I believe that many people will think that it is a miracle that Emperor Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan was born alive and survived to the age of 6 to recognize his ancestors and return to the ancestors.
Because there was a "female demon head" in the palace, Wan Guifei, she could not give birth to a child herself, so she could not see that others had children, and she ran amok in the palace with the favor of Emperor MingxianZong Zhu Jianshen.
I heard that a woman kicked something in the stomach and immediately sent a bowl of abortion pills to force you to drink, and no one could escape her clutches.
However, there will always be no shortage of righteous and good people in the world. Wan Guifei was sparse, Zhu Youfan survived, and quietly Mimi grew to 6 years old.
The "History of Ming" details the story of Zhu Youfan's difficult escape with the help of many well-wishers, and these well-wishers, including Zhu Youfan's mother, also paid for it.
The story begins when Zhu Mishen first ascended the throne:
In the first year of Chenghua, the Yao people's rebellion centered on the Dayao Mountains in Guangxi was quickly suppressed after being strongly encircled and suppressed by the Ming army.
During this siege, 2718 women were captured, and after selection, a girl surnamed Ji was sent to the palace along with some other sisters.
Ji girl's original name was Li Tangmei, since the death of her parents since childhood, the lonely and lonely Ji girl, with the help of many relatives and friends, went to Guiling, Guangxi, was adopted by a local toastmaster, and changed her surname to Ji. Toast regards the Ji girl as his own, teaches the Ji girl to read and write, sing and dance.
It is precisely because Ji Girl is cultured and born handsome and beautiful, that after entering the palace, she was assigned to Wenyuan Pavilion as a female historian.
One day, Zhu Mishen accidentally went to Wenyuan Pavilion to hang out, noticed Ji Girl, and that night he had a cloud and rain with Ji Girl, and only one night Ji Girl became pregnant.
As her belly grew bigger and bigger, she really let Wan Guifei know!
At this time, the first kind person who helped Ji Girl appeared. Wan Guifei ordered a palace girl to have an abortion for Ji Girl, and the well-meaning palace girl, who did not know her name, did not do so, but lied that Ji Girl was not pregnant, but had a tumor in her stomach.
Wan Guifei believed it to be true, so she drove Lady Ji to live in the Anle Hall outside the palace.
Anle Hall is a place dedicated to the sick palace people to recuperate and live, and does not belong to the inner palace, which is called "Xi Nei" in the Ming Dynasty. In this relatively safe place, Ji Girl quietly gave birth to Zhu Youfan.
There was one more child for no reason, and Wan Guifei heard the sound of the wind and was still unwilling to let go.
At this time, the second kind person who helped Zhu Youfan's mother and son appeared. Wan Guifei asked a eunuch named Zhang Min to drown the child, Zhang Min was distressed about the child, and he cared about the emperor's ascension to the throne for so many years, he had no children, and he could not bear it in his heart, so he hid the child.
As a result, the young Zhu Youfan lived a life of hiding. Zhang Min's kindness touched many people, and the current palace eunuchs were also very sympathetic to the situation of Zhu Youfan's mother and son, and everyone was willing to keep secrets, along with Empress Wu, who had been deposed for a long time in Jusinei, heard about this matter and also helped to take care of it.
When Zhu Youfan grew up to be 6 years old, one day, Zhang Min combed Zhu Mishen's hair, and Zhu Jianshen sighed: "I am old, but I don't have a son!" ”
Zhang Min couldn't bear it any longer, and threw himself on his knees and said, "Your Majesty, you already have a son!" ”
The child who had been hiding for 6 years finally saw the light, the father and son recognized each other, Zhu Saw was deeply happy, and took Zhu Youfan's mother and son back to the palace, but Ji Girl knew that Wan Guifei would not let herself go, and sure enough, Ji Guifei died soon after returning to the palace, zhang Min was also afraid of Wan Guifei's means, and then swallowed gold to commit suicide.
There is no doubt that Wan Guifei's means can be compiled into film and television dramas similar to the theme of "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
But it is very regrettable that this story is true except that Zhu Youfan was indeed raised in the palace in his childhood, and many other details cannot withstand the scrutiny of other historical materials in history, and can even be said to be fabricated.
Let's start with a few suspicious points:
Wan Guifei was 35 years old when she married Zhu Jianshen, and in ancient times, this age belonged to advanced maternal age, and it was very dangerous to have children. Although Princess Wan Guifei desperately gave birth to an imperial eldest son to Zhu Mishen, the child died in less than a year.
That is to say, Wan Guifei could not have children in this life, and in this case, the imperial heir was mutilated, and Ming Shili said very exaggeratedly, "Drinking medicine and injuring countless people", this is to Zhu Mi Shen after the death.
Even if Zhu Jianshen loved Wan Guifei again, he could not allow No one to succeed him, and besides, Wan Guifei's methods were so cruel, how did the empress dowager of the two palaces at that time not realize it, and how did the Manchu Dynasty ministers not have a death advice?
And as mentioned earlier, Wan Guifei's hands and eyes are in the sky, how can Zhang Min hide the child for six years, and in these six years, no one has seen qianyan open his eyes to please Wan Guifei and go to ventilate the news?
However, after all, we are not palace people, and most of the living forms in the palace are out of imagination and have no right to speak, but there is a person who is a palace person, and he also questions this matter.
This man was the Qianlong Emperor.
Qianlong also specially wrote an article entitled "Rebutting that all the pregnant concubines of Emperor Xianzong were forced to fall from the womb by Wanfei" to question the authenticity of this matter.
The text is full of questions about every detail of this storyline, for example, Wan Guifei has killed so many people, why is everyone willing to protect Ji Girl?
For example, it is not safe for Zhang Min to hide her child in Anle Hall, and wouldn't it be safer to raise her in the outer court?
For example, Empress Wu has been nursed and cared for many times, how can she not be afraid of Wan Guifei's detection?
In addition, Qianlong also pointed out a detail, the "History of Ming" recorded that when Zhang Min heard that Wan Guifei wanted him to drown the child, he was shocked: "There is no son on the top, so why abandon it." ”
But in fact, when Zhu Youfan was born, it was the sixth year of Chenghua, when Zhu Jianshen had a son, born to Concubine Bai, named Zhu Youji. He was also made crown prince.
This is where this story first contradicts historical facts.
The second place is still on Zhang Min. In the "Zhang Clan Genealogy" discovered later, it is recorded that Zhang Min died in the twenty-first year of Chenghua, not after Zhu Youfan's father and son recognized each other, and swallowed gold and died. There is also a record of Zhang Min in the "Kinmen County Chronicle", which can be corroborated with the content of the "Zhang Clan Genealogy".
Finally, after history enthusiasts have verified that this account of Wan Guifei first appeared in the Wanli period, a person named Yu Shenxing listened to the description of an old eunuch in the palace and recorded it.
The Wanli Dynasty has passed more than 100 years after the era of Wan Guifei, and there is no relevant content in the Ming Dynasty official revision history book Ming Shilu, so this old eunuch is mostly hearsay.
The Qing Dynasty's revision of the "History of Ming" is not examined, and it lacks a rigorous spirit for a rumor to be taken and used.
Another version of this story, a Ming Dynasty book called "Ruling the World and The Aftermath of the World", records this:
Zhu Jianshen was not the last to know that there was a child like Zhu Youfan, on the contrary, Zhu Jianshen was the first to know.
At that time, the pain of Wan Guifei's loss of her son was unabated, and when she heard that there were new people in the palace who were pregnant, she could not avoid being hurt, and Zhu Saw that she was deeply distressed about her daughter-in-law, so she sent Ji Shi to Anle Hall and ordered someone to take care of her carefully, and only said that Ji Shi had a tumor in her belly.
Since then, Ji Shi and Zhu Youfan have been raised outside the palace, and only Wan Guifei has been hiding it.
After zhu Youji, the crown prince, died prematurely, there was no successor to the crown prince, and it was slowly rumored that "there is a prince in the Western Palace". When the ministers of the former dynasty heard about it, they also requested to return to the Zongmiao Temple as soon as possible.
Wan Guifei also heard about it, and Wan Guifei's first reaction was: "Why don't you let me know about this!" ”
Immediately prepare a generous gift, choose an auspicious day, and be personally managed by Wan Guifei to welcome Zhu Youfan's mother and son back to the palace, entrusting a harmonious scene.
At that time, Ji Shi was already seriously ill, and less than two months after entering the palace, he died after ineffective medical treatment.
Reference to the original:
Emperor Ji of Chenghua was fortunate to have a concubine. Wan Guifei was aware of it, and was bitter and bitter. The Xian Temple is a disease of Mito, and it is out of the Anle Hall to repay it, and it is under the care of the doorman. Having given birth, secretly order the inner servants to be close to the courtiers, and to take care of it. And after mourning, the inner court gradually spread that there was a prince in the Western Palace,...... Let the outer court know it... There was also the eunuch Zhang Min, the eunuch Duan Ying of the main palace of the concubine, who said it by chance. Guifei was shocked: "Why don't you let me know!" "Then I gave the mother and son of the Ji clan a generous gift, and please enter the palace on the auspicious day." ...... The number of ceremonies depends on the noble concubine. Chinese and foreign ministers, happy and afraid of handover. Princess Hou jifei is ill,...... By the time of his death on June 28, he was posthumously honored as a concubine.
The reason why this version is more authentic is because there are two pieces of evidence.
The first is a recital by a scholar of the contemporary Mingchen University.
"Your Royal Highness the Noble Concubine bows down to nurture her, the diligence of protection, the thickness of love, and the tiptoe out." All the courtiers inside and outside the city and the gates of the capital city did not praise it, thinking that the sage of the noble concubines was incomparable in modern times, and the blessing of this Chengzong Society was boundless. However, it is said that the mother of the crown prince lived elsewhere due to illness and could not be seen for a long time, and the human condition of the prince was not smooth. The Emperor ordered him to live nearby, but the Crown Prince was still annoyed with the concubines to raise them, so that it was convenient for them to be received overnight. ”
This means that during the period when Wan Guifei raised Zhu Youfan, she regarded her as if she were her own, and the inner palace and the outer court all praised her, and having such a virtuous concubine as Wan Guifei was really a blessing for the society! However, Zhu Youfan's birth mother lived elsewhere due to illness, hoping that His Majesty could let the Ji family move back to live closer, and the crown prince was still worried about the care of Concubine Wan guifei to facilitate the mother and son to meet.
Emperor Mingxiaozong Zhu Youfan
It can be seen that Wan Guifei's treatment of Zhu Youfan's mother and son is indeed a harmonious group, not only did not hurt, but also personally took care of Zhu Youfan for a period of time.
The second article is from the Records of the Ming Dynasty.
Because there was a fire at Qianqingmen at that time, Zhu Jianshen felt that this was a warning from heaven, so he thought of making his six-year-old son public and using this happy event to "wash away the disaster."
Due to the disaster at the Qianqing Palace, the Superior wanted to show it to the public, and ordered the eunuch Huai En, the eunuch of the Ceremony, to wait until the cabinet to deliberate.
The phrase "the desire to show to the public" proves that Zhu Jianshen already knew about the existence of Zhu Youshen, and it is also corroborated by the previous statement that Zhu Jianshen single-handedly arranged for Zhu Youshen's mother and son to leave the palace.
To sum up, such a truth is also more in line with the personality of Zhu Jianshen and Wan Guifei who are dependent on each other and love each other.
However, it can be seen that Zhu Mishen really has no feelings for Ji Guifei, in order to take care of Wan Guifei's emotions, he sent Ji Shi out of the palace and raised his son outside for six years, Zhu Mishen is truly in love with Wan Guifei, and the truth is a wave of dog food.