Since the hit of "Daming Fenghua", the bloody rain and royal power plots of the Yongle years have come through various obvious and hidden plots. The love-hate entanglement between Zhu Zhanji and his Empress Hu and Empress Sun seems to have become the center of the topic again.
Whether people like the emperor and empress of the Ming Dynasty, or the film and television image of the TV series, or just the actors who play the TV series, this is worth exploring. Whether people are interested in the history of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the plot of the TV series, or the love gossip between handsome men and beautiful women, it is also difficult to distinguish for a while.
But the stories of Hu, Empress Sun, and Zhu Zhanji are somewhat true.
Empress Sun left a good reputation in history, she lived to the age of sixty-three, still a long life, but the name did not remain. After Empress Hu was deposed, she retired to Chang'an Palace and became a Daogu, giving her the title of Jingci Mage, although she was not favored by the emperor, but was loved by her mother-in-law Empress Zhang, and lived a fairly good life.
Nowadays, people stand in the perspective of free love, of course, more sympathetic to Empress Sun, but at the time of the incident, from the common people to the ministers and the royal family, they were not in favor of abolishing Empress Hu. Later generations even orchestrated the story of Empress Sun's unscrupulous adoption of the son of a palace girl to seize the throne because of the abolition of the empress, in order to demean Empress Sun, which is exactly the opposite of the position of "Daming Fenghua" praising Sun and degrading Hu.
Sun's father was a County Book of Yongping County, and Zhu Zhanji's grandmother, Lady Peng Chengbo, was also a Yongping native, and her grandmother often went to the palace to see her daughter and said that Sun's limit was limited. With this relationship, Sun Shi entered the palace since childhood, and grew up with Zhu Zhanji and had a good relationship.
But it was during the Yongle years, when the grandson Zhu Zhanji got married and selected the crown princess, Zhu Diben also knew that the Sun clan was in the palace, but the final selection of the grandson concubine was the Hu clan. Zhu Zhanji was dissatisfied, but he dared to disobey Zhu Di's will, so he watched his favorite Sun Shi only be crowned as a concubine. His grandmother saw that the candidate she recommended had been in the palace for seven years in vain, but she did not get what she wanted, so she ran to talk to her daughter, the crown princess Zhang Shi, but Zhang ShiXian hui did not say anything about this matter.
When Zhu Zhanji's father, Zhu Gaozi, ascended the throne, Zhu Zhanji was crowned crown prince, after which he had the opportunity to replace the crown princess Hu. However, Zhu Gaozi died nine months after succeeding to the throne, and Zhu Zhanji had to succeed to the throne in a hurry, and it was impossible to add trouble to his ascension to the throne in the matter of Li Hushi as empress. However, after Zhu Zhanji sorted out the government affairs, it was already very difficult to abolish the Hu clan. Because the abolition of the empress in the feudal dynasty was a serious event, not just a royal private matter.
Hu Shi herself had no major faults, she was a very traditional woman of three from four virtues, and in the eyes of the Qunchen, she was a good candidate for the empress, and she had two daughters for Zhu Zhanji. When Zhu Zhanji was occasionally playful and addicted to fighting clams, Hu Shanxiang would also go to advise. Therefore, when Zhu Zhanji proposed to change the empress, he only received the opposition of his mother Empress Zhang (that is, the aforementioned Empress Zhang).
When Wu gave birth to the later Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Zhanji immediately crowned him as crown prince, and then wanted to depose the empress on the pretext of "no queen" (no son), and then made Hu empress on the grounds of "mother relying on her son gui". However, as a concubine, the empress could count the children of other concubines as her own, and Zhu Qizhen should be the son of Empress Hu according to the feudal patriarchy. It was really nonsense to abolish the article "no queen," and Zhu Zhanji had to give up again.
When Zhu Zhanji began to prepare to give up, he used the emperor's dignity to intimidate a certain minister to come up with a method of abolishing the emperor. Unexpectedly, the minister said helplessly that His Majesty could ask the Empress to resign as Empress at her own request.
This is really a word to wake up the dreamer. The emperor began to persuade his wife and swore to his mother that after the empress's resignation, she would be treated the same as in the past—from the situation later, it was completely different, because Hu Shanxiang did not have children after that—and after the empress asked for her resignation, she was arranged to be a Taoist aunt in the Chang'an Palace. Within a few days, Sun Shi officially became empress.
However, Empress Zhang still preferred Hu Shanxiang, and at the inner court banquet, Hu Shanxiang's seat was also arranged above empress Sun's clan, and the empress was of course unhappy.
When Zhu Zhanji died at the age of thirty-six, Empress Sun's son Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne at the age of eight. Under the regency of Empress Dowager Zhang (i.e., the crown princesses Zhang Shi, Empress Zhang, and Empress Zhang) above, she was still politically clear. However, after the death of the empress dowager, the fifteen-year-old Zhu Qizhen began to spoil Wang Zhen and act arbitrarily, which eventually triggered the "change of Tumu Fort". In terms of educating her son, Empress Sun was obviously much worse than Empress Zhang at that time. Although she made Zhu Qiyu emperor when her son was captured, she avoided the further collapse of the national situation, and was praised by many people for this. But she could not discipline her son, and as the empress dowager mother of a young emperor, she was somewhat unreasonable.
After her death, she was buried with Zhu Zhanji, and her nickname was "Empress Xiaogong Yi Xian Ci Ren Zhuang Li Qi Tian", which was extremely mournful.
As for the former Empress Hu, after the death of the empress dowager, Hu Shanxiang cried bitterly and died the following year, and when she died, she was only buried separately with the etiquette of "the emperor's concubine and palace daughter", and her nickname was only "Jing Ci Immortal Master". In the seventh year of Tianshun, her titular son Zhu Qizhen gave her the honorific title of "Empress Gongcheng Kangmu Jingcizhang", and still could not be buried with Zhu Zhanji, but could only be buried with Zhu Zhanji's daughter next to the tomb.
How difficult was Empress Hu's life? After being deposed, she became a Daoist nun, and when she died, she could not be buried with Zhu Zhanji
Hu Shanxiang's plight was sympathetic, and after Zhu Zhanji proposed to abolish it, only Empress Zhang objected
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