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History talk show¡ªHistory for me
"The merits and demerits of the life of the mother-in-law"
The program team¡¯s scene¡ª¡ª
"Hello, audience friends, welcome to today's "History for Me" column. I am the host Kang Xin. The topic we are discussing today is quite interesting, because she is both a human and a god.
She is a human who became a god.
Without further ado, let¡¯s invite two guests to the stage to welcome Professor Wang He and Teacher Li Qin. "
After the host said the usual opening dialogue, he began to applaud and welcome.
And the two people whose names she mentioned.
He also walked from behind the scenes to the stage.
First, he stood and introduced himself, then sat down on the sofa and waited for the conversation.
¡°Everyone should know Empress Yusheng.
Even if young people don't know it, they should have heard it more or less. According to last year's statistics, there are still 1,272 temples for the fertility goddess in existence across the country, and the corresponding number of believers may exceed 8 Ten million.
This has been the case for nearly a thousand years.
A very famous mythological figure.
At the same time, there is also a certain historical background. According to ancient records, this mother-in-law was born in the reign of Emperor Yonghe of the Qing Dynasty 987 years ago. In the 27th year of Huichun, she entered the East Palace and became a female deacon. It was only in the reign of Emperor He that she officially Emerge.
Professor Wang He, I remember that you specialize in the history of the Qing Dynasty. You should know more about this than us. Please tell me and all the audience friends about the unofficial history.
It is written in official history books and can be found by everyone at any time, but unofficial history is more complicated and scattered, so we can only rely on Professor Wang He to help us summarize and sort it out. "
The program flow of this program is actually relatively fixed, so after Kang Xin gave a rough overview of the historical figures in this issue according to the flow, he started to make routine inquiries.
And Wang He also followed the program¡¯s flow:
¡°The host¡¯s questions were quite good.
The host also said just now that the Mother-in-Chief Empress only officially came to prominence during the reign of Emperor He, and the unofficial records of this aspect are quite interesting. According to unofficial records, before Emperor He ascended the throne, he was considered by the people to have the appearance of an ancestor and dragon.
And this is something everyone knows.
Even He Di¡¯s father didn¡¯t refute.
Or rather, he was afraid of dealing with Emperor He for this reason.
Does the host know why? "
¡°I don¡¯t know, I really don¡¯t know.
"But Teacher Li Qin should know. Teacher Li Qin, why don't you explain it to everyone?" "
¡°All conversations are routines, and Kang Xin is following the procedure now, leading the topic to Li Qin.
¡°It just so happens that I really know this.
Speaking of which, it is also related to the Empress Yusheng. According to unofficial records, the Empress Yusheng entered the East Palace as a stable mother-in-law, and she also helped the then crown princess safely give birth to the septuplets.
This was quite auspicious at the time.
There are rumors among the people that they have seven stars coming to earth.
Therefore, the Mother-in-Chief Empress was quite accomplished in the field of pregnancy and childbirth, and she may even have some experience in conception, because it took ten years from the time when the Mother-in-Chief Empress entered the East Palace to take up her post, until the then Prince of the East Palace successfully ascended the throne. Here, Emperor He, who was still the prince, had a total of ninety-two children with the concubines of the East Palace.
It is said that Donggong Finance was on the verge of bankruptcy.
It is precisely because Emperor He was able to give birth before he ascended the throne, and because of folklore at that time that dragons could combine with almost all creatures in the world to give birth to children, that the people believed that Emperor He, who was still the prince, had the appearance of an ancestral dragon.
? ?Actually, this is not a compliment to him.
This is damaging his ability to survive.
Like Zulong, he spares no mercy and works hard to survive.
The scariest thing is that this is not the end, the more than 20 years since Emperor He ascended the throne.
He gave birth to seventy-eight more children.
Because of this, he became the one with the most children among the ancient emperors, with a total of 170 children. The most important thing is that none of his 170 descendants died in infancy, and each one of them grew up safely and Married and had children.
The result was that Emperor He especially liked to confiscate the homes of officials and some wealthy businessmen who were unkind. According to official history, he hated evil as much as he hated it.
But according to wildJudging by historical speculation.
The greater possibility is that the royal family's internal funds could not support the marriage of his more than 100 children at that time. In order to maintain dignity, the royal family had to pay a large dowry when the prince got married.
The favored one is even the dowry of the prince and concubine.
They will be prepared by the Royal Household Office.
??And when a princess gets married, she also needs to pay a large sum of money as a gift. These royal families are completely losing money.
Whether it is a dowry or a betrothal gift, it is absolutely impossible to make any profit and can only be spent abroad.
Because this is the dignity of the royal family.
According to regulations, the betrothal gift plus various expenses for a prince¡¯s wedding should be around 200,000 taels, while for a princess, it should be around 100,000 taels.
This does not include the construction of the mansion.
If you include the mansion, the prince's wedding cost will be about 300,000 taels, and the princess will be around 200,000 taels. And Emperor He has 170 children. Calculating the average, the average cost is 250,000 taels per person. Two, that means He Di would need to spend a total of 42.5 million taels of silver just for the wedding of the princess and the prince.
This is a very scary number.
At that time, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Qing Dynasty paid taxes for one year.
There are only thirty million taels of silver.
The royal family's internal funds could never support such consumption. At that time, one could basically get hundreds of thousands taels of silver from a house raid, and some could even get millions of taels of silver. As a result, Emperor He was going crazy with poverty. How could you not be moved? "
After Li Qin finished what he needed to say in one breath, he looked at Wang He again.
And Wang He also quickly picked up the conversation:
¡°Teacher Li is right.
But if we dig deeper into the problem, we can draw a very clear conclusion, that is, the reason why Emperor He was able to have so many children.
And let all those children survive.
The most central figure is the mother-in-law.
According to unofficial records, all the nobles in Chang'an at that time wanted to have children, or wanted to preserve their fetuses.
During the ten years when Emperor He was the crown prince, the number of heirs of honorable families in the entire Chang'an City increased greatly. For example, for the imperial family, their family has been a single generation for many generations in the past, no matter how many they accepted. Wives and concubines are of no use.
But in those ten years.
Their family had given birth to twenty-three children.
The same goes for other noble families. No noble family has less than double-digit number of heirs.
¡°But this also paved the way for Xungui to empty his family wealth to marry his son and his daughter more than ten years later.
When the Emperor ascended the throne, reuse the nursery mother.
And after vigorously promoting delivery technology.
The population of the entire Qing Dynasty quadrupled in less than ten years, ushering in a prosperous age.
And then less than one hundred and fifty years.
The Qing Dynasty perished.
It has become the strangest and most unlikeable unified dynasty in history. Generally speaking, there are only two types of unified dynasties in history. One is very short, less than a hundred years, but there is always a link between the past and the next, and there is always less than three hundred years. Under the normal cycle of years, a unified dynasty.
But Qing Dynasty was different.
It was destroyed by civil strife when it was at its peak.
I don¡¯t know how many people in history have studied and explored this issue, but in my opinion, the real core lies in the birth mother.
In the feudal era, land was limited, land productivity was limited, and the population it could support was also relatively limited.
The reincarnation of dynasties in history was basically caused by the superposition of two major problems: the population exceeded the limit of land support and land annexation. In the past, poor delivery technology and high mortality of pregnant women and infants slowed down population growth to a certain extent. Extended the life of the feudal dynasty.
But the Yusheng Empress changed this phenomenon.
Without the land becoming larger and the land output not increasing, this situation was changed. This undoubtedly shortened the speed at which the population increased to the limit of the land. It originally took more than two hundred years to reach the limit, but it was directly shortened to one hundred. It would be strange if nothing happened within the Qing Dynasty for many years.
Therefore, it is really difficult to judge the merits and demerits of the Childbearing Empress. To put it bluntly, her actions can probably be regarded as merit in the contemporary era and will harm the future. "