But this evaluation is actually very unfair, from a mother's point of view, it is understandable for Zheng Guifei to fight for the throne for her son, and if she is really insidious and vicious, a hundred Zhu Changluo will also be killed by her. I said that there is love between Wanli and Zheng Guifei, and many readers may laugh, but through some details recorded in historical books, we will find that the relationship between Wanli and Zheng Guifei has far exceeded the relationship between ordinary kings and favorite concubines.

The reason why Zheng Guifei was able to win Wanli's favor was not only because of her beauty, but also because of her cleverness and alertness, her knowledge of poetry and other rare talents of other concubines. Concubine Zheng saw through the role she could play as a partner of the opposite sex, and how she should fill the spiritual loneliness of the emperor with her youthful enthusiasm. Other concubines are obedient to the emperor, but they keep a distance and vigilance in the depths of their hearts, but Concubine Zheng is so innocent and careless, she dares to pick. Tease and satirize the emperor, and at the same time listen to the emperor's confiding and relieve his worries, not only did she not bow her head and bend down when talking to the emperor like other concubines, looking like a servile, but openly hugged the emperor and touched his head...... This kind of "big disrespectful" behavior is something that no one dares to do except her. It was precisely because of the difference in her performance that Wanli introduced her as a confidant and was more pampered.

This can also be seen from Wanli left a will before he died, named Zheng as the queen, and buried with him after death, if it was not true love, Wanli could not do this, but unfortunately Wanli's last life was not realized in the end, Zheng Guifei lived 10 years longer than Wanli, she was identified as a demon who brought disaster to the country and the people, and could not get the sympathy of the ministers in the court. In the past 10 years, she has lived in a lonely palace in the Forbidden City, and her beloved son Fu Wang Tian has been on her side, suffering from the separation of mother and son and the hot and cold world. In 1630, Concubine Zheng died, and with great despair and resentment, she walked into a lonely tomb at the foot of Yinquan Mountain.

So in the author's opinion, Zheng Guifei is an ordinary woman, she may be selfish, and she may use some small means for her selfishness, but there is no need to demonize her, her cleverness is only limited to small cleverness, lack of great wisdom, and her means of fighting for the prince for King Fu are only limited to crying, making trouble, and hanging herself in front of Wanli, so she will fail.

For example, at this time, Zheng Guifei was smart enough to realize that Shen Yuniang must have asked her for high heels, so after showing her wonderful figure in the bronze mirror, she waved her hand to let the palace maids and eunuchs around her retreat, and smiled at Shen Yuniang and said: "Your son-in-law must have asked for such a valuable gift to the palace, right?" Say, what is it? However, the harem can't interfere in politics, and if it's a matter of the court, I'm afraid the palace won't be able to help......"

This is Zheng Guifei's cleverness, she was afraid that Shen Yuniang would say a request that would embarrass her, so she blocked Shen Yuniang's mouth in advance, fortunately, Shen Yuniang was also very smart, and did not make a direct request, but sighed slightly and said: "Niangniang misunderstood, my son-in-law sent this shoe to Niangniang, because he felt that only Niangniang in the world was worthy of this shoe, if it was selfish, it was also because Niangniang was a model for women in the world, if Niangniang could wear the high heels of my wonderful clothes, then women in the world would definitely follow suit, My Miaoyifang can also profit from it, and now the cheongsam of my Miaoyifang can be popular all over the country is all the credit of the mother, how dare you bother the mother......"

Concubine Zheng Guifei's unobtrusive flattery to Shen Yuniang was very useful, and the vigilance in her heart was also lightened, she nodded and smiled implicitly: "Your son-in-law is a smart man......"

Shen Yuniang said proudly: "It's not that the slave boasts, if you say smart, my son is really amazing, he is a rare strange man in the world, the cheongsam and the high heels worn by the mother are all designed by my son-in-law, and the life of the slave is also saved by my son-in-law, there are many poor women like slaves, if there is no son-in-law, I would have been shameless to live in this world......"

Zheng Guifei also became interested, and asked Shen Yuniang what was going on, Shen Yuniang told Guo Zhiyuan how Guo Zhiyuan saved them from the bandits in Gutian and Guo Zhiyuan's various actions in Gutian, and took the opportunity to take out Guo Zhiyuan's "Xingming Daily" to show Zheng Guifei, Zheng Guifei has lived in the palace for a long time, and naturally feels very novel about the outside world, and has a good impression of Guo Zhiyuan, and sighed: "Your son-in-law is indeed a rare strange man in the world, if it weren't for the fact that the palace lives deep in the palace and is inconvenient to see outsiders, the palace really wants to see him......"

Shen Yuniang was waiting for Zheng Guifei's words, and immediately said with a sad and indignant face: "My son-in-law is dedicated to the people, just because he refused to join the Donglin Party, then Qin Shou, the prefect of Fuzhou, deliberately framed him, and united with the Donglin Party in the court to impeach him, and now my son-in-law has been ordered to be removed, I am afraid it will be difficult to get ahead!" ……”

If Shen Yuniang had raised this matter from the beginning, Concubine Zheng would probably have refused, but at this time, she had a good impression of Guo Zhiyuan, and decided that he was a rare strange man in the world, and the Donglin Party people had been preventing her from fighting for the prince of Fu, which made her very hateful, and immediately took the case and said: "These Donglin Party members are really hateful, they only know how to exclude dissidents, and the government will be bad in the hands of these rotten Confucians!" Don't worry, since this palace knows about this, it will not allow them to succeed in their conspiracy! When the saint comes up, this palace will definitely explain this matter to him and return your son-in-law's innocence! ……”

Shen Yuniang was overjoyed when she heard this, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank her, Zheng Guifei helped Shen Yuniang up and smiled: "You don't have to thank this palace, your son is a pillar of the country, and this palace is also worried about the saint when he speaks for him......."

Speaking of this, Concubine Zheng Guifei suddenly became excited, and said angrily: "Those Wenchen are incompetent, but they always say that the saint is mediocre behind their backs, and they also say nonsense that the official charmed the saint and made the saint not go to the court, only the palace knows how troubled the saint is for the government, and it is often difficult to sleep and eat, if there are a few more pillars of talent like your son-in-law, how can the saint be so annoyed?!" ……”

When it comes to the secrets of the palace, Shen Yuniang is not easy to interject, and after kowtowing again to thank him, he got up and said goodbye, as soon as Shen Yuniang left, Zheng Guifei picked up a few copies of the "Xingming Daily" she left and continued to read it, "Xingming Daily" published anecdotes from all over the world, so that Zheng Guifei, who had never been out of the palace, felt very novel, especially the "Robinson Crusoe" serial novel written by Guo Zhiyuan himself attracted Zheng Guifei at once, islands, savages, adventures, Zheng Guifei felt that she had entered another world, and this look fascinated her, couldn't put it down anymore, until the palace maid came to report that Emperor Wanli was coming, she had to put down the newspaper and hurriedly greeted her.

Wanli's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Zheng Guifei, and he felt that today's Zheng Guifei was different from usual, but he didn't know that it was because Zheng Guifei was wearing high heels, and said in surprise: "Aifei, why do I think you are different today from usual?" Looks like you've suddenly grown a little taller? ……”

Concubine Zheng turned around proudly in front of Wanli, twisted her graceful waist and walked back and forth in front of Wanli a few times, and then stretched the slender jade leg that Ying Ying held in front of Wanli, and chuckled: "Shengshang, what do you think of the concubine's new shoes?" ……”

Wanli was teased by Concubine Zheng Guifei like this, and suddenly felt a hot current rushing up from the lower abdomen, and there was a feeling of impatience under the crotch, this feeling was a long time ago, you must know that being the emperor is hard work, and the so-called seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards are envied by outsiders. Fu, it was a kind of torture for Wanli, who had passed the age of not being confused, and immediately grabbed Zheng Guifei's jade leg and dragged it, Zheng Guifei sighed, and fell into Wanli's arms, Wanli picked up Zheng Guifei horizontally, and strode towards the bed in the palace.

Concubine Zheng naturally knew what Wanli was going to do, and said shyly: "Holy Lord, no, it's not time to go to bed at this time, if the Queen Mother knows that she will reprimand the concubine for being ridiculous......", Wanli laughed and said: "The queen mother can manage the heavens and the earth and can also manage you and my husband and wife. The joy of the room? I'm going to be ridiculous today! ……”

After a lot of nonsense, Wanli felt that he had regained his long-lost bravery, and he actually had a feeling of refreshment, and he was very happy, and when he saw that it was still early, he got up in his obscene clothes, and ordered the eunuch who was waiting outside the door to bring wine and food, and asked Zheng Guifei to accompany him to drink and have fun. Zheng Guifei was favored, the blush on her face had not yet dissipated, and she became more and more beautiful, so that Wanli was stunned, put Zheng Guifei's jade feet on her lap, took off the high heels on her feet and played with them, and said with a smile: "I understand, it is this shoe that makes Concubine Ai different from usual, this shoe style is quite peculiar, I have never seen it, which craftsman in the palace made it?" Tell me that I will reward him! ……”

Concubine Zheng Guifei was scheming, knowing that the opportunity to help Guo Zhiyuan speak had come, and said with a smile: "This time the saint guessed wrong, this shoe is not made by a craftsman in the palace, but by a county official outside the palace......

"The county official outside the palace? Who is it? Wanli was more and more surprised.

"It's Guo Zhiyuan, the county governor of Gutian! ……”

Wanli frowned when he heard this, although he favored Concubine Zheng, but he was not confused, and he was a little disgusted with this kind of behavior of taking the inner palace route to try to get lucky, so throughout the Wanli Dynasty, there were very few officials who were promoted by taking the inner palace route, but he had already spoken, but it was not good to talk back, and he smiled reluctantly: "This Guo Zhiyuan will find a way, and he actually found Concubine Ai here, but Concubine Ai, you really gave me a problem this time, I have issued a holy decree to remove him, how can I change it?" If I don't reward him with a thousand taels of gold, he doesn't like to tinker with these strange tricks. Coincidentally? Wouldn't it be right to let him be a rich man? ……”