In ancient China, there were countless women who broke their heads and wanted to enter the palace to become concubines and accompany the emperor. As everyone knows, staying by the emperor's side is the most dangerous, most emperors are suspicious and fickle, and ordinary people can't understand the emperor's mind at all, and if they don't pay attention to provoke the emperor to be angry, they will lose their heads. There was once a woman who was favored by the emperor as an empress because she had a pair of jade hands, but later she was beaten into the cold palace because of one of her own broken mouths, and died tragically two years later, this woman was Empress Zhang of the Jiajing Emperor.
In the first year of Jiajing, this woman participated in the selection of concubines, because of her extraordinary beauty, she was looked forward to having a different life when she first entered the palace, but she did not expect that this became the beginning of her tragic life. After she entered the palace, she was very favored by the emperor and was named "Concubine Shun" by the emperor, and the family was also very proud of her.
The emperor loved her, but also liked her pair of delicate jade hands, and even in a family banquet, the emperor flirted with her in front of the pregnant Empress Chen, Empress Chen has always had a very good personality, because the two were too hot to be angry, but the emperor was very angry, severely reprimanded the empress in front of her face, and kicked the empress, but did not expect the empress to miscarry and died soon after.
Not long after Empress Chen's death, the emperor ordered that Concubine Shun be made empress, which is often referred to in history as "Empress Zhang". When Empress Zhang first ascended to the throne, she never imagined that her future end would be tragic by the previous empress. Earlier we said that she was favored by the emperor because she had a "jade hand", but she was later beaten into the cold palace because of a "broken mouth".
As she grew older, her hands were no longer so beautiful, and the emperor gradually lost interest in her. At that time, the emperor advocated Taoism, often held some Taoist activities, the emperor himself had fun, but completely disregarded the feelings of the concubines, in a sacrifice during the heavy rain, the empress for many days of fatigue and wind and cold, almost buried her own life.
She wanted to advise the emperor not to listen to the words of the Taoists at will, but the emperor not only did not listen, but also coaxed the empress to eat her own uncertain elixir, let the empress try the medicine, so that the empress was almost poisoned to death, so there were several conflicts between the emperor and the empress, in which the empress verbally offended the emperor, making the emperor angry, deposing the empress and beating the cold palace, only two years later, after the abolition, she died tragically, and did not even have a title after death.
Many people think that Zhang Washu was beaten into the cold palace because of his own "broken mouth", but Xiaobian felt that the empress just wanted to advise the emperor not to do anything wrong, but unfortunately her husband was not a Ming jun, which made her die.