Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (Yuanjiu) The Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Concubine
It is said that it is a handwritten letter, but Gao Pragmatic does not understand Spanish. His handwritten letter must be in Chinese, but it will be accompanied by a Spanish translation.
Translation is not a problem. The Ming Dynasty has always had Tongwen Guan, which does the work of translation. Of course, Gao Pragmatic does not intend to find people from Tongwen Guan to translate, and he does not need it.
Jinghua has been engaged in overseas trade for so many years, so why does it need to rely on others for translation? The work done by Tongwen Guan is not only done by people in southern Xinjiang, but also in the capital.
However, there is a saying that the people recruited by Jinghua are not professional translators, but various types of Western intellectuals, most of whom are architects and missionaries.
Not to mention missionaries, almost all missionaries these days are at the scholar level. As for architects, when Gao Pragmatic built Xishan Villa, he had already recruited many architects from Europe to work for him.
, although there are more Italians among them, there are also Spaniards.
What's more, even if there is none, it doesn't matter. Just find an Italian architect to write the translation in Latin. He is the Duke of Spain. Considering that the Catholic faith in Spain is extremely devout, the Duke must be a devout Catholic, so he
The Bible he read when he was young was naturally written in Latin, and it was impossible for him not to understand Latin.
As for why we don't find missionaries... Well, missionaries are different from architects. The latter usually can discuss everything as long as the money is in place, but it's hard to say for the former. Maybe they have special tasks? High pragmatism
Regarding this issue, we should adopt the attitude of being as cautious as possible to avoid accidents.
In short, there is nothing to worry about. There are relevant talents in the Craftsman School, and there is no need to worry about the news leaking. Just tell me and someone will take care of it.
After chatting with Huang Zhiting for a while, the physically and mentally exhausted Gao Pragmatic went to bed early. Huang Zhiting sent the maid away and personally waited on Gao Pragmatic to go to bed. However, he apologized and continued to finish the unfinished letter.
went.
Early the next morning, Gao Pragmatic went to the cabinet for duty. As the matter had already been discussed yesterday, as soon as he arrived at the cabinet, a large stack of memorials came from the Jinshi Guanzheng, saying that these memorials all required full investigation into the emperor's fainting and coughing up blood yesterday.
This is the proper meaning of the title. Gao Pingshi didn't want to read a single word of the article, because the wording and sentences in the article itself had no meaning at all. He just asked: "How many memorials are there in each of the Shi School and the Xin School?
How many are left?"
Guanzheng Jinshi said: "Sixty-one letters from the Practical School, 49 letters from the Heart School, and the remaining seventy-three letters."
Gao Jingshi nodded slightly and said, "I understand, go ahead and get busy." Jinshi Guanzheng bowed slightly and retreated.
The data just now are basically in line with Gao Pragmatic's expectations. Generally speaking, it is also very different from the proportion of people from all parties in the DPRK. There are more people in the pragmatic school than in the pragmatic school, but generally the two sides can be considered "evenly matched", but
Among them, the practical school has a slight advantage.
As for the "rest" part, there are more than the Practical School, which is actually not surprising. It took nearly two hundred years for the Neo-Confucian orthodoxy of the Zhu Ming Dynasty to be violently impacted by the Xinxue, and later the impact of the Realism, but in the final analysis, the Xinxue and the Realism
Practical learning is not completely opposed to Neo-Confucianism, but they just put forward different "principles".
Therefore, it can be said that both Xinxue and Practical Studies essentially believe that their foundation is still Neo-Confucianism, but there is something wrong with this foundation itself. They need to eliminate the wrong and absurd parts of it and replace it with the parts they think are correct, and then they can form a perfect Neo-Confucianism.
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In this case, it is not a big problem for more people to agree with traditional Neo-Confucianism, and it is even natural. This is the so-called inertia.
However, the Neo-Confucian school has always been called the neutral school, and of course there is a reason. The reason is that although many people still believe in traditional Neo-Confucianism, they have no "organization" and are basically scattered in the political arena.
Unless some major events happened that impacted the fundamental concepts of Confucianism, it would be difficult for these people to reach complete agreement on something. They would often say different things and disagree with each other.
This makes it difficult for them to form a fist when facing the Practical School or the Heart School, even though there are many of them. In the end, most of them can only stand on the sidelines in the political arena, sharing scraps of power and unable to compete with them at all.
The real school or the mind school competed with each other on the political level.
Perhaps it is for this reason that Wang Jiaping, as the largest neutral faction in the court today, when faced with Zhu Yijun's insistence on not investigating Yikun Palace yesterday, the first thing he thought of was to resign.
On the one hand, this shows that Wang Jiaping does have a strong temper. On the other hand, we must also see that this is a helpless move because he is not sure whether he can set off a wave of public opinion in the court.
After all, he is also the chief minister of the dynasty. If he calls for a long time but only few people respond, how embarrassing would it be? In this case, it is better not to call. And if he chooses to lead the charge without saying anything, then even if he "dies",
At least I will "die" with a healthy spirit, and maybe there will be a chance to gain eternal fame. In any case, it can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
However, this did not happen after all, because Shen Yiguan and Gao Pragmatic worked together to persuade. The two of them joining forces meant that it was feasible and almost certain to succeed in setting off a wave of public opinion in the court, and Wang Jiaping did not have to worry about losing face.
Not only does he not have to worry about losing face, but he will be the leader of this wave of public opinion. Regardless of whether the outside world is like Ming Jing, at least in terms of face, they have to admit that he, Wang Yuanfu, is the "big brother who takes the lead."
Oh, that was simply the highlight moment of his appeal in his life. For someone who has already decided to retire and return to his hometown in the near future, it is completely understandable that Wang Jiaping could find such an opportunity and devote himself wholeheartedly to this matter.
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Because of this, he actively contacted last night and revealed his practical knowledge to the outside world. The two schools of psychology and psychology have reached an agreement on this issue, and finally persuaded so many people to come to the meeting today and ask the emperor to conduct a thorough investigation - of course, even though many people
It has not been stated clearly, but the target is to conduct a thorough investigation of Yikun Palace.
Gao Pingshi looked at a large pile of memorials and thought for a moment. He took the cabinet ticket and wrote "I know", "I have read", "I understand" and other words on each sheet, but there was no more specific expression.
Here I want to talk about what the "ticket draft" thing is about and how to write it.
At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a series of institutional reforms were carried out to strengthen the authority of the monarch. For example, "in the ninth year of Hongwu, Pingzhang was eliminated from political affairs and participated in political affairs. In the first month of the thirteenth year, the Prime Minister Hu Weiyong was executed, and the Zhongshu Province was dismissed." At the same time, the Shangshu Province was abolished.
, changed to six departments directly ordered by the emperor.
However, the large-scale dismantling of central decision-making institutions has caused the number of official documents directly submitted to the emperor to increase exponentially. Even if the emperor is diligent in government affairs and eats and sleeps, it will be difficult to maintain it for a long time and in terms of energy. Furthermore, the emperor personally cannot sustain it for a long time. There is also no guarantee that they are familiar with all aspects of government affairs, which reduces the efficiency and quality of central document processing.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to add a group of consultants to the university for consultation. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, following the old system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Huagai Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Dong Pavilion were set up. They ate in the palace and often served the emperor and the palace, hence the name "cabinet".
However, the initial cabinet was neither an official office nor an official name. It was just a simple appointment of civil servants to join the cabinet and participate in machine affairs. During the Yongle period, seven people including Xie Xu and Huang Huai were first appointed to serve in Wenyuan Pavilion.
At that time, the job of the cabinet ministers was only to serve as counselors and secretaries, and they were not allowed to interfere with the affairs of the nine ministers. In the Zhiren and Xuan Dynasties, because the cabinet ministers were all elders of the Yongle Dynasty, they were powerful and powerful, so the power of the cabinet gradually expanded, and the cabinet ministers also Begin to get the emperor to draft this chapter.
Of course, the voting system was born in Yinshi, and the power of voting did not belong exclusively to cabinet ministers. "Xuan De Zhongzhao issued an edict to the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Sai Yi, and the Shao Bao Tutor, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, Xia Yuanji, left the ministry. He served as an adviser day and night, and was given the gift of coral. The pen, the jade inkstone, and the decree are not related to the cabinet position." It can be seen that the idea of voting being exclusively controlled by the cabinet must also go through a development process.
Also in the Xuande Dynasty, the eunuch Bingbi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, was given the right to copy and approve red documents. As a result, the emperor, the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the cabinet formed a tripartite force that restricted and balanced each other, and this continued throughout the Ming Dynasty. The voting system also began to take shape at this time.
So, what is the implementation process of the voting system?
The procedure is roughly as follows: after the minister's memorial is forwarded, it is sent to the clerk's office of the ceremonial officer through the general affairs envoy and the palace gate guard. After being registered in the clerk's office, it is handed over to the ceremonial officer and submitted to the emperor for review; after the emperor reads it, it is The Supervisor of Ceremonies will hand it over to the Clerk's Office to send the cabinet vote. After the cabinet vote is drafted, it will go through the above procedures and arrive at the imperial court. After the emperor's consent, the Supervisor of Ceremonies will approve it, and the Sutra Book will be "recorded" [Note 1], and then go through The cabinet sends it to the Sixth Section, and if it is reviewed and found to be correct, it will be handed over to the Sixth Department for execution. If there are any violations, it can be rejected.
[Note 1: The so-called Luo Di Book, that is, the "silk fiber book" used to record the inscriptions of the tickets, was established during the Zhengtong and Jingtai Dynasties. It was later abolished and restored at the latest in the middle of Wanli. There is no information about its style. Test.]
In addition, the emperor could also suppress the memorial and neither issue it nor send it back to the cabinet, but treat it coldly. This is the "Liu Zhong" that is widely seen in various movies and TV dramas - in fact, most emperors do not "Liu Zhong" is not commonly used, but Wanli is one of the exceptions. Historically, he liked staying in Zhong very much.
There are quite a few things in the above program that need explanation.
First, there is the issue of "I know" when Gao Pragmatic just voted - some people may be surprised, how dare you write "I know" when you are Gao Pragmatic? Is "I" something you can call yourself? In fact, this is not the case.
The duty of the cabinet drafter is to "spoke on behalf of the king" rather than to speak for himself, that is to say, the essence of "vote draft" is not that the cabinet ministers report their own opinions on the handling of memorials, but to provide criticism on behalf of the emperor.
Since the emperor is making comments on behalf of the emperor, if the emperor has an opinion before the chapter is sent to the cabinet, he will send eunuchs to deliver the key points orally and determine the principles for the cabinet in advance; if the emperor still has no opinions, he will only send eunuchs to the cabinet to discuss.
Therefore, in some movies and TV dramas, "ballot drawing" is understood to mean that cabinet ministers write their opinions on the ticket, waiting for the emperor's decision. This is a wrong assumption.
Gao Pragmatic is responsible for drawing up the votes today, which means writing them according to the emperor's tone, because theoretically if the emperor agrees after reading it, he can let the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch who is the chief of etiquette, use a red pen to copy the votes word for word. This can avoid the need for the chief of etiquette.
The powerful eunuchs in prison were playing tricks on words.
Secondly, during the Xuanzong Dynasty, the Supervisor of Ceremonies gained the power to replace the emperor in criticizing the emperor. "From the beginning of the Xuan Temple... the red book of the Book of Changes approved it, whether it was personally written or not."
In addition to several copies, all the eunuchs divided them into batches, followed the words on the ticket in the pavilion, and marked them in regular script with a red pen."
Xuanzong's original intention here was to entrust some eunuchs who were well versed in writing and writing to be responsible for copying the cabinet drafts that had no objections, so as to reduce the burden of review.
Generally speaking, the power of the ceremonial eunuch to approving red papers was divided between the two hands, the eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Zhangyin. The eunuch Bingbi approved Zhu on behalf of the emperor, while the eunuch Zhangyin was responsible for reviewing and sealing the red approval.
However, later facts proved that what the ceremonial eunuchs actually did was not just "copying and copying", but injecting their own opinions and influence into the central system of the imperial court. This will be discussed later.
Third, voting is not the only way for cabinet ministers to exert their will on the emperor in the central document processing system. Even if the emperor issues an edict that does not follow what the cabinet ministers drafted, the cabinet still has the right to reject it, which is the so-called "return of seal to execution".
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The system of "returning orders" is a way for the cabinet to express its resistance to the emperor's inappropriate decrees. The process is basically as follows: the emperor orders the cabinet to draft an edict. If the cabinet considers it to be a "disorder", it can return the edict.
At the same time, a detailed opinion is attached to put forward what the cabinet thinks is the correct handling opinion.
There is precedent for this. For example, in the first year of Jiajing, Yang Tinghe returned the "Great Ceremony Controversy" to Emperor Shizong.
However, it must be noted here that "returning the title to the executive" does not have a mandatory effect. The emperor can personally bypass the cabinet and "the decree comes from it." As mentioned before, when the emperor appoints ministers to the cabinet, court recommendation is recognized as the most reasonable.
When the court cannot recommend a suitable candidate or the emperor is still dissatisfied with the candidate recommended by the court, the emperor may directly appoint him by "central decree".
However, this method is often not recognized by the courtiers, and may even cause the whole court to ridicule the appointed ministers. As a result, many ministers are not happy and surprised after receiving the emperor's decree to appoint them to the cabinet. They refuse to resign one after another, and even get scared.
De Shangshu asked to resign and go home.
Of course, there are exceptions under the Zhongzhi. For example, Yin Shidan, Gao Gong's former cabinet minister, accepted the Zhongzhi into the cabinet. Even though Gao Gong didn't say anything to his face, he often ignored his existence. In the end, Yin Shidan
He lost his temper and almost staged a show of violence in the cabinet. After the incident, he felt that he was too embarrassed to stay in the cabinet any longer, so he resolutely resigned and left.
Talking about returning the seal and returning the performance. In fact, the success rate of returning the performance is not high. Whether the emperor adopts it depends entirely on the emperor's personal cultivation. Rushing to use the seal to return the performance to refute the emperor may even bring disaster to oneself. Therefore,
If it is not a matter of principle, or if the conflict between the two sides is so acute that it is difficult to reconcile, cabinet ministers will generally not choose to confront the emperor in public in this way.
Don't talk about the emperor, let's just say that in the unit or the company, when the leader clearly expresses his opinions and issues instructions, you jump out and accuse the leader of being a brainless person and making decisions that are purely retarded... Do you think there is something wrong with the leader or you?
Is there something wrong? If you encounter an angry boss, I'm afraid the finance department will ask you to pay your salary and get out on the spot.
According to the procedure mentioned just now, the memorial that Gao Jingshi saw here should theoretically have been read by the emperor. However, the emperor did not send the eunuch who was the supervisor of rites to explain the situation to him. In other words, the emperor did not express this clearly.
How to set the tone.
This is not surprising, after all, Gao Jingshi was the only one who heard the emperor's opinions yesterday, and Gao Jingshi did not agree to exonerate Concubine Zheng, but expressed to the emperor that he believed Concubine Zheng was raped.
He took advantage of it, and he had no ill intentions towards the emperor.
In other words, Gao Pragmatic told the emperor that Concubine Zheng could be investigated and could withstand the investigation. At most, someone would be found to be using Concubine Zheng to frame the emperor.
The emperor refused to investigate the Yikun Palace, mainly because he was worried that if the imperial concubine Zheng was found out, she would really have to bear a fatal crime such as "regicide" - although he insisted that this was absolutely impossible.
Is it absolutely impossible? Maybe the fact is indeed "absolutely impossible", but the final result may not be "absolutely impossible".
Why do you say that?
What a joke, is Yang Yuhuan himself guilty of a mortal sin? However, when the Imperial Guards who fled to Maweiyi collectively clamored and believed that not punishing Concubine Yang was not enough to calm the anger of the three armies, let alone eliminate the worries of the three armies, then Concubine Yang was guilty, and that was the case
The crime deserves to be punished!
What is the situation in the court now? The situation in the court is that everyone in the court believes that Concubine Zheng is interfering with the country and intends to encourage the emperor to make his son Zhu Changxun the crown prince.
Where did Zhu Changxun's sacred scroll come from? Of course the courtiers believed that it was due to the emperor's love for Concubine Zheng. Otherwise, how could it have shaken the Ming Dynasty's two-hundred-year-old ancestral system of establishing direct descendants?
Even if there is an emperor's legitimate son now, the fight over the foundation of the country will at best be fought between the legitimate sons and elders. What qualifications do you, Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor's concubine, have to participate in it? Isn't it because your mother is the noble concubine of Emperor Zheng?
Therefore, the emperor would think that once the Yikun Palace is thoroughly investigated, the outer court will inevitably exert pressure. Even if Concubine Zheng "absolutely had no such intention", she will be insinuated and even shift the blame of others to her. Once the investigation results are determined,
Then even he, the emperor, can't save it. In that case, it would be better to insist on never investigating from the beginning.
And Gao Pingshi worked tirelessly to explain and persuade that day. No matter what he said on the surface, in the final analysis, the subtext was just one sentence: I guarantee that the results of the investigation are absolutely fair, and that Concubine Zheng will never be wronged. On the contrary, the mastermind behind the scenes can be found out.
Clear the suspicion for Concubine Zheng.
Of course, there is a deeper hidden meaning here, that is... Concubine Zheng will still bear some responsibility, that is, "being deceived and used by others." And this point needs to be carefully weighed by the emperor himself.
There are at least two points that the emperor has to weigh: First, whether Gao Pragmatic's guarantee is credible. There are two possibilities for this: One is that Gao Pragmatic's words are simply not credible, and there will be no follow-up.
The second possibility is that Gao Pragmatic's words are indeed credible, but is there a possibility of an accident? The so-called accident means that Gao Pragmatic did agree and did investigate from a fair standpoint, but due to other reasons, Gao Pragmatic did not
If he can do what he promised... then it's still over.
The second point that needs to be weighed is that Gao Pragmatism's implication is that Princess Zheng needs to bear the responsibility of "being deceived and used", but how big is this responsibility and what consequences will it lead to?
Concubine Zheng is not a minister of the foreign court, and there are no clear regulations for some responsibilities. If a minister of the foreign court is "blinded and used", according to the examination method established in the Gao Gong era, it should be classified as "unresponsible", that is, not doing his job.
Competent. Generally speaking, the solution is usually to demote the call.
But Concubine Zheng is not a court official, so this "demotion" seems inappropriate. If it is appropriate, how can the concubine be demoted? Remove the word "huang" from the concubine and demote her to a concubine?
Zhu Yijun is not naive. He has long been a mature emperor and understands the implication of Gao pragmatism: the responsibility that the imperial concubine should bear is to be demoted.
Gao Pragmatic did not say clearly how to demote the concubine, or to what title, but Zhu Yijun was obviously unwilling to demote Concubine Zheng several levels in a row. At most, she would be demoted from imperial concubine to concubine - even this little grievance.
, Zhu Yijun was actually very unwilling to let Concubine Zheng suffer.
Of course, the "grievance" of being demoted from imperial concubine to noble concubine may not be said to be just "a little bit".
In later film and television dramas, the title of imperial concubine is everywhere. Famous characters such as Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Guifei in "Qing Ping Le", Zhao Guifei in "Crane Huating", etc. These characters may indeed have
They may be prototypes or purely fictitious, but they all have one attribute in common, that is, they are the beloved concubines of emperors.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, a noble concubine is just a noble concubine. For example, if Yang Yuhuan is so favored, she is just a noble concubine. What is this imperial concubine and where did she come from?
Coincidentally, the title "Emperor's Imperial Concubine" really came out of the Ming Dynasty.
Let’s talk about “imperial concubine” first. The name “imperial concubine” appears in the same way as many movies and TV dramas position it. She was born because of her beloved concubine. The first “imperial concubine” in history was Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Dynasty.
Beloved concubine Yinshi.
This Yin family was extremely favored by Liu Jun, and because of his love for the house and the crow, he wanted to change the Yin family's son Liu Ziluan to the crown prince several times. Unfortunately, due to various factors, he was unable to do so, and the Yin family also passed away in full expectation.
Liu Jun was so sad that he made Yin a noble concubine and gave her a posthumous title of "Xuan". Please note that "Xuan" is not a simple posthumous title, especially when it is used as a posthumous title for a woman.
Why? Because the posthumous title of the first queen mother in Chinese history was "Xuan", which shows how much Liu Jun loved his beloved concubine. Shortly after his beloved concubine passed away, Emperor Xiaowu died in grief.
After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, Liu Ziye, who became famous later, came to the throne. This man resented his father for not loving him, and resented his father for favoring Concubine Yin and his younger brother Liu Ziluan. To what extent could he hate it? He actually wanted to dig up his father's tomb, but was stopped by his ministers.
Later, he even threw excrement on his father's mausoleum, and excavated the mausoleum of Concubine Yin and the temple in memory of Concubine Yin.
Not only that, he also ordered the death of his younger brother Liu Ziluan without any surprise. The good news is that he was soon overthrown by his uncle Liu He because of his tyranny in governing the country.
Talking about "noble concubines", from the beginning of the Liu Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, except for the brief reform in the Tang Dynasty where Yuan Fei was the first among the concubines, in most of the Chinese dynasties, the concubines were second only to the queen in honor.
position.
In the absence of a queen, the concubine is the actual head of the harem, such as Concubine Doulu of Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Guo of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Wu of the Song Dynasty Gaozong, Concubine Xie of the Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, etc. Many of them will succeed or become empresses.
A person who is granted the title of Queen Mother.
For nearly a thousand years, the imperial concubine has been a role that cannot be underestimated in the royal family. It was not until the emergence of the imperial concubine that her limelight was suppressed.
Maybe it's because the word "huang" was so tempting in ancient times. As long as the word "huang" is added to anything, it seems to instantly become a lot taller.
The same seems to be true for "imperial concubine". It is already noble enough, but the word "emperor" needs to be added in front. But in fact, the creation of imperial concubine is much more complicated than that of imperial concubine.
"...Xuanzong ascended the throne and was granted the title of imperial concubine. Story: The queen's gold treasures and gold book. Below the imperial concubine, there is no treasure in the book. The concubine has a favorite. In May of the first year of Xuande, the emperor invited the queen mother to make a gold treasure and give it to her. From then on, the imperial concubine had treasures.
."——"History of the Ming Dynasty: Biography of the Concubines".
According to this, the origin of the imperial concubine can be traced back to Sun, the first successor in the Ming Dynasty. Sun was the concubine adopted by Zhu Zhanji when he was his grandson. She had a very good relationship with Zhu Zhanji, but it hindered her.
Concubine Hu was chosen by his grandfather Zhu Di, so Zhu Zhanji could only let his lover live in the side room.
When Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, as the emperor, although he did not directly appoint his concubine Sun as his queen, he secured a privilege for her. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the queen's canonization was accompanied by a book and a treasure, and the book was a book of canonization.
, Bao refers to the Queen's precious seal; when conferring a concubine, as a rule, there is only a book but no treasure, which is used to distinguish the superiority of concubines.
But Zhu Zhanji really loved the Sun family, so he asked his mother, Queen Mother Zhang, to make a golden treasure for Sun Guifei that only the queen could originally have. Because of the precious seal, it was different from all the noble concubines in the past thousands of years, so Sun Guifei
Hence the name "Emperor's Concubine" - after all, if there is no word "Emperor", how can the seal be called "Seal"?
But in fact, the actual title of the Sun family at that time was still imperial concubine, and "imperial concubine" was just an honorific title inside and outside the palace, and it did not form a complete system.
The first person in the Ming Dynasty who officially had the title of "imperial concubine" was the Tang concubine of Emperor Jingtai. In the seventh year of Jingtai, Emperor Jingtai solemnly asked two important ministers in the court, Shi Heng and Hu Hui, to confer the title of imperial concubine on her.
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This canonization lineup is quite luxurious. Needless to say, Shi Heng was Yingzong, the leading real power figure during the Jingtai period. Hu Xi even came from the Taizong Dynasty [Note: Zhu Di was called Taizong at the time, and was renamed Chengzu after Jiajing] to the Jingtai Dynasty.
A veteran of the Five Dynasties.
Considering the death of Queen Hang in February of that year, it is not difficult to find that Emperor Jingtai should have had high hopes for the Tang family. If Emperor Jingtai had not fallen ill so early, it is very likely that the Tang family would be enthroned in the palace.
Of course, everyone knows what happened later. Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others took advantage of Emperor Jingtai's serious illness to launch the Nangong Revolution and supported Zhu Qizhen's restoration. Zhu Qiyu was demoted to King Yi, and Tang was demoted to King Yi's concubine. Earlier,
The deposed Queen Wang became Princess Xi again.
Soon after, Zhu Qiyu died suddenly and mysteriously, and Zhu Qizhen ordered the Tang family and other concubines who had "nothing to do" to be buried. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not recognize the Tang family's status as an imperial concubine.
After the death of Zhu Qizhen, the crown prince Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne. At the beginning of his accession, when Zhu Jianshen honored the two queen mothers, he called his aunt mother the queen and his biological mother the imperial concubine.
This shows that Zhu Jianshen's biological mother Zhou should have been an imperial concubine during the Tianshun period. Even if the Tang family's status as an imperial concubine is not recognized, Zhou should still be the first imperial concubine in the Ming Dynasty.
But what is strange about this incident is that there is a contradiction in Zhou's records in "Records of Yingzong": she was only canonized as a noble concubine, but was given a treasure - as mentioned just now, since there is a "treasure", then
She should be canonized as an imperial concubine.
Come to think of it, although Zhu Jianshen called his biological mother the imperial concubine of the late emperor, the actual situation should be the same as the Sun family during the Xuanzong period. It was just a verbal address, and the actual status of Zhou Guifei was still a noble concubine.
In this way, according to historical records, the first imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty was Wan Guifei of Ming Xianzong. Wan Guifei was a famous concubine in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Although she was 17 years older than Zhu Jianshen, she still received Zhu Jianshen's lifelong love and affection.
Love, the story of this has been mentioned before in this book.
Favor is a favorite, but because of his father and mother, Zhu Jianshen cannot appoint Wan as his queen. However, for such a beloved concubine, Zhu Jianshen will naturally give her extra honor.
A frequently mistaken point needs to be corrected here, that is, Concubine Wan Gui was promoted to the title of Imperial Concubine in October of the twelfth year of Chenghua. It was not that Zhu Jianshen canonized her as the Imperial Concubine as soon as she came to the throne. In addition,
At that time, the Ming Dynasty issued the first record of imperial concubines in history.
This volume is completely recorded in "Records of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty". I won't excerpt it here. I only mention one of the key sentences: "The position is Yakunyi, the first among the Junzhi concubines."
This sentence is the positioning given to the imperial concubine by the Ming Dynasty. At this point, the status of the "imperial concubine" as the "new noble" in the harem has basically been settled.
However, it needs to be pointed out that there was no limit on the number of imperial concubines in the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the Wanli Dynasty in original history, Crown Prince Zhu Changluo's biological mother, Wang Shi, and Fu Wang Zhu Changxun's biological mother, Zheng Shi, were once combined as imperial concubines - among them Zhu Yijun's
Some kind of calculation, no need to explain much.
In short, from then on, among the emperors and concubines, the most noble position below the queen was the imperial concubine, and the noble concubine was the second most noble.
Due to the addition of the word "emperor" and the seal in the hands of the imperial concubine, in the eyes of the world, the imperial concubine has undoubtedly become...how should I put it, probably the "vice queen".
There is an obvious characteristic of people with "secondary" names all over the world, that is, if the person with "main" name has an accident, the person with "secondary" name will naturally be the first to be qualified to take over.
This qualification was the reason why Zhu Yijun was hesitant and did not send eunuch Si Li to explain to Gao Pragmatic whether the emperor had "finalized" the memorials.
In other words, even now, the emperor still has not made up his mind, but wants to see first how Gao Pragmatic, as the chief writer of today's cabinet, will vote.
However, the above-mentioned "I know", "I have read", "I understand" and so on, which are pragmatic and pragmatic, actually do not have any "words on behalf of the king" to say clearly what to do.
However, this was not because Gao was pragmatic and did not want to make it clear. After pasting all the other people's memorials with these ambiguous drafts, he found the memorial that Wang Jiaping, the first assistant, had personally submitted, read it carefully, and then took out a
On the receipt, Gonggong neatly wrote a line of words in Guange style:
"What Yuan Fu saw is in my opinion, and it will be approved by the cabinet." - What Yuan Fu said is the same as what I mean. Your cabinet should quickly hold a meeting to study, see how to check specifically, and then give me a charter.
Let me see.
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ps: 2-in-1. Yesterday I found a rat in the bathroom sewer, and it came out just as I was taking a shower. I was shocked on the spot, but I still stepped on it with my slippers on. The rat was in pain
When I turned around, I was a little panicked, fearing that it would bite my foot, so I let go and it slipped into the sewer and ran away.
Then my wife and I put it together, and she said that it was no wonder that she had heard noises several times in the middle of the night recently, and she had to sort it out. As a result, the whole family's belongings had been moved around a lot, and sure enough, she found rat droppings behind a closet that was not commonly used and had been stolen by it.
The food remnants from the past... Not only last night, but also today, I have been sorting them out all morning... Finally, I would like to say that the floor drain is a good thing. I will be as cautious as Gao Pragmatic in the future and never dare to forget to put it away again.
