Keshi (?-1627), a native of Dingxing (now Hebei) in Baoding at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was named Hou Er. At the age of 18, she became the nurse of Zhu Youxiao, the future Emperor of the Ming Xizong Apocalypse.

After Xizong ascended the throne, he named the Ke family as the "Fengsheng Lady", and the Hakka family relied on the favor of Xi Zong, colluded with Wei Zhongxian to do many evils, and was called "Ke Wei". controlled the government for more than ten years, which accelerated the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was executed after his accession to the throne.

Nursing mother

In Wei Zhongxian's eunuch group, in addition to Wei Zhongxian, the other is Xizong's nurse Keshi. Wei Zhongxian's poison mainly raged in the outer court, and upright scholars and doctors were mostly harmed by it. The sinister nature of the Hakka clan is mainly concentrated in the palace, and the eunuchs and concubines who are not attached to themselves suffer from it. The reason why the Hakka family can be favored in the palace is first of all because of his identity as the nurse of Xizong. At the beginning of Xizong's accession to the throne, his biological mother Wang had already died. As mentioned earlier, Xizong's father Zhu Changluo did not have another concubine after the death of the concubine, and he did not canonize the queen after he ascended the throne, so Xizong did not have a mother-in-law. The higher status in the palace were the two Li Xuan attendants, namely the East Li and the West Li. The Hakka family is favored by Xizong as a nurse, and her arrogance in the palace is much higher than that of the two servants.

The Hakka family's name is Baba, and she was originally the wife of Hou Baer (Hou Er) in Dingxing County, and gave birth to a son, Hou Guoxing. She was elected to the palace at the age of 18 to serve as the nurse of the imperial grandson Zhu Youxiao. The Hakka family is beautiful and charming, and he can't be at peace in the palace. Wei Dynasty, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian served before, once "eaten" with the Hakka clan. It turned out that the eunuchs on duty in the palace could not cook in the palace, and every time they had eaten, they could only eat their own cold food, and the palace maids could start a fire, so the eunuchs entrusted the palace maids who were familiar with each other to warm the rice on their behalf. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this phenomenon was still sneaky. After Wanli, it was made public. If there are palace maids who have been without companions for a long time, they will even be ridiculed by other palace maids. The "vegetable households" of the Hakka family have successively eaten, including Wei Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian. The Wei Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian had a dispute in order to get the Hakka family, and in the end, Zhu Youxiao ruled that the Hakka family was assigned to Wei Zhongxian. According to some historical records, the private life of the Hakka family was not limited to the Wei Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian. She may even have an affair with Zhu Youxiao, the so-called "inviting a lewd pet". The young Zhu Youxiao must not be able to control the temptation of the young and beautiful Hakka in his thirties. Less than 10 days after Xizong ascended the throne, he made the Ke clan the lady of Fengsheng. Since then, the Hakka family has been inseparable from the emperor. In February of the first year of the Apocalypse, the emperor got married and married Empress Zhang. Naturally, the Hakka had to avoid it. Xizong was very tolerant of the Hakka family for this. If it weren't for the fact that the Hakka family was married and entered the palace, I am afraid that it would be another "Wan Guifei" in the Chenghua era. However, during the period when the Hakka family was the emperor of Zhu Youxiao, the treatment he received as a nursing mother was indeed unprecedented. Every birthday, Zhu Youxiao will definitely congratulate him in person. Every time she travels, her pomp is no less than that of the emperor. When you leave the palace and enter the palace, it must be a dusty road, cigarette smoke is swirling, and the cry of "Mrs. Ancestor is a thousand years old" is shocking.

The first step in the Hakka palace is to get rid of Guangzong Zhu Changluo's original confidant eunuch and eunuch Wang An. Wang An was one of the few eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty who was praised by scholars. He was upright and served Zhu Changluo, Zhu Youxiao and his son from the twentieth year of Wanli (1592). Especially in the matter of moving the palace, he united with Yang Lian, Liu Yi■ and other ministers of the outer court to support Zhu Youxiao's accession to the throne, so that Zhu Youxiao got rid of the control of "Xi Li". After Xizong ascended the throne, he was also very grateful to Wang An and accepted everything. Wei Zhongxian also took refuge under his door. However, Wang An is "upright and sparse", his mind is not careful enough, and he often suffers from illness. As a result, his contact with Xizong gradually decreased, and Wei Zhongxian became closer and closer to Xizong with the help of the Ke clan, and there was a great tendency to replace him. In May of the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Zhu Youxiao appointed Wang An as the eunuch in charge of the seal. According to the usual practice, Wang An naturally had to resign. At this time, the role of Hakka is revealed. She persuaded Xizong to simply approve Wang An's resignation. Then, Wei Zhongxian sent Huo Weihua to impeach Wang An, and then used the identity of the eunuch to send Wang An to Nanhaizi to be a pure army - the eunuch army. From Wei Zhongxian's point of view, Wang An is kind to him and can't bear to harm him. However, Hakka's words strengthened Wei Zhongxian's determination to get rid of Wang An. The Hakka family said: "I am better than Xi Li, and I want to leave a legacy also!" It means that how do you and I compare with Li Xuanshi, she was forced by Wang An to move to the palace and live in seclusion, why should we leave a legacy? As a woman, the Hakka family has no kindness for a woman, and she is very vicious. In fact, Wang An is kind to Xizong, if he does not die, he may turn over at any time. The Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian then sent Liu Chao, the eunuch in Li Xuan's palace, to take charge of Nanhaizi. Liu Chao already had a grudge against Wang An. Let Liu Chao take charge of the Nanhaizi Jing Army, which is undoubtedly to execute Wang An. After Liu Chao arrived, he did not let Wang An eat and drink. Wang An took the "reeds" in the fence as food. Reeds are also known as rosewood, and their rhizomes are edible. Probably Wang An was digging grass roots for food at that time. However, in this way, Wang An still persisted for three days without dying. Liu Chao was really a little impatient, so he "culled", so he removed the big trouble for the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian.

The Hakka family knew that his position in the palace had no legitimacy. After the wedding, Xizong once sent the Hakka out of the palace because of the request of Liu Lan and others, the imperial history of the outer court. However, not long after, Xizong recalled the Hakka clan. Xizong said to his subordinates: "The Si Ke clan is diligent in serving me day and night, not leaving the left and right, going out of the palace, and not using it from lunch to night. At dusk, I cried at dawn, my heart was painful, I rested, and I was dizzy and in a trance. In the future, I will often go inside to serve and comfort me. "Since the emperor has caused anorexia, insomnia, dizziness and trance because of the departure of the Hakka family, it is ineffective for the ministers to oppose it. Therefore, after the apocalypse, the Hakka family always entered and exited the court freely. However, the Hakka understood that their status was only gained by Xizong's favor, and once Xizong died, his status would also plummet. Therefore, it is very important to choose who will succeed Xizong after his death. It is said that the Hakka clan and Wei Zhongxian were deliberately trying to depose Empress Zhang, and then take the daughter of Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing as their successor. However, Xizong had a lot of husband and wife affection for Empress Zhang, so this plan could not be successful. The Hakka family was more afraid that the emperor's concubine would give birth to the prince, and the mother would be more precious than the son, so as to get the love of Xizong and make himself fall out of favor. Therefore, in the Apocalypse Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao gave birth to many princes, but none of them could grow up. Xizong had a total of three children. The eldest son, Zhu Ciran, is the crown prince of Huaichong, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" says that "his biological mother is unknown". In the Ming Dynasty, where the "Inner Living Note" was quite detailed, this was really strange. The second son, Zhu Ci, was born to Concubine Hui Fan, and died before he was 1 year old. The third son, Cijiong (jiǒn), was born to Concubine Rong's Ren family, and died before the age of 1. Some scholars believe that this may have been the poison of Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family. What's more, many princes have actually been plotted by the Hakka family in the womb, such as Concubine Yu's Zhang's pregnancy. Because Concubine Yu Zhang inadvertently offended the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian, the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian falsely passed on the holy decree, confined Concubine Yu in another palace, expelled the palace maids, and cut off food and drink. At that time, Concubine Yu was already pregnant, but she was starved to death in the palace. The other concubines in the palace have been very afraid of the Hakka family since then. For example, Concubine Fan, who gave birth to the second son of the emperor, was worried that she would end up in the same fate as the Yu family, so she usually stored food in advance, and then she was imprisoned by the Hakka family for half a month and survived with the food she kept privately.

Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, on the one hand, deliberately removed all factors in the palace that might be unfavorable to them, and on the other hand, they offered their adopted daughter to Xizong, hoping to give birth to a boy and a girl. However, Xizong's three sons and two daughters died early in his life, and Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family's wishful thinking has never been reversed. Therefore, the death of Xizong was a very heavy blow to the Hakka family. After King Zhu Youzhen entered the palace and ascended the throne, the Hakka family no longer had a reason to stay in the palace. On the day he left the palace on the third day of the ninth month, the Hakka got up early. At the fifth watch, dressed in mourning clothes, he entered the mourning hall of Xizong, took Xizong's fetal hair, acne scabs and nails when he was a child and incinerated them, and wept bitterly. More than two months later, on November 17, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Hakka family was taken out of the private house and escorted to the Huanyi Bureau, a place in the palace that specializes in punishing palace maids, for severe interrogation. The result of the interrogation was surprising: at that time, there were 8 palace maids who were pregnant, and the Hakka family admitted that these 8 palace maids were all maidservants brought in by him from outside, and they wanted to follow Lü Buwei's example and covet the throne. Combined with Wei Zhongxian's statement that two palace maids were pregnant before Xizong's death, the pregnancy of the palace maids may have been carefully arranged by the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian. If what the Hakka said was true, then the Hakka family was naturally guilty and could not be punished, so he was flogged to death in the Huanyi Bureau.