[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

The Jingxi Coal Mine just in front of Beijing is responsible for the coal supply of the people in the capital. The coal industry is booming. Under the huge profits, some people do not follow the right path to save labor. In the past, they lured and abducted the children of good families and took in street children. They let them do daily work in the coal mine. Coolies are very similar to modern black coal kilns.If someone escapes from the black coal mine, immediately send someone to kill and eliminate the traces to prevent leakage of secrets.They manage well up and down, and they do it secretly. Most of them used to absorb refugees.

There were three earthquakes in Beijing last year. Although the magnitudes were not large, the mine collapsed and killed many illegal workers.At the beginning of the new year, there was a lot of difference in the number of people in the mine, so these people moved their minds.There is a man named Master Dao in this Beijing city, who was also involved in this matter with people from the Jingxi Coal Mine in the past.A few days ago, he got another big order. The bosses in the south wanted thirty or forty young girls with clean family affairs and beautiful appearance, and a dozen or so boys.

Master Dao has a market, and Jingxi Coal Mine has been used to these things in the early years and has experience. The two parties hit it off and conspired to kidnap or abduct about [-] children during the Lantern Festival from the eighth to the fifteenth day of the lunar new year.Among these children, the good-looking ones were sold to the boss in the south, and the lesser ones would spend their entire lives in this Jingxi coal mine from now on.This lucrative business was doing very well.The Jingxi Coal Mine is deeply involved with the officials of the DPRK and China, and it is usually managed from top to bottom. They are also careful in doing things, and they change their bases every day on weekdays.They also knew about Jin Yiwei saying hello, but everyone knew about the crown prince leaving the palace and would not publicize it. They only thought that a member of the family was leaving the palace today, and they didn't take it to heart. The prince caught him right away.

This incident alarmed the prince and emperor one after another, Xunshan Geshizhong, Xuncheng Yushi, Jinyiwei inspector, and five city soldiers and horses joined forces to solve the case.With Jin Yiwei's thunderous means, these prisoners bit one by one, and followed the vine to bring out a large number of officials, big and small, who had an affair with this incident.Most of these officials were not arrested because of this case, but they usually received tribute from Jingxi Coal Mine.I also blame them for being unlucky, and no one dares to cover up for them when things get serious. The normal filial piety is now the ironclad evidence of bribery and gangsters.

The city gates were not closed on the [-]th and [-]th of the Shangyuan Festival. Some people in the city who had participated in the crime of trafficking in the coal mines in the west of Beijing heard the news and fled. Some people in the coal mines in the west of Beijing had already escaped Without a trace, officers and soldiers are searching everywhere.Early in the morning on the [-]th, the Metropolitan Procuratorate issued a notice to ask the prisoners to surrender, and if they concealed anything or committed another crime, they would be exiled to the army.

Officers and soldiers entered the Jingxi Coal Mine and found more than 200 skinny and dirty men and women of all colors.They ate pig food, were used as cows, and slept in grass huts. Their skin was dyed black in the coal mines, and their bodies stink, like hell on earth.Under the identification of the criminals, they dug up the dead bones and did not know how much.

When Zhu Youtang saw the memorial of Mou Bin, the commander of Jinyiwei, he was so angry that he threw down his beloved lion head jade paperweight.He has been on the throne for seven years, and what he longs for most is to gain something from his efforts, hoping that he will be a wise king throughout the ages.But in the city of Beijing, at the foot of the emperor, these unruly people did such a thing blatantly, and let their own child see it with their own eyes, so that he would not get angry.The most irritating thing is that these courtiers of his own, with the salary of the imperial court, escorted such nasty things.

The emperor was angry and laid down millions of corpses.These people's crimes are unforgivable, they were killed, they were exiled, they dealt with it in their own way, of course, the most powerful adults each had their own way of escape, and each of them had hidden secrets, which are not for outsiders.

Encountering such a case at the beginning of the new year in the eighth year of Hongzhi made Zhu Youtang feel very uncomfortable, but a military newspaper ignited Zhu Youtang's anger.

Hetao has always been a battleground for military strategists in the Central Plains and nomadic peoples.When Chengzu was in power, because the Ming Dynasty troops retreated, the Mongolian nomadic tribes took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Hetao, and they were stationed here and frequently went south to harass the Ming Dynasty's frontiers and the Central Plains.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the main leader of the Tatar tribe formed by the division of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was called the little prince by the Ming Dynasty. There were many little princes before and after, and they often invaded the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.

On the 28th of the first month of the eighth year of Hongzhi, the two parties joined forces to invade Liangzhou.The commander-in-chief Liu Ning led his troops to meet the enemy, beheaded more than [-] people and captured more than [-] people alive.In the middle of the night, bandits invaded again and more than [-] people were beheaded.The next day, Yang Yu, the left officer, and Tao Zhen, the deputy general, arrived with troops, and the bandits were defeated and fled.

This is a very common small friction in the history of the border. I don't know how many times this kind of thing has happened on the border.But this time was very different.Because Du Yide, Marquis of Anding, and Mrs. Jiang, who returned home to offer sacrifices to their ancestors, were taken captive outside the Great Wall by thieves, the two committed suicide due to the humiliation. It has been bitten by wolves and cannot be seen.

Let me talk about Mrs. Jiang first. She was originally born as a palace maid.Her father is a seventh-rank sesame official, and her mother is the daughter of a poor scholar. The two love each other, but they are not tolerated by their mother-in-law, so they have to marry into Jiang's family and become concubines.Jiang's mother was very favored and died in order to give birth to Jiang's dystocia.After her mother died, the old lady didn't tolerate her, and her grandmother didn't like her, so her father entrusted someone to send her to the palace, and put her in the care of an aunt of the same clan who worked as a nanny next to the Queen Mother Zhou in the palace. , to seek a good birth.

This aunt was very close to Jiang's father when she was not in the palace, and she took good care of this niece, so she tried to arrange her to work in the emperor's inner treasury.When he was in Neikuli, the young Jiang family met the Ji family, the biological mother of Emperor Hongzhi.

Ji was the daughter of the local chieftain who rebelled in Datengxia, Guangxi. After Han Yong quelled the rebellion, she was sent to the capital as a woman selected to enter the palace.She was first sent to the Clothes Bureau, and later she was sent to take care of the internal warehouse because of her stable work and good popularity.Although the Ji family is much older than the Jiang family, they were very close when they were in Neiku.

Later, the Ji family had an affair with the emperor overnight, and found out that she was pregnant.Concubine Wan Gui soon found out about this, and sent her confidant maid to deliver abortion medicine to Ji, but Zhu Youtang was not only not killed, but also gave birth smoothly.

This was the most dangerous moment for Zhu Youtang. Concubine Wan Gui was covering the sky with one hand in the harem, so it was impossible for her not to know about the child.Jiang tried to find a way to tell Queen Mother Zhou about Zhu Youtang's existence.It is not easy for the Empress Dowager Zhou to directly confront Concubine Wan Gui.Together with the eunuch Zhang Min, Wang Zhi deceived Wan Guifei Zhu Youtang to die.Zhu Youtang was also handed over to the care of the deposed empress Wu, who was not concerned. Jiang also left Neiku for this reason, and went to Wu's side to take care of Zhu Youtang.In this way, the Jiang family stayed by Zhu Youtang's side and walked through the most difficult time with him until Zhu Youtang ascended the throne.

Anding Hou Du Yide was Zhu Youtang's confidant when he was in Prince Zhu's residence.Du Yide was originally from Liangzhou. After losing his mother in his early years, he moved to Beijing with his father's promotion. After joining Jinyiwei, he has been in charge of the prince's safety and made great contributions to the smooth boarding of the prince. He didn't marry a wife yet, and he couldn't bear Jiang's loneliness to die in the palace, so he gave them a marriage.

After the two got married, Hou An Ding was transferred to Habayashi Guard.The husband and wife are people who are comparable to the emperor's relatives. What's even more rare is that the two of them are deeply favored by the emperor and are not arrogant, and they are extremely low-key on weekdays.This time the couple brought their son back to their hometown to pay respects, but they never expected to die and leave their young child alone.

What's more, the two of them are considered to have sacrificed their lives for the country.The ancestral tomb of the Du family was far outside the Great Wall. When the couple worshiped the ancestral tomb, they found a small detachment of dozens of unknown Hu people. Hou Anding handed over his wife and children to his servants and brought them back to the city.Explore by yourself.He found the places where the barbarians garrisoned troops on both sides, and he didn't want to be shot by the barbarians when they found out.Du Yide reluctantly galloped back to the city to report.This was the first successful resistance to the Hu people.Unexpectedly, the Hu people are not dead, and they hate Du Yide even more. That night, they colluded with the rebels in the city and kidnapped Anding Hou and Mrs. Hou who were recovering and ran out of the city.Only the five-year-old child was taken by the old servant Du Lin and hid under the servant's bed.

Du Yide died, Zhu Youtang locked himself in the room for a whole night.He thought of the man's broad shoulders when he was young, the forbearing love between his brows and eyes, and his lost eyes when he deliberately stayed away from him.Although I have no intention of him, but this friendship that has already surpassed love is still so forgettable.

Jiang Cong, who was next to Zhu Youtang, saw that Zhu Youtang seemed to be mourning too much, so he hurriedly invited Zhu Houzhao here. Zhu Youtang was embarrassed to reveal this in front of the children, so he secretly endured his grief, that's all.

Resisting the grief in his heart, Zhu Youtang ordered the Andinghou couple to be buried generously, with the posthumous title of "Zhong".In addition, due to Du's three-generation single pass, he took pity on Du Ruo's young son who was lonely and weak, and adopted Du Ruo as his adopted son, ordered him to bury his parents, and then went to Beijing after raising his body.At the same time, Ma Wensheng's plan to attack Hami, which was in a stalemate, was also approved by Zhu Youtang against all opinions.

After Queen Zhang's birthday in February, Zhu Houzhao ushered in his crown ceremony in March.

The crown ceremony is one of the important etiquette systems in ancient times. It is a ceremony among the "five rituals" (auspicious, inauspicious, military, guest, and excellent). The crown ceremony is to crown a man who is about to become an adult.The crown ceremony comes from "Cheng Ding Li".From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, crown ceremonies were held for the emperor, the gentry and the families of the common people.In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the emperor, crown prince, prince, and senior officials all had their own crown ceremonies.In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian nobles ruled the Central Plains, and the royal family and dignitaries did not perform crown ceremonies, only a slight legacy among the people.After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu completely restored the Chinese system, and the crown ceremony was also revived.

In the first year of Hongwu, Taizu issued an edict to formulate crown ceremonies. The emperor, crown prince, prince, rank official, and common people all had their own ceremonies, and crown ceremonies became part of the Ming Dynasty's rules and regulations.

The crown prince is the legal heir to the throne. As the eldest son of Zhu Youtang and the Zhang family, Zhu Houzhao is both the eldest son and the legitimate son. If nothing else, he will be the next emperor.The crowning ceremony means that Prince Zhu Houzhao can start to participate in handling the country's government affairs.His political status will be consolidated, so the coronation ceremony is of great significance.

After the coronation ceremony, Zhu Houzhao finally didn’t have to send Liu Jian to Ciqing Palace to give lectures to him every three or eight. He had his own school—Wenhua Palace, although he was the only one studying here.

Zhu Houwei's little bun also grew up day by day, and slowly grew into a real white and fat bun.Knowing nothing about the world, he is like Maitreya Buddha who only knows how to laugh all day long.Seeing my brother laughing, seeing my father laughing, seeing my mother laughing even more, I kept laughing all day long.He also inherited his brother's foodie attributes, eating many times a day.Looking at Zhu Houwei's nannies, Zhu Houzhao could only hehehe.