Renyin Palace Change: Why did the maids risk their lives to strangle Jiajing? What did Emperor Jiajing do?

Emperor Jiajing is a famous Taoist emperor in history. He advocated the way of Huang Lao all his life. Xiuxian asked, taking Dan medicine left a huge mess for the later emperor, which was also the direct cause of "Longwan Innovation".

But what is unknown is that he was actually a wise SHEN WOO in his early years and a good emperor who got rid of many disadvantages of Wu Zong.

1507, Zhu Houzong was born, and his father was Ming Xianzong's fourth son. Zhu Houzong showed extraordinary talent when he was a child. Under the influence of family environment, he is familiar with Confucian classics and can recite many Confucian classics. Mastering all kinds of etiquette allusions laid a solid foundation for the later "big ceremony" debate.

Zhu Houzong 12 years old, his father died, and posthumous title became the "King of Xing". At this time, he inherited the throne at a young age and became a new king. With the help of Yuan and his younger brother Lu Bing, he took over the palace and formed a specific team.

152 1 year, Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong accidentally fell into the water and died in the "Leopard House". Since the Ming Wuzong had no children, according to the principle of "brotherhood", with the support of Yang Tinghe, the minister of records at that time, and the Empress Dowager, Zhu Houzong became the heir to the throne.

In May of that year, Zhu Houzong entered the palace from Daming Gate and succeeded to the throne in Fengtian Hall. The Ming Dynasty officially entered the age of 45-year-old Jiajing Emperor.

In the early days of Emperor Jiajing's succession, he began to clarify all kinds of disadvantages during the Wuzong period. In terms of employing people, he re-employed ministers who had been convicted of admonishing Wu Zong, and killed corrupt officials Jiang Bin and Qian Ning. Politically, he is diligent in government affairs, attaches importance to virtuous ministers, promotes the New Deal, and suppresses the rights of consorts and eunuchs at the same time, making politics clear; Economically, he accepted bribes and perverted the law in Cole Yan, which made "capitalism" sprout. Generally speaking, this stage can be said to be "the world was suddenly ruled."

However, at the same time, by the middle of Jiajing, Zhu Houzong gradually lost his enterprising spirit and became addicted to Taoist fasting methods. With the promotion of the ceremony and the downfall of Yang Tinghe, a famous minister, his activities of worshipping Taoism are increasing day by day. He not only hoped to pray for longevity through fasting, but also prayed to resist Japanese invaders and Tatars.

At the same time, Zhu Houzong imitated the story of Song Huizong in the Song Dynasty and named himself "Lingxiao Qingtong Lei Yuanyang flies to Zhen Jun Xuan". At this time, he paid more attention to Taoist priests, and sometimes some officials were promoted even by giving gifts to Taoist priests.

In A.D. 1542, the year of Emperor Jiajing's Renyin, a maid-in-waiting Yang Jinying led a group of maids to strangle Emperor Jiajing while he was sleeping. However, due to the failure in panic, all these ladies-in-waiting were beheaded, which was called "Renyin Palace Change" in history.

At that time, "Renyin Palace Rebellion" was considered as an act of killing the emperor, but from a modern point of view, it was a unique act of maid-in-waiting to save herself.

At that time, Emperor Jiajing listened to the alchemist's words and needed virgin menstrual blood to refine Dan medicine. In order to extract a large number of pills, Emperor Jiajing searched around for girls aged 65,438+03 and 65,438+04 to collect their menstrual blood. At the same time, in order to ensure the effectiveness of pills, he forced these young girls to drink only dew and eat mulberry leaves during menstruation.

If these young girls were living now, they might just be junior high school girls, but at that time, due to the orders of Emperor Jiajing, they could only lead a hard life. At the same time, we have to endure whipping, hunger and cold!

This inhuman abuse completely aroused the resistance of the maids. Maids-in-waiting headed by Yang laid hands on him while Emperor Jiajing was sleeping, trying to strangle him. However, due to excessive tension, the two knots became more and more entangled, in order to strangle Emperor Jiajing. Later, when a maid-in-waiting saw that things could not be done, she ran to the Queen's Palace and surrendered herself. When the queen heard about it, she immediately rushed to the rescue, which saved the life of Emperor Jiajing.

Yang and other ladies-in-waiting saw that things could not be done, and they fled for their lives. But in the end, they were all arrested and executed. At that time, according to the eunuchs' final performance, Emperor Jiajing called them vicious and rebellious, and they deserved to die. At the same time, it is required to execute these maids in accordance with the laws at that time and implicate their relatives.

The tragic fate of these maids deserves sympathy. At the same time, their names were recorded in the history books because of this incident. They are: Yang, Su Chuanyao, Yang Yuxiang, Xing Cuilian, Yao, Yang, Guan Xiumei, Liu Miaolian, Chen Juhua, Wang Xiulan, Yang Jinhua, Zhang Jinlian, Xu Qiuhua, Deng Jinxiang, Zhang Chunjing and Huang Yulian.

According to historical records, in the days when maids were executed, the whole capital was filled with fog. Emperor Jiajing dodged a bullet and thought it was God's protection for him over the years. However, people at that time associated this incident with the girls who died in the court reform and thought that their ghosts were crying.

After the change of Renyin Palace, Emperor Jiajing did not learn a lesson. On the contrary, he collected girls into the palace many times in a row, with the number as many as 1000. However, due to the benefits of prevention, similar assassinations never happened again.

At the same time, in the following 20 years, Emperor Jiajing almost never went to court again, only repaired it in an elegant house, and remotely controlled several cabinet members such as Yan Song and Xu Jie. All these people are good at writing "Qing Ci" (an ancient Taoist prayer) and can be superior to others.

Contemporary literati gave them a nickname-"Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty". Since ancient times, the prime minister has always been the highest official to assist the emperor in handling state affairs, but now he has become a helper to help Emperor Jiajing communicate with heaven. It's really weird.

There is no denying that Emperor Jiajing was an extremely clever emperor. He didn't go to court for more than 20 years, hiding behind his back and remotely commanding the cabinet to handle state affairs. At the same time, there are no major problems in the country. However, there is an old saying that "water can carry a boat and overturn it". Can such an emperor who doesn't cherish his own people be a good emperor? What's more, he set a bad example to the emperors behind him. Emperor Wanli did not go to court for many years after imitating his grandfather Jiajing, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

The people are the most important, followed by the country, and the monarch is the least important. Everyone knows this truth, but not many people have really achieved something. Emperor Jiajing has always regarded himself as an imitation of Emperor China. Emperor China is recognized as a wise monarch, with the virtues of being close to the people, kindness, simplicity, respect and tolerance, advocating the way of Huang Lao and doing nothing. However, Emperor Jiajing only learned what Emperor Wen failed to do, but did not put the people first.

1567, 60-year-old Emperor Jiajing died, ranking third among Ming emperors, second only to Zhu Yuanzhang and Judy of Ming Taizu. Inevitably embarrassing. I believe that if Emperor Jiajing could really understand the truth of this sentence, he would not have left such a bad name in history.