Zhu Biao's second crown princess, Zhu Yunwen's biological mother, Lu Shi, is recorded in the history books very simply.
She is the daughter of Taichang Siqing Lu Ben, about Hongwu.
In seven or eight years, she entered the East Palace and became the second concubine, and after the death of Zhu Biao's original crown princess Chang, she was straightened and gave birth to 3 sons and 2 daughters for Zhu Biao.
After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, Lü became the first empress dowager of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Jing disaster, Zhu Yunwen disappeared and Zhu Di ascended the throne. After that, she only had a few words left in the history books, and there was no record of when she died.
However, her being promoted to the crown princess was a very important turning point for the Ming Dynasty.
And the specific time when she was righted is also quite subtle. This may be directly related to when Zhu Yuanzhang chose Zhu Yunwen as his heir.
If we look at the history books, we will find that most of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons are married to the daughters of nobles.
The crown prince Zhu Biao, the original crown princess, was the daughter of Chang Yuchun, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, married the daughter of Wang Baobao, a general of the Yuan Dynasty, and the daughter of Deng Yu, the founding noble. Zhu Li, the king of Jin, married the daughter of Xie Cheng, Marquis of Yongping. Zhu Di, the king of Yan, married Xu Da's daughter.
Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, even the original partner was Tang He's daughter, and after the original partner died, the stepfamily was still Tang He's daughter.
Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter-in-law list is the daughter of a lord.
Marriage with the lord is also one of the ways for Zhu Yuanzhang to reward and control the founding heroes.
However, when Zhu Biao's original crown princess died, his step-concubine Lu was out of place in the list of Zhu Yuanzhang's daughters-in-law.
Lu's father, Lu Ben, is just a Taichang Siqing, with a low official position, no credit, and no background and foundation.
Lu Ben didn't even have a son, and after the Lu family married into the East Palace, he couldn't even find a supportive relative.
You must know that the Lu family was promoted to the crown princess, which means that she is the future queen.
She was straightened, highlighting the changes in Zhu Yuanzhang's mood and requirements for the queen's origin.
If it is very likely that the Lu family was corrected because Zhu Biao liked it, then Zhu Yuanzhang's choice of Zhu Yunwen's wife proves that the Lu family was corrected, and it was not an accidental event.
Zhu Yunwen's wife is Ma Shi, the daughter of Guanglu Shaoqing Ma Quan. Although this Ma is the same surname as Queen Ma, there is no evidence that she is related to Queen Ma.
The time when Zhu Yunwen married Ma was the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, and Zhu Yunwen at that time was already the emperor's grandson. In other words, Ma was selected as the future queen.
What Ma and Lu have in common is that their father is just a minor official, with no background and no foundation. None of them had a family to rely on.
This is enough to show that Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements for the future queen at this time have changed dramatically.
From attaching importance to the future queen's background and attracting nobles, it has become that the future queen cannot have a strong family and cannot have relatives who can influence the government.
Many people believe that Zhu Yuanzhang's move is to prevent his relatives from interfering in politics.
And Zhu Yuanzhang's move was also followed by Zhu Di. After Zhu Di became the emperor, the concubine selected for the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji was even just the daughter of the former Jinyiwei.
Since the Ming Dynasty, there has never been a queen who was born in a noble family.
The history books summarize the origin of the queen of the Ming Dynasty in this way: all the princes of heaven, concubines, and palace concubines, carefully select the daughters of good families for them, and those who enter are receiving, so the concubines and the people who are more talented later.
Zhu Di's queen Xu is the daughter of Xu Da, the highest-born queen of the Ming Dynasty and the only one with a noble background. When Zhu Di married his wife, it was the early stage of Zhu Yuanzhang's marriage with Xungui.
It can be said that the Lu family was righted as the crown princess of Zhu Biao, which was a landmark event in the Ming Dynasty.
This meant that the Ming imperial family began to refuse the daughter of the noble to become the empress, preventing the noble from having too much influence on the future emperor, and also reducing the possibility of foreign relatives interfering in politics as much as possible.
When the Lu family entered the East Palace, she was only the second concubine of the crown prince Zhu Biao.
Although some people believe that the second concubine in the early Ming Dynasty cannot be regarded as an ordinary concubine, but is similar to the existence of a flat wife, so the Lu family cannot be regarded as a concubine, but should also be regarded as a concubine.
Not to mention this statement, there is no clear historical evidence to base it on. Even if the second concubine is really not an ordinary concubine, there can only be one crown princess, and there can only be one future queen.
The second concubine can explain the gap with the crown princess just from the name. Even if the second concubine has a special status, at most she is higher than other concubines of the East Palace, and cannot be equated with the crown princess.
When Zhu Biao's original partner was alive, the crown princess in the history books was always the only one named Chang.
After Chang's death, the second concubine Lu was officially corrected as the crown princess.
However, when exactly when the Lu family was corrected, the records in the history books are very vague.
And this is related to when Zhu Yuanzhang decided that Zhu Yunxi, the son of the Lu family, was the future emperor, and when Zhu Yunxi, the original son-in-law, was eliminated.
The only historical material that writes about the time of Lü's correction is the "Collected Records of the History of Shengchao Tong" written by Mao Qiling in the Qing Dynasty, which states that Lü was officially canonized as the crown princess in the 11th year of Hongwu.
However, this book is not a canonical history, but a biographical notebook.
And according to normal logic, this time is also unreliable.
Because, Zhu Biao's original concubine Chang died on November 21 in Hongwu.
No matter how anxious Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao are, it is unlikely that they will hurriedly straighten out the steproom within only a month of the death of the former crown princess.
After all, Chang is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and after being a lord, she married Zhu Biao's fingertips. If you really do this, it will be too unkind, and it will not look good in the eyes of other lords.
What's more, it was already the end of the year at that time. There are many affairs at the end of the year, and they are also waiting for the New Year's leave, at this time, not only to do the funeral of the former crown princess, but also to hold the canonization ceremony of the new crown princess, which is inevitably too hurried.
Although there is no specific record of the time when Lu was corrected. However, a record in the Ming Shilu revealed the latest time when the Lu family was corrected: the sixteenth year of Hongwu.
The tenth day of August in the sixteenth year of Hongwu is the anniversary of Queen Ma. It is recorded in the Ming Shilu that on this day, Zhu Yuanzhang held a sacrifice for his deceased wife.
The Ming Shilu recorded in detail the specifications of the ceremony, one of which was: the princess, the crown princess, the princess, and the princess wore a cloth and covered their heads.
Zhu Biao's original crown princess died in the eleventh year of Hongwu, and the crown princess here can only refer to the Lu family.
In other words, at the latest in August of the sixteenth year of Hongwu, the Lu family had already been corrected as the crown princess.
And this time is very sensitive.
Because, Zhu Biao's eldest son, Zhu Xiongying, died in the fifteenth year of Hongwu.
Whether the Lu family was corrected before Zhu Xiongying's death, or after Zhu Xiongying's death, directly determined Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion of Zhu Yunxi.
If Lu was corrected before Zhu Xiongying's death, then this is just an ordinary rectification incident.
The crown princess of the East Palace died, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want the future queen to be still from a noble background, so it was the best choice to correct the second concubine Lu.
After all, if Zhu Biao is asked to marry another person, marrying the daughter of a nobleman, there is still the possibility of a relative becoming bigger in the future. If you don't marry the daughter of a noble, then there is already a Lu family in the East Palace, so why look for another?
Moreover, Chang's son Zhu Xiongying is Zhu Biao's eldest son and the heir of the certainty. Correcting the Lu family will not affect Zhu Xiongying's succession.
It's just that neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Zhu Biao could have imagined that Zhu Xiongying would die young. The inheritance between Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi became embarrassing.
Because, the son of the original partner and the son of the stepfamily are both sons-in-law. And Zhu Yunxi is older than Zhu Yunxi.
Some people will take the example of King Su and Wei Ziqi and say that they have the same mother, Wei Ziqi was born when his mother was a concubine, and King Su was born after his mother was corrected, and Wei Ziqi is a concubine and King Su is a concubine. Then Zhu Yunwen was born before the Lu family's Fuzheng, and naturally he is also a concubine.
However, King Zhou and Wei Ziqi were from the Shang Dynasty, and the inheritance system of the eldest son was a Zhou ceremony, and later generations used the cases of Zhou Li, King Zhou and Wei Ziqi, which have no reference value.
What's more, the source of this case, "Lu's Spring and Autumn", after recording this incident, commented: The usage is like this, if it can't. This has always been a negative case.
When the son of the stepfamily is older than the son of the original match, who has the right to inherit first? This is a problem that has been difficult for the royal family to encounter.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang chose Zhu Yunwen.
And if the Lu family was corrected after Zhu Xiongying's death, then this means that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao gave up Zhu Yunxi a long time ago and decided to make Zhu Yunxi the heir.
If we look at the history books, we will find that the royal family is very cautious when it comes to heirs.
After the death of the queen, basically no concubine whose son is older than the concubine of the Empress Yuan will be the new queen.
Some emperors would even avoid appointing a concubine with a son as empress.
A typical representative is Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, after Huo Chengjun was deposed, he originally wanted to set up a favorite concubine Zhang Jieyu as the queen, but considering that Zhang Jieyu had a son, he was worried that this would threaten the crown prince left by Xu Pingjun after the Yuan Dynasty, and finally chose to set up the childless and unfavored Wang as the third queen.
Only when there is no son in the successor, the position of the crown prince is the most stable. If the age of the successor son is older than that of the son of the Yuan Hou, then the status of the crown prince will be shaky.
Although Zhu Biao is still only the crown prince, not the emperor, he is the future emperor, and his candidate for the crown princess has exactly the same things to consider as the emperor.
If the Lu family was corrected after Zhu Xiongying's death, then we are almost certain that the Lu family was corrected in order to let Zhu Yunwen ascend to the throne.
After all, after the Lu family straightened up, Zhu Yunxi was his son-in-law, and he was older than Zhu Yunxi.
There has never been a clear rule that the inheritance of the original concubine precedes the heir.
As long as they did not give up Zhu Yunxi, they would not support the Lu family, so that Zhu Yunxi would become the second son from the actual eldest son after Zhu Xiongying's death.
However, because there are too few historical records, we can't be sure when the Lu family was corrected.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne and honored Lu as the queen mother.
Then, only 4 years later, Zhu Di hit Nanjing.
According to historical records, after Zhu Di broke through the Jinchuan Gate, in the name of King Yan and his brother-in-law, he respectfully invited his sister-in-law Lu Shi to the army.
He bowed to the Lu family and said sadly to the Lu family that he didn't want to fight at all, didn't want to fight, and came to this point completely forced.
This is certainly not true. But the reason for Zhu Di to raise troops was that the Qing monarch was on the side, and now that people have arrived near the emperor, the superficial work that should be done is naturally to be done.
Telling the Empress Dowager Lu about his "involuntary body" is naturally a part of the superficial kung fu.
But Lu Shi was in no mood to act with him. She didn't say a word, turned around and left Zhu Di's barracks.
On the way back to the palace, she saw a raging fire in the palace. Emperor Zhu Yunwen, Empress Ma, and Prince Zhu Wenkui all disappeared in the fire.
The Lu family escaped because he was invited to the military camp by Zhu Di.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he abolished Zhu Yunwen's emperor name and year name. Naturally, the Lu family can no longer be the queen mother.
She was demoted to the imperial sister-in-law Princess Yiwen, and took her young son Zhu Yunxi to live in Zhu Biao's cemetery.
Since then, there has been no record of her in the history books, no one knows how she was treated for the rest of her life, and no one knows when she died.
It stands to reason that even if she is not the queen mother, she is still the crown princess of Zhu Biao. After she died, she should have a nickname.
For example, Zhu Biao's original crown princess Chang was posthumously honored as "Queen Xiaokang" after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne. When Zhu Di ascended the throne, her nickname was demoted to the crown princess of Jingyi.
However, the Lu family did not have a nickname, which shows that Zhu Di called her the imperial sister-in-law Princess Yiwen after ascending the throne, which was just a false name for the outside world, and he did not intend to treat her as the crown princess at all.
So much so that the Ming Dynasty writer and the author of "Wanli Ye Ed.compilation" said Zhu Di: However, Empress Lu has no secret day to test, and there is no posthumous gift. Although the righteousness killed relatives, Emperor Wen was the eldest sister-in-law, and Yu Renzong was the uncle, and the lack of grace and gifts could be sighed.
And Lu Houna's youngest son Zhu Yunxi, who lived with her, died in the fire of the mansion in the fourth year of Yongle. Many people suspect that he was assassinated by Zhu Di.
Lu is a poor woman.
There are few records in the history books, and all the records are attached to her husband and son, leaving no name, no time of birth, and no time of death.
She has never been able to control her own fate, her son became the emperor's grandson and emperor, she followed the happiness, her son was defeated, and she became a prisoner bird.
Some people in later generations imagined her as a conspirator who assassinated Zhu Xiongying, the eldest son of the original crown princess Chang and Zhu Biao.
But how could she, a woman whose life is like duckweed, have such great ability? What's more, no one dares to do these things under Zhu Yuanzhang's nose.
Do you think so?
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