What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Wan Guifei, a very famous concubine in the Ming Dynasty. Although she was a palace maid, she had mutual affection with the emperor in the process of taking care of him, and after Emperor Xianzong ascended the throne, she flew up the branches and became the most favored woman in the palace. Although Wan Shi is the most favored person, she is still not satisfied, and if she does not get the ending she wants, she will not allow children who do not belong to her to exist, and even if she does, she can only be a princess.
Therefore, under her cruelty, although the emperor's harem was full, there were few concubines with children. There will always be accidents in everything, and no matter how strongly Wan Guifei defends herself, she still looks at the wrong person, and this person is Li Tangmei.
There are many strange women in history who are known to posterity, either because they are well known or because of their political talents, but this Li Tang sister is more special, she is known to posterity because she raised Ming Xiaozong under the eyes of Wan.
When she was a child, Li Tangmei's life was more difficult, her parents died very early, and she herself has been living a life under the fence, and the trajectory of life is almost unchanged, however, all this has quietly changed after Emperor Xianzong took the throne.
In the second year of Chenghua, the Ming army captured a large number of Lingnan residents during the cleansing and suppression of the Lingnan region, and Li Tangmei was also among them. This year, she was sixteen years old, which was the best time in her life, but she was chosen to enter this deep palace with no future in sight. However, if she did not enter the palace, there was no better way to choose, and in this way, Li Tangmei completely deviated from the original track unconsciously.
Li Tangmei, who entered the palace, was very lucky, and her alertness and intelligence put her in a relatively safe state in the palace. Coupled with her talent, so much so that she later became a female historian in the library, and her fate with Xianzong seemed to have been predestined in the dark.
On this day, Li Tangmei was working in the library as before, and Xianzong suddenly arrived.
Li Tangmei, who first saw Xianzong, did not panic, nor did she deliberately greet her, she was very calm and decent, and her speech and demeanor were generous. It was this move that made Xianzong's eyes light up, and li Tangmei, who was "different", entered Xianzong's eyes in this way. But after a night of affair, Xianzong still only loved his Wan Guifei, and Li Tangmei was soon left behind by him.
Xianzong's life has not changed, but Li Tangmei's life is no longer the same as before, and she is pregnant with a dragon species.
Originally, if Li Tangmei was not pregnant, then she might have spent the rest of her life in such a bland way, but she had a child, and the end was naturally predictable.
When Wan Guifei learned that someone in the palace had the flesh and bones of the person she loved, she was very angry, but there was no way but to send someone to kill the child in Li Tangmei's womb. But she did not expect that the person who went not only did not move, but even helped Li Tangmei to cover up the pregnancy, saying that she was not actually pregnant, but a large tumor grew in her stomach.
Despite this, Li Tangmei was eventually sent by Wan to a remote courtyard, but it was precisely because of the remoteness that she was able to safely give birth to the later Xiaozong.
Xiaozong can be said to be not very lucky, but it can also be said that he is very lucky. Unfortunately, he was born in the harem of the Youwan clan, but fortunately he was able to get through it every time his life was threatened.
After a long pregnancy period passed, Li Tangmei gave birth to a son for Xianzong. But the news of Li Tangmei's birth somehow reached Wan's ears, and she was immediately furious and immediately sent someone to Li Tangmei's courtyard to put the newborn baby to death. At that time, the person who went was Zhang Min, the door supervisor, looking at the child, he could not get his hands on it, and this time, Xiaozong was able to escape the disaster.
When Zhang Min returned to his life, Wan Guifei only said that the child was dead.
It is reasonable to say that such a big living person in the palace should be easily discovered, but because the courtyard where Xiaozong lives is very remote, no one usually goes, plus many people in the palace do not like the Wan family, so they all help to hide the Wan family, and Xiaozong has not been discovered by the Wan family until he is six years old, let alone his own father.
The mother and son were still vigilant all the time, afraid that if one was not careful, they would be destined to return to Huangquan, and this life lasted for a long time, and finally ended when Emperor Xiaozong was six years old.
On this day, when Zhang Min was serving Xianzong, he heard Xianzong say that he was old but childless, and his heart was very depressed. Zhang Min knew that the time had come, and he knelt down on the ground and told Xianzong the secret that had been hidden for many years. Emperor Xianzong was overjoyed and soon sent someone to take his child to his side. Li Tangmei did not give up, but she also knew that this was the best way to let her son survive.
After Xianzong saw his son, he found that because the mother and son had been imprisoned for a long time, Xiaozong's fetal hair had not been cut and dragged to the ground, and he was thin and weak. Xianzong couldn't help but burst into tears and sigh with emotion. Comparing his own and his son's countenance, he was also very relieved, no longer young Xianzong thought he had no children, but he did not expect that heaven had given him such a big surprise.
Xianzong was happy to have a son, which was a happy event for Xianzong, but he was not so happy for Wan Guifei. Not long after Xianzong and his son recognized, Li Tangmei committed suicide by swallowing gold, and zhang min, the door supervisor, also committed suicide, and there are many opinions about the cause of their deaths, and we have no way of knowing.
After Li Tangmei's death, his son was made crown prince and lived with his grandmother Empress Zhou, which can also be regarded as a kind of protection for him.
Twenty-three years after Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong died, and the crown prince took the throne, that is, the Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan in the later population. Due to the ups and downs of his early life, Xiaozong has always been weak and sickly. However, Emperor Xiaozong was diligent in government affairs, not only arriving every day in the early dynasty, but also reopening the afternoon dynasty, so that the ministers had more opportunities to assist the emperor in handling government affairs. At the same time, he reopened the feast and consulted the courtiers on the way to govern the country. Emperor Xiaozong was generous and cared about political affairs, and he was loyal to his wife, and there was only one concubine in the harem, and the descendants spoke highly of him, and was a rare good emperor.
In 1505, the 18th year of the reign of Emperor Ming, a generation of British lords Zhu Youfan died in the Qianqing Palace at the age of 36.
The History of Ming commented on it:
There is a world under the Ming Dynasty, passed down from generation to generation, Taizu and Chengzu, and can be called Renzong, Xuanzong, and Xiaozong. At the time of benevolence and xuan, the national situation was initially opened, the gang discipline was repaired, and the simplicity was not lied. Since Chenghua, the number is too peaceful, while Yan An is easy to play, and the rich are gradually arrogant. Emperor Xiaozong was able to be frugal and systematic, diligent in government and love for the people, conscientious in the way of Baotai and profitable, and used to make the dynasty order clear and peaceful, and the people's things were kangfu. "Yi" said: "There is no peace, no return, no hardship, no blame." "Whoever knows this way, his filial piety is the only one!" This is relatively rare in the History of Ming who uses historical writing to belittle the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.