Among the concubines of Wanli, the unfavored abounded. A study of the history books of that time shows that most of the concubines in the biography of the later concubines will be crowned with the evaluation of "no favor". This is because Apocalypse itself is not a lustful prince, not to mention that he has divided most of his feelings with Zheng Guifei, who has been pampered for a while. Almost no other woman can get a piece of the pie, even Li Dejie, who bore him three children.
Li Shi was a native of Kaifeng Province, Henan, and in the ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, the court held a second draft for Emperor Mingshenzong, and it was at this time that Li Shi entered the palace and was named one of the "Nine Concubines". To be able to stand out among countless women, Li Shi must be good-looking. On the surface, she started in line with the later Zheng Guifei, one was a concubine and the other was a concubine, but the two were different from the clouds and mud.
Concubine Zheng Guifei quickly gained the exclusive favor of Wanli, and within a few years, she was promoted from a concubine to an imperial concubine, and her actual status was still above that of the empress. Concubine Li was quite embarrassed, and although she kept giving birth to children for Wanli, she was never able to get favor. It seems that because she can give birth, she can have children, which is the reason why the royal family raised her.
When Concubine Li entered the palace, she was still very young, only 15 years old. Three years later, she gave birth to Princess Zhu Xuanyu, the Fifth Daughter of the Emperor, for emperor Mingshenzong. This should have been a great thing, but the princess died half a month later, which made Li De concubine extremely sad.
After another nine years, the 27-year-old Concubine Li became pregnant again and gave birth, still a princess. But this was called Princess Taishun Zhu Xuanji, who still died early, leaving Li De concubine with indelible sorrow.
However, it seems that fate will continue to torment Li Dejie, and at the age of 32, she gave birth again, and she was a princess again. This was already the ninth princess of the MingShen Sect, princess Zhu Xuanyan of Xiangshan. It's just that this princess, who came to the human world less than a year old, died in a hurry.
This time, Li De concubine was completely broken, no longer had the courage to face it, she was heartbroken, painful, all day long to pray to God to worship the Buddha, wash her face with tears. This time was also her last childbearing, and she has not had any children since.
The indifference and ruthlessness of the court were vividly reflected at this time, and although she gave birth to three princesses, she was not rewarded with a title. It is not necessary to say that she gave birth to a daughter, when Zheng Guifei was pregnant, she did not know men and women, and she was promoted from a concubine to a concubine. Even if her first child was born to the second daughter of the Emperor Yun and the princess Zhu Xuanshu, she was also named a noble concubine.
Everything comes from pampering, so in the harem, to get the emperor's favor is to get all. As far as Li De concubine is concerned, she has experienced the pain of losing her daughter three times, and she has been completely discouraged, and she can no longer cheer up, let alone compete for favors. In the harem, she was like a canary with its wings folded, she couldn't do anything, but she couldn't leave the cage and flee to the outside world.
After Wanli's death, she experienced the era of the Taichang Emperor of January, the era of the faint Apocalypse Emperor, until the first year of Chongzhen, when she died quietly in a corner of the palace. No one cared about her arrival, and no one cared about her departure. I believe that in the palace, many palace eunuchs and even concubines, when they learned of this news, at most lamented the tragic fate of her life. Who would have thought that in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty finally came to an end. Although Li Deconcubinage had gone more than ten years earlier, she avoided seeing the end of the dynasty, avoiding seeing the destruction of life, and avoiding the fate of being humiliated, and perhaps not losing.