Zhu Yunwen looked through the files of several people and found some clues. He said to Gu Sansheng: "Qiu He and Wu Lin entered the palace in the ninth year of Hongwu. Liu Quan and Lu Shan were both in the tenth year of Hongwu. Others will not Fourteen years beyond Hongwu. These are all old men who have served Taizu for about twenty years. Check the punishment records of the inner palace to see if these people have been punished, and also investigate their family backgrounds clearly. "
After Gu Sanshen agreed, he just saluted and was about to leave, but Zhu Yunwen called out again: "Record the maids and eunuchs who were still in the palace from the eighth year of Hongwu to the fourteenth year of Hongwu, and see if they made mistakes and were punished."
For the Ming Dynasty, the origin of palace maids and eunuchs was a very complicated issue.
Many people believe that the maids and eunuchs who can enter the palace are carefully selected and have clean family backgrounds. At least three generations of their ancestors are good people. However, this was not the case in the early Ming Dynasty.
Judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's wives, there are women from Chen Youliang, daughters of the Yuan Dynasty clan, and women from Goryeo. Even the concubines are so diverse, and the sources of palace maids and eunuchs are even more complicated.
For example, in the battle to pacify Yunnan in the 14th year of Hongwu's reign, Fu Youde and Lan Yu wiped out the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan. At the same time, they eliminated the disobedient chieftains, castrated all the captured boys, and sent them to the palace and various princes' palaces as servants. The same is the fate of slaves and girl children.
One of the boys who was castrated and sent to the palace was Ma Sanbao - Zheng He.
There are countless eunuchs and maids whose names have not been left behind.
Zhu Yunwen admired Zhu Yuanzhang's courage and courage very much. The parents and family members of these palace maids and eunuchs were likely to die under Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher knife, so he allowed them to enter the palace and stay by his side without fear of being killed.
Of course, assassinating the emperor is a difficult operation. Even if ordinary eunuchs and maids master the skills of "stretching with ropes" and "jabbing with hairpins" (here is the Jiajing Harem Incident in the Ming Dynasty), they may not be able to get close to the emperor. .
Even if you bribe the guards and approach quietly, you may not be able to execute it. This kind of work is difficult for one person to do. If there are more people, if someone is afraid of running away and snitching, the consequences...
Moreover, living is not a good thing, who would want to die for nothing.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also a very suspicious person. Even if the palace maids took a bath, smelled good, and delivered bowls of porridge, they would be beheaded. They served Zhu Yuanzhang to dress, but if they were stabbed, they would cost thousands each. knife.
Not to mention eunuchs, aren’t these just a bunch of damn servants?
If you say the wrong thing, you will be beaten to death.
If you do something wrong, you will be beaten to death.
If you see something you shouldn't see or listen to something you shouldn't hear, you'll be beaten to death.
Even if he saved his own son, he would still be beaten to death just because he was delayed for just a moment.
Zhu Yuanzhang's magnanimity was only reserved for the common people and limited relatives. He had a suffocating pressure on the concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs who served him. How far did this pressure go?
When Zhu Yuanzhang was seriously ill in bed, Zhu Yunwen did not take off his clothes and accompanied him in the future. The reason was that many eunuchs and maids were afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang and did not dare to serve or come forward. They were always in fear and feared that their lives were in danger.
In one sentence:
The maids and eunuchs have suffered greatly from Taizu for a long time.
These contents do not deny the greatness of Zhu Yuanzhang. His greatness lies in national affairs, the overall situation, the Ming Dynasty and Chinese civilization. But his killing and cruelty are also real and unavoidable.
If people stay in a state of extreme panic and fear for a long time, it is easy to become paranoid and crazy. It is also normal for some people to have dark psychology and abnormal behavior.
Zhu Yunwen threw aside the files of Qiu He and others, and continued to look through the daily life notes of Taizu, which recorded Zhu Yuanzhang's daily life, every word and deed, it can be said to be a detailed diary. This information is much more detailed than the Ming Dynasty records. .
Here, Zhu Yunwen saw Zhu Yuanzhang's hard work and diligence for the country and the people, his wisdom in commanding and ruling the world, his distrust of ministers, his tendency to spread the trend, and his murderous nature. There was a huge conflict with Zhu Biao.
Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to Zhu Biao and regarded him as the undisputed successor of the Ming Dynasty. This is an ironclad fact. It is also a fact that no vassal king can shake Zhu Biao's status as prince.
But the conflict between Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao was deep, and the existence of this conflict was probably related to Zhu Biao's death.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had no education and conquered the world with his bare hands. There was nothing that could not be solved with one blow. If there were any problems, just add a few hundred more and the problem would always be solved.
But Zhu Biao is different. Zhu Biao has accepted Confucianism since he was a child, and the idea of "benevolent king" has become the core of his soul.
This creates a "generation gap", which is as wide as the Yangtze River. Without wings, it is basically impossible to cross.
After the death of Queen Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more out of control, and often killed people when dealing with problems. Zhu Biao couldn't stand it, so he went to Zhu Yuanzhang to intercede, but Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to find a cane full of thorns and told Zhu Biao , I am helping him cut off the thorn head, so that he can pick it up and secure his position.
But Zhu Biao believed that this was not a problem of thorns in the head, but a problem of the upper beam being out of alignment and the lower beam being crooked. He said: There are the kings of Yao and Shun above, and the people of Yao and Shun below.
To put it bluntly: there is what kind of boy there is for me.
The hidden meaning is: Who is to blame? Isn’t it your fault, dad?
Zhu Yuanzhang had a bad temper, so he picked up the bench and threw it at Zhu Biao. Fortunately, Zhu Biao had learned some maneuvering skills and was not hit to death. Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was chasing him to beat him, he simply ran away.
But who knew that even though Zhu Yuanzhang was old, his running skills had not dropped. In desperation, Zhu Biao dropped a painting. Zhu Yuanzhang stopped and looked at the painting in a daze:
The content of the painting is the scene of Empress Ma carrying Zhu Yuanzhang on her back to escape. Seeing this, thinking of Empress Ma who had been with him for decades but had left, Zhu Yuanzhang cried bitterly, so he did not deal with Zhu Biao.
It can be seen from these things that Zhu Biao contradicted Zhu Yuanzhang not just once or twice, but he also knew the consequences of the confrontation, so he asked "Queen Ma" to save him in advance.
This kind of contradiction appeared in the tenth year of Hongwu, when Zhu Biao began to formally handle some government affairs. Until his death in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Biao could only lower his head, fear and worry during the fifteen long years. , uneasy, each person died, but he had nothing to do. He wanted to save someone, even if it was just one person, he could not succeed.
For fifteen years, he was the prince and a complete loser, unable to decide his own destiny or the destiny of others.
Zhu Yunwen thought, if he were Zhu Biao, would he ask himself, what is the meaning of living?
Not interesting!
Therefore, when a serious illness strikes and your life is on the line, you may not even have the desire to live anymore.
When one's heart is dead, one is really not far from death.
Now there is not much meaning in asking about the cause of Zhu Biao's death. What makes Zhu Yunwen feel painful is that if the prince, who is the closest son to Zhu Yuanzhang and the most respected prince, is afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang's temper and temperament and is "extremely frightened", then what will happen in the palace? Where are the eunuchs and maids serving Zhu Yuanzhang?
The betrayal of Qiu He and others in the palace supervisor, and Lu Shan who ran away from the Shangfu Bureau. Are they life-threatening ghosts intertwined in the terrifying darkness of the Hongwu Dynasty, or are they a group of ambitious chess pieces intent on subverting the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Yunwen closed "Notes on Living", walked out of the room, and looked at the quiet yard. Concubine Ning was sitting on the swing and slowly swinging, staring at the green grape trellis. He couldn't help but walked over and said, "What are you thinking about?"
Concubine Ning was frightened and jumped down quickly, but unexpectedly she couldn't stand firm. Zhu Yunwen quickly reached out to help her. Looking at Concubine Ning who was throwing herself in his arms with a shy look on her face, she smiled and said, "I'm so entranced that I surprised you."
"Your Majesty, are you my concubine?"
Concubine Ning apologized quickly and stood aside.
Zhu Yunwen didn't mind, and took Concubine Ning to sit on the swing together. He looked at the grapevines. The grape flowers had almost fallen off, and bunches of small grapes were hanging on the branches.
"I once had a dream. I dreamed that I was sitting in a courtyard with grape arbors, watching the dappled sunlight falling and the stars twinkling. The days were quiet and comfortable, carefree, and I never thought about what would happen next. Whatever you do, just enjoy the comfort of the moment..."
Zhu Yunwen said softly.
Concubine Ning looked sideways at Zhu Yunwen and said softly: "My concubine was like this when she was a child. She loved to swing under the grape trellis. At that time, there was a pond outside the door. In midsummer, the pond was full of pink and white lotus flowers. But Looks good.”
Zhu Yunwen leaned back on his chair and thought about the distance: "I don't know if the lotus flowers in the West Lake are blooming."
Concubine Ning stretched out her hand to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear, and said softly: "It should be close. By June, the pond will be filled with the fragrance of lotus flowers."
Zhu Yunwen was planning the major affairs of the court. By June and July, the two major events of immigration and Huitong River should be on the right track. The Japanese pirates were basically beaten and did not dare to take the lead. Except for the Liao king in the northeast who was not very honest, there seemed to be no Who is restless.
Annan calmed down and switched to full-scale defense. Beiyuan was probably letting his horses rest and didn't have time to come over and rob them.
Although there are many affairs in the court, there should be no major worries, and foreign troubles are out of the question.
Thinking about the historical line, it seems that this year was just a fight with Zhu Di, and there were no other major events. Now that there is no Jingnan War, there will not be a major event that will cause the world to collapse.
"'The fragrance of lotus flowers floats on the table, and the moonlit hibiscus sings in the window.' This is an excellent picture. Since the lotus flowers are in full bloom in June, we might as well go to the south of the Yangtze River and enjoy the lotus flowers."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Concubine Ning and said seriously.
Concubine Ning looked surprised at first, then looked happy, and then she became worried again. She quickly got off the swing and dissuaded her: "I thank you for your kindness, but your responsibilities are very important and you need to be in charge of the capital, so you cannot leave for a long time."
Zhu Yunwen stretched out his hand to pull up Concubine Ning and said: "When Taizu was here, were there not many private visits in private? In Shandong, Henan, Beiping, Huizhou, Suhang, where is there no trace of Taizu? As an emperor, he should go to the people to see it. Take a look and understand the sentiments of the people, right?"
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