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Chapter 106: Renyin Palace Change
"The most outrageous thing is that in the era of imperial power, all good things were done by those above, and all bad things were done by those below. Even though Emperor Huizong and his son were like that, the Southern Song Dynasty still had to raise the banner of welcoming the two saints. People like Baozong still have a lot of followers..."

"Let's put it this way. The one who took over the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing was Emperor Wu of Han, and the one who took over the reign of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Xuanzong was Emperor Zhuqizhen. This is the dividing line between the Ming and Han dynasties."

Zhu Yuanzhang already knew the general outcome from the brief information that followed.

He was angry about the eunuchs' meddling in government affairs, saddened by the incompetence of his unworthy descendants that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and even more indignant at Yu Qian who turned the tide.

I also feel chilled by the fratricide. Zhu Qizhen, oh Zhu Qizhen, if your brothers really wanted to kill you, you would have died a thousand times in the eight years you spent in Nangong.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes turned red. The Ming Dynasty had once again returned to the hands of the foolish Zhu Qizhen. He no longer had any hope about where the Ming Dynasty would go next.

The emperor called the gate, the patriarch of the fort.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know that those who had been mentioned before, such as those who opened zoos, practiced Taoism, were in a mess, did carpentry work, and hanged themselves, were not human beings. What would the Ming Dynasty become like if it was ruined by these beasts?

The son doesn't feel sorry for selling his father's land!
Zhu Yuanzhang held his chest and slowly sat down, while Zhu Biao quickly called for the imperial physician.
Late Han Dynasty, Nanjun.

Liu Bei looked at the absurd behaviors in the sky and could only sigh.

More than 200,000 elite soldiers! He had never fought such a comprehensive battle in his life.

In the Battle of Tumu, if the farmers who transported military supplies and fodder were included, the casualties of the Ming army would be unimaginable.

"I am so angry. This bastard actually had the nerve to go back and claim that the coup was successful!" Zhang Fei slammed the table and stood up, pacing back and forth, "This thief is blind!"

"Those who deserve to die don't die, but those who don't deserve to die die!" All the generals were filled with righteous indignation, even though Tianmu only briefly mentioned the Battle of Beijing and Yu Qian's ending.

But everyone knew very well what a dangerous situation it was. With the main elite troops wiped out and the capital surrounded, the morale of the people and the army would be low to an unimaginable level. Yu Qian was known to have turned the tide and he must have played a great role in this defensive battle.

Such a loyal minister and general ended up being executed by Zhu Qizhen!

Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and others hated this stabbing in the back with gnashing teeth. What a damn tyrant!

Liu Bei knew that although his third brother was a little irritable, he also hated evil, so he didn't stop him from cursing and let him vent.

Although Zhuge Liang knew that many emperors of the Ming Dynasty were extremely absurd and were described as "weird", he did not expect it to be so outrageous. If there had not been so many people discussing it in the sky, he almost thought someone was talking nonsense.

In history, it can be said that only Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty gained the throne in the most righteous, arduous and legendary way. However, no one would have thought that after only three generations, the Ming Dynasty became so miserable and lost all the glory of its ancestors.

It is even said that Ming Yingzong's father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. all had good reputations in history, so why did his generation become a historical shame?

This is just one of them. We don’t know how ridiculous the others who were named are.

【The Renyin Palace Coup#History#Emperor Jiajing】

[In the 1542st year of the Jiajing reign, that is, late at night on November 11, 25, Emperor Shizong Zhu Houcong was sleeping soundly in Concubine Cao Duan's palace. Suddenly, he felt a ghost pressing on his sleep and could no longer move. He opened his eyes and looked carefully, and saw that more than a dozen palace maids were working together to hold him down.]

[One of the palace maids, Yang Jinying, strangled Emperor Jiajing's neck with a rope. Jiajing was frightened to death. Just as he was about to call for help, a smelly rag was stuffed into his mouth and his face was covered with a cloth. He suddenly felt dizzy and dark.]

[The maids worked in an orderly manner and were about to complete the task. However, since they had not rehearsed before and it was their first time to murder the emperor, they were inevitably a little nervous. Moreover, they had no experience in on-the-spot reaction, so as expected, an accident occurred.]

[In a panic, they tied another knot, and the two knots were tied together. They couldn't strangle Zhu Houcong to death. The other palace maids panicked and pulled out their hairpins and stabbed Zhu Houcong randomly.]

[Seeing that this old demon could not be strangled or stabbed to death, a palace maid named Zhang Jinlian became scared. After some self-threatening thoughts, she decided to turn against him and went straight to Queen Fang's palace to complain.]

[Upon hearing this, Empress Fang quickly brought people to rescue the emperor. She had the rope around Zhu Houcong's neck untied while she quickly called in the imperial physician to save the emperor.]

[When these maids saw the Queen coming, they quickly left our Taoist priest and fled everywhere. However, this was the inner courtyard of the Imperial Palace, where could they escape? After the failure of the Renyin Palace Coup, 16 maids headed by Yang Jinying, including the informer Zhang Jinlian, as well as Concubine Ning Wang and Concubine Duan Cao were all executed by lingchi by Queen Fang]

[Although our Taoist priest was not strangled to death, he was also scared half to death. He believed that he was able to escape the disaster because of his sincere practice of Taoism. This was God’s mercy.]

[However, the Taoist priest was left with a huge psychological trauma, so he moved from the Qianqing Palace to the Yongshou Palace in the Western Garden, where he concentrated on practicing Taoism and ignored state affairs. Later, he never returned to the palace to stay overnight for the rest of his life.]

Ming, Jinling City.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just been relieved by Zhu Biao, stood up again and his face became gloomy again.

Not only did the palace maid assassinate the emperor, but the words "Taoist priest" and "old Taoist priest" were also mentioned. It was obvious that they were referring to the "immortal cultivator".

Zhu Yuanzhang had thought of many cases, like the First Emperor and Emperor Wu of Han, but he had never thought that such a shocking scene would appear. Such a disgraceful thing happened in the palace. How should the people of the Ming Dynasty view the royal family?

Throughout history, this is the only coup d'état in which a palace maid murdered the emperor. It would be even more embarrassing if it triggered a wave of regicide.

Damn slave!
Moreover, judging from the tone of later generations, they were clearly regretting the failure of the coup. Zhu Yuanzhang had no idea what Jiajing had done to attract the hatred of gods and ghosts. Even later generations clearly stood on the side of the palace maids!
Inside Jinling City, everyone was in an uproar.

Previously, Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen’s stupidity and uselessness led to the loss of all the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, which had caused many people to curse in their hearts.

Listening to Tianmu's tone at this time, it was obvious that this was another disaster. Countless people felt disgusted and the crowd was in an uproar for a while.

Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City.

In the courtyard full of spring, Miss Qingsha picked up a piece of dessert and was leisurely. She was temporarily satisfied with the skylight.

It’s an imperial palace, from later times, so there’s no need to worry about breaking the rules.

Moreover, it is different from hearsay. This is a story recorded in history books, about the murder of the emperor and the severe execution of his concubines. How fresh!

Judging from the situation, the young people in later generations basically stand on the side of the palace maids. Qingsha predicted with his unique gossip skills that there must be a hidden story.

[The Renyin Palace Coup was the turning point of the Jiajing Dynasty from prosperity to decline. There are many different opinions about the cause of this palace coup in later generations. There are three more mainstream speculations]

[The first one is Wang Ningpin, because Wang Ningpin was shown as the mastermind in her confession, and she was also the one with the highest status among those executed except for Concubine Duan]

[Concubine Duan must be innocent. After serving the emperor that day, she saw that the emperor was sleeping soundly, so she went out alone without daring to disturb him. That was why the palace maids had the time to commit the crime. Moreover, she had always been Jiajing's favorite concubine during her lifetime, so there was no need for her to get involved in such a treasonous thing.] [Perhaps it was because she was favored that Concubine Wang Ning wanted to take someone with her before she died, and falsely accused Concubine Cao Duan of being an accomplice. Empress Fang may have been dissatisfied with the favored Concubine Cao Duan for a long time.]

[So he cut the Gordian knot quickly and took advantage of the fact that Jiajing was too frightened to govern the country to have Concubine Cao Duan, Concubine Wang Ning and all the palace maids executed by slow slicing. After Jiajing recovered, he came to his senses and realized that his beloved concubine had really died unjustly.]

[Five years later, the Kunning Palace where Empress Fang lived suddenly caught fire. The eunuchs urgently reported to Emperor Jiajing, but he watched the raging fire without sending anyone to put it out. In the end, Empress Fang died soon after being extremely frightened.]

[At this time, Emperor Jiajing sighed to the sky: The queen saved me, but I couldn't save her. This acting skill can only be said to be 100 points. This is not the first time he has done something to his queen. The first two queens were frightened to miscarriage and death by him, and the other was abandoned by him and abandoned in the cold palace.]

[But it seems a bit far-fetched to say that Wang Ningpin wanted to assassinate Jiajing just because she was out of favor, because Jiajing Emperor was the emperor who canonized the most concubines in the Ming Dynasty, and there were too many concubines who were out of favor. And if she wanted to incite so many palace maids to act together, the reason of being out of favor might not be tenable.]

[After all, the palace maids are not stupid. How could they easily incite more than a dozen people to follow suit and execute the entire clan?]

Ming, Jinling City.

Zhu Yuanzhang also agreed with this analysis. If the concubines in the harem were so capable and their plans were so meticulous, how could they fail in the end?

At this moment, his mind was spinning wildly. Eunuch? In-laws? Seizing power? Or the cabinet?

Zhu Yuanzhang was not familiar with the Jiajing Dynasty, so he had no idea where to start. Moreover, judging from the qualities of these palace maids, it did not seem like something that had been planned for a long time.

Otherwise, it is impossible for this palace maid named "Zhang Jinlian" to turn against her husband just by being frightened. It seems that she was a fence-sitter who acted impulsively and suddenly became cowardly after being poured with a basin of cold water.

Moreover, there are many suspicious points. Even if Concubine Duan went out, why didn't the palace maids in Concubine Duan's palace notice so many palace maids breaking in?
On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think that Concubine Duan was innocent. She and even the palace maids in her palace were suspects.

"A conspiracy, it must be a conspiracy!" Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and growled in his heart. He didn't want to believe it. He felt that it must be a conspiracy. How could I, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, make such a big mistake?
At most, he was just obsessed with practicing Taoism. How could he cause such a big disaster and cause such a big backlash!

It should be noted that those who are obsessed with practicing Taoism and refining elixirs generally do not live long.

[This brings us to the second possible reason: anti-oppression. The Taoist priest at that time was obsessed with seeking immortality. On the one hand, he ordered the alchemists to make elixirs, and on the other hand, he called on all parties to provide materials for making elixirs.]

[A Taoist priest who lacked great virtue suggested that the menstrual fluid of a virgin girl could help him achieve immortality, so the Taoist priest recruited a large number of palace maidens aged 13 or 14 and personally directed the Taoist priest to use them to make elixirs.]

[In order to stay clean, these palace maids could not eat during their menstrual period. They could only eat mulberry leaves and wild grass and drink dew. That was not all. The Taoist priest also had people feed them drugs to induce menstruation, which greatly damaged their bodies.]

[Of course, eating mulberry leaves, wild grass, and drinking dew water would not fill one’s stomach, but those who dared to disobey orders would be beaten or scolded at the least, or even killed at the worst. Two or three hundred palace maids had already been beaten to death innocently, and the remaining palace maids naturally did not want to sit and wait for death.]

[Rather than being tortured to death by this old Taoist priest, it is better to rebel against him and send this old Taoist priest to heaven first]

[The third possible reason has to do with the Great Etiquette Incident. It is very likely that the palace coup was caused by the fact that Emperor Jiajing purged a large number of officials during the Great Etiquette Incident, and used the concubines and palace maids who were dissatisfied with the emperor to get rid of Emperor Shizong Zhu Houzhao.]

[Because Zhu Houcong did not inherit the throne from his father, but from his cousin, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao]

After Zhu Houcong succeeded to the throne, he wanted to track down his biological father Zhu Youtang to be the emperor. When the ministers heard this, they said, "Since you have inherited Zhu Houzhao's position, you should respect Zhu Houzhao's father, Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youtang, and you must admit that you were adopted by Zhu Youtang."

[Zhu Houcong was furious when he heard this. What does it mean that as an emperor, I have lost my biological father? My father must be my father, and my father must be posthumously honored as emperor]

Hexing Tea and Snack Shop.

"What a beast!" Many people cried out in hatred. Every family's children are treasured, but they are sent to the palace because of poverty. They thought that at least they would have no worries about food and clothing in this life, but they never knew that there was an abyss ahead.

"Be careful with your words!" Shopkeeper Wan interrupted them and muttered, "Sir, be careful with your words!"

Seeing that the man in front of him was still furious, he quickly asked the servant to serve tea and snacks to the diners for free, and comforted him: "Sir, don't be so hasty and think more about your family."

After finally coaxing this gentleman down, Manager Wan wiped the sweat from his forehead. He never thought that looking at the sky curtain could bring disaster. How could we have any say in the emperor's family affairs?

No one knew what to say after Manager Wan's actions. They also knew that he was just trying to protect himself. After all, he was such a big family. But in their hearts, they were very annoyed and disgusted with Emperor Jiajing. This was not just a disregard for human life, it was a sheer disregard for life and not treating people as human beings.

There are only a few words in Tianmu, but those few words represent the withering of countless girls' lives.

In front of the Fengtian Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was almost distorted!!!

Zhu Biao, Hu Weiyong and others all felt their scalps tingling. Only a very disgusting and perverted person could do such a thing.
Censor Liu Ji, Minister of Works An Ran, Minister of Revenue Hai Yuan, and everyone from the Ministry of Science, all looked disgusted and annoyed. Has Emperor Jiajing gone mad?
Since Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, there have been more and more monsters and demons, each one more bizarre and speechless than the other.

[The contest between the imperial power and the cabinet power was about to break out. Later, Zhu Houcong, despite opposition from his ministers, wanted to submit a memorial to the Emperor of Heaven and the ancestral temple for his parents. More than 200 court ministers knelt at Zuoshun Gate and asked Jiajing to change his mind.]

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houcong did not buy into this at all, and instead arrested the eight ringleaders and put them in prison. The ministers were not afraid either, and continued to cry, make a scene, and then go to jail.

[Then they continued to arrest people. More than 100 people were imprisoned in the imperial prison. In the end, 16 ministers were beaten to death in the court. In the end, this three-year-long dispute over etiquette ended with Zhu Houcong's complete victory.]

[His father successfully became Emperor Ruizong Xian and was enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, while Zhu Di's temple name Taizong was changed to Chengzu by Emperor Jiajing, and Zhu Di's coffin lid could no longer be held down.]

[After that, he became even more stubborn and arbitrary, so it is not impossible that the cause of the Renyin Palace Coup was a collective rebellion by the court to punish the tyrant.]

[In fact, let's review the three reasons mentioned above. No matter whether it was the concubines, palace maids or ministers, none of them did not hate Emperor Jiajing. His cruelty, tyranny, extravagance and lust were unmatched among the 3 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.]

[Ironically, he was the longest-reigning emperor after his grandson, Emperor Wanli. The two grandfather and grandson did not attend court for a total of more than 50 years, which is almost one-fifth of the Ming Dynasty’s reign.]

[CCTV once commented on this palace coup, saying: This is the resistance of the weak, immature and fierce. It did not affect the course of history, but it contained people’s greatest despair... and hope! ]

[Perhaps if this palace had been successful, history would have taken a completely different course. Who knows?]

Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City.

Li Shimin re-recognized the emperors who followed him. The grandfather and grandson did not attend court for more than 50 years. Later generations were too lenient in their evaluation of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty: "When a country is about to fall, there must be evildoers."

He had known this Wanli before. He also ascended the throne at a young age and quickly abandoned his new policies after Zhang Juzheng's death.

Li Shimin estimated the age of the Ming Dynasty and thought it would be about 70 or 80 years by the time of Emperor Yingzong, but he was not sure about the time of Emperor Jiajing. He did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would still remain strong after so many emperors.

(End of this chapter)