Chapter 132: Revisiting the Tomb of the Gods (2)
Ming Xian Zong Concubine Wanshi:
There are many favored concubines in history, but if the situation is bizarre, no one can compare to Ming Xianzong's beloved concubine Wan Zhen'er. A nineteen-year-old woman of the emperor firmly occupies her husband's heart, and has the favor of his life, which really makes others puzzled, the only explanation can only be that Concubine Wan has a different, coquettish fox means, in this regard, Concubine Wan is the most attractive woman deservedly!
Ming Yingzong's son Zhu Jianshen was seventeen years old when he was on the throne, which was the time of youth. The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces took a lot of thought to choose the empress candidate for the new emperor. Among the twelve ladies selected by Yingzong for his son before his death, they carefully selected them, and selected Wang, Wu, and Bai to stay in the palace and investigate slowly.
Xianzong's biological mother, Empress Dowager Zhou, ordered the ceremonial supervisor Niu Yu to choose one of the three ladies as the queen. Niu Yu said to the Empress Dowager Zhou, when the first emperor was in favor of Wu Nu and Wang Nu, I see that the two daughters are quite good-looking, and I can't tell who is more beautiful and dignified, compared to it, it seems that Wu Nu is more virtuous. The Empress Dowager Zhou took the initiative to choose Wu as the queen for Xianzong, and of course the Empress Dowager Qian had no opinion.
Who knew that after the wedding, the emperor and groom did not covet the youth and beauty of Empress Wu, but often stayed in the palace of the concubine Wan, which made Empress Wu angry and ashamed. She doesn't understand, what point is she inferior to the Wan Fei, whether it is a talent or a family cultivation? What she didn't understand even more was that Concubine Wan, who was nineteen years older than the emperor, used what means to tie the emperor's heart to death?
It turned out that before the wedding, Xianzong had a private affair with Wan Zhen'er, a palace maid who was over 30 years old. Wan Zhen'er was originally from Zhucheng, Qingzhou (now Yidu County, Shandong), and her father Wan Gui was a county official who broke the law and went to the frontier. Wan Zhen'er was only four years old when she was enslaved in the court, and more than ten years later, she was beautiful. Empress Dowager Sun took pity on her for being smart and clever, and ordered her to manage clothing and other things in Hongshou Palace. Xianzong often went to his grandmother's place to play when he was a child, and Zhen'er took Xianzong to play and joke, and they became closer and closer, and they became friends over time. Zhen'er is a caring person, and she is bent on the crown prince, hoping for the day when she will come out, and she is particularly flattering to Xianzong.
In the sixth year of Tianshun, Empress Dowager Sun died of illness, and the fifteen-year-old crown prince took the opportunity to put Wan Zhen'er into the East Palace to be his personal maid. Although Zhen'er is over thirty years old, she is still a virgin and still gorgeous, and she looks only about twenty. In order to seduce the prince who was just beginning to fall in love, she resorted to all kinds of flattering methods, and finally hooked the prince.
After Xianzong ascended the throne, he was only in love with Wan Zhen'er. According to his thoughts, he really wanted to canonize Wan Zhen'er as the queen, but as a palace maid who was nineteen years older than him and was a humble palace maid, it was almost a dream to sit on the queen's throne. Forced by the etiquette system and forced by his mother's order, Xianzong had to marry Empress Wu, and Yu Wan could only give her the name of a little concubine.
Wan Zhen'er is not reconciled. She knew that the emperor at this time had completely bowed down under her pomegranate skirt; She believed that as long as the emperor made up her mind, she could sit on the throne of the empress. Relying on the emperor's incomparable favor, she didn't take Empress Wu seriously at all. After the wedding, the emperor often visited her dormitory, got along with her day and night, and loved each other, which further fueled her arrogance. Therefore, every time she met with Empress Wu, she always kept a straight face and did not give face, and even deliberately took a shelf, which made Empress Wu very angry. At first, she endured it because of Xianzong's face, but later she couldn't bear it, and she inevitably reprimanded her for being unreasonable. But Concubine Wan not only didn't know how to restrain herself, but ridiculed the queen. Once provoked Empress Wu's sex, the palace people dragged her to the ground, and personally took the staff to beat her a few times.
This is terrible, Concubine Wan found Xianzong and cried endlessly. Xianzong was furious and wanted to go to the queen for comment. Concubine Wan is a scheming person, and deliberately stopped Xianzong from making trouble, saying:
"The concubine is old and decrepit, not as good as the queen's jade girl, and I ask Your Majesty to order the concubine to leave the palace, so as not to make the queen angry, and the concubine will not be punished with the cane!"
Xianzong hated the queen and pitied Concubine Wan, and slowly untied Concubine Wan's clothes, seeing that her snow was also like white and tender skin, and the staff marks were full of blood, he couldn't help but be angry from his heart, and swore: "Such a spicy thing, if I don't abolish her, I will not be a person!" ”
Early the next morning, Xianzong went to see the empress dowager of the two palaces, saying that Empress Wu acted frivolously, did not abide by the etiquette law, and was unworthy of being the first of the six palaces, and must be abolished. Empress Dowager Qian was inconvenient to say anything, and Empress Dowager Zhou dissuaded:
"Isn't it a joke that the book will be abolished in just one month?"
Xianzong insisted on abolishing it, and the Empress Dowager Zhou doted on her son, so she had to let Xianzong be. So, an edict was issued after the abolition, ordering the Wu family to retreat to another palace, and also punished the ceremonial supervisor Niu Yu to Xiaoling to grow vegetables.
Concubine Wan coveted the throne and asked Xianzong to tell the Queen Mother for her, but the Queen Mother Zhou thought she was old and from a humble background, so she refused to agree.
Two months later, the Empress Dowager Zhou issued an edict to ask Xianzong to canonize the Wang family, who had been named a virtuous concubine along with the Bai family, as the queen. Queen Wang is weak and afraid of things by nature, knowing that the emperor favors Concubine Wan, and she is not Concubine Wan's opponent, so she has to be humble and tolerant everywhere, and just be a puppet queen.
In the second year of Chenghua, Concubine Wan gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, Xianzong was overjoyed, immediately entered her as a concubine, and sent messengers to pray to the gods of mountains and rivers. Who knew that the sky did not obey people's wishes, and before waiting for the full moon, the dragon son died in a short life, and Wan Guifei no longer had a pregnancy. But the ambition to seize the queen's throne did not give up, so she was very jealous of the concubines to give birth, if she knew which concubine was pregnant, she would do everything possible to force the child to drink medicine and have a baby. Forced by the power of Concubine Wan in the palace, the concubines could only obey with tears.
At this time, Concubine Wan not only favored the six palaces, but also was powerful in the government and the opposition, and even Xianzong couldn't control her. She even had eunuchs inside, powerful ministers outside, eunuchs Liang Fang, Qian Neng, Zheng Zhong, Wang Zhi, etc., all of whom were noble concubines, and in the name of palace procurement, they wantonly looted, and used countless internal funds, and Xianzong did not dare to ask more.