After Emperor Wuzong of Ming's death at the Leopard House, Yang Tinghe, after careful consideration, chose Zhu Houqiu, the son of Zhu Youzhao the Prince of Xing, to inherit the throne.
The "Ancestral Precepts of the Emperor Ming" clearly stipulates that whoever does not have a prince in the imperial court must be a brother and a brother, and he must be born of a concubine. Born of a mother-in-law, although he could not stand for a long time.
However, Zhu Houzhao was the only son of Zhu Youzhao and had no half-brothers, so Yang Tinghe came up with a way to transfer Qiankun: Zhu Houxi called Ming Xiaozong and Empress Zhang the emperor's father and mother, and called his biological parents the emperor's uncle and aunt, and then let king Yi's second son enter the Xing domain and succeed to the xing king as a son, because at that time, Zhu Houxi's brothers all died early, so that the xing king would not die.
In order to make Zhu Houxi's successor famous, Yang Tinghe, after consulting with Empress Zhang and his ministers, drafted a will for Emperor Mingwuzong, and at the same time Empress Zhang issued a decree designating Zhu Houxi, the son of King Xingxian, as the "heir to the throne".
Yang Tinghe thought hard about the solution seemed to be very good, but he forgot the most important point, did not seek the consent of Zhu Houxi and Princess Xingxian, he thought that Zhu Houxi should be grateful to him, but he thought wrong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 "Emperor Si" or "Emperor Si"? </h1>
When the courtiers came to the distant Xingfan to greet them, the mourning period of Zhu Youzhao, the king of Xing, had not yet expired, and Zhu Houxi, who was only 15 years old, took care of the Xingfan as a Xingshizi for nearly two years, showing his youthful maturity and shrewd ability early.
Zhu Houxi's mother, Princess Jiang of Xingfu, had mixed feelings, she only had this one son, and the son suddenly became the current emperor, which was really a great thing to fly, usually it was to think, I didn't expect it to become a reality, but the court was dangerous, the throne was prone to variables, and for an emperor who was succeeded by a foreign domain to the orthodox throne, it was even more uncertain.
After planning all the things, Zhu Houxi led the crowd to worship in front of his father's mausoleum, and he knelt down in front of the mausoleum and burst into tears, which moved the courtiers present.
The next day, Zhu Houxi and his mother parted in tears, left Xingfan, and marched to the Capital Division accompanied by his ministers.
When the car arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, Zhu Houxi saw that the ceremonial certificate handed over by the minister of ceremonies was very confused, the ceremonial certificate and the testament did not match the edict, the edict said that he would take the throne of the emperor, not the throne of the heir, why did the ceremonial letter say that the crown prince was used to take the throne?
The imperial court wanted Zhu Houxi to enter the imperial city from Dong'an Gate, but Zhu Houxi was very dissatisfied, because Dong'an Gate was the door for the king and his courtiers to enter and exit, and entering from Dong'an Gate was to put him in the position of heir to the throne. The two sides were deadlocked, and finally Empress Zhang compromised, allowing him to enter the imperial city through the Daming Gate where Empress Tianzi could only walk.
From the very beginning of Zhu Houxi's entry into Beijing, whether "Emperor Si" or "Emperor Si" had become a matter of debate between him and emperor Wuzong's former courtiers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Greeting the mother to Beijing to open the prelude to the dispute over the great gift</h1>
The Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was a great filial son, and on the third day after he ascended the throne, when the great government was busy with Pepsi, he summoned his cabinet ministers and offered to welcome his mother, who was still in Hubei Anlu, to Beijing.
Zhu Houxi was a 15-and-a-half-year-old child at the time, and the first time he left his mother for the capital, he naturally missed it very much.
But what etiquette is used to greet the mother? Is it the gift of princess Xing, or the gift of the empress dowager? Giving the titles of Honorific Titles to King Xingxian and Princess Xingxian was put on the agenda.
Soon, Zhu Houxi summoned his courtiers to discuss the appointment of Emperor Wuzong, and at the same time proposed a title for his father Xingxian Wang, thus opening the prelude to the vigorous Ming Dynasty's great ceremonial controversy.
The former courtiers believed that the maintenance of the orthodox imperial lineage of Hongzhi and Zhengde was a matter of natural righteousness, morality and duty, and in order to allow the new emperor to pass on to Emperor Xiaozong, he took out the historical documents of the successors of King Tao of Handing and The Heirs of King Pu of Song.
In the end, the ministers agreed to have Zhu Houxi change his name to Xingxian Wang as the Emperor's uncle Xingxian Dawang, And Princess Xingxian as the Emperor's uncle and mother Xingxian Princess Xingxian, and the Emperor to call himself His nephew Emperor. This was also Yang Tinghe's original method.
At a time when the power was transferred and the new dynasty was in ruins, in order to continue the bloodline of the Hongzhi Emperor, a group of cabinet ministers did not focus on the military and political affairs of the country, but hollowed out their minds to force an isolated and helpless little emperor to obey, which was really excessive.
Zhu Houxi was filial by nature, and he was very angry after seeing the discussion, and he criticized: "Parents can move and call? Unmoved, the ministers continued to go up and down, insisting on the original proposal.
At that time, there were also people in the government and the public who supported Zhu Houxi, that is, Zhang Xuan, a new scholar of the new branch, who believed that Zhu Houxi's succession to the throne was not as a prince, and the situation was different from that of the successor of King Ang of Handing and the successor of King Pu of Song.
Wang Zhan, a fellow minister of ceremonies, was very much in agreement, and proposed at the meeting that Yang Tinghe was the first assistant of the cabinet, and he would definitely not let this voice ferment in the dprk, so he used his power to demote Wang Zhan to the Nanjing Ceremonial Department, which was the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
The ministers jointly resisted, what could Zhu Houxi do? The DPRK and the CPC do not have their own team, and can only weakly express their dissatisfaction, adopt a defensive posture, and detain the song without replying, that is, the so-called "stay in China."
At the same time, he stepped up organizational and personnel adjustments, promoted the old people of Xingfan who had accompanied him to Beijing, installed them in various important departments, and then used the famous former courtiers to come to Beijing to take up posts.
Zhu Houxi's relationship with Yang Tinghe was rifted, he knew that Yang Tinghe was the leader of the group, but he was not willing to make the relationship stiff, praised Yang Tinghe many times, and summoned Yang Tinghe several times to tell his difficulties, hoping that the other party could plan on his behalf and make himself filial piety. However, Yang Tinghe resolutely refused to obey the will of the little emperor.
In order to honor his parents, Zhu Houxi even sent eunuchs to prostrate and pay bribes in Mao Cheng's mansion, one of the leaders of the group, but he touched a big nail.
Neither side will back down. Mao Cheng led more ministers to the council, explaining that Emperor Wuzong's edict to make Zhu Houxi "Emperor Si" was the way of the father, but because the generations were the same, it could not be called "The Prince of Si", but Zhu Houxi's call of Xiaozong the father was beyond doubt.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Zhang Xuan's "Great Ritual Shu"</h1>
As his mother, Jiang Shi, got closer and closer to The Capital, the little emperor became more and more anxious. It is Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng who control public opinion in the DPRK, how can they be good?
Just at this time, Zhang Xuan, a new scholar of the new branch, made a different voice, he did not think much of the theories of Yang Tinghe and others, and he was even more disgusted by their practice of suppressing different opinions and degrading Wang Zhan, the attendant of the ceremonial department, to Nanjing, and resolutely went to "Great Gifts".
"Great Ritual Neglect" accuses Yang Tinghe and others of violating human nature, and the so-called theoretical basis is full of loopholes. If you can't let Emperor Xiaozong have no queen, won't the King of Xingxian be extinct? The emperor calls his own mother an uncle, and when he meets, he should follow the courtesy of a monarch, can a son make his mother a subject?
Zhang Xuan also cited historical facts, believing that Zhu Houxi had succeeded the emperor of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, rather than giving Emperor Xiaozong the heir.
In the end, Zhang Xuan's "Great Ritual Shu" broke through layers of obstacles and was placed in front of Zhu Houxi. What a rain! Zhu Houxi was stunned after reading the shooting, and smiled: "This theory shows that my father and son have been completely killed!" ”
Zhu Houxi hurriedly ordered someone to send the "Great Gift" to the cabinet, and Yang Tinghe was very contemptuous after reading it, saying: How can a scholar understand the national system?
On the same day, Zhu Houxi summoned three ministers, Yang Tinghe, Jiang Mian and Mao Cheng, expressed his filial piety cordially and sincerely, and finally asked his father to be Emperor Xingxian, his mother to be Empress Xingxian, and his grandmother to be Empress Kangshou.
Yang Tinghe and the others withdrew after some deliberation, believing that they could not accept the emperor's edict, so they returned the edict.
After the news came out, Zhang Xuan became the target of everyone and was besieged by the group of courtiers, how could Zhu Houxi possibly dispose of Zhang Xuan? I thought that Zhang Xuan's "Great Gift" could break the siege for himself, but the ministers did not eat this set, and at this time, it was inconvenient to reprimand these ministers, so they had to hold their breath.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 Zhang Xuan's "Great Gift or Question" to relieve the emperor</h1>
There was endless debate between the DPRK and China here, zhu Houxi's request for the parents' honorific titles were not fixed for a long time, and the mother's car was driving towards the Beijing Division, approaching day by day, Zhu Houxi was difficult to stand up, anxious and angry.
When Zhu Houxi was busy with the affairs of the court, he always thought about greeting his mother, and wanted to greet his mother's ceremony with great solemnity, but the ceremonial department postponed the ceremony again and again. At Zhu Houxi's repeated urging, Mao Cheng presented a ceremonial certificate, in which "the mother concubine entered the Dong'an Gate from the Chongwen Gate" made the little emperor greatly dissatisfied, what "mother concubine", why can't she go to the "Daming Gate"?
In a flash, Jiang's ceremony arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, and the entrance etiquette had not yet been decided, Zhu Houxi was anxious and angry, and simply ordered his mother to go to the Daming Gate and follow the palace relatives to the side door.
In the midst of the chaos, Jiang's car arrived in Tongzhou, and when she learned that the DPRK shang had ordered her son to call Xiaozong the father, and her husband and herself as the emperor's uncle and aunt, her face changed drastically, and she immediately questioned the courtiers who came to greet her: How can I let my son be someone else's son?
Regardless of how the courtiers explained it, Jiang Shi rebuked him sharply: You people enjoy the honor of the high-ranking official Houlu, why is the honorific title of King Xingxian undecided? Why do we have to break up our mother and son?
Jiang Shi was very stubborn, and ordered his entourage to park the car in Tongzhou, saying that he would not take any further steps.
When the news reached Zhu Houxi, his resentment and grievances over the past few days finally could not be suppressed, and suddenly tears fell like rain, and he personally went to Empress Zhang's palace, saying that he would not be emperor anymore and would avoid the throne to accompany his mother back to Hubei Anlu Xing domain.
After hearing the news that the emperor was about to abdicate, the hundred officials were panicked, the country could not be without a monarch for a day, and if the emperor left in a negative mood, the imperial court did not know what it would be like.
Empress Zhang hurriedly issued a decree to comfort the little emperor, and the courtiers did not dare to use any more fierce words, and the Ministry of Rites rushed to send a large number of officials to Tongzhou to comfort the Jiang clan. Zhu Houxi calmed down and continued to earnestly consult with Yang Tinghe and others, but Yang Tinghe still refused to change the preliminary proposal.
At this time, Zhang Xuan relieved the siege for the little emperor. He declared: The Son of Heaven also has a mother, so how can the Mother of the Son of Heaven enter through the side door? At the same time, he wrote a book called "Great Gifts or Questions", which analyzed in detail the difference between succession and succession.
Zhang's claims gradually fermented in the DPRK, and many people began to doubt Yang Tinghe's theory. Under pressure from all sides, Yang Ting and Cai Cao finally issued a decree to the Ministry of Rites and changed the preliminary discussion, saying that "bensheng father Xingxian Wang Should be called Xingxian Emperor, mother Should be called Xingxian, and Xianmiao Noble Concubine Shao shi was called Empress Dowager."
At this point, Zhu Houxi finally did not have to call his biological parents uncles and aunts, but Yang Tinghe still played word games. Bunsen only acknowledged Zhu Houxi's biological relationship, but in fact he passed it on to Ming Xiaozong.
At that time, the matter was urgent, Zhu Houxi saw that the main problem was solved, and the Ministry of Orders and Ceremonies carried the empress dowager's legal clothes to Tongzhou to greet his mother. When Jiang Shi saw that his name was correct, he naturally received it when he saw it was good. Later, Zhu Houxi was greeted at the noon gate, and Jiang entered the palace from the Daming Gate.
In order to straighten his waist, Zhu Houxi continued to fight for his parents' fame, from adding the "emperor" number to his parents to the word "Bunsen" for his parents, which eventually triggered a mass incident in which hundreds of courtiers participated in Zuo Shunmen, that is, the "Zuo Shunmen Case".
At the age of 17, Zhu Houxi resolutely extinguished the resistance of the group of courtiers and began to move towards arbitrariness.
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