In ancient times, the royal concubines attached great importance to the family lineage of women, but there was one dynasty exception, that is, the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he stipulated that the royal family should choose a wife, not look at the family lineage, but only look at the character. As long as the family is innocent, even the daughter of a peasant family can be a royal wife. This system of choosing wives also prevents the monopoly of foreign relations to a certain extent.
Therefore, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty began to choose folk women as wives. The first empress of the Jiajing Emperor came from the people. This empress from the folk is named Chen Lian, Chen Lian has been polite and beautiful since childhood, and has a good reputation among the eight townships in ten miles. When Chen Lian was fourteen years old, when the Jiajing Emperor was choosing concubines in the people, the eunuch who chose the concubines for the Jiajing Emperor heard about Chen Lian's good name in the folk and went to see each other. Chen Lian was favored by the eunuch at a glance.
But in fact, Chen Lian did not want to enter the palace as the emperor's woman, but she did not dare to disobey, so she had to pretend to be well-behaved and supple, earning enough of the love of the Jiajing Emperor and being crowned empress. Chen Lian was only fourteen years old when he ascended the throne, and he was young and weak, so he never had any children. The Jiajing Emperor was very worried about Chen Lian's physical condition, and summoned many tai doctors to see Chen Lian, but they could not see what kind of illness Chen Lian really was, making it difficult to conceive.
After seven years like this, Chen Lian had no heirs. The Jiajing Emperor was really worried, and whenever he asked, Chen Lian took the opportunity to say the name of a divine doctor he had met when he was a child, and Chen Lian said that only this divine doctor could heal himself. It was said that the Jiajing Emperor hurriedly ordered people to look for this divine doctor in the people. Unfortunately, this divine doctor had already driven to the west of the crane, and only one apprentice had inherited his mantle, so the Jiajing Emperor summoned this divine doctor's apprentice into the palace to heal Chen Lian.
After this disciple of the Divine Doctor consulted Chen Lian for a period of time, Chen Lian's condition really improved. The Jiajing Emperor then let this person stay in the palace to nourish Chen Lian's body. After a period of time, Chen Lian did succeed in becoming pregnant, and the Jiajing Emperor was very happy. In order to keep their child, the Jiajing Emperor also made an agreement with Chen Lian not to have sex with Chen Lian during her pregnancy, so he rarely went to Chen Lian's palace.
One night, the Jiajing Emperor missed Chen Lian, who was pregnant with a child, so he quietly went to Chen Lian's palace to visit Chen Lian, and Chen Lian was actually messing with the untidy clothes of the divine doctor apprentice who healed her illness. The Jiajing Emperor was furious and kicked at Chen Lian's stomach, and Chen Lian gave birth at that time. That night, the Jiajing Emperor killed the adulterer and adulteress.