In 1620, zhu Changluo, the absurd Mingguang Sect, died violently in the "Red Pill Case" and reigned for only 29 days. After that, under the control of Yang Lian and others in the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the sixteen-year-old Guangzong, ascended the throne as emperor and changed his era name to Heavenly Revelation for Emperor Mingxi. Emperor Mingxizong was the penultimate emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although he reigned for only seven years, he ignored the government and favored the castrated party, resulting in the increasing corruption of the Ming Dynasty and hastening the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
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In terms of ability and character, Zhu Youxiao originally did not have the potential to become a generation of Ming Jun. However, the various bad deeds after Emperor Xizong ascended the throne once again proved to the world that it was indeed a fatal mistake to support this young man as emperor in the first place. Among the sixteen kings of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Mingxi's historical evaluation of Zhu Youxue was so low that he was extremely harshly criticized in the Ming Shi Xizong Benji:
"After Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, the Gang Ji Ri was in lingyi, and in the last year of the Divine Sect, it was extremely ruined. Although there are strong and heroic warriors, it is difficult to recover. And the cowardice of the emperor, the theft of the women's temple, the indiscriminate reward of adultery, the mischief of loyalty, the billion trillion centrifugal, although the desire does not die, how can it be obtained! - Ming Shi Xi Zong Benji
According to the "History of Ming", since Sejong, the chaogang has shown signs of corruption, and by the last years of the Shenzong, it has become more and more intense, and even if it is a monarch with a wise and divine martial art, it is difficult to achieve ZTE. However, the mediocrity and cowardice of the next emperor further aggravated the decline of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not far from extinction.
Unlike many previous emperors, Ming Xizong's absurdity was not to indulge in female sex, but to indulge in carpentry. If he had not been born into an imperial family and did not ascend the throne in accordance with the trend, perhaps Zhu Youxiao would have become an outstanding craftsman. However, high above the temple, he spent all his thoughts on carpentry work, and he did not have the ambition to govern the country in an an easy state. Because of this, this Emperor of the Apocalypse is known as the "Carpenter's Son", and is often jokingly called "Carpenter Emperor" by posterity.
Emperor Mingxi and Wei Zhongxian
When the Emperor of the Apocalypse was doing carpentry work, he was most annoyed by people, and once someone came to play the newspaper, he would carry out a reprimand and order him to deal with it as appropriate. In this way, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, who was often accompanied by him, often acted in a correct manner, pretending to be the will of the Son of Heaven to exercise the power of life and death. Over time, the power of the eunuch Wei clan expanded day by day, becoming a cancer in the Apocalypse Dynasty.
Wei Zhongxian's origins were inseparable from the help of Emperor Xizong's nursing mother Keshi, and it was even more difficult to get rid of The Connivance of Emperor Xizong himself. Before Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, his real name was Wei Zhimin, because he ate, drank, gambled, and had all five poisons, resulting in the loss of the family's wealth. In order to make a living, Wei Zhimin wielded a sword from the palace, entered the palace in the seventeenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1589 AD), changed his name to Li Jinzhong, and later changed his original surname, and was given the name Wei Zhongxian.
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At the beginning of Wei Zhongxian's entry into the palace, he successively befriended many powerful people and attached themselves to eunuchs such as Wang An, Wei Dynasty, and Sun Xian. Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian was later able to serve Zhu Youxiao and his nursing mother Keshi, thus changing his fate. According to the "History of Ming", this Keshi was "obscene and cruel", and had been eating with the Wei Dynasty, and after Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, he had an affair with Wei Zhongxian and began to alienate the Wei Dynasty.
After Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, he had a lot of trust in Keshi and Wei Zhongxian. Once, Wei Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian were noisy in the Qianqing Palace for the sake of competing for the Ke clan, and the noise of playfulness was known to everyone in the Forbidden Palace, and even alarmed Xi Zong, who had already fallen asleep. What was surprising was that after Emperor Xizong asked the reason, he actually obeyed Ke's wishes and did not dispose of Wei Zhongxian. After that, Wei Zhongxian issued an edict to the Wei Dynasty, forcing him to commit suicide in the middle of the way. In this way, Wei Zhongxian's food-to-food relationship with Keshi had already been tacitly approved by Emperor Xizong.
Wei Zhongxian stills
In fact, if Emperor Mingxi had been able to punish Keshi and Wei Zhongxian and others in time at the beginning of his succession, he might have been able to curb the tragedy to some extent. However, the carpenter emperor not only did not do this, but was quite fond of Keshi and Wei Zhongxian, and named Keshi "Lady Fengsheng" and ordered Wei Zhongxian to be the eunuch of Si Li Supervisor Bingbi. Such a ridiculous approach can be described as a sigh of relief.
As a result, the absurd and vicious Keshi and the sinister and cunning Wei Zhongxian blatantly colluded to control the young Weather Emperor. After Wei Zhongxian gained power, he suppressed the eunuch Wang An, and after getting rid of Wang An, Wei Zhongxian began to win over officials from the court and fight against the Donglin Party.
Because Wei Zhongxian and Keshi were deeply favored by Emperor Mingxi, and controlled secret service agencies such as Dongchang and Jinyiwei, they soon gained the upper hand. As a result, the Donglin Party was brutally suppressed. During the years of Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, the imperial court became increasingly corrupt, and the people were not happy, while Ming Xizong hid in the air and did carpentry work peacefully.
Maimed the Donglin Party
The absurdity of the Ming Xi Sect is not in indulging in beauty and greed for power, but in not knowing right and wrong, nepotism. This carpenter emperor fiddled with those swords, axes, saws and chisels all day long, but he did not care about the government for half a day, and ignored the world. As a result, internal and external troubles came and went, making the late Ming regime, which was originally in the midst of turmoil, terminally ill and on the verge of extinction.
However, the eunuch Wei Clan, which had been endangering for several years, did not get a good end. Emperor Mingxi died childless, and was passed down to his half-brother Zhu Youjian (朱由檢), the Chongzhen Emperor who later descended from Coal Mountain. After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, in view of the successive eunuch chaos that had occurred before, he made up his mind to eliminate Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian, who once had unlimited scenery, eventually committed suicide in fear of sin and became a vicious eunuch referred to by thousands of people, and was nailed to the column of shame of history.
bibliography:
"History of Ming", "Chronicle of Ming History", "Biography of Wei Zhongxian", etc