Historically, the Ming Dynasty Wanli Dynasty occurred in the Ming Dynasty, the Taichang period of the Red Pill case and the palace removal case, and called the three strange cases at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The case was full of suspicions, but the case was hastily closed before the suspicions were completely solved. What is the real purpose of the difference?Why was he able to reach the crown prince's bedroom all the way with a murder weapon in his hand?Is Zheng Guifei the mastermind behind the scenes?Why Emperor Wanli did not agree to continue to investigate is an unsolved question.
The Red Pill case is also full of fog, and it was also hastily closed without finding the behind-the-scenes. For example, whether the red pill was refined by Li Kezhuo, or did he get it from the immortals, is it poisonous?Is the red pill that Li Kezhuo ate the same as the red pill that Emperor Taichang ate?Are the ingredients of the two red pills eaten by Emperor Taichang the same?Why is Emperor Taichang still willing to believe in eunuchs who have no medical knowledge, and he is not willing to believe in imperial doctors?Who is behind the killing of Emperor Taichang, etc., are all unsolved doubts.
It is reasonable for the above two cases to be called strange cases, and there is no dispute about it. However, the case of moving the palace is different, the facts of the case are clear, the process is clear, and the result is that the crown prince succeeded to the throne smoothly without danger, why is it also listed as a strange case at the end of the Ming Dynasty?What the hell is strange?
I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. The best way to figure something out is to stay out of the way, look at the process from a third person's perspective, and find the culprit. Therefore, to solve the doubts in your heart, first of all, let's understand the process of moving the palace case.
1. The crown prince and Xi Li moved into the Qianqing Palace.
In July of the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), Zhu Yijun, Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong, died, and Zhu Changluo, Emperor Taichang of Mingguangzong, ascended the throne.
There is a small episode here, that is, during the period of Emperor Wanli, Concubine Zheng Guifei lived in the Qianqing Palace in the name of taking care of the sick Emperor Wanli. But after the death of Emperor Wanli, she refused to move out, resulting in the new emperor not being able to live in the Qianqing palace. In the face of the ministers' questioning, Concubine Zheng said vigorously, "It's okay to move out, but you have to fulfill the promise of the emperor and make me the queen mother first." The courtiers led by Yang Lian didn't believe her words, the reason was very simple, if the emperor really wanted to make her queen, why didn't he seal her during his lifetime?
So, Yang Lian asked Zheng Guifei to come up with a written record. Now Concubine Zheng Guifei was dumbfounded, this was indeed what Emperor Wanli said to her personally, but it was said when the two were entertaining, and there was no written record, ** can be taken out!?However, she didn't admit defeat easily, so she simply resorted to procrastination tricks to deal with Yang Lian and others.
Yang Lian and the others had no choice but to resort to a killer move, and instead threatened Zheng Guifei's nephew Zheng Yangxing, demanding that he must persuade Zheng Guifei to move out of the Qianqing Palace unconditionally, otherwise, they would be rude to him.
Zheng Yangxing is a gentleman and a gutless bandit, usually relying on Zheng Guifei to be favored, and doing a lot of bad things, thinking that Yang Lian and others have caught his handle, he panicked in his heart, and soon lost the battle and agreed to act as a lobbyist.
After Zheng Guifei lost the backer of Emperor Wanli, her confidence was already insufficient, and she refused to move out of the Qianqing Palace before, but she just wanted to fish in troubled waters and become the queen mother with the mentality of fighting for a fight. When she learned that the Donglin Party wanted to attack her nephew, she suddenly began to retreat like a snake that had been hit by seven inches - she was now unable to protect herself, and she was no longer able to protect her mother's family. So, I had to agree to move out of the Qianqing Palace.
After twists and turns, Zhu Changluo finally moved into the Qianqing Palace. moved into the Qianqing Palace with him, as well as the two protagonists of the "Palace Removal Case" - the crown prince Zhu Youxiao and his adoptive mother Li Xuanzhi.
Zhu Youxiao is Zhu Changluo's eldest son, and his biological mother is the Wang family. When Zhu Youxiao was fourteen years old, his mother Wang died, and Emperor Wanli asked Li Kangfei (Xi Li), the crown prince Zhu Changluo's servant, to take care of him.
Shenzong only cares about having fun, and has no time to take care of Zhu Youxiao;His biological father, Zhu Changluo, couldn't focus on him because he couldn't protect himself, no, he couldn't take care of him at all;And her adoptive mother, Li Xuanzhi, gave more love to her biological children. Under these circumstances, Zhu Youxiao completely let himself go, concentrating on the study of carpentry, building houses and puppet shows, and eventually became an expert in this field, with profound attainments. Of course, that's another story.
This once again proves one thing, that is, Zheng Guifei really has nothing to do with the Red Pill case. Because after Zhu Changluo's death, the successor was his son Zhu Youxiao, who had a closer relationship with Xi Li, and wanted to be crowned, and Xi Li was also named the queen mother. Concubine Zheng knew this very well, so she would not be stupid enough to kill Zhu Dangluo.
Let's talk about Li Xuanshi, that is, Xi Li. She is the favorite concubine of Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong, the adoptive mother of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse, and the biological mother of Zhu Youmo, the fourth son of the emperor, and Zhu Huiyuan, the princess of Le'an. She was the first to choose a servant, and after Mingguangzong ascended the throne, he was ready to issue a decree to crown her as the imperial concubine. At that time, Xi Li jokingly said that he wanted to be crowned queen, but the emperor did not agree.
Knowing that the emperor wanted to crown Xi Li as the imperial concubine, Sun Ruyou, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, dissuaded him, "The titles of the queen mother, Yuan Concubine and others have not yet been honored, and it is not too late to be crowned the imperial concubine after these things are resolved." Zhu Changluo agreed with Sun Ruyou's statement, felt that there was no need to rush for a while, and decided to slow down for a while. Unexpectedly, something happened at this time - he died.
The boiled duck flew away, and Xi Li was not reconciled. However, Zhu Changluo has become the first emperor, who can help her realize her wish?Looking at Zhu Youxiao, who sometimes immersed herself in carving small wooden figures, sometimes clapping her hands and laughing, and sometimes crying loudly, she moved in her heart and had an idea ......
Judging from the timeline, Zheng Guifei's "palace stagnation" action can be said to be a rehearsal of the "palace transfer case". Those who are as smart as Xi Li must have taken some kind of inspiration from this incident. Therefore, after the violent death of the backer Zhu Changluo, Xi Li decided to follow the practice of Zheng Guifei - continue to stick to the Qianqing Palace, if she wants to move out of the palace, she must meet her conditions - to be the queen mother, and listen to the government.
Unlike Concubine Zheng Guifei, who is alone, Xi Li has a trump card in his hand - Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the emperor. A group of eunuchs led by Li Jinzhong also firmly supported her, and Li Jinzhong (later renamed Wei Zhongxian) was not only resourceful and gave advice to her, but also a ruthless person, rushing to the forefront every time something happened. Xi Li is full of confidence and is determined to win.
2. The crown prince takes refuge in the palace.
I have to say that Xi Li is an ambitious person, and he thinks very beautifully, and he wants to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the ministers to copy Wu Zetian's successful case. However, she thought about the problem too simply, because according to the ancestral system, the concubines of Emperor Taihang must immediately leave the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lives and move to the Qiluan Palace where the concubines are old. Therefore, her actions violated the ancestral system and were intolerable by law!
In addition, not only did she not find an effective way to deal with the Donglin Party, but she also fell out with her former ally Zheng Guifei - both of them wanted to be the queen mother, but there was only one place. This is a sign that her path forward will not be too smooth.
Sure enough, Wang An, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi, who had a close relationship with Concubine Zheng Guifei, immediately exposed the conspiracy to Yang Lian after learning the news that Li Xuanzhi and Li Jinzhong and others were plotting to kidnap the emperor's eldest son.
Thirteen ministers, including Yang Lian and Liu Yixie, urgently convened a meeting to analyze Xi Li's intentions and study countermeasures. Combined with Zheng Guifei's previous actions, they quickly came to the conclusion that Xi Li intended to become the empress dowager and to implement the curtain to listen to the government.
Zhou Jiamo and others believe that Zhu Youxiao has neither a mother nor a biological mother, and it is understandable if Xi Li, who raised him, becomes the queen mother. However, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other Donglin Party members resolutely opposed it, on the grounds that the crown prince had never been in the world, and if he was coerced by Xi Li to listen to the government, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Since the cabinet chief assistant Fang Congzhe had the handle in the hands of the Donglin party, he supported Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou. In the end, the minority obeyed the majority, and decided to enter the Qianqing Palace on the grounds of seeing the emperor for the last time, and then find a way to snatch the crown prince over, get rid of Li Xuanzhi and take him out of the Qianqing Palace, and then force Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace before the prince ascended the throne.
So, Yang Lian, Donglin Dangren, Liu Yixian, Fang Congzhe and other thirteen courtiers went straight to the Qianqing Palace, and asked to cry to Emperor Taichang as a minister, and to see the emperor's eldest son Zhu Youxiao to discuss the accession to the throne. But at the door, he was blocked by the eunuchs who had been prepared, and he could not enter.
Yang Lian was furious and said, "I waited for the minister to enter the palace by order, and you ate the bear's heart and leopard gall."How dare you stop the minister from doing something!The eunuchs were shocked, looked at each other, and took a few steps back, but still refused to disperse. Yang Lian didn't give them a chance to think, raised his voice three degrees, and shouted angrily again, "Bold slave, the bones of the first emperor are not cold, do you want to rebel?"So saying, he led the people and rushed to the palace.
Those eunuchs were all minions who ate hard and did not eat soft, and they were suppressed by Yang Lian's powerful aura, and when they saw that the first assistant of the cabinet, Congzhe, was also in the ranks, they suddenly became timid and unconsciously gave way out. Yang Lian and the other thirteen people took the opportunity to rush into the palace and enter the Taihe Palace.
Seeing the deceased emperor, the ministers knelt down and wept bitterly according to the ritual process. After crying, the second part of the meeting was held, where Minister Tuogu asked the crown prince to discuss urgent matters such as co-presiding over the funeral and determining the date of enthronement. In principle, if the new lord is young, this process must be participated by the empress dowager and the minister of Gu Ming, but Zhu Youxiao's biological mother is dead, and the Taihang Emperor has not canonized the empress, so Yang Lian and others do not plan to involve Li Xuanzhi in it.
However, the ministers searched the entire palace, but found no trace of the crown prince. Yang Lian guessed that it must be Li Xuanzhi's ghost, and when he turned his head, sure enough, Li Xuanzhi and Li Jinzhong didn't know when they slipped away, which confirmed his guess. So he yelled: "Where is the crown prince?"Those who do not report the information are guilty of the same crime as the main offender!He yelled three times, but no one answered at the scene. Obviously, Li Xuanzhi and Li Jinzhong had completely controlled the Qianqing Palace, and no one in the palace dared to disobey them.
Everyone was anxious, but considering that the crown prince was in the hands of Li Xuanzhi, the situation was unclear, and if he acted rashly, he might hurt the crown prince and cause irreparable serious consequences. Therefore, no further action was dared.
When there was nothing to be done, Wang An, the eunuch who had previously exposed Li Xuanzhi and Li Jinzhong, stood up again. He whispered to Yang Lian three words - Dongnuan Pavilion. Yang Lian understood and immediately went to the Dongnuan Pavilion with all the ministers, and the crown prince was indeed here. However, despite the ministers' words, Li Xuanzhi refused to hand over the crown prince, and did not even let the ministers enter. The two sides are at a stalemate.
At the critical moment, it has to rely on Wang An. He stepped forward again, told the ministers to back off first, and then walked towards the warm pavilion. As a big eunuch, the little eunuchs at the door naturally didn't dare to stop him, so they had to let him in. Li Jinzhong is also his subordinate, and he also doesn't dare to say anything, even the arrogant Li Xuanzhi has to give three points when he sees him.
Wang An was one of the few people Zhu Youxiao trusted the most, and when he saw Wang An coming in, he happily ran over to greet him. Li Xuanzhi and Li Jinzhong didn't dare to interfere, and let the two of them be in a hot mood on the side, not even noticing that Wang An and Zhu Youxiao were getting closer and closer to the door.
Wang An saw the right time, picked up Zhu Youxiao and ran out of the warm pavilion. When the ministers saw the crown prince, they immediately knelt down the mountain and shouted long live, and then helped the crown prince to go to the dragon chariot, and went straight to the Wenhua Hall (the palace).
Li Xuanzhi didn't expect Wang An to betray her, so he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and urgently ordered Li Jinzhong to lead the eunuchs to chase after him, and ordered that the crown prince must be snatched back.
All the ministers were elderly, and the eunuchs, who were able to outrun the young and strong, were soon caught up. Li Jinzhong doesn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and when he comes up, he wants to rob the emperor's eldest son. At this time, the minister also let himself out - it was not easy to receive the crown prince, how could he give up easily?So they stopped it, and the two sides fought each other in close combat. Due to the disparity in strength, the ministers soon fell behind, and even the sleeves of the crown prince's clothes were torn by the eunuchs.
Yang Lian saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly said to Zhu Youxiao, "The bones of the first emperor are not cold, and these minions dare to prevent His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from ascending the throne, this is a rebellion!."Zhu Youxiao listened, and his face was really gloomy. Yang Lian continued, "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." We are all Your Highness's courtiers, you don't need to worry about defending to the death!”
Yang Lian woke up the dreamer with a word. Zhu Youxiao was used to talking, and when he saw the eunuchs coming in a rage just now, he was so frightened that he trembled. After being reminded by Yang Lian, he suddenly realized that everyone was his courtiers, and the sleeves of his clothes were broken just now, so he had already held his breath, so he suddenly lifted the curtain and glared at the eunuchs who stopped the car.
Don't look at these eunuchs screaming happily, it's just a dog fighting people, seeing that the real owner was angry, including Li Jinzhong, they all stopped reflexively. The ministers took the opportunity to hurry up and send the crown prince safely to the Wenhua Palace. At this point, Li Xuanzhi's purpose of holding Zhu Youxiao hostage failed.
After discussions with the crown prince, the ministers unanimously decided to hold an enthronement ceremony on the 6th day of this month (the 6th day of the ninth month of 1620). Before the ceremony, in order to ensure the safety of the crown prince, he was temporarily allowed to live in the Wenhua Palace, and the eunuch Wang Anmen was responsible for the security work.
But a new problem came, according to the ancestral teachings, the enthronement ceremony must be held in the Qianqing Palace. In other words, Li Xuanzhi had to move out of the Qianqing Palace before the enthronement ceremony. Will she agree?
3. Li Xuan's servants moved to the palace.
Li Xuanzhi agreed in principle to move out of the Qianqing Palace, but only if the ministers agreed to the three conditions she proposed. The first is to put Zhu Youxiao''Also''Give it back to her;The second is to respect her as the queen mother;The third is that in the future, all ministers must first hand it over to her for inspection, and then hand it over to Zhu Youxiao. It is not surprising that these unrealistic demands were sternly rejected by the ministers.
At this point, the contradiction between Li Xuanzhi and the minister was completely intensified.
Considering that Li Xuanzhi is the adoptive mother of the crown prince, and their mother-son relationship is still there, if they take strong measures to force them, or directly drive Li Xuanzhi out of the Qianqing Palace, it may cause the crown prince's **. Therefore, the ministers decided to persuade the crown prince to issue an edict ordering Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace.
Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry, joined forces with the courtiers to request that Li Xuanzhi be moved out of the Qianqing Palace and moved to the Renshou Palace. Yushi Zuo Guangdou also said: His Royal Highness has grown up, has independent judgment, and is assisted by loyal and old internal officials, and assisted by important ministers in the court, and there is no need for Li Xuan's servants to listen to the government. In the end, he also warned that if Li Xuanzhi did ** in the name of raising him, then Wu Zetian's disaster would not be too far away!
Wu Zetian's woe!If that's the case, wouldn't I have become a puppet emperor?Zhu Youxiao realized the seriousness of the matter, but when he thought of Li Xuanshi's voice and smile, and that damn gentle ......I couldn't help but hesitate, and I couldn't bear to start. It seems that Zuo Guangdou was unfortunately hit!
There was no movement for several days, and seeing that the date of the enthronement ceremony was getting closer and closer, Yang Lian couldn't sit still. He once again wrote to explain the dangers of listening to the government, and joined the cabinet to persuade the crown prince to make a decision immediately, otherwise there will be endless troubles in the future.
Zhu Youxiao didn't issue an edict for a long time, because he wanted to give Li Xuanzhi a step and let her move out by herself, but Li Xuanzhi chose to be stubborn to the end, which made him a little annoyed. So the day before the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Youxiao ordered Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace on the same day.
Li Xuanzhi relied on his special status, but he still messed around and refused to move out. But Wang An, who had the edict in hand, was not used to her, and he personally went out to drive her in the Qianqing Palace. In desperation, Li Xuanzhi had no choice but to leave the Qianqing Palace in a hurry with the eighth princess born in his arms and move to the Qiluan Palace in the Renshou Palace.
On September 6, Zhu Youxiao enshrined the gate of heaven, that is, the emperor's throne. At this point, Li Xuan's dream of becoming the queen mother and listening to the government was completely shattered.
But the struggle is not over.
A few days later, there was a fire in the palace. After everyone's hard work, Li Xuan's mother and daughter were rescued. Subsequently, rumors of "choosing a waiter to throw himself into the well, and his daughter to the well" spread around, and the spearhead was directed at Zhu Youxiao. The ** who opposed the removal of the palace took the opportunity to make trouble and accused Zhu Youxiao of violating the way of filial piety and abusing his adoptive mother.
Playing word games in front of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others is purely an axe!
Soon, Zhu Youxiao refuted these rumors under the guidance of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Liu Yixiao and others. In order to increase the persuasiveness, it also disclosed that Li Xuanzhi beat his biological mother Wang to death, as well as his own abuse in the past, emphasizing that "stopping the election of the waiter title today" is not unfilial piety, but for the sake of filial piety - to comfort the soul of Our Lady in heaven. At the same time, he said that he would ignore the past suspicions and follow the will of the first emperor, "generously raise the selection of servants and the eighth sister of the emperor".
There is a secret in Zhu Youxiao's words, warning Li Xuanzhi - if you are honest and stay in the cold palace, you can still die well, and I will not touch the emperor's sister, if you continue to be a demon, then I will settle old accounts with you, and you can weigh it yourself!Li Xuanzhi is a smart man, and he knows that his great power has gone, so he has to give in. At this point, the sensational "moving the palace" storm came to an end.
As mentioned at the beginning, the ins and outs of this case are indeed very clear, and it is clearly an ordinary palace fighting case, which cannot be called a strange case. Could it be that historians have misunderstood the word "strange case"?Absolutely not, there are many doubts in this case.
Doubt 1: Xi Li is just a low-level palace maid, why dare to make a request that does not match her identity - respect her as the queen mother and allow her to listen to politics. Who gave her courage?
Suspicion 2: There was a fire in the Luan Palace, why did Xi Li, who escaped death, target Zhu Youxiao?You must know that the reason why Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others didn't dare to touch her was because Zhu Youxiao protected her. Therefore, breaking with Zhu Youxiao will do him more harm than good. Why did she do this?
Fourth, the answer is revealed.
A year after the palace removal case, the answer was revealed.
In May of the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Ming Xizong appointed Wang An, who had contributed to the palace transfer case, to be in charge of the celebrant supervisor, and Wang An resigned according to the usual practice. Ming Xizong's nurse Keshi took the opportunity to persuade the emperor to agree to Wang An's request, and then Wei Zhongxian instigated Huo Weihua to criticize Wang An, demoted Wang An to serve as the Nanhai Zijing Army, and asked Liu Chao to kill Wang An.
Liu Yixiu, a member of the Donglin Party, was able to replace Fang Congzhe as the first assistant of the cabinet because of his meritorious service in the palace transfer case. Soon, Wei Zhongxian assigned Hou Zhenyang, Chen Jiuchou and others to impeach him on the grounds that he had colluded with Wang An to plot misdeeds. Liu Yixian made four concerts in a row to defend himself, but everyone was golden. Frustrated, he resigned after twelve concerts, and Xizong had no choice but to play.
Yang Lian was framed for 20,000 taels of silver for Wei Zhongxian's 24 major crimes, and was tortured and finally died tragically in prison.
Together with Yang Lian, Wei Zhongxian's Zuo Guangdou only lived one day longer than Yang Lian. He was killed in prison on July 25, 1625, at the age of fifty-one.
At this point, the Donglin forces, which had re-emerged due to the palace transfer case, suffered heavy losses again, lost their right to speak in the court, and were suppressed by the eunuchs headed by Wei Zhongxian.
On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao's nursing mother, Keshi, was named "Mrs. Fengsheng", called Mrs. Zu Chitose, given a gold seal, 20 hectares of cemetery, and the harem. Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch palace who "eats" with the Hakka family, under the recommendation of the Hakka family, was also favored by Zhu Youxiao, and the clouds went straight up, and the official enjoyed the luck, and finally became a 9,000-year-old man under one person and above ten thousand people, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition.
The fog lifts and the truth emerges. In the case of the palace transfer, Li Xuanzhi is just a pawn, and the real protagonists are Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party, who fight for control of the imperial court. Judging from the results, Wei Zhongxian defeated the Donglin forces in this round.
Therefore, the weakness of the imperial power led to the formation of gangs in the DPRK and China, competing for power and profit among themselves. The emperor was powerless to stop it, and became a tool and bargaining chip for the ministers to compete for power and profit, which was the deep-seated reason for the emergence of the three strange cases. The emergence of the three strange cases marked the beginning of the decline of the Ming Dynasty and sounded the death knell of the demise of the Ming Dynasty!