"What you get is mosquito blood, what you don't get is cinnabar mole." This may seem like a nonsensical sentence, but if it is put into reality, it is a real fact.
As early as the Time of the Ming Dynasty, there was such an emperor who could obviously be generous to concubines and not want to buy a mansion outside to raise concubines; and the beauty who took the initiative to send it to the door could not see it, and had to be robbed by bandits, only to feel that this beauty was the only one in his life, who was this emperor with an awkward personality?
Draft
He is the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao, the historical evaluation of him is actually very good, in terms of the government, it is indeed possible to calculate the efforts, but there is only one point that makes people criticize, that is, his private life interest is indeed a bit strange.
At the top of a country, if you really love beauty, then you can choose a concubine through the draft.
However, Zhu Houzhao was partial to it, and he built two secret rooms in the palace of Xihuamen, whose purpose was to raise concubines, and the golden house was hidden, and he also named these two boxes "Leopard Room" and "New House".
Usually when there is nothing to do, Zhu Houzhao basically rests in these two places, but there are only a few good-looking back and forth, and after a long time, Zhu Houzhao has some aesthetic fatigue.
And the eunuchs who were waiting by his side were like individual spirits, and seeing the emperor's tired look, they immediately went up to the dog's legs and suggested, why not take in a few more beauties? As soon as this remark came out, the emperor also came to be interested, and immediately let people arrange it neatly.
Naturally, the beauty pageants will not be selected in only one place, so the news of the emperor's draft began to circulate in various cities, and for a time, families with some power in the family and some posture of daughters began to be a little foolish.
Wang Mantang also participated in the draft with such a mind, which sounds like a boy's girl, it is a well-known beauty in Bazhou, plus her father is a lawyer, and she has been a clever appearance with sharp teeth since she was a child.
She is intelligent and sharp-talking, but she never makes things difficult for others in the world, and she is particularly beautiful, and she is a very popular object of many Manchurian men.
The people who came to the door to ask for relatives were about to smooth their threshold, but the wang father had always been reluctant to marry his daughter out, after all, he was the only daughter in the family, and he always hoped that his daughter would accompany him more. However, after a long time, he was also worried about delaying his daughter's life events, and when he was worried about not being able to find a suitable son-in-law, the news of the emperor's draft came.
After those draft officials arrived in Manchuria, they actually heard Wang Mantang's name for the first time, and after meeting him in person, they basically determined the candidate.
Wang Mantang was very happy for a while, and then he arrived in the capital with the officials, thinking that he could still take the opportunity to see the palace, but he did not want the carriage to go around but came to the palace. Seeing this, the wise Wang Mantang was actually a little disappointed, although it was also the emperor's residence, but most of the women here were nominal, although the days were not bitter, but they were also a little farther than expected.
Dream man
After that, what hit Wang Mantang even more came, the rooms in the two compartments were limited, and there were too many girls brought back by this folk draft, and the emperor could not choose, and could only be selected in this group of beautiful women.
Although Wang Mantang was beautiful, he was still young at the moment, and compared with other women, he still looked too immature, and the emperor naturally ignored her. After the official eunuch announced the list, Wang Mantang also determined his fate of losing the election.
After some rectification, these unsuccessful girls could only be sent back to their hometowns, and Wang Mantang embarked on the road back to her hometown in such a state of half happiness and half loss, which was basically the first time in her life that she had failed.
However, while resting at a caravanserai on the way, Wang Mantang had a strange dream in which the immortals told her that in the future, a man named Zhao Wanxing would marry her, and this person was her good match.
The depressed mood was swept away, and when he returned home, he couldn't wait to tell his father about it, and his father was always distressed about his daughter, and the fact that he could not be selected in this draft may be because he did not have this life. But now that his daughter has decided that she has another good match, he, as a father, is naturally willing to obey her daughter's wishes.
Just at this time, a good friend came to the palace to visit the door, and when he heard that Wang Mantang had failed, he casually comforted him, saying that there would be other nobles in the future when he saw that there was a purple qi disk in the palace.
This good friend of The King's father was a monk, and he was firmly convinced of what he said on weekdays, and when he heard the monk say this, coupled with his daughter's divine dream, he was immediately more convinced of a few points, and he hurriedly and interrogated him, wanting to ask this monk to see where the man named Zhao Wanxing was.
The monk knew that there was such a thing here, but he just listened to it as a pleasure, but there was no impermeable wall in this world, and this bizarre dream of Wang Mantang gradually spread to the ears of some people with hearts.
Bad luck
There was a local man named Duan Chang in Bazhou, who had long coveted Wang Mantang, and after hearing the news, he immediately disguised himself and claimed that he was called Zhao Wanxing to meet the Wang family.
He pretended to borrow for a few days, and then said that he liked Wang Mantang. The Wang family had long been worried about how to open their mouths, and when they saw this, they immediately agreed to it, and the two naturally became married.
But Duan Chang's ambitions were not only this, but later he followed Wang Mantang's dream to spread the rumor that she was born as a queen, and over time, many people believed it, and even took the initiative to find Duan Chang to throw himself into his name to help this "son of heaven" make a comeback.
Not long after, Duan Chang himself had a large number of men and horses, and then occupied a mountain, established himself as king, and also named Wang Mantang the "Queen of Dashun Pingding".
There was a lot of noise here, but in the eyes of the real emperor, it was just a bandit leader who made a small fuss, and soon sent troops to quell the rebellion, and Wang Mantang was also arrested because of the name of "bandit lady", originally Zhu Houzhao meant that he sent this woman to the leopard room, but did not want to misinterpret his meaning, and was later sent to the Huan Clothing Bureau to wash clothes.
The emperor had no choice but to find an excuse to see it himself, the woman he had missed that day, at this time Wang Mantang had been completely opened, a beautiful face was incomprehensible, the emperor was instantly fascinated, and had promised her the status of an empress several times. But perhaps Wang Mantang was too hard, and the emperor was also too old, and he died in the leopard room not long after.
epilogue
When the new emperor ascended the throne and found Wang Mantang, Wang Mantang did not have any title, but reported a name in the Huanyi Bureau, and finally sent it back to the Huanyi Bureau.
It is also because of this that many people jokingly call her "Queen huan", Wang Mantang's birth conditions are very good, but it is really bad luck, all his life with the word "queen" rubbing the edge ball, or is a false queen, beautiful is beautiful, the ending is still very sad.
Resources
[1] Wan Li Ye Won Edition
[2] "The Collected Remains of the History of The Victorious Dynasty"