According to the Ming History, when Emperor Chongzhen visited the shrine, five-year-old Zhu Cihuan suddenly said, "The Nine Lotus Bodhisattva said that the emperor would mistreat his relatives and do all the harm to his son." . Zhu Cihuan died shortly after saying this sentence. The so-called Nine Lotus Bodhisattva is not a real bodhisattva, but Li Taihou, the mother of Emperor Wanli and the great-grandmother of Emperor Chongzhen.
This incident is also recorded in the book "Little Knowledge of the Emperor", which is more vivid than Ming history. The book says, "We must see the illness of King Ai Ling. Refers to the lotus empress Wang Jiu standing in the air, who repeatedly committed the crime of destroying the Three Treasures and demanded that Wu Qing's greetings be finished. That is to say, Zhu Cihuan pointed to the sky and said that the Nine Lotus Bodhisattva stood there, telling the emperor's sin of abusing his consorts and destroying the Three Treasures.
Hearing Zhu Cihuan's words, Emperor Chongzhen was very afraid. "It is too common to go to college with awe and want to save it." Later, Zhu Cihuan was made a Confucian filial piety and mourned for the spirit of Wang Xuan. At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen took some measures to "order courtiers to discuss filial piety with the Empress Dowager, Zhuang Fei and Yi Fei Dao." But what he did was meaningless. Finally, Zhu Cihuan's prediction came true, and the descendants of Emperor Chongzhen were either dead or killed.
Then the problem is coming. Is it really the Nine Lotus Bodhisattva who made Zhu Cihuan make such a prediction? In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was cheated. He was cheated by eunuchs and consorts! To know the inside story of this matter, we must know the background at that time. It turned out that Emperor Chongzhen was facing this huge financial difficulty at this time. In order to improve his salary, Emperor Chongzhen took the advice of Xue, a cabinet scholar, and "helped"!
The so-called "help" means that the emperor asked the minister to borrow money to help pay, which is actually a disguised form of forced donation. At that time, Mann had a bad relationship with his brother. This Shu elder brother wanted to report to the emperor and said, "My father is worth 400,000 yuan, and I deserve half. Now please help the country for the army. " This Li Guorui listened to other people's opinions, hid the money, then pretended to sell iron in the pot and peddled it in the street, saying that he had no money.
Emperor Chongzhen was furious and said, "Take away Rui Jue, Rui is scared to death." . Li Guorui died, but the emperor's "help" action did not stop. When other consorts saw the emperor's drastic measures, they were also very scared, so they used a small plot. My consort spent a lot of money bribing the eunuch, and then the emperor's fifth son became seriously ill. So there was a scene in which "the filial piety queen mother became a nine-lotus bodhisattva, complaining that the emperor was a family with small space, and all the scholars were chess pieces and were deified as the fifth son of the emperor".
This move really worked. After the death of the emperor's fifth son, "the emperor was terrified and urgently sealed Guo Rui's seven-year-old son as a good man and returned all his gold and silver." Although this farce has come to an end, it has also exposed very serious problems. My consorts were vested interests in the Ming Dynasty, but when the country was in danger, they became misers instead. For example, Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Emperor Chongzhen, is typical of such people. Can the Ming Dynasty not perish?
There is also a saying in unofficial history about Zhu Cihuan, saying that he was found not dead during the Kangxi period, so he was put to death. However, according to the records of scholars in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihuan should have died in the late Ming Dynasty, and unofficial history didn't know that it might be another son of Chongzhen, or it might be false.