"Empress Xu served Zhu Di respectfully in the harem, unremittingly morning and evening, educating the crown prince and the kings to be filial piety and compassion to the people, educating the concubines to be respectful and harmonious, and there are many constraints on relatives, educating them to abide by laws and regulations, and when they hear that their relatives are slightly indulgent, they will be summoned into the palace to reprimand, and when they hear that there are humble and prudent relatives, they will also be summoned from time to time to give rewards and encouragement."

"In terms of human beings, joy and anger are invisible, and if there are mistakes made by subordinates, they will be taught to correct them, and there is no one who is not in awe and admiration; Zhu Di is diligent and loves the people, advocating frugality, and Queen Xu is the same, she doesn't like gorgeous decorations, and since the royal frugality, a thrifty style has been formed in the harem. ”

In addition, Empress Xu also said to Zhu Di that "Emperor Yao Shiren started from his relatives", and when he was dying, he explained that Zhu Di should treat the clan with kindness, and there was also a sentence in her book that "the nine clans are inherited from love", all of which reflect her benevolence to her relatives. ”

"In addition to assisting the king, Queen Xu also worked tirelessly, wrote books and said, narrated the teachings of Queen Ma and expanded them into 20 articles of "Internal Training" to teach the concubines in the palace, and also compiled the good words and good deeds of the ancients, wrote the "Book of Persuasion", and promulgated it all over the world."

Because of his Buddhist beliefs and the political needs of maintaining Zhu Di's legitimacy, he compiled the scriptures such as "Dream Sense Buddha Says the First Xi Has Great Merit Sutra", "Buddha Says Fifty-three Buddha Great Cause Sutras", "Buddhas and World-Honored Bodhisattvas and Divine Monks Name Sutras". In addition, the "Qianqingtang Bibliography" also includes a volume of "Poems of Empress Renxiao", but due to historical reasons, it has been lost. ”

"At this time, Xu Miaoyun's body is not as good as day by day, when he was young, he followed Zhu Di around, and gave birth to three sons and four daughters for him, when he launched the Battle of Jingjing, he ignored his body and worked everywhere, and failed to cultivate well after giving birth, not to mention that giving birth to so many children is not good for the body, and she still worked hard after giving birth, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, she took on the responsibility of the mother of a country to take care of the harem, and cared about the lives of the people, and her body had long run out of oil."

"After Zhu Di learned that Xu Miaoyun was sick, the imperial doctors in the palace were sent to the queen's bedroom one after another, and doctors were recruited from the people to treat her, but the flowing tonic did not make Queen Xu's body recover."

When Empress Xu was dying, she did not forget to hold her husband's hand tightly, "The concubine has no way to continue to be by your side, as the king of a country, you must remember to be considerate of the people, be kind to the people, and let the people's lives return to normal as soon as possible, so that the country can prosper." ”

Zhu Di burst into tears after hearing this, he never thought that at this time, his wife's heart was still thinking about himself and the entire Ming Dynasty, on the fourth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Yongle, Queen Xu died of illness at the age of 46.

"How deep the relationship is, how painful it is when you lose your beloved wife, on the day of Queen Xu's death, Zhu Di stayed by her side and cried bitterly, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting around did not dare to come forward to dissuade her."

"In Zhu Di's eyes, there is no woman in the world who can compare to Xu Miaoyun, so he swore that he would never make a queen again in the future, and there was only one wife, and after the news of the death of the mother of a country spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, all the people of the Ming Dynasty cried along the streets."

"After the death of Empress Xu, Zhu Di's temperament changed greatly due to the loss of his beloved wife, Empress Xian, and he was more willful in the palace and often restless."

"For a whole year after his death, Zhu Di wore plain clothes and dropped out of the dynasty to mourn his wife who had accompanied him for half his life, and the ministers of the DPRK and China did not dare to make a big deal about the happy events at home."

"Zhu Di did not bury his wife as soon as possible, but let Xu Miaoyun's coffin be parked in the palace for six years, as if he did this, he didn't have to admit that Queen Xu had left him."

"Six years later, Xu Miaoyun's coffin was buried in the Changling Underground Palace, and everyone in the world sighed that there was a deep relationship between Zhu Di and Queen Xu."

"Speaking of which, I have to mention the matter of a woman giving birth to a child, which is an issue that should be raised in the ranking of the previous queen."

"Everyone should know that the marriage age of women in ancient times was very low, and many women would be married to others by their parents when they were thirteen or fourteen years old, and then start their own life as wives."

"If the person a woman marries is a good person, then the life expectancy of a woman may be much longer, but if they marry a non-person, then the life expectancy may be lower, and it cannot be avoided that the life expectancy of women in ancient times was lower than that of men, and most people who lived less than 40 were the majority."

"What's the saying?"

"A woman giving birth to a child is equivalent to going through the ghost gate", this is because the medical conditions in ancient times were very poor, women gave birth to children at a young age, blood collapse, postpartum hemorrhage, and even almost did the "confinement" This statement, after giving birth to a child for two days, began to work in the field, which made many women's physical health seriously harmed, and this injury is an "internal injury", it is difficult to make up for it. ”

"For this kind of saying that you can marry at the age of thirteen or fourteen, it is completely feudal thinking, at this time, women are not fully developed, they have to have children, can they be in good health? There is no benefit, and it also puts women's lives in danger, not to mention that some even have one a year, and all dynasties can fully count how many women are losing money because of giving birth to children, and there are countless tragic cases of blood collapse, which shows that the life expectancy of women in ancient times was very short, and they were inextricably linked to their low marriage age. ”

"Why did I mention the Han Dynasty in this matter, in the Western Han Dynasty, in order to restore the population as soon as possible, it specially formulated the relevant laws for early marriage of women, if the woman did not marry before the specified age, it is very likely that she will be forcibly arranged to have relatives, if you don't want to marry, then their family members need to pay the corresponding "single tax". ”

"During the Western Han Dynasty, there was always a war, and the population changed from 30 million at the beginning to 10 million, and it began to decline very quickly, resulting in a situation where there were more women and fewer men."

Therefore, in order to increase the population, Liu Bang ordered that a woman who is not married at the age of 15 should pay a single tax of 120 yuan a year. When Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, he directly doubled 5 times 600 yuan, which is equivalent to a man's ration for a year. It is also because of this policy that the men of the Han Dynasty have become fragrant and sweet, even if they are ugly and moral, but who calls him a man. ”

"There are more men and fewer women, a large number of girls have become concubines, a large number of parents desperately dislike their daughters, and the status of women has been reduced again and again to be humble."

"But in just a few decades, the population has grown from 15 million to 60 million, which is almost in tandem with the single tax. The woman is completely under the domination of other people's lives and is reduced to a prop. Although this policy laid a solid foundation for the development of the Han Dynasty, it was inhumane. ”

Qin Shi Huang: What kind of strange policy is this!