One day more than 2,000 years ago, a young woman with luxurious clothes, beautiful appearance and graceful figure stood in front of the palace gate of a majestic palace balcony.
A thunderous sound rolled up in the distance. It was the sound of the motorcade of the person she was waiting for. She checked the details of her clothing again and made sure that her makeup was still exquisite. The hair accessories were in place, and then she took a deep breath and worked hard to create a beautiful shape that showed off her figure.
She was waiting for that person to find her accurately today instead of finding someone else. She also knew that there were too many others, so much that the probability of that person successfully finding her was too low.
She secretly glanced at the majestic tower behind her. Even on a sunny day like today, even such a tall tower could not block the equally magnificent pavilions and pavilions that stretched for hundreds of miles behind, and right here Among the endless pavilions, there is a woman as beautiful as her in each pavilion, waiting for the arrival of that person just like her.
The sound of rolling carriages and horses is approaching. Can she wait until that person arrives this time?
The person this beauty is waiting for is our protagonist in this issue - Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng, the first emperor in the history of our country's feudal dynasty.
In 247 BC, King Yingzheng of Qin came to the throne King of Qin . He inherited the industries of Qin State for several generations. From 230 BC to 221 BC, King Qin Yingzheng successively destroyed Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, The six kingdoms of Qi completed the great cause of unification and established the first great feudal empire in the history of our country Qin Dynasty .
King Yingzheng of Qin believed that he was the unification of the Qin Dynasty, far surpassing the famous virtuous kings Three Emperors and Five Emperors in myths and legends. Therefore, he combined the names of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors and invented a special title for himself - Emperor. From then on, Qin Shihuang Yingzheng became the first emperor in China's feudal society for more than 2,000 years. He also had a title recognized by all dynasties since then, "one emperor through the ages."
Speaking of the pioneering things Qin Shihuang did, it can be said to be dazzling and we talk about it, including unifying currency, writing and weights and measures, and building the Great Wall, Chidao and Straight Road, etc. Of course, some of the things he did also attracted various criticisms, such as pursuing immortality, building mausoleums, and burning books to humiliate scholars, etc.
Xiaoju is going to talk about something very important to Qin Shihuang himself today, which is the issue of Qin Shihuang’s queen.
Qin Shihuang never established a queen. The direct consequence of his behavior was that the first queen in Chinese history did not appear until Qin Shihuang's death, and she was not Qin Shihuang's wife. She was the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty Liu Bang 's wife - Lu Pheasant , she is the first queen in China's feudal history.
But in history, Qin Shihuang has never lacked women. He inherited the throne of Qin from the age of 13 to taking charge of the throne at the age of 22. During these 9 years, according to the regulations of the Qin State, King Qin Yingzheng could get married, and at that time The Qin State, like other vassal states in the Warring States Period, followed the system of the Zhou Dynasty and had a relatively complete queen system.
We often say that the emperor's family has three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines. This is a folk rumor. In fact, starting from Zhou Li, the number of people in the emperor's harem, according to regulations, is not less than the seventy-two concubines, but To be more, it must be equipped with at least one queen, three wives, 9 concubines, and 27 wives, plus 81 jade girls. In theory, the size of the harem has reached 121 people, which is basically equivalent to what an emperor has to provide. He manned a company.
In history, there were many famous queens in the Qin Kingdom. For Qin Shihuang, the two queens who had the greatest direct influence on him were the two queens of the King of Qin. One of them was the queen of King Qin Xiaowen Mrs. Huayang . The other one is Zhao Ji , Lu Buwei ’s own mother, who was a singer, and the queen of King Qin Zhuangxiang .
However, although the King of Qin had many queens, Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, never had a queen.
In 238 BC, the 22-year-old King of Qin Ying Zheng officially took charge. Since then, he has been busy attacking the six kingdoms of Guandong until he was 39 years old. In 221 BC, Ying Zheng finally defeated the Qi Kingdom and officially completed the unification. Great cause, from then on he became an emperor through the ages.
During these 17 years, Qin Shihuang was in the prime of life. Although he was faced with busy state affairs, on the other hand, his harem team was larger than before, far exceeding the harem establishment stipulated by Zhou Li. In other words, even one company cannot be contained. Why does this happen?
According to official historical records, every time King Yingzheng of Qin conquered and destroyed a country's princes, he deployed his craftsmen to recreate the original palace of that country near the capital Xianyang. After the palace of the country was completed, Yingzheng would attack and destroy it. All the beautiful women plundered from this country were enriched into the palace.
Wait until the age of 39, when King Qin Yingzheng is promoted to Qin Shihuang, how many beauties has he harvested? According to later records, Ying Zheng built a total of 145 replicas of palaces from various countries in the past 17 years. The number of beauties in the harem of the Six Kingdoms has reached more than 10,000 people. This directly increased the scale from a company to a division. scale. The quality of these beauties is also very high. The scene we described at the beginning is from the famous poem "Afanggong Fu" by Tang Dynasty famous poet Du Mu a thousand years later.
On the basis of official historical records, Du Mu used a very imaginative poet's style to describe the grand occasion of tens of thousands of workers from the six countries serving Qin Shihuang. "Concubines, concubines, princes and grandsons, resigned from the palace downstairs and came to Qin in their chariots. They sang in the morning and played music at night. They were the people of the Qin Palace. The stars were shining brightly, and the makeup mirrors were opened; the green clouds were disturbing, and the servant girls were combing at dawn; the Wei River was swollen and tired. , the fat and water are discarded; the smoke is slanting, the peppers and orchids are burning; the thunder is blowing, and the palace carriages are passing by; I hear the wheels rolling in the distance, and I don’t know where they are, but my appearance is extremely beautiful, and I have farsightedness. But hope is lucky; there are those who cannot see it, thirty-six years. "
Du Mu's eternal masterpiece has been selected into middle school textbooks. One of the reasons is because his imagination spanning 1,000 years is full of liveness and appeal. It's just like going there myself.
According to the author's description, among the tens of thousands of maids in Emperor Qin Shi's harem, when they looked in the mirror, they were like thousands of stars shining; when they combed their hair, they were like blue clouds pouring out from the sky and the earth; When you pour the face wash water, a thick layer of rouge will float on the surging Weishui River. Think about what an astonishing quantity this is, and if the quantity reaches the unit level of 10,000, the quality itself can be guaranteed.
But what puzzles future generations is that this huge harem team, one division, lasted for more than ten years. Although he had more than twenty sons, Qin Shihuang never selected one. The queen is here, what unknown secrets of the palace are involved? Xiaoju continues to tell you.
