Daming Yuanfu

The queen is the master of the harem, and it is only natural to appear anywhere in the harem.However, the reality often does not match the theory or the name. Not only can the queen not do whatever she wants in the harem, but even the reverse is restricted everywhere.

Her daily life is incomparably regular, when she appears, where, and does what she does is almost exactly the same, and there are very few exceptions—of course, other concubines in the harem are no exception, even including two concubines. The same is true of the Queen Mother.

Why is this so?Of course it is because of the ancestral system.

For the emperor's wives and concubines—of course including the late emperor's wives and concubines, they nominally enjoy the most prominent status among all the women in the world, but as the saying goes, what they gain must be lost, and they also have to pay for it.

Of course, the most important thing in this kind of dedication is not to have children for the emperor-women who traffickers also have children. Everyone has children. What is special about you?In fact, the most important thing for the emperor's women is to show the rules to the whole world, and by extension, the seriousness of strictly maintaining the rules.

Yes, all the shackles faced by the emperor and his entire family boil down to the fact that they need to show the world the rules all the time, and at the same time show how they obey the rules.

No matter what social structure it is, the reason why it can be stable is that everyone in this organizational structure has its own set of rules to follow, and the vast majority of people do act according to this set of rules.

In the era of feudal imperial power, the reason why the emperor at the top of the pyramid and the people around him were also imprisoned by the rules was that they were watched by countless people, and their every move would be regarded as some kind of yardstick.

Therefore, the higher the status, the more people need to abide by the rules, otherwise, once they are exposed, it will have extremely bad effects: If you don’t follow the rules at such a high status, why should I obey?

Therefore, following the rules is essentially maintaining the imperial power.Not only the emperor himself is like this, but also the concubines in the harem.

Empress Dowagers have always been very strict in rules. For example, she must go to Ciqing Palace and Cining Palace to pay her respects to the two empress dowagers every day, even when she is pregnant for several months.However, today was a bit unusual—it came at the wrong time.In the past, the empress greeted the empress dowagers of the two palaces in the morning and evening, but she had come this morning as usual, but now it was close to noon, why did she come again at this time?So obviously, the empress must have other things to do here.

Empress Dowager Li is still very satisfied with her daughter-in-law. When she heard the empress arrived, she immediately ordered: "Since the empress is here, invite her in quickly. It's still cold now, so don't freeze." Hearing this, he hurriedly arranged to greet him.Not long after, Wang and Empress entered from outside the hall.

At this moment, Empress Dowager Li still sat still, while Princess Yongning stood up to greet her with a friendly smile on her face.Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has been friends with the queen for many years, this smile is not a courtesy.

After the queen entered the room, she also saw Princess Yongning at a glance, and she also smiled, and even nodded slightly to her as she was walking, before going forward to greet Queen Mother Li.

Empress Dowager Li said: "Queen, you are not long after giving birth, you should rest and recuperate more. Why did you come here in the morning and come again now, but what do you have to say?"

The empress looked serious, and suddenly knelt down respectfully, and said: "I heard something unexpectedly today, after thinking about it, I finally thought it was important, and I had to follow the empress dowager's judgment."

Empress Dowager Li opened her eyes wide, sat up straight, and said in great surprise, "Ah, what happened?"

The reason why the queen mother asked this was because the queen's performance was too formal.Although the empress is a junior in front of the empress dowager, because she is the head of the middle palace, generally speaking, there is no need to be too cautious.In terms of self-proclaimed, you can call yourself "daughter-in-law" in casual chatting, and "my palace" if you are a little more formal, but generally speaking, you don't call yourself "son-in-law".

Erchen, this self-proclaiming is directly against the emperor, that is, according to the standard of "the empress is the enemy of the emperor", it is usually used only on extremely important occasions or events.

The queen said seriously: "My ministers have heard that the emperor has allowed the scholar Shen Yiguan to go south to Mount Tai and Nanjing today to prepare for the consecration of Zen and sacrifices to the Taizu. I wonder if the queen mother has heard of it?"

Empress Dowager Li was really surprised, but after thinking about it, she said: "The Ai family has never heard of it. However, this matter is a government policy. If there is anything wrong, the courtiers should have some advice. You are here... "

Don't you know that this is meddling in politics?

The Empress always abides by the rules, so of course she would not interfere in politics recklessly, so she immediately replied: "My son has been serving the emperor for twenty-four years, don't you know that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics? My son's visit here is not because of any objection to this decision, but because of a A related matter has to be asked."

It turns out that it's not against the court's resolution, that's good, that's all right.Empress Dowager Li immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Then tell me."

"Since the emperor inherited the great unification, he has been diligent and diligent, and his virtues have shown great achievements. Most of the court is very supportive of Feng Chan. His sons, ministers and women dare not disagree. However, it will only take one or two years to complete the matter of Feng Chan. , so there is a trouble - if the emperor leaves Beijing and goes south, who can stay there?"

Empress Dowager Li suddenly realized that this was the case.

Jushou, which means to stay and guard, especially refers to the prince, prince or important minister who is responsible for guarding the capital or traveling when the emperor is on an expedition or patrolling, basically equivalent to supervising the country.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, when the emperor travels far away, the prince is basically the one who supervises the country.In very rare periods, because there is no prince, the prince may oversee the country.As for the important ministers supervising the country, this has not yet happened, but it is theoretically possible.

When the queen asked this question, Queen Mother Li immediately understood what she meant: there is no prince yet, if the emperor goes south to Fengchan Taishan and pays homage to Xiaoling, who will he look for to supervise the country?
You must know that now not only is there no crown prince, but there is also no ready-made prince in Beijing—the only younger brother of the emperor is Lu Wang Zhu Yiliu, and according to general principles, only Lu Wang can be the prince to supervise the country.However, you can't call Lu Wang to the capital for this reason, can you?

Besides, Daming has great power to oversee the country, and King Lu's reputation in the feudal kingdom is not very good. If he is really asked to supervise the country, if something goes wrong, who will be responsible?
The supervision system of the Ming Dynasty was first proposed by Zhu Yuanzhang, but because the prince Zhu Biao passed away early, it never actually appeared, so Zhu Yuanzhang did not spend too much effort on it, and the system was not complete.After Zhu Dijing was in trouble, the system of supervising the country really emerged and gradually improved.

At that time, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops to pacify Nan on the grounds that he was on the side of the Qing emperor, and Zhu Gaochi, the son of the king of Yan, lived in Beiping under Zhu Di's order.

In this war, Zhu Gaochi used more than 1 horsepower to prevent the repeated violent attacks of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunqi from mobilizing surrounding troops, making Zhu Di's worries disappear invisible.

When Zhu Di invaded Nanjing and successfully ascended the throne, Zhu Gaochi was still ordered to stay in Beiping, which not only exercised Zhu Gaochi's political and military talents, but also made Zhu Di's base camp Beiping as solid and stable as Mount Tai, providing a steady stream of backup force support.

At the beginning of Zhu Di's ascension to the throne, he did not immediately canonize the crown prince, and only in the spring of the second year of his ascension did Zhu Gaochi, the prince of Yan, be canonized as the crown prince.Zhu Gaochi played an indispensable role in helping Zhu Di seize power in the battle of Jingnan, but there were quite a lot of twists and turns in the process of being canonized as the prince.

Zhu Gaochi's biggest competitor for the crown prince is Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han. Zhu Gaoxu is a strong figure, proficient in riding and shooting. He has fought in the army all year round.

Zhu Di hesitated between Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi, and in the end, in order to stabilize the state power as soon as possible and gather the hearts of the people, he still registered Zhu Gaochi, who was proclaimed the son of Yan by the Taizu when he was King Yan, as the prince.

The center of Zhu Di's scope of power was Beiping Mansion, so after Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he had the idea of ​​moving the capital to Beiping Mansion.In the agricultural era, relocation was a very huge project, which was very time-consuming and labor-intensive.In order to move the capital smoothly, and to exercise the prince Zhu Gaochi's ability to manage the country, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di decided to let Zhu Gaochi supervise the country on his behalf.

It is recorded in the history books: "I am now patrolling Beijing and ordering you to supervise the country. The affairs of the world are very important."

In the seventh year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ordered the prince to supervise the country for the first time. He had great expectations for the prince to supervise the country, and he also gave the supervisor a considerable amount of power, and ordered the ministers to assist him, check for deficiencies and fill in gaps, so as to rule the world. Things.

For the various etiquettes and scope of powers of the prince’s supervision of the country, further supplements and regulations were made in the 12th year of Yongle and the 13th year of Yongle respectively, and the difference between the power of the prince’s supervision of the country and the imperial power was clarified. .

During the reign of Cheng Zu Zhu Di, there were six times that the prince supervised the country, three times before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, five of which were due to Zhu Di's personal conquest, and one was a northern tour.The longest one lasted three years and seven months, and the shortest one was only four months.

When Zhu Gaochi acted as supervisor of the country, he held great power and had the right to appoint and remove state officials. Except for the six central ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the local chief envoy, and the royal palace, the prince could promote or dismiss them according to the law.These are only personnel powers, and the rest, such as judicial powers, needless to say, are basically "as if I were here in person".

Because of this, when the prince supervised the country, some cronies would often be left by the emperor to assist the government. It is true that the assistant government, but they obviously also have the responsibility to supervise the prince.After all, it is not particularly safe to hand over such a huge power to one's own son, let alone a brother from a former kingdom?
Queen Mother Li is old, but she is not confused.Although she understood the meaning of the queen's words, she had already had a heart-to-heart talk with the emperor not long ago, and if she talked about government affairs with the emperor so soon...she didn't want her to have any obvious interference in politics. leave a stigma in it.

"Well, this matter is indeed not small, but the ancestors have their own way, so there must be someone who understands in the outer court, right?" Queen Mother Li replied somewhat vaguely.

After hearing this, the queen was somewhat embarrassed.Some words are not impossible to say, but it is best not to say it by herself.Thinking of this, she seemed to be pondering, but quietly glanced at Princess Yongning, with some hint of pleading for help in her eyes.

So far, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess has fully guessed why the Empress Empress came so coincidentally.Obviously, I have long been a friendly army in the empress's mind-whether it is only representing myself or Elder Gao Ge, in short, they are all friendly troops, and they are the support that the empress can rely on.

No wonder Gao Lang hastily let me enter the palace...Gao Lang's talent, who in the world can stand shoulder to shoulder with him?

Thinking of this, Princess Yongning, who has always been a little in love, even felt hot all over her body, and immediately made up her mind that she must finish Gao Lang's explanation beautifully, and must not delay his important event.

"Oh my queen! It so happens that even your daughter can hear what you said. The problem now is that once the emperor goes south, there will be no suitable person in Beijing to supervise the country!"

Although Princess Yongning is already in her early thirties, how can her children grow up in the eyes of her mother?Let alone thirty, an 80-year-old daughter acting like a child to a century-old mother does not violate harmony at all.

Now, the secret word was pointed out by the eldest princess, and Empress Dowager Li couldn't pretend to be stupid, so she had to "suddenly realize" and said: "Oh, it turned out to be a problem with the supervisor! This is very important, but fortunately the same This is not the first time this has happened... Aijia will watch, just follow the story of Shimiao."

The queen breathed a sigh of relief, but still looked at Princess Yongning again.The eldest princess smiled slightly, and said: "What the queen mother said is that in my daughter's opinion, this incident is really a coincidence, even the age difference seems to be the same."

This remark needs to explain the so-called "World Temple Story"-referring to Emperor Jiajing's southern tour, which was also the last time in the original history that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty went out to visit Beijing.

The visits of different emperors have different evaluations in history books. For example, the visits of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty and Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty are often derogatory in their descriptions; while the visits of Kangxi are rarely described in such derogatory connotations.In the Qing Dynasty, only Qianlong made six trips to the south of the Yangtze River. In comparison, the number of visits by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly relatively small.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle and Emperor Xuande visited the north, which was regarded as the need to protect the north by later generations, and was highly praised; but Yingzong wanted to follow the example of his ancestors and marched on his own, but ended up with a tragic fate, becoming a captive of the Mongols, disgraced, Most of the blame for future generations.

It is indeed inappropriate to rush to conquer personally. However, in connection with the current situation, it can be found that Mongolia at that time was united by Oirats and Tatars. The most powerful Mongolia since the end of Yuan Dynasty.

When Emperor Yongle personally conquered Mobei and attacked Oirat in the west, he also fought against Oirat and Tatar, and did not want to be enemies with them at the same time; Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty personally conquered Galdan, but he was fighting against Oara; When Qianlong pacified Moxi Mongolia, he only defeated the Oirat of the original Ming Dynasty, and the civil strife in Moxi Mongolia was serious at that time.

It can be seen from this that although Ming Yingzong's subjective mistakes were on the one hand, the objective situation at that time was on the other hand.The Ming army of the Yingzong Dynasty was barely defensive, and had no strength to attack.

But in any case, since the Ming Dynasty almost perished due to the Yingzong's personal conquest, the courtiers of later generations were very wary of the Ming Emperor staying away from the capital, for fear that he would not be effective in persuasion, which would delay the country.Therefore, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were very resistant to the emperor going out for hunting tours in Beijing. Even if the weather in the Forbidden City was hot and the emperor went to Xiyuan and other places to cool off, the ministers felt that they could not stay there for long.

The reason is that the emperor went hunting or went to the suburbs to recuperate, after all, he left the power center of the Forbidden City, and Chang Chao and others were inevitably affected, and it was even more difficult for the courtiers to spy on the emperor's words and deeds, so the ministers were worried!

When he arrived in Zhengde, Wu Zong was famous for his good hunting tours, and there were many southern tours, northern tours, and west tours. However, historians often criticized him, thinking that he likes to play, and the tours are purely a waste of money. This kind of evaluation is obviously biased. .

The word "Xunshou" was originally created for the emperor. There is nothing wrong with the inspection itself. The key depends on what the emperor did when he went on the inspection.It cannot be said that Wu Zong's northern tour was not helpful to the defense of the north. At least the emperor's visit to the front line must have brought disturbance, but it must have also given great encouragement to the soldiers in the north.

During the reign of Emperor Zhengde, the opponent of the Ming Dynasty was Dayan Khan, the lord of the Mongolian ZTE. Dayan Khan unified Eastern Mongolia and formed a comprehensive oppression of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. Historical materials often call Dayan Khan the "Little Prince".Emperor Zhengde visited the nine borders of the north, so why not worry about the situation in the north?Playing may be one side, but thinking about the country must also be one side.

If the emperor was just escaping the summer heat in Xiyuan and Xishan in the suburbs of Beijing, or going to visit the Mausoleum in Changping, then it cannot be regarded as a hunting tour.The last time the emperors of the Ming Dynasty left Beijing for a hunting tour was the Jiajing emperor's southern tour in the 18th year of Jiajing.Since then, Longqing, Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi have not left Beijing for tours, and at most they went to Xiachangping.

Emperor Longqing didn't have time to move, because in the early days of his administration, I Da Khan went to Shanxi and other places to plunder every now and then. In the later period, although he completed the tribute of Al Da, his body collapsed, and he didn't have much strength to move even if he wanted to. up.

Emperor Wanli didn't like to move. After the Alda tribute in the original history, the relationship between Ming and Mongolia was relatively harmonious, but Emperor Wanli went to Changping to pay homage to the ancestral mausoleum at the farthest point.Later, because of the dispute between the country and the country, there was a cold war with hundreds of officials, so naturally, he had no intention of leaving Beijing.

Emperor Taichang didn't move either, because his reign was too short, so I won't talk about it.At the time of Emperor Tianqi, Hou Jin had already risen, and there were no external conditions for traveling.During the reign of Chongzhen, the Hou Jin and Mongolian allied forces visited the capital of Ming Dynasty every few years, and as far as Jinan, Shandong Province, captured King De, and Emperor Chongzhen dared not move.

In fact, in the last years of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen once had the idea of ​​hunting in the south. However, the situation developed too fast. The Dashun army broke through Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu, and Juyongguan with lightning speed. He was also worried that his southern tour would be called a mess. After hesitating, the final southern tour is hopeless, and the end of the Ming Dynasty is not far away!
Everyone is familiar with the story of Emperor Jiajing's transformation from a vassal king to an emperor, so I won't go into details.In short, Jiajing could not visit Xianling in person every time the people worshiped their ancestors during the Ching Ming Festival, because it was too far away.Now that he is already the emperor, Emperor Jiajing thought to himself: Wouldn’t it be enough to move the mausoleum of his biological father to Beijing?
He asked the ministers to discuss the matter of moving the mausoleum. Xia Yan, who was the Minister of Rites at the time, said: "Emperor Xingxian's body has been buried for a long time. If we rush to open the tomb, I am afraid that the aura of the mausoleum will be vented. I am afraid that Emperor Xingxian is not willing." That's it!" Emperor Jiajing was afraid that his kindness would be branded as unfilial, so he temporarily gave up Qianling.

At the end of the 17th year of Jiajing, the Empress Dowager Jiang, the birth mother of Emperor Jiajing, passed away.The queen mother said before her death: "My son, please be sure to bury me with your father." Emperor Jiajing kept his will in mind, so he wanted to move Xianling to Dayu Mountain in Beijing.But Chengtian Mansion came to report that Xianlingxuan Palace was flooded and it might be difficult to move.

Jiajing was very shocked when he heard that, Chengtian was his birthplace, and Xianling was the tomb of his biological father, so we can't let the old father feel at ease in the underworld!So regardless of the objections of the ministers, in the 18th year of Jiajing, he led Xia Yan, Yan Song and other civil and military officials to make a southern tour of Guangcheng Tianfu in Lake Guangcheng to check the condition of the obvious mausoleum.

This tour to the south was not only the last time Emperor Ming visited the hunting place, but also a story about a young prince serving as the supervisor of the country. Princess Yongning said just now that "even the ages seem to be different", and that is what she said: the prince of that year was only four years old.
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