Teacher Qi is joking.

It's a joke, but in the official history, he didn't kill Zhang Taihou, and Zhang Taihou in the TV series Taihua is a completely fictional character.

Zhang Taihou is actually the Empress Dowager, the emperor's grandmother, and the Empress Dowager is the emperor's mother.

In the TV series, Zhang Taihou was arrogant, appointed his younger brother eunuch, and ran amok. Zhu Qizhen was only nine years old when he became emperor, which was when he needed his parents' education. The attitudes of both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are diametrically opposed to the official history. Zhang Taihou dotes on Zhu Qizhen, and eunuch Wang Zhen is arranged by Zhang Taihou beside Zhu Qizhen. He also connived at his own brother's recklessness and chaos, which led to Zhu Qizhen's rash personal expedition, the change of ownership of the civil fort, the capture of the emperor, and the turmoil in his ancestral industry, making him a generation of sinners.

After the change of the civil fort, Zhu Qizhen was captured by Walla, and Zhang Taihou hoped to make peace with Walla and redeem his grandson with a large sum of money. The TV series has always portrayed the woman as a successful person, and there have been fierce frictions between her and Zhang Taihou. Finally, Sun made a wise decision and reused Yu Qian to help him become emperor and save Daming.

After Zhu Qizhen was released by Vala, he became a completely different person. In order to hide his ugliness, he killed his doting grandmother. Zhang Taihou, who is extremely upright and wise in the official history, became a joke under the tampering of TV series.

According to the Ming History, when nine-year-old Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he was suspicious of the country, and ministers invited Zhang Taihou to listen to politics. The empress dowager won't allow it. Nevertheless, the affairs of state are still in the hands of Zhang Taihou. Although Zhang's position is respected, he does not attach importance to his family, and even does not allow his consorts to interfere in state affairs. She also called Wang Zhen and scolded him for three days, which effectively hit Wang Zhen and made Wang Zhen dare not do bad things when he was in power. At that time, it was not arrogant, which also showed that Zhang's vision was far away. She reused the old ministers since Ren Xuan, namely Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Yang Pu. They stabilized the frontier defense, rectified the bureaucracy and developed the economy. In the early years of orthodoxy, the Queen Mother and Sanyang managed the country well, which made the Ming Dynasty prosperous and quite prosperous. However, since the five years of orthodoxy, with the death of Sanyang, Zhang Taihou died, and the eunuchs who had been favored began to make waves.

So, before the change of the civil fort, Zhang Taihou had actually been dead for seven years, and Zhu Qizhen was imprisoned by Waci for one year. After he came back, he was placed under house arrest by Zhu Qiyu for another seven years. Although there is no record of Zhang Taihou's birth age, according to Zhu Gaochi's age, it can be roughly estimated that Zhang Taihou was almost sixty years old when he died, and it will take fifteen years to live in Zhu Qizhen and become a master again, so Zhang Taihou is already an old man in his seventies.

The ancients valued filial piety, and etiquette was the cornerstone of governing the country. The emperor must set an example. Therefore, even if the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Tai commit crimes, they generally cannot be punished, let alone sentenced to death. If Zhu Qizhen wants to kill a 70-year-old minister, or an ordinary person, this is a common practice, but it is absolutely impossible to kill the Queen Mother, his own grandmother. I guess it's not a cover-up, it's a sin, and there's nothing to be afraid of in TV dramas.