His great aunt was Empress Zhang, the beloved wife of Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youfan, the only "wife" in the "monogamy" of the Ming royal family.
It was precisely because there was only one wife that Emperor Xiaozong had only one son, that is, Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao.
It was a thing that would not die if he did not do it, and he had killed himself at the age of thirty-one, leaving no heirs.
Therefore, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, put the children of the old Zhu family here on seniority (Lun Order), and finally selected Zhu Houxi, the son of the Prince of Xing, that is, our Jiajing, to be the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty after Emperor Wuzong.
Although it was chosen by the "Lun Order", at that time, yang Tinghe of the former dynasty had the final say, and the harem was only the empress dowager, oh no Zhang Empress Ma Shou. If Empress Zhang didn't nod, it wouldn't be so easy for Zhu Houxi to make him an emperor in a remote area.
Therefore, from this point of view, Empress Zhang is uncompromising and is the great benefactor of his Jiajing Zhu Houxi.
However, after ascending the throne, Jiajing not only did not take good care of his benefactor's great aunt, the empty nest old lady whose husband died and lost her son, but suppressed it everywhere, and the palace burned down and did not let people move; she also spent a lot of effort to engage her mother's family, the two uncles who went to Hubei to pick him up in Beijing to become emperors! Why?
It started with Jiajing's coming to Beijing.
At the beginning, Jia Jing spent a lot of effort to finally win the title of empress dowager for his mother (the Great Ceremony Incident). In this way, his mother, Widow Jiang, and his great aunt Widow Zhang, after decades of separation between kings and courtiers, returned to the same running line again:
They are all empresses, sitting on an equal footing.
Then the two widows, oh no, the two empresses, met historicly. The problem lies in this meeting.
To be precise, it was the widow Zhang.
What to say?
As I said earlier, mrs. Zhang is the only wife in Daming's "monogamy".
From the time Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, she was the empress and dominated the harem for eighteen years. Until her husband died. Then her son ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Zhengde of Wuzong, and after another sixteen years, she followed her as empress dowager for another sixteen years. Thirty-four years, most of her life, she is the supreme and unique woman in the world.
With this resume, who is not proud?
Not only pride, but also pride into the bone marrow, to see who has to look at the nostrils, right?
Our old lady Zhang is such a spoiled old lady. In the face of a concubine who has never been worthy of kneeling three times and nine times in front of herself, and performing a great gift, does she need to be polite? Need respect?
The answer can be no.
But I have to add a limit: before.
Yes, not previously required. But now it's different. Now she is an old widow whose husband has died and lost her son, and the family is the emperor of the dynasty and his mother.
What does that idiom say?
Time shifts easily, and things change.
Yes, the time is different, things are not the same, we can't live by the old yellow calendar, we must use the vision of development, keep up with the changes of the times, don't be thrown off the wheel of history...
Mrs. Zhang was really spoiled by her husband and her son, and thirty-four years later, she had become the only old fool in the royal harem. Oh no, she's not sweet. She was a little rude to the emperor's mother, and still asked people to bow their heads. You're --
The emperor can endure, and the emperor can't stand it!
Therefore, Mrs. Zhang didn't know what was going on, and she was fiercely remembered by Jiajing in her heart.
Then there began all kinds of careful eye revenge:
Oh, your palace burned and want to move?
--No, as empress dowagers, we have to live frugally and set a good example for the people of Li.
What, I'm building a new palace for my mother?
- Can that be the same? She traveled thousands of miles from Hubei to Beijing, how difficult it was! If the ground is cold, can't you make her a warm place to live? Besides, how many years have you enjoyed this palace, why can't you see anyone else?
Again, I gave my mother the world's first inspirational female writer and moral model (author of "Female Biography")?
- Hey, this is also guilty of jealousy? Obviously, it is a good thing to correct the social atmosphere. To have the ability you also write, you see I can't praise you!
Birthday party you pomp is not as big as my mother...
Oh my great aunt, what kind of vinegar do you eat? Do you have a birthday and people don't come to kowtow or am I wrong? Am I not going to let them... Oh even if it's me, cough, then my mom's birthday I let them come? (Let's) who mouthy, pull out and chop!
In short, a series of such incidents, Jiajing kept changing the fa'er to wear small shoes for his great aunt.
But this is only a small matter, and what really makes Empress Zhang cry bitterly and regret her mistakes is that Jiajing rectified her mother's family.
Empress Zhang's mother's family, the Zhang family, said before, in the Xiaozong Dynasty, it was quite flaunting its martial prowess. Later, Emperor Xiaozong died, and Emperor Wuzong took the throne, because he was his own nephew or the first mix in the world, so the Zhang family not only did not restrain, but continued to flaunt their might.
Until Jiajing took the throne.
Wearing small shoes for Empress Zhang is a small matter after all, and after a long time, Jiajing is not satisfied, and has his eyes on the two brothers of the Zhang family. It just so happens that these two are not good people, and there are a bunch of handles.
The fuse is such a thing.
He said that there was a man named Cao Zu before, and his son was mixed up in the Zhang family and heard something terrible. So Old Man Cao went to the official palace to tell Boss Zhang that he was going to rebel. At that time, the emperor was still Zhu Houzhao, that is, the nephew of the Zhang family, although he was an, he also felt that he was unbelievable, so he sent this Cao Zu to prison and prepared to gather the ministers to try him. Known by Boss Zhang, he bought the people around the emperor, attacked in advance, and poisoned Cao Zu in prison.
And then it's gone.
All the way to the Jiajing Dynasty.
In the Jiajing Dynasty, the two brothers of the Zhang family, like their sister, had the same iron head, did not know how to restrain themselves, and still acted recklessly.
To what extent?
It is said that a monk came to his door, and there was a man who was kind and gave a few dollars. Boss Zhang knew that he had beaten both the monk and the monk to death!
It should not be such a squirrel
He also said that it turned out that all the traitors around Zhu Houzhao had been punished, and the property was naturally sold and confiscated. As a result, the Zhang family did not know whether they were dead or alive, and even went to pick a good field and a beautiful slave to buy it back.
Oh my God, that's all a mix of fox friends! Even if you don't have a little bit of rabbit death, fox sorrow, and material injury, don't you have a little vigilance that the mountain rain wants to come? up!
And then there was the trouble.
It is said that there is a loan shark for the Zhang family, I don't know why I put it, I actually lost myself in it, but I owed the Zhang family five hundred gold. The Zhang family wanted to kill them all. The usurer brother couldn't stand it, wanted to rebel, turned over the matter of Cao Zu in that year, wrote a confession, and prepared to go to the official government to sue.
As a result, he was betrayed by his accomplices and killed by the Zhang family.
After all, it is the Jiajing Dynasty, who killed people, and the Zhang family did not want to make things bigger, so they took it personally with the son of the usurer family, saying that your father owes us money, so why not go back and bury people, don't make trouble.
This son did not dare to provoke the Zhang family, so he shifted his hatred and doubled down to find the trouble of selling his father's accomplice, saw a scolding, and met a beating. Hui Hui made the latter nightmare after nightmare, and after a long time, he opened the second pulse of Ren Dou and woke up.
He thought: Now that it is the Jiajing Dynasty, the Zhang family brothers are still building this way, and sooner or later they will overturn the car. Since you want to flip the car, it is better to turn over early that night, and it is better to turn over other people's hands than to turn over your own hands. Maybe you can still fall into the sin of folding merit and wearing sin and making meritorious deeds.
So, instead of his dead loan shark brother, he stabbed the government with all these things. The Zhang brothers went in. I didn't admit it when I went in, and my mouth was as hard as a dead duck.
And then the fun comes.
It is said that Boss Zhang has a confidant, can write and say, the Zhang family for the wrong things he knows, but also followed the participation, help planning. Then this guy has a good habit: keep a journal.
Good fellow, so many good things, one thing is counted, all in his diary, time and place people, what to have!
Boss Zhang was dumbfounded and had to admit it.
At this point, Empress Zhang could only open her face to "help her brother."
Unfortunately, if he wanted to intercede in person, Jiajing didn't even see him. Bribed the eunuch to say peace, was beaten back. It was difficult to find a good talking Empress Chen, and as a result, she was abolished as soon as she opened her mouth...
Even Empress Chen didn't even have a portrait of her nickname
The most ugly thing is that the emperor did not kill the Zhang family brothers, but was locked up in prison and continued to punch empress Zhang in the face.
Poor Empress Zhang was spoiled all her life, and people lived so depressed in their old age. Even later, Jiajing's mother died first, and he still suspected that Empress Zhang was engaged in witchcraft and cursed his mother.
Empress Zhang was so stubborn that she lived until Jiajing died in twenty-eight years. In her life, thirty-four years of extreme favor and twenty-eight years of small shoes, it is really ups and downs, gentle and rich.
Empress Zhang: nmmp