Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Longest-Lived Concubine
This Xi Li is actually the historical Li Xuanzhi Concubine Li Kang, unlike Concubine Li Zhuang, she is very favored.
At the beginning, the cheap father Emperor Taichang had just succeeded to the throne and wanted to crown Xi Li as the imperial concubine. The canonization ceremony of the imperial concubine was approaching, but Guangzong died suddenly, so it was not sealed.
This Xi Li's ambition is not small, she did the palace transfer case, and she wanted to listen to the government, but she was stopped by the ministers, and she failed to succeed.
At the same time, Xi Li is also the ruthless one.
Emperor Tianqi's biological mother was Wang Cairen, and her status in the imperial womb at that time was second only to that of the crown princess Guo.
After Guo's illness and death, Wang Cairen's mother was more precious than her son, and she became the woman with the highest actual status in the imperial womb.
But Xi Li was pampered and arrogant, and he didn't take Wang Cairen in his eyes at all, and often bullied her.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Xi Li got angry for some reason, and actually beat and humiliated Wang Cairen to death.
In fact, Zhu Youxiao can also guess something, she wants to hold Wang Cairen's son in her hand, because this is likely to be the future prince.
Although Xi Li also gave birth to a son, he died at the age of five, and she didn't want to lose power, so holding the prince in her hand after killing Wang Cairen was naturally a very safe means.
Things were just as Xi Li had planned, she obtained the qualification to raise Zhu Youxiao, the son of Wang Cairen, and made an important political capital for herself.
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was also handed over to Xi Li to raise after his biological mother Liu Shunu was punished to death by her father.
Xi Li wanted to be crowned the queen, but the cheap father died too quickly, and it was too late for anything.
When Emperor Apocalypse ascended the throne, Xi Li made another case of moving the palace, unlike Dong Li, this Xi Li had a very good relationship with Kebaba.
This Xi Li's methods are very sharp, and she released rumors that the Emperor of the Apocalypse abused her adoptive mother, causing her to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her daughter in her arms.
Yu Shi Jia Jichun accused the Donglin Party of interfering too much in the affairs of the inner court, and was reprimanded by the masses.
Emperor Tianqi issued an edict revealing that Xi Li had beaten his mother to death and abused him, and cut Jia Jichun from his post.
Emperor Apocalypse favored Kebaba, a big reason was that Kebaba filled his need for his mother - his biological mother died very early, and his adoptive mother treated him badly, and the only person he could confide in was Kebaba.
Emperor Chongzhen also had the same feelings for his adoptive mother, Concubine Li Zhuang, so he did not hesitate to kill Kebaba and Wei Zhongxian. It's just that Concubine Li Zhuang died early and couldn't survive for another two years.
A drink and a peck, there is a cause and effect, and there is no coincidence in the world.
Zhu Youxiao naturally wouldn't let the harem be like this again, he decisively killed Kebaba, and then he was going to kill this Concubine Li Kang of Xili.
In history, this Concubine Li Kang lived for a long time.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty fell, and Empress Zhou of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhang of Emperor Tianqi, and many eunuchs and maids in the palace were martyred by suicide.
As a person like Concubine Li Kang, she naturally did not have such a high integrity, so she was captured by Li Zicheng, and later fell into the hands of the Qing court.
She and some other surviving and fugitive Ming Dynasty concubines were supported by the Qing government, and died on May 18, the thirteenth year of Kangxi, at least 80 years old.
Concubine Li Kang of Xili was one of the longest-lived concubines in China's 2,000-year-old feudal history.
At this time, it has been fifty-four years since the "palace removal case" occurred, and it has been a full thirty years since the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Her husband's family, the Zhu Ming Dynasty, has long been wiped out, her only daughter has long since died, and her son-in-law's grandchildren have already committed suicide.
Thinking back to this Concubine Li Kang of Xili, Zhu Youxiao sighed lightly, I have to say, this is also a talent!
Concubine Li Zhuang stayed in Ciqing Palace, which was naturally news that could not be hidden, but the outer court really couldn't care about these things, because they were already anxious.
The reason is very simple, Li Ruzhen was sent to the prison of Dongchang, and things became more and more out of control. After the Donglin Party got the news, countless party members panicked in an instant.
That night, these people once again gathered in the mansion of Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to discuss countermeasures.
Yang Lianzuo Guangdou was all in the list, and Gao Panlong, the veteran of the Donglin Party, was also there, and everyone's faces were not very good-looking.
"Things have come to the point where they are imminent." Gao Panlong was the first to speak.
Among the people present, Gao Panlong's qualifications were very old.
When the Donglin Party was founded, Gu Xiancheng, together with Gu Yuncheng, Gao Panlong, An Xifan, Liu Yuanzhen, Qian Yiyi, Xue Fujiao, Ye Maocai (then known as the Eight Gentlemen of Donglin) and others, initiated the Donglin Conference and formulated the "Donglin Meeting", which stipulated that the conference should be held once or twice a year, and a small meeting once a month.
Among them is Gao Panlong, Gao Panlong Wanli 17 years in Jinshi. After the death of his father, he returned home to keep filial piety, and was appointed as a pedestrian in the 20th year of Wanli.
In the twenty-second year of Wanli, Gao Panlong was involved in the impeachment of the first auxiliary Wang Xijue, and was demoted to the history of Jieyang in Guangdong.
In the twenty-third year of Wanli, Gao Panlong resigned and returned home, rebuilt Donglin Academy with Gu Xiancheng's brothers, and lectured at home for more than 20 years.
It can be said that Donglin Academy is a group of frustrated people, how did they get frustrated? They are a group of people who want to make a name for themselves.
To put it bluntly, it is actually to impeach people in high positions and power in exchange for their own future. Once you've been dismissed, go home.
There are countless officials in the Donglin Party who were ousted from the court during the reform period of Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng's redundant personnel accounted for about three-tenths of the total number of officials, and these people will never be used. At that time, Zhang Juzheng was in a big position, and these laid off people hugged together.
After tracing back to the source, it can be found that these people in the Donglin Party are a group of frustrated people, and they are also a group of useless officials.
Lecturing for more than 20 years, colluding everywhere, protégés and former officials, how powerful is the Donglin Party?
They are well versed in all kinds of officialdom routines, and it can be said that they are invincible in officialdom.
With such qualifications, although Gao Panlong's official position is only Guanglu Temple, but his status is very high, and in the future, Gao Panlong will also serve as Taichang Shaoqing, Dali Temple Right Shaoqing, Taifu Qing, the right waiter of the Criminal Department, and the left capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
How can an official who has never had experience in local governance be an important minister in the court, who has been lecturing at home for more than 20 years, and such a person can be a good member of the imperial court?
The Donglin Party's coming to power brought a bad atmosphere, and those who were down-to-earth officials could not be promoted, and letting go of their mouths was the key, so there were Yuan Chonghuan's bold words in Pingliao for five years.
It was the second year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan went to the capital to meet Zhu Youxiao, and the Marquis of Yushi promoted Yuan Chonghuan to serve in the military department.
Soon after, Quang Ninh was captured by the Later Jin army, so the imperial court discussed that it should send people to guard the Shanhai Pass.
After Yuan Chonghuan learned about it, he immediately went to check the terrain outside the gate alone.
After returning to the dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan said: "As long as I can give me enough money and food for soldiers and horses, I can guard Shanhaiguan alone." ”
A civilian official who passed the Jinshi examination, never fought in a war, never led a soldier, went out for a walk, and directly became a military officer, supervising foreign troops.
If such a Donglin Party is not bad, then no one is bad.