In the second year of Chenghua, Guangxi Tusi launched a rebellion, and the imperial court sent local Tusi to suppress it, but the Tusi was defeated by the imperial court and died in the chaos.
As a result, the imperial court severely punished the relatives of the Tusi family, and took their wives and daughters back to Beijing from Guangxi and filled them into the court as subordinates.
Among them is a young woman named Miss Ji, who used to be a relative of Tusi and had a prominent status, but after this incident, she lost everything and became a palace maid.
Despite this, Miss Ji did not feel sorry for herself, but cherished her life and cherished the opportunity to eat hot meals and sleep in the firewood room, thinking that this was already good.
Miss Ji, a young girl who has experienced the devastation of fate, seems to have been defeated by adversity, but in fact has found the courage to survive in the midst of suffering.
She chooses to forget the painful past, seal all the memories, and just want to live, no matter how difficult life may be.
However, fate did not allow her to live this life ordinarily. Miss Ji was born in an official family, has a good education, and is full of talent.
Despite working as a coolie in the palace, her unique temperament and talent were discovered by the steward, and she was eventually assigned to work in the emperor's private warehouse.
However, Emperor Zhu Jianshen couldn't come a few times a year, and Miss Ji spent it alone in the warehouse, cleaning up every day and quietly waiting for the sunset.
Despite the hardships of life, she persevered day after day, year after year, in search of meaning in life.
If it weren't for that accident, Miss Ji might have become an insignificant little print in the history books: the palace maid Ji, the year of birth is unknown, the year of death is unknown, and the life is unknown.
One day in a certain year in Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen suddenly came to the inner library to look for his treasured vase engraved in the Hongwu year, and only glanced at Miss Ji, and never forgot her face.
Miss Ji's temperament is like an orchid, fresh and refined, there is a faint sadness between her eyebrows, but there is half a touching charm on her face. Zhu Jianshen couldn't hold back for a while, and soon made Miss Ji happy.
However, if Miss Ji disagrees, this is barely a blessing, and if Miss Ji disagrees, then Zhu Jianshen is equivalent to **. At that time, in the face of this sudden so-called "Lin Xing", Miss Ji was powerless to resist and could only bear it silently.
What's even more odious is that after Zhu Jian finished venting his desire, he slapped his ass and walked away without saying a word. How much grievance does she have to bear? How desolate should her heart be?
On the streets of the autumn breeze, Miss Ji looked at Zhu Jianshen's back with tears in her eyes, she silently packed up her messy clothes, without the gentleness of the spring breeze, and some were just broken again.
If it was unfortunate to be insulted by Zhu Jianshen, then it was even more unfortunate that not long after, Miss Ji found out that she was pregnant. Some people may say, as a palace maid, how can these changes be said to be unfortunate?
This should be a blessing to the soul, which is a great good thing, right? Having a relationship with the emperor is equivalent to becoming the emperor's woman, and with the emperor's heirs, then you can be a mother and a child, and in the future, in the Forbidden City, won't it be smooth sailing, rich and glorious?
But this is a ridiculous idea. You haven't been to the Forbidden City a hundred years ago, and you don't know how eerie and terrifying that magnificent and vast palace is. You haven't lived in the harem for even a day, and you don't know how long and hard each day is there.
For Miss Ji, this is indeed the emperor's heir, but for Zhu Jianshen, Miss Ji is just his dewy love, he doesn't even remember that he was lucky enough to be such a palace maid, and he didn't leave any tokens for Miss Ji.
In the vast and deep palace, if you want to see the emperor again, it is difficult to climb to the sky.
Wan Guifei is Zhu Jianshen's favorite woman, and her power in the harem is unmatched. She can even let the emperor depose the original queen and control the life and death of everyone in the harem.
However, Wan Guifei has a regret, that is, she was unable to give birth to an heir for the emperor. She did not allow other women in the palace to give birth to children for the emperor, and once she found out that the palace maid was pregnant, she would send someone to have an abortion.
Once, she sent a palace maid to have an abortion, but the palace maid saw the pitiful appearance of the pregnant woman, felt pity, and decided to tell a lie and tell Wan Guifei that the pregnant woman was not pregnant, but only had a tumor.
Concubine Wan Guifei believed this statement, and from then on, the following of this palace maid was unknown.
We have no way of knowing the name of this palace maid, nor is her origin and fate. Perhaps she will continue to work silently in the palace until she is old; Maybe she will be killed by Wan Guifei after the East Window incident, no one knows.
What we do know, however, is that she is a kind person, a kind person who saved lives in a critical moment. With her help, Miss Ji escaped the catastrophe and gave birth to a healthy baby boy, what gratifying news.
However, the atmosphere in the palace is always so tense and complicated. When Concubine Wan learned the news, she was furious and immediately sent a killer to kill the baby boy. The information about this killer is detailed, his name is Zhang Min, and he is a eunuch in the palace of Wan Guifei.
Wan Guifei believed that it was easier to develop empathy between women and women, so she sent a man to carry out the mission. However, when Zhang Min saw the poor mother and son, he felt pity.
He is human and has a conscience. He couldn't accept that the imperial vein was strangled in his own hands. So, he braved the tremendous pressure and instead of killing the baby boy, he provided him with a hiding place.
Finally, he reported to Wan Guifei that the baby boy had been killed by him.
What is Zhang Min's motivation? No one knows, after all, although helping Wan Guifei to do these dark deeds will condemn his conscience, he can also be promoted and rich.
And this child, he will not get anything, only worry and fear day and night. Because, once Concubine Wan, who can't tolerate sand in her eyes, knows that she has been deceived, there is only a dead end waiting for Zhang Min.
However, he still chose the latter and took on the responsibility of taking care of the baby boy without hesitation. The baby's life in hiding began, and he was placed in a windowless, almost airtight dark room.
Since Miss Ji and Zhang Min have to go to work every day, most of the time, they can only use a lock to tie the baby boy to the table leg. No one had time to take care of him, so he could only cry, eat dirt, and play with his toes.
After work, Ms. Ji and Zhang Min would pick up half a cooked vegetable leaf from outside, or half a steamed bun from a swill bucket to feed the baby boy. This poor child lives in a very low state of survival, and he is silent and breathless.
Young readers and friends may not know how difficult it is to raise a child, only a real parent will know how difficult it is to raise a child.
Miss Ji and Zhang Min's meager salaries are enough to support themselves, so why not raise one more child? However, something unexpected happened.
Miss Ji and Zhang Min found that not only them, but more and more eunuchs and palace maids began to spontaneously join the ranks of taking care of the baby boy.
In the Shura purgatory of the Forbidden City, the cruelty and selfishness of human nature are omnipresent.
However, under the guidance of a female prisoner named Miss Ji and a eunuch named Zhang Min, the people at the bottom put aside their prejudices and antagonisms and stood together in order to protect a baby.
They gave everything, even risking being frantically attacked and retaliated against by Wan Guifei. However, as the baby boy grows up, Zhang Min realizes that they can't let him be trapped in this firewood room forever.
So, he began to look for an opportunity to get the baby boy out of this predicament. This opportunity came soon.
Zhu Jianshen was very anxious about not having a son. His personal eunuch, Zhang Min, told him that he already had a six-year-old son and that he had been secretly kept in the harem.
The news made everyone excited, but only Miss Ji, who knew that her own fate would change because of this.
Miss Ji held the boy's hand tightly and whispered the last words she said to the child: "Live, with the hope of your mother, with the blessings of everyone, live." ”
The emotions of this world are all for reunion, only maternal love is for separation. The boy was picked up, his identity was soon revealed, and he would also become the first person in the empire.
The west wind and the water, the sunset and the lonely city, are all happy, only Wan Guifei is not happy. The calm before the storm did not last long, and Wan Guifei immediately launched a crazy retaliation.
The eunuch Zhang Min was found dead in his bedroom on a cold morning, and the cause of death was unknown.
Zhang Min, a benevolent brother, had no special achievements in his life, and was just an ordinary eunuch when he died, however, the author believes that he is more worthy of being remembered than any emperor or general in history.
With his humble life, he illuminates the future of another person. Kong said Chengren, Meng said Yi, Zhang Min, you are a great person.
In that feudal era full of swords and swords, there was an ordinary woman, because of an encounter with the scumbag Zhu Jianshen, she changed her fate, and in order to raise her son to grow up**, she gave up her life without hesitation.
This great mother's name is Miss Ji, although she has not left a name in history, her tenacity and maternal love have forever illuminated the darkness of that era.
Her son Zhu Youzhi was born like a wild dog and grew up like a wild dog, but after a thousand turns, he became the Ming Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, and his existence is the best proof of the brilliance and kindness of human nature in feudal history.
Zhu Youji's memory of the past has become blurry, and he can't even remember his mother's face, nor can he recall the voice and smile of the eunuch Zhang Min. He had tried to find those who had helped him directly or indirectly, but to no avail.
Because those people were all voluntary, none of them came out to ask for something in return, and no one came out to ask for credit.
However, all of this was condensed into a pair of hands by countless people with love in the middle of that stormy, thunderous night, so that he did not sink forever.
Today, standing at the top, Zhu Youzhi is diligent in government and loves the people, works hard to govern the country, wins the hearts of the people, implements benevolent government, and creates his own Zhongxing era. Perhaps in the dark, this emperor has used another way to repay others.