In the ancient court, the mother with the son is a high probability event, for the ancient harem women, giving birth to the prince often means a step to the heavens, becoming the birth mother of the crown prince, but in the Ming Dynasty harem, there is a woman is an exception, that is, the birth mother of The Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo, Wang Gongfei.
Princess Wang Gongfei's husband was Zhu Yijun, the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor.
Princess Wang Gongfei was born in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, two years younger than the Wanli Emperor, she was a Left Guard of Xuanfu, and at the age of five she moved with her family to the Beijing Division, and her father was awarded the title of Jinyi Wei Hundred Households and Zheng Liupin after passing the Examination of Wuju.
Princess Wang Gong entered the imperial palace through the draft, and after the wanli emperor who took the throne at the age of nine became an adult, the imperial court ordered the selection of concubines in the people for the emperor's big wedding, and the first Wang Xijie was made empress, and the second and third were all crowned as concubines.
Although Princess Wang Gongfei did not enter the top three, she may have been outstanding among the women who failed, and was elected to the court in February of the sixth year of the Wanli Calendar and assigned to serve Empress Li, the birth mother of the Wanli Emperor, at this time Wang Gongfei was thirteen years old.
One day three years later, the Wanli Emperor met Princess Wang Gongfei at the Cining Palace, and on a whim, he blessed her.
According to the custom, after the emperor visited the harem woman, there must be a reward, and the attendant in the study room wrote down the date and the reward as evidence for the future confirmation of the children born to him.
However, in order to conceal this matter, the Wanli Emperor did not reward the Wang clan with any items afterwards, nor did he mention it to the people around him.
At one point in the spring breeze, Wang Shi became pregnant, and her stomach grew bigger and bigger every day. When Empress Li found out, she called her to her side for questioning, and Wang cried and told Empress Li the truth.
Soon, Empress Li took the opportunity of eating together and asked the Wanli Emperor: Is there such a thing?
The Wanli Emperor denied it and denied it in every way, so Empress Li asked people to take the living note. According to the regulations, the emperor's daily life and living were recorded by special personnel, that is, the living notes.
In the face of conclusive evidence, the Wanli Emperor could no longer deny it, but could only admit it.
Empress Li looked at her son's unwilling look and advised him bitterly: "My old man, I still have no grandchildren." Fruit man, Munesha Fukuya. Mother is precious to son, rather than difference, etc. (Biography of The Later Concubines of the Ming Dynasty).
On June 16 of the tenth year of the Wanli Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor decreed that Wang Shi be crowned a concubine, at this time the Wanli Emperor was nineteen years old, and four days later, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, perhaps, the Wanli Emperor only agreed to canonize the Wang clan under the pressure of Empress Li and Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet.
In August of that year, Princess Wang Gongfei really gave birth to a crown prince, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, at this time the Wanli Emperor was nineteen years old, and Wang Gongfei was seventeen years old.
Two years later, Princess Wang Gongfei gave birth to another child, Zhu Xuanyan, the fourth daughter of the Wanli Emperor.
Does this mean that the Wanli Emperor has a long-term affection for Concubine Wang Gong? Non also.
Wanli Emperor's beloved harem woman was Concubine Zheng.
In the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zheng Guifei gave birth to a crown prince, that is, Zhu Changxun, the third son of the Wanli Emperor (at that time, the second son had died prematurely), and two months later, the Wanli Emperor decreed that Zheng Guifei be crowned as an imperial concubine, and her status was only lower than that of the empress, and Wang Gongfei's position did not change at all.
Princess Zheng guifei was bent on making her son crown prince, and the Wanli Emperor loved Wu and Wu, and also intended to make Zhu Changxun the crown prince, but the imperial court minister and Wanli Emperor's biological mother, Empress Li, believed that the ancestral system should be followed. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established a system of succession to the throne, the Wanli Emperor had no concubines, and Zhu Changluo, born to Wang Gongfei, was the eldest son of Shu and should be crown prince. The Wanli Emperor was also made crown prince as the eldest son of Shu, but the Wanli Emperor did not like Wang Gongfei nor the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Changluo, which she gave birth to, which triggered a protracted "dispute over the origin of the country".
In order to make Zhu Changluo crown prince, the Wanli Emperor fought with his courtiers for fifteen years.
In the twenty-second year of wanli, Zheng Guifei slandered Zhu Changluo and the palace women, and the Wanli Emperor sent someone to the Jingyang Palace to check, and Wang Gongfei cried and said: "I have lived with my children for thirteen years, and I dare not leave for a moment. The emissary went back to truthfully report to the Wanli Emperor, and Zhu Changluo's innocence was preserved.
Later, Empress Li intervened and asked the Wanli Emperor: Why did she refuse to appoint the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince?
The Wanli Emperor replied, "He is the son of the Duren", and the palace maid at that time was also called the Duren.
Empress Li said angrily, "You are also the son of the Duren", and at the beginning, Empress Li was also a palace maid, because she gave birth to a son and was canonized.
At the insistence of Manchu Wenwu and Empress Li, the Wanli Emperor finally compromised, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhu Changluo was made crown prince, but Wang Gongfei still did not receive the title.
In the thirty-fourth year of the Wanli Calendar, the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao was born, and Wang Gongfei was made an imperial concubine.
Five years later, Princess Wang Gongfei was seriously ill, the crown prince Zhu Changluo asked to go to visit, the Jingyang Palace was still closed, Zhu Changluo had to find a eunuch to take the key, open the lock, Wang Gongfei was seriously ill, wanli emperor never went to see her, it can be seen that after becoming an imperial concubine, Wang Gongfei's living situation has not been improved in the slightest.
Princess Wang Gongfei entered the palace at the age of thirteen, died at the age of forty-six, and served as a palace maid for three years, an imperial concubine for five years, and the rest of the time lived in the palace as a concubine. Although she was the emperor's concubine, she was always snubbed by her husband, ostracized by Concubine Zheng Guifei, and was imprisoned in the Jingyang Palace for many years, no one cared, she was humiliated but there was nowhere to complain, she could only cry all day long, and finally cried blindly, was the most miserable birth mother of the Ming Emperor, and the more valuable daily necessities silver pots and silver plates were broken and full of gaps.
On the occasion of her death, Princess Wang Gongfei finally saw her son who was thinking about it day and night, at this time she was blind, she reached out and touched her son's clothes and burst into tears: "My son has grown up like this, how can I hate to die!" (Biography of The Later Concubines of the Ming Dynasty).
After The death of Princess Wang Gongfei, the university scholar Ye told Gao to the Wanli Emperor: "The birth mother of the crown prince died, and it should be buried thickly", and the Wanli Emperor repeatedly delayed, and finally buried in Tianshou Mountain according to the specifications of the childless Jiajing Emperor Shen Huang's noble concubine.