The article first appeared in the challenge Queen Ma was born in Xinfengli, Minzi Township, Suzhou, in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, and her real name is not recorded in the historical materials. His father, Ma Gong, was a well-known local tycoon in Suzhou, and his mother Zheng died shortly after giving birth to Queen Ma. As the only daughter of Ma Gong, Queen Ma has been familiar with scriptures, history, poetry and painting since she was a child under the cultivation of her father, and she has a noble and benevolent character and a tenacious and open-minded personality.
Later, Ma Gong in order to avoid the enemy, he fled to Haozhou Dingyuan to his friend Guo Zixing, soon after coming to Dingyuan, Ma Gong died of illness, before his death, he entrusted his daughter to Guo Zixing, so the bold Guo Zixing accepted Ma as a righteous daughter, and regarded her as his own.
Queen of Horses. In the eleventh year, Guo Zixing gathered thousands of people to join the Red Turban Army, and then occupied Haozhou in one fell swoop, becoming a separatist force, in the same year Zhu Yuanzhang came to defect to Guo Zixing, Guo Zixing saw Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance, and learned that he was coarse and fluent, and was invited by Tang He to take refuge, so he appointed him as his own personal soldier nine commanders.
After Zhu Yuanzhang, he would charge forward every time he fought, and repeatedly made miraculous achievements, Guo Zixing's wife said to him: "Zhu Yuanzhang is a stranger, it is better to marry his righteous daughter Ma Shi to him." Guo Zixing readily agreed, and in this way, not long after joining the Red Turban Army, Zhu Yuanzhang married the daughter of the handsome, Ma was 22 years old at this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang was 25 years old.
After marriage, Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang's husband sang with their wives, and their relationship was very deep, and then Guo Zixing's reuse of Zhu Yuanzhang made Guo Zixing's son Guo Tianxu and his brother-in-law Zhang Tianyou very dissatisfied.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang was framed by Guo Tianxu again, and was locked in the firewood room by Guo Zixing and not allowed him to eat, Ma felt sorry for Zhu Yuanzhang, so he secretly baked a few pieces of dough, in order not to be seen by others, Ma put the dough that had just come out of the pot into his arms, and then sent it to Zhu Yuanzhang, and the meat on her chest was scorched by the hot dough.
In the fourteenth year, Zhu Yuanzhang only took 24 henchmen under the exclusion of Guo Tianxu, that is, the famous Huaixi 24 generals went south to Dingyuan to develop independently, after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Chuzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng and nephew Li Wenzhong all heard the news and came to defect, plus Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted Mu Ying and others, Ma all regarded these adopted sons as their own and took care of them.
In the fifteenth year of Zheng, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Hezhou, and then planned to cross the river to the south to attack the quarry, because Zhu Yuanzhang had too few ships in his hands, so he left the families of the soldiers in Hezhou and handed over to his wife Ma to take care of, and at this time Ma was already pregnant, but she still called on her family members to sew clothes and shoes together, and do something within her power for the soldiers on the front line.
Zhu Yuanzhang took the quarrying with all his might, and then waved Jiqing, just when the battle of Jiqing was at its most intense, the rear sent the news, Ma gave birth to his eldest son Zhu Biao for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was excited after hearing this, and waved his sword on the stone of the battlefield to carve the eight characters of the mountain who do not suffer from no heirs to express his excitement.
In fact, for Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma is not only his wife, but also his comrade-in-arms, and the relationship between the couple is incomparable to other concubines. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the harem should be forbidden to interfere in politics, but Queen Ma could meddle in the affairs of the previous dynasty, and the fundamental reason was here.
From marrying Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Queen Ma accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang for 15 years of terrifying days. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Ma served as the founding queen for another 15 years.
Zhenguan dignitaries praised Li Shimin's wife, the sentence of the eldest grandson queen, the lord of the rise and fall of three generations, all have virtuous help, and it is also very appropriate to describe Queen Ma, whether it is for her husband or for her children, Queen Ma has done meticulous care and care, not only that, once the harem concubines are pregnant, Queen Ma is also doubly compassionate.
Zhu Yuanzhang can have 42 children in his life, Queen Ma's tolerance and kindness is one of the most important factors, Queen Ma advocates thrift and thrift, as long as her clothes are not tattered, she never replaces, and Queen Ma often let the princes eat brown rice, let the princesses and concubines spin cloth and make clothes themselves, to feel the hardship of Tiansang.
Queen Ma knew that there were many virtuous queens of the Song Dynasty, so she ordered the history of the women to excerpt the deeds of the queen of the Song Dynasty, and organized the palace dependents to learn Xi every day, although the prince Zhu Biao had a stable position, but he often sent disputes with Zhu Yuanzhang, and every time it was Queen Ma who mediated from it, the palace maids made mistakes and provoked Zhu Yuanzhang to be angry, and Queen Ma immediately handed over the palace maids to the palace to punish the crime, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang that the anger of the Son of Heaven is often too heavy, and the palace maids can be reasonably punished by handing them over to the palace Zhengsi。
Zhu Yuanzhang is always full of praise whenever he talks about Queen Ma, thinking that Queen Ma can be equated with the eldest grandson queen of the Tang Dynasty, after Queen Ma knew, she said to Zhu Yuanzhang that since ancient times, it is easy for husband and wife to grow old together, but it is difficult for monarchs and ministers to accompany each other, Your Majesty has not forgotten that we are poor couples, and please don't forget those ministers in distress.
In fact, Queen Ma is persuading Zhu Yuanzhang to protect the heroes, because she knows Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament too well, Zhu Yuanzhang has strictly ordered the harem not to interfere in politics since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even carved an iron plate to hang in the harem to warn everyone.
Therefore, history has the supreme evaluation of the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the palace pot is purged, but there are exceptions to this, that is, Queen Ma, but Queen Ma's so-called interference is actually advice, and it is precisely because of Queen Ma's persuasion that Zhu Yuanzhang has dispelled the idea of killing people indiscriminately many times.
It can be said that Queen Ma is not only virtuous and virtuous, but also has a great kindness that helps the world, and such a queen is undoubtedly great, and Zhu Yuanzhang is undoubtedly lucky to have such a wife. It's just a pity that Queen Ma was not able to accompany Zhu Yuanzhang to the end.
In August of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Queen Ma suddenly fell seriously ill, and the ministers wrote to ask for prayer for the priest of Queen Ma, but Queen Ma said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Life and death are the arrangements of fate, what is the use of praying and sacrificing in addition to spending money and food, and the imperial doctor cannot bring people back to life, if the medicine has no effect, I am afraid that His Majesty will blame the imperial doctor for it." So Queen Ma insisted on not seeking medical treatment or taking medicine, and soon Queen Ma's condition worsened, and she said to Zhu Yuanzhang on her deathbed: "May Your Majesty seek advice from the virtuous, be cautious until the end, and the descendants will be virtuous, and the subjects will get what they want." ”
Because Queen Ma knew that after she left, it was estimated that it would be difficult for anyone to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang, so her last words were to hope that Zhu Yuanzhang would listen to the advice of her courtiers more.
On August 24, the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Queen Ma of the first generation of virtuous queen Ma Feng drove west at the age of 51. Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop crying with grief, and he never set up another queen in his life.