On July 21, 1620, the Wanli Emperor fell ill and died, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne.
The Wanli Emperor reigned for 48 years, was the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the crown prince was old.
Zhu Changluo waited for the flowers to thank him, and waited until he was 38 years old to finally board the dragon chair, and that kind of urgent mood can be imagined.
Although he ascended the throne a little late, 38 years old is the age of flesh and blood, so he is full of ambition to do a career after taking office.
However, only a month after ascending the throne, bad news came from the imperial palace: the emperor (Guangzong) died, and this news shocked the government and the public.
Is the emperor in poor health? At the enthronement ceremony on the first day of August, Emperor Zhu "Yu Lu AnHe" and "Chong Pu no disease", that is, he was in good health, full of red light, there was no pathology at all, how to say that he left?
Therefore, the civil and military officials do not believe that there must be a conspiracy in this.
According to the Ming history, after the new emperor ascended the throne, Zheng Guifei sent him 8 beautiful women, each of whom was a national color tianxiang, racing through daji and mink cicadas, enchanting and charming.
It is said that the emperor's harem is three thousand, and the most important thing is beauty; but these 8 beauties belong to wildflowers, which are naturally different and very attractive to the emperor.
And each of the 8 beautiful women emits a magical fragrance, known as ecstasy incense, which can make people lose and never know tiredness.
In this way, the new emperor was an iron body, and he could not hold back the wheel war, and collapsed in just over a week.
We say this not out of thin air, the Ming history records that Zheng Guifei "entered the eight people of the Servant Ji, and the upper disease began to be worried."
The Book of Sins also records: "And ascended to the pole, the noble concubine entered the beautiful concubine to serve the emperor." Ten days later, the emperor fell ill. On August 14, Emperor Taichang became seriously ill and summoned the internal official Cui Wensheng to be cured.
Why did Concubine Zheng treat Zhu Changluo like this?
Because Zhu Changluo was the product of his father Wanli Emperor's one-night stand at the empress dowager's visit to the empress dowager, he did not intend to be responsible, and finally confessed it after the empress dowager's interrogation.
However, the Wanli Emperor did not take their mother and daughter seriously, and soon Xiao Wang died, and Zhu Changluo, a child without a wife, became a grass on the side of the road.
The Wanli Emperor did not love Zhu Changluo's mother because the family had their own favorite, that is, Zheng Guifei.
Princess Zheng Guifei began to give birth to a son who died prematurely, and then gave birth to a son named Zhu Changxun. Wan Li loved Wu and Wu and wanted him to be crown prince; Concubine Zheng, as a mother, naturally wanted her son to become emperor in the future.
It should not be a problem for the emperor to let his favorite concubine's son succeed him, but there was a technical problem, that is, Zhu Changxun was born four years late, and his half-brother Zhu Changluo was the emperor's eldest son and a righteous successor.
The Idea of the Wanli Emperor wanting his second son to succeed him was unanimously opposed by his ministers, for which more than a dozen cabinet chiefs and ministerial officials resigned or were removed, and more than three hundred high-ranking officials were implicated.
In the end, the Wanli Emperor still chose to compromise and made his eldest son Zhu Changluo the crown prince.
It can be seen that the Wanli Emperor still talks about democracy, and if it is Zhu Yuanzhang, he will not give in after killing the minister.
The ambitious Concubine Zheng Guifei did not let her son become the crown prince, would she give up?
Therefore, Zheng Guifei sent 8 beautiful women to the new emperor and wanted to set up a set for Zhu Changluo.
Later, when the Chongzhen Emperor first took office, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi also used it, but Chongzhen was a man with determination, probably had heard of the Red Pill Case, saw through their traps, and searched out the ecstasy incense on them.
However, at that time, Zhu Changluo was still a simple young man, who had not experienced it, could not resist the temptation, and his body collapsed after tossing for more than ten days.
However, the body was weak and could not be killed, and the reason for the aggravation of the disease was to eat laxatives prescribed by the eunuch Cui Wensheng for several days in a row. Originally the body is weak and needs to be supplemented, and good people who take laxatives for a few days can't stand it, can the condition not be aggravated?
The emperor had a health doctor, that is, an imperial doctor, so why take medicine prescribed by a eunuch who did not have a license to practice medicine? Who gave this power? The first assistant of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe.
The first assistant of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe, entered the cabinet as a rebbe Shangshu and a scholar of Dongge University, and he served as the first assistant for seven years in the Wanli Dynasty.
The first assistant is the first administrative supervisor, who is above ten thousand people under one person and has great power. Although according to the Ming Dynasty system design, it was a collective responsibility system, and the cabinet handled government affairs, yan song, the first assistant during the Jiajing period, and Zhang Juzheng during the Wanli period, once monopolized power and power fell to the opposition.
Why Fang Congzhe can serve as the first assistant for a long time, because he has a very hard backstage, and this backstage is not someone else, it is Zheng Guifei.
The imperial doctors of the imperial palace were all medical authorities, and Fang Congzhe let them not use them, and illegally let Emperor Cui Wensheng, a eunuch who was not a barefoot doctor, see a doctor, even if there was no conspiracy, it was associative.
The eunuch Cui Wensheng, perhaps in order to please the new emperor, used a formula that he did not know where to hear, and the emperor began to brush the diarrhea after eating, and went to the hut dozens of times in one night, unconscious.
Fang Congzhe then invited the imperial doctor and asked the experts to consult.
The expert's words surprised people: "The emperor's illness originally needs to be repaired, and it is necessary to slowly accumulate over time to achieve results." But this laxative completely destroyed the body."
The conclusion given by the expert group (imperial doctor) was: "The disease on the top is not good. "Their advice is: make up, rejuvenate.
Fang Congzhe listened and agreed to follow the advice of the expert group, but later he summoned another wild doctor and asked the emperor to eat the red pill and completely kill him.
Fang Congzhe's reason for this was that the emperor was not optimistic about his illness and did not have confidence in the ability of the experts. Therefore, Fang Congzhe said: "Long live, if you can't believe the words of those imperial doctors, your subjects should spread the word to the whole world and summon famous doctors."
At this time, a man named Li Kezhao appeared.
Li Kezhuo, Daming official, Hongxu Temple. Hongxu Temple is responsible for presiding over ceremonies and receiving foreign guests, and he is also responsible for any activities of the imperial court; Hongxu Temple is similar to the head of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Li Kezhuo heard that the emperor was ill, not lightly ill, and thought that the opportunity had come. He sacrificed a good medicine to cure himself, and if he could not cure it, it was the emperor's fate to do so, and the dead horse should be a living horse doctor.
Besides, I'm in my 50s and worth the gamble.
Therefore, he let the wind out and said that he had an elixir, which was given by an immortal chief when he was young when he was collecting medicine in Mount Emei, and the medicinal materials he used were all taken from the Divine Palace Wonderland, which could cure all diseases and cure them.
As we all know, doctors pay attention to the right medicine, but this old Li Tou said that he can cure all diseases, which is obviously unreliable.
However, as an emperor, his illness was getting worse and worse, and he was precarious, and he was in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he couldn't take care of so much.
However, as a high-ranking official, Fang Congzhe, who has been in the eunuch sea for many years, should talk about politics and should not participate in a big gamble. The emperor died under the treatment of the imperial doctor, which was a natural thing, and he had no responsibility.
If he let the wild doctor die, it would be a disaster.
However, after the emperor had just eaten Li Kezhuo's "immortal elixir", he felt very effective, and he actually sat up.
But those imperial doctors and officials all said that things were abnormal, and there must be demons in it, and the emperor could not continue to eat the elixir.
The experts even said that they would draw a clear line with Dr. Ye, and if Lord Shoufu continued to let the emperor eat the red pill (elixir), we would resign en masse and leave immediately.
But as a patient, the emperor has lost his mind and can't stop, and no one can change it.
Li Kezhuo also saw that he was going to gamble and win, and he also swore a guarantee.
As a result, as the imperial doctors expected, one night a few days later, Zhu Changluo's body took a sharp turn.
On September 26 of the first year of Taichang (1620), Zhu Changluo finally died after taking a elixir.
At this time, in order to clear his responsibilities, Fang Congzhe drew up a testament, which said: Eating red pills is the idea of Yuan, and it has nothing to do with you.
Moreover, the emperor also praised Li Kezhao as a divine doctor and confessed that he would give him silver coins.
However, the sudden death of the emperor was a great matter, and the imperial court, which was already fiercely contested by the party, immediately set off an uproar and demanded that the cause of death be traced back to the sky like snowflakes.
Public opinion was raging and unstoppable; all the spearheads were directed at Zheng Guifei.
Because first, Cui Wensheng, the internal servant who gave laxatives to Emperor Taichang, was once a red man of Zheng Guifei and was recommended by Zheng Guifei to Zhu Changluo.
Cui Wensheng greeted the emperor with laxatives, with sinister intentions.
Moreover, Fang Congzhe did not use the imperial doctor, and invited the wild doctor Li Kezhao, which was an ultra vires violation.
The most suspicious thing is the testament drafted by Fang Congzhe, which clear-eyed people know is unreasonable when they hear it.
The emperor may have initially believed in Hongmaru and Li Kezhuo, but later when he was in danger of his own life and saw the King of Yan, how could he still issue an edict praising Li Kezhuo and giving him silver coins?
Therefore, this testament not only did not clear Fang Congzhe's responsibility, but on the contrary, there was no suspicion of three hundred and two silver here.
In mid-October, the call to track down the "Red Pill Case" rose higher and higher.
Rebbe Shangshu Sun Shenxing made a play, "From Zhe Zhong, there is no heart to kill the king, but there is a sin of killing the king." If you want to resign the name of the killer, it is inevitable that the truth of the murder will be avoided. This means that the Red Pill case is a medical accident, and the first person responsible is the first assistant Fang Congzhe.
The meaning is clear: if not intentional murder, at least manslaughter.
Fang Congzhe had no choice but to resign from the newly appointed Emperor Tianqi and left the capital in early November with sorrow.
But the case did not end, and the ministers linked the "attack case" that occurred more than a decade ago.
At that time, a eunuch instructed a Peasant from Hebei to enter the palace in an attempt to put the crown prince Zhu Changluo to death, but he did not succeed.
In the end, it was found that the eunuchs who instructed the peasant were The eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng under Concubine Zheng Guifei.
However, under the protection of the Wanli Emperor, Concubine Zheng Guifei was at large.
However, the "attack case" has been closed, the red pill is indeed the emperor himself to eat, and the main responsible person Fang Congzhe has resigned, Li Kezhuo has also sent the frontier, and the newly appointed Emperor of the Apocalypse does not want to investigate deeply, so he hastily broke the red pill case. But the doubts are not clear.
What exactly was the red pill that Emperor Guangzong Zhu Changluo took? Because the sample is not retained, the composition has become difficult to determine.
Some people think that according to Zhu Changluo's reaction, it should be an aphrodisiac.
The aphrodisiac can make people energetic and energetic; but it is only short-lived, cannot last, and can only overdraft the human body, but cannot rejuvenate people.
That is to say, Li Kezhuo was a layman, did not understand medicine, used the wrong object, and as a result, he wanted the emperor's life.
But the medical malpractice, whether it was a political conspiracy or not, had far-reaching implications; it not only changed the political landscape of the Ming Dynasty, but even changed the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Because of the sudden departure of Emperor Guangzong, the throne had to be handed over to the 15-year-old Zhu Youxiao, and the power fell into the hands of his nursing mother and eunuch Wei Zhongxian, which intensified the party struggle, gave Nurhaci the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, and created conditions for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Without those 8 jade-like beauties, the emperor would not have been seriously ill; Zheng Guifei would not have had the opportunity to let the eunuch and Li Kezhuo prescribe medicine to the emperor, the emperor would not have died so early, Wei Zhongxian would not have made waves, Zhu Youjian would not have become emperor, Yuan Chonghuan would not have been delayed, the Qing army would not have entered the customs, and Daming would not have perished so early.