What is the secret of Wan Guifei's popularity?

What's the secret that Wan Guifei is seventeen years older than Ming Xianzong?

In many works, Wan Guifei is called Wan Zhener, although this name did not appear in Ming history. She came from a very low family, entered the palace at the age of four and became a bridesmaid. When she grew up, she was sent to the East Palace to serve the then Prince Zhu Jianshen and served as Zhu Jianshen's nanny in her childhood.

Does the name Zhu Jianshen ring a bell? He was a victim of "the change of the civil fort": Zhu Qizhen was first captured, and was imprisoned in Nangong as the "emperor's father" after returning to China, while his son Zhu Jianshen was forced by the queen mother to establish a new emperor Zhu Qiyu as the prince. Ming Jing's emperor Zhu Qiyu is in front of the emperor, but he can't let his son become a prince. His resentment is obvious.

In this case, Zhu Jianshen is in danger, and everyone in the harem knows it. Just out of sympathy, if you want to be nice to Zhu Jianshen, you have to consider whether you will bring yourself trouble in the future. Therefore, Zhu Jianshen's childhood must be a dark, cold and horrible life. His stuttering problem comes from the great mental pressure he has suffered during this time.

However, his nanny, a maid-in-waiting seventeen years older than him, is loyal to her master and is not disturbed by the outside world. On the other hand, she is alert and considerate of Zhu Jianshen's thoughts. She became the greatest warmth of Zhu Jianshen's childhood.

In the third year of Jingtai (1452), Zhu Jianshen was abolished as the King of Qi, and Zhu Qiyu's own son Zhu Jianji was made the Crown Prince.

In the fourth year of Jingtai, Zhu died unfortunately by chance (it was also said that he was victimized by the British plot that hated Ming Daizong). Although Zhu Jianji was the only son of Zhu Qiyu, after his death, Zhu Qiyu did not re-establish Zhu Jianshen as the Prince.

Four years later, in the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Emperor Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, and Zhu Jianshen was restored as a prince. He and Wan, a pair of distressed servants and brothers and sisters, finally made it to sunrise.

Historical data failed to find out when Wan became a concubine, only knowing that the crown prince ascended the throne in Tianshun eight years, and the first thing was to canonize his beloved as a queen. However, due to the strong opposition of everyone, including the birth mother Zhou, Xianzong had to give in and made Wu the queen of the female imperial clan and Wan the imperial concubine.

Young Wu Huanghou couldn't see the situation clearly, and tried to suppress the domineering Wan Guifei. Wan Guifei gently blew a few mouthfuls of pillow breeze, which provoked Zhu Jianshen's great anger and ruined Wu Huanghou. The new queen dare not provoke Wan Guifei. Therefore, in the history of Ming Dynasty, there is a record that "Wan Guifei is a special pet, and the queen wants to see him, but there is no sign of inheriting him": they probably want to maintain a monogamous life, so that they can share life and death.

However, the emperor is the emperor after all, and the family life of the emperor is not a private matter, but a major event related to world peace. The emperor needs a son. Wan Guifei's eldest son died soon, and she was never pregnant again.

Strong love, loss of children and lack of mental model make Wan Guifei (who has been promoted to imperial concubine after giving birth) more and more paranoid. She persecuted other concubines and did not allow others to get pregnant, which made officials "dare not show that the princess was jealous every time the speaker advised Pu Enze", only dare to suggest that the emperor "Pu Enze" and dare not accuse Wan Guifei of being jealous. Among them, an unwise fairy made an outspoken suggestion, which angered Zhu Jianshen. After being demoted, "no return" was forever excluded from the officialdom.

But the size of the harem is always beyond Wan Guifei's concern. A little maid-in-waiting, Ji, secretly gave birth to the emperor's third son, Zhu Shitang, and secretly raised him until he was six years old.

After the age of six, with the help of eunuch Sharla Cheung, Zhu Shitang and Zhu Jianshen got to know each other and were made Prince. Shortly after the sudden death of Princess Jishi, eunuch Sharla Cheung also committed suicide. As you can imagine, these are all out of Wan Guifei's paranoia of almost crazy revenge.

Zhu Shitang is very young, but she is wary of Wan Guifei. Realizing this, Wan Guifei released the control of the harem, which made Zhu Jianshen have one child after another. A * * * has fourteen sons and six daughters.

However, Zhu Jianshen's love for Wan Guifei is lifelong. In the 23rd year of Chenghua, Wan Zhener, a 58-year-old imperial concubine, died. Xianzong wailed, "I'm really dead, and I'm going to die soon. "

In August of the same year, unhappy Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen died at the age of 4 1 year.

Zhu Jianshen completed the task of bearing children and carrying on the family line required by the national court, but he used his life to follow his lover. He refuted the statement that "ruthlessness is the monarch's home".