The man of Kefu, whom no one dared to marry, sold himself into slavery and unexpectedly became the queen mother
It is well known that a person's class is fundamentally influenced by family background, but in the wider world, there are examples of this contradiction.
Looking back on the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a woman from a poor background who eventually became a generation of concubines. It can be said that this woman was born rich and noble, but in the end she did not become a queen, but her grandson became a generation of emperors. In the middle of the 15th century, a middle-aged man named Shao Lin adopted another daughter from the gold rush army outside the city of Hangzhou. The Shaolin family was poor and often starved, and the arrival of a new daughter made the family's situation even worse. The girl grew up in a family of four, and until the age of twelve or thirteen, she became a very elegant and beautiful girl.
Just when the neighbors and villagers were wondering, the groom's team walked into the door of the Shao family. The groom's words moved the brown ** Shao Lin, and he accepted the two pieces of silver that the Chen family gave to the bride, and prepared to marry his daughter to the son of the Chen family. However, three days later, just before the wedding, the Chen family's son suddenly died unnaturally, and Shaolin had to return two pieces of silver to the Chen family. A few days later, a marriage introducer of the Li family in the county went to propose marriage and gave Shaolin two and a half dollars of silver as a dowry on behalf of the Li family, Shaolin was very happy and accepted the money. However, the matchmaker soon left the Shao family, and the Li family sent a message saying that the Li family's son had fallen into the river and drowned.
The girl failed to report twice in succession, and all the dowries received were returned. The Shaolin Temple was then promulgated"The bride price is non-refundable"Regardless of whether the marriage is married or not, as long as the bidding is successful, the bride price will not be refunded. Because of the beauty of the daughter of the Shao family, there are still many people competing to get married. Butcher Zhang, who sells meat in the vegetable market, came to the Shao family with half a piece of fat pork and expressed to Shao Lin his desire to marry the Shao family's youngest daughter. Shaolin agreed, but two days later, news came from the vegetable market that the butcher Zhang accidentally fell on the pig-killing knife while beating chickens and died on the spot.
Soon, Zhao, a butcher in Hangzhou, came to Shao Lin's house and gave Shao Lin a large dowry, saying that he was willing to marry Shao Lin's daughter to him as a soldier. Although the old man was over 100 years old, Shaolin still gladly accepted it. The next day, the maid Zhao came to tell the family that her master had died the night before. Anyway, Shaolin's four daughters-in-law are dead, and the family is talking about it, and no one dares to come to the door to propose marriage. However, there were two strangers who knew that the daughter of the Shao family was so beautiful and didn't believe what happened before, so they proposed to the Shao family, and they both died not long after. There is also a big official, who does not believe it"Kill the husband"said that he was also forced to marry the daughter of the Shao family. On the day of the wedding, the official was safe and sound, until he rode a high-headed horse to the Shao family to marry her, and suddenly fell off the horse and died on the spot. After seven marriages and seven deaths, no one dared to marry the daughter of the Shao family again.
Soon after this incident, an old eunuch in Hangzhou wanted to buy a palace maid for retirement. When Shao Lin heard about it, he immediately sold his daughter to him, and the old eunuch was very surprised to see that the daughter of the Shao family had a beautiful face and a rigorous and noble life. So, he resurrected her, taught her law, chess, calligraphy and painting, and literacy, and prepared to send her to the palace while imparting some worldly knowledge. In the twelfth year of Chenghua (1476 AD), Shao's 14-year-old daughter officially entered the palace as a concubine. At that time, the emperor preferred his 17-year-old concubine, Wan Guifei, and had no interest in any of the concubines in the harem. This talented and good-looking daughter of the Shao family walks on thin ice in the palace and is well versed in the secret ways of the harem.
In order to avoid the battle in the harem, the daughter of the Shao family used illness as an excuse to live in the imperial garden outside the palace, where she unexpectedly met Emperor Chenghua. Emperor Chenghua was moved by her beauty and talent, so he spent a good night with her, and the daughter of the Shao family was named Concubine Chen. Soon, Concubine Chen gave birth to a son. In order to avoid Concubine Wan's **, Concubine Chen asked the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to secretly adopt him. Just when Emperor Chenghua was lamenting that he had not left an heir during his lifetime, the son of the Chen consortium suddenly appeared in front of him. Emperor Chenghua was overjoyed and immediately named his son king. Soon, Chen's concubine Shao gave birth to two more sons for Emperor Chenghua and was named the crown prince.
Concubine Shao Chen's eldest son, Zhu Youwei, was an olive seller, and became a vassal king in Hubei when he became an adult, and later this position was passed to his second son, Zhu Houxi. At this time, during the Zhengde period, after the death of the authoritarian Ming Wuzong, in the absence of an heir to the throne, Empress Dowager Zhang and Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, held a meeting and decided that Ming Wuzong's cousin, the second Xingwang Zhu Houxi, would inherit the throne. After his grandson ascended the throne, he immediately honored his grandmother, Princess Shaochen, as the empress dowager, and was finally buried in Maoling as the empress dowager, which was a very glorious and happy ending.