The beginning and end of the murder of Akihito (2).
The cause of death of Akihito Sect Zhu Gaochi was mentioned above, and the topic continues today. So, who actually caused the death of Akihito Zong Zhu Gaochi?
Zhu Gaochi's queen Zhang may be the real ** who caused him to be poisoned, because Zhang was born in a commoner, and after marrying Zhu Gaochi, with Zhu Gaochi being established as the crown prince, her future has also become very good.
However, in order to make Zhu Gaochi sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince, Zhu Di let him marry two noble concubines, which threatened Zhang's status. Therefore, Zhang may have decided to poison Zhu Gaochi out of jealousy and self-preservation.
Empress Zhang was in a difficult situation and was very dissatisfied with this situation. In the face of these two queens, she felt powerless, but even if she didn't command them, it was already very rare.
Such a situation made the natural enemy of the army, the cabinet, see an opportunity, so someone in the cabinet will definitely remind Empress Zhang, with you as the queen of the middle palace, how can the crown prince's mother live under the people for a long time?
Once the emperor has an accident, you will be the queen mother, and it shouldn't be a problem to clean up the two of them. Empress Zhang deeply agreed after hearing this, so Zhu Gaochi died. After Zhu Gaochi's death, the empress and the cabinet took what they needed, and Yang Shiqi was responsible for writing the edict in an attempt to persuade Zhu Zhanji to move the capital back to Nanjing.
Empress Zhang used the emperor's death as an excuse to force Guo Guifei to commit suicide.
This practice was a serious violation of the regulations of the Ming Dynasty. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's system, the daughters of the heroes of the harem and the concubines who gave birth to princes or princesses did not need to be martyred. Therefore, it is impossible for Zhu Gaochi to issue such an order, which is obviously an act of revenge by Empress Zhang out of personal vendettas.
In addition, three months after Guo Guifei's funeral, that is, in the seventh month of the first year of Hongxi, her only son Zhu Zhankai died at the age of seventeen, which is enough to show Empress Zhang's ruthlessness.
The reason why Empress Zhang was able to act like this was mainly because Guo Guifei's father, Guo Ming, the second Marquis of Wuding, had passed away, and the reason was unknown. And the granddaughter of Rongguo Gong Zhang Yu she didn't dare to move, because her father, the British Duke Zhang Fu, was the second person in the Ming Dynasty to get the title of Taishi alive, and the entire capital was in his hands, and once Empress Zhang dared to let her daughter be buried, the army would directly enter the palace.
Therefore, Empress Zhang needs to be cautious when acting.
After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, in order to ensure the stability of his throne, Empress Dowager Zhang and the cabinet joined forces to depose Empress Hu Shanxiang and put the noble concubine Sun on the throne. This is recorded in the Ming Dynasty writer Wang Qi's "Miscellaneous Records of the Garden", the late Ming Dynasty Zha Jizuo's "Crime Record" and the Qing Dynasty compiled the "Biography of the Queen's Concubine".
According to records, Sun Guifei actually used someone else's child to pretend to be the prince, thus becoming the queen. Here's what happened: Zhu Zhanji was nearly 30 years old after he ascended the throne, but Empress Hu Shanxiang did not give birth to a prince and was still sick.
This may have been done by Empress Dowager Zhang, because Concubine Sun Guifei did not have children at that time. In November of the second year of Xuande, a boy was born in the palace, and Sun Guifei brought the child over, claiming that it was his own son, who was later Zhu Qizhen.
In February, Zhu Qizhen was canonized as the crown prince just three months old.
Sun Guifei was promoted to empress because she gave birth to a son, while the previous empress Hu Shanxiang was deposed and her hair was cut to become a nun.
Many opinions believe that if Sun Guifei had been helped by the Queen Mother during the ten months of pregnancy, she would have been able to keep it a secret. In the past, Zhu Zhanji learned more than a year later that the dispute between Zhu Gaochi and Li Shimian was concealed by Empress Dowager Zhang and the cabinet.
Sun Guifei is fake pregnant, and some people in the harem can help with the operation, and for the queen mother, it is not difficult. Therefore, the bloodline of the Ming emperor may have been replaced during the Zhu Qizhen period.
But whether it is true or not, we can only know the truth when the Ming Tombs are discovered. So, why did Empress Dowager Zhang support Sun Guifei? The original queen Hu Shanxiang was personally selected by Zhu Di, and Sun Guifei was brought into the palace by Empress Dowager Zhang since childhood, and her father was the chief bookkeeper of Yongcheng County, Henan, a small civil official of nine grades.
Empress Dowager Zhang is a native of Yongcheng County, Henan, which is her hometown. If she wants to control the government for a long time, she must find such a reliable person.