Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Secret That Is Not a Secret
Last time, I talked about the great turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty, and after the death of Emperor Tianqi, Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, which led to the final defeat of the "Eunuch Party" and the "Donglin Party" won by luck.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong had already set up the "Xian'an Palace" to visit his long-awaited "nurse" and "life mentor" Keshi. Although the Ke family, as a "milk lady", still relied in the palace after Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne and became emperor, which violated the ancestral system of the feudal dynasty for thousands of years, but because of the special relationship, there was nothing to do.
As we all know, Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, is a famous "carpenter emperor" in history, and its characteristic is that "carpenters are the main business, and the emperor is the sideline". The reason for this may be that Zhu Youxiao's education level is too low, his personality is too introverted, and his interests and hobbies are too niche, but he can't do without someone's strong support.
This person is the "nurse" Ke who raised Zhu Youxiao from a young age, after all, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is too deeply dependent on her, and without her encouragement and comfort, she is likely to live like a year. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was forced to teach the "nurse" government affairs, after all, Wei Zhongxian, the helper of the "nurse", was capable!
Although Zhu Youxiao became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was still controlled by the "nurse" Ke family in marriage after adulthood, put the entire harem under his clutches, and successively killed the princes born to Empress Zhang, Concubine Rong, and Concubine Hui, and finally starved to death in the small black house of Concubine Zhang Yu, who was pregnant for a full term.
Although Zhu Youxiao sensed that something was wrong, he was in power and could not do anything, plus he fell into the water and fell ill and lost his fertility, so he could only be desperate. However, this "milk lady" Hakka wants this effect, to control the "milk child" psychologically and physiologically, and to control the country remotely.
In fact, Zhu Youxiao's succession process is quite difficult and complicated, because the "Donglin Party" is also working hard for this, so Zhu Youxiao is also very interesting, just less than a month after taking the throne, he has blocked many people, asking for money for money, officials for officials, each performing his own duties, hoping that he will not bother himself to do carpentry.
However, what many people don't know is that on the tenth day of Zhu Youxiao's accession to the throne, an old woman was canonized and titled "Mrs. Fengsheng". Why does an ordinary "nurse" have such a status in Zhu Youxiao's eyes? This involves Zhu Youxiao's life experience and personal privacy.
You must know that the profession of "nursing mother", especially in the palace, is mostly from ordinary people, and has no social status, and generally feeds the children when they grow up, and they go back and forth from where. Throughout the ages, this has been the case since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception.
And instead of going back, this "Hakka" still regarded himself as one of the emperor's "eight mothers", and he could still make the Emperor of the Apocalypse respect and rely on her very much. There must be some ulterior secret. According to historical records, the Hakka family, formerly known as Ke Yinyue, was the daughter-in-law of Hou Er, a villager in Baoding Mansion, Beizhili.
"Keshi" is beautiful and gave birth to a son at the age of eighteen. In the same year, Wang Cai in the palace gave birth to Zhu Youxiao. According to ancient practice, the royal family must choose a suitable nurse to feed Zhu Youxiao among the people. At this time, Ke Yinyue went through many selections, defeated countless competitors, and successfully entered the palace.
When I first entered the palace, I was not familiar with life, so of course I had to be a man with my tail between my legs. Therefore, as a "nurse", Hakka was very diligent and on call during this period. Two years later, her husband died of illness, but Hakka still worked diligently in the palace to complete the breastfeeding work, and mixed well in the palace.
Later, the palace people found that the Hakka family was often absent from work and went out of the palace, and their whereabouts were very strange, and they frequently went in and out of various entertainment venues. After investigation, the Hakka family often picked up the plane and went out for trysts. As a nurse in the palace, she did this, but she was not punished. There was talk of it, but no one reported it.
This ordinary-looking nurse is not ordinary at all. The "nurse" was actually a temporary worker in the Ming Dynasty, because when the child she fed grew up, she should leave the palace. In addition, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty government, once the prince and princess reach the age of six, the nurse must leave the palace.
However, as Zhu Youxiao's "nurse", Ke Yinyue just didn't leave, and she stayed in the palace for more than ten years with a cheeky face, and no one could understand it, because the emperor Lao Tzu didn't let her go, as long as she left the palace, Zhu Youxiao didn't think about tea, didn't eat, and couldn't sleep well, which frightened the ministers.
Zhu Youxiao later simply built another palace for the "milk lady", so that he could visit the "milk lady" at any time, so that he could continue to experience the meticulous care in life, including how to deal with the "adolescent impulse" when he was not yet canonized as the queen and accepted concubines, as well as various difficulties in having sex with each other in the future.
As a result, Zhu Youxiao not only did not let the "nurse" go, but also named the "Fengsheng Lady", which led to the status of the "Hakka" in the palace was not ordinarily high.
In the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty, except for the emperor, the queen mother, the emperor, the empress, the concubine and people with very high status, it is not as good as the "crown prince" to take a sedan chair in the palace, and the rest are walking in and out of the palace. For example, Liu Yijing, a cabinet scholar, is in his sixties and still walks in and out of the palace.
However, this "Holy Lady" can not only take a sedan chair in the palace, but also have a special person in charge of pick-up. Whenever there is a New Year's holiday, Emperor Zhu Youxiao will personally go to congratulate and invite her to dinner. Of course, this is also a little bit of the "junior's" filial piety to the "elders", which is indeed understandable and in line with etiquette.
Ice is sent in summer, charcoal is sent in winter, the house is given in the palace, and the house is returned outside the palace, and the house outside the palace is in an excellent location, and it takes less than a quarter of an hour to walk to Tiananmen Square, and the appreciation potential is unlimited. "Hakka" still has hundreds of servants to serve, the palace comes and goes at will, and it can be said that it is very capricious!
A nurse, an emperor's nurse, to say that the emperor wants to repay the kindness of feeding, it is too much, after all, this person is still a "temporary worker" with a bad style of life, what qualifications do you have to ask the "owner" to worship himself as a god and a Buddha? But a year later, something even more drastic.
In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Ming Xizong Zhu decided by the school, I want to take a concubine! The emperor is hemp, and the three thousand beauties in the harem are not exaggerated, and everyone thinks it is normal to accept ordinary concubines. However, the "nurse" Hakka was unhappy, because it would threaten his psychological and physical control over the "nurse".
According to records, at that time, the "Hakka family" was already thirty-five years old, a proper old aunt, not to mention a widow who lost her father at an early age? The so-called "thirty women are like wolves, forty are like tigers, and fifty can sit on the ground and absorb soil?" In the face of her "little fresh meat", the old aunt with strong physiological needs will definitely disagree.
As a "nurse", she actually disagreed with the decision of the "Nurse Emperor", and she was very nonsensically displeased. What's even more strange is that Zhu Youxiao didn't get angry, let alone reprimand the Hakka, but smiled all over his face, and ran to the Hakka house in person, said good things for a long time, and made a decision on the spot.
"I'm in charge of all the things I do!" Okay, the big and small affairs of this harem are completely in the hands of the old aunt Ke.
Many people, especially the ministers of the DPRK and China, are very dissatisfied with this incident, after all, the family affairs of the feudal dynasty are state affairs! A "nurse" who has been in the palace for many years and wants to meddle in the harem, this is absolutely not allowed! Therefore, some bold ministers went up and demanded that the Hakka family must leave the palace.
This matter is indeed not very glorious, after all, the emperor still wants to save face, otherwise he will have a queen and a concubine in the future, and when he is fortunate to be a concubine, will he always accept the on-site supervision of the "nurse"? To put it nicely, it is to "guide work", and to say it badly, it is to "infringe on personal privacy".
Zhu Youxiao had no choice, so he had to agree to the ministers' proposal, and euphemistically let the "nurse" Keshi automatically move out of the palace. However, the "Hakka family" is very casual, after all, the "Milk Emperor" has already built a big house for himself outside the palace, and he can enter and leave the palace at any time anyway, so he is afraid that this little son will be uncomfortable.
Sure enough, the old aunt "Keshi" only crossed the threshold of the palace with her front foot, and before she stepped out with her back foot, the "Milk Emperor" Zhu Youxiao immediately sent a message to the "Cabinet" and said such a paragraph: "When I left the palace today, I didn't enter the lunch until the evening, and I thought about it until late, and I was heartbroken. ”
This roughly means that "the nurse left the palace today, I didn't eat lunch, I thought about her all day, my heart hurts, let her come back to comfort me, and you ministers don't bother me anymore!" This shows that the relationship between the "nursing mother" and the "nursing child" is no longer an ordinary relationship!
In fact, in terms of age, the "nurse" Keshi is eighteen years older than Emperor Zhu Tianqi, so it stands to reason that there should be no other conjectures, after all, it is not appropriate to be an "old wife and young husband". However, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had a history in this regard. A ready-made example is the Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen in the "Chenghua period".
At that time, Wan Guifei was Zhu Jianshen's nursing mother, with a difference of nineteen years, and in the end they were justifiably together? In terms of age gap, this "Hakka" is not as big as the "Wan Guifei". Of course, IQ and EQ are not as high as other people's "Wan Guifei", so it is indeed normal to spread some scandals.
Even later, Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the "eunuch party", and the "old aunt" Keshi did all the bad things, but Zhu Youxiao, a "good baby" raised by the "old aunt", could only turn a blind eye, intentionally or unintentionally, locked himself in the "carpenter work", out of sight, not upset, and let it be tossed.
However, although the "old aunt" Hakka was still thriving before the "Chongzhen Emperor" Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the "Milk Emperor" had no backer as soon as he died, and after the "right eater" Wei Zhongxian also died, the "old aunt" Hak, who had done all the bad things, was ordered to be arrested by the "Chongzhen Emperor" and settle the account with her.
In the face of coercion and temptation, the "old aunt" had to explain all the bad things she had done. After that, "Emperor Chongzhen" Zhu Youzhen ordered that this "bad woman" who changed the chaos of the dynasty and had cruel methods was sent to the "Huanyi Bureau" to do hard labor, in fact, it was to kill her as soon as possible in disguise, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
As for later, this "old aunt" who did all the bad things was beaten to death with a stick, her son and brothers were beheaded for public display, and her whole family was sent to the frontier. It's just that he made the university scholar Fang Congzhe wait in the imperial study for a while, and he didn't wait for Zhu Youxiao to come back until the sun set.
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