Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 413 The deeper purpose of Zhu Gaoxu’s move
After half an hour.

In the Maoling Hall.

Zhu Zhantang knelt on the futon with a solemn face, looking at the statue of Queen Xiaoduan Quan Shuying hanging on the wall.

Next to him, Zhu Gaoxu was sitting on a chair two steps away from Zhu Zhantang, looking up at Quan Shuying's portrait in the distance, and slowly recounting an old event more than 30 years ago that was not recorded in the emperor's records.

That year was the 14th year of Yongle. Zhu Gaoxu was still the prince and lived in Chunhe Palace with his wife, concubines and children.

It was the middle of the night on the second day of March, and Shuying, the chosen servant of the East Palace, and Crown Princess Li Yao were giving birth at the same time.

It has always been said that women giving birth are like entering the gates of hell, and the same goes for Li Yao and Quan Shuying.

Although Li Yao succeeded in breaking through, the baby girl she gave birth to was already suffocated when she was born because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck.

In other words, before Crown Princess Li Yao gave birth this time, her baby was fine, but the baby she gave birth to was stillborn.

In the world before Zhu Gaoxu's time travel, there was mature cesarean section technology, but this technology did not yet exist in this era.

Quan Shuying was lucky enough to break through and successfully gave birth to a baby boy, Zhu Zhantang, but she died of massive postpartum hemorrhage.

Just when Quan Shuying knew she couldn't resist, she asked Zhu Gaoxu to arrange a mother for Zhu Zhantang. She didn't want Zhu Zhantang to lack maternal love in his life.

At that time, Li Yao's baby girl had just died, and Zhu Gaoxu decisively promised Quan Shuying that he would hand over Zhu Zhantang to Li Yao to raise.

After Li Yao learned about this, she insisted on seeing Quan Shuying, and promised her before Quan Shuying died that she would treat Zhu Zhantang as her own and raise her up.

In this way, Zhu Gaoxu gave Zhu Zhantang to the Crown Princess Li Yao to raise, and declared that Zhu Zhantang was the legitimate son born to Li Yao, and was listed as the direct lineage on the jade certificate, and he was ranked after his second son Zhu Zhancheng. Next, he is the third legitimate son.

He did this for two main purposes. One was to fulfill his promise to Quan Shuying, so that Zhu Zhantang could grow up in a non-discriminatory environment and fully enjoy maternal love.

The second is to use this to dilute Li Yao's sadness after giving birth to a baby girl who died in infancy, so that she can cheer up as soon as possible, otherwise her health will get worse and worse.

In order to prevent the news that Li Yao had given birth to a stillborn child from leaking out, Zhu Gaoxu claimed at that time that Li Yao had given birth to a legitimate son for him. However, Shuying, the chosen servant, suffered a massive hemorrhage during the birth, and both the fetus in her belly died unfortunately.

Wen Po and two palace maids who were serving Quan Shuying at that time were executed by Zhu Gaoxu on charges of poor care, and the only four remaining insiders besides him and Li Yao, Wen Po and three palace ladies, were silenced. Ban, without his order, no one can reveal this news in the future.

Later, Zhu Gaoxu truthfully informed the Zhu Di and his wife about the incident. The Zhu Di and his wife not only expressed support, but Empress Xu also found an excuse to kill the Wen Po and the three maids who were still working in the palace.

At that time, Empress Xu first gave the dead mother-in-law and the palace maid, and then informed the Crown Princess Li Yao. She took this opportunity to teach Li Yao her experience in managing the harem - if you want the harem to be stable and there will be no chaos, you must be ruthless. , A woman's kindness is beyond the pale.

Li Yao entered the palace at the age of 14 and was trained by Empress Xu. After marrying Zhu Gaoxu and becoming the crown princess, she received empress Xu's words and deeds, and finally obtained the true biography of empress Xu.

After Zhu Gaoxu succeeded to the throne, she took charge of the harem. She was not lenient at all to those concubines in the harem who tried to gain power by playing tricks or secretly using means. A scolding was considered a light punishment, and a rod was the norm, and some were even given Died.

Of course, Li Yao did this not to consolidate her status as queen, but to maintain stable order in the harem.

Everyone who was reprimanded by her was talking nonsense, and those who were scolded by her were those who were not strict in their governance or whose behavior violated the rules. As for those who were sentenced to death by her, no one was innocent, so they must have committed a capital crime. , such as using poison or curses to harm others.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Di originally hated the fight between his concubines, and Empress Xu was his first wife. Anyone who dared to cause trouble in Zhu Di's harem would definitely end badly.

Zhu Gaoxu is a time traveler, and he hates the fights between his concubines in the harem. He will kill anyone who dares to harm his children, and he will kill anyone who dares to harm his women.

Therefore, if one of Zhu Gaoxu's concubines wanted to use poison to harm other concubines, then Zhu Gaoxu would not mind letting this vicious woman taste the poison herself.

Therefore, after Zhu Gaoxu succeeded to the throne, he stipulated the code of conduct for the concubines in the harem. His concubines must learn handicrafts such as weaving brocade and embroidery, or learn gynecological medicine, and compile books on women and children.

He wants his harem and concubines to be busy with meaningful things all day long, instead of thinking about competing for favor and coaxing him into bed all day long.

When Zhu Gaoxu visited his harem concubines, he strictly followed the rules and would not be obsessed with one person all the time.

Closer to home.

After Zhu Gaoxu succeeded to the throne, he named Quan Shuying the imperial concubine Shu and gave her the posthumous title "Xiaoduan".

"Xiao" is a beautiful posthumous title, and "Duan" is also a beautiful posthumous title.Being kind and caring to relatives is called filial piety, doing good things to parents is called filial piety, and obeying orders without disobeying is called filial piety.

Observing etiquette and upholding righteousness is called Duan, being respectful to oneself and showing dignity is called Duan, being honest and quiet is called Duan.

His move was a recognition and praise of Quan Shuying's life achievements.

Counting Zhu Zhantang, Quan Shuying gave birth to two sons and one daughter to Zhu Gaoxu during her lifetime.

She is filial to her superiors and loving to her subordinates. The brocades woven by her hands every year rank among the top three in Zhu Gaoxu's harem.

In other words, Quan Shuying has contributed to Lao Zhu’s family!
Therefore, when Zhu Gaoxu made Quan Shuying the queen in March of the 21st year of Qianxi, the external reason was that Quan had served the royal family, and she had sacrificed herself to spread the branches for Zhu Gaoxu - if Quan Shuying hadn't been for She would not die even if she gave birth to a child for Zhu Gaoxu.

Although there were some objections among the officials at that time, Queen Li Yao had already collapsed at that time, so the objections were meaningless.

What's more, the underlying purpose of Zhu Gaoxu's move was to eliminate potential threats to Zhu Zhantang's future succession.

In this way, Quan Shuying was originally selected as an attendant in the East Palace, and was posthumously named Concubine Xiaoduan Shu, and was promoted to Empress Xiaoduan under Zhu Gaoxu's operation.

But in this way, Quan Shuying's two previous sons became theoretical legitimate sons.

In this case, Zhu Gaoxu's fifth son, Li Wang Zhu Zhanwei, became the theoretical second son, higher in the throne succession than Zhu Gaoxu's sixth son, Yue Wang Zhu Zhancheng.

Zhu Gaoxu, a person like him, would naturally not leave this gap open for those with bad intentions to exploit, so in his imperial edict to designate Quan Shuying as queen, he specifically emphasized that the title was intended to be a compliment and belonged to the Quan family. After receiving the honor, the rights and interests of Quan's children, relatives, etc. will remain unchanged and will not be changed.

This is just like individual meritorious officials being posthumously granted the title of county prince. It does not mean that the son of the meritorious official becomes a prince and can inherit the title of county prince.

It is tantamount to say that Zhu Gaoxu's posthumous title of queen was only for the Quan family and had nothing to do with others.

Li Wang Zhu Zhanwei is still a concubine, and he will not become a legitimate son just because his biological mother was posthumously named queen.

King Zhu Zhantang of the United States was listed as the third legitimate son on the royal jade certificate, which was certified by Zhu Di and Queen Xu back then. Although he was the son of Quan Shuying, no one could change his legitimate identity.

Zhu Gaoxu considered that the Wen Po and the palace maids who knew about Zhu Zhantang's life experience might reveal the truth about Zhu Zhantang's life experience to others, so his underlying purpose of naming Quan as empress was to prevent anyone from making trouble with Zhu Zhantang's life experience in the future.

As long as he lives for one day, he can make some people with ulterior motives dare not make trouble with Zhu Zhantang's background.

But in the future, if he is gone, if someone jumps out and says that Zhu Zhantang was not born to Li Yao but to the Quan family, this will be detrimental to Zhu Zhantang.

But before that, if the Quan family is posthumously crowned queen by Zhu Gaoxu, then even if Zhu Gaoxu is gone in the future, some people will jump out and accuse the new emperor Zhu Zhantang of not being the direct descendant of Li Yao, but of the Quan family. Advocates can counter the rumors by saying that Kwon is also the queen.

So what if she was born to the Quan family? The Quan family has been named queen by the late emperor (Zhu Gaoxu), and Zhu Zhantang is the prince appointed by the late emperor. Succession to the throne is natural and natural. Anyone who opposes it has bad intentions. Rebel.

Even though King Li, a compatriot of Zhu Zhantang's mother, was still alive at that time, the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" only stipulated the rules for the succession of the throne, but did not stipulate the rules for selecting the prince. The former Emperor Qianxi made Zhu Zhantang the prince, which did not Violate ancestral precepts.

In other words, Zhu Gaoxu's posthumous title of queen two years ago was equivalent to adding insurance to Zhu Zhantang's succession to the throne.

This is also impossible.

After all, there are too many examples in history of "people die and political power ceases", such as the powerful Zhu Yuanzhang. After his death, Zhu Yunwen came to power and changed Zhu Yuanzhang's policies into a mess.

Another example is that after Zhu Di died, Zhu Gaochi came to power and completely changed Zhu Di's policies.

If Zhu Zhantang wants to secure the throne by then, he must follow Zhu Gaoxu's example and do everything according to the rules set by Zhu Gaoxu. Because he is suspected of "inappropriate access to the throne", he can only explain the reasonable legitimacy of his throne by maintaining Zhu Gaoxu's rules.

This is similar to the historical situation in which after Zhu Dijing succeeded to the throne, he abolished Zhu Yunwen's policies and fully restored the old system of the Zhu Yuanzhang era.

Although the situations faced by Zhu Zhantang and Zhu Di in history are completely different, this does not mean that people's hearts are also different.

There has never been a shortage of opportunistic people in the world, not to mention the temptation of following the dragon's merits.

(End of this chapter)