Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen was the crown prince Zhu Mishen's concubine, and twelve beauties were selected, and Zhu Qizhen selected three of them, namely Wu, Wang, and Bai.
Before his death, Zhu Qizhen believed that Wu was more suitable to be an empress, and in July of the eighth year of Tianshun, Zhu Jianshen followed his father's will and married Wu as empress. At this time, Zhu Jianshen was fifteen years old, and he did not like the young and beautiful Empress Wu, but instead devoted himself to Wan Zhen'er, a palace maid who was seventeen years older than him.
Originally supposedly newly married Yan'er, you nong and I nong, but they were snubbed by their husbands, Empress Wu was angry and did not want to fight, and Zhu Jianshen did not want to hide her love for Wan Zhen'er, so Empress Wu quickly found out the origin of the matter, but she misestimated the emperor's true feelings for Wan Zhen'er, she thought that Wan Zhen'er did not abide by the palace rules and seduced the emperor, so she sent someone to arrest Wan Zhen'er and beat her badly.
Hearing that her beloved had been beaten, Zhu Mi was deeply distressed, and without hesitation, she chose to abolish it, and Empress Wu was impulsive and angry, but she was also quickly beaten into the cold palace. After only one month as empress, she was deposed, and she may have served the shortest term in history.
Empress Wu's father, Wu Jun, had previously been given the title of Governor of Tongzhi (都督同知), and was thus imprisoned.
Niu Yu, a eunuch who had a good relationship with Empress Wu, was implicated and was demoted to Ming Xiaoling to grow vegetables, Niu Yu's nephew Niu Lun, the shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and Yang Chun, a nephew of the official's staff, were removed from their posts, and Sun Bo, the Marquis of Huaining, who was married to Niu Yu, was dismissed from his post.
Nanjing told Wang Hui, Wang Yuan, and others in the incident that niu yu had been punished too lightly, and zhu Jianshen was actually very angry and demoted Wang Hui and others to a remote place as a judge.
It is said that after Zhu Jianshen was able to successfully persuade Empress Zhou to agree to the abolition, Niu Yu's confession played a key role, in which Niu Yu admitted to cheating at the time of Wu's canonization.
According to the "History of Ming" compiled by Zhang Tingyu and others in the Qing Dynasty, after Wu was deposed, he adopted Emperor Xiaozong Ofe Of Ming in the Cold Palace, so after Emperor Xiaozong of Ming ascended the throne, he took Wu as his mother and raised him, and ordered that his nephew after Wu was deposed be promoted to Jinyi Wei Hundred Households.
After Wu's death in zhengde four years, the eunuch Liu Jin proposed to be cremated directly as an ordinary palace maid, which was opposed by the university student Wang Jun, and was finally buried as a concubine. Empress Wu recklessly and quickly, scolding the emperor's sweetheart, but at the cost of her own lifelong fate.
After the abolition of Empress Wu and the appointment of the Wang clan selected by her father, Empress Wang learned the lessons of her predecessors, Mingzhe protected herself, and treated Wan Guifei alone, and Zhu Jianshen did not fall in love with Empress Wang because of her virtuous generosity, and the emperor's heart was firmly occupied by Wan Guifei, and Zhu Jianshen gave almost all his tenderness to Wan Guifei.
Empress Wang, childless and spoiled, died in the thirteenth year of Zhengde and was buried with Zhu Jianshen in Maoling Tomb, with the courtesy name Empress Xiaozhenchun. Zhu Jianshen's courtesy name was Pure Emperor, and Empress Wang, as a successor, could not have been an emperor according to the regulations at that time, because Zhu Jianshen's original empress Wu was deposed, so Empress Wang was able to be an emperor.
This was an honor for the empress, and according to the regulations, only the original match of the emperor could be an emperor, such as Zhu Yuanzhang's courtesy name was Emperor Gao, Empress Ma's courtesy name was Empress Gao, Zhu Di's courtesy name was Emperor Wen, Empress Xu's courtesy name was Empress Wen, Zhu Gaozi's courtesy name was Emperor Zhao, Empress Zhang's courtesy name was Empress Zhao, Zhu Qizhen's courtesy name was Emperor Rui, and Empress Qian's courtesy name was Empress Xiaozhuangrui.
In the second year of Chenghua, the beloved Wan Guifei gave birth to the eldest son for Zhu Jianshen, at this time Wan Guifei was thirty-seven years old, Zhu Jianshen was overjoyed and planned to appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince, but ten months later, Wan Guifei's son died prematurely, and she was grief-stricken and could never get pregnant again.
Later, the empress dowager and courtiers began to persuade Zhu To see that the rain and dew were all wet and give birth to a prince early, and Zhu Mishen thought of the concubine who had been in the palace for a long time.
Another concubine chosen by Zhu Qizhen for Zhu Jianshen, Bai Shi, was given the title of Concubine Xian in the second year of Chenghua, and she seemed to be luckier than Empress Wu and Empress Wang, and in the fifth year of Chenghua, she gave birth to the second prince Zhu Youji for Zhu Jianshen, and two years later, Zhu Youji was crown prince.
However, Princess Baixian was very unfortunate, and her son died after only three months as a prince.
Princess Bai Xianfei did not rise through the ranks in her life, and died in the sixth year of Jiajing at the age of about eighty. Even if the husband does not love himself, he can live strongly alone, perhaps, Princess Bai Xian wants to open up, relieved.