Chapter 4 This Ming Dynasty is a bit strange
That's right, fortunately, I really didn't expect that I would travel to the upcoming Jiajing Dynasty, and become a good brother who wears a pair of pants with Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi and the future Jinyi Wei first person Lu Bing, who is really shocked, surprised and happy.
Because this is simply the beginning of Tianhu, or the kind where the four two and the two kings are all together.
Moreover, during the Jiajing period, it can also be said to be the most brilliant era of the Ming Dynasty.
In this era, there is Wang Yangming, the last saint of the Ming Dynasty, Hai Rui, the first Qing official of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song, the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty, Ouyang Yijing, the first troll of the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Zhi, the first pirate of the Ming Dynasty, and the first emperor to open the pendulum.
There were two of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty at this time, as well as the famous anti-Japanese hero Qi Jiguang Yu Dayou.
Even the four earliest masterpieces were basically formed in this era, and he could even go and find out who the mysterious author behind that great masterpiece was, and have a good discussion with him to see if he could have a few chapters and illustrated editions.
Of course, don't get me wrong, he is not engaged in color, but real academic discussion, after all, he swore to Huang Tian that he will not share gambling and drugs in this life!
In short, there are too many firsts, too many literati and writers, too many historical allusions, and too many interesting things happening, he can just see it, and he can show his strength and ambitions in this glorious era.
However, after a short period of excitement, he hurriedly calmed down, because for him, although he was lucky to come in this glorious era, he was lucky to be on a thigh, which is indeed a happy thing.
But what is a little troublesome is that the thigh on his side has a bit of a bad start.
How to say it, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is both a lucky person and an unlucky child.
Although he fell from the sky and was lucky to get the emperor's throne, this throne came so suddenly that he was not prepared at all.
Because Emperor Zhengde died too suddenly, suddenly fell into the water, and suddenly died after falling into the water, everything seemed too weird.
And what's even more bizarre is that after his death, all the imperial doctors who participated in the treatment either disappeared or died, so no matter how you look at this matter, it reveals a bit unusual.
Then the result of the discussion of the ministers was to let the fourteen-year-old little prince Zhu Houxi enter Beijing to succeed to the throne, which is also very unusual.
You must know that being an emperor is not the younger the better, if you are too young, it is easy to lose power and be overshadowed by powerful ministers.
There are countless examples of this in history, not to mention other dynasties, just in the Ming Dynasty, there was Wanli, because he was too young, there was a 'I am not the regent' of the Ming Dynasty Zhang Juzheng.
directly overthrew him, so that the young Xiao Wanli had no way at all, and it was not until after his death that he dared to muster up the courage to fight back.
At that time, Zhu Houxi still had many uncles and uncles, such as Zhu Youyu, the king of Shouding, and Zhu Youyu, the king of Ru'an, all of whom were the sons of Emperor Xianzong and the younger brother of Emperor Xiaozong.
It stands to reason that he is also qualified to inherit the throne, at least from the situation at the time, whether it is age or experience, he is more suitable than the young Zhu Houxuan, and the throne is not sidelined, and he is still in the line of Xianzong.
This is not nonsense, but at that time, there were already rumors in this regard, saying that the Empress Dowager Zhang of the filial piety emperor issued three edicts at the same time, ordering the three to enter Beijing at the same time, and it was 'the first to be the king, the last to be the minister'.
It was only because Zhu Houxuan listened to the advice of the strategists, pretended to be a prisoner, took a prisoner car, traveled day and night, no one dared to stop him, and no one answered, so he arrived in the capital before the two.
Although this is a folk rumor, the rumor, true or false, false and real, just like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is somewhat true, at least it shows that these two people are indeed qualified to inherit the throne.
More importantly, you must know that Zhu Houxuan's father had only died for two years at that time, and he had not even inherited the throne, and he was still in the period of his father's system, so it was a little unreasonable for him to rashly succeed to the throne.
You must know that the Ming Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and not allowing a son to keep filial piety to his father is a loss of affection, and the consequences are very serious when investigated.
But this throne fell on him who was only fourteen years old, which is really strange.
It is conceivable that this is exactly the result that the ministers wanted at that time, let such a hairy boy succeed to the throne, neither the Eastern Palace subordinates, nor the slightest network foundation in the capital, it is easy to control him, so as to control the government in his own hands.
Unlike King Shouding and King Ru'an, they are already scheming old vassal kings, and they are in the prime of life, and they already have their own set of teams, which are difficult to control.
It can be said that his succession was partly out of legitimacy, and more out of the results that the ministers wanted at that time.
Of course, it's just that they miscalculated in the end, and it's all because Zhu Houxi's child is too demonic, although he is young, his scheming is deep and terrifying, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty combined, he can't beat him, which shows how perverted this guy is.
In stark contrast, it was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen!!
is also a brother and a brother, and he also inherits the throne as a vassal king, and he is even about the same age, and he is even more dominant, because his throne is at least handed over to him by his brother himself, which is more legitimate, more confident, and does not have to fight for etiquette or anything.
He thinks he's smart, but he's just thinking he's smart.
After more than ten years on the throne, he naively thought that he would use his ingenuity and intelligence to control the ministers and grasp the situation.
But in the end, he found that the water was too deep for him to grasp.
He was played by the ministers all his life, and even when he died, he didn't even have loyal ministers, only an old eunuch hanged himself with him.
can look at Zhu Houxi again, the same beginning, but he has played the ministers around all his life, even if he is as smart as Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Gao Gong, they are not his opponents, and they have not begged for any good fruit to eat.
In the future, even if he has not been in the court for more than 20 years and has begun to rot, he can still control the situation.
So sometimes I am thinking that if Zhu Houxi and Chongzhen are replaced, will the ending of the Ming Dynasty be different?
After thinking about it, he felt that it wouldn't be, because if Zhu Houxi was really replaced by Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty might not be able to hold out at that time, with the level of this old man, how could he be able to fight Yang Ting and Xia Yan Yan Song, who are really smart old foxes, I don't know what they have been fooled into.
So after ascending the throne, this old man, like his cousin, began to encounter all kinds of accidents, the fire in the southern tour, and the changes in Renyin Palace, all of which were very bizarre.
After all, being an emperor in the Ming Dynasty is really not a very happy thing, because most of their endings are not too good, not counting from the earliest Taizu Taizong, after all, they are fighting the country, with good health and strong control, so the ending is good.
After that, Renzong died violently, called the son of heaven, Emperor Jing died suddenly, Xiaozong took the wrong medicine, Wuzong fell into the water, Renyin Palace changed, the red pill case, Xizong fell into the water, Chongzhen hanged, etc., one is more outrageous than the other.
Oh, you said there is another one named Zhu Yunwen among them? He also ended up miserable?
Taizong said that it was impossible, absolutely impossible! I don't have this emperor in the Ming Dynasty, after all, what sect are we, what sect are you?
Oh, Ming is missing? That's fine.
And among these people, only Jiajing is considered a lucky one, and he survived by luck, and he was not completely unlucky.
Of course, there are also some results of Jiajing's compromise, such as after the change of Renyin Palace, he who had tried his best to restrict the civil official group, went directly to the position, chose to start delegating power, and even the palace did not live, and went to Xiyuan to become a Taoist alchemy.
As a result, the civil official group became bigger and bigger, which profoundly affected the situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, so that it laid the groundwork for the emergence of Zhang Juzheng and others in the Ming Dynasty, who were in power for a while.
also profoundly affected his grandson Wanli, like him, he felt that the emperor's grandfather was wonderful, since he couldn't fight, then open up.
But the good thing is that they all survived, they didn't fall into the water, they didn't die suddenly, they didn't take the wrong medicine, and they didn't sleep well and were suddenly strangled by someone.
So it's really not so easy to help such an unlucky child successfully control the situation, such as the next first test, the Great Gift Dispute.
Especially in the Ming Dynasty, which is still a little off track at this time, it is even more of a headache.
Because as I said before, the Ming Dynasty at this time was a little different from what he remembered, although the general historical trend was the same, but there were deviations in some details, and there were many strange things.
How to say it, the Ming Dynasty at this time, compared with the Ming Dynasty in his original history, is a parallel world, and it is a high-martial world, with martial artists and Confucians, Taoists and Buddhas.
Confucian scholars can hurt people with their talents, talk and sword, and verbally criticize and write, while martial artists cultivate qi machines, split Huashan with force, and sweep thousands of armies.
This fork in the road of history probably began in the Qin Dynasty, when meteorites fell from the sky and changed the world, which led to the emergence of Confucian scholars who mastered talent and martial artists who mastered strength.
It is only then that the overlord of Chu has pulled out the mountain and covered the world, with Zhao Zilong's seven in and seven out, and Zhang Fei's roar to scare Xiahou Jie to death.
With the summoning meteorite of the Great Magister, with Fu Jian's whip to break the stream, and with the reed of the Bodhidharma Patriarch to cross the river.
With Xin Qiji's anger swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger, and with Li Bai's ten steps to kill a person and not stay for a thousand miles, they all relied on cultivation to become such a peerless celebrity.
This is all far away, and there are close ones such as the first brave general Chang Yuchun in the early Ming Dynasty, it is best to be the vanguard, who can single-handedly break through the battle formation of thousands of people, and also kill him seven in and seven out, which is quite powerful, and he is a real three-grade martial artist.
Of course, what made him feel a little relieved was that the Confucian scholars who mastered their talents and the martial artists who cultivated their qi were not really invincible in the world, but they were just a little more powerful than ordinary people.
can't really be like the fantasy novels I read in my previous life, I can destroy a country by one person, and move mountains and reclaim the sea in a flying world, I can't do it at all.
In this era when the average age of ordinary people is only forty or fifty years old, if you cultivate for every product you improve, then you can live for more than ten years.
For example, a six-rank martial artist can probably live to be more than a hundred years old, and a third-grade martial artist, if nothing else, can live to be more than one hundred and fifty years old, and the same is true for converting to Confucianism.
As for Ichin Takeo, it is said that he can live to be close to two hundred years old, but no one has ever seen it.
Because of the realm of one product, it is so rare, it can be called one in ten thousand, only a few before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it has almost disappeared since then.
In recent years, the only confirmed Yipin is still the Taoist patriarch Zhang Sanfeng, who is said to have lived for nearly two hundred years, from the end of the Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but at this time he has also passed away.
Therefore, the realm of Sanpin is almost the peak of the world's military value, and Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde is a real Sanpin martial artist, which is why he dared to drive the expedition in person, personally led people to fight with the little prince of Mongolia, and also won countless victories, and achieved a rare victory in Yingzhou since Tumubao.
But the strange thing is that such a master of force value is off the charts, and he died after falling into the water inexplicably, which is really a little strange, and I can't figure out why.
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