Aside from these official rhetoric, I think Emperor Wanli is a good man, at least in terms of feelings, and there is no unfaithfulness. Mother Wang Xi, the Queen, gave birth to only one daughter for him, and she doted on Zheng Guifei herself, never thinking of abolishing Mother Wang Xi. She was also kind to her only daughter, Sister Wang Xi, and broke the ancestral system for her.
Sister Wang Xi's only daughter named Zhu Xuanshen, princess Rongchang, the only descendant of Wanli, was born to the queen's sister Wang Qian. The history books do not record her appearance, but they also do not record whether she is good or ugly. At least one thing can be said, that is, Princess Rongchang is passable, born in the royal family, and has excellent cultivation. Whoever can get Princess Rongchang is lucky.
1596, princess Rongchang 15 years old. When she reached marriageable age, Emperor Wanli personally worried about her marriage, and chose Yang Chunyuan, the son of Yang Ji, the deputy commander of Cheng Nanbing's company, as a captain. There is a good tradition in the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the royalty from becoming bigger and stronger, since Ming Xianzong's eldest daughter Renhe married Qi Shiying, all the princesses have married ordinary people, so that most proud daughters in heaven are unhappy for the rest of their lives.
It was not until Princess Rongchang that Emperor Wanli broke this tradition for her and chose an official as Ma Xu, showing his love for Princess Rongchang.
The married life of Princess Rongchang;
After Princess Rongchang and Xu Yangchunyuan got married, their relationship was not bad, and they gave birth to five sons, including Yang Guangkui and Yang. However, life is not smooth sailing, but stumbling everywhere. When the eldest son, Yang Guangkui, was 4 years old, the couple had a big fight and started the cold war mode.
This was not a big deal, but it reached the ears of Emperor Wanli. Wanli, eager to protect her daughter, immediately reprimanded Yang Chunyuan and accused him of not letting her go, so that their relationship went wrong. Yang Chun Yuan's grievance suddenly came up, and he took a bridge back to his hometown of Gu 'an County with a little temper, leaving Princess Rongchang and others in the capital.
Dongchang played its fine tradition of tattletale and immediately informed Emperor Wanli that Captain Yang Chunyuan of Ma Xu had escaped. Emperor Wanli was furious at once, ordered Xu's father to be dismissed from his post, and sent a security guard to kill Xu and "escort" him back to Beijing.
A few days later, Mr. Xu returned to Beijing despondently, seemingly regretful, and Emperor Wanli also took the opportunity to punish a imperial academy for studying etiquette for one hundred days. Come to think of it, Xu Yangchunyuan doesn't seem to be a "person". He is too weak. The quarrel between husband and wife actually made petty bourgeoisie run away from home. It was later proved to be weak and incompetent.
In July of the forty-fourth year of Wanli (16 16), the mother of her husband, Yang Chunyuan, died of illness and cried earth-shattering. Absolutely no one would doubt his filial piety, so that she didn't eat for seven days and finally died of hunger strike. This is a bit pedantic. This year, Master Xu was only 35 years old and still in his prime, leaving Princess Rongchang orphaned and widowed. What a pity!
Sad old age:
Four years later (1620), his mother, Queen Wang, and his father, Emperor Wanli, died one after another, and his half-brother acceded to the throne for Ming Guangzong. Ming Guangzong is a short-lived ghost. Shortly after he ascended the throne, Zheng Guifei gave him a beautiful woman, but he couldn't stand it. He died a month later, and his son Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne (the princess's nephew).
Zhu Youxiao didn't read much, loved carpentry, didn't care about government affairs, and was partial to Wei Zhongxian and others, which led to the further decline of the Ming Dynasty. In the seventh year of the apocalypse (1627), he fell into the water and fell ill. Before he died, he entrusted the Ming Dynasty to his younger brother Zhu Youjian and said, "Come, my younger brother should be Yao Shun."
After Zhu Youjian acceded to the throne, he really demanded himself by the standards of Yao and Shun, and was harsh on people and things to the point of abnormal condition. However, it is difficult to return to the Ming Dynasty. With the sound of a cannon of the peasant uprising army in Li Zicheng, the city of Beijing was broken, and Chongzhen, who was deeply desperate, hanged himself in Jingshan, and the Ming Dynasty perished.
This year, Princess Rongchang was 62 years old, three sons were killed in the disaster, one son died young, and her tears had already dried up. Fortunately, the Qing army issued an order to give preferential treatment to the Ming royal family, and life seems to have some hope. However, reality poured cold water on Princess Rongchang. More than ten properties in Beijing were occupied by the Qing army. She went to collect the rent from her former tenants, but they refused to pay it. They even said, "It's the Qing Dynasty. Are you crazy? " Then he sneered, not to mention how bleak the scene was.
In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), Princess Rongchang died of illness in a dilapidated thatched cottage at the age of 65.
Conclusion: Princess Rongchang, as a royal princess, had a tortuous life and witnessed the prosperity, decline and demise of the Ming Dynasty. It is very unfortunate that a weak woman ended up in an anticlimactic state in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs in her later years. However, Princess Rongchang, as a princess of the Ming Dynasty, enjoyed super-high royal treatment, and her feet were finished. From this point of view, Princess Rongchang is not pitiful!