The reason why Zhu Yunkang was able to surpass his uncles and become the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty was because of his father, Zhu Biao, the first prince of the Ming Dynasty.
In the fifteenth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son Zhu Biao was born during the army that captured Taiping Mansion. The birth of his eldest son brought great joy to Zhu Yuanzhang who was in the midst of a fierce battle. After receiving the news, he excitedly stood in a local building
There is a stone carved on the mountain that says: "Those who come to this mountain will not have to worry about having no heirs."
Zhu Yuanzhang loved his eldest son very much and had great hopes for him. When he was older, he asked him to become a teacher of famous Confucian scholars such as Song Lian, so that he could receive the best education and prepare to inherit his career in the future. Zhizheng
In the twenty-seventh year, when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself King of Wu, he established him as the Crown Prince. In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang Jianji proclaimed himself emperor, and Zhu Biao was established as the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, thus beginning his twenty-five-year career as crown prince.
Although Zhu Biao was born in Anle, he did not have the habit of being a playboy. He was intelligent, loyal, and quite understanding. He also devoted himself to being taught, and he must be called his master to Song Lian and others. When he grew up, he was gentle, elegant, compassionate, and diligent.
, quite Confucian style. Zhu Yuanzhang was also very satisfied with this son. In the tenth year of Hongwu, when Zhu Biao was twenty-two years old, he issued an edict to order all government affairs in the future and punish the prince, and then reported it. He asked him to come to the ministers to listen.
Cut off the affairs of various departments to practice state affairs.
In order to give Zhu Biao better training, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to inspect the local areas to observe the customs, customs and people's sufferings, so as to prevent him from being deceived by officials in the future. However, in the 24th year of Hongwu, after Zhu Biao was ordered to inspect Shaanxi, he was tired and cold.
, fell ill after returning to Beijing, and passed away the next year...
Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost his son in old age, was extremely grieved and heartbroken. He buried his beloved son with the ceremony of crown prince on the east side of his Xiaoling Mausoleum, so that he could rely on each other a hundred years later and renew the relationship between father and son...
Because of his love for the house and the bird, after Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yuanzhang did not make his other sons the prince, but made Zhu Biao's eldest son Zhu Yunkang the emperor's grandson, who was Emperor Jianwen... After Jianwen ascended to the throne, he respected his late father, Emperor Xiaokang, and
The temple name was Xingzong. The mausoleum of Prince Yiwen was also upgraded to Dongling.
After Zhu Di seized the throne, in order to declare his orthodox throne, he erased all traces of the Jianwen Dynasty. Not only did he abolish Jianwen's imperial title, he also abolished the imperial title and temple title of his long-dead brother Zhu Biao, and Dongling was naturally downgraded.
For the mausoleum of Prince Yiwen, the Minglou and the square city originally built by the Jianwen Dynasty were demolished, and even the bright yellow glazed tiles on the building were all replaced with green ones...
Now more than ten years have passed. The above-ground part of Prince Yiwen's mausoleum, located on the east side of Xiaoling Mausoleum, has been demolished to only the mausoleum gate, courtyard wall, Xiangdian, and a few lonely buildings, and they have obviously been burned by fire.
, the shabby and dilapidated condition is in sharp contrast to the magnificent Xiaoling Mausoleum on the west side where Emperor Taizu is buried.
There are five thousand mausoleum guards in the Ming Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum. They guard the Emperor Taizu and his imperial concubines who are buried here day and night, and of course Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao. While guarding the rest of the deceased, they are also responsible for surveillance activities.
People's Tasks - The second princess of Prince Yiwen, Empress Dowager Lv of the Jianwen Dynasty, lived in Yiwen Mausoleum. Originally, Empress Dowager Lu came with her, in addition to her youngest son Zhu Yunxi, and more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs.
Zhu Di did not make things too difficult for them. At least daily food and clothing were provided on time. Moreover, the buildings of Yiwen Mausoleum were in good condition, and the lives of these ten or twenty people were still very leisurely...
But a strange fire in the third year of Yongle almost burned Yiwen Mausoleum to ashes. Except for the main hall of Xiangdian, which was still generally intact, all the other buildings were burned down. What is even more tragic is that in this fire, Zhu Yunxi
He and nine eunuchs and maids were burned alive...
After the fire, her youngest son died. Empress Dowager Lu lost all hope, lost all interest in life, and her body completely collapsed. Moreover, she seemed to be completely forgotten. The court supplies became less and less, and in the end she could no longer survive the cold. Those who served her
The maids and eunuchs all said privately that the fire was definitely not an accident, but was deliberately set by the current emperor, who wanted to burn Empress Dowager Lu and her son to death. They felt that staying with Empress Dowager Lu would definitely lead to death, so they decided to
They stole Empress Dowager Lu's jewelry and fled. A few years later, there was only a white-haired old eunuch left by her side, and no one else.
Thanks to the careful care of the old eunuch, Queen Mother Lu gradually recovered. However, the physical illness could be recovered, but the psychological trauma could not be healed. She missed her son and grandson day and night, and shed tears in front of her husband's death every day.
Over time, a pair of eyes became blind.
At noon that day, the old lady was lying on a shabby bed in the Xiangdian covered with spider webs, covered with a tattered quilt, and was coughing non-stop. In September, the weather turned cooler, and the autumn breeze blew at night.
The wind blew in through the dilapidated Xiang Palace, making her tremble with the cold. Empress Dowager Lu was already weak, but she fell ill a few days ago. The old eunuch had no choice but to go up the mountain to collect medicine to treat her illness, leaving her alone now.
People were lying in the empty dilapidated palace.
The old lady was already a little confused. One moment she saw her husband coming, the next moment she saw her eldest son Yun Kang coming with his three other sons, and the next moment she saw the poor grandson who had been imprisoned in Zhongdu since he was two years old.
Son Zhu Wengui... Empress Dowager Lu cried sometimes, laughed sometimes, and vaguely called the names of these relatives. Suddenly she heard a cuckoo crying: "Mother"
At first, the old lady thought it was an illusion and didn't react much. She just murmured: "Yun Kang, you are finally here. Take your mother away quickly. I want to reunite with your father and your brother. Don't let me go again."
My mother was left here alone..." As he spoke, he started to cry and said, "My mother's heart is so painful..."
As she was crying, she suddenly felt her hand being held by a pair of warm hands. The old lady murmured: "You are not a ghost, how can a ghost's hands be hot?" She suddenly sat up as she said that.
, followed the hands and touched the face of a man kneeling in front of the bed. The man had already burst into tears. He pressed his hands on the back of the old lady's chicken claw-like hands and cried: "Mother, my child is
Yun Kang, I’m not dead, I’m here to see you.”
"Ah..." Empress Dowager Lu carefully touched his face, and her face was alternately happy and angry: "It's Yun Kang, he's my son... No, you're not. How come my Yun Kang has so many wrinkles on his face?"
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"Mother, fourteen years have passed. My sons and ministers are getting old, and my mother...is also getting old..." At this point, Emperor Jianwen, who was wearing a military jacket and a felt hat, dressed as a guard in the imperial mausoleum, finally couldn't help but
, hugged Queen Mother Lu’s legs and cried loudly.
After being excited, Queen Mother Lu gradually calmed down. While repeatedly touching his face and head, she said in a cold tone: "Who are you and why are you pretending to be my son Yun Kang?"
When Zhu Yun Kang heard this, his body trembled. He immediately understood that his mother was frightened by Zhu Di and thought that the emperor was trying to trick her. His heart, which was already like a knife, was broken into pieces. He choked and said: "Mother, I
I'm not pretending. If you don't believe me, just touch and see..." After saying that, he took Empress Dowager Lu's hand and guided her to touch her armpit. There was a black mole there. Only Empress Dowager Lu knew about it. Even his queen had it.
unknown.
"He is really my son." Empress Dowager Lu touched the mole and was finally convinced. She hugged Zhu Yunkang and burst into tears.
The sound of mother and son hugging each other and crying loudly could be heard clearly outside the palace. Chang Sen, who was also dressed as an officer of the imperial mausoleum guard, couldn't help but couldn't help seeing this scene and hearing the heart-wrenching cry.
Tears fell like rain. However, he remained vigilant and hurriedly spoke out to persuade: "Your Majesty, I express my condolences to you. Be careful not to let the Imperial Guards hear you."
The guards of the Imperial Tombs of the Ming Dynasty are divided into two parts. The Imperial Tomb Guards are responsible for guarding the outside, and the Jinyi Guards are responsible for internal surveillance. However, in order to hide their eyes from others, they also wear the clothes of the Imperial Tomb Guards.
The mother and son stopped crying under Chang Sen's persuasion, and Queen Mother Lu alertly said: "My son, why are you here? Could it be that the emperor caught you?"
Knowing that the emperor her mother was talking about was not her, but Zhu Di, the one who caused her family's destruction, Jianwen was heartbroken and said: "No, the child came here secretly.
"Who spoke just now?" The old lady, who was already frightened, asked anxiously.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is Chang Sen." Chang Sen hurriedly stepped forward to pay homage.
"It turns out it's my uncle." Empress Dowager Lu said with tears, "Our family has dragged down your family."
"The Queen Mother does not need to feel guilty. A minister should only know how to be loyal and filial." Chang Sen said with tears: "My Chang family has been favored by the emperor for a long time, and I have nothing to repay. I can only be ruined..."
"The Chang family are really the loyal ministers of Emperor Taizu..." The old lady sighed, and suddenly her face changed drastically: "You guys, hurry up, the emperor has sent someone to set a trap, and they are just waiting for my son to be caught." Then she pushed Jianwen hard and said:
"Go quickly, go quickly"
"Mother, please don't drive me away," Emperor Jianwen sobbed: "My son has lost the country that his grandfather passed down to me, and thousands of his ministers have died. It is a hundred deaths that cannot be redeemed. It is already a blessing to be able to meet my mother today."
Extraordinary mercy. Even if I die, I will be buried in front of my parents. That is really my dream, and I will die well..."
After hearing him talk about his parents, Queen Mother Lu remembered and pulled him to the throne of Prince Yiwen. "Oh, by the way, kowtow to your father quickly..."
...Although she could not see with her eyes, Empress Dowager Lu knew every brick and tile of the Xiang Palace, and she accurately pulled her son to the altar table.
Zhu Yunkang's face was on fire, and he did not dare to look up at his father's shrine. In fact, he had been immersed in an indescribable sense of guilt ever since he was secretly taken to the Purple Mountain. He really had no face to face what he had done to him.
The grandfather who had great expectations was even more sorry for his own father.
As an emperor, what could be more embarrassing than losing the country, causing the mother, stepmother, brothers and children to all become prisoners, and being more shameless to face the ancestors?
After being pulled to the altar table by his mother, Zhu Yun Kang made a pop sound and couldn't kneel down...