Emperor Ming was the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his reign was given the era name of Jiajing.
It is said that the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was a cold-hearted man, and he had three empresses in succession before his death, but none of them died well.
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The original empress consort of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was Empress Xiaojie Chen, a native of Yuancheng County, the daimyō province, who was born in the third year of Zhengde (1508 AD), one year younger than Zhu Houxi.
Chen Was elected to the imperial palace in the first year of Jiajing's reign and was soon made empress, when she was fourteen years old.
Becoming a noble queen does not necessarily mean happiness.
In the seventh year of Jiajing, Zhu Houxi sat and drank tea with Empress Chen, Zhang Shunfei and Concubine Wen handed tea over, and Zhu Houxi looked at their delicate jade hands emotionally.
According to the records of the "History of Ming", Empress Chen was jealous, put down her teacup, and stood up in anger, Zhu Houxi had a stern temperament, and when she saw this scene, she was furious.
On the surface, it seems that Empress Chen was not virtuous and generous enough, but in fact, Empress Chen was pregnant at the time, and it was precisely when she needed her husband's considerate care, but Zhu Houxi did not care about her feelings at all, and frowned with other concubines.
Empress Chen was overly frightened and miscarried on the spot.
After the miscarriage, Empress Chen was seriously ill and did not recover for several months, but Zhu Houxi had no pity, and even ruthlessly ordered her to move out of Kunning Palace, and also consulted with the chancellor to prepare for the abolition of the queen, because Empress Chen was already critically ill at the time, Zhu Houxi did not formally issue an edict.
In October, Empress Chen died of illness at the age of twenty, and Zhu Houxi ordered the funeral to be reduced and buried in Yuan'eryu.
For Empress Chen, in the face of a cold, ruthless husband, the best way to get along may be to stay away, try to live in peace with him, don't provoke him, don't expect to get his favor, whether he loves you or not, you have to find ways to live well, there is no need to spend time with him, there is no need to spend too much energy and thought for a person with thin feelings, it is not worth it.
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After Empress Chen's death, Zhu Houxi issued an edict appointing Concubine Zhang Shun as empress.
At first, Empress Zhang was quite favored by Zhu Houxi, "When the emperor pursued the ancient ceremony, linghou led his concubines to the northern suburbs of silkworms, and then led the six palaces to listen to Zhang Sheng's "Female Training" in the palace" ("History of Ming").
However, the good times did not last long, and in the first month of the thirteenth year of Jiajing, Empress Zhang was deposed and lived in a secluded residence in the palace, and died two years later, and Zhu Houxi ordered that she be buried according to the funeral specifications after the abolition of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming.
The reason for Empress Zhang's dethronement is not recorded in the Ming Shilu and the Ming Shi, and it is speculated that it may be because of rebellion against the Holy Will.
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Zhu Houxi reigned for more than ten years, and has not been able to give birth to an imperial heir, and the university scholar Zhang Fujin advised Zhu Houxi to enrich the harem and extend the heirs.
Zhu Houxi then ordered the selection of concubines, and finally selected nine concubines: Fang, Zheng, Wang, Yan, Wei, Shen, Lu, Shen, and Du, and held a solemn canonization ceremony, "Crown Nine Zhai Crown, DaCai Juyi, Gui With Ciyu, Gu Wen, Book Of Gold, And Kill One-Fifth of the Empress." At that time, Emperor Gong was crowned to the Taimiao Temple, and also served the Pi Ben, the Imperial Canopy Hall, the Transmission System, and the Dispatch of Ministers to perform the Ritual Ceremony" (Ming Shi).
The Fang clan was canonized as a concubine, and the father of the ninth concubine was all canonized as a Jinyi WeiZheng Qianhu Belt.
In the thirteenth year of Jiajing, De Concubine was made empress.
Empress Fang was a native of Jiangning, born in the eleventh year of Zhengde (1516 AD), nine years younger than Zhu Houxi.
According to the old system, the empress dowager only needed to visit the ancestral temple in the court, but Zhu Houxi attached great importance to this matter, and specially asked the ministers to discuss the canonization ceremony, and finally the relevant ceremonial procedures were held for three days, which showed that it was very solemn, so did this mean that Empress Fang would spend a peaceful and happy life in the palace? Non also.
Concubine Cao in the palace was born in Shuxiang Mendi, knew the book Dali, like a flower like jade, and was deeply favored by Zhu Houxi, and was crowned as a concubine.
Twenty-one years after Jiajing, one night, Zhu Houxi lived in Concubine Duan's residence.
More than ten palace women led by Yang Jinying saw that Zhu Houxi was asleep, so they took action, they wanted to strangle Zhu Houxi with a rope, but in the panic, they tied a dead knot, and the little palace girl Zhang Jinlian saw that the emperor was not dead, and was scared, and ran to tell Empress Fang.
Empress Fang was taken aback, hurriedly led someone to rescue the driver, untied the rope, and arrested all the palace ladies involved in the matter.
Empress Fang ordered the eunuch Zhang Zuo to interrogate the arrested palace women, and with the results of the interrogation, she told Zhu Houxi: Yang Jinying and others were under the command of Wang Ning's concubine, and although Cao Duanfei did not participate, she did not report it.
Although Zhu Houxi was not strangled, he was too frightened, his breath was gone, and he could not speak.
Empress Fang then ordered in the name of Zhu Houxi that Cao Duanfei, Wang Ningfei, and Yang Jinying be executed.
This group of poor palace ladies, whose rebellion was unsuccessful, paid a terrible price for this, and this incident was called the Change of the Palace of Nongyin."
Zhu Houxi was grateful to Empress Fang for saving her life and made her father a marquis.
In fact, Cao Duanfei did not know it, and Empress Fang took the opportunity to get rid of the love enemy, and later Zhu Houxi learned that Cao Duanfei was wronged.
Empress Fang got rid of Cao Duanfei because of jealousy, and Zhu Houxi's feelings for the other empress gradually changed their taste, and whenever she remembered Cao Duanfei's past tenderness and sentimentality, the disgust of the other empress deepened.
In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, the Kunning Palace where Empress Fang lived suddenly caught fire, and the palace people hurriedly reported Zhu Houxi.
However, Zhu Houxi had a cold face and looked at it coldly, not allowing eunuchs and guards to put out the fire, and watching Empress Fang die in the sea of fire.
Empress Fang was finally Chinese New Year's Eve one year old, and she fought hard to fight, but she ended up like this, would she regret not being in the beginning?
There is a saying that the fire in Kunning Palace was set off by Zhu Houxi.
Cao Duanfei was the most cruel concubine in history, and Empress Fang's fate was also very tragic, they were all victims of harem battles.
Since then, after Zhu Houxi never stood up again, he had a total of eight sons and five daughters, all of whom were born before the "Change of the Palace of Nongyin", and only Ming Muzong Zhu Zaiquan and Princess Ning'an were left at the end of his life.