Emperor Mingguangzong of The Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhongzong of The Ming Dynasty, emperor of the Ming Dynasty, died in January of the reign, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve 9.
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For me, this is the most difficult emperor to write about in the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Changluo's advent time was too short, and the court had just promulgated the will of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Changluo's own edict of enthronement, and this brother died. The descriptions surrounding Zhu Changluo in the historical materials basically stay in the period when he was a prince, such as the "dispute over the capital of the country", "the case of the demon book", and the "case of the attack", which barely counted the "red pill case" before his death.
In my impression, Zhu Changluo has always been a person who is so weak and inferior that people are distressed. Life kissed him with pain, and he always smiled to bear it.
In the ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, Emperor Mingshenzong went to the Cining Palace to ask the empress dowager for peace, and when the empress dowager was absent, she happened to meet the palace lady Wang. The 19-year-old emperor Fang Gang saw the beauty of the Wang clan and was fortunate to be there. The Ming Shen Sect, who had been married for several years, had no children, but unexpectedly this one-hit hit, which made the Wang family pregnant.
Wang was the later Princess Wang Gong, who was Zhu Changluo's biological mother. Regarding this life of Zhu Changluo, I believe that the princes have already heard the cocoons in their ears. But have you ever thought of a question, Zhu Changluo's later cowardly character, in addition to his father's undesirable and fearful growth environment, is also related to the genetic Wang family?
Princess Wang Gongfei like
Wang's father was a Jinyi Wei Baihu, a middle- and lower-ranking officer. At the age of 13, because of the concubine chosen by the Ming Dynasty, Wang also entered the palace to participate in the beauty pageant. The emperor's big marriage generally chooses one queen and two concubines, that is, only the first three in the end. Wang Shi lost the election, but was left on Duty at Cining Palace, which also shows that Wang Shi almost reached the final round. Therefore, there is no doubt about Wang's quality and appearance.
However, after the Wang clan was blessed by the Ming Shen Sect in the ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, they never dared to speak out. It was not until his stomach grew bigger day by day, that the empress dowager discovered it, and checked the living records and the reward given by the emperor after he was lucky, that he made the matter of pregnancy clear and forced Emperor Mingshen to admit it. Then we push it backwards, indicating that Wang Shi is a woman who is obedient and easy to be swayed by others.
A view of the Forbidden City
Although The MingShen Sect did not like the Wang clan, after all, he had given birth to the emperor's eldest son. Princess Zheng Guifei, who entered the palace a few years later, dared to take advantage of the favor of the Ming Shen Sect and verbally insulted the Wang clan everywhere, but we have never heard of any resistance from the Wang clan.
The mother and son gui in the feudal emperor's family are not casually talked about, the Wang clan can find the empress dowager to complain, and even win over the empress, posing a posture of resistance, but what we hear is that the Wang clan is ostracized from the inner circle of the harem little by little, and the use of degree is reduced little by little, almost falling to the cold palace. Even before dying in the end, because she was worried that Zheng Guifei's eyes and ears were eavesdropping outside the window, she did not dare to make a final farewell to Zhu Changluo.
Statue of myōjin
Zhu Changluo inherited this temperament of the Wang clan.
Doing things is always thinking about whether it will provoke displeasure to the father and emperor, and never dare to trespass the "thunder pool" step. For his sake of "fighting for the foundation of the country," the courtiers always dared not make a sound, and timidly hid to the side to see his father's colors; he was assassinated and attacked in the "case of the attack", and all public opinion was on his side, obviously summoning up enough courage to go to a showdown with Zheng Guifei, but because of his father's few words, he took the initiative to act as an elder of peace, and all the mistakes were that the courtiers were instigating the father and son to be incompatible.
The most exaggerated thing is that when Emperor Mingshenzong was dying, as the crown prince, he actually stood in front of the emperor's palace and paced back and forth and did not dare to enter, if yang Lian had not reminded him and made a reason for visiting, Zhu Changluo would probably have even been the last to know that his position as prince had been deposed.
To put it bluntly, if I were the Myōjin Sect and saw my son so "nested", it would be really difficult for me to like it. Heavenly nobles, grand and grandest eldest sons, cowering and shrinking in their work, trembling and trembling, how to give him authority at ease?
Zhu Changluo was perhaps the only monarch among the Sixteen Emperors of the Ming Dynasty who I did not see the bloodiness and courage of the old Zhu family.
Cowardice is not the most terrible, cowardice may just not be able to do things; but cowardice and at the same time have a flattering personality, then it will be a bad thing.
Zhu Changluo has this personality defect.
On July 22, 48 of the Wanli Calendar, on the last night before Emperor Mingshenzong's death, Emperor Mingshenzong gave Zhu Changluo a last word, meaning that in order to ensure that Zheng Guifei would not be liquidated after his death, he asked the courtiers to immediately discuss the promotion of Zheng Guifei as empress.
Zheng Guifei Stills
In fact, Zheng Guifei was worried, and Zhu Changluo dared to liquidate her, and he didn't even think about it. Zhu Changluo honestly told the courtiers about the emperor's request and asked everyone to hurry up. But the courtiers have brains, and the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies said, "Concubine Zheng Guifei is not your birth mother, shouldn't this kind of thing be done first with your own mother?"
One sentence confused Zhu Changluo. But that's not all.
In August of the 48th year of the Wanli calendar, Zhu Changluo had already ascended the throne. In late August, Zhu Changluo, who had just taken care of his father's and empress affairs last month and was now going to make a will for himself, still did not forget to give Zheng Guifei the title of empress when he was seriously ill, or let the courtiers discuss the matter.
Ming Dynasty official
Yang Lian couldn't listen to it anymore, saying that Zheng Guifei was neither the empress of the previous emperor nor the biological mother of the current emperor (Zhu Changluo), so how could she be made empress? How did this woman hurt both of you mother and son before, and you forgot?
Listen, even the courtiers felt that this matter after Zheng Guifei's sealing did not make sense, but the bitter lord Zhu Changluo was obsessed with it, and you said that this is not a flattering personality? It seems that the psychological shadow that Concubine Zheng Guifei brought to Zhu Changluo during her childhood was too great, and even she did not know how to refuse to become emperor.
A direct factor in Zhu Changluo's final serious illness was indulgence. And indulgence is related to the beauty sent by Zheng Guifei. I have to say that Zhu Changluo's heart is really big.
Ming Dynasty female figure
We might as well imagine that if Zheng Guifei really became empress, then after Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, Zheng Guifei would be the empress dowager. Zhu Changluo died within a month, leaving behind a young son, Zhu Youxiao (Emperor Mingxi). At this time, Princess Zheng Guifei was the empress dowager, and when the lord was suspicious of the country, how much power the empress dowager could have in legal theory, I don't think I need to say more. With Zheng Guifei's ambitions and means, we can't wait until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and we can see "hanging the curtain and listening to the government" in the late Ming Dynasty.
Cowardly personality and lack of understanding of refusal, there are not many such people among ancient emperors, but Zhu Changluo must add two more, namely, no idea and blind stubbornness.
It seems that these are two very contradictory points, but in fact, they are not contradictory at all.
Dragon chair
Because there is no idea, all many things can not be done by themselves, and it is easy to be influenced by others. But the more people who have not taken any big ideas themselves, the more real they are in some things, and they are illogically stubborn.
Although he reigned for only one month, Zhu Changluo had already shown his pursuit of a luxurious life, repeatedly asking the imperial court to expand the court procurement. Once, because the military expenditure on the frontier was really urgent, some officials suggested that some money be taken from the budget purchased by Zhu Changluo's court to save the emergency, but Zhu Changluo categorically refused and harshly lectured this official.
Zhu Changluo's health has actually been bad all along, and when he was a prince, he had such and such a small problem. Zhu Changluo himself and his son Zhu Youxiao personally admitted this. It is also because I have suppressed it for too long before, and it is difficult to survive and not be able to build.
In terms of female color, he has no self-control. In the "Red Pill Case", he clearly knew that his body was not good, and still took the "secret medicine" to force intercourse. Later, when he became seriously ill, he first took the medicine of the internal attendant Cui Wensheng. Cui Wensheng was aimed at Zhu Changluo's aphrodisiac to eat too much, so he gave a dose of laxatives to go to the fire, and the medicine was strong.
Sure enough, after taking the medicine, the body could not eat it, and it was even more empty. Then he took the red pill offered by Li Kezhuo, an official of the Hongxu Temple. After eating the next pill, the effect was good, the spirit and appetite were restored, and immediately after eating another red pill in the evening. The next day he died violently.
Have you found that from beginning to end, we have not seen the figure of the Doctor?
The "Red Pill Case" orphan scene
From Cui Wensheng's medication to Li Kezhuo's red pills, Zhu Changluo took the idea himself, and he did not consult with the Tai Hospital at all, and the medicine was taken when he took it. Until the time when it was time to take the second red pill, the Tai Hospital expressed strong opposition, but what about Zhu Changluo? The price of stubbornness is to ride the dragon Bintian.
Therefore, there is a sentence that is really very suitable for Zhu Changluo: mourning his misfortune and angering him.
But there is a kind of person who is very fond of Zhu Changluo's personality, the civilian official group.
His cowardice, his lack of ideas, and even his flattering personality represent good control in the eyes of the civilian clique.
Zhu Changluo's father, Ming Shenzong, was the longest-reigning monarch of the Ming Dynasty and a typical example of the negligence of civil officials. But let's not forget that during the 48 years that the Mingshen Sect came to power, except for the first ten years when Zhang Juzheng controlled the foreign dynasty, the Mingshen Sect firmly controlled the power in the following time.
And it was precisely because of Zhang Juzheng's affairs that the Ming Shen Sect had a great sense of distrust of the civilian official clique. So he did not support the rise of any of the strong ministers, and the cabinet slowly became a tool for him to give orders and a shield to avoid the attacks of the officials.
The courtiers so supported Zhu Changluo and wanted Emperor Mingshen to make him crown prince as soon as possible, in addition to really fearing that Emperor Mingshenzong would abolish Chang Liyou, they also had the consideration of competing with the imperial power and competing for the right to speak in the court. Ming Shenzong was not stupid, he saw it very clearly, but whether his son Zhu Changluo understood that he might become a pawn in the struggle, we don't know.
Now that I think about it, if Zheng Guifei dared to suppress and even persecute Zhu Changluo so brazenly, and because she did not succeed in one plan and made another plan, and was more vicious than the next, could it be because Zheng Guifei saw through the essence of the struggle between imperial power and courtiers and took advantage of this psychological concern of the Ming Shen Sect?
Compared with what Zhu Changluo did in his decades of imperial career, we have to admit that Mingshenzong's concerns may really become a reality. An emperor who has no opinion and is full of good feelings for the civil bureaucracy has only one final outcome - the fall of power.
This is also why in the "dispute over the foundation of the country", the courtiers who had obviously begun to divide internally were always able to maintain a highly consistent pace in helping Zhu Changluo become the crown prince, and persevered, fighting back and forth for so many years.
The insistence of the courtiers was successful, and Zhu Changluo was made crown prince, and although he stumbled, he finally succeeded to the throne. But they never expected that in just one month, their decades of efforts would be in vain. But will this be a kind of luck for Daming?
As I said above, Zhu Changluo reigned for only one month, and he died just after he issued his own edict of accession to the throne. When Daming came to Zhu Changluo, he was already shaky. From the edict of Zhu Changluo's ascension to the throne, which was dominated by the civilian official clique, compared with the kings before the Ming Dynasty, there was a lot less domineering spirit of long-term peace and stability and grand achievements, and more weakness and untruth.
The only thing that Zhu Changluo could praise in his political achievements was probably to rehabilitate the officials who had been convicted of words, abolish the mining supervision tax envoys, and reissue the border army's grain and salary. In these cases, because of the short period of time in power, they have not been thoroughly implemented.
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