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What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

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The longest-reigning empress in Chinese history was the empress wang of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who became empress at the age of thirteen and died at the age of fifty-seven, reigning for forty-four years. This empress dowager, historically known as Empress Xiaoduanxian. She was a native of Yuyao (present-day Yuyao, Zhejiang) and grew up in the capital.

In the first month of the fifth year of the Wanli Calendar (1577), the Imperial Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces (Empress Dowager Rensheng of the Chen Clan and Empress Dowager Li of cisheng) held a draft for the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun after the election. In the first month of the sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1578), the thirteen-year-old Wang Shi was made empress and formally held a grand wedding ceremony with Zhu Yijun.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

The Ming Dynasty was afraid of foreign relations of dictatorship, so the empress was chosen from the people, born very low, many empresses' fathers are just a talent, there are very few official positions, but Empress Wang's father has an official position, but it is very low.

Empress Wang's father, Wang Wei, was originally the deputy envoy of the WensiYuan (正九品), who was originally subordinate to the Ministry of Works, and was initially given the title of Jinyi Wei Qianhu (正五品), because his daughter became empress, Wang Wei was promoted from Jinyi Wei Qianhu to Jinyi Wei Commander (正三品), and the Wanli Emperor still liked Empress Wang, so in the seventh year of wanli (1579), Wang Weijin was named Yongnian Bo.

Four years after the big marriage, Empress Wang gave birth to the emperor's eldest daughter Zhu Xuanyi, who was given the title of Princess Rongchang, and later suffered repeated miscarriages and never had any more children. Princess Wang Gong gave birth to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, and Zheng Guifei gave birth to the emperor's third son, Zhu Changxun.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

Princess Wang Gongfei was once a palace maid by Empress Li's side, so Empress Li wanted to make Princess Wang Gongfei's son, The Eldest Son of the Emperor Zhu Changluo, the crown prince, and the ministers were even more orthodox, believing that they should have no concubines and support the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince.

However, the Wanli Emperor favored Zheng Guifei and wanted to make Zhu Changxun, the third son of Zheng Guifei's son, crown prince, thus triggering a "dispute over the foundation of the country". As a result, the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, was made crown prince.

As for Empress Wang, she stayed out of the matter, she usually filial piety to the empress dowager, treated concubines well, and was not jealous of the favor of concubine Zheng Guifei.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

Thirteen years old, in modern times, is just a childish little girl who has just entered junior high school, and Empress Wang became an empress at the age of thirteen, the mother of the Ming Dynasty. What a difference thirteen years old! Empress Wang's harem life in the past few decades has actually been smooth, and she has not made any mistakes, which shows that she is more mature and mental than ordinary people.

Empress Wang was clever and virtuous, dividing up the expenses of the harem for famine relief and paying soldiers, and several times praising loyal and loyal subjects in front of the Wanli Emperor, and using a gentle way to speak was more than approved by the Wanli Emperor.

In the eighteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, the virtuous Empress Wang published the "Guanyin Induction Spiritual Lesson" and personally inscribed it, praying for the palace to be clean and the country to be safe.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

Although there was a favorite concubine in the palace, Princess Zheng Guifei was not out of favor, and there was no adverse effect on her without a son. She had a weight in the heart of the Wanli Emperor.

In the twenty-fourth year of the Wanli Calendar, the Kunning Palace where the empress lived first caught fire, and then extended to the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lived, resulting in the destruction of both palaces. Empress Wang lived with Emperor Myeongshin at The Qixiang Palace.

It is rare in the history of Chinese feudal society that the empress dowager lives in the same palace, and from this point of view, the husband and wife relationship between Empress Wang and the Wanli Emperor is still good.

Whenever the Wanli Emperor held a banquet, Empress Wang would follow her to attend the banquet and play, and her husband would sing with her wife.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

Li Jingfei died of illness shortly after giving birth to the seventh son of the emperor, and the Wanli Emperor gave birth to The Sixth Son of the Emperor Zhu Changrun and the Seventh Son of the Emperor Zhu Changying to Empress Wang to raise, and Empress Wang was very fond of the two princes, and the two princes grew up smoothly and were named King Hui and King Gui. Of course, Empress Wang was also very kind to crown prince Zhu Changluo, and helped to protect him when he encountered danger.

However, the Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Ruoyu's "Zhi Zhongzhi" records that the Zhonggong Xiaoduan Wang Niangniang, his housekeepers, the old palace people and the Xiaogong people, were many people who beat Chu, and there were no less than a hundred people who died, and their close attendants also had many dun locks and who surrendered.

Of course, The Lady of the Middle Palace Xiaoduan was referring to the Wanli Emperor's Empress Zhenggong, and it was inconceivable that this virtuous empress had ordered the death of hundreds of palace women.

But history is seen by long-focal length telescopes, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. And the legend has an exaggerated component. Some historical materials are true or false, and no one can tell. If Empress Wang really killed hundreds of palace women, then she was really a two-faced person, deceitful and deceitful, pretending to be a good person in front of the emperor and the empress, but brutally treating her subordinates. Of course, this is only if, perhaps these accounts are false, that The Queen Wang was a virtuous empress.

What if the queen doesn't have a son? Neither the pet concubine nor the crown prince's birth mother could shake her status

Our feudal society in China is about the difference between concubines and concubines, and no matter how favored a concubine is, no matter how much she can give birth to a son, she will not be able to shake the status of the main chamber. In the palace, it is even more impossible for a pet concubine to force the palace to replace the queen, and few pet concubines can succeed. Therefore, the empress wang of the Wanli Emperor, who had been in the middle palace for a lifetime, could not shake her status by the pet concubine and the birth mother of the prince.

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