In the ancient feudal society of the mainland for thousands of years, all the power of life and death of the state was in the hands of the supreme ruler of the country, the emperor, and the ruler imprisoned people's thoughts with the traditional Confucian thought of respecting the monarch and patriotism in order to maintain his rule, so that the identity and status of the emperor were above ten thousand people and worshiped by all the people.
Correspondingly, in the context of the ancient polygamous society, although the emperor could recruit beautiful women from all over the world to enter the three palaces and enter the six courtyards as concubines.
However, there is always one candidate for the empress, the status of the empress is second only to the emperor, which is a model for the women of the world, and the empress is the supreme woman, who is admired by the people of the world and also needs the mother of the world.
Born into a noble family, born beautiful
Shen Zhu was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, the Shen family began to be an official from the ancestors, and by the time of Shen Pearl's father, the Shen family was already a famous and prestigious family that had been officials for generations.
Shen Pearl is the third generation of the Shen family, born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, she was born as a pearl in the palm of the family, from childhood in the land of fish and rice, she not only has a beautiful face, but also integrates the grace of the small bridges and flowing water in Jiangnan Water Town, forming a gentle and generous character.
As the days passed, Shen Pearl gradually grew up, and her already handsome and beautiful face grew into a standard beauty embryo after fading a little childishness.
At that time, in order to prevent foreign relatives from interfering in politics, when selecting concubines for the sons of the royal family, the ruler's eyes were no longer limited to political marriages with powerful courtiers and nobles in the middle of the dynasty, but looked beyond the court, but there were also certain requirements for alternative women, that is, to consider the situation of the candidate women's ancestors and clans.
For example, it is stipulated that the ancestors of women who can be elected to the court must not have felonies, and the clan must not be empty or too poor, so a solid family such as the Shen family, which has been an official for generations, has become the best candidate for the royal family to choose concubines.
Once elected to the court, he dreamed of shattering the Yanqiu Gate
In the last year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, Shen Zhu, who had been selected as a woman of the good family after layers of screening, was selected into the court, and in this year, she married Li Yu, the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Donggong, as a concubine, officially starting her ups and downs in the court.
Shen Zhu's life at the beginning of entering the palace was still quite happy, and Li Yude, the king of Guangping, was naturally overjoyed by such a tall and beautiful wife with white skin, and the newly married two were like glue, and their feelings were very strong, so they soon ushered in the crystallization of their love.
In the first year of Tianbao, Shen Gave birth to the emperor's eldest grandson for the emperor's eldest son Li Yu, and the palace was happy about this good news, at the same time, the emperor's eldest grandson was given the name Li Shi, and Li Yu, who was happy to have a noble son, was more and more fond of the concubine Shen Shi, who had worked hard to give birth to an imperial heir.
Shen Zhu should have had a smooth life: when her husband became emperor, she was the candidate for the empress dowager of the harem with the title of crown prince, and then when her son inherited the throne, she was naturally honored as the empress dowager.
However, the cruelty of reality often caught people off guard, and the An Shi Rebellion broke out in the fifteenth year of the Tang Dynasty Tianbao, and the rebel army led by An Lushan, Shi Siming and other traitors and thieves was invincible all the way, and it was seen that in the near future, they would attack Chang'an and attack the palace.
In this critical autumn of survival, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji recognized the current situation of the current confrontation between the strong enemy and the weak enemy in the discussion with several courtiers, and Xuanzong decided not to confront the rebels head-on, and established that the most urgent thing at the moment was to avoid its sharp edge and wait for the coming day, so he took the noble concubine Yang Shi and a number of princes and grandsons out of the palace temporarily to avoid disaster.
At that time, the situation was very critical, the people inside and outside the palace were panicked and chaotic, and in the face of the desire to survive, the dignity and inferiority of the master and servant also became illusory, and everyone was busy fleeing for their lives.
Under such a chaotic situation, some concubines and women in the palace, imperial relatives and noble relatives, etc., because they were pampered and treated well on weekdays and were accustomed to being served by subordinates, simply did not have the ability to survive in response to sudden crisis situations.
Therefore, a large part of these people soon dispersed with the fleeing large army in a panicked atmosphere, and eventually became prisoners of the rebels, including the imperial concubine Shen Shi.
Shen Zhu stood out from a group of candidate women with the identity and outstanding talent of a prestigious and famous clan, and once she was elected to the court, one was in love with her husband Li Yu, and the other was meritorious to the emperor of Sheji, she probably never expected that she would actually have his dreams shattered in Yanqiumen, became a prisoner of the rebel army, and began a lifetime of suffering.
Emperor Daizong searches for concubines, Emperor Dezong seeks his mother,
Shen Zhu was imprisoned in Luoyang along with the emperor's relatives and noble relatives who had fallen into the hands of the An Shi rebels, and a year later, the emperor's eldest son Li Yu led an army to retake Luoyang and rescue Shen Shi, who had been imprisoned by the rebels for more than a year.
Although Shen Zhu was rescued, due to the unstable reasons, Li Yu, who had been made crown prince, did not have time to immediately welcome her back to Chang'an, and at this time, the young couple who had been reunited for a long time may have told each other to be patient and wait for the end of the matter to be the next day, but they never expected that this time it was a thousand rivers and mountains.
A year later, the remnants of the rebel army led by Shi Siming once again attacked Luoyang, a large number of refugees were transferred, luoyang quickly became an empty city, and at this time, Shen Zhu, who was mixed among the refugees, was once again missing.
Soon after, Li Yu assumed the throne as emperor, that is, Emperor Tang of Tang, and he ordered the crown prince Li Shi to personally lead an army to retake Luoyang, but after Luoyang was recaptured, there was still no whereabouts of Shen Zhu.
Since then, Emperor Daizong Li Yu has never given up the search for the ai concubine Shen Shi, but the large Luoyang City, whether it is the emperor's edict Ming Xun or sending emissaries to visit everywhere, the results obtained are nothing, shen pearls are like the evaporation of the human world, there is no news.
After more than ten years of unsuccessful searching, Daizong, who was worried about the Concubine Shen clan and the chaotic world, worked for ten years like a day, and finally exhausted and died in the inner hall of the Zichen Palace of daming palace.
After the death of Emperor Daizong, Li Yu and Li Shi, the son of Shen Shi, succeeded to the throne as Emperor Dezong of Tang, and after Emperor Dezong ascended the throne, Yao honored his biological mother Shen Shi as "Empress Dowager" and held a ceremony for his mother to be canonized.
In addition, Dezong, like his father, never stopped searching for his mother Shen, and continued to increase manpower and material resources to conduct carpet searches on the basis of his father's daizong, and even specially set up an official position to find and greet his mother, which showed that he was eager to find his mother, but Dezong's pure and filial heart was used by people with hearts.
Once the news of finding Empress Shen reached Dezong's ears, he was overjoyed to see this Empress Shen herself before he realized that it was someone else impersonating herself, and he could not help but feel lonely and sad; for the counterfeiters, Dezong, who was worried about his mother, did not punish them, which led to the impostors becoming more and more unscrupulous.
Throughout his life, Emperor Dezong could not find his true mother, Empress Shen, until his death, and eventually died with regret. After Emperor Xianzong ascended the throne, the search for the whereabouts of the Shen clan has been unsuccessful for decades, and the "missing" Shen clan has completely become an unsolved mystery during the Anshi rebellion.
Shen Pearl's life is high and low, the first twenty years of her life can be described as smooth sailing: born into the royal family, husband and wife harmonious birth and concubine; later the Anshi Rebellion broke out, after the disappearance of 26 years, Shen Pearl began a life of upheaval and displacement, four generations of emperors looking for 46 years of unsuccessful after the empty space to mourn, it is inevitable to lament.