In ancient times, the emperor, as the supreme ruler of the country, had supreme power and inexhaustible wealth. At the same time, the emperor also had a huge harem regiment, which was the so-called "harem beauty three thousand people". Of course, these three thousand harem beauties are not limited to the empress and concubines, who are famous "king women", but also include many palace women in the harem.
The emperor's life in the harem can be said to be colorful, basically all the beautiful things that people can enjoy in the harem have everything. Therefore, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty could stay in the harem for up to thirty years.
The women in the harem all belonged to the emperor alone, and the highest rank was naturally the empress, followed by noble concubines, concubines, concubines... The lowest rank are the palace women, although they do not have the same status as the concubines, but they also belong to the "women of the king".
The palace ladies performed their duties in the harem, and each had his own fixed position and was not allowed to move around. Therefore, some palace ladies stayed in the harem for a lifetime and never had the opportunity to see the emperor. However, the emperor could go wherever he wanted in the harem. Therefore, if the palace maid wants to have a chance to see the dragon's face, it really depends on her own luck.
If the emperor sees a palace maid who moves him when he is wandering around the harem, he can completely push down the palace maid at will and be lucky on the spot. For the imperial family, the more children the emperor has, the better. Therefore, as long as it does not delay political affairs and does not hurt the dragon body, then the emperor can do whatever he wants to the women in the harem.
So here's the problem. There were so many women in the harem, the emperor could not remember them all, in case he suddenly became interested in a certain palace girl, and the palace girl became pregnant in the future, how to prove that the child in her belly was a dragon species?
First of all, the adult male in the harem was only the emperor (excluding eunuchs), and the young prince had to move out of the palace to live outside the palace when he became an adult. Therefore, just by using the exclusion method, it can be basically determined that the child in the belly of the palace girl is a dragon species.
Secondly, the emperor could walk around in the harem, but he always had a long "tail" around him, that is, a group of eunuchs who followed the emperor on duty, including the eunuchs in the study room. His duty was to record all the words and deeds of the emperor in the inner court in a book called the Notes on The Inner Living. If the emperor is fortunate to have a palace maid in a corner of the harem, and a group of eunuchs who are on duty are also standing nearby, the eunuch in charge of the study room will take a pen and write on the "Notes on The Inner Living" that "in a certain place on a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, the emperor is fortunate to be a certain palace girl."
After the emperor was finished, it didn't take long for him to forget about it. However, after the fact, if the palace lady is pregnant, you can take out the "Inner Living Note" to compare the time, if the pregnancy time and the time of the emperor's arrival coincide, then naturally it is the dragon species.
In history, there are many things that the emperor gave birth to the emperor after the palace lady. The most famous of these are the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty: The Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen and the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun. Both emperors gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor because of the queen of linxing palace, but their performance was completely different.
When Emperor Chenghua heard that he had become his father, he was overjoyed and immediately made the emperor's eldest son crown prince, the later Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youfan.
When the Wanli Emperor heard that the Palace Lady was pregnant, he first denied it in every way. Later, because of the "Notes on Inner Living" and the pressure exerted by his mother Empress Li, he finally had to admit that the child in the belly of the palace lady was his own dragon species. After the birth of the child, Wanli was not happy with how to look at the eldest son of the emperor, and later on the issue of the appointment of the crown prince, the Wanli Emperor and the imperial court ministers launched a fifteen-year-long "dispute over the foundation of the country", although in the end the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo was still made crown prince. However, the "dispute over the foundation of the country" had an extremely negative impact on the Ming Dynasty, and it was also an important inflection point in the transformation of the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline.