On the sixteenth day of the first month of the seventh year of Jingtai (1457), the seventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill. At that time, the scholar Wang Wenli persuaded Zhu Qiyu to establish the eldest son of Zhu Zhandong, the king of Xiang, as the crown prince, and Wang Zhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, discussed with the ministers and decided to play together to ask Zhu Jianshen, the king of Yi, to be the crown prince, but Zhu Qiyu had not yet made up his mind and was ready to discuss the matter at the second meeting.
But on the night of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and several other careerists led troops to break into Nangong in advanceZhu Qizhen, the emperor of the emperor, went to the Fengtian Temple for restorationWhen the ministers entered the Fengtian Hall to discuss the matter of the crown prince, they found that it was not Emperor Jingtai on the throne at this time, but the orthodox emperor eight years ago, all looking at each other, not daring to speak, when everyone hesitated, Xu Youzhen stood up and shouted: "The emperor has been restored!" Zhu Qizhen announced to the hundred officials: "Emperor Jingtai is seriously ill, and the ministers are reinstated, and each of you still holds the original official position. When the courtiers saw this, they had no choice but to kneel down and pay respects. In this way, Zhu Qizhen regained the throne.
When Zhu Qizhen was restored in Fengtian Palace, Zhu Qiyu was freshening up in the Xinuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, preparing to enter the court, when he suddenly heard the bell and drum in front of him, and immediately asked left and right: "Is Yu Qian the emperor?" Left and right were stunned, not knowing how to answer. After a while, the eunuch Xing'an replied that it was the Emperor Taishang who had reinstated the throne, and Zhu Qiyu said: ".Good, good, good, brother to be emperor, good。Then he took a few breaths, went back to bed, and slept facing the wall. If this record is true, then Zhu Qizhen must also be among Zhu Qiyu's candidates.
Zhu Qiyu died of illness
Since Zhu Qiyu has been the emperor for eight years and has considerable support in the court, Zhu Qizhen has been busy cutting off dissidents and installing the power to support himself in the half month from the sixteenth day of the first month of the first month to the first day of the second monthThe deposition of Zhu Qiyu as emperor was not announced, which has caused the spectacle of two orthodox emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty at the same time in the past half a month, and it is also possible that Zhu Qizhen was afraid of his younger brother Zhu Qiyu's power to fight back before he controlled the situation, and he was afraid that he would not be able to end the matter by then. So deliberately delayed.
On the first day of February, Zhu Qizhen had purged his younger brother's main supporters Yu Qian and Wang Wen and controlled the situation, so he officially announced the deposition of Zhu Qiyu's status as emperor, demoted to King Yu, and moved to Xinei, Zhu Qiyu died on February 19, one said that he was killed by Zhu Qizhen, but Zhu Qiyu has reached the point where he has to explain the aftermath, coupled with the blow of losing power, it is not ruled out that he may die of illness, which is also one of the unsolved cases in history. After the death of his younger brother, Zhu QizhenThe mausoleum he had built was destroyedHe was buried in Xishan with the specifications of a prince and was given the nickname "戾"., 戾 is a middle-class nickname, which means not to regret the past, which shows that Zhu Qizhen has a deep resentment against his younger brother and has sufficient motives to commit the crime.
What do you do with your brother's family?
Although his younger brother has passed away, at this time, Zhu Qiyu still has his mother Empress Dowager Wu, Empress Wang, the imperial concubine Tang and other concubines, as well as two daughters and other relatives, how did Zhu Qizhen treat his younger brother's family?
Mother Empress Dowager Wu.
As mentioned earlier, Zhu Qizhen issued an edict in the name of the Empress Dowager Sun on the first day of February to abolish Zhu Qiyu, and it stands to reason that Zhu Qiyu's biological mother Empress Dowager Wu should also be abolished, but it happened that February 3 was the birthday of the Empress Dowager Sun, and the mother and son deliberately kept the title of Empress Dowager Wu, just to see how tormented the Empress Dowager Sun was when she had no support from the emperor. The Empress Dowager Sun, Zhu Qizhen's mother and son, who fulfilled the deformed wishesOn February 6, the honorific title of Empress Dowager of the Wu family was abolished, still called Xuanmiao Xianfei, known as Wu Xianfei in history. Empress Dowager Wu's brother Wu An, who was demoted by An Pingbo to the commander of the avant-garde of the government army.
On December 17, the fifth year of Tianshun (1461 AD), Wu died at the age of 65. For his younger brother's mother, Zhu Qizhen only dropped out of the day, gave Rong Si, and was buried in Jinshan in the sixth year of Tianshun.
Harem.
Zhu Qiyu's first queen Wang was deposed because of opposition to Zhu Qiyu's abolition of the crown prince, known as Wang after the abolition, after Zhu Qiyu's death, there was a discussion of funeral candidates, Zhu Qizhen once wanted to let Wang be martyred, but the scholar Li Xian thought that Wang had been abolished, and there were two daughters to raise, so he was exempted from martyrdom, and was renamed Princess Yu and lived in the palace of King Yu. Later, Zhu Qizhen remembered that there was once a jade Linglong that could not be found, and asked left and right that it was Wang who took it out of the palace, so he sent someone to get it, Wang had a strong temperament, and threw Yu Linglong into the well in front of the messenger, and scolded: Seven years of heaven, it is unbearable to accept these few pieces of jade! Zhu Qizhen was very unhappy and sent someone to confiscate all the belongings she took from the palace.
Wang lived a very long life, until Zhu Qizhen's great-grandson Zhu Houzhao died at the age of eighty, Zhu Houzhao asked the minister how to sacrifice this special person, because Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen later restored Zhu Qiyu's status as emperor, so the scholar Wang Wei suggested: "Burial with the gift of concubines, sacrifice with the gift of the queen." So Wang and Zhu Qiyu were buried together. In the second year of Zhengde, Ming Wuzong respected Zhen Hui'an and Queen Jing.
And Zhu Qiyu's second queen, Empress Hang, died of illness in Jingtai in the seventh year, and was later stripped of the title of queen by Zhu Qizhen. No one in later generations recognized him as Zhu Qiyu's main room. As for the other concubines, it was even worse, Tang Guifei was the most favored concubine in the Jingtai period, and she was also the first imperial concubine in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and she was ordered to be martyred by Zhu Qizhen.
Children
Zhu Qiyu has only one son, Zhu Jianji, in the second year of being established as the prince, that is, Jingtai died early in the fourth year, only eight years old, Zhu Qiyu was very sad, posthumously called "Prince Huaixian". After the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, he was called "Prince Huaixian". As for the two daughters, they were both demoted from princesses to county lords, and their treatment declined.
Write at the end
After the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, out of the need for political purge, not only did he not recognize his younger brother's merits in defending the Ming Dynasty, but also did not recognize Zhu Qiyu's identity as the emperor.
Reference: History of the Ming DynastyEnd of this issue. Part of the source network, invaded and deleted.
