Chapter Twenty-Three: Doesn't Your Heart Hurt?
The first wind and rain drifted away
Because respect will be afraid!
To be honest, in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou and Empress Ma have always been idols in his heart, and they can be called the most perfect people in the Ming Dynasty.
The mother's rites are placed on them in the world, and they are the most appropriate, and no one is impeccable.
Now, finally, it's here.
Kunning Palace, the head of the three palaces after the inner court, echoes with the Qianqing Palace.
The emperor is the sky, the queen is the earth, the emperor is Qian, the queen is Kun, and the Kun is a Ninging in the Tao Te Ching, so it is called Kunning Palace.
In the same way, the sky is clear, and the emperor's bedroom is called Qianqing Palace.
Qianqing Palace represents the masculine, and Kunning Palace represents the feminine, in order to represent the combination of yin and yang, the meaning of the combination of heaven and earth.
Passing through the Jiaotai Palace, the majestic Kunning Palace was displayed in front of Emperor Chongzhen, who walked very slowly.
Along the way, the palace maids they met all bent down and bowed their heads to show their salutes.
There are not many eunuchs in the harem, there are no big eunuchs, only some small yellow doors. It seems to be the rule for eunuchs to serve the emperor and palace maids to serve concubines.
At the entrance of the palace, Empress Zhou's personal female official Qingge had been waiting for a long time to greet Emperor Chongzhen, who was still beating gongs and drums in his heart.
"You don't need to inform the queen to welcome you, you all are busy!"
When the matter came, Emperor Chongzhen came down indifferently, waved his hand to stop the palace maid who was about to go to report, and walked into Kunning Palace with his legs raised.
Kunning Palace is the dormitory of Queen Zhou, the main hall is nine, three rooms deep, from the outside, the area is about eight or nine hundred square meters.
Entering the door is a hall, about 15 meters deep, with carved seats on the left and right, and a coffee table in the middle of the seats.
The innermost part is a phoenix seat decorated with golden yellow decorations, which is where Empress Zhou met with courtiers and noble ladies.
Entering through the west door, it is very wide, with more than a dozen looms, and then the kitchen.
Throughout the ages, it is estimated that it is rare for the queen to weave and cook in person, but in the memory of Emperor Chongzhen, Queen Zhou is accustomed to it.
"Father...... Hug! ”
When Emperor Chongzhen was about to cross the threshold, the dragon's legs were suddenly attacked by a villain, and there was a soft sound in his ears.
Emperor Chongzhen saw that it was Princess Kunxing, a cute girl who was only more than five years old.
The immature skin is like a freshly peeled egg, the big eyes are flashing, a pair of small dimples are evenly distributed on both sides of the cheeks, and a shallow smile is looming, cute as a fairy.
The chest was like a huge collision, Emperor Chongzhen squatted down and picked her up, feeling all kinds of feelings in his heart, evoking sad memories.
Scum someone, how can you bear to write such a lovely princess as a somewhat neurotic one-armed Shenni, doesn't your heart hurt?
Around, time is staggered, and Emperor Chongzhen seems to see history and the tragedy of Kunxing Palace.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the rebels besieged the capital, and the eunuch Wang Lian urgently told Chongzhen to drink in the palace and sighed: "Bitter for my people!" ”
The eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded him to surrender and was stabbed to death with a sword.
After that, Chongzhen ordered people to send the prince, Yongwang, and Dingwang to Xunqi Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu's home. After returning to the palace, he wrote an edict and ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to lead the armies and assist the crown prince Zhu Cihong.
Then he cried and said to Queen Zhou: "You are the mother of the country, and you deserve to be martyred." ”
Empress Zhou also cried and replied: "The concubine has been with you for eighteen years, and she has never disobeyed a word, and now Your Majesty has ordered the concubine to die, how dare you not die?" After speaking, he hanged himself and died.
Chongzhen turned to Yuan Guifei and said, "You can also go with the queen!" Yuan Guifei cried goodbye and hanged herself.
Then Chongzhen hacked several concubines to death, and ordered the eunuchs on the left and right to urge the eldest sister-in-law, Empress Yi'an, to commit suicide. Empress Zhang bowed to Zhu Youzhen a few times through the curtain and hanged herself.
Chongzhen summoned the fifteen-year-old Princess Kunxing again, and said with tears in her eyes: "Why did you want to be born into the emperor's family!"
After saying that, his left sleeve covered his face, and his right hand pulled out a knife and slashed her left arm, and then cut her right shoulder, again and again, after all, he couldn't bear it, and let Kunxing survive.
At the same time, he also stabbed to death his six-year-old daughter, Princess Zhaoren.
At this time, the sky was about to dawn, and Chongzhen rang the bell in the front hall to summon hundreds of officials, but no one came.
Emperor Chongzhen said: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and in the world of two hundred and seventy-seven years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by the traitorous ministers, so that it is so." ”
In the end, he hanged himself on the crooked neck tree in Jingshan.
But before he died, this king with very strong self-esteem had to disfigure himself with a sword, leaving a swan song for the ages;
"I have been on the throne for 17 years, although I have been a bandit and a thief, and I am angry, but all the ministers have mistakenly killed me, causing the rebels to approach the Beijing Division.
When I died, I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I took off my crown and covered my face with my hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person. ”
This king, whose bones are hard and get the marrow, personally killed his family, but he still cares about the people of the Ming Dynasty to death, and does not hurt any of the people.
Tears flowed down his cheeks, blurring his eyes, and Emperor Chongzhen's heart was filled with sadness, not only for the people and things in Kunning Palace in front of him, but also for the tragic experience of the Han people hundreds of years later.
"The father doesn't cry, the queen mother has done a lot today...... Better...... Delicious, chicken, eggs, and meat, just like the festival......"
Princess Kunxing said in a milky voice while wiping the tears on Emperor Chongzhen's face with her little hands.
"Father doesn't cry, father doesn't cry......"
After listening to the villain's words, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was even more sour, and he was poked into tears in an instant, but he could only endure it and kiss Princess Kunxing gently.
Bitter, the people in this Kunning Palace are all bitter!
In the third year of Chongzhen, Princess Kunxing was born, which coincided with the deterioration of the situation, and the deity began to save expenses in the inner treasury.
Although I can't be hungry, it's also a coarse tea and light meal every day, unless it's a big festival, I hardly see meat at ordinary times.
The food and clothing consumption is the same as that of the people outside.
Coupled with this era of medical backwardness, even royal children have a loss rate of twenty or thirty percent.
Therefore, children who are less than four or five years old don't even dare to love deeply, for fear that they will die and they can't stand it.
For example, Tian Guifei, who is beloved by the deity, gave birth to four sons for Chongzhen in her life: Yongwang Zhu Cizhi, Mourning King Zhu Cihuan, Mourning King and the seventh son of the emperor.
The continuous death of the child can be imagined as a blow to the mother, so she is depressed on weekdays.
Finally, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he died of illness.
"Your Majesty, what's going on?"
When he was sad, Emperor Chongzhen heard a soft greeting in his ears with deep concern.
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