In history, people's judgment of Zhu Yuanzhang has always been a person of thin affection.
His temperament was fierce and decisive, and he had killed several times in the government and the public, and tens of thousands of officials in the imperial court had died at his hands, but it was such a ruthless king who was so soft on his own empress.
The historical Empress Ma was known as the "Bigfoot Queen", and historical records record that the Ma Empress looked ordinary and had a pair of large foot soles.
You know, ancient women are beautiful with their feet, but as everyone's bridesmaids, they are not tied their feet, and they are to be laughed at when they go out, but it is such a horse queen who has only been favored.
So what ability did Empress Ma have to make Zhu Yuanzhang pamper him? What ability did she have to make Zhu Yuanzhang, who sat on the emperor's throne, have only her as an empress in her lifetime?
Empress Ma's maiden name was Ma Xiuying.
Ma Xiuying was originally born in a wealthy family, and if it were not for her father,000, she would have been a proper miss of a thousand gold.
But Ma Xiuying's father is a charitable person, and it is enough to be charitable and charitable, and she can't make money herself, so gradually, her family is getting poorer and poorer.
Ma Xiuying's mother died early, and her father had no other children, so he always regarded her as a pearl in the palm of his hand, but because of an accident, her father had to hide and take refuge.
Once, because her father killed someone and was afraid of being sought revenge, he had to run out to hide, so before leaving, his father entrusted her to his life-and-death friend Guo Zixing.
However, unfortunately, not long after her father died in a foreign country, coupled with the loss of her mother at an early age, Ma Xiuying suddenly became a fatherless and motherless orphan, and Guo Zixing looked at this child and felt very unbearable, so he adopted her as a righteous daughter.
Guo Zixing and his wife Zhang Shi really like Ma Xiuying, Ma Xiuying is smart and kind, whether it is a female red or a history book, they are all proficient.
In addition, her temperament is calm, moderate, dignified, quite a daughter of everyone' style, Zhang Treats her as if she were his own, and he personally teaches her knitting and embroidery.
By the time Ma Xiuying was a teenager, she had already come out of the ground, not only was she more gentle in nature, but her every move was calm, and watching the righteous daughter they taught was so dignified, Guo Zixing and his wife were very pleased.
When the daughter grows up, the top priority in life is naturally to find a husband, in order to find a suitable candidate, Guo Zixing has been looking for a match, so as not to live up to the trust of his friends.
At this time, it coincided with the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the officials colluded, the DPRK was dim, and the people complained bitterly, which was enough, and another drought swept in, and the people who were already suffering were even more hungry.
The imperial court also distributed disaster relief grain, but corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the DPRK and China ran rampant, and the disaster relief grain was not distributed to the victims at all, and natural disasters and man-made disasters destroyed people's willpower day by day.
This disaster lasted for 6 years, and after experiencing the destruction of their families, people finally broke out in the Jianghuai River Valley.
Guo Zixing led the rebel army to launch a soldier and horse in Dingyuan, and he single-handedly established the White Lotus Sect, and after appointing himself a marshal, he captured Haozhou in one fell swoop, and this Haozhou was the birthplace of Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was 25 years old, and his family was starved to death because he did not eat disaster relief food, so Zhu Yuanzhang had always been extremely hateful to the imperial court, and when he heard that the "Red Turban Army" had entered, he did not hesitate to go to Guo Zixing.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also a very brave and good warrior, he not only led the soldiers to fight a very good set, but also usually paid attention to the way people in the army.
As long as Zhu Yuanzhang captured some booty, he never hid it, and handed them all over to Guo Zixing, who would give him many rewards as soon as he was happy.
He was rewarded and did not go into his own pockets, but distributed them all to his men, claiming that he was not alone.
Over time, not only did Guo Zixing trust him, but the generals in the army were also very convinced of him, and Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige was rising day by day.
He gradually became Guo Zixing's confidant and helped Guo Zixing fight many victories, but he was not proud of his achievements, and after a long time, Guo Zixing wanted to give his adopted daughter Ma Xiuying to Zhu Yuanzhang.
In ancient times, "the fate of parents, the words of the matchmaker", for Ma Xiuying, the person chosen by the righteous father for himself must be correct, so this big girl was married.
After marriage, the two were very affectionate, and in the days when Zhu Yuanzhang had been fighting around all these years, Ma Xiuying had been running with him, but as a female streamer, instead of shouting more than half a sentence, she also carefully assisted her husband.
From this time on, Zhu Yuanzhang was already inseparable from this Xiannei helper.
Once, Guo Zixing listened to some rumors, which caused him to be jealous of Zhu Yuanzhang. Although he attached great importance to Zhu Yuanzhang, but one yard to one yard, if Zhu Yuanzhang had already threatened his position, then the grumpy Guo Zixing naturally could not be tolerated.
So Guo Zixing put Zhu Yuanzhang in prison in a fit of anger, and did not allow him to eat, Ma Xiuying was anxious after knowing it, and did not hesitate to use his own money to buy the jailer, stole food from the kitchen and hid it in his arms to give to Zhu Yuanzhang.
In order to rescue her husband from prison, he also gave all his jewelry to Zhang Shi, praying that Zhang Shi could intercede with Zhu Yuanzhang and let Guo Zixing let him out.
Later, under the persuasion of Zhang Shi, Guo Zixing reluctantly released Zhu Yuanzhang, which greatly touched Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, at which time he vowed never to disappoint his wife in his life.
Another time, Zhu Yuanzhang fell from a horse when fighting with Chen Youyu, so Ma Xiuying escaped alone with the injured Zhu Yuanzhang, even if she was also dying, but she did not have the slightest idea of giving up her husband.
Their eldest son, Zhu Biao, painted this scene as a portrait and carried it on his body, and every time Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to punish his son, Zhu Biao deliberately threw the portrait on the ground, and Zhu Yuanzhang forgot everything as soon as he saw this portrait.
In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang officially ascended the throne and established the Ming Dynasty, and Ma Xiuying was crowned empress.
At this time, although Ma Xiuying was already the mother of the country, her former virtuous nature had not changed at all, because she was accustomed to following Zhu Yuanzhang in the early years of the southern conquest and the northern war, so she developed a simple habit.
Not only did she wear her own clothes for years without throwing them away, but even the harem concubines were asked to act simply. Later, in order to reduce the burden on the people, she simply set up a loom in the palace.
Every day, she distributed the woven cloth to some widows and elderly people, and also made the rest of the clothing into clothes and gave them to the concubines, and whether it was the harem or the princes and noblewomen, they all followed the example of the horse queen weaving, and for a while the name of the horse queen's virtuousness resounded throughout the people.
Empress Ma was not only virtuous, she knew Zhu Yuanzhang's irritable and irritable nature, so she often advised Zhu Yuanzhang not to kill in vain. At that time, Song Lian was implicated because his eldest grandson had committed an incident, and Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and wanted to behead Song Lian.
Song Lian was a famous university scholar at that time, and was once the teacher of Prince Zhu Biao, and Empress Ma rushed to advise after she knew: "Folk teachers for children pay attention to respecting teachers, don't we in the Tianzi Family respect scholars even more?" Song Lian was at home, and he didn't necessarily know about his grandson. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang listened for a long time, and the next day he ordered that Song Lian's capital punishment be pardoned, but exiled to Maozhou.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang once asked some felons who had been pardoned for capital offenses to build fortifications, and Empress Ma advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "Criminals have suffered scars from criminal law, and originally they were pardoned for capital crimes, but if their labor is increased, they will certainly not be able to escape death." ”
Listening to Empress Ma's persuasion, Zhu Yuanzhang did not let them go to labor again, but instead pardoned them.
In addition to Empress Ma's more advice in the government, the backyard is also well-governed, looking at the backyard of the ancient emperor, there are few that are not smoky, but the harem under the administration of Empress Ma is a rare peace.
There is only one reason, the only person in power in the backyard is The Queen of Horses, and everyone knows that her position is unshakable.
Sometimes there was friction between the concubines, and Empress Ma personally reconciled, or which concubine provoked the emperor to be angry, and it was because Empress Ma persuaded them that they survived.
Empress Ma's kindness was not an overnight show, until she herself was seriously ill, in order not to involve the doctors, she directly stopped the medicine herself.
At that time, Empress Ma knew that her time was short, and she knew that she had no medicine stone, and no amount of medicine could cure the disease, and the tai doctor who treated herself at that time would definitely die.
So she took the initiative to stop the medicine for herself, so as not to be affected by the doctor for no reason.
When Empress Ma was dying, Zhu Yuanzhang asked her what other unfulfilled wishes she had, and what Empress Ma said next was still thinking of the people of the world.
She advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "I hope that Your Majesty can appoint meritocracy, not kill innocents indiscriminately, listen more to the opinions of the sages, and let the people have something to rely on." ”
In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Empress Ma was buried in heaven, and the people in the government and the public heard the news and cried out in the sky, at this time, the Marquis of Xiping, who was far away in Yunnan, was Empress Ma's adopted son.
After hearing the news, he rushed to the Beijing Division, but he coughed up blood in a hurry halfway, and finally knelt down and prostrated his head in the direction of the Beijing Division, and could not cry.
And the king who killed decisively in the court actually sat on the ground and covered his face and cried, Zhu Yuanzhang was holding a sword, and no one was allowed to move the body of Empress Ma, and Zhu Yuanzhang never made an empress again.
It can be said that Empress Ma is also one of the few virtuous empresses in history, and also the true mother of a country, and Empress Arima is the blessing of Zhu Yuanzhang and the luck of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Empress Ma did not have the same iron wrist as Xiaozhuang in her life, and even less than that of women like Lü Hou and Wu Zetian, her feelings for the world were not comparable to those of many people, even the emperors of previous dynasties.
In fact, leaving aside whether Zhu Yuanzhang was controversial in governing the country, it is not aside, but as far as Zhu Yuanzhang was consistent with his wife after he became rich and noble, it shows that this person is a sentient and righteous person.
On the other hand, many people now want to abandon their wives and children once they are developed, and such people are doomed not to become great instruments, what do you think?