Chinese Emperors ( 1 ) --- Ming Xiaozong

I don't know when this review of Chinese emperors will be written, nor do I know how long it will be written. Write that I suddenly don't want to write one day. Like to read more, read so much history books, some people have their own views on some things. That's how I see it, and if you can't see it, don't look at it.

Let's start with Ming Xiaozong. Why start with him, because he is the most special of the emotional issues that Chinese care about. The general public did not have much interest in the emperor's martial arts, because that was a thing of the past. We resent Cixi's traitorous pursuit of glory, but more than 100 years have passed. We admire Tang Taizong's wenzhi martial arts, but the jiangshan we laid down is also lost, but we are still China. So the history of gossip and feelings is the most attractive to the general public, because these can become after-dinner talk, and there are all kinds of jokes and TV dramas. In contrast, the political dramas of the Ming Dynasty 1566 are not noticed by a small number of people after all. Then start with Ming Xiaozong, who has the least gossip.

Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, courtesy name Zhu Youfan, was the only emperor of chinese dynasties who did not have a concubine. In today's carnal society, there is indeed a clear stream of existence. The best-selling book "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" has a very high evaluation of him, he is a good emperor and a good person.

He only met his father for the first time at the age of six, and his father was also because of some things in his childhood (his father Ming Yingzong was captured, and his grandmother sent a wangong girl to accompany her, and as a result, he could not live without her for the rest of his life). The seed of infatuation also sadly passed away shortly after Wan Guifei's death, although he was many years younger than Wan Guifei), which led to the obsession with Wan Guifei, plus wan guifei's own heirs all died prematurely. Someone in the entire harem was pregnant and was miscarried by Princess Wan Guifei. However, Emperor Ming's mother, Ji Shi, became pregnant after being accidentally lucky, but was protected by the entire court, and most of the harem people raised this dangerous child together. It was not until he was six years old that he was informed by the eunuch Zhang Min of his death to inform his father Emperor Chenghua of MingxianZong. However, this also brought disaster to his mother. Soon after he recognized his biological father, his mother, Ji Shi, died violently. Everyone knows the truth, and no one asks why he died violently.

Throughout ming xiaozong's growth experience, Leng Palace grew up, the birth mother was violent, the biological father was indifferent, the position was almost insecure many times, and even his life was not guaranteed many times, that is, after taking the throne, he looked for his mother's relatives many times, and all he saw were liars. This kind of lonely experience is almost really a lonely person.

However, his greatness lies in the fact that after experiencing all kinds of torture in the world, he still treats the world with love.

He was a good man because he didn't remember the people who left him with the shadow of his childhood. With a broad mind, he spared the Wan Guifei family, and did his best to give back to those who had helped him, and Empress Wu, who had been beaten into the Cold Palace earlier, was honored by him as the Empress Dowager of the Zhenggong Palace, and Huai'en, who was banished to the Zhongdu Shouyuan Garden, was immediately recalled and reused. After three years of spending time with Empress Zhang, he decided not to take a concubine anymore and devoted himself to staying with Empress Zhang for the rest of his life. This emperor, who did not have a happy childhood, gave his son a deep love for the later MingWu Emperor. Until his death, the last words spoken by him did not talk about the government and the merits, but only remembered that Chenghua married Empress Zhang in twenty-three years, and Hongzhi had a son Zhu Houzhao in four years. Anyone with flesh and blood and lust, seeing this, will be unable to suppress the tears. He was indeed a good man.

As an emperor, he was diligent in political affairs, the early dynasty and the late dynasty were not enough, it would increase the afternoon dynasty, and at the same time rest with the people, not killing innocents indiscriminately, and even less for the death penalty, for the counselors, unlike other emperors in the Ming Dynasty who beat people's butts at every turn. Even if you are angry and corrupt, you will go to jail and be released in two days. He was still a good man as emperor. But the moral kidnapping of this good man alone makes him really not a good emperor. Due to the lack of childhood affection, since the emergence of Empress Zhang, he has given almost all his love to Empress Zhang and their children. The first criticism of the Hongzhi Dynasty was the misdeeds of foreign relatives, Empress Zhang's father's family was corrupt, encroached on mintian, and even robbed mintian with empress dowager Zhou's mother's family, especially the corruption of Yanke, which made Manchu Wenwu grit his teeth, and even the literary leader Li Dongyang was directly imprisoned after writing a letter, and after two days of acquittal, Li Dongyang, a reader, directly knocked out Zhang Heling, that is, Empress Zhang's brother's front teeth. Even in this case, Ming Xiaozong still felt that Empress Zhang was fine and that she was not doing well enough. Being a man is a big husband, and being an emperor really leaves people speechless.

This is actually the biggest problem for Emperor Hongzhi to be an emperor, he is a good person, but he lacks great talent. Blindly wanting to be a good person and not wanting to have a war led to the loss of the Ming Dynasty territory in the Hetao area and the Hami area. I was bent on giving away these places. However, on the issue of sovereign territory, as the head of a country, the emperor is so rash that he cannot even defend his own land, it is really difficult to confuse it with a good emperor. As the founder of Hongzhi Zhongxing, after the Ming Dynasty experienced so many tosses, it was right to recuperate, but all the policies did not bring financial abundance, but lost a lot of territory.

Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan, he is really a good person, he is really not a good emperor, an ordinary shoucheng lord, not a fainting emperor.