Although the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying is excellent, it does not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang's harem life is not rich. Zhu Yuanzhang is also a man, likes beautiful women, and his sex life is equally excellent.
He said, "Mao had forty concubines, but the second one buried everything in the mausoleum, and the rest." There is also a history book that says 46 concubines. No matter which number is correct, it can at least prove that Zhu Yuanzhang had seen more than 40 women before his death.
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Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict with women, even cruel. Once you find out that the woman around you is unfaithful to him, or like Lv Zhi, Liu Bang's wife, you will die. There is a folk saying that it is not a human being, but its mother is Xi An Gongzhu. However, after giving birth, Princess Qi was killed by an iron skirt.
"Iron skirt punishment" is a kind of torture device used by men in ancient China to punish unfaithful women: iron pieces are made into torture devices, which look like skirts, and prisoners are forced to wear them, and then the "skirts" are baked on the fire. When the instruments of torture are heated, if the prisoner's flesh is scalded with a soldering iron, the horror is self-evident, and the result can be imagined.
Princess Qi gave birth to a child less than a month after pregnancy and was tortured by an iron skirt.
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang treat his premature woman like this? It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that she was pregnant with someone else. Of course, the death of Judy's biological mother is a folklore, which is not true. However, it is reasonable to reveal Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards unfaithful women.
Emperor Han Ming lived a very dissolute life, and there were many romantic emperors and dissolute emperors in both dynasties. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hid the beauty in the Golden Temple, Emperor Han died under the peony flowers, Emperor Ming Chengzu was addicted to the leopard room, and Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty was addicted to alchemy.
However, although Zhu Yuanzhang had many concubines, even women who were political opponents were spared. Surprisingly, he did not have the nickname "the dissolute emperor".
Liu bang is different. He was also the founding emperor, but people thought he was a "rogue emperor". Why on earth is this? The attitude towards sex life determines the historical image.
The obvious differences between Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang in historical images may also be related to their different physiological needs, but in the final analysis, they are due to their different attitudes towards women and wives.
As soon as Liu Bang saw that he was old, he married a married woman and loved Mrs. Qi alone. Zhu Yuanzhang is different. Although Ma Huanghou gave birth to a pair of big feet and used to be an ugly girl, Zhu Yuanzhang always regarded her as a good wife. Ma Huanghou is ill, and he "still eats food day and night and takes medicine by hand". This kind of situation that can only be seen in ordinary couples appears in Zhu Yuanzhang's harem, which is really rare.
In Ma Huanghou, Zhu Yuanzhang was not indifferent to women's consumption, but restrained. However, Ma Huanghou did not take sexual control over Zhu Yuanzhang and let him spoil her alone. On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang was allowed and even encouraged to take concubines, including former concubine Hong Jila, Korean woman Li and rival Chen Youliang's little wife. If it were Lv Hou, these women would have been tortured to death. But Ma Huanghou straightened out the relationship between so many women. Generosity and kindness are equally rare!
I have a good wife, Wang Fu. For the emperor, the reason is the same. Although both Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang were born in Shu Ren, they left different comments in history, which I think is related to the merits and demerits of the two Empresses. But in the final analysis, it is their different attitudes towards sex life.
If Liu Bang, like Zhu Yuanzhang, speaks some rules of sexual life and treats his wife well, Lv Zhi's behavior may also be restrained. Maybe that's