Recently, the costume drama "Daming Fenghua" was popular, in which the heroine Sun Ruowei and her lover Zhu Zhanji met each other under a series of political rebellions and worked together to create a prosperous era of Daming. Sun Ruowei relied on his own courage and wisdom to save the Ming Dynasty from danger many times. In costume dramas, heroines such as Sun Ruowei are very common, smart, hardworking, and tenacious, and the emperor only loves her.
However, this is not the case with Sun Ruowei's historical prototype, which is the second empress of Ming Xuanzong, Empress Xiaogongzhang. Because of her handsome appearance, she was favored by Lady Peng Chengbo, the mother of Empress Zhang of the Akihito Emperor Chengxiao, and was elected to the palace. Living with Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, the two have a deep affection, and the historical Empress Xuanzong Sun has a legendary life experience.
Sun Shi is a Yongcheng person, born beautiful, intelligent and clever, the history books call him "young and beautiful, beautiful and wise", Sun Clan has been known to everyone since he was a teenager. Coincidentally, at that time, the mother of Empress Chengxiao Zhang (the mother of Emperor Mingxuanzong Zhu Zhanji) Zhang Shi was also a Yongcheng native, and she heard that the Sun clan had such a good name, and she thought of choosing a girl from the same village as Zhu Zhanji to continue the power of her family.
Later, sun was brought into the capital, and under the recommendation of Zhang, she successfully entered the palace and became Zhu Zhanji's playmate, and the two children were young plum bamboo horses, and the feelings were very deep.
In the eighth year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di felt that the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji had reached the age of marriage and should be a match. Sun Shi was originally the best candidate for the Imperial Princess, but through divination, another woman was the best candidate, she was Hu Shanxiang, the third daughter of Hu Rong, the Jinyi Wei Baihu. In this way, Hu Shanxiang was given the title of Imperial Concubine, and Sun Shi was made the Imperial Concubine.
After Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, he was very fond of the Sun clan, and the Sun clan was always angry with the former imperial concubine Hu Shanxiang, and she often said bad things about Hu Shanxiang to Zhu Zhanji, and Hu Shanxiang only gave birth to two daughters due to his poor health.
Sun Shi also did not give birth to a son, but she thought of a way.
In the "Biography of the First Concubine of the Ming Dynasty", it is pointed out: "Concubines also have no children, and the yin takes the son of the palace as her own son, that is, Yingzong Ye, who is favored by the family." ”
Therefore, there are now records of the Sun clan giving birth to children through their wombs, which means that the children born by the palace women (that is, the future Ming Yingzong) are called their own children, and the child's birth mother was brutally killed after giving birth.
However, this claim is still controversial, because Empress Xiaogong went through the six dynasties of Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, and Tianshun, and as the empress of the Xuande Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty compiled many histories of Ming Dynasty. After all, it was difficult to hide from the empress dowager and the emperor at that time, as well as other idle people in the palace, including on the day of childbirth, to hide from others.
Moreover, at that time, Emperor Mingxuanzong Zhu Zhanji had no heirs, so the focus of attention was still very high, and everyone was very worried that Zhu Zhanji would have no heir, if sun clan was born by belly, then how to hide the sky and cross the sea? Therefore, this statement actually needs to be deliberated.
However, when Sun Shi gave birth to Zhu Qizhen, the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, Emperor Xuanzong became more and more fond of Sun Guifei, and Empress Hu was childless, so it was reasonable to let Xianxian force Empress Hu to abdicate. Under the pressure of Zhu Zhanji, Hu Shanxiang was finally overwhelmed and decided to resign as empress himself.
In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Emperor Ming Yingzong personally conquered Wala and was captured, and the Wala cavalry continued to attack the northern town of the Ming Dynasty, and the Beijing division was in a hurry. Empress Sun rejected the idea of fleeing south, adopted the opinions of Yu Qian and others, and established Zhu Qiyu, the king of Qi, as emperor to reassure the people. Subsequently, a series of correct decisions such as actively dispatching troops and generals and adhering to Beijing finally resolved the crisis.
During the rebellion of the gate, Emperor Jingtai fell in love with the throne, and the Emperor Zhu Qizhen, who was sent back to Beijing, deposed The Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, who was created by Empress Sun, and established his own son as the crown prince. Empress Sun allowed her to depose the crown prince and carefully protect the imprisoned Emperor Zhu Qizhen and the deposed young prince Zhu Jianshen. In the end, he supported some courtiers to implement the "change of seizing the door", and supported the Taishang Emperor Zhu Qizhen, who was the head of the imperial family, and restored the throne.
In the "History of Ming", "Shi Heng plotted to seize the door, secretly confessed to the empress, Xu Zhi", which fully explained the role of Empress Sun.
In addition, the martyrdom system, which was actually led by Empress Sun, urged her son Ming Yingzong to issue an edict and decisively abolish the concubine burial system.
In the sixth year of Tianshun, Empress Sun died, and Shangzun was known as "Empress Xiaogong Yi Xian Ci Ren Zhuang Lieqi Tianpai Shengzhang", and was buried with Emperor Xuanzong in Jingling and The Temple of Qitai.
Sun Shi was originally the daughter of a petty official, and in feudal ancient times, he should have spent an ordinary life, but he relied on various opportunities and his own wisdom to turn the tide several times and played a role in maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty and the stability of the country.
Reference: The First Concubine of the Ming Dynasty