On another occasion, Zhu Houzhao, the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, died at the age of 365,438+0. He had no son and no surviving brother. So before he died, he and his ministers chose his cousin Zhu Houzong as the next emperor. Zhu Houzong is the son of Zhu Shiyuan, the king of Xing County, who was sealed in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province. Zhu Shiyuan is the uncle of Zhu Houzhao, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, and the mother and brother of Zhu Shitang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, Zhu Houzong entered Beijing as a captaincy and became the 11th emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Houzong's father, Zhu Shiyuan, was the first King Xing Xian. He was born in Beijing and was sent to Zhongxiang, Hubei Province as an adult. He was also the third Ming Dynasty captaincy to be named Zhongxiang in Hubei Province. There were two captives in front of him, one was Zhu Dong, the 23rd son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other was Zhu Zhanyang, the 9th son of Zhu Gaochi, the son of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Shiyuan has two sons and four daughters, the eldest son died early and the second son Zhu Houzong. When Zhu Houzong 12 years old, Zhu Shiyuan died, so Zhu Houzong inherited his father's title of Prince Xing, took over the residence of King Xing, and mourned for his father for three years, while Zhu Shiyuan was buried in a pine forest in the northeast of Zhongxiang, Hubei Province with the etiquette of captaincy. This is the tomb of King Xing Xian, the burial tomb of Zhu Houzong's parents, which was later the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, it was not Zhong Xiang, but An Lufu. A few years after Zhu Shiyuan's death, Zhu Houzhao and Amin Wuzong also died of illness. Then, Zhu Houzong, the new king of Xing, was welcomed to Beijing as emperor by a group of delegations from Beijing. Zhu Houzong was made emperor for two main reasons:
First of all, Zhu Houzhao has no brothers, while Zhu Houzong is a close relative of Zhu Houzhao. Their blood relationship is the closest, and their father is a half-brother.
Second, Zhu Houzong is young and doesn't look strong. Ministers generally tend to choose a weaker emperor. After all, as courtiers, they don't like powerful emperors.
At that time, Zhu Houzong was only 15. He is a minor. The minister of the DPRK thinks it is easier to control and can act according to the wishes of the minister. But to the surprise of the court ministers, they soon clashed with the young emperor of 15 years old. The first conflict is: From which gate did Zhu Houzong enter Beijing? Where do you live?
The records of the Ming Wuzong period arranged for Zhu Houzong to enter from Donghuamen and stay in Wenhua Hall, which is the east gate of the Forbidden City and the place where the prince lived. This is equivalent to treating Zhu Houzong as the Prince of Zhu Houzhao. However, Zhu Houzong is Zhu Houzhao's cousin. How can he live in the prince's house? So Zhu Houzong disagreed, not only disagreed, but also took a very tough attitude. He refused to enter from Donghuamen, where court ministers and Zhu Houzong were deadlocked.
Finally, Empress Dowager Cixi intervened in the middle to make the court minister give in, and then asked the courtiers to persuade him to enter the court in the suburbs, and then entered the court at Fengmian Temple, the main entrance of the palace, and Fengtian Temple, the main hall of the palace, where the emperor ascended the throne. As a result, Zhu Houzong, aged 15, won the victory, and the courtiers learned the power of the young emperor for the first time. He is by no means an easy-to-control emperor.
Shortly after Zhu Houzong acceded to the throne, he changed Jiajing and Zhu Houzong became Emperor Jiajing. Then there was a second conflict between Emperor Jiajing and the courtiers. The content is: Who is the father of Emperor Jiajing in the patriarchal sense?
As the ancients said, there are three kinds of unfilial, and nothing is great. It is a pity that there is no son as a continuation of the incense tradition. Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had no son, and Zhu Houzong succeeded Zhu Houzhao to the throne, so the courtiers demanded that Zhu Houzong respect Zhu Houzhao as the father in the patriarchal sense. Although they were actually cousins, courtiers thought that it was the father and son who continued to burn incense in Zhu Houzhao, but Emperor Zhu Houzong of Jiajing disagreed.
Emperor Jiajing and his courtiers argued about this for three and a half years, and finally he won alone. Think about it, a large group of elderly ministers argued with a young emperor of seventeen or eighteen, but in the end, Emperor Jiajing won. What kind of scene is this? No matter how the courtiers objected, he still honored his father Zhu Shiyuan as the emperor and his mother as the Queen Mother of Xingguo. He not only recognized his biological parents, but also chased them.
Zhu Shiyuan used to be a vassal, but now his son has become emperor, so he changed his name to emperor. As a result, the curtain of Xing, who was originally buried in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province, was also upgraded to a tomb. You know, at that time, only the curtain of the emperor could be called the tomb, and the tomb of the vassal king could not be called the tomb, but only the tomb. So there is only one Ming tomb in Zhongxiang, Hubei. This tomb is Zhu Shiyuan's tomb, which was upgraded from the imperial tomb to the imperial tomb.
Zhu Houzong was a very special emperor in the Ming Dynasty. He was born in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province today, and later became emperor in Beijing from Zhongxiang. He has lived in Zhongxiang for 15 years, so Zhongxiang is his hometown. Not long after he proclaimed himself emperor, he changed Anlufu to Chengtianfu, which is one of the three municipalities directly under the Central Government of the Ming Dynasty, equivalent to Chengtianfu where Zhong Xiang is located, Yingtianfu where Nanjing is located and Shuntianfu where Beijing is located. The status is very lofty. You know, from Zhu Houzong in the Ming Dynasty, the emperors behind were all descendants of Zhu Houzong, and they had to go to Chengtianfu to find their ancestral home, so Chengtianfu had a high status at that time.
In addition, Emperor Jiajing also named the seat of Cheng Tianfu's ruling place as Zhongxiang, which means "a treasure trove of geomantic omen and auspicious bells". The name Zhongxiang has been used since Jiajing Dynasty. Zhu Shiyuan's Mausoleum became the only imperial tomb of Ming Dynasty in six provinces in central China. In fact, in addition to the immortal mausoleum, Zhong Xiang also has the tomb of Zhu Dong, the king of Ying, and the tomb of Zhu Zhanyang, the king of Liang. Therefore, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province has a profound Ming culture and many Ming cultural relics have been unearthed.
Today, Zhongxiang City is just a county-level city, which belongs to Jingmen City, Hubei Province. It is located in the middle of Hubei Province, south of Xiangyang, north of Jingzhou, east of Yichang and west of Wuhan, while Xianling is located on Chunde Mountain, five kilometers northeast of Zhongxiang City, covering an area of 2,746 mu. The entire cemetery has a perimeter of 3,600 meters, which is the largest of all single imperial tombs in the Ming Dynasty.