There are many personality emperors in the Ming Dynasty, but today we are talking about a prince who the Wanli Emperor disliked very much and was also the eldest son of the emperor, he was Zhu Changluo, the Ming Guangzong Emperor.
The Ming Dynasty ruled for a total of two hundred and seventy-six years, and there were sixteen emperors, among them, there was an emperor Zhu Changluo, who was very short-lived, which could also be said to be very unlucky, just ascended the throne, sat on the emperor's throne, his ass was not hot, he was not addicted, he died.
In the ninth year of the Wanli Calendar (1581), Emperor Mingshenzong was fortunate to have a palace lady in the Cining Palace of his birth mother Empress Li, that is, Zhu Changluo's mother, and later the Wang clan became pregnant, and Mingshenzong was very jealous of this matter and did not dare to admit it at first, but the Internal History Living Notes recorded this matter, and Mingshenzong wanted to be unable to rely on it, because at that time, the Wanli Emperor had no heirs, plus the empress dowager was eager to be sun-hearted, and Emperor Shenzong was most helplessly forced to admit it, but he was very reluctant to recognize this prince in his heart.
In the tenth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1582), Emperor Myōshin was forced to crown this palace lady as a concubine. The Wanli Emperor's Empress Zhenggong had no heirs, and among the many concubines, she was particularly fond of the Zheng clan, and in the twelfth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1584), she was crowned as the Imperial Concubine of the Zheng Clan, second only to the Empress, and later gave birth to the second son of the Emperor, Zhu Changpu, but unfortunately died prematurely. The Wanli Emperor himself was unwilling to make Zhu Changluo crown prince, he wanted Zheng Guifei to have another son for him and make him crown prince, in order to quell the controversy, in October of the twenty-ninth year of wanli (1601), the Wanli Emperor finally made the eldest son Zhu Changluo the crown prince, the third son Zhu Changxun the Fu king, the fifth son Zhu Changhao the Rui king, the sixth son Zhu Changrun the Hui king, and the seventh son Zhu Changying the gui king.
In the forty-third year of the Wanli Calendar, on the fourth day of the first month of May in 1615, Zhu Changluo was already thirty-three years old. On the first day after Zhu Changluo took office, he expressed his determination to eliminate maladministration with several holy decrees. On September 26, 1620, in the first year of Taichang, Zhu Changluo died of taking red pills, known in history as the "Red Pill Case", when Chinese New Year's Eve was eight years old, and the temple number was Guangzong.
As for the cause of Zhu Changluo's death is one of the three strange cases of the Ming Dynasty, there is no shortage of emperors who died by taking Dan Pills, why they had to take Dan Pills, there is constant controversy in history! He thought that he was a victim of the power struggle in the court, and he had fought with the ministers since the time of his father, the Wanli Emperor, and Zhu Changluo, like the Wanli Emperor, wanted to reform and eliminate maladministration! This offended the pain points of interest groups, and successive emperors were competing with their ministers for the right to speak! It just didn't work out!
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