Nowadays, in the ideological concepts of normal people, the emperor's wives are very many, they have countless concubines, and the harem is three thousand, which is enough to make their lives happy. From ancient times to the present, most of the well-known emperors have countless concubines, and the most favored ones are often a few, which shows that the importance of concubines in the emperor's heart at that time was so low.
Because in ancient times, more attention was paid to the continuation of heirs, so their emperors, as the monarch of a country, had to continue their own country, so they would find a new batch of concubines every year to continue their offspring, and the concubines who could often give birth to boys were more favored than the concubines who could give birth to girls, which was also the reason for the prosperity of ancient people.
An emperor who marries only one wife
Most people are familiar with the concept that the emperor is surrounded by three wives and four concubines, and there are many wives and concubines, but the power of love is so wonderful, in ancient China, there was such an emperor, he only married one wife in his life. This emperor was Emperor Mingxiaozong. Because of his excellent political and moral ideas, Ming Xiaozong had a good reputation among the people and the imperial court at that time, and in the eyes of posterity, he was also a generation of Ming Jun, which was a very high evaluation of him.
Speaking of Ming Xiaozong's father, Ming Xianzong was also an infatuated person, and he only liked a Wan clan who was nineteen years older than him in his life, but unexpectedly, his children were not all born to Wan Shi, which is also a place of lamentation. It can be seen that Ming Xianzong's feelings for Wan Shi are not so stable.
But on the other hand, his son Ming Xiaozong, he only married one wife in his life, he had two sons and a daughter, all of which were born of this wife, and his feelings for this wife can be described as exhaustive, vivid, and he only loved this one woman in his life, which is incredible among most emperors.
The father's reasons laid the foundation for the end of marrying only one wife
But why did he only identify this one woman in his life? This is also a strange place, it turns out that Ming Xiaozong's biological mother is Ji Shi, originally the daughter of the southern tribal leader, due to the defeat of the war, she had to give up her honorable status, and entered the Ming Dynasty, became a palace girl, and was bullied three times and four times. As the daughter of the tribal leader, she had never done dirty work since she was a child, but when she entered the court, she would be humiliated and live a miserable life every day, which made her heart collapse enough.
However, this Ji clan looked beautiful as a flower, like a water hibiscus, she fell generously, talented, so that the emperor had a good impression of her, but after favoring the Ji clan, the emperor forgot about this flower-like beauty, and he threw himself into the boring and tedious imperial court, and soon after, the news of Ji's pregnancy came out of the palace. Wan Shi heard this news, she had some doubts, so she sent someone to investigate, this investigation could not be solved, she discovered this secret, so she made many small means to make the child in Ji's belly abort, but no matter how she used these means, Ming Xiaozong was lying safely in his mother's stomach, waiting to land.
Afterwards, the emperor also remembered this matter, but he was afraid that the Wan clan would persecute the child, because at this time he had no heirs under his knees, so he had to send someone to secretly protect the prince. Soon after, Emperor Mingxianzong and Wan Shi died one after another, and at the same time, this heir also came, and had to be raised by Taihou, at which time his mother also died suddenly, and there was no one in charge of the imperial court, and only the young Emperor Mingxiaozong could succeed to the throne.
Who was Ming Xiaozong's only concubine
As Emperor Ming grew up, he should also marry and have children and live a normal emperor's life, but at that time he only married one Empress Zhang, and when it came to this Empress Zhang, her social status was not very high. She is just a daughter of a talented person, and her actual life is not at all close to the royal family. But at that time, Ming Xiaozong saw him, he liked her, and from then on began a crazy pursuit, this Empress Zhang also believed that Ming Xiaozong was very good to her, so the two of them married, as the only concubine, she also became the empress of a country.
The so-called Love House and Wu, Empress Zhang had two younger brothers, they were arrogant, they were fighting for the emperor's favor for Empress Zhang, no one in their eyes was doing anything to hurt the imperial court, and many ministers played, but Emperor Ming Xiaozong was indifferent, because his love for Empress Zhang had exceeded any. After that, Empress Zhang gave birth to two sons, and finally after the death of Emperor Xiaozong, because there were too few heirs under his command, only the eldest son could inherit the throne, but the eldest son was scattered from an early age, and because he was the eldest son, he did many incomprehensible things The fall of the Ming Dynasty has fallen in his hands.
In fact, Emperor Ming's practice of marrying only one empress did not play a very good role in the continuation of his descendants, he only fulfilled the responsibility of a good husband, but did not fulfill the responsibility of a good emperor. However, it has to be said that during ming xiaozong's lifetime, he invented an object, which has been used until today, and has become a necessity in people's daily lives, which must be used every day, this object is a toothbrush, I did not expect that Ming Xiaozong was still an "inventor".