There was a concubine in the Ming Dynasty, who killed the empress dowager, kidnapped the emperor, abused the emperor, colluded with the eunuchs... In short, she did all the bad things, but after two dynasties and seven emperors, she became one of the longest-lived concubines in Chinese history.
The concubine who did all the bad things was Li Xuanshi, the heroine of the Ming Dynasty's major case "Moving the Palace Case".
(Li Xuanshi in the film and television)
Li Xuanshi was originally a concubine of the crown prince Zhu Changluo, but she was alert and charming, and she was born quite beautiful, so she was very favored by Zhu Changluo.
In the forty-eighth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhu Yijun, the Ming Dynasty, died of illness. Although Zhu Changluo, the eldest son, had no culture, he was still enthroned according to the ancestral system, and was for the Ming Guang Sect.
Zhu Changluo became emperor, and Li Xuanshi was happy and broken, why? She wants to be queen!
However, although the crown princess died at that time, there was a Wang Cairen who became the highest-ranking person because he gave birth to the eldest son Zhu Youxiao, and his mother was noble, and he was naturally the best candidate for the empress.
Li Xuanshi had no heirs, so he could not surpass Wang Cairen. However, Li Xuanshi is a person who likes to grasp the initiative, plus she is favored, and her behavior is even more unscrupulous. Seeing that she was about to move into the palace, in order to remove the stumbling blocks, she found an excuse to kill Wang Cairen alive.
Wang Cairen was not favored by Zhu Changluo, so Zhu Changluo did not pursue Li Xuanshi's evil deeds, but because Wang Cairen died, he let Li Xuanren move into the Qianqing Palace to take care of him, and also handed over the crown prince Zhu Youxiao to her to raise.
Li Xuanshi was both favored and had the custody of the crown prince, so he pestered Zhu Changluo every day to become an empress. I didn't think about it, Zhu Changluo was a short-lived emperor, and he died less than a month after becoming emperor, and Li Xuanshi's dream of being an empress was shattered.
(Zhu Changluo statue)
Since the emperor died, it was time for the crown prince Zhu Youxiao to succeed him.
Logically, Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, and Li Xuanxuan, a lowly former emperor concubine, should move out of the Qianqing Palace. However, Li Xuanshi put Zhu Youxiao under house arrest in the Qianqing Palace, and went to negotiate with the chancellor himself, saying that he would be the empress dowager. He also ordered the Zhongshu of the Dprang to be sent to the Qianqing Palace first and let her see it.
Li Xuanshi's request was unprecedented, and the courtiers of course did not agree, not only did they not agree, but they also wanted her to immediately move to the palace where the concubines were old-age.
Li Xuanshi resolutely stated that he would not hand over Zhu Youxue without making himself empress dowager.
Seeing that the time for the new emperor to ascend the throne was approaching, fortunately, Zhu Youxiao's Eastern Palace companion and eunuch Wang An made a plan, which tricked Zhu Youxiao out of the Qianqing Palace.
Originally, there was still Zhu Youxiao as a hostage, who could talk to the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu about the conditions, but now that the hostages were gone, Li Xuanshi knew that the general situation had gone, so he had to hold his daughter and move to the Luan Palace in a gray manner.
Li Xuan, who had always been a mighty servant, could no longer turn over the waves at this time. The palace eunuchs who were usually afraid of her saw her lose her position and took the opportunity to steal the jewelry that Zhu Changluo had once given her.
After Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, he posthumously honored his birth mother Wang Shi as Empress Xiaohe. He also remembered that Li Xuanshi had "insulted slowly and abused, and wept day and night."
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The chosen servants were guilty of beating the former Virgin, and every time the palace people stole, they did not let the old servants of the Virgin Mary be arrested and arrested," and tears could not be avoided.
(Portrait of Zhu You)
However, Zhu Youxiao was a good man, and for his father's affection, he did not punish Li Xuanshi.
However, Li Xuanshi was not at ease with himself. When she saw that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, who had served her, had become a red man around Zhu Youxiao, she immediately flattered him. After Wei Zhongxian's mediation, Zhu Youxiao actually forgot the evil deeds done by Li Xuanshi, and actually issued an edict declaring Li Xuanshi innocent and honoring him as Concubine Kang.
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao died of illness, and before his death, he entrusted the Ming Dynasty to his younger brother Zhu Youjian.
After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, he immediately liquidated Wei Zhongxian's party. Li Xuanshi was supposed to be punished, but Zhu Youyi, thinking that she was the favorite concubine of her father Zhu Changluo, let her go. However, she was a concubine of Emperor Xian, and should be made a concubine according to the reason, but Zhu Youjian hated her as a person and did not honor her.
Fast forward to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, with Li Zicheng's attack on the city of Beijing, the harem empress and concubines committed suicide and martyrdom, but Li Xuanshi was a person who preferred to perish the country rather than die, so when Li Zicheng attacked the Ming Palace, she became a prisoner.
Soon, the Qing army entered the pass and captured the city of Beijing, Li Zicheng was busy fleeing for his life, and Li Xuanshi was captured by the Qing army in the chaos of the war.
For the sake of political needs, the Qing army tried its best to win over the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and former imperial concubines such as Li Xuanshi naturally became the object of political propaganda. In addition, she had no dignity and sang praises to the Qing court in every way, so the Qing court offered her up.
Li Xuanshi lived through two dynasties and seven emperors, and lived until the thirteenth year of Kangxi before he died. Because it is impossible to find her birth year, I don't know how many years she lived, but according to time, she lived for nearly ninety years, which can be regarded as one of the oldest concubines in Chinese history.