Concubine Quan, a Korean national, has a beautiful appearance, is good at blowing the jade flute, and is deeply favored by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. Regarding her life history and cause of death, historical records are inconsistent. Some say that he was poisoned by the Lu clan of the same clan, and there are also claims that he was framed by others. What the actual situation is is unknown, and we can only keep following the records of historical records to find a reasonable explanation as much as possible.
According to historical records, in the sixth year of Yongle (1408), five Korean girls from the Quan family, the Li family, the Lu family, the Cui family and the Ren family, were selected by the Ming Dynasty eunuch Huang Yan and others to be brought back to Beijing. Among them, the Quan family was the first to be recruited into the palace and canonized as Concubine Xianren, who won the favor of Ming Chengzu with her intelligence and beauty. However, the favor of Concubine Quan attracted the jealousy of other concubines. According to the "Records of Taizong of the Li Dynasty", the concubine Lü, who was also of the Korean nationality with the Kwon clan, was jealous of the favor of the Kwon clan, and secretly colluded with the eunuchs to borrow arsenic from a silversmith's house and put it in tea, resulting in the poisoning of the Kwon family. This cause of death was leaked when the maids of the Quan and Lu families quarreled over trivial matters. When Ming Chengzu learned about it, he ordered the killing of the Lu family and those implicated in the palace, totaling hundreds of people.
However, ten years later, "The Records of Li Dynasty Shizong" overturned the case for the Lu family. It is believed that the "Lü poisoning theory" is actually a false accusation by another businessman-turned-Lü family. It is said that the businessman-turned-Lyu family has been hoping to make friends with the Korean Lyu family since he entered the palace, but he was rejected and resented. coincided with the death of Concubine Quan, and she falsely accused the Lu family of the Xian clan of poisoning for favor, which led to the Lu family being finally killed. Both theories have their own truth, making the cause of Concubine Quan's death a mystery. Those who advocate the "Lü poisoning theory" believe that the "Records of Taizong of the Li Dynasty" was written in the second year after the death of Concubine Quan, while those who advocate "others framed and said" believe that there can be no other different records of the cases decided by Ming Chengzu during his lifetime. Moreover, at that time, the emperor killed hundreds of people for this matter, and even if there was a mistake, no one dared to come out to testify. Therefore, the accuracy of the "Lu's poisoning theory" may be higher. However, those who advocate "others have framed and said" believe that Ming Chengzu has died, and at this time, it has been ten years since the case occurred, and those in the know dare to reveal the truth, and it is possible for an unjust case approved by the emperor to be clarified. At the same time, the "Lü poisoning theory" was put forward when the merchant-born Lu family was favored, while the "other people's false accusation theory" was put forward after the fact that the merchant-born Lu family and the eunuch Huang Yan colluded with each other was exposed. Therefore, the "false accusation of others" should be more true.
In this way, the death of Concubine Quan has been difficult to conclude due to limited historical data;History, on the other hand, must respect historical facts, and do not allow people to speculate or speculate on the basis of existing records. The mysteries in history have been passed down from generation to generation, so that later generations of scholars have never had time to stop searching, perhaps this is the charm of history. AI assistant creation season