The historical drama "Daming Fenghua" is still in the hot broadcast, because Sun Ruowei is the protagonist, so she is a positive character, and the female number two Hu Shanxiang can only be a negative character, which is reversed from the historical record, and the status of the two of them in history is reversed, because Hu Shanxiang was forced to take the initiative to resign from the empress, she won the sympathy of almost everyone, while Sun Ruowei was written by history as a villain who plotted to rob the son of others.
The History of Ming records that Hu Shanxiang voluntarily resigned from the empress's throne as follows:
"When Princess Sun Guifei was favored, she did not have children later, and she was good and sick. In the spring of the third year, the emperor resigned from the throne and retired to Chang'an Palace, giving him the title of Jing Ci Immortal Master, and The Noble Concubine of the Book as the empress. The ministers Zhang Fu, Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, and Yang Rong could not argue. Empress Zhang had mercy on Hou Xian and was often summoned to live in Qingning Palace."
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It is clear in this passage that because Zhu Zhanji liked Sun Ruowei and she also had a son (controversial, because the record in the History of Ming is: "Concubines have no children, and Yin takes the son of the palace as her own son, that is, Emperor Yingzong), so he ordered Hu Shanxiang to resign. Zhu Zhanji was iron-hearted, and the collective advice of Empress Zhang (Empress Akihito, mother of Zhu Zhanji) and the cabinet ministers was useless, so Hu Shanxiang compromised.
She is not compromised and useless, when she is sick, her husband does not care, after asking her to resign, what else can she ask for? If she resisted hard, even if she kept the back seat, there would only be two results in the future, one was that she would not be killed or abused by Zhu Zhanji and Sun Ruowei in a short time, of course, in order to make up a position, and even if Zhu Zhanji could forcibly abolish her by the Holy Will, so that she would completely tear her face, even if she could survive, the second half of her life would be very miserable.
The other is that with the support of Empress Zhang and Qunchen, Zhu Zhanji may not be able to think about her, but she still has to consider the second half of her life, it is obvious that Sun Ruowei's son Zhu Qizhen will be emperor in the future, and when he becomes emperor, Empress Zhang will also be old and dead, and when there is no one to help the lonely Hu Shanxiang, will she suffer retaliation from Sun Ruowei, whose son is already the emperor? Moreover, Zhu Qizhen would definitely help his mother as empress dowager, and would not help his stepmother, even if Hu Shanxiang was his nominal mother.
Of course, it was almost a hundred years later, when Emperor Mingwuzong Zhu Houzhao died, because there was no son, the ministers supported his cousin Zhu Houxi to succeed to the throne, that is, the later Jiajing Emperor, Jiajing had to have a name to succeed to the throne, so it was arranged that he was the heir of Ming Xiaozong, the father of Ming Wuzong, according to common sense, The Jiajing Emperor wanted to call Ming Xiaozong his father, and Ming Wuzong's mother, that is, Ming Xiaozong's empress Zhang Shi, as his mother.
Ke Jiajing did not do it, and after becoming emperor, he did a big job for his birth mother Jiang Shi (Jia Jing was still alive when he succeeded to the throne) and his biological father's status and the civil official clique, which is the most famous "great etiquette dispute" in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and because Empress Zhang (Empress Ming Xiaozong, mother of Ming Wuzong) was still alive, it was difficult for her birth mother Jiang Shi to be the empress dowager, and even Jiang Shi personally said "An Can be my son as someone else's son!" Such harsh words.
In the end, although Empress Zhang was forced to agree to make Jiang shi empress dowager, she still suffered the mad revenge of the careful Jiajing Emperor, who not only found an excuse to arrest her brother Zhang Heling and imprison her while Empress Zhang was still alive (but also killed him in prison), at that time, Empress Zhang, who was nominally Jiajing's mother, knelt down to plead with him to no avail, and also found an opportunity to kill another brother of Empress Zhang, Zhang Yanling.
Turning back to Hu Shanxiang, if she did not listen to Zhu Zhanji's words and resigned from the throne, and kept the back seat under the protection of the empress dowager and the Qunchen, it is very likely that she would encounter the same embarrassing treatment as Empress Zhang, the mother of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, in the future, from what happened a hundred years later, Hu Shanxiang was very sober, she took the initiative to give way, not only the civil officials and Empress Zhang (Zhu Zhanji's mother) because of the guilt psychology to ensure her stability for the rest of her life, even Sun Ruowei also had to accept her human feelings.
No matter whether her relationship with Sun Ruowei is good or not, and what kind of hatred she has, even if Sun Ruowei's son becomes emperor in the future and Empress Zhang is dead, Sun Ruowei still has to treat Hu Shanxiang kindly, otherwise everyone in the world will not let her go. For Hu Shanxiang, the husband's love is gone, Zhu Zhanji will not let her have a son, since this is the case, simply consider the second half of her life, so she simply resigned from the back seat, and this move also brought her quite a lot of sympathy points, her reputation in the history books can be much stronger than Sun Ruowei, the world all sympathizes with her, and no one in the second half of her life dares to harm her, and she can spend the rest of her life in peace and stability.