I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 588 Zhu Houzhao's Temple Name and Posthumous Name

"Your Highness, do you have any other suggestions?" Yang Tinghe asked straightforwardly. He could see that Zhu Houxuan already had a mature idea in his mind.

"Hit!" Zhu Houxuan said lightly.

Now everyone was in an uproar again, this evaluation was too high!
Zhong, the leader of revival!

Zhongzu is a temple name that has never appeared in history, because the requirements to meet the requirements of Zhongzu are too high.
In the case of Zhongzu, the country needs to fall once more and then flourish again. Then the person who inherits the Mandate of Heaven is Zhongzu, and Liu Xiu has this qualification, but he chooses "Shizu" who is more suitable for him, which means the transfer of the lineage.

Only two people in history had such an opportunity, one was Liu Bei and the other was Li Longji.

If Liu Bei could revive the Han Dynasty, he could only choose Zu (because Liu Xiu had already taken the temple title of Shizu).
If Li Longji had not experienced the events after the tenth year of Tianbao, he would have been the Zhongzu. (Li Tang needed to avoid the name of Li Shimin, so there was no Shizu.)
Wang Xian, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, frowned and said, "If the late emperor is the Zhongzu, where does that put Emperor Xiaozong?"

Cabinet scholar Xu Zan echoed, "It's not in accordance with etiquette."

Since he was the leader of the restoration, Zhu Houzhao must have inherited a mess, and his predecessor must have been a tyrant. But Zhu Houzhao's father, whose temple name was "Xiaozong", was a wise and benevolent ruler of the highest level. Isn't this contradictory?
Everyone looked at Zhu Houxun. If this point was not round enough, then the word "middle" would not be appropriate.

Zhu Houxuan said firmly: "The temple name must be Zhongzu!"

It must be the Ming Zhongzu, who had a rich treasury, expanded territory, and created a prosperous era. Only with such a final conclusion can the great achievements of Zhu Houzhao and his regent be highlighted, because most of the things were done by him assisting the emperor.

Wang Xian still asked the same question: "Where should we place Emperor Xiaozong?"

If Zhu Houzhao was the ruler of the restoration, then his father must have been a tyrant, and this cannot be explained.

Zhu Houxuan had considered this a long time ago. He said: "The decline of the Ming Dynasty was all due to Yingzong's fault. The previous emperor revived the country that Yingzong had ruined."

Zhu Qizhen was simply a god. If he had ignored everything, focused on defiled the palace, ignored state affairs, and been proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and had taken up some hobbies like carpentry and traveling to the south of the Yangtze River, with the family fortune left by several generations, he would have been a wise ruler and could have brought prosperity to the country.

As a result, the iron-clad Ming was almost killed. He was really not afraid of the rich second generation's eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, but was afraid that he wanted to prove himself.
Zhu Houxuan's words once again made everyone go wild. In ancient China, there has always been a custom of not mentioning the names of respected people. Even if Zhu Qizhen was a bastard, Zhu Houxuan should not have commented on Yingzong's ancestor so bluntly, not to mention that Zhu Houxuan still had Zhu Qizhen's blood flowing in his veins. This was simply treason.
Hmm? No! Zhu Houxun does not have Zhu Qizhen's blood flowing in his body!

Everyone suddenly realized this problem, and they suddenly felt that Zhu Houxuan's behavior was not so outrageous.
After realizing this, people's mentality suddenly changed subtly. Don't think that Zhu Qizhen has any mass support in this era. It's good enough that people don't despise him in private.
The reason why the ministers protected Zhu Qizhen was, firstly, because of etiquette and secondly, because the person on the throne had Zhu Qizhen's blood.

But now it is completely different. The man on the throne does not have Zhu Qizhen's blood, and he is only six years old and cannot understand such a complicated matter. The regent who has great power in the court does not have Zhu Qizhen's blood, and he shows disgust for Zhu Qizhen.
Everyone understood the purpose of Zhu Houxuan’s previous two edicts. It turned out that they were paving the way for giving Zhu Houzhao the temple name of Zhongzu!
The officials began to think. If Zhu Houxun said so, although there were two generations in between, Zhu Houzhao's temple name "Zhongzu" was reasonable. After all, the temple name system was also constantly deteriorating. In the Han Dynasty, only four emperors had temple names. In the Song Dynasty, every emperor had a temple name. In the Qing Dynasty, the temple name system was completely deteriorating, and the shocking system of 17 ancestral temples was created. All emperors were immortal for hundreds of generations. In ancient times, it was laughable. In the end, these 17 temples were not filled.
So after a discussion, the ministers agreed. After all, the better the temple name of Zhu Houzhao, the more they, the old men of the Zhengde era, could benefit from it. In this case, Yingzong would suffer and Zhu Houxun would bear the blame! Having written this, I can't help but complain about the weird thing Jiajing did, which was that he changed Zhu Di from Taizong to Chengzu.
If the emperors of the Ming Dynasty met in the underworld, Zhu Di would probably find Zhu Houcong first and slap him in the face a few times.

The top four characters in the Chinese temple name system are: Tai, Zhong, Gao, and Shi. As for the Shengzu of the Qing Dynasty, that is not up to discussion among mortals.

Because China's temple name system originated in the Shang Dynasty, and there were only these four temple names in the Shang Dynasty, these four words are the top ones.

The ancestors have merits, and the clan has virtues. Ancestors mean conquering the world, and clan means defending the world.

Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Taizong Wen, this is a story that has been passed down through the ages, which means the normal inheritance of the throne. In order to make himself look legitimate, Zhu Di deleted the fourth year of Jianwen and directly merged it into Hongwu (later the Qing Dynasty restored the fourth year of Jianwen).

For Zhu Di himself, even if he had a hundred "ancestors", they could not replace this Taizong. What he wanted was the virtue of Zong.

Moreover, "Taizong" has extremely high gold content and is a standard feature of the second generation. Since Emperor Taizong of Tang, it has been a T1-level temple name.

Unfortunately, his unworthy descendant Zhu Houcong changed "Zong" to "Zu", which shows that the lineage has changed. Zu has merits and pioneering merits. What are Zhu Di's pioneering merits? Isn't it the Jingnan Rebellion that took over the world? It is easy for everyone to associate it with the fact that he started a rebellion.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he tried his best to cover up and prove that he was Zhu Yuanzhang's legitimate successor. He even changed various historical materials and even replaced his own mother (this is controversial). As a result, Zhu Houcong came up and ripped off his underwear. Not only did he rip it off, but he also made it known to the world.
It can be said that Zhu Di struggled for the two characters "Taizong" throughout his life. Losing these two characters was a complete loss. What's more, the character "Cheng" does not belong to "Tai", "Zhong", "Gao" or "Shi". It is a miscellaneous temple name tailored for him, just like Kangxi's "Shengzu", which has no gold content at all. I don't know whether Yongzheng didn't read enough books at that time, or was fooled by the civil officials.

In addition, I want to complain about Qianlong's temple name, Emperor Gaozong of Qing. It looks good, but it also depends on who the previous Emperor Gaozong was! The Ming Dynasty did not have the temple name Gaozong because the previous Emperor Gaozong was Zhao Gou, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty! Zhao Gou was shameless enough to give himself this temple name. The temple name Gaozong has been ruined because of Zhao Gou! I always feel that Jiaqing was holding back something bad when he gave his father this temple name.
So if Zhu Di knew about this in the afterlife, he would jump out and strangle Jiajing to death.

Yang Tinghe asked, "The temple name is Zhongzu, but what about the posthumous name?"

Zhu Houxuan was too lazy to listen to their arguments and said directly: "Emperor Wu, you can add the rest yourself!"

After discussing for a long time, everyone finally decided on the temple name and posthumous title.

Zhu Houzhao, the Zhongzu of the Ming Dynasty, was the Emperor who inherited the heaven, was long, virtuous, strong, wise, virtuous, meritorious, and filial.

The long string in the middle is all empty words, the real key is "Zhongzu" and "Wu". It is generally called "Ming Zhongzu", and if it follows the Han Dynasty, it can also be called "Ming Wudi".

(End of this chapter)