Nanning is a less pleasing profession, not only need to wash and cook, but also may need to take care of the elderly or children, the remuneration is not necessarily high, but it is very hard. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a top nanny, she achieved the point of being above ten thousand people under one person, and the power was tilted to the point of responding to the opposition, which was the famous Keshi.
Keshi entered the palace at the age of 18 and became the nursing mother of Zhu Youxiao, and then gained the trust of Zhu Youxiao, after Zhu Youxiao took the throne, Keshi gradually became the lord of the harem, and then, Keshi and Wei Zhongxian colluded together, one inside and one outside, and the entire Ming Dynasty was in their hands.
Poisoned concubines and children
According to the rules, Keshi should leave the palace to complete the task of the nursing mother, but Zhu Yu could not do without this nursing mother, so he left her in the palace. Every morning, Keshi entered the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to serve the emperor, and then returned to the Xian'an Palace in the evening.
Keshi's entry and exit of the palace is extremely pompous, hundreds of people are hugged before and after, and the attendants and ministers inside and outside the palace must bow down with great courtesy when they see Keshi, some are called Chitose old ladies, some are called Mrs. Santa, a nanny, to achieve such a point, it is extremely rare in all dynasties.
Even though Keshi rong was favored, she was still not satisfied, on the one hand, she colluded with Wei Zhongxian, formed a party to cause personal troubles and chaos in the government, on the other hand, for the sake of long-term wealth, she extended her black hand to the emperor's concubines.
In the harem, Keshi's words were completely true, and no one dared to disobey them, but even if Keshi's power was great, he could not stop the emperor from lining the concubines. In Keshi's mind, her greatest threat came from the concubine, if any concubine gave birth to a boy, that is, the mother was precious, and the emperor's favor for her would be reduced, so the pregnant concubine must be strangled in the bud, at least not to make her give birth.
Once, when Keshi discovered that Zhang Yufei was pregnant with a child, he went to the emperor to say that he was a bully, so he imprisoned Zhang Yufei in a dirty and chaotic palace, in addition, Keshi also cut off Zhang Yufei's diet. Zhang Yufei was pregnant, did not eat and drink, in order to survive, she could only drink some dirty water and rain, but there was no food in the end can not support, in a dozen days later, Zhang Yufei was starved to death, a corpse two lives.
Historical records record that "a concubine is calmly speaking, but it is a correction and a seal, and there is no diet." Concubine Cheng died of starvation, secretly stored food between the walls, and did not die for several days. ”
Zhang Yufei's death made the concubines panic, and Chengfei hid some food in the wall just in case, and sure enough, shortly after that, Keshi ordered Chengfei to be locked up, and Chengfei relied on the stored food and barely survived.
The unnatural deaths of concubines in the harem, and unexplained miscarriages, most of them came from the hands of Keshi, and their actions can be described as heinous.
On the one hand, we see the insidiousness and viciousness of Keshi, doing everything for their own selfish interests; on the other hand, we also see that Zhu Youxiao's fainting, as the king of a country, even his own concubines cannot protect him, but instead he favors Keshi and Wei Zhongxian to poison the world, frankly speaking, in addition to carpentry work, we can't see any shining points in Zhu Youxiao, and he will eventually be left behind for thousands of years.
The black hand reached out to Empress Zhang
Not content with the status quo, Keshi extended her black hand to the queen. Empress Zhang was intelligent and had a stern personality, and she deeply resented Wei Zhongxian and the Keshi party.
Although Keshi controlled the harem, he was still a little jealous of Empress Zhang. Once, Zhu Youxiao went to visit the empress, and when he saw Empress Zhang holding a book, Zhu Yuxiao was curious and asked, "What book are you reading?" ”
Empress Zhang replied: "The Biography of Zhao Gao. ”
Zhu Youxiao may not have a high level of education, but he still knew the famous Zhao Gao, and he understood that Empress Zhang was using this to remind him to be careful of Wei Zhongxian. Soon after, the news reached Wei Zhongxian and Keshi, who decided to punish Empress Zhang.
Three years after the apocalypse, Empress Zhang was pregnant, the empress was pregnant, and Keshi should not dare to do it, right? Naturally, Keshi did not dare to do it in the open, but she could do it in the dark.
One day, Empress Zhang suffered from low back pain, so she sent someone to find a palace maid who could massage the queen, and this palace girl did her hands and feet while massaging the queen, and soon after, Empress Zhang gave birth to a stillborn child, and it turned out that this palace girl was a member of the Ke clan.
It can be seen that the eyes and ears of keshi have filled all corners of the harem, in other words, no place in the harem is safe. Did Zhu Youxiao know about Keshi's cruelty to concubines? Under the hint of Empress Zhang, presumably Zhu Youxiao understood, but he did not speak out, and the specific reason was only clear to him.
Eight pregnant women were found during the raid
Keshi and Wei Zhongxian were different from the kings of the empire, their power was all derived from the emperor, so once the old emperor died of illness and the new emperor ascended the throne, their power would be threatened.
Wei Zhongxian is a eunuch, naturally can not be the emperor, Zhao Gao is the lesson of the past, in order to be richer for a longer time, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi can only support a new emperor, and the premise is that this new emperor must be obedient.
Zhu You's health was not good, the quality of giving birth to children was not high, and coupled with the indiscriminate persecution of the Ke clan in the harem, when Zhu Youxiao was dying, he had no heirs.
Historical records record that "First, through his family, he ordered the eunuch Wang Wenzheng to send strict information, and eight people who were appointed to the palace were built in and out of the court, and many of them brought their family attendants, such as Lü Buwei and Li Yuanshiye. ”
After the Chongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi had planned to murder Chongzhen, and if Chongzhen died, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi would find a baby from outside the palace to be emperor, but this determination Wei Zhongxian never made up his mind.
First, the risk of doing so is too great, when Zhu Yu is half dead, how can a child suddenly appear? Second, Wei Zhongxian was uncertain about Chongzhen, and chongzhen did not come up to oppose him after he took the throne, but instead carried out a series of appeasement measures, wei Zhongxian, in hesitation, missed the best opportunity to assassinate Chongzhen.
After Chongzhen sat firmly in the emperor, he began to attack one by one, and Keshi was also expelled from the palace, and ordered keshi's home to be raided. Keshi is Zhu You's nursing mother, and Zhu Youxiao can keep it, but after Chongzhen came to power, he kept a former imperial nursing mother, which is too much to say.
The expulsion of Keshi was reasonable, and soon, eight pregnant women were copied out of Keshi's home, and these pregnant women often went in and out of the harem, and Chongzhen was furious after knowing it, and it turned out that Keshi and Wei Zhongxian wanted to learn from Lü Buwei and establish a new emperor to maximize the return on investment.
In the end, Wei Zhongxian committed suicide, Keshi was executed in the HuanYi Bureau, and the worst grandmother of the Ming Dynasty finally got the retribution she deserved, just as the so-called good and evil will eventually be repaid, not unreported, the time has not yet come.
Reference: "Ming Chronicle, Volume 71"
Author: Our guest author: Nine Fish Pavilion