It is said that a bad king has his own methods, and a good king is always the same, so is hongzhi emperor Zhu Min. As soon as he succeeded to the throne, he swept away all kinds of accumulated disadvantages left by his father Zhu Jianshen, rejected villains, appointed talents, and humbly coachable; Frivolous and generous, having fun with the people, not fooling around ... In short, it is similar to the practice of emperors in previous dynasties, so I won't go into details here. What we want to focus on is why Zhu Min is a good man.
Zhu Min's kindness can be seen from his letting bygones be bygones, and his lenient attitude towards the Wan Guifei family who framed himself. Not only that, he is also a good husband and father.
Why do you say he is a good husband? Let's put it this way: China has a history of thousands of years and has produced so many emperors. Which one is not to open a harem and collect beautiful women everywhere? However, Zhu Min only married a queen Zhang in his life, and he didn't want other concubines, which is extremely rare in the whole history of China. According to the memory of the eunuchs at that time, Zhu Min and Queen Zhang usually get along, just like ordinary people, without putting on airs at all. Once when Queen Zhang was ill, Zhu Min personally came to feed her and take medicine. After watching her fall asleep, she didn't even dare to cough loudly, for fear of waking Queen Zhang.
Zhu Min and Queen Zhang are deeply in love. Ministers once advised him to be "generous" and give him several concubines, but he never listened. Later, Queen Zhang gave birth to a big fat man for him, that is, the later Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Min was naturally more delighted. From then on, he was single-minded to both mother and son, and he didn't want to take a concubine.
Queen Zhang is out of luck. After she gave birth to Zhu Houzhao, all the children died. Zhu Min has only one son, Zhu Houzhao, so she likes him very much. No matter what Zhu Houzhao asks, he tries his best to satisfy him. Zhu Min usually lives a simple life, but every time he goes to the Crown Prince's birthday "Qian Qiu Festival", he always does everything at any cost.
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, on the second day of "Wang Shuo" every month, that is, the first and fifteenth days of the first month, the Crown Prince had to get up early to receive an audience with the minister in the Wenhua Hall. But Zhu Houzhao is a child after all. How can he stand such complicated manners? Especially in winter, the weather is cold, Zhu Houzhao is afraid of the cold, and she doesn't want to move. Seeing this, Zhu Min immediately declared "exemption from the DPRK" regardless of the opposition of his liegeman. Open the prince, don't appear before officials, what a scandal? But Zhu Min has only one son. How can he be willing to suffer a little? (First of all, it's freezing in the cold, and there is an edict that Wang Shuo temporarily exempts the Crown Prince. )
As Zhu Houzhao grew up, his lively personality became more and more obvious. He likes horseback riding and archery best, and he is always ready to kill people, which worries ministers. However, whenever the minister mentioned this matter to Zhu Min, Zhu Min quoted the sentence "Go ahead, don't forget the danger" in Shangshu to help Zhu Houzhao make an excuse, and he was not prohibited from playing. After a long time, the ministers saw Zhu Min's doting on the prince, got the message and said nothing more.
They say good people don't live long. Zhu Min was seriously ill before he was forty, and he was going to die. On his deathbed, he was delirious, but he still missed his son Zhu Houzhao and even remembered his birthday clearly. He said to Li Dongyang and other ministers around him, "The East Palace (Prince) is smart, but he is young and happy. Gentlemen often ask him to read some books and coach him to be a good person. "
After the death of Zhu Min, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, the beloved Prince Zhu Houzhao acceded to the throne for the sake of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty. But the problem is this doting. Zhu Houzhao was spoiled by his father since childhood and developed a free and fearless character. He likes to be willful and reckless, and no one can control him. Although the ministers chose a queen and a concubine for Zhu Min according to his wishes, Zhu Houzhao had no interest in "arranged marriage". No woman in the harem wanted to approach him, but she just wanted to play by herself.
Actually, it's not that Zhu Houzhao is not interested in women, but that he has unique taste. According to records, the woman he likes is either a geisha or a married woman. On one occasion, he even asked the governor Maang to dedicate a pregnant woman to the palace, which frightened the ministers.
Zhu Houzhao is so noisy that he can't have a son. Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao's death, the succession to the throne became a big problem. Zhu Min has no other sons. What should we do? After careful consideration, the ministers had to invite Zhu Min's younger brother's son, Zhu Min's nephew Zhu Hou, to the throne. This is the later Emperor Jiajing.
Ministers very much hope that Zhu Hou can be changed to Zhu Min and become the son of hongzhi emperor, and they have chosen the title of "Shaozhi" for him, which means to inherit Hongzhi. However, Zhu Hou is not an easy advocate. With a stroke of his pen, he decided the title of Jiajing to show that he absolutely didn't want to be Zhu Min's "heir". Later, in order to recognize his father, he fought with ministers for 300 rounds, and all the ministers who forced him to recognize Zhu Min as his father were denounced, which was called "big gift" in history.
Emperor Jiajing finally won a great victory in this battle. However, hongzhi emperor Zhu Min is also an "heir", and his pulse is broken. In retrospect, if Zhu Min didn't spoil Queen Zhang so much, Donna had several concubines and left more descendants; Or, can he not spoil Zhu Houzhao so much, but be strict with him, so that Zhu Houzhao can be called a well-behaved emperor? Will things develop differently? Unfortunately, there is no such thing as history. Zhu Min, such a good emperor and such a good man, finally lost. (The original is from the headline number of "Research on the History of Ming and Qing Dynasties")