In the costume drama, we often hear the saying that the emperor's harem is 3000, 3 palaces, 6 courtyards and 72 concubines, which are to show the number of emperor concubines.
Not all emperors are harem beauties 3000, some only a few or dozens, raising so many wives, is the need for national strength support, if the country is not rich and strong, it will certainly not be able to bear.
In China's thousands of years of history, many powerful dynasties have emerged.
At the same time, the number of harems is more than 3,000 people, and even tens of thousands of people.
Let's take stock of who are the three emperors in the harem with more than 10,000 people?
Third place: Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin:
After Sima Zhao's death, Sima Yan succeeded him as King of Jin.
He was not satisfied with his current power, and ousted Cao Wan, who had just sat on the throne for 5 years, and sat on the dragon chair himself.
As soon as Sima Yan became emperor, he ordered the whole country to stop all marriage activities, he had to choose beautiful women, and when he was finished, other men could go to the woman of their choice to marry.
The men of the Jin Dynasty could only choose Sima Yan to pick the rest,
Moreover, he did not leave a chance for the princes and nobles,
He also ordered the daughters of princes and nobles and officials of all sizes in the dprk and China to run for election, and those who dared to hide were all sent to prison for questioning.
Sima Yan has long coveted Jiangnan beauty, and Big Qiao and Little Qiao have long been famous in the world.
After the destruction of Wu, he could not wait to select Jiangnan women again to expand his harem, and in order to save time and cost, he collected all the harem women of King Wu into his harem.
In this way, there were nearly 10,000 people in the harem of Emperor Wu of Jinwu, and there were so many beautiful women, where to go to sleep every night, which became his problem.
When the men of the Jin Dynasty were worried about what to eat at night, Sima Yan was distressed about going to sleep with the concubine!
At the beginning, I started to use the method of flopping, which was too troublesome at the time, and I was like a puppet, listening to the eunuch's arrangement,
So the clever Sima Yan invented a new and fun method: the Wangyang Linxing Method.
He asked someone to get a sheep cart, and drove the sheep cart around the harem, and the sheep stopped there, and he was lucky with the concubine.
Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei
2nd Prize: Tang Xuanzong Li Longji:
Li Longji was a controversial emperor who was a turning point in the decline of the Tang Dynasty, somewhat similar to the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
He created another peak of the Tang Dynasty: the Kaiyuan Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was peaceful for a long time, people lived a rich life, and it was often said: full of warmth and lust, in that era when there was less entertainment, the affairs of men and women became the biggest way of entertainment.
Tang Xuanzong's harem life was extremely luxurious, and the number of palace women was innumerable.
In our impression, Li Longji has been involved with Yang Guifei all his life, as if he is just the only one who loves Yang Yuhuan.
In fact, Tang Xuanzong was a very person, and it was said in the Sword Weapon Line that there were 8,000 handmaidens of the first emperor, which was only a relatively conservative statement.
Li Longji set up 6 divisions and 24 divisions in the harem, plus the Great Inner Palace, Daming Palace, and Xingqing Palace in Chang'an; the Great Inner Palace and Shangyang Palace in the eastern capital of Luoyang, and these harem concubines together had about 40,000 people.
At that time, the population of the Tang Dynasty was about 50 million people, and for every 1,000 people, one was Li Longji's wife, and the total number of Officials in the Tang Dynasty was not so large.
In order to enjoy, but also for the sake of fairness, Li Longji also invented the dice rolling method: that is, the concubines rolled the dice together, and whoever had the largest point was lucky that night.
Palace concubines
Second Prize: Later Zhao Emperor Shi Hu:
In 334 AD, Shi Hu usurped the throne and sat on the emperor's throne.
He was originally a brave general, at this time he was nearly 40 years old, and the tempering of his life environment and battlefield from childhood gave him a strong physique and a heart of forbearance.
As soon as he ascended to the throne, Shi Hu ordered girls between the ages of 13 and 20 in the country, whether married or not, to accept his choice and be ready to enter the palace, even if they were married, he did not care.
After being selected by officials at all levels, there are nearly 40,000 women sent to the palace.
Shi Hu was not satisfied with these people who entered the palace, these were all selected by others, and he felt that there was a lot less fun.
So he often led people to search everywhere, as long as it was favored by him, they all rushed into the palace, and it is said that at the peak, the number of people in Shi Hu's harem reached as many as 100,000.
Harem Beauty
If the lustful people make a ranking list: Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang count the king's ranks, then Shi Hu is definitely an honor.
It is not difficult for us to find that
The emperors with the most concubines in these harems were all good emperors, or rather, they were all good emperors.
They have made a great contribution to our culture and economy.
They lead the country to become rich and the people are strong,
Enjoyment also requires capital, otherwise what do they take to support their wives?
At the same time, they are also monarchs who have ideas, dare to think and dare to do,
Only then can we come up with innovative moves such as the "Wangyang Linxing Method" and the "Rolling Dice Linxing Method".
References: Book of Jin, Volume 31, Old Book of Tang, Chronicle of Food and Goods, Book of Jin, Volume 31, New Book of Tang