Since ancient times, empresses have been a political force that cannot be ignored, from Wu Zetian to Cixi, and their influence has been profound. Although most empresses have been obscured by the long river of history, they are basically recorded in history as skilled in scheming or extremely talented. The protagonist of this article is a priceless treasure - true love and flowed for hundreds of years. She was Empress Qian of Emperor Mingyingzong.
Is there true love between the Empress and the Emperor? The so-called harem beauty three thousand, in order to compete for favors and take power, the weak woman without the power of the chicken became vicious and vicious, and Wu Zetian even did not hesitate to kill his relatives to achieve political goals. In the eyes of the world, the miasma of the harem is a bad account that cannot be calculated. And The Qian Queen is the clear water hibiscus that comes out of the mud and is not stained. In her, there is a real mountain without edges, the unity of heaven and earth, but the courage to be with the king, is no utilitarian, pure love.
In the seventh year of orthodoxy (1442), Emperor Yingzong established the Qian clan as his successor. Husband and wife Qinser and Ming, the two are in love. Empress Qian was not a woman of the Noble Family, and even if she was a mother, she was not accustomed to a life of pampering and pampering, but only served her husband with all her heart and soul, and repeatedly resigned to her relatives to be an official. Do needlework from time to time. I used to think that the queen was just a pastime.
If you can live a calm and peaceful life, it is also a happy and satisfying one. Helplessly, there was an unexpected storm in the day, and Emperor Yingzong was influenced by Wang Zhen, and the imperial driver personally conquered Vala. In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1449), during the civil change, Emperor Yingzong was captured.
In the deep palace, the Qian Empress who looked through the autumn water was thundered by a sunny day, and simply thought that as long as she sent money to Vala, she could exchange it for her husband, so she collected all the gold and silver jewelry in the harem as a ransom, and Vala reneged on her faith and did not return it to Yingzong. Empress Qian was exhausted, so she had to cry and wash her face with tears.
According to historical records, after Emperor Yingzong's brother Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, Empress Qian once begged him to take back Emperor Yingzong, but was frequently rejected, and Empress Qian was so angry that she jumped off the city tower to die Mingzhi and broke a leg. Another said that he was crying for a long time, and one leg became lame.
The vagaries of the political situation made her fully appreciate the coldness of human feelings and the coldness of the world, the formerly respectful ministers changed their faces to please the new emperor, and the formerly meek and obedient brother refused to take his brother home. Empress Qian could only suffer, the so-called "weeping and crying to the heavens, tired is lying on the ground." She cried blindly, cried badly, and after four hundred days of pain, she finally ushered in her husband who had returned from the womb.
The new emperor was not able to cope with etiquette and public opinion, and in the first year of Jingtai (1450), Emperor Yingzong returned to the dynasty and was imprisoned in the old dilapidated house of the Nangong. At this time, Yingzong was infinitely sad: his cronies died, the ministers betrayed, his brother turned his face, and the glory, wealth, and supreme dignity were all empty. But he is happy again, because the glitz has dissipated, and he still has a lover to accompany him.
In the difficult days, Empress Qian exchanged needlework for daily necessities (Qian later traded needle and thread for jade food) to accompany Yingzong to pass the years of bitterness. She loves her husband unswervingly, even if the future is dark. Even if Zhu Qiyu cut down the cool tree in the hot Nangong Palace, or the Golden Knife Case broke out and her life was hanging in the balance, she always unswervingly followed Yingzong. Until the change of the door and the restoration of Emperor Yingzong, she was already emaciated.
This sentiment can be passed on and will never change for a thousand years. And Qian Shixue, Empress Zhou obstructed from it, although the ministers argued on the basis of reason, in the end they could only share the tomb with Emperor Yingzong and could not be buried together. However, the dirty and smelly power could not erase the best love in the world, and both the ministers of the time and the descendants of future generations were moved by it. This true feeling will surely flow through the ages.
After the emperor was captured, the empress was so anxious that she washed her face with tears every day