As we all know, the history of the Ming Dynasty today has been tampered with by the Qing Dynasty, so the image of each emperor of the Ming Dynasty has obvious flaws. Some like to be carpenters, some like to cultivate and refine Dan, some like to fight cockroaches, anyway, there are stains on the image, and the black spot of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen is that he married a wan guifei who was seventeen years older than him.
For the Qing Dynasty, Ming Xianzong was really a Ming Emperor worthy of black, after all, their ancestor Ai Xinjue Luo Dongshan died at the hands of this Chenghua Emperor.
Tangling with the matter of tampering with historical records is really boring, but as far as the existing historical records are concerned, Zhu Jianshen, the emperor, makes people have a different feeling. Zhu Jianshen, the emperor, evaluated his life, and used the word "makeshift" to describe it as appropriate.
Next, we look at Zhu Jianshen's life from these four perspectives and see what kind of person he really is.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > thrilling childhood</h1>
Although Zhu Jianshen is a prince, his childhood life is very bumpy, all because he has a bastard father.
Zhu Jianshen was the eldest son of Emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and although he was not a concubine, he was still made crown prince early.
At the time of the tumu fort change, Zhu Mishen was only 2 years old, and his father changed from emperor to prisoner in the blink of an eye, and was completely abandoned by the Ming Dynasty to become the titular Emperor Taishang. Immediately after that, Zhu Jianshen's identity as the crown prince also became very blurred, and at this time he was still very young and did not know anything about the situation at this time. All he knew was that the people around him were alienated from him, except for the palace maid surnamed Wan.
In the third year of Jingtai, the five-year-old crown prince Zhu Jianshen was deposed, and Emperor Zhu Qiyu's own son Zhu Jianji was made the new crown prince.
Since then, Zhu Jianshen's situation has become more difficult, fortunately, "Aunt Wan" is still with him, just like... Just like loved ones...
In the desolate deep palace, Zhu Mishen was helpless, and the only thing he relied on was the woman with the surname Wan.
When Zhu Jianshen was ten years old, his father Zhu Qizhen launched a rebellion to seize the door, once again regaining the position of emperor and making Zhu Jianshen the crown prince.
Zhu Jianshen lost his position as prince and regained it, but he hovered in the center of the power vortex at an early age, resulting in extremely stressful mental pressure, and thus fell into a stuttering problem. At the age of 17, his mediocre father Zhu Qizhen died, and Zhu Jianshen succeeded to the throne smoothly, starting his own Chenghua Dynasty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > political attitude</h1>
Zhu Jianshen was accustomed to power struggles from an early age, and almost sacrificed them, so after he became emperor, he deeply understood that only by using power well could innocent people be treated unfairly.
The first major event in his ascension to the throne was to rehabilitate Yu Qian. The famous courtier Yu Qian died unjustly at the hands of his father Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Jianshen knew that his father was unreasonable in this matter, so he obeyed the people's righteousness, cleared Yu Qian's grievances, and corrected the chaos.
Some people say that it is obvious that Zhu Jianshen is ambitious, this is to revise Lao Tzu's governing policy, this is the first shot;
Some people say that Zhu Jianshen took advantage of Yu Qian's fame to win the hearts and minds of the people;
It is also said that Zhu Jianshen was a benevolent monarch who only did so because he sympathized with Yu Qian's plight.
It's all good, anyway, Zhu Jianshen doesn't care. His means of governing the country are indeed not very clever, just to seek the stability of the world.
Zhu Jianshen's rule of the country is very simple, he controls the major affairs of the country, and those trivial matters are all left to the officials in the cabinet to manage. Those who are officials are dishonest, then let the eunuchs exercise restraint. For those things that are not big or small, Zhu Jianshen is turning a blind eye. Under this set of restricted monarchies, everyone is not tired, and the country is still relatively stable. And this is exactly what Zhu Jianshen wants.
Zhu Jianshen loves peace and pursues stability, but it does not mean that he is a bully. In the third year of Chenghua, Ai XinJue Luo Dongshan led the Jurchens to kill more than 100,000 civilians on the frontier. Yes, this Dongshan is the ancestor of Nurhaci, the founder of the later Qing Dynasty.
After all, Zhu Jianshen is also a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, and his temper is also there, so he certainly can't stand it. Zhu Jianshen ordered, "Pound its nest and dig its kind", saying this, it can be seen that this emperor has also inherited the vicious genes of his ancestors!
The operation, known in history as the "Chenghua Ploughing Court", dealt a heavy blow to the Jurchens of Jianzhou, and the battle won a brief period of tranquility for the ming dynasty's rule until the rise of Nurhaci at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Of course that's a story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > the obsession with love</h1>
Compared with Zhu Jianshen's political story, his love story is more worth telling.
Throughout the ages, there have been countless love stories of the emperor's family. However, in the love of the emperor, the concubine empress must be the face of the city and the meek and lovely character. However, this Ming Xianzong's love is very special, the woman he loves is seventeen years older than him, is a palace girl, and her appearance is also very ordinary.
Good things don't go out, bad things spread far and wide, and his unrepresented love later became his special label.
In zhu Jianshen's first year as emperor, in addition to rehabilitating Yu Qian, he still did a big thing, that is, he included his beloved aunt Wan, who was seventeen years old, into the harem and became his wan guifei. Although the civil and military officials were opposed, they did not stop the emperor's love.
How persistent is Zhu Jianshen to this love?
He would rather oppose the hundred officials than defend this love;
He had three thousand harem beauties, but only one of his concubines was favored;
Wan Guifei's harem rebelled, forcing the concubine to have an abortion, almost making her desperate, and he did not care;
When she was old and fading, he loved him still, and later she died and he followed.
This love touches the heavens and touches the earth.
This love, which is not understood by the world, belongs only to the two of them.
Why Zhu Jianshen's love for Wan Guifei was so deep, it was not a matter of friendship that could be explained by two words.
When Zhu Jianshen was a child, in those lonely and helpless years, only she guarded her side, accompanied him, walked through countless winds and rains, and was consistent and never abandoned each other. No one else will ever understand this.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > a demon-infested dynasty</h1>
To say that Zhu Jianshen was a good emperor is absolutely impossible to talk about. The government of the Chenghua years is more appropriately described by these four words, that is, a mess.
The warlocks and monks responsible for refining aphrodisiacs were bold and dark-hearted, embezzled public funds, and enriched their own pockets; (Representative figure: Liang Fang)
The eunuchs who took advantage of their positions to coerce and induce, run amok, corrupt and pervert the law, and were lawless; (Representative figure: Wang Zhi)
Civilian-official groups dismantle each other, eat and die, and do nothing; (Representative figure: Wan'an)
The harem cried twice and hanged himself three times, jin yu did not have good words, but the vicious pillow wind continued. (Representative Figure: Wan Guifei)
In the face of such chaos during the Chenghua years, Zhu Jianshen did not have the ability to change, nor did he want to change, so it was good to live in harmony like this!
In the face of corruption, he does not punish; when he finds a traitor, he does not scold; he does not change when he knows that the dynasty is broken.
Zhu Jianshen is not cruel, not faint, not greedy, he is sensible, distinguishes between loyalty and adultery, and understands the general situation.
During the Chenghua years, the reason for the corruption of the government was not that the emperor was faint, but that the emperor's personality was too gentle and emotional.
The reason why Zhu Jianshen has become like this is closely related to his childhood experience.
His father Zhu Qizhen and uncle Zhu Qiyu both served as emperors and fought each other for the throne, and the childhood Zhu Jianshen lived on the brink of life and death.
From his father and uncle, Zhu Mishen learned a sentence: Forgive people and forgive people!
Zhu Jianshen didn't want to be a Mingjun of the Hundred Ages, he just wanted to live his own little life, the kind of life where his wife and children were hot.
The author of "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", "That Year Mingyue", commented that Zhu Jianshen used two words, weakness.
I disagree.
You see
Externally, he has vajrayogini eyes, and internally he has bodhisattva eyebrows;
He loves someone, even if the whole world opposes it, to give her all his love;
The government was no longer in good health, the people were stricken, and the allocation was never ambiguous.
It does not seem appropriate for such a person to use the word weakness to describe it.
Judging from his simple pursuits, I think it is more appropriate to use the word 'ordinary' to describe him.
I am a mortal, but he was born in the imperial family!