Princess Mo Ling is not only beautiful, intelligent and talented, she is also proficient in music and has superb piano skills. She showed everyone in Beiming the profound national cultural heritage of the Mo clan, which not only impressed the courtiers who despised the Mo clan, but even Emperor Xuanwu couldn't help but be deeply attracted to her.
She has performed many popular pieces of music, including one of her own songs, "Guan Shan Yue", which perfectly integrates the cultures of Saibei and Central Plains, embodying not only the pride and freedom of Saibei, but also the elegance of Central Plains. The beauty and the cleverness of its conception are amazing. This song not only set off a craze in Beiming, but also moved Emperor Xuanwu's heart and made him unforgettable for a long time.
One is a powerful king, and the other is a beautiful princess. The two soon fall in love and cannot extricate themselves. Emperor Xuanwu ignored the advice of his courtiers and made many exceptions for Princess Mo Ling. In order to win the beauty's smile, Emperor Xuanwu even spent a lot of money to find the best qin player in the world to guide him. He personally selected and polished the materials to create a qin for her. A fine jade instrument.
Even Queen Renzhao, who topped the Sixth Palace, could not match this supreme honor, which made the beauties in the harem jealous.
The officials saw it and knew that Emperor Xuanwu had plans to marry the Mo clan. The two men, a talented man and a beautiful woman, should have been a good story, but behind them, the interests of two nations were involved. The marriage between the two clans is equivalent to announcing to the world that Beiming wants to establish diplomatic relations with the Mo clan. In other words, Beiming is willing to protect the Mo clan and become the backer of the Mo clan. If the barbarians in the north attack the Black Mo people in the future, Beiming will send troops to help. In this way, Beiming's military strength will be weakened in disguise. If the other three countries take advantage of the situation to besiege Beiming, the consequences will be disastrous.
All of a sudden, all the civil and military officials were worried, and the whole world was talking about it. The ministers were at a loss what to do, knowing that Emperor Xuanwu and Queen Renzhao were deeply in love, and they were always willing to listen to Queen Renzhao, so they had no choice but to ask Queen Renzhao for help, asking her to come forward to persuade Emperor Xuanwu.
After Empress Renzhao gave birth to Rong Ming, her health was not as good as before. Since she took charge of the harem, she has been managing everything in the harem in every detail, and she has long been exhausted mentally and physically. In addition, the concubines in the harem are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they are scheming all day long. Over time, her health is getting worse.
Despite this, for Queen Renzhao, who had always loved Emperor Xuanwu deeply, she was still happy to be his wife, give birth to children and solve problems for him. What's more, over the years, Emperor Xuanwu's harem has never lacked beauties, but no matter which concubine was favored, they could not shake the status of Queen Renzhao. Emperor Xuanwu had always respected and loved her, which moved Queen Renzhao extremely. The relationship with Emperor Xuanwu was further strengthened.
After hearing the requests of the ministers, she was moved emotionally and rationally, and repeatedly advised Emperor Xuanwu, but Emperor Xuanwu seemed to be determined and unmoved at all.
Soon after, Emperor Xuanwu ignored all opinions and agreed to trade with the Mo people, establish a friendly state, and formally proposed to the Mo people to marry Princess Mo Ling as their concubine.
Emperor Xuanwu's indifferent attitude deeply affected Empress Renzhao, and a seed of depression was planted in her heart.
After Princess Mo Ling entered the palace, she was canonized as a noble concubine by Emperor Xuanwu, with the power to manage the six palaces and the same position as the deputy queen. For more than a year, not only did she enjoy the Holy Favor alone, Emperor Xuanwu was even more obedient to her, accompanying her every day, and she was in the limelight for a time.
At first, Queen Renzhao thought that Emperor Xuanwu favored Concubine Ling in order to enhance the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Like other concubines in the harem, they were just pawns used to balance the government and the opposition.
But when she saw the way Emperor Xuanwu looked at Mo Ling, she realized that Concubine Ling was different from those in the harem. Emperor Xuanwu's eyes full of love were something she had never seen before. .
In front of Concubine Ling, Emperor Xuanwu had a genuine smile on his face, his eyes were blazing, and he didn't have the airs of an emperor at all. They poured tea, gambled on books, played the piano and composed poems, just like a couple of gods and gods, which made others envious and deeply hurt. Queen Renzhao's heart.
She couldn't help but recall every bit of the relationship between herself and Emperor Xuanwu, and found that the love she once thought was nothing more than respecting each other as guests.
The disease comes like a mountain falling, and the disease goes away like a thread spinning. The depressed seeds in Queen Renzhao's heart finally grew into a towering tree. She understood that her hope of being inseparable from Emperor Xuanwu for a lifetime was just her wishful thinking in the end.
In the second year after Princess Mo Ling entered the palace, Queen Renzhao became ill due to overwork and excessive worry, and she has been ill ever since.
The concubines in the harem took turns attending to the illness. Seeing that Queen Renzhao was seriously ill, most of the other concubines were perfunctory. Only Concubine Ling served with great care every time she attended to the illness. She also told Queen Renzhao some interesting stories outside the Great Wall from time to time. , to soothe her mood.
Queen Renzhao looked at the beautiful and straightforward woman in front of her. During these days, she finally understood why Emperor Xuanwu loved her so much.
Looking back on those days, she originally loved freedom, but she was willing to be trapped in this palace wall for Emperor Xuanwu. Once upon a time, she was as straightforward by nature as Concubine Ling, but she had to learn to be cunning and deceitful in this palace. How could she not understand that if it weren't for the fact that her father had a lot of troops and could help Emperor Xuanwu seize the throne, how could Emperor Xuanwu meet her in the garden by chance? How could he fall in love with her at first sight and not marry her? And if her father wasn't worried that the royal family would reduce power to the Xiao family, how could he marry her to Emperor Xuanwu and help him ascend to the supreme position? These years of loving father, daughter, filial piety, and harmonious relationship between husband and wife were like a joke. She was just a victim of this political marriage in her life.
The reason why Emperor Xuanwu had respected and loved her so much over the years was just because he was concerned about the military power in his father's hands; his father only wanted her to consolidate power for the Xiao family by asking her for help. She had pretended to be confused all her life, thinking that by trapping herself in a imaginary cage, she could live as if she didn't know anything...
It turned out that all this was just her own wishful thinking.
Queen Renzhao's illness is getting worse day by day, like a withering peony flower, watching her gradually fade from beauty to withering. Upon seeing this, the eldest princess planned to notify Xiao Yuchuan who was stationed at the border, but was unexpectedly stopped by Queen Renzhao. She knew that as soon as she died, Xiao Yuchuan would definitely ask Emperor Xuanwu to immediately confer Rong Ming as the crown prince, and the eldest princess would become a pawn in a political marriage just like her. She has been trapped by this palace wall her whole life, and does not want her children to become victims of the imperial power like herself.
After Empress Renzhao fell ill, Emperor Xuanwu searched everywhere for medical advice. He also issued an edict to repair nearly a hundred ancient temples in Beiming to pray for the empress. The world praised Emperor Xuanwu's deep love for Empress Renzhao.
Mo Ling saw that some of the concubines were not dedicated, so during this period, he no longer asked other concubines to attend to the illness, but personally served at Queen Renzhao's side, carrying medicine and water for her, taking care of her in every possible way. In order to make her happy, he also told her about Emperor Xuanwu seeking medical advice for her and repairing ancient temples to pray for blessings.
Queen Renzhao just smiled faintly after hearing this. She took Mo Ling's hand and looked at her with complicated eyes for a long time before she said softly: "You have to remember that in this palace, retreat is better than advance. You can rely on me." You will always only have yourself... Remember, the heart of an emperor is like the needle on the seabed... Don't... be too persistent..."
Unexpectedly, that day was the last time Mo Ling saw Queen Renzhao. Queen Renzhao could not survive that snowy night after all.
