Is it too noble and wrong for Chen Hugong to cook, weave and sew clothes for the emperor himself?

Empresses of feudal dynasties were mostly spoiled. But the queen cooked for the emperor herself, knitted sweaters and dressed the emperor herself, which was extremely virtuous. This queen is Zhou, the queen of the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou, a native of Suzhou, lost his mother since childhood. After that, he moved to Beijing with his father Zhou Kui and made a living by his father's fortune telling. His family is poor.

Chen Wenxi, a famous Beijing scholar, is also good at Yijing gossip. He heard that there was a fortune-telling teacher in the city, and he was very interested, so he went to visit. In this way, he saw Zhou's face spread out in front of Zhou Kui.

Seeing Zhou's beauty and dignity, white skin as fat, calm manner and refined attitude, I can't help but sigh with emotion to Zhou Kui: "A gentleman and a woman are more expensive than the world." She accepted Zhou as a female disciple and taught books such as History of Poetry, Four Books and Five Classics, and Zi Jian.

In the sixth year of the apocalypse, Zhu Youjian, who was established as the king of faith, reached the age of choosing a princess. Zhu Youjian's sister-in-law, Queen Zhang, is in charge of this matter.

At that time, all folk women around the age of 15 were registered as candidates for entering the palace. After eight rigorous screenings, Natalie finally chose Zhou with a dark belly and an average appearance.

Zhou Wei, a poor family, started a new life for the new princess.

In the seventh year of the apocalypse, Ming Xi Emperor Zhu Youxiao died. Because he had no children, his younger brother Zhu Youjian was appointed as the 16th emperor of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Ming Sizong. Zhou was also made queen.

Originally, Ming Xizong didn't care about state affairs when he was in power. The carpenter gave eunuch Wei Zhongxian full authority to handle state affairs. After Zhu Youjian acceded to the throne, Zhou worried that he would be assassinated by Wei Zhongxian, so he personally cooked and did not stop until Wei Zhongxian was eradicated.

Supposedly, after the danger is lifted, Zhou should enjoy himself.

However, Zhou realized that with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea's treasury suffered a large number of deficits, plagues were everywhere, peasant uprisings were frequent, and customs clearance was even more troublesome. So, after taking charge of the sixth house, Queen Zhou cut some unnecessary expenses and gave the money saved to military expenses.

Besides, she wears simple clothes, eats vegetarian food and can embroider. She was personally involved. She bought 24 spinning wheels, taught ladies-in-waiting to spin, and encouraged everyone to be frugal.

Under the impetus of Empress Zhou, the harem was orderly and the rear area was stable, thus saving the Ming Dynasty from desperation.

According to "Chongzhen Palace Ci", "When Xiangguan dictated surplus, he waved his hand as if village studies were interlinked with heaven. Cover the child's knees, uncover the chicken pole and write a letter of forgiveness. "

This word is about a little eunuch who waited on Queen Zhou at that time and was asked by Queen Zhou if she could read and write. The little eunuch could not answer. So Zhou taught him to read. But the little eunuch is not easy to learn. They learned it the day before and forgot it the next day. So Queen Zhou made him kneel on the steps. Seeing the little eunuch kneeling pitifully, Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "I beg the female teacher to forgive him." Empress Zhou was deliberately annoyed: "Only you can make an exception." Then let the little eunuch go.

As can be seen from this record, there is no struggle between emperors and princes in the court drama, but there are many fireworks of young couples. So the history book commented, "After the last week, I was wise and my wife came prepared."

Unfortunately, when the Ming Dynasty was about to collapse, Zhu Youjian worked day and night in vain.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the peasant army into Beijing. North Korea's ministers have all fled. Those who had no time to escape surrendered to the peasant army. Even the eunuch in the palace was "smart-aleck" and rushed to open the door for Li Zicheng.

At this time, Zhu Youjian really became a loner. When he walked to the Palace of Kunning in a trance, he found the Queen Zhou and the three princes still there.

Zhu Youjian thought that all the emperors' concubines would be humiliated after national subjugation, so he held back his inner anger.

Queen Zhou knelt on the ground and cried. But she also knew that by this time, there was nothing she could do, so she and the third prince cried bitterly and entered the room, and soon hanged themselves.

Later, under the rule of Zhu Yousong, the axe king, the old Ming officials who fled to Nanjing made Hong Guang emperor. Deeply moved by his profound understanding of Zhou's sense of justice, he went to posthumous title to be Zhou's "Filial Empress".