Zhu Yuanzhang left a will, and after his death, all the harem concubines who had never given birth sacrificed for himself. As many as 46 concubines were buried with Zhu Yuanzhang, and there were more than a dozen ladies-in-waiting.
To tell the truth, the martyrdom system is inhuman, and it is really cruel to deprive people of their lives at will. This is unimaginable in modern times, but it was normal in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, ruthless Judy, kind Zhu Gaochi and kind Zhu Zhanji also made human sacrifices and buried their concubines. In the hands of Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qizhen, he severely opposed the martyrdom system and left a will to abolish it.
So, for what reason did Zhu Qizhen abolish the martyrdom system? This has to start with his money queen.
Qian Bi was one year older and was chosen as his future queen by Empress Dowager Cixi in A.D. 1442. Although it is an "arranged marriage", it is very loving after marriage. As if nothing had happened, the two will sing along with each other, one is the emperor of the world and the other is the mother of the world. They will enjoy all the splendor in their lives, and then reincarnate as princes and inherit the throne. However, all this changed after the change of the civil fort seven years later (1449). With the change of the civil fort, Daming lost hundreds of thousands of civil and military ministers, including Zhang Fu, a British public servant, and the elite of the Ming Dynasty. Even Emperor Zhu Qizhen became a prisoner of Varatash.
At this time, the Ming court was shaken and leaderless, and the Queen Qian, as a harem harem, had already lost her mind. At first, Mr. Valla thought that Zhu Qizhen was a "rare commodity of life" and wanted to blackmail the Ming Dynasty with Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qizhen to get gold, silver and jewels. When Queen Qian learned of it, she immediately gave all her gold, silver and jewels to Xian, hoping that he could return them to her husband as a token of his treasure. However, I am not satisfied. I want more gold, silver and jewels, even land, and I am determined not to put them back in Zhu Qizhen. The queen of money was blinded at once and didn't know what to do. He can only keep crying and pray for her husband's safe return. What a loving couple.
Queen Qian has been worried about her husband Zhu Qizhen. Seeing that her husband had no hope of returning, she got the bad news that her brother Qian Qin and her brother Qian Zhong were also killed in the "rebellion". Every day in Lacrimosa, she cried and prayed to God to let her husband go. She prayed day and night every day, and when she was tired, she knelt on the ground and didn't sleep. Over time, Queen Qian's body was blown down by the cold wind, and her leg was seriously injured, which could not be cured. One of her eyes was soon blinded by crying day and night.
Daming is in danger. Fortunately, Yu Qian, a loyal minister, stepped forward, made Zhu Qiyu, king of Xi, emperor, changed his position to Jingtai, and respected Ming Yingzong as the emperor's father, thus smashing the first attempt. Later, I saw for the first time that there was a new emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen in my hand had become the emperor's father, so it was useless. So through negotiation, I sent Emperor Zhu Qizhen back to Daming.
After Zhu Qizhen was welcomed back to Beijing, the situation was worse than that in Walla, and there was no freedom. He was honored as the "emperor's father" and was placed under house arrest in Nangong. He is a senior prisoner. To make matters worse, Queen Zhu Qizhen is no longer a charming beauty, but a lame and blind woman. Queen Qian and others live alone in the Nangong, and they are afraid that they may be killed by their younger brother one day.
Empress Qian was helpless and had to comfort her husband. She also led the concubines and maids in Nangong to do embroidery in exchange for food. The life span of Tai shang huang is seven years in the blink of an eye. After Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, eunuch Cao Jixiang and others "made a dash for the door", Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne again and reigned. At this time, a eunuch entered the slanderers, and Qian was lame and blind, which was no longer suitable for the mother instrument world. Zhou Guifei, the mother of the prince, should be made the queen. Hearing this, I reprimanded loudly, stuck to my guns and continued to be the queen of money.
In A.D. 1646, Ming Yingzong was seriously ill, and his only worry was his wife, Queen Qian. Because according to the human sacrifice system in the Ming Dynasty, Queen Qian had no children, so it was probably buried for herself. In order to ensure that after his death, Zhu Qizhen's money queen was spared from martyrdom, and continued to enjoy the splendor.
On his deathbed, Zhu Qizhen summoned Prince Zhu Jianshen and solemnly said his last words. Every time the emperor dies, so many concubines in the harem need to be buried, which is inhuman. I really don't have the heart to do this. After I die, don't let those infertile concubines die. Let's stop the martyrdom system from me and stop martyrdom in the future.
Since then, the martyrdom system that has been implemented for more than 70 years in the Ming Dynasty has been abolished. Although Zhu Qizhen did not explicitly abolish the martyrdom system of the Queen of Money, it is well known that he abolished the martyrdom system of the lame and blind Queen of Money.