In 1398, the seventy-one-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang finally fell ill. Busy at his bedside, in addition to the Taiyi attendants, there was Zhang Meiren, who he often summoned in his later years. Zhang Meiren is Zhu Yuanzhang

In 1398, the seventy-one-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang finally fell ill. Busy at his bedside, in addition to the Taiyi attendants, there was Zhang Meiren, who he often summoned in his later years.

Zhang Meiren bore a daughter for Zhu Yuanzhang. The little girl was only four or five years old at the time, only a little older than her father's great-grandchildren. She followed Zhang Meiren closely every day, and only when she saw her mother, her little heart would not be afraid of these strangers.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew that the limit was approaching, lay on his dragon bed, his cloudy eyes staring dead at the crowd in front of him. He was so tired of these guys with their faces that he was wary of his face, and he was eager to slash them all one by one.

Suddenly, he found the little Princess Baoqing in the crowd.

The little girl also noticed that her father's eyes were on her. She went to her father's bed and gave him a salute. Standing up, she asked curiously, "Father Emperor, what's wrong with you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang, however, was not angry, and replied, "Child, the father and emperor are sick, will you see that the father and emperor will be well?" This question frightened Zhang Meiren on the side.

The little girl laughed innocently: "When I am sick, I will sleep well, and the father and emperor will rest well, and it will be fine." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhang Meiren, whose face was pale, and continued to ask Princess Baoqing: "What if the father's illness will never get better again?"

Princess Baoqing was anxious, and shouted in spite of it: "Father Emperor will be fine!" The Father will be fine! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Princess Baoqing's flushed little face, and suddenly found that this daughter he had always paid little attention to was so cute, and he felt that this little child cared about himself far more than all those who appeared in front of his hospital bed combined.

After drinking the medicine, the old emperor was tired, so he let go of Princess Baoqing's small hand and fell into a deep sleep. In the haze, he saw the little princess tightly pulling on Zhang Meiren's skirt and turning away step by step. Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, which was already as hard as iron, suddenly moved a rare moment.

The old emperor's limit had finally arrived. On the thirty-first year of Hongwu's leap month, he finally swallowed his last breath unwillingly.

The inner attendant read to the harem concubines who knelt on the ground and sobbed, the emperor's will to them: all the concubines in the inner palace, as well as the palace women who had been sleeping, would be given death and burial. Princess Baoqing was young, so she left her mother, Zhang Meiren, to raise her properly.

This cold and irrevocable decision made the sobs of the women who had somewhat coped with the scene suddenly turn into howls of pain, and several concubines did not even cry out, and just after listening to the edict, they fainted.

Late at night after three days of crying, at the Daming harem in Nanjing, with a cry of despair, all of Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines, except for Zhang Meiren, a total of 38 (another said to be 46) people were forced to commit suicide and be martyred.

Zhang Meiren, who was once upset because of the birth of a daughter, became the only one of Zhu Yuanzhang's women who survived and died well because of this daughter.

But although she escaped the fate of martyrdom, Zhang Meiren did not live long, she was often haunted by nightmares, and she always saw her sisters crying out in horror at night. Frightened, she died within two years.

The birth mother died, and the other mothers had already died, and the successor Jianwen Emperor and his wife were the nephews of Princess Baoqing, so there was no one suitable to raise Princess Baoqing in the palace.

Princess Baoqing, who was only six years old, was sent to the palace of Princess Fucheng, the daughter of Zhu Xinglong, the eldest brother of Zhu Yuanzhang, and lived with her cousin.

Two years later, on June 13, the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Zhu Di, the King of Yan, invaded the city of Nanjing, and on the eve of the destruction of the city, the Ming Palace in Nanjing burst into flames and became a sea of fire.

In this piece of rubble, the corpses were piled up, and the remains of Emperor Jianwen and Empress Ma, as well as the young prince Zhu Wenkui, could not be confirmed. Princess Baoqing escaped this disaster because she had already left the palace to live.

On June 17 of the same year, Princess Baoqing's half-brother Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor, known in history as the Yongle Emperor.

Soon, Zhu Di took his eight-year-old sister back to the palace and gave her to his wife, Empress Xu, to raise.

Zhu Di had a lot of pity for Princess Baoqing, and Empress Xu loved this poor little girl in every way and regarded herself as her own. Princess Baoqing has since lived with her fourth brother and regarded her brother and sister-in-law as her parents.

The special status of Yi Sister and Daughter made Zhu Di and his wife particularly fond of Baoqing, and carefully selected a military general with good looks for her as her husband: Zhao Hui, the lieutenant of the Horse Capital.

On the day of the nineteen-year-old Princess Baoqing's marriage, the crown prince gave her a dowry for her little aunt, and Zhu Dibi's dowry for her was double that of other princesses. And after that, he often rewarded her with a large amount of money.

However, Zhu Di never expected that although this Zhao Horse had a good family status and appearance, behind his back, he was a womanizer with a serious perverted personality and psychology. Zhao Hui not only searched for hundreds of concubines, but also ate women's water!

As a wife, Princess Baoqing should feel in the face of such a husband, that is really only God knows.

When Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, he rewarded the princesses of the kings, and Princess Baoqing was given the title of Princess Baoqing, and received a rich reward from the nephew emperor: "two hundred and two platinums, ten thousand banknotes, ten tables of silk, ten horses each of saro, three horses of Tuluomian, and five horses of Western cloth."

Ten years later, in the early years of Emperor Yingzong, Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne and rewarded the princesses according to the custom, but the list no longer had the name of Princess Baoqing. She had died early in her depressed life. At that time, it was the eighth year of Xuande, and Princess Baoqing was Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old.

And her husband Zhao Hui, perhaps a peculiar way of health maintenance, but his life is very long, because of his wife's special status, he spent the six dynasties of the early Ming Dynasty peacefully, enjoyed a comfortable life for more than sixty years, and lived for more than ninety years.