After entering the palace, Yang Yuhuan's life is very good. Apart from meeting her ex-husband Li Mao on important occasions and solemnly accepting his salute, Yang Yuhua is happy. She is good at singing and dancing, and she is familiar with melody. It happens that her emperor's father-in-law also likes these. When the weather is fine, they will hold a concert in the picturesque outdoor. Li Bai, a fairy, wrote lyrics, Li Guinian, a musician in the Tang Dynasty, composed music, and Yang Yuhuan dressed up and danced. When she is tired of jumping, she will go back to Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, sit next to her, and then open a cherry and stutter two litchi transported across the country. These scenes that others dream of are common to Yang Yuhuan, "but his love for 3,000 people is concentrated on one person". She and her Saburo can also live in the warm lotus curtain covered spring night, his mistress of spring, his tyrant of night, and the wide breeze carrying magical notes. Unfortunately, "until the drums of Yuyang shook the whole earth and broke the tune of rainbow skirts and feather coats." Six months and six days after the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Yang Yuhuan swallowed their anger and died in Mayigang.
How brilliant, how bleak the ending is. Yang Yuhuan, 38, was abandoned by a man who loved him deeply, and then died under a pear tree in a Buddhist temple. Even his body was not found later. The prosperous Tang Dynasty was broken, but it was by no means caused by a dance by Yang Yuhuan or Qu Di. If one person is not to blame for the decline of the Tang Dynasty, that person is Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, not Yang Yuhuan. But Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was the emperor, and the emperor would not make mistakes. Therefore, only pushing Yang Yuhuan out can quell public anger. Yang Guifei, who devoted herself to the world, how unfortunate the end of her life was.
Let's talk about Wan Guifei in the Ming Dynasty. I want to mention this woman. Many people spit everywhere. Bah, what's so pitiful about such a vicious woman? Xu Niang also occupied the emperor for a long time, and what is more malicious is that he won't let the emperor have children of his own. As long as pregnant women are found in the harem, they will be given abortion drugs, and many children will be gone. How can such a woman with blood on her hands say that she is miserable? And Wan Guifei also died in front of Ming Xianzong, and was carefully protected by Ming Xianzong all his life. Even after death, he is not short of mourning and glory. What's the matter?
Let's not get excited. In fact, Wan Guifei is really a poor woman. At the age of four, she entered the palace alone and became a little maid-in-waiting. At the age of nineteen, she was sent to take care of two-year-old Prince Zhu Jianshen. Then the civil war broke out, and young Wan Zhener and ignorant Zhu Jianshen spent eight years in a cage. During this period, Zhu Jianshen and Wan Zhener suffered as much. Zhu Jianshen was suppressed and Wan Zhener was humiliated. Eight years later, Zhu Jianshen became a prince again, and Wan Guifei finally saw the dawn, but the criticism of later generations began at this time.
Among the numerous criminal evidences in Wan Guifei, the evidence of destroying royal blood is the bloodiest. However, this matter is controversial. Xianzong's official records are not friendly to Wan Guifei, but there is no mention in this set of historical materials that Wan Guifei injected abortion drugs into pregnant women in the harem. It was a book written by Yu, a scholar in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, that first accused this matter. This book is also called unofficial history because of its name. But unofficial history didn't dare to take responsibility. After describing Wan Guifei's misdeeds, he said that these were not his own opinions. This is what an eunuch in Wanli told me. The original words are "In the twelfth year of Wanli, an old China official said this for Tao." Is this credible?
Twelve years in Wanli, Wan Guifei has been dead for more than one hundred years. What was not recorded in Records of Xian Zong after Wan Guifei's death was not known to a eunuch until more than one hundred years after her death. How credible is it? However, a scholar named "Mao Qiling" believed this point and quoted it in his book "Notes on the General History of Sheng Chao". Later, Mao Qiling was selected by the Qing Dynasty to compile Ming History, in which he wrote about Wan Guifei's poisoning of the Prince and his mistreatment of Ming Xiaozong's mother. At this point, Wan Guifei's image became disgusting.
How much would Wan Guifei have done if she hadn't done these things that made people angry? If Wan Guifei finally became the emperor's pet after years of unremitting efforts and struggles in the dark, and then kept her duty until her death, but was reviled beyond recognition by future generations, how miserable would she be? Moreover, she had an unfortunate childhood and experienced the pain of losing her son.
Let's talk about Zheng Guifei in the Ming Dynasty. Maybe you were a little confused when you first saw these three words, but when it comes to the "national dispute" in Wanli period, I'm afraid everyone knows it. Emperor Wanli fought with ministers for more than twenty years for his son Zhu as the prince. During these twenty years, Emperor Wanli was exhausted physically and mentally, and Zheng Guifei's organs were exhausted, but they all lost to the huge state machine of the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Guifei is not a heinous person. As a mother, there is nothing wrong with wanting her son to be emperor. Even if she does this, it will hurt the interests of others, but it is the most normal thing to live in a political whirlpool and hurt the interests of some people.
She tried her best to please the emperor and left her son in Beijing. However, after the calculation of the authorities, the position of the prince belongs to others, the position of the queen belongs to others, and her son Zhu has also been rushed to the fief. After the death of Emperor Wanli, his posthumous edict to seal Zheng Guifei as the queen was invalid, and the will to order Zheng Guifei to bury Gong Xuan in Dingling after his death was not carried out. Zheng Guifei lived ten years longer than Emperor Wanli. During these ten years, the people who protected her are gone. She can only live in a quiet palace in a prosperous court, thinking about Luoyang's son and recalling the care of Emperor Wanli. After ten years in prison, she went to the cemetery arranged by the courtiers that she didn't like with infinite disappointment. Eleven years later, her son Zhu was killed by Li Zicheng. It is said that he died a miserable death.
Finally, I would like to talk about Dong E Fei in Qing Dynasty, which can charm the love of young the emperor shunzhi. Princess Dong Hubei is by no means an ordinary woman who waits on others with color. History books say that she is smart and likes reading history books, and she never forgets anything. Gentle personality, good at calligraphy and high understanding. How can a man not like such a woman?
The emperor shunzhi broke many precedents for Dong E Fei, even unprecedented. After she entered the palace, she was made a virtuous princess, and a month later she was made an imperial princess. The speed of promotion is rare in history. In Qing Dynasty, only when the empress was appointed, the emperor would send letters to the world, but when Dong Eshi was awarded the imperial concubine, Shunzhi would personally send letters and grant amnesty to the world. The promulgation of the imperial edict has violated the patriarchal clan system, and even the queen is not qualified to Amnesty the world, but Shunzhi did it. A year later, Dong Fei gave birth to the emperor's fourth son, and Shunzhi happily pardoned the world again, telling the world that this was "the emperor's first son".
Dong E Fei is beautiful. Her children and mother have a bright future, but they seem to be blessed and unable to enjoy this sacred favor. Dong Efei's child died a few months after birth, and then became thinner and thinner, with a death rate of 2 1. It's really a pity that such a gentle, intelligent and blue-hearted woman just disappears into this world. But these are the views of future generations. I was afraid that few people would sympathize with her because Shunzhi was too good to her.
Why can't the famous imperial concubine in history get what she wants? Maybe love. Human beings trapped in daily necessities are not worthy to talk about love at all, let alone a hierarchical palace. A standard emperor can't even eat his favorite dishes, let alone a Chili house. Once the emperor likes a concubine, he will want to give her more benefits to show the difference, love her children, promote her family and make her invincible in the harem. All these will trigger a series of political earthquakes in the harem of the former dynasty. Yang Yuhuan, Wan Guifei, Zheng Guifei and Dong E Fei did not cause such a big chain reaction, because she and Shunzhi all died early. If they all live a long life, perhaps Kangxi will be fine.
Women make a mess of the harem, and neither the queen mother nor the old ministers of the previous dynasties will agree, so they become the target of public criticism. These people are just harem concubines. They didn't even earn the position of queen themselves, so they are not the type of Lv Hou Wu Zetian, and they don't have their political skills. A person whose ability can't support his ambition and whose political capital is lower than the value favored by the emperor is doomed to be a flash in the pan.
Special contributor of Night Wolf Literature and History Studio: West Building outside the curtain