The first lesson of the new year
The seventh day of the third month of the first year of Xuande (1426).Ming Xuanzong received a note from the Shandong Lu Wangfu, and Zhu Zhaoxuan, the then King of Lu, said that Wang Ji Shan Wang Zhen had served in the palace for more than 30 years, and now he had reached retirement age, and asked to be promoted to the right long history, and the left long history Zheng Zhao and others to the office。Right Changshi is one of the two chief officials of the palace chief history department, with a positive rank of five grades, and is the head of the royal civil officials. Ji Shan is a subordinate official of the Long History Division, and his rank is eight grades. Whether it is status or grade, the gap between them cannot be calculated. King Lu's invitation was somewhat greedy. However, Ming Xuanzong said that Lu Wangxian's name is outside, and this must be the meritorious counseling of the royal government, and the request should be followed.
At that time, he was in the Ministry of Officials Shangshu Jianyi Decree to follow, but he also proposed that the new Lu Wangfu Zuo Changshi Wang Pu asked the imperial court to give an edict, the reason was that Emperor Renzong had given a special favor to the palace. However, Jian Yi thinks that it takes three years to pass the examination before giving the decree, but the palace does not assess, so it doesn't matter whether it is incompetent, whether it is awarded or not is between the two, please make it clear to Your Majesty. Ming Xuanzong, who didn't want to be harsh on the clan, once again uncharacteristically declared that since there is a precedent, it is to operate according to the precedent.
Righteousness and other causes: 'Lu Mansion Zuo Changshi Wang Pu please give an edict, the official of the palace to serve Wang Jujingshi, the first year of Hongxi Emperor Renzong Teren to give the edict. Nowadays, if the civil officials of the royal palace are more competent than the foreign officials and then conferred, the official regulations of the royal palace are not evaluated, and whether they are awarded or not is taken from the upper rank. He said, 'How can the officials of the royal palace be divided into inside and outside?' The first dynasty is both with the edict, and when it is with it. It must start with a long history and a good discipline. (Records of Ming Xuanzong).
What kind of character is Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, who was praised by the emperor himself and repeatedly received special courtesy?
Zhu Zhaoxuan (pronounced huī, yùn or xūn), born on June 12, the 21st year of Hongwu (1388), was the eldest son of Zhu Tanshu, the king of Luhuang, the twenty-eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and his biological mother Ge.
Most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism, and they were very obsessed with the golden stone elixir, the most famous of which was Zhu Houxi, who was intoxicated with the great cause of alchemy and immortal cultivation all his life, and was nicknamed "Old Taoist". If the emperor is like this, the clan will naturally follow suit, and there are many sects in the Ming Dynasty who worship Taoism. If you list a list of immortal cultivators in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Tan, the father of Zhu Zhaoxuan, will definitely be on the list, this lord is ruthless to others in order to cultivate immortals, and even more ruthless to himself.
In October of the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), Zhu Tan took the princess Tang to Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong. His Royal Highness King Lu, who has been known for his intelligence since he was a child and was deeply loved by his father, completely let himself go as soon as he arrived in the domain, and did all kinds of evil in the feudal country with the princess, and wantonly abducted children from the people and the army to be castrated in the palace, and it was rumored that the purpose was to use the castrated things as medicine for alchemy.
In just one year, Yanzhou was tormented by his husband and wife. Lao Zhu was furious when he heard the news, and ordered the two to be recalled to Jingshi, and then Zhu Tan was sentenced to a very insulting "punishment", that is, shaving his beard and hair, and Princess Tang was given death. In July of the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), he took Xinguo Gongtang and his second daughter as the step-concubines of King Lu, and let Zhu Tan return to China, intending to wash away the previous shame on himself and his old man.
However, Zhu Tan did not cooperate, and after returning to Yanzhou, he continued to devote himself to the great cause of cultivating immortals and refining pills, because he had taken Jinshi Dan for a long time, so that he blinded his eyes due to a toxic attack. On December 16 of the 22nd year of Hongwu (1389), Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, finally died of erysipelas at the age of 20. Lao Zhu endured his grief and gave the top evil word of "famine".
At this time, Zhu Zhaoxuan was only one and a half years old, which was the most likely age for children to die in ancient times. Zhu Tan only has such a single seedling, if he unfortunately dies, Lu Fan will have to get rid of the country. Therefore, Lao Zhu was very worried that he was alone, and finally chose to take him into the palace to raise him personally.
The first king abandoned the world, my ancestor Taizu Emperor Gao took pity on me and was lonely, took back to the palace to raise me, and my uncle Emperor Taizongwen educated me to grow up. ("Lu Fan Beicheng Lu Wang's Last Teachings").
Of course, it also takes a process to connect Zhu Zhaoxuan into the palace. Nine days after Zhu Tan's death, Hu Bingzhong, the left chief of the Lu domain, asked the imperial court to give instructions on how to deal with the Sui Lu left by King Lu. Lao Zhu said to Yang Jing, the secretary of the household department, that he would allocate the full amount.
Wu Wu, Lu Mansion Zuo Chang Shi Hu Bingzhong played: 'The palace gave 50,000 stone to rice, collected gold, silver, and banknotes, and moved to the political envoy of Shandong. Now the king of Lu has a division to send it as before, and he did not dare to accept it. Yang Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, said: "The palace is used for many years, and it has been customized, although the king is used, it is indispensable for the state." 'Receive as much as you want. ("Ming Taizu Record").
In the first month of the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), Xinguo Gong Tang He suddenly suffered a stroke when he entered Beijing for the Hajj, and the old Zhu ordered the princess of Lu to return to Ning to serve the sick. The princess went to Fengyang, and there was no one in charge of the Lu Palace, and Lao Zhu, who was worried about his grandson, estimated that Zhu Zhaoxuan would be taken back to Nanjing to raise and train him personally.
Under the careful care of his grandfather, Zhu Zhaoxuan thrived. As the only son of the former King Lu, he is the natural heir to the throne of King Lu, but he did not do it in one step, and he has experienced the stage of being a son in the middle. There are different theories about the time when he was crowned prince: The actual record says that he was enshrined in the second year of Jianwen (1400), and his chronicle says that he was enshrined in the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), a difference of ten years. Zhu Zhaoxuan was only 3 years old when he was 23 years old in Hongwu, considering that Lao Zhu did not engage in favoritism when he gave Zhu Tan a gift, and the "Emperor Ming Zuxun" stipulates that "the eldest son of the prince is 10 years old, and the imperial court grants gold books and gold treasures, and establishes him as the son of the king".
Because of the sentence "Jiayin, the twenty-eighth grandson of the emperor, Zhaoxuan, the son of King Lu", "History of the Ming Dynasty" mistakenly thought that he was a descendant, and called his biological mother Tang, the step-concubine of King Luhuang.
In March of the first year of Yongle (1403), Zhu Zhaoxuan, the 16-year-old son of Lu, was officially canonized as the king of Lu。In September of that year, Ming Chengzu ordered the renovation of the Luwang Mansion in Yanzhou. In March of the fourth year of Yongle (1406), the daughter of Yan Jing, the commander of the soldiers and horses, was canonized as the princess of Lu.
On the fifth day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Yongle (1408), Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, brought the princess Yan and other countries to Yanzhou. Ming Chengzu gave rich rewards such as banknotes, and at the same time allocated 2,000 stones of rice for the initial expenses of his country. The Lu Palace, which had been vacant for nearly twenty years, finally ushered in its owner again.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was an old man and a scheming man, and he was not as naïve as his nephew Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen, and violently cut down the domain before he was stable, but through a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, he basically eliminated the potential threat of the feudal kingdom by using grace and moisturizing things silently. However, he loves Zhu Zhaoxuan, a nephew, very much
This is due to Zhu Zhaoxuan's observance of his duty and knowing how to advance and retreat. Just as he isIn the "Testament of King Lu", it is said that "Yongle came to the country in six years, Yuyin Ding Ning, abide by the ancestral teachings, sleep all night and ice, admire and never forget, so far fifty-nine years, the words are still in the ears." ”Unlike the absurd and nonsense father, he kept the teachings of the emperor's fourth uncle in mind, and acted rigorously and generously after taking up the domain, being loyal to the king, filial piety, and indifferent and self-controlled.
It is because in the context of cutting the feudal domain, whether it is from the perspective of blood and family affection, or from political means, Ming Chengzu gave Zhu Zhaoxuan special care, in order to establish the image of the emperor attaching importance to family affection, and to win the hearts of all the feudal domains and people in the world. What's moreThe relationship between Zhu Di and Zhu Zhaoxuan's uncle and nephew is indeed okay, he has patrolled the world many times, and every time he passes through Yanzhou, King Lu will go to meet him.
Ming Chengzu started with Jingnan, compared to Nanjing Yingtianfu, Beijing Shuntianfu is his lair, the ideal capital is located, but limited to the situation has to stay in Nanjing. In the seventh year of Yongle (1409), Ming Chengzu, who had stayed in Nanjing for many years, decided to tour north, and the destination was Beijing, which was his first return to his hometown. On 17 February, when the car arrived in Jining Prefecture, Zhu Zhaoxuan arrived in Jining first, and lined up on the side of the road to greet the four uncles。Zhu Di was very pleased to see it, and specially summoned him to the palace, set up a banquet to entertain him, and ordered the Shandong political secretary to give the king an additional 1,000 stones.
On the fourth day of October of the following year, Ming Chengzu, who completed the feat of the first personal expedition to Mobei, officially set off for the south after resting in Beijing. On the 21st, the car arrived in Jining, and Zhu Zhaoxuan still waited early to meet the driver, and once again received rewards such as lottery coins, and gave an additional 1,000 stones.
In February of the 11th year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu visited Beijing again and prepared for the second personal expedition to Mobei. On the sixth day of the first month of March, he came to Jining again, and Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, came to make a pilgrimage, and Ming Chengzu happily gave banknotes and 1,000 stones. The uncle and nephew met this time, and Zhu Di's experience was so good that he still remembered it in the past few years
In the fourteenth year of Yongle (1416), Ming Chengzu returned to Nanjing from Beijing, and a strange event happened on the way. On the evening of the day before arriving in Jining Prefecture, I actually dreamed that King Lu came to pick up the car, which is the so-called "thinking about it day and dreaming at night". Miraculously, the dream came true the next day, and Zhu Di was very happy about it.
(October) Yi Chou, the car drove Jining. Xianxi Menglu Wang Zhaoxuan stood in front of him very respectfully. When it comes, Zhao Xuan comes to confess. I am very happy, and I will give you a reward, and I will give you color coins and rice thousand stones. Gai Zhaoxuan lives in a simple and quiet country, obeys the law and is courteous, and the clouds are heavy。(Records of Ming Taizong).
During the Yongle period, whenever Ming Chengzu went out on patrol and passed through the Lu domain, Zhu Zhaoxuan would inevitably go to Jining Prefecture to meet him. According to the record of "Lu Fan Beixian",Zhu Laosi was very pleased with his nephew's courtesy, and once gave a long poem to the imperial system of "Poems of King Zhaohui of Lu Wang"., reluctantly trying him to keep up with the east of the Han Dynasty. The poem is written as "the twelfth day of the mouth month of the fourteenth year of Yongle", and it is the dream that Zhu Zhaoxuan came to visit this time. This is confirmed by the preface of the poem, which is hundreds of words long:
It is more than I patrol the south, and the road is economical, and I come to welcome you. Arching the road, circling in advance and retreating, very decent, I am very happy. If you want to send it away, I will stop you. Although your body is not good, your heart is always around me. Don't go, I miss your heart, and I haven't left it less. The second is the national prison, and the night suddenly dreams stand in front of him, and he is happy to realize it, but it is also a dream. The thoughts of cover me are deep, and the thoughts of you are to; It is to exchange friendship with each other, in the form of dreams, so I give poems and talk about my arms.
I have only written it at that time since the ancient sage Wang Deyi, and the sound and light are hanging down in later generations. By its cultivation prudent, happy and respectful, so Ke Zhenzi. However, when he was handsome, he read and spoke, graceful and elegant, courteous, respectful and peaceful, inseparable, living in the law, cautious, and having the style of an ancient sage king. Every time I see you, I like my brother to have a son. Not only the comfort of me, but also the spirit of the emperor in the sky, will also be appreciated, and the descendants will enjoy the blessings forever, the descendants of the domain, the world is the auxiliary of the domain, and the peace of the sect will last for ten thousand years, and there will be a celebration of ten thousand years. However, when the end is cautious, it is good to be virtuous, to cultivate goodness, to benefit the name of Hong, and to look forward to it. Although, what you do is beautiful, and those who reward you want to learn and advance endlessly, so as to create the best place for you, so as to see the best of my love
The whole poem reflects Ming Chengzu's love for Zhu Zhaoxuan, see that he is "virtuous and good, graceful and elegant." Miao Nian is only happy with kindness, and he is very pleased with his temperament and knowledge, and hopes that he can be consistent, so "it is enough to comfort the Holy Spirit of the Emperor in the sky." Sil is blessed with eternal infinity, and his children and grandchildren will protect the country", so that the Lu clan and the royal family "stand together in the universe".
Zhu Zhaoxuan regarded this imperial poem endowed by Ming Chengzu as a spur for the emperor to encourage himself to make great efforts to revitalize the Lu Domain, and treasured the poems and texts, and never showed them easily. In the seventh year of Tianshun (1463), Zhu Zhaoxuan, who was 76 years old, was already four generations in the same house, and he thought about his uncle's love in his old agePersonally wrote "Gong Inscription Emperor Imperial Poetry Tablet Yin" engraved on the back of the imperial poetry tablet, standing in front of the palace, as the treasure of the Lu Fan town house to educate future generations。This monument is currently stored in the Yanzhou Museum in Shandong.
On July 18, the 22nd year of Yongle (1424), Ming Chengzu died in Yumuchuan (in present-day Duolun, Inner Mongolia) on the way to the fifth personal expedition, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne. The relationship between the Lu clan and the imperial court began to undergo subtle changes
Whether it is based on family affection or political considerations, Mingrenzong is okay with Zhu Zhaoxuan's cousin. In the sixth year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu gave Lu Fan a set of 3,000 stones, and after Ming Renzong came to power, he added 2,000 stones, totaling 5,000 stones. But when it comes to the core interests of the imperial court, such as the policy of cutting feudal domains, he is not so easy to speak.
Ming Chengzu was much softer than his eldest nephew, and most of the vassal kings had at least one guard in their hands, and the Yanzhou guard of the Lu domain was also retained. Since the Hongxi Dynasty, there have been many disputes between King Lu and the imperial court over the right to use the Yanzhou guard
The guard system of the Ming Dynasty was formulated by Lao Zhu with reference to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the sergeants were engaged in agriculture in peacetime and recruited to fight in wartime. When Zhu Zhaoxuan was in the country, Ming Chengzu took into account the current situation of the Lu Domain, and specially exempted Yanzhou from guarding Tuntian for three years.
In April of the first year of Hongxi (1425), Zhu Zhaoxuan asked the court to exempt Yanzhou from guarding the tun in order to repair the palace on the grounds that the palace was damaged and leaked. As a result, he was rejected by Akihito, asking them to wait until the slack season before going to work.
Renzi, King Lu Zhaoxuan played: 'The house is leaking, and I want to order the guards to repair it. Please stop guarding the tuntian this year, so that his children will not be grained. He replied: "Tuntian, the great government of the country." The imperial ancestor and the imperial examination system are not easy to do. How can my brother's ascension to the throne be disobeyed? With the affection of a virtuous brother? And the edict has been decided, only the virtuous brother is even more, what does it mean? The condition is that the grain is filled with food for the guards in the palace, which is beneficial to itself. If the room is damaged, it can be repaired by Hou Nong. ’(Records of Akihito Sect).
Zhu Zhaoxuan's move can be seen as a temptation. Because the Lu domain is close to the canal, Jining Prefecture in the territory is an important node of Cao Yun, and the highest institution that manages the canal since the Chenghua Dynasty is located hereTherefore, since its establishment, the Yanzhou Guards have one more task than other guards - to help the imperial court transport grain
During the Yongle period, the imperial court always requisitioned 1,300 Yanzhou Guardian Banner Army to assist in transporting grain. In the first year of Xuande (1426), King Lu once again asked to transfer this part of the guards back under the pretext of repairing the palace, and this time the court finally relented. In order to make up for the gap left by the Yanzhou guards, the imperial court had to mobilize personnel from the four guards of Dengzhou, Laizhou, Ninghai, and Jiaozhou, who were in charge of coastal defense.
To say that the Yanzhou guards are also bitter, Tuntian also helps the imperial court to transport grain, Tuntian's task cannot be shaken off, not to mention, a bad one will be punished for the loss caused by grain transportation. It's no wonder that Zhu Zhaoxuan will try his best to get them back. But after all, his arms can't twist his thighs. In March of the fifth year of Xuande (1430), Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan, the chief military officer of Caoyun, played the imperial court, saying that the repair project of the Lu Wangfu lasted four years, and the reconstruction could be completed. Ming Xuanzong thought so.
In November of the eighth year of Xuande (1433), Princess Yan of Lu died. In February of the following year, Zhu Zhaoxuan asked for exemption from the work of guarding Yanzhou to transport grain and tuntian on the grounds of building a cemetery, and Ming Xuanzong allowed it again to transfer people from Jining and other health centers to transport grain.
As a result, after the construction of the cemetery was completed, His Royal Highness King Lu continued to hold the guards in his hands under the pretext of building the walls of the palace. This matter has been delayed for more than ten years, and the Jining Zhuwei, as a temporary replacement, are also angry, and they have asked to return to their own work and let the Yanzhou guards transport grain.
(The first month of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy) Renzi ......First of all, the king of Lu Zhaoxuan concubine, left the guard to transport grain and the army to build a tomb, and the imperial court allowed his request and ordered Jining and other guards to allocate troops to replenish the transportation. As a result, the tomb has been finished for a long time, and the guards complained that the service was heavy, and there were many officials in Pingshan Dongchang, and the begging army was garrisoned, and the guards were still transported. from it. ("Records of Ming Yingzong").
In February of the 14th year of Orthodoxy (1449), 700 people were requisitioned from Yanzhou on the grounds that there was insufficient labor for the construction of the Shawan Embankment. In February of the first year of Jingtai (1450), due to rumors, he was also bewitched by the traitor Xining, intending to go south to Linqingzhou to plunder, and recruited 500 people from Yanzhou to go to Linqing to listen to Pingjiangbo, Chen Yu and other commanders to train the garrison.
In May of the second year of orthodoxy (1437), Zhu Zhaoxuan's fifth son Zhu Taiye and sixth son Zhu Taicheng were crowned kings and married. Because the imperial court did not issue the crown dress and honor guard of the princess at the first time, he ordered Jian Ning to take his decree (the special name of the will of the crown prince and prince of the Ming Dynasty) to Beijing to collect it at the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites didn't think much about it, gave it as much as it could, and reported it to the emperor afterwards.
I'm young, so you don't take me seriously, right, Ming Yingzong asked a little angrily"Is there an example of the royal palace in the story of the first dynasty to order the ministry to receive things? ”As a result, Liu Mengduo, the ceremonial director of the Ministry of Rites who was in charge of this matter, said that the archives of the Hongwu and Yongle periods were all in Nanjing, and he could not consult them, so he was not clear. As soon as these words came out, the officials who were wide-eyed and specialized in playing the game of finding faults suddenly became energetic, and they were an output to the Ministry of Rites, including Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. In the end, Liu Mengduo was sentenced to prison to calm the turmoil.
Liu Mengduo and others in the ceremonial system: 'The Hongwu and Yongle cases are in Nanjing, and there is no precedent to review. So he was guilty of the impeachment of the middle of the matter, the imperial history, and the disobedience of the royal officials. Shang Youhu and the royal officials, ordered not to commit it again. Lower Mondo and other prisons to punish crimes. ’("Records of Ming Yingzong").
The change in the emperor's attitude towards the clan also affected the way ** treated the clan. During the Hongwu period, even if the offense to the king of the sect can be avoided as a capital crime, it is also a living crime, but after three generations of cutting the domain, the local officials regard the clan as the mascot of the clay sculpture, and the mood is good to compliment a few words, and it is not a problem to pinch a few times if the mood is bad. After Xuande, the clan sued the emperor because of this.
Ming Yingzong, who re-ascended to the throne through the change of seizing the door, after several years of prisoner life, plus knowing that he was not in the right position, out of the need to save his dignity, he was much more competent than before after coming to power again. At the end of the second year of Tianshun (1458), King Lu went to the imperial court and reported that in recent years, many envoys who had sent envoys to the feudal domains had disrespected the law of etiquette and privately asked for bribes from the clan, and for example, in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), several waves of angels came to the Lu domain, and there were many bribe-seekers, so that the palace was "difficult".
In the first month of the third year of Tianshun (1459), Ming Yingzong sent a letter to King Lu, explaining this and apologizing. It is stated that the Ministry of Rites has been asked to write to the three divisions of various places, patrol the imperial history, etc., to strictly investigate such incidents, and if they dare to commit it again from now on, no matter who it is, no matter which level it is involved, they will be strictly punished. He also listed that Shen Yu, who had previously repaired Wubo, went to the Shen Wangfu in Luzhou, Shanxi Province to perform the canonization ceremony and ask for hundreds of taels of bribes, and had been punished according to the law, as a footnote to this determination.
In the future, if there are people sent to the house, they will not be allowed to have any property with them, except for food and drink. If there is a foolish man who asks for money without regard for his integrity. The incident is still the case of the orthodox years, the main offender was executed, and the whole family was sent to the army in a remote area. Let people know that they are law-abiding relatives, and they will not have to work hard. The book is bent, but the uncle is bright. ("Records of Ming Yingzong").
As for the effect, I understand everything.
Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, went through the nine dynasties of Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengzheng, Jingtai, Tianshun and Chenghua in his life. Whether it is the dynasties that have been experienced or the emperors they have seen, they are among the best among the princes of the Ming Dynasty.
As a prince who spanned the early and middle Ming Dynasty and experienced the transformation from feudal auxiliary states to feudal encirclement, his life can be said to have witnessed the changes of the pilgrimage system in the Ming Dynasty.
Lao Zhu clearly stipulated in the royal supreme action guide "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" that the vassal king had the obligation to make regular pilgrimages:
Every year when a prince makes a pilgrimage, he is not allowed to come at the same time, but he must come to the court with one king, return the country safely, and report to the other king before he is allowed to come to the court. Kings do not care about the years, from the oldest to the youngest, and the descendants come first; The heirs are finished, and the party and the concubine are also divided into the elder and the younger, and the cycle is repeated, without disorder.
In the Yongle Dynasty, under the banner of "restoring the ancestral system" during the martyrdom of the Ming Dynasty, the Hajj system was not deleted and modified, and the prince's regular pilgrimage was still carried out. In addition to taking over the driver in Jining Prefecture, Zhu Zhaoxuan also went to Beijing for many pilgrimages.
In the first month of the tenth year of Yongle (1412), Zhu Zhaoxuan went to Nanjing for the first time to make a pilgrimage to the fourth uncle. This time I lived in Nanjing for more than two months, and I didn't return to the country until March of that year. In February of the fifteenth year of Yongle (1417), Zhu Zhaoxuan went to Nanjing for the second time to make a pilgrimage, and this time he only stayed for five days before returning home.
Zhu Zhaoxuan is good at poetry and is the author of the poetry collection "Relying on False Manuscripts"., "Lu Fan Farewell" has a special volume to record his poems. He left a lot of poems on the way to Nanjing.
"Lu Fan Farewell" first contains the poems of King Jing, but the collection is famous, the poems have "Crossing the Yongshe Lake" and "Traveling to the Heavenly Palace", "Ascending Zhongshan to Worship the Tomb of Filial Piety", which is known to be the poem given by the dynasty in Nanjing. (Zhu Yizun's "Jing Zhiju Poems").
But after entering the Xuande Dynasty, the ban on the vassal became more and more severe, and the system of Hajj of the vassal dynasty almost existed in name only. In the following decades, Zhu Zhaoxuan repeatedly invited him to go to Beijing for Hajj, and the reasons given were even more varied. Although I was rejected every time, I never tired of it
In September of the first year of Xuande (1426), Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, launched a rebellion in Le'an Prefecture, Shandong, and was pacified by Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty. The following month, Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, took this as an excuse and asked Yique to congratulate him。Uncles and nephews are fratricidal, and you want to celebrate as an uncle? As a matter of course, it was rejected by Ming Xuanzong.
On the afternoon of Wu, King Zhao Xuan of Lu played the emperor and led the six divisions to fight against the rebellion, and asked for congratulations to the Emperor Zongshe. Shang sighed and said: 'The misfortune of this family is also ashamed of the center, so why do you want to congratulate it? 'Reply. After that, all the kings had a song to congratulate them, and they all stopped. (Records of Ming Xuanzong).
In March of the third year of orthodoxy (1438), King Lu invited him to go to Beijing for Hajj。This move may be related to the just happened King Lu's decree incident, but the time point is very reasonable, "Zu Xun" stipulates that "whenever the new son of heaven in the imperial court is on the throne, the kings send envoys to congratulate them, guard the border domain, and do not go to court for three years." At this time, Ming Yingzong had just been on the throne for three years, and it was completely reasonable to ask for Hajj.
However, the "Ancestral Teachings" also stipulates that "all princes who are uncles of the Son of Heaven and the like will not be courteous if they are over 50 years old." At this time, Zhu Zhaoxuan was 51 years old, and he was the emperor's uncle and grandfather, and he was not among the emperors. Therefore, Ming Yingzong did not have to go to Beijing on the grounds that he was "old and long, and it was not easy to trek".
In March of the following year, the imperial court canonized the fourth son of Zhu Zhaoxuan, the fourth son of Zhu Zhaoxuan, the daughter of Li Hao, the deputy commander of the soldiers and horses, and the concubine of Zhu Taiyong, the king of Juye. Li should be Zhu Tai's step-concubine, but Zhu Zhaoxuan doesn't care about thisIn May of that year, he proposed to take his son to Beijing to thank him。was rejected again by Ming Yingzong with "trekking in the road".
In May of the seventh year of orthodoxy (1442), the 16-year-old Ming Yingzong got married, and canonized the daughter of Qian Gui, the governor of the Chinese military capital and the governor of the palace, as the queen. This is the first reigning emperor wedding since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it coincides with the time when the country is strong, so the ceremony is very grand. Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, asked for permission to go to Beijing to congratulate him on the grounds of celebrating the emperor's wedding。Still rejected.
(June) Jiachen, Shufu Lu Wang Zhaoxuan said: "Cheng Yu wants to come to He Lizhong Palace, which shows the meaning of kindness. But the trek is not easy, and you don't have to come. 'Whoever wants to come to congratulate the kings will reply to the book. ”("Records of Ming Yingzong").
This is the last recorded time that Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, invited himself to go to Beijing for the Hajj。After that, during the Orthodox and Jingtai years, he asked the sons and grandsons to go to Beijing for pilgrimage for various reasons, but they were all refused.
In fact, according to Ah Yue's statistics, during the reign of Ming Yingzong, only a few princes such as Zhu Zhandong, King of Xiang, Zhu Zhanqi, King of Jing, Zhu Zhanqi, King of Huai, and Zhu Qiyong's father and son were allowed to go to Beijing for Hajj. There is no record of pro-dynasty pilgrimage in Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties. In December of the fourth year of Zhengde (1509), the Hajj system was officially abolished
Gengxu, the Ministry of Rites was ordered to review the decree of the Tired Dynasty and those who were involved in the royal palace were listed: '....Although the pro-dynasty pilgrimage contains the "Ancestral Teachings", the Ying Temple also tasted one move, but it has not been possible for a long time. Therefore, if the king is invited to the dynasty, the book will be exempted. In the future, all the princes of the county will be exempted from entering the court, and the order will be written. ’("Records of Ming Wuzong").
In June of the second year of Chenghua (1466), Ming Xianzong learned that King Lu was seriously ill and immediately sent an imperial doctor to treat him. However, the normal situation of birth, old age, sickness and death cannot be saved by manpower. On July 15, Zhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lu, passed away, reigned for 64 years, at the age of 79.
It's different from the dad who dies to deathZhu Zhaoxuan, the king of Lujing, was a virtuous and respectful scholar, known as the virtuous king, loyal to the king, filial piety, indifferent and self-controlled, maintained a good relationship with the imperial court, and made great contributions to the growth of the Lu king's clan。Of course, he can become a generation of virtuous kings, and it is inseparable from the earnest teachings of his two mothers.
In March of the eighth year of Xuande (1433), Zhu Zhaoxuan's mother-in-law, the step-concubine Tang of Luhuang Wang, died, and the history books said that she had "raised and taught her concubine to a degree", which was considered to have successfully washed away the shame brought by her sister Luhuang Wang Yuanfei Tang. Zhu Zhaoxuan's biological mother Ge Shi, died in October of the fourth year of orthodoxy (1439), she was Zhu Tan's concubine, Hongwu twenty-three years (1390), Xinguo Gong Tang and stroke, Princess Tang returned to her mother's house to serve the sick, Lao Zhu immediately promoted Ge Shi to the second concubine of Luhuang Wang, and took their mother and son to Nanjing, and she was responsible for daily care.
King Lu Jing had six sons: Zhu Taiku, King of Anqiu, Zhu Taikan, Prince of Lu, Zhu Taipei, King of Leling, Zhu Taiqi, King of Juye, Zhu Taiye, King of Dong'a, Zhu Taicheng, King of Zouping, and at least four daughters, including the county lord of Zhucheng, the county lord of Wendeng, the county lord of Yuncheng, and the county lord of Fushan. When he came, his father died early due to absurdity, and only one of his lone seedlings was left in the entire Lu Domain, which could be extinguished at any time. When he went, the four generations were in the same house, and the children and grandchildren were around his knees, so that the Lu Fan, whose life was hanging by a thread, could spread out and thrive.
Looking at his children and grandchildren in front of the sickbed, Zhu Zhaoxuan was full of a sense of achievement, but he also had a great sense of crisis in his heart, after all, the descendants of various clans and clans were frequent, and even affected the entire branch. For this reason, King Lu, who was lingering on the couch, followed the story of his grandfather Taizu Gao, and left "King Lu's Last Words", reviewing his life of hard work, to warn future generations, and asking the Lu clan to unite and be loyal to the court
I have been ill for a long time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to get up, so I specially summon the princes and grandsons of the prince and the prince of the county, and the civil and military ** of the house to listen to my instructions. The son of the world is sensitive, filial piety and erudition, and I have been in charge of government affairs, and I can be harmonious with my sisters, sisters, nephews, and nephews. On the day of the succession, seek to abide by the ancestral teachings, understand what I do, accept the advice of counseling, and compassionate to the military academy of the Ministry of Guards, do not desecrate the court with trivial matters, do not listen to slanderous rumors and divide the flesh and blood, and treat the ministers with courtesy, and the civil and military ministers with grace. The grandson grew up, so that he was close to the Confucian ministers and talked about the scriptures and history. The maids in my palace, those who have no dependence will survive, and those who have a family will return to them. This self-mindedness should be done and not neglected. ("Lu Fan Beicheng Lu Wang's Last Teachings").
It is the fine family style established by King Lu Jing that has made the Lu clan have a good reputation and can continue for hundreds of years. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the tenth Lu king Zhu Yipai committed suicide and martyrdom in the face of the Qing army's siege. The last king of Lu, Zhu Yihai, spent his life fighting for the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and lived up to the name of his ancestors. And the Lu clan has been melony so far.
The thousand-year-old grievances between Jining and Yanzhou: Either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind Zhu Tan, the king of Luhuang: Ming Taizu Qin gave evil insults, disgraced the royal family, and humiliated the descendants of the absurd prince Zhu Meigui, the king of the Jin Dynasty, from the prince to the prisoner, to the county king, and then to the prince Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing: the last martyred orthodox prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chongyang, the king of Leping, who was displaced for half his life: My heart is in the south, but my body is in the north, and the emperor released the pigeon of the virtuous king.