When the emperor is angry, he will bleed thousands of miles, and the world will be invincible. ——"Warring States Policy" This sentence is a state displayed by the emperors in ancient my country's feudal society when they were angry. It also reflects the supremacy of monarchy unde

When the emperor is angry, he bleeds thousands of miles and becomes invincible. ——" Warring States Policy "

This sentence is a state displayed by emperors in ancient my country's feudal society when they were angry. It also reflects from the side the supremacy of monarchy under the autocratic monarchy system. As the saying goes, "If the emperor wants his ministers to die, they will have to die." In all dynasties, people lost their lives under the emperor's orders.

The emperor who stands at the top of society issues orders, and everyone must carry them out to the letter. This is the imperial edict. No matter whether it is correct or not, no matter what the consequences will be, it must be carried out without any conditions.

It is precisely because of this that "burial" is a very common situation in history. For example, after the death of Qin Shihuang , Hu Hai ordered many concubines to be buried with him. Many concubines who were in their youth have all become Burial objects.

The Ming Dynasty emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang also did such a ridiculous thing. Before his death, he had all his concubines buried with him. However, one person survived because of his daughter's words. Zhu Yuanzhang was an iron-blooded emperor. Who made him change his imperial edict? Today let’s talk about the story.

Zhu Yuanzhang's frustration

As we all know, in the feudal society of more than two thousand years in my country, the emperor is an indispensable role. Throughout the history of our country, the Ming Prince Zhu Yuanzhang is the most special, because he became the emperor step by step from a beggar.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were continuous natural disasters and wars. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor family. His family was quickly torn apart by the impact of the famine. It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot in the early days.

Because he was young at the time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have any skills. He worked as a beggar and also entered a temple as a monk. Soon the disaster worsened, and Zhu Yuanzhang was kicked out of the temple and had to start a new round of begging.

Three years later, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the monastery and received a letter from Xiao Tang and . It turned out that Guo Zixing 's uprising army had become a climate, so Tang He served under him, and Zhu Yuanzhang soon joined the army.

Relying on his own abilities, Zhu Yuanzhang mastered a certain amount of military power. After several years of fighting, he once fought with Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng for the existence of the tripod. Zhu Yuanzhang was not only capable, he was also good at using people. With the help of Liu Bowen and others, he defeated Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng successively.

In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang finally ascended to the position of emperor as Ming Taizu and Hongwu Emperor. Anyone who has watched Zhu Yuanzhang in the "Movie and TV Series" knows that he has two closest people, one is his wife Queen Ma , and the other is their first son Zhu Biao.

Queen Ma was married by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was conquering the world. His son Zhu Biao was born when he was fighting on Jiqing Road. It can be said that he witnessed Zhu Yuanzhang's road to fame. After becoming the emperor, although Zhu Yuanzhang had many concubines, he still loved Empress Ma who shared the joys and sorrows with him the most.

Although he has many children and grandchildren, he still loves his and Queen Ma's son Zhu Biao the most. However, misfortune soon befell him. Unfortunately, Empress Ma fell seriously ill. Zhu Yuanzhang searched for famous doctors to treat her. However, fate played a trick on Empress Ma and she eventually passed away.

Of course, the blow to Zhu Yuanzhang was more than that. The last straw was Zhu Biao. Zhu Biao is Zhu Yuanzhang's most beloved son. He was regarded as the prince from the moment he was born. He learned the strategy of governing the country since he was a child and was the inevitable successor of the Ming Dynasty.

Who knew that misfortunes never come singly? Not long after Empress Ma passed away, Prince Zhu Biao also fell ill and passed away. Zhu Yuanzhang, who suffered successive blows, could be said to be completely despairing. Losing the two most important people in his life was an indelible pain for Zhu Yuanzhang, and it also made him die quickly.

The Imperial Decree to Bury All the People

When Zhu Biao and Queen Ma were still alive, Zhu Yuanzhang's life basically focused on them, and he didn't care much about other princes and concubines. At that time, everyone saw it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts, but they dared not speak out in anger.

After Zhu Yuanzhang fell ill in his later years, most of the time he would come to the bedside to express condolences out of face, and then leave in a hurry without stopping. On the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang owed these people in his early years, but he was still very angry when he saw them acting like this.

After many days of consideration, he made a decision when death came. Zhu Yuanzhang decreed: "After my death, all the concubines will be buried together." When this imperial edict was conveyed, it caused shock in the court, because the system of human sacrifice had actually ceased to exist long ago.

The peak period of the sacrificial burial system was during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. When Qin Shihuang was in power, the sacrificial burial system basically disappeared. Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum was replaced by Terracotta Warriors and Horses . Later, with the development of society, although this cruel system existed, it was rare, and royal family burials were even rarer.

But no one thought that more than a thousand years after the Qin Dynasty , the burial system would be used again by Zhu Yuanzhang. Throughout this period of history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had Mrs. Gou Ge buried with him, mainly to avoid the dictatorship of the queen and the dictatorship of his relatives.

Perhaps it was also due to this consideration. Zhu Yuanzhang did not want the Ming Dynasty to fall into the hands of his concubines, so he did this. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had 26 sons, and many of them were more talented than Zhu Yunwen. If If the concubine acts as an internal correspondent in the palace, Zhu Yunwen's regime will be very unstable.

Faced with such a fate, all the concubines have lost hope of life, like walking corpses, with no hope of hope in sight. As time went by, Zhu Yuanzhang's body became worse and worse day by day, and he quietly waited for the passage of life. All the concubines also felt that the end of life was coming.

The innocent Princess Baoqing

Just when all the concubines were immersed in the grief of dying, the three-year-old Princess Baoqing came to Zhu Yuanzhang's palace. No one expected that because of her words, One concubine survived and did not need to be buried with her.

As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang is a very iron-blooded person, especially on the issue of chastity, he adheres to the principle of "three obediences and four virtues". Who is Princess Baoqing, who can actually make Emperor Hongwu change his imperial edict?

Zhu Yuanzhang had more than 50 children in his life, and Princess Baoqing was the youngest. Judging from the time, she was born when Zhu Yuanzhang was 67 years old, so she was a daughter of old age. For the concubines in the harem, it is better to have a son than a daughter, but Princess Baoqing's mother Zhang Meiren did not think so.

She believed that her daughter was as good as her son, so she took full care of her in the later period, so that Princess Baoqing could grow up healthily. The 67-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his youngest daughter with loving eyes, pouring infinite care and love into her.

He is strict with many princes and princesses, but he is very fond of Princess Baoqing, even to the point of doting. It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang's love for his little daughter only lasted a few years, and he reached the point where his oil was exhausted.

In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang's condition worsened. Many people served him, but many people also knew that they were waiting for him to die and were not sincere. Perhaps because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang drove them out, leaving only his youngest daughter, Princess Baoqing.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked his daughter, do you think his father's illness can be cured? At that time, Princess Baoqing was just an innocent child. She didn't know that her father was about to pass away, and she didn't know whether her mother would be buried with him after his death. She just thought that her father was sick.

So, she staggered to Zhu Yuanzhang's hospital bed and said seriously, "Father, you must get well soon. Every time I get sick, I take medicine and sleep. I will be fine after taking medicine and sleeping." She will be fine after a good sleep..."

Princess Baoqing looked at her dying father with watery eyes. No matter who saw her, they would fall in love with her. Zhu Yuanzhang loved this little daughter very much, but he also knew his physical condition, so he said, "My father may not be well, what should I do?"

Upon hearing this, Princess Baoqing cried directly and comforted her with tears. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "My father will be fine. I will always wait for my father to get well." After hearing these words, Zhu Yuanzhang finally felt that there was still a little tenderness in the cold palace after losing his wife and son.

However, Princess Baoqing’s tears and grief could not change Zhu Yuanzhang’s fate. Looking at Princess Baoqing's innocent appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang could not imagine what kind of state she would be in after losing her mother.

Zhu Yuanzhang could not imagine what it would be like for this harmless little daughter to lose her father and then her mother... In the summer of that year, Zhu Yuanzhang passed away, but he was on his deathbed. The imperial edict was changed.

Except for Princess Baoqing’s mother, all the other concubines were buried with her, because Princess Baoqing also needed Zhang Meiren’s care. In this way, Zhang Meiren survived the burial because of her daughter's words, and finally lived a long life.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not able to take action in the end. Perhaps even Princess Baoqing herself did not know that her words of concern for her father actually saved her mother's life and her own childhood. Sometimes I have to say that childlike innocence is always the most penetrating thing in the world, and Zhu Yuanzhang was influenced by it.

As the youngest daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang, she was treated properly after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne. Ming Chengzu When Zhu Di was on the throne, Princess Baoqing was only 8 years old. It was not too much for Zhu Di to regard her as his daughter.

This is indeed the case. Zhu Di asked his Queen Xu to raise Princess Baoqing as a daughter. When she grew up, he found a consort for her. At the age of 19, she married the handsome and successful Qianhu Zhao Hui.

Zhu Di prepared a generous dowry for his sister, which was more than his own daughter, and also rewarded her sister in the following days. It can be said that Princess Baoqing spent her whole life being pampered.

Princess Baoqing passed away in the eighth year of Xuande at the age of 40. It is no exaggeration to say that she was the happiest princess in the Ming Dynasty. I have to say that Princess Baoqing's life was really good.

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