Chapter 113: The Mystery of History
Wu Wu felt that many young emperors in history who ascended the throne had something to do with the failure of education.
For example, Emperor Zhengde, for example, Emperor Wanli.
"After Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, in the face of the Wenchen group that was pressing step by step, of course he had to resist, his resistance was different from others, he used nonsense and fun to express his dissatisfaction."
"People who have been suppressed for a long time, when no one is in control, they must let themselves go, Emperor Zhengde began to promote the eight eunuchs headed by Liu Jin and Ma Yongcheng not long after Xiaozong left."
"The old ministers left by Xiaozong often admonished, and they were unwilling to let Emperor Zhengde go out of the palace and go to the people to walk and investigate, so good, he made a street in the palace, and let the eunuchs and palace maids play all kinds of people in the people, etc., what opened a restaurant, did business, etc., he also pretended to be an ordinary person to play and trade on the street."
"He thinks he lives in the palace, and those civil officials often go to the palace to say this and that, so he built another palace in Xihuamen, named the leopard room, and he lived in the leopard room for many years in order to get rid of the shackles, and that was his home."
Emperor Zhengde reused Liu Jin and others, let them seize power, make contacts, and used Liu Jin to suppress Han Wen, Liu Jian and other courtiers, forcing them to leave the court, and many old ministers during the Hongzhi period also left the power center. Without the restraint of these people, Emperor Zhengde began to have fun in the leopard room, asked people to collect beauties from all over the country to send them to the leopard room, and also watched singing and dancing with the eunuchs here, horns, etc., he was bent on using eunuchs to fight against Wenchen, don't you know that power is a double-edged sword, and if you don't use it properly, it will lead to serious consequences. ”
"Under the reuse of Emperor Zhengde, the eunuch group controlled the government and troubled the place, Liu Jin was still very much, at that time, the people in the court and China called him the emperor, which means that the one sitting on the throne has to listen to Liu Jin, and Liu Jin can do everything Liu Jin said."
"Of course, Liu Jin, who acted as the white gloves of Emperor Zhengde, did not end well, he relied on Emperor Zhengde as a backer, offended the ministers of the court, and several great eunuchs who were called the Eight Tigers with him also separated from Liu Jin, so to speak, he has betrayed his relatives and left."
"Finally, the king of Anhua raised the banner of punishing Liu Jin in the fiefdom and rebelled, and Emperor Zhengde had to kill Liu Jin in the voice of Liu Jin, and Liu Jin was executed by Ling Chi."
"Actually, as long as you look at Emperor Zhengde's punishment of Liu Jin, you can see that even if he is playing around, he has a great control over the court, officials, and the eunuch group, and the eunuch group's nonsense must be within the scope of his permission, as long as it exceeds this range, it is easy for him to kill him."
"The emperor who ascended the throne as a young man can grasp the authority in a few years and can balance the court, which shows his intelligence and political skills."
After killing Liu Jin, Emperor Zhengde did not restrain as the ministers expected, but lived in the leopard room for a long time, unwilling to return to the palace, and took his favored ministers to run wild on the road of the faint monarch and traitorous ministers. He gave himself the title of official, and gave him the pseudonym Zhu Shou, and named Zhu Shou as the governor and the chief military officer of the mighty general. ”
"At that time, the capital could not trap him, he longed for the life outside, so he took his favored ministers all the way to Xuanfu in the name of patrolling the border, built the general's mansion there, called it home, when he patrolled the border, he happened to meet the little prince of Mongolia with 50,000 troops to kill, this time, Emperor Zhengde was excited, he also practiced riding and archery since he was a child, and now there is a place to use, he personally commanded the battle."
"However, what is the situation of this battle, the ambiguity recorded in history, the history of the Ming Dynasty more than two hundred years later has not smeared him, but only recorded the situation at that time, Jia Chen, the little prince committed Yanghe, plundered Yingzhou. Ding Wei, personally supervised the army and fought for five days. Xinhai, Kou led to go, stationed in Datong. ”
"However, in the Ming Shilu of the Jiajing period, he was devalued as worthless, saying that the battle he commanded only killed sixteen enemies, but his own side killed fifty-two people and seriously injured more than 500 people, and said that he almost repeated the mistake of calling the Son of Heaven."
"But after the death of Emperor Zhengde, the ministers wrote a letter for him, but it was not the case, saying that the border was restless, and Zhengde was personally recruited, so that the border was peaceful and the good news was frequent."
"Then why is there so much difference in records in just a few years?"
Carefree paused at this point.
Many people began to think along with her questions.
The emperors of the Song Dynasty, who knew Wenchen very well, quickly figured it out.
Yingzong sighed: "I think someone is trying to curry favor with Emperor Jiajing." ”
The fairy said it, Wuzong has no children, this Jiajing Emperor must be elected from the clan, naturally he is not close to Wuzong, some people dare to say anything in order to please the new emperor.
Song Shenzong thought for a while and said: "Such a bold and reckless emperor, Wenchen will definitely not like it, and it is also degrading to him. ”
The emperors of the Song Dynasty could think clearly, and others would understand it if they thought about it more.
Worry-free words really confirmed the guess of the emperor of the Song Dynasty.
"An emperor like Emperor Zhengde naturally doesn't like Wenchen, and even dislikes it, when he was in power, he turned the Wenchen around, and after he died, many people couldn't wait to smear him."
"As for that battle, it seems that the result is not very important, even if it is a great victory, the scholars who have mastered the pen have the ability to write a defeat."
"For this point, a certain emperor should be deeply touched."
As for which emperor it was, Wu Wu didn't say, which made people speculate again.
"There are a lot of nonsense incidents of Emperor Zhengde, and they are even more strange, let's not talk about them one by one, now let's talk about how he died."
"Later generations also have a lot of speculation about the death of Emperor Zhengde, there is a theory that he choked on the water after falling into the water and contracted pneumonia and died, and there is also a theory that he was killed by civil officials, as for the truth, no one can say, this is a historical mystery."
"At that time, King Ning rebelled, Emperor Zhengde personally conquered, to capture King Ning and then return to Beijing, on the way to pass by Qingjiangpu, where he fished, accidentally fell into the water, as a result, he couldn't afford to fall ill, and died the next year."
"Before he died, he said goodbye to the ministers, saying that the past was all wrong, and it was not something that you could predict."
It can be said that when he was dying, he admitted his mistake and also wanted to make peace with these ministers. It may be speculated that the reason why he was killed by civil officials was because of this sentence. ”
"After all, what Emperor Zhengde did before can be seen that he is a rather rebellious and willful emperor, who has been in rebellion all his life, and suddenly repented when he was dying, isn't it a little strange?"
"What if when he was seriously ill, the important ministers of the court mastered the court, and even the palace, and deliberately did not ask the imperial doctor to cure his illness, and he also felt that in order to survive, he surrendered to the heavy surrender? Is this also a possibility? ”
Wu Wu sighed when he said this: "These are all speculations, what is the end, only Emperor Zhengde at that time knows it." ”
Emperor Zhengde, who had just inherited the throne and was competing with Wenchen: ......
What?
Will he fall overboard and die?
Is his body too bad?
It's a bit impossible, right?
But no matter what, Emperor Zhengde made up his mind to stay away from the water in the future, and not to fish.
(End of chapter)