The beginning of China's modern society is only more than 100 years old. Prior to this, the history of more than 2,000 years was a feudal society.
As a society with extremely clear class divisions, ordinary people can only be oppressed by the landlord class. Although there have been peasant uprisings since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, no matter how many times, they are nothing more than a cycle of dynasties and the replacement of oppression.
But even so, their spirit of resistance deserves our respect.
In the history of China, with the exception of peasant uprisings, there was also an uprising of palace maids, and the target of their uprising was still the current Son of Heaven. This uprising occurred during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, because the year of the uprising was the year of Renyin, so it was also called the Renyin Palace Change.
After the death of Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong, he did not leave any heirs, so the courtiers could only expand the heirs to the clan, which was chosen to Ming Wuzong's cousin Zhu Houxi.
Zhu Houxi, who was 14 years old at the time, was elected as the next emperor, but the power was still among the old ministers led by Yang Tinghe. Therefore, Zhu Houxi launched a series of competitions with him, the biggest of which was: "The Great Rites Dispute".
Zhu Houxi was about to ascend the throne, and Yang Tinghe and others suggested that he recognize his cousin Ming Wuzong as his father and respect him as the emperor. But Zhu Houxi was not happy, and insisted on welcoming his biological father Xingxian Wang into the Taimiao. The two sides were at a stalemate, and it was the empress dowager who came to relieve the siege to let the emperor enter Beijing and ascend the throne.
After Zhu Houxi ascended the throne, he ignored the artificial era name of Yang Tinghe and others, and named the era name "Jiajing" in the second year. After Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he discussed with the courtiers how to formulate the title of his biological father, plus who was recognized as the emperor before the examination, and these two issues were debated in the court for three yearsIn the end, Jiajing welcomed his father into the Taimiao as the end, and Yang Tinghe and other old ministers lost power.
After taking power, Jiajing carried out drastic reforms in all aspects of the Ming Dynasty, and it was quite effective, so the Ming Dynasty entered a relatively stable era.
Although Jiajing's political achievements at the beginning of his ascension to the throne were not bad, Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't help but sigh after reading his life in power. This feeling is like Qin Shi Huang just dreaming that his Great Qin Empire will last for thousands of generations, and Hu Hai will be finished when he wakes up.
Jiajing's psychology is probably the same as Tang Xuanzong's, the country is politically good, and he hasn't faced any challenges for a long time, so he wants to have a good time and treat himself.
However, there is still a difference between the two of them, Zhu Houxi is not like Tang Xuanzong's indulgence in beauty, his hobby is cultivation and alchemy.
So after reading the hobbies of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that other people's hobbies are not enough, Zhu Houxi likes alchemy, Zhu Youxiao likes carving, anyway, the emperor doesn't like political affairs, it's over.
And he is addicted to alchemy, because of his long-term alchemy and taking pills, his personality and temper have become more and more irritable, and the subordinates in the palace are often punished for his bad temper. In "Ming Palace Ci", it is recorded that Zhu Houxi's personality is very poor, and he treats the people in the palace very cruelly, so that his subordinates are very afraid of him.
It is also recorded in the "Records of Zhongzong of the Li Dynasty": "If there is a slight mistake, (Sejong) will add to the Chu Dynasty, so that as many as 200 people will die." ”In addition, there is a rumor that Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with alchemy, one of which was called "red lead", and its main material was the first menarche of women, so many palace maids were brought into the palace at an age of less than age, and Emperor Jiajing took their menstrual blood at the right age, and was also required not to eat indiscriminately during menstruation.
This has caused a great burden on the palace maid psychologically and physically, and there are more and more palace maids who have resentment towards him. In this situation, an uprising is brewing.
The palace maids who couldn't bear it, with the support of Wang Ning Concubine and Cao Duanfei, secretly sneaked into the palace of Emperor Jiajing who stayed at Cao Duanfei's place one night.
Led by the palace maid Yang Jinying, sixteen of them approached Emperor Jiajing, and several of them held him down, and after he woke up, they stuffed the cloth ball into Jiajing's mouth, making him cry out.
However, for the palace maid who only knew how to serve her master, this assassination required a lot of courage, especially after Emperor Jiajing woke up.
They wrapped the yellow cloth around Jiajing's neck, but they were so nervous that they couldn't strangle Emperor Jiajing to death no matter what.
When one of the palace maids named Zhang Jinlian saw this, she thought that Jiajing was the true dragon son and was afraid, so she sneaked out and told Empress Fang about it.
Queen Fang, who learned of the incident, hurriedly rushed over to rescue the driver, finally succeeded in rescuing Emperor Jiajing, but Emperor Jiajing thought that it was because of his dedication to cultivation that he was saved from death, so he began to live alone in Xiyuan and became more obsessed with cultivation.
The power of the dynasty gradually fell into the hands of Yan Song, and the Ming Dynasty also fell step by step.
After Emperor Jiajing was rescued, sixteen palace maids and the concubines Wang Ning and Cao Duanfei involved were all ordered to be executed, and a silent palace rebellion ended in failure.
Although they are timid and afraid, and some even regret it halfway, they do do what many people dare not do.
* Once the Son of Heaven was a capital crime, whether the uprising succeeded or failed, their ultimate fate did not make much differenceBut in that era, it was not a kind of fearless courage to be able to challenge the imperial power as a palace maid?
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