In the long river of history, the Ming Emperor is as brilliant as a galaxy, and the Dusk King is notorious. According to the usual setting, the more faint the king, there will definitely be a concubine with a servile face. For example, the concubine of the "wine pond meat forest" and the praise of the "beacon theatre princes", people always like to attribute men's failures to women, but is this really the case?
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chen Shubao, the lord of Chen Hou, was the king of the subjugated country, and during his reign, he was drunk and did not think about the government. As a typical Emperor, he had a Concubine Zhang guifei by his side, who was said by the world to be the "Lord of Fox Misfortune". Zhang Guifei's full name is Zhang Lihua, her birth is not good, and she was just a palace girl when she first entered the palace. As soon as she entered the palace, the door was as deep as the sea, and since she was ten years old, she had stepped into the deep palace weak and helpless, and since then she has never recovered.
Helpless to enter the palace gate
Zhang Lihua's family is very poor, her father and brother rely on weaving straw mats for their livelihood, and their incomes are meager. Because he could not support his family, he tried to find a way to let Zhang Lihua participate in the selection of entering the palace.
If Zhang Lihua is selected, not only does she no longer have to worry about her livelihood, but the monthly money she receives can also be subsidized for the family. For women who cannot engage in manual labor, "entering the palace" is a better way out.
Ancient women have always been precocious, although Zhang Lihua is only ten years old now, but she already knows the world and understands things. She knew it was her father's last resort and her only way out. So she didn't have any resentment, but she really hoped that she could be chosen to change the fate of the family.
This may be a way for heaven to compensate Zhang Lihua for her life, she has a beautiful face, her eyebrows are like distant mountains, and her eyes are like autumn waves. Coupled with the fact that she was very clever, she was successfully selected and entered the palace. After the palace maid entered the palace, she could not be directly put on the post at the beginning, but had to go through the tutelage of the housekeeper, and if she failed to persist, she could only be expelled from the palace.
Fate has changed dramatically, and the future is hopeless
For half a year, Zhang Lihua continued to learn various rules, and the severity made her secretly smirk, it turned out that serving people was such a hard thing. Soon after, Zhang Lihua was assigned to serve the Crown Prince's Liangdi Gong clan.
Gong Shi likes Zhang Lihua very much, and whenever she chats with her, Zhang Lihua's sweet little mouth always coaxes her to be very happy. The skill of "pleasing the master" was naturally learned after entering the palace, and Zhang Lihua, who was already intelligent, used it very well, and she also received more rewards for it.
Just when Zhang Lihua had gradually adapted to her life as a palace girl, she met the person who would change her life, this person was the crown prince, that is, Chen Shubao, the later lord of Chen Hou.
Because he has been around Liangdi for a long time, he has seen the prince many times. One day, Chen Shubao unexpectedly glanced at Zhang Lihua, and those smart, talking eyes made Chen Shubao fall in love at first sight.
With Chen Shubao's style of behavior, he naturally won't let go of what he likes, so he spoiled Zhang Lihua that day. Zhang Lihua was powerless to resist the torrent of fate, and could only accept all this calmly. From a palace girl to a master, the great change in identity made Zhang Lihua very uncomfortable, and at this time, she was most worried about her future.
Accept reality and take the initiative
If it is a palace maid, after the age of twenty-five, she can leave the palace to live an ordinary life, but a concubine without a name will be locked in this deep palace forever until she dies. Zhang Lihua did not have the ambition to fly up the branches of the phoenix, she only wanted to earn more moon silver to go home and live the life of an ordinary person. But fate is like this, creating people.
Time flew by, and Zhang Lihua had been in the palace for five years. In the past five years, as the crown prince's favorite concubine, Zhang Lihua has been keeping to herself, fortunately, no one has put her without roots in her eyes, only when she is the crown prince to get fresh playthings, ready to discard. In addition, Zhang Lihua never takes the initiative to provoke right and wrong, so she has lived in peace in recent years.
It's all said that time can change everything, and it's true. Zhang Lihua is no longer the girl who was full of expectations for the future, and the light in her eyes is getting dimmer and dimmer. During this time in the palace, Zhang Lihua had seen the difficult situation of many unloved concubines, and also heard the horror stories of many people's tragic deaths in palace fights.
These observations made her understand that surviving in the palace was far from easy. If you want to get rid of the fate of being discarded at will, you must find a way out as soon as possible.
Give up all future
Flowers are not red, and no matter how beautiful the face will be, it will have a day of old age and decay. Zhang Lihua understands that the favor obtained by appearance is only temporary, but she is not from a good background, without the help of her mother's family, and there is only one road left in front of her, "mother and son are expensive". In order to change her fate and bo a splendid future, the fifteen-year-old girl decided to drop everything.
After this, Zhang Lihua, who had been dormant for five years, began to act. She no longer has a respectful attitude towards Chen Shubao, but is unusual, showing the petite woman's delicate posture to the fullest. Under the deliberate management, Zhang Shubao pays more and more attention to Zhang Lihua, and will take her with him on many important occasions. Zhang Lihua's memory is very good, she can remember clearly who she has seen and what the other party has said, and this skill has also helped Chen Shubao to do a lot of things.
Useful to himself, but also beautiful and clever, Chen Shubao simply loves Zhang Lihua. Under the favor, Zhang Lihua successfully conceived Long Si and successfully gave birth to his fourth son Chen Shen for Chen Shubao. In fact, the birth of children by women in the palace is not as exaggerated as that shown in film and television dramas, and there will not be many pregnant concubines who are harmed and miscarried.
Because murdering the imperial heir is a great sin, if there is no equivalent benefit, no one will try it easily. Coupled with the fact that the crown prince is in the Eastern Palace, there will be a strict protection mechanism for his heirs.
Lose yourself under the grace
Later, Zhang Lihua gave birth to his eighth son, Chen Zhuang, for Chen Shubao. Zhang Lihua, who has two sons, has also risen in identity. The extravagant life in the palace made her a little lost, and the original simple and beautiful original intention was forgotten by her. After she changed her fate and got everything, her heart did not feel satisfied, but more empty.
She thought that she had lived a rich life at home with her help, and she looked at herself in the mirror, a jewel, and she was confused, not knowing what she really wanted.
In the fourteenth year of Taijian, Chen Shubao took the throne and made Zhang Lihua a noble concubine. This was Zhang Lihua's fourteenth year in the palace, and at this time she had been assimilated into the dark harem, becoming gloomy and fierce, and competing for favors, as if this was her lifelong pursuit. She didn't know why she was doing it, she just knew that her heart was getting more and more hollow, desperately needing these twisted pampering to fill it.
After Chen Shubao ascended the throne, he had no scruples at all, and he built luxurious palaces for his own enjoyment; because he loved poetry, Chen Shubao often held poetry meetings, and whenever there was a particularly gorgeous new poem, he would immediately compose music and select good-looking palace girls to practice singing for fun; Chen Shubao also built three very high attics in front of the Guangzhao Hall, which could be interconnected by a covered bridge, and Zhang Lihua, who was deeply loved, lived in it.
Endless desire, twisted madness
Two years later, Chen Shubao was completely immersed in the life of this sound dog and horse, which also made Zhang Lihua have greater power. Once people have the right to speak, it is completely different, and Zhang Lihua's first taste of power makes her feel more comfortable. This is completely different from her previous life, no matter how much she was favored before, she still had to look at other people's faces, but now it is different, she is the one who is in charge.
Gradually, Zhang Lihua is no longer satisfied with the status quo, her desire is expanding, and her ambitions are getting bigger and bigger. She wants her son to become the next monarch so she can gain more rights. So Zhang Lihua's vision was no longer limited to the small harem, but extended her hand to the court.
In the palace, Zhang Lihua is very good at being a person, and she speaks very well, in today's words, that is, the emotional intelligence is very high. She often used small favors to win people's hearts, and the palace eunuchs in the palace highly respected her, so there were many people who used her. She began to pretend to be a ghost in the palace under the pretext of Xiu Xian's questioning, confusing Chen Shubao and making Chen Shubao even more slack in government.
A fate that cannot be escaped
Later, Chen Shubao was no longer in the dynasty, and the hundred officials' folds were sent directly to the harem through the hands of eunuchs. When Chen Shubao was reviewing the recital, Chen Lihua sat on his lap, and the two of them made decisions together.
It can be said that Chen Lihua at this time is equivalent to half a king. And Chen Shubao believed Chen Lihua's words very much, and the offending officials could be pardoned as long as Chen Lihua interceded, and if she offended Chen Lihua's officials, she would take the opportunity to frame them. This unhealthy atmosphere continued to ferment, the court was chaotic, and the miasma of black smoke was visible.
In the second year of Zhenming, Chen Shubao deposed the original crown prince and made Chen Shen the crown prince. This was Chen Lihua's twentieth year in the palace, and unconsciously, she was already under one person and above ten thousand people.
Twenty years of time, Chen Lihua was completely unrecognizable, her eyes were like being shrouded in a fog, deep and bottomless, just like the desire in her heart, how to fill it. Just after Zhang Lihua completely lost herself, she once again met someone who changed her destiny.
In the third year of Zhenming, the Sui Dynasty attacked the Chen Dynasty, and the Chen Dynasty was destroyed. When Yang Guang, the King of Jin, saw Zhang Lihua, he felt that her beauty was moving, and she wanted to accept Zhang Lihua as a concubine. When Chang Shi Gaojian learned of this, he hurriedly advised zhang Lihua, pointing out that Zhang Lihua was a person who had brought calamity to the country and the people, and sooner or later there would be changes. So he ordered Zhang Lihua to be killed. Zhang Lihua changed her fate again because of her appearance, but this time she ushered in death, and her life came to an abrupt end.
In fact, is all this really Zhang Lihua's fault? No, this poor woman has wanted to change her destiny all her life, she has worked hard, she has fought for power and profit, and seems to have got everything, but in fact she has never broken free from the shackles of fate. Was she really responsible for the destruction of the city? In a patriarchal society, she is just a poor woman who is pushed to the front and acts as a rhetorician.