Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Mazi's family has not always been so poor.

Before the Chenghua year of Emperor Xianzong, the clan could still get by.

At that time, the clans, no matter how big or small, still had the appearance of a royal family...

The same is true for Zhu Mazi's family. If you can't get along very well, you will definitely have some black noodles.

Even if there is a disaster, we will not starve to death.

"Ugh!"

Zhu Mazi sighed.

All changes happened because of that year...

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That was when Emperor Chenghua was working hard to govern, inherit the legacy of Emperor Yingzong, and was about to take back the glory of the Zhu family...

However, that was the year...

——The princes in Lu Fan said that the prince noticed that Young Master Donggong had been taught bad things, so he wanted to change him to a prince.

How could the courtiers agree?

I finally managed to teach one of my own under the eyes of the emperor through the hands of Queen Leng Gong and the Empress Dowager. How could I give up so easily?

(Note: Empress Qian of Zhu Qizhen was almost completely blind and died as early as the fourth year of Chenghua. During the Chenghua period, the power of the harem was in the hands of the Queen Mother Zhou.)

Zhu Mazi sighed.

Speaking of Master Chenghua, he is also a miserable person.

He had a rough childhood. When he was two years old, his father was sent to the grassland by a mutiny coordinated by everyone.

As a young man, he could only be cautious.

Yu Qian and others took control of the government. Not only did they wantonly purge the orthodox veterans, they even changed Zhu Jianshen's name to Zhu Jianru!

The only thing his grandmother, Queen Mother Sun, did to him was to send his palace maid Wan Zhen'er to Zhu Jianshen's side.

Wan Zhen'er, like the Empress Dowager Sun, was from Shandong. She was not very beautiful, but had a bold and heroic personality.

Fortunately, the palace maid named Wan Zhen'er loyally protected Zhu Jianshen.

When he was five years old, the crown prince was deposed. Although he was named King Yi in name, he was imprisoned in the cold palace.

Palace officials are not allowed to receive him!

When he was young, he had no one to communicate with, so he developed a stutter.

Only Wan Zhen'er is by my side.

In fact, in order to prevent being killed, Wan Zhen'er always carried a long sword on her back and dared not take it off at night.

Even on a snowy night, he just wrapped himself in a sleeping bag, held the sword in his arms, and slept with his clothes on.

I'm afraid that the little master will have some shortcomings.

Five years later, Shi Heng and other former members of the Yingzong launched a coup to seize the gate and support the restoration of the Yingzong.

Although he was ten years old, Zhu Jianshen, who had tasted all the warmth and coldness of the world, became the prince again.

Accompanying him was the most loyal palace maid, Wan Zhen'er.

In the first month of Tianshun's eighth year, his father, Emperor Yingzong, who had been with him for only seven short years, died suddenly.

Zhu Jianshen succeeded to the throne as Emperor Xianzong.

Zhu Jianshen's rough childhood experience made him aware of the corruption of officialdom.

In February of the eighth year of Tianshun, less than a month after taking the throne, Zhu Jianshen tested the courtiers and directly appointed a worker named Yao Wang as the deputy envoy of the Wensi Academy.

(This is recognized as the earliest official envoy.)

In the name of Yingzong's imperial edict, the courtiers appointed the daughter of Wu Jun, the commander of the Yulin avant-garde, as the queen.

The year was July 21, the eighth year of Tianshun year.

However, less than a month after Empress Wu was carried into the palace - in August of that year, when Zhu Jianshen went to court, Empress Wu actually scolded Wan Zhen'er.

If Zhu Jianshen hadn't been notified and rushed to the rescue, Wan Zhen'er would have been beaten to death.

Zhu Jianshen was furious!

What is Wan Zhen'er doing? Zhu Jianshen, who has already understood everything, knows it very well.

However, it is the rule that the queen is in charge of the entire harem. As long as the queen mother does not interfere, even the emperor cannot blame her.

The Empress Dowager Qian was imprisoned in the cold palace by Jingtai Jun and his ministers, and she became blind from crying.

The biological mother, Queen Mother Zhou, hated Wan Zhen'er.

What's more, the government has just been handed over at this time, and it is a time when people's hearts are unstable.

If Zhu Jianshen wants to reorganize the harem, he must capture Empress Wu with conclusive evidence.

So the old eunuch Niu Yu came forward to expose it, saying that Wu's appointment as queen was a false edict. When Yingzong was dying, he did not issue an edict to make her queen.

Zhu Jianshen issued three edicts in succession, telling the world that he forcefully deposed Empress Wu and sent her to the cold palace.

After this incident, Zhu Jianshen, who had experienced the ups and downs of the world, knew that if he wanted to restore his ancestral hegemony, he could not rely on courtiers, and at the same time, he had to guard against the harem.

Therefore, he made the docile Wang his queen.

In the first year of Chenghua, when the New Year was over, Zhu Jianshen began to directly appoint officials in large quantities without going through the Ministry of Personnel.

——This is the so-called "passing official".

In fact, this group of people is the tentacles through which Zhu Jianshen can govern!

There are three main reasons why civil servants attacked Zhu Jianshen:

One, pass on the official. ——Establishing a royalist party in the officialdom.

Second, West Factory. ——Reorganize the officialdom and ensure the tools for governance.

Three, Huangzhuang. ——Belongs to Zhu Jianshen’s financial resources.

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In the first month of the second year of Chenghua, Wan Zhen'er gave birth to the emperor's eldest son. Zhu Jianshen ignored the opposition of the government and the public and made Wan Zhen'er a noble concubine.

(Later upgraded to an imperial concubine, she was the first imperial concubine in the Ming Dynasty.)

At the same time, the power of managing the harem was handed over to Wan Zhen'er.

In other words, at this time, only the Empress Dowager Zhou (Zhu Jianshen's biological mother) was in Wan Zhen'er's head, and she had a higher status than Wan Zhen'er.

Moreover, he publicly expressed his intention to establish himself as prince.

As a result, in the winter of that year, the 11-month-old prince died suddenly.

In April of the fifth year of Chenghua, Concubine Bai gave birth to her second son.

Zhu Jianshen was afraid of being slapped in the face again, so he carefully waited until the child was two and a half years old. He was not established as the crown prince until November [-], the seventh year of Chenghua.

This is—Zhu Youji, the Crown Prince of Mourning.

As a result, seventy days later, on the 26th of the first month of the eighth year of Chenghua——

The child who was about to turn three years old was killed again!

Zhu Jianshen's two sons were poisoned to death one after another.

Is Zhu Jianshen childless?

Do not!

Someone hid a child in advance—Zhu Youtang, the later Emperor of Hongzhi.

On the third day of July in the sixth year of Chenghua, the second year after the birth of the second son of the emperor, Ji gave birth to a son.

This child is Zhu Youtang.

He was taken away as soon as he was born without disturbing anyone, not even Zhu Jianshen himself knew!

Because Ji was a prisoner and had no status in the harem, Ji did not even dare to speak out.

Even during the entire pregnancy, the whole process was reported to the outside world according to other people's arrangements.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" said it was because Wan Zhen'er made a big fuss and Zhu Jianshen deceived Wan Zhen'er because he had a knot in his stomach...

Isn’t this nonsense?

It's been a full year since the second child was born. Tell me why Wan Zhen'er isn't making trouble?

"History of the Ming Dynasty" said that the imperial concubine Wan Huang asked the eunuch Zhang Min to drown Zhu Youtang. It was because Wan Zhen'er had no son of her own and Zhang Min did not dare, so she gave the child to Queen Zhou to raise...

However, he ignored the fact that Zhu Youji, the second son of the emperor before that, lived to be about to turn three years old!

This child was not born to Wan Zhener!

Why didn't she kill him?

——Isn’t this so unreasonable and just for the purpose of spitting shit!

Why is this child - he will die sooner or later!

Exactly, he died after someone stole the third emperor's son and after the second emperor's son was established as the prince - 70 days?