If you want to hold a conference of emperors of successive dynasties, Emperor Mingguang Zhu Changluo should be able to enter the top three. This name is estimated that few people have an impression, after all, his reign time is really too short, only more than a month, it can be said that the throne has not yet sat hot on the death.
What is even more tragic is that he is not like so many puppet emperors in the Han Dynasty, either young and ignorant, or a puppet emperor supported by the powerful ministers in order to seize power, Zhu Changluo is the crown prince of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and he is still a crown prince with political ambitions. Zhu Changluo, the prince, was actually quite miserable, and it was a bumpy life. First of all, he was not from a high birth, and his mother was originally only the maid of Emperor Mingshen Zhu Yijun and his mother Empress Li, and Zhu Yijun of the Mingshen Sect was the Wanli Emperor who engaged in the Wanli New Deal.
When the emperor's hand reached out to his mother's palace maid, it was really a scandal; but there was no way, the harem of the MingShen Sect had been nothing, but this maid Wang Shi was pregnant. Empress Li had no choice but to recognize Wang as a daughter-in-law in order to hold her grandson; in 1582, Wang was given the title of Concubine Gong, and in the same year Emperor Mingshenzong's eldest son Zhu Changluo was born.
However, although Zhu Changluo was the eldest son, he was not favored, because his father's favorite was Zheng Guifei, and Zheng Guifei also gave birth to a third prince Zhu Changxun (the second prince Zhu Changhuan was also born of Zheng Guifei, but died early). Since then, the decades-long dispute over the establishment of the crown prince has begun, and the cabinet has strictly complied with the law on the succession of the eldest son, believing that Zhu Changluo should be the crown prince; however, under the deception of Zheng Guifei, The Ming Shenzong is bent on establishing the third prince Zhu Changpu as the crown prince, and also wants to make Zheng Guifei the empress.
Emperor Myeongshinjong eventually lost ground despite the opposition of the entire cabinet, and in 1601 he had no choice but to appoint the 13-year-old Zhu Changluo as crown prince. At the beginning, in order to compete with the cabinet for the crown prince, Emperor Myeongjinzong began not to go up; after the prince established the prince he did not like, he did not want to go to the court, so he simply began to ignore the government, did not approve the folds, did not see the ministers, did not worship the absurd behavior of heaven and earth, and also levied a large-scale mining tax.
On the other hand, Concubine Zheng Guifei was not willing to do so, and wanted to dominate the harem all the time, but she lost in the dispute between the crown princes. Zheng Guifei also thought clearly, if the emperor's eldest son is gone, will the throne not fall on her son's head? Therefore, he did something against Zhu Changluo, and once even sent someone to directly enter Zhu Changluo's palace.
Zhu Changluo stumbled all the way like this, and after surviving for thirty-eight years to survive his unreliable father, he turned over and sat on the dragon chair, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he abolished the mining tax formulated by the MingShen Sect, which pleased the government and the public, and the people cheered; he also rewarded the border guards who resisted the Jin Dynasty (Manchu Qing), and gave them silver, which also touched the soldiers.
Logically speaking, zhu Changluo's move to ascend the throne should be a capable emperor, but he was too soft-hearted and let go of Zheng Guifei, who had been bouncing around. And Zheng Guifei, although she did not become an empress, her own son did not become an emperor, but after so many years of favor, how could she not have some power?
It had only been 10 days since Zhu Changluo's enthronement ceremony, and he had been ill; after Zhu Changluo's original trusted eunuch Cui Wensheng ascended the throne, he was mixed with the position of eunuch of The Ceremony Supervisor Bingbi, and at the behest of Zheng Guifei, he gave the seriously ill Zhu Changluo rhubarb, causing Zhu Changluo's body to become weaker and weaker.
After eating rhubarb, Li Kezhuo, the emperor of Hongxu Temple, said that there was a "elixir" to be presented to the emperor, so he took out a small red pill. This kind of medicine of unknown origin was certainly not normally available to the emperor, but Zhu Changluo had reached the point where the medicine stone had no medical treatment at this time, and could only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor. I didn't expect that this "elixir" was really good: "After the Eucharist was medicated, it was warm and comfortable, and I thought about drinking and eating." ”
Zhu Changluo felt useful, he had to eat another one, the imperial doctors felt that this kind of bottomless drug was enough to eat once useful, and then had to be slowly adjusted, but how could Zhu Changluo afford to wait? So I ate another one. But I didn't expect that these two small pills would kill Zhu Changluo.
On September 26, 1620, less than two months before Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, Zhu Changluo, who was only thirty-eight years old, died of illness, and these two small red pills were considered to be the culprits, and since then, they have begun a change of court for more than a month, known in history as the "Red Pill Case".
The "Red Pill Case" involved an unknown number of people, known as one of the three major cases at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but Zheng Guifei stayed out of the matter and was not affected, which shows how skilled the means are.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty