ji.
Think about it, since he was born, Zhu Youzhu has no name, he is like a wild dog, hiding in Tibet, and every day is a dark life.
He has never taken a bath, never cut his hair, never cut his nails, and he can't even see what the outside world is like at a glance, he hasn't drunk clean water, he hasn't eaten a full meal, and every day he either drinks porridge that has become rancid or eats rotten vegetable leaves raw, and all this is thanks to Wan Guifei, because Wan Guifei will not allow his existence, if Wan Guifei finds Zhu Youzhu before the emperor, Zhu Youzhi will definitely die.
However, it was in such a difficult and difficult environment that the Ji family worked hard to raise himself to grow up, and relied on the help of countless well-wishers like the eunuch Zhang Min to survive, but Wan Guifei finally ruined all this, forced Zhang Min to death, and killed her mother.
Of course, after Zhu Youzhu later ascended the throne as Emperor Xiaozong, the Wan family had already died, but even if the Wan family died, the Wan family also had a name behind him, and there was a family behind the Wan family, and it was easy for the emperor to liquidate it.
(Forbidden City Photography)
After Wei Zheng's death, Taizong once knocked down his tomb, and after Zhang Juzheng's death, Wanli also stripped Zhang Jiangling of all his fame.
When this filial piety was in power, some ministers suggested that the emperor take away the title of Wan's concubine, and some officials said that all the clansmen behind Wan's family should be imprisoned and executed.
However, Xiaozong stopped all this, he retained the honor of the Wan family, treated the relatives behind the Wan family preferentially, and no longer allowed any officials to investigate the real cause of his mother's death.
Yes, yes, Zhu Youzhu has never been treated kindly since he was a child, but it is precisely because he has never been treated kindly that he is particularly sensitive to kindness, he can better recognize kindness than ordinary people, and he knows the value of treating others better.
Fate kisses me with pain, and I return the world with a kiss.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has a lot of wonders, such as Xiaozong's son Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, who is a proper player, who goes out of the customs today and goes to Jiangnan tomorrow, and visits a brothel the day after tomorrow and makes trouble in the palace the day after tomorrow.
Wuzong is the only son of Xiaozong, Xiaozong is the most fond of this son, and allows him to mess around all kinds of things, in the eyes of Wuzong, his father Xiaozong is just an old man with no temper.
But Wu Zong didn't know that people and people, even fathers and sons, were different.
Wuzong wasted his light and shadow in the best era, and Xiaozong of that year washed away the lead in the worst era.