In the sixth year of Longqing (1572 AD), Mu Zong died, and Zhu Yijun, the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne at the age of ten.

Five years later......

In the sixth year of Wanli (1578 AD), Mingshenzong married Xizu, the queen of Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wang Weizhi, and established Wang Xizu as the queen. A few years later, she gave birth to a daughter, and she never had a child.

In the ninth year of Wanli (1581 AD), Mingshenzong favored the queen of the Empress Dowager's palace, and the Wang family was pregnant. The following year, she gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo.

In August of the same year, the imperial court issued an edict for beauty pageants, and the seventeen-year-old Zheng was selected into the palace with a charming appearance, and was favored by Emperor Shenzong and was named Concubine De.

In the thirteenth year of Wanli (1585 AD), Concubine De was pregnant and it was difficult to give birth to a son. Zhu Changming, the second prince of Mingshenzong, was in a coma after giving birth, and when she woke up, she learned that the child died at birth.

Concubine De was in pain, and Emperor Shenzong was even more heartbroken.

The queen of the middle palace has no children, and Shenzong loves Concubine De, and she intended to make the prince if she gave birth to a prince.

In the fourteenth year of Wanli (1586 AD), Zheng gave birth to a son, namely Zhu Changxun. Mingshenzong was overjoyed and intended to be crowned as the imperial concubine, which was in stark contrast to Concubine Gong's cold attitude. Soon, there were rumors that Shenzong and Zheng Guifei had gone to the Dagao Xuandian to pray for God and swore an oath, agreed to make Zhu Changxun the crown prince, and sealed the secret oath in a jade box for Zheng Guifei to keep.

In the eighteenth year of Wanli (1590 AD), the famous Confucian Lu Kun served as the envoy of Shanxi, during his tenure, he collected the deeds of virtuous women and martyrs in history, and wrote the book "Boudoir Fan Diagram". The eunuch Chen Ju (who later took charge of the East Factory and participated in the trial of the second "Demon Book Case") saw this book when he left the palace and bought a copy to take back to the palace.

After Zheng Guifei saw it, she wanted to use this book to elevate her status, so she ordered people to add twelve people, starting with Empress Mingde of the Eastern Han Dynasty and ending with Zheng Guifei herself, and personally added a preface.

Shenzong did not set up a prince, and the courtiers suspected that Zheng Guifei was planning to set up his son Zhu Changxun as the prince, so they argued for the establishment of a prince, and the chapters were thousands of hundreds, all of which reprimanded the palace and attacked the government. The Divine Sect didn't ask.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593 AD), Mingshenzong rejected the minister's request to canonize the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince on the grounds that Wang Xijie was still in her prime and might have a son-in-law.

The two factions respectively supported the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo and the blessed king Zhu Changxun to compete for the crown prince.

In accordance with the principle of the Ming Dynasty's canonization of the eldest son as the crown prince, most of the ministers supported the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, and suggested to Mingshenzong that the eldest son be the crown prince, but Mingshenzong did not like Zhu Changluo, who was born to the palace maid, but doubled his favor for Zheng Guifei, and intended to set up Zheng Guifei's son Zhu Changxun as the prince, but was strongly opposed by the ministers and the Empress Dowager Cisheng.

Due to the delay of the Mingshen Sect to establish the crown prince, the ministers were worried.

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Zheng Guifei's son who died was still alive, so Zheng Guifei secretly searched for the whereabouts of her child.

Zheng Guifei originally suspected that the Wang family and the queen did what happened back then, and if she found her child who died young, she could find evidence of the queen and Wang's crime.

The queen's father was originally the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and when he learned the news, he also secretly searched for it in the rivers and lakes.

The Myojin Sect indulged in wine (one said that it was addicted to opium smoking). He also quarreled with the cabinet for more than ten years because of the establishment of the crown prince, and finally simply did not leave the palace gate for 30 years and ignored the government.

No suburbs, no temples, no courts, no seeing, no criticism, no talking.

Shenzong no longer received courtiers, and the cabinet appeared the phenomenon of "people staying in the office" and "Cao Office being long and empty".

Because of this, Wei Zhongxian wanted to use Zheng Guifei's power to develop his strength, buy and sell officials privately, win over gangs, and fight the Donglin Party. Use the power of Dongchang to assassinate all those who disagree with their views.

So, a bloody storm was set off in the rivers and lakes.

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