It is said to be a handwritten letter, but Gao Pragmatic does not understand Spanish. His handwritten letter must be in Chinese, but it will be accompanied by a Spanish translation.
Translation is not a problem. The Ming Dynasty has always had Tongwen Guan, which does the job of translation. Of course, Gao Pragmatic didn't plan to find someone from the Tongwen Library to translate, and he didn't need it.
Jinghua has been engaged in overseas trade for so many years. How can a mere translator need help from others? The work done by Tongwen Guan is not only done by people in southern Xinjiang, but also in the capital.
However, there is a saying that the people recruited by Jinghua are not professional translators, but various types of Western intellectuals, most of whom are architects and missionaries.
Not to mention missionaries, almost all missionaries these days are at the scholar level. Speaking of architects, when Gao Pragmatic built the Xishan Villa, he had already recruited many architects from Europe to work for him. Although there were more Italians among them, there were also Spanish ones.
Besides, even if it doesn't exist, it doesn't matter. Just find an Italian architect to write the translation in Latin. He is the Duke of Spain. Considering that the Catholic faith in Spain is extremely devout, the Duke must be a devout Catholic, so the Bible he reads as a child is naturally written in Latin. There is no way he cannot understand Latin.
As for why we don't find missionaries...well, missionaries are different from architects. The latter usually can negotiate everything as long as the money is in place, but it's hard to say for the former. Maybe they have special tasks? Regarding this issue, Gao Yingshi still adopts the attitude of being as cautious as possible to avoid accidents.
In short, there is nothing to worry about. There are relevant talents in the Craftsman School, and there is no need to worry about the news leaking. Just tell me and someone will take care of it.
After chatting with Huang Zhiting for a while, Gao Pragmatic, who was physically and mentally exhausted, went to bed early. Huang Zhiting sent the maid away and personally waited on Gao Pangshi to go to bed. However, he apologized and continued to finish the unfinished letter.
Early the next morning, Gao Pragmatic went to the cabinet for duty. Because it had been discussed yesterday, as soon as he arrived at the cabinet, a large pile of memorials from the Jinshi Guanzheng were sent to him, saying that these memorials all required full investigation into the emperor's fainting and coughing of blood yesterday.
This is the intended meaning of the title. Gao Pragmatic doesn't want to read a single word of the article, because the wording and sentences in the article itself have no meaning at all. He just asked: "How many memorials are there in each of the Real School and the Heart School, and how many are left?"
Guanzheng Jinshi said: "Sixty-one letters from the Practical School, 49 letters from the Heart School, and the remaining seventy-three."
Gao Jingshi nodded slightly and said, "I understand, go ahead and get busy." Jinshi Guanzheng bowed slightly and retreated.
The data just now are basically in line with high pragmatic expectations. Generally speaking, it is also very different from the proportion of people from all parties in the DPRK and China. There are more people in the Practical School than in the Heart School, but generally the two sides can be considered "evenly matched", but the Practical School has a slight advantage.
As for the "rest" part, there are more than the Practical School, which is actually not surprising. It took nearly two hundred years for the orthodox Neo-Confucianism of the Zhu Ming Dynasty to be violently impacted by the Xinxue, and later by the Realism. But in the final analysis, neither the Xinxue nor the Realism were completely opposed to Neo-Confucianism, but each just put forward different "principles". .
Therefore, it can be said that both Xinxue and Practical Studies essentially believe that their foundation is still Neo-Confucianism, but there is something wrong with this foundation itself. They need to eliminate the wrong and absurd parts of it and replace it with the parts they think are correct, and then they can form a perfect Neo-Confucianism. .
In this case, it is not a big problem for more people to agree with traditional Neo-Confucianism, and it is even natural. This is the so-called inertia.
However, the Neo-Confucian school has always been called the neutral school, and of course there is a reason for that. The reason is that although many people still believe in traditional Neo-Confucianism, they have no "organization" and are basically scattered in the political arena.
If some major events had not happened that impacted the fundamental concepts of Confucianism, it would be difficult for these people to reach complete agreement on something. They would often say different things and disagree with each other.
This makes it difficult for them to form a fist when facing the Practical School or the Heart School, although there are many of them. In the end, most of them can only stand on the sidelines in the political arena, sharing scraps of power and unable to compete with them at all. The real school or the mind school competed with each other on the political level.
Perhaps it is for this reason that Wang Jiaping, as the largest neutral faction in the court today, when faced with Zhu Yijun's insistence on not investigating Yikun Palace yesterday, the first thing he thought of was to resign.
On the one hand, this shows that Wang Jiaping does have a strong temper. On the other hand, we must also see that this is a helpless move because he is not sure whether he can set off a wave of public opinion in the court.
After all, he is also the chief minister of the dynasty. If he calls for a long time but only few people respond, how embarrassing would it be? In this case, it is better not to call for help. And if he chooses to lead the charge without saying a word, then even if he "dies", at least he will "die" with Kang's morale, and he may still have a chance to gain eternal fame, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
But this didn't happen after all, because Shen Yiguan and Gao Pragmatic worked together to persuade. The two of them joining forces means that it is feasible and almost certain to succeed in stirring up public opinion in the DPRK, and Wang Jiaping does not have to worry about losing face.
Not only does he not have to worry about losing face, but he will be the leader of this wave of public opinion. Regardless of whether the outside world is like Ming Jing in their hearts, at least in terms of face, they have to admit that he, Wang Yuanfu, is the "big brother who takes the lead."
Heck, that was the highlight of his life in terms of charisma. It is completely understandable that Wang Jiaping would devote himself to this matter if he could still find such an opportunity after he had already decided to retire and return to his hometown in the near future.
Because of this, he actively contacted last night and revealed to the outside world that the two schools of practical learning and spiritual learning have reached an agreement on this issue, and finally persuaded so many people to come forward today and ask the emperor to conduct a thorough investigation - of course, even though many people It has not been stated clearly, but the target is to conduct a thorough investigation of Yikun Palace.
Gao Pingshi looked at a large pile of memorials and thought for a moment. He took the cabinet ticket and wrote "I know", "I have read", "I understand" and other words on each sheet, but there was no more specific expression.
Here I want to talk about what the "ticket plan" is and how to write it.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a series of institutional reforms were carried out to strengthen the authority of the monarch. For example, "in the ninth year of Hongwu, Pingzhang was eliminated from political affairs and participated in political affairs. In the first month of the thirteenth year, the Prime Minister Hu Weiyong was executed, and then the Zhongshu Province was dismissed." At the same time, the Shangshu Province was abolished. , changed to six departments directly ordered by the emperor.
However, the large-scale dismantling of central decision-making institutions caused the number of official documents directly submitted to the emperor to increase exponentially. Even if the emperor himself was diligent in government affairs and lived day and night, it would be difficult to maintain it for a long time and in terms of energy. Furthermore, the emperor personally could not guarantee that he was familiar with all aspects of government affairs, which reduced the efficiency and quality of central document processing.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to add a group of consultants to the university for consultation. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, following the old system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Huagai Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Dong Pavilion were set up for the great scholars. They often served meals in the palace and often served the emperor and the palace. Hence the name "Cabinet".
However, the initial cabinet had neither an official office nor an official name. It only served as civil servants to participate in the maintenance of the machinery. During the Yongle period, seven people including Xie Xu and Huang Huai were first appointed to serve in Wenyuan Pavilion.
At that time, the job of the cabinet ministers was only to serve as counselors and secretaries, and they were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the nine ministers. In the Zhiren and Xuan dynasties, since the cabinet ministers were all senior members of the Yongle Dynasty and were powerful and powerful, the power of the cabinet gradually expanded, and the cabinet ministers also began to be able to draft this chapter on behalf of the emperor.
Of course, the voting system was born in Yinshi, and the right to vote does not belong exclusively to cabinet ministers. "Xuan De Zhongzhao issued an edict to Shaoyi Saiyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Xia Yuanji, the Shangshu of the Hubu Department of the Shaobao Taifu, resigned from the ministry. They served as advisors to the left and right day and night, and were given coral pens and jade inkstones, but they were not appointed to the cabinet." It can be seen that the vote is planned. Being under the exclusive control of the cabinet also needs to go through a development process.
Also in the Xuande Dynasty, eunuch Bingbi, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, was given the right to copy and criticize red documents. As a result, the emperor, the chief ceremonial officer and the cabinet formed a tripartite force that restricted and balanced each other. The voting system that ran through the Ming dynasty also began to take shape at this time.
So, what is the implementation process of the voting system?
The procedure is roughly as follows: after the minister's memorial is forwarded, it is sent to the clerk's office of the ceremonial officer through the general affairs envoy and the palace gate guard. After being registered in the clerk's office, it is handed over to the ceremonial officer and submitted to the emperor for review; after the emperor reads it, it is sent to the emperor for review. The Supervisor of Ceremonies will hand it over to the Clerk's Office to send the cabinet vote. After the cabinet vote is drafted, it will go through the above procedures and arrive at the imperial court. After the emperor's consent, the Supervisor of Ceremonies will approve it, and then "record it" in the Scripture Study Room [Note 1], and then go through The cabinet sends it to the Sixth Section. If the Sixth Section reviews it and it is correct, it will be handed over to the Sixth Department for execution. If there are any violations, it can be rejected.
[Note 1: The so-called Luo Di Book, that is, the "Silk Book" used to record the inscriptions of the tickets, was established during the Zhengtong and Jingtai dynasties. It was later abolished and restored at the latest in the middle of Wanli. There is no information about its style. Test. ]
In addition, the emperor could also suppress the memorial and neither issue it nor send it back to the cabinet, but treat it coldly. This is the "Liu Zhong" that is widely seen in various movies and TV dramas - in fact, most emperors do not "Liu Zhong" is not commonly used, but Wanli is one of the exceptions. Historically, he liked staying in Zhong very much.
There are quite a few things in the above program that need explanation.
The first is the question of Gao Pragmatic's vote "I know" just now - some people may be surprised, how dare you, Gao Pragmatic, vote "I know"? "I" is what you can call yourself? That's not the case.
The duty of the cabinet drafter is to "spoke on behalf of the king" rather than to speak for himself, that is to say, the essence of the "voter draft" is not that the cabinet ministers report their own opinions on the handling of memorials, but to provide criticism on behalf of the emperor.
Since the emperor is making comments on behalf of the emperor, if the emperor has an opinion before the chapter is sent to the cabinet, he will send eunuchs to deliver the key points orally and determine the principles for the cabinet in advance; if the emperor still has no opinions, he will only send eunuchs to the cabinet to discuss.
Therefore, in some movies and TV dramas, the "ballot draft" is understood to mean that cabinet ministers write their opinions on the ballot paper, waiting for the emperor's decision. This is a wrong assumption.
Gao Pragmatic is responsible for drawing up the votes today, which means writing them according to the emperor's tone. In theory, if the emperor agrees after reading it, he can let the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch who is the chief of etiquette, use a red pen to copy the votes word for word. This can avoid the need for the chief of etiquette. The powerful eunuchs in prison were playing tricks on words.
Secondly, during the Xuanzong Dynasty, the ceremonial supervisor gained the power to replace the emperor in approving red officials. "From the beginning of the Xuan Temple... the red book of the Book of Changes approved it, whether it was personally written or not." "Every day, except for the number of copies approved by the imperial pen, all the eunuchs wrote in batches according to the words on the ticket in the pavilion, and used the vermilion pen Approved in regular script."
Xuanzong's original intention here was to entrust some eunuchs who were knowledgeable in writing and writing to be responsible for copying the cabinet drafts without objections, so as to reduce the burden of review.
Generally speaking, the power of the ceremonial eunuch to approving the red is divided between the eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Zhangyin. The eunuch Bingbi approved Zhu on behalf of the emperor, while the eunuch Zhangprint was responsible for reviewing and sealing the approval of red.
However, later facts proved that what the eunuchs and eunuchs actually did was not just "copying and copying", but also injected their own opinions and influence into the central system of the imperial court. This will be discussed later.
Third, voting is not the only way for cabinet ministers to exert their will on the emperor in the central document processing system. Even if the emperor issues an edict that does not follow what the cabinet ministers drafted, the cabinet still has the right to reject it, which is the so-called "return of seal to execution". Play".
The system of "returning the title to the throne" is a way for the cabinet to express its resistance to the emperor's inappropriate decrees. The process is basically like this: the emperor orders the cabinet to draft an edict. If the cabinet considers it to be a "disorder," it can return the edict and attach an opinion to propose what the cabinet thinks is the correct solution.
There is precedent for this. For example, in the first year of Jiajing, Yang Tinghe returned Shizong's "Great Ceremony Controversy".
However, it must be noted here that "returning the title to the throne" does not have a mandatory effect. The emperor can personally bypass the cabinet and "give orders from it." As mentioned before, when the emperor appoints cabinet ministers, the court recommendation is recognized as the most reasonable. If the court recommendation cannot select a suitable candidate or the emperor is always dissatisfied with the candidate recommended by the court, the emperor may directly appoint the minister by "central decree".
However, this method is often not recognized by the courtiers, and even causes the whole court to ridicule the appointed ministers. So many ministers are not happy and surprised after receiving the emperor's decree to appoint them to the cabinet. They refuse to resign one after another, and are even frightened. De Shangshu asked to resign and go home.
Of course, there are exceptions under the Zhongzhi. For example, Yin Shidan, Gao Gong's former cabinet minister, accepted the Zhongzhi into the cabinet. Although Gao Gong did not say anything to his face, he often ignored his existence. In the end, Yin Shidan lost his temper and almost staged an all-out showdown in the cabinet. After the incident, he felt that he was too embarrassed to stay in the cabinet anymore, so he resolutely resigned and left.
After saying that the seal was returned, he still performed. In fact, the success rate of Feng Huan performing this method is not high. Whether the emperor adopts it depends entirely on the emperor's personal cultivation. Rushing to refute the emperor by using the imperial seal can even bring disaster to oneself. Therefore, unless it is a matter of principle, or the conflict between the two parties is so acute that it is difficult to reconcile, cabinet ministers will generally not choose to confront the emperor in public in this way.
Don’t talk about the emperor, let’s just say that in the workplace or the company, when the leader clearly expresses his opinions and issues instructions, you jump out and accuse the leader of being a brainless person and making decisions that are purely retarded... Do you think it is the leader who has something wrong or you? Something's wrong? If you encounter an angry leader, you may ask the finance department to pay your salary and get out on the spot.
According to the procedure just mentioned, the memorial that Gao Pingshi saw here should theoretically have been read by the emperor. However, the emperor did not send the eunuch of the Supervisor of Li to explain the situation to him. In other words, the emperor did not express this clearly. How to set the tone.
This is not surprising. After all, Gao Jingshi was the only one who heard the emperor's opinions yesterday, and Gao Jingshi did not agree to exonerate Concubine Zheng. Instead, he expressed to the emperor that he believed Concubine Zheng was raped. He took advantage of it, and he had no ill intentions towards the emperor.
In other words, Gao Pragmatic told the emperor that Concubine Zheng could be investigated and could withstand the investigation. At most, someone would be found to be using Concubine Zheng to frame the emperor.
The emperor refused to investigate Yikun Palace, mainly because he was worried that if the imperial concubine Zheng was found out, she would really have to bear a fatal crime such as "regicide" - although he insisted that this was absolutely impossible.
Absolutely impossible? Maybe the fact is indeed "absolutely impossible", but the final result may not be "absolutely impossible".
Why do you say that?
What a joke, is Yang Yuhuan himself guilty of death? However, when the Imperial Guards who fled to Maweiyi made a collective noise and believed that not punishing Concubine Yang was not enough to calm the anger of the three armies, let alone eliminate the worries of the three armies, then Concubine Yang was guilty and deserved to be punished for her crime!
What is the situation in the court now? The situation in the court was that everyone in the court believed that Concubine Zheng was interfering with the country and intended to encourage the emperor to make his son Zhu Changxun the crown prince.
Where did Zhu Changxun's sacred scroll come from? Of course the courtiers thought it was because of the emperor's love for Concubine Zheng. Otherwise, how could it have shaken the Ming Dynasty's 200-year-old ancestral system of establishing direct descendants?
Even if there is a legitimate son of the emperor now, the fight over the foundation of the country will at best be fought between the legitimate son and the eldest son. What qualifications do you, Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor, have to participate in this? Isn’t it because your mother is Princess Zheng?
Therefore, the emperor would think that once the Yikun Palace is thoroughly investigated, the outer court will definitely exert pressure. Even if Concubine Zheng "absolutely had no such intention", she will be insinuated and even shift the blame of others to her. Once the investigation results are determined, even he, the emperor, will be unable to reverse it. In this case, it would be better to insist on never investigating from the beginning.
And Gao Pangshi worked tirelessly to explain and persuade that day. No matter what he said on the surface, in the final analysis, the subtext was just one sentence: I guarantee that the results of the investigation are absolutely fair, and that Concubine Zheng will never be wronged. On the contrary, the mastermind behind the scenes can be found out. Clear the suspicion for Concubine Zheng.
Of course, there is a deeper hidden meaning here, and that is... Concubine Zheng will still bear some responsibility, that is, "being deceived and used by others." And this point needs to be carefully weighed by the emperor himself.
There are at least two points that the emperor has to weigh: First, Gao Pragmatic's guarantee is not credible. There are two possibilities for this: One is that Gao Pragmatic’s words are simply not credible, and there will be no follow-up.
The second possibility is that it is indeed credible to be highly pragmatic, but is there any possibility of an accident? The so-called accident means that Gao Jingshi did agree, and he did investigate from an impartial standpoint, but due to other reasons, Gao Jingshi failed to do what he promised... It was still over.
The second point to weigh is that the implication of Gao Pragmatism is that Princess Zheng needs to bear the responsibility of "being deceived and used", but how big is this responsibility and what consequences will it lead to?
Concubine Zheng is not a minister of the foreign court, and some responsibilities are not clearly defined. If a foreign court official is "deceived and exploited", according to the examination method established during the Gao Gong era, he should be considered "incompetent", that is, incompetent. Generally speaking, the solution is usually to demote the call.
However, Concubine Zheng was not a member of the foreign court, so this "demotion" seemed inappropriate. If appropriate, how can concubines be demoted and transferred? Remove the word "emperor" from the imperial concubine and reduce her to a noble concubine?
Zhu Yijun is not a naive person. He has long been a mature emperor and understands Gao Pragmatic's implication: the imperial concubine's responsibility is to be demoted.
Gao Pragmatic did not say clearly how to demote the concubine, or to what title, but Zhu Yijun was obviously unwilling to downgrade Concubine Zheng several levels in a row. At most, she would be demoted from imperial concubine to noble concubine - even this little grievance , Zhu Yijun was actually very unwilling to let Concubine Zheng suffer.
Of course, the "grievance" of being demoted from an imperial concubine to a noble concubine may not be said to be just "a little bit."
In later film and television dramas, the title of imperial concubine was used everywhere. Famous characters such as Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Guifei in "Qing Ping Le", Zhao Guifei in "Crane Huating", etc. These characters may have prototypes or are purely fictional, but they all have one thing in common. Attribute, that is, the emperor's beloved concubine.
However, a noble concubine is just a noble concubine. For example, if Yang Yuhuan is so favored, she is just a noble concubine. Who is this imperial concubine? Where did she come from?
Coincidentally, the title "Emperor's Imperial Concubine" really came out of the Ming Dynasty.
Let’s talk about “imperial concubine” first. The emergence of the title “imperial concubine” is the same as its positioning in many movies and TV dramas. She was born because of her beloved concubine. The first “imperial concubine” in history was Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Dynasty. Favorite concubine Yin.
This Yin family was extremely favored by Liu Jun, and because of his love for the house and the crow, he wanted to change the Yin family's son Liu Ziluan to the crown prince several times. Unfortunately, due to various factors, he was unable to do so, and the Yin family also passed away with full expectations.
Liu Jun was extremely sad and made Yin a noble concubine, and also gave her the posthumous title "Xuan". Please note that "Xuan" is not a simple posthumous title, especially when it is used as a posthumous title for a woman.
Why? Because the posthumous title of the first empress dowager in Chinese history was "Xuan", this also shows Liu Jun's deep love for his beloved concubine. Not long after the death of his beloved concubine, Emperor Xiaowu died in grief.
After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, the person who came to the throne was Liu Ziye, who later became famous. This guy resented his father for not loving him, and resented his father for doting on Concubine Yin and his younger brother Liu Ziluan. How much do you hate it? He actually wanted to dig up his father's tomb, but after being stopped by his ministers, he threw excrement on his father's tomb, and also excavated the tomb of Concubine Yin and the temple in memory of Concubine Yin.
Not only that, he also ordered the death of his younger brother Liu Ziluan without any surprise. The good news is that he was soon overthrown by his uncle Liu He because of his tyranny in governing the country.
Talking about "noble concubines", from the Liu Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, except for the brief reform in the Tang Dynasty, when the Yuan concubine was the first among the concubines, in most of the Chinese dynasties, the concubines were second only to the queen in honor. position.
In the absence of a queen, the concubine is the actual head of the harem, such as Concubine Doulu of Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Guo of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Wu of the Song Dynasty Gaozong, and Concubine Xie of the Song Dynasty Xiaozong. The person who was granted the title of Queen Mother.
For nearly a thousand years, the imperial concubine has been a role that cannot be underestimated in the royal family. It was not until the emergence of the imperial concubine that her limelight was suppressed.
Maybe it's because the word "huang" was so tempting in ancient times. As long as the word "huang" is added to anything, it seems to instantly become a lot taller.
The same seems to be true for "noble concubine". It is already noble enough, but the word "emperor" needs to be added in front. But in fact, the birth of an imperial concubine is much more complicated than that of a noble concubine.
"...Xuanzong ascended the throne and was granted the title of imperial concubine. Story: The queen's gold treasures and gold book. Below the imperial concubine, there is no treasure in the book. The concubine has a favorite. In May of the first year of Xuande, the emperor asked the queen mother to make a gold treasure and give it to her. From then on, the imperial concubine had treasures. ."——"History of the Ming Dynasty: Biography of the Concubines".
According to this, the origin of the imperial concubine can be traced back to Sun, the first successor in the Ming Dynasty. Sun was the concubine that Zhu Zhanji adopted when he was his grandson. She and Zhu Zhanji had a very good relationship. However, because the concubine Hu was chosen by his grandfather Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji could only let his lover live in the side room. .
When Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, as emperor, although he did not directly appoint his concubine Sun as his queen, he fought for a privilege for her. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the queen's canonization includes a book and a treasure. The book is the book of canonization, and the treasure refers to the queen's seal. As a rule, when a noble concubine is canonized, she only has a book but no treasure, which is used to distinguish the superiority of the concubine.
But Zhu Zhanji really loved the Sun family, so he asked his mother, Queen Mother Zhang, to make a gold treasure for Sun Guifei that only the queen could possess. Because of the precious seal, she is different from all the noble concubines in the past thousands of years, so Sun Guifei has the name of "Emperor's Concubine" - after all, if it does not contain the word "Emperor", how can its seal and ribbon be called "Seal" "?
But in fact, the Sun family's actual title at that time was still imperial concubine. "Emperor's imperial concubine" was just an honorific title inside and outside the palace, and it did not form a complete system.
The first person in the Ming Dynasty to officially hold the title of "imperial concubine" was the Tang concubine of Emperor Jingtai. In the seventh year of Jingtai's reign, Emperor Jingtai solemnly asked two important officials in the court, Shi Heng and Hu Hui, to confer the title of imperial concubine on Concubine Tang.
This canonization lineup is quite luxurious, not to mention Shi Heng, who was the leading real power figure during the Yingzong and Jingtai years, and Hu Di, who came from the Taizong Dynasty [Note: Zhu Di was called Taizong at the time, and was renamed Chengzu after Jiajing. ] A veteran of the Five Dynasties who came to Jingtai Dynasty.
Considering the death of Queen Hang in February of that year, it is not difficult to find that Emperor Jingtai should have had high hopes for the Tang family. If Emperor Jingtai had not fallen ill so early, the Tang family would most likely be in the middle palace.
Of course, everyone knows what happened later. Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others took advantage of Emperor Jingtai's serious illness to launch the Nangong Revolution and supported Zhu Qizhen's restoration. Zhu Qiyu was demoted to King Yi, and Tang was demoted to King Yi's concubine. Earlier, The deposed Queen Wang became Princess Ni again.
Soon after, Zhu Qiyu died mysteriously and violently. Zhu Qizhen ordered the Tang family and other concubines who had "nothing to do" to be buried. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not recognize the Tang family's identity as an imperial concubine.
After the collapse of Zhu Qizhen, Prince Zhu Jianshen came to the throne. At the beginning of his accession to the throne, when Zhu Jianshen honored the two empress dowagers, he called his legitimate mother the queen and his biological mother the imperial concubine.
This shows that Zhu Jianshen's biological mother, Zhou, should have been an imperial concubine during the Tianshun period. Even if the Tang family's status as an imperial concubine is not recognized, the Zhou family should still be the first imperial concubine in the Ming Dynasty.
But what is strange about this matter is that there is a contradiction in Zhou's records in "The True Records of Yingzong": she was only canonized as a noble concubine, but was given a treasure - as I said just now, since there is a "treasure", then She should be canonized as an imperial concubine.
Thinking about it here, although Zhu Jianshen called his biological mother the imperial concubine of the late emperor, the actual fact should be the same as the Sun family during the Xuanzong period. It was just a verbal address, and the actual status of Zhou Guifei was still a noble concubine.
In this way, according to historical records, the first imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty was Wan Guifei of Ming Xianzong. Concubine Wan Gui was a famous concubine in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Although she was 17 years older than Zhu Jianshen, she still received Zhu Jianshen's lifelong love and devotion. The story of this was mentioned earlier in this book.
Favor is a favorite, but because of his father and mother, Zhu Jianshen could not appoint Wan as his queen. However, for such a beloved concubine, Zhu Jianshen naturally wanted to give her extra honor.
A frequently misunderstood point needs to be corrected here, that is, Concubine Wan Gui was promoted to the title of Imperial Concubine in October of the twelfth year of Chenghua. It was not that Zhu Jianshen canonized her as the Imperial Concubine as soon as she came to the throne. In addition, the Ming Dynasty issued the first royal concubine catalog in history.
This volume is completely recorded in the "Records of Ming Xianzong". I won't excerpt it here. I only mention one of the key sentences: "The position is Yakunyi, the first among the Junzhi concubines."
This sentence is the positioning given to the imperial concubine by the Ming Dynasty. At this point, the status of the "imperial concubine" as the "new noble" in the harem has basically been settled.
However, it needs to be pointed out that there was no limit on the number of imperial concubines in the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the Wanli Dynasty in the original history, Crown Prince Zhu Changluo's biological mother, Wang Shi, and Fu Wang Zhu Changxun's biological mother, Zheng Shi, were once combined as imperial concubines - among them Zhu Yijun's Some kind of calculation, no need to explain much.
In short, from then on, among the emperors and concubines, the most noble position below the queen was the imperial concubine, and the noble concubine was the second most noble.
Due to the addition of the word "emperor" and the seal in the hands of the imperial concubine, in the eyes of the world, the imperial concubine has undoubtedly become...how should I put it, probably the "vice queen".
There is an obvious characteristic of people with "secondary" names in the world, that is, if the person with "main" name has an accident, the person with "secondary" name will naturally be the first to be qualified to take over.
This qualification was the reason why Zhu Yijun was hesitant and did not send the eunuch Si Li to explain to Gao Pragmatic whether the emperor had "finalized" the memorials.
In other words, even now, the emperor still has not made up his mind, but wants to see first how Gao Pragmatic, as the chief writer of today's cabinet, will vote.
However, these "I know", "I have read", "I understand" and other suggestions mentioned above by Gao Pragmatic actually have no "words on behalf of the king" to say clearly what to do.
However, this was not because Gao was pragmatic and did not want to make it clear. After pasting all the other people's memorials with these ambiguous drafts, he found the memorial that Wang Jiaping, the first assistant, had personally submitted, read it carefully, and then took out a On the receipt, Gong Gong neatly wrote a line of words in Guange style:
"What Yuan Fu saw is in line with my wishes, and I will give it to the cabinet for approval." - What Yuan Fu said is the same as what I mean. Your cabinet should quickly hold a meeting to study, see how to check specifically, and then come up with a charter. Let me see.
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ps: two in one. Yesterday I found a rat in the bathroom sewer, and it came out just as I was taking a shower. I was shocked on the spot, but I still stepped on it with my slippers on. The mouse turned its head in pain. I was a little panicked at the time, fearing that it might bite my foot, so I let go and it slipped into the sewer and ran away.
Then my wife and I put it together, and she said that it was no wonder she heard noises several times in the middle of the night recently, and she needed to sort it out. As a result, the whole family moved a lot of their belongings, and sure enough, they found rat droppings and food residue stolen from behind a closet that was not commonly used... Not only last night, but also spent the whole morning cleaning up today... Finally, the floor drain is a good thing. , I will be as cautious as Gao Pragmatic from now on, and never dare to forget to let go.
