Chapter 52 1. Empress Ma

After watching Ban Chao's blockbuster Western Region War, let's put the camera back to the Han Dynasty and watch a court drama.The first person to appear is Queen Ma.Empress Ma, the wife of Liu Zhuang.What is the name, no one knows.What we can know is that she is the youngest daughter of General Fubo Ma Yuan. Mencius said that when the sky is about to send a great mission to the people of Sri Lanka, they must first suffer from their aspirations.When the pony girl was a child, no great mission was placed on her, but she was given a taste of what it means to be miserable.When she was ten years old, her father Ma Yuan was defeated in battle and died of illness in the army.Then, Liang Song, Dou Gu and the others fell into trouble, falsely accusing Ma Yuan that the war was fake and that greed for money was real.As a result, the person died, was wronged and suffered, and was not allowed to be buried.Finally, under Ma Yuan's begging, Liu Xiu finally let him die.

The blows continued.Soon, Ma Keqing, Ma Keqing, the born and intelligent elder brother, unfortunately died young.Facing man-made disasters and natural disasters, Madam Lin, the mother of the little pony girl, couldn't stand it any longer. She was in a trance and suffered from severe depression.From then on, the burden of the family fell on the young pony girl. Life is always our cruelest teacher.It is often said that the eldest son is in charge of the family early.But Miss Xiao Ma is a young girl, but she learned how to manage the house early.During the period when Mrs. Lin was ill, all the housework in the Ma family was taken care of by Miss Xiao Ma.At the beginning, this matter was done very strictly. As time went by, the news of Miss Xiao Ma's housekeeping spread, and outsiders all praised this little girl for being mature and sensible.

It is said that once the pony girl was sick, Mrs. Tai called for someone to treat her, but she couldn't be cured anyway.The white-haired Mrs. has sent away a black-haired son. Seeing that the pony girl has been ill for a long time, she immediately panicked.So, she found someone to tell the pony girl a fortune teller, to see how long she would live.The result was unexpected. The fortune teller told Mrs. Tai, old man, you can rest assured.Although this woman suffers from symptoms, she will be absolutely precious in the future. Mrs. Tai couldn't believe what the fortune teller said.After Ma Yuan's death, the Ma's shop collapsed completely. In this year when the whole world is mourning, it would be nice to have something to eat, and it is too expensive to expect.So Mrs. Tai, who was afraid of running into a charlatan, found another looker.As a result, Mrs. Tai was shocked this time.

As soon as the spectator saw the pony girl, he shouted loudly: "I will be a vassal for this girl."but…… But what?Mrs. Tai was startled and frightened by the physiognomist.At this time, I only heard the physiognomist say: Although this woman is expensive, she has a young son. If she raises another son, she will be more powerful than her own son. Mrs. Tai looked up at the sky, her eyes were confused.Is this life?If so, I am willing to accept the arrangement of fate. At that time, what did the so-called indescribable mean?If it is a man, it may be to be an emperor, and a woman may be a queen.Back then, Gaozu Liu Bang was like this.The fortune teller said that he was extremely expensive, and later he really became the emperor.

For Mrs. Tai, it doesn't matter that the pony girl has fewer children in the future, and it doesn't matter that she takes advantage of others to raise her son.The important thing is that this woman is beyond words.As long as she becomes a nobleman of the Han Dynasty, the Ma family's old store can be brought back to life, and Ma Yuan can sleep peacefully in the ground. If so, take a gamble.Someone told Mrs. Tai that it is up to the pony girl to save the Majiadian, and we have to take a gamble. The person who said the above words was Ma Yan, the cousin of Miss Xiao Ma.Back then, it was because Ma Yuan wrote him a letter that he caused a series of troubles and was wronged for nothing.Ma Yan told Mrs. Tai that the only place where women can be successful is the court.If you want to cultivate a pony girl to become a nobleman, you have to send her to the palace.

Ma Yan's words deeply moved Mrs. Tai.But there is another problem, Ma Yuan had betrothed the pony girl to someone else.Isn't it too unkind to send Xiao Ma to the palace now? In fact, the problem isn't a problem at all.Now that it's agreed, isn't it okay to retire the engagement?Even if Xiao Ma is not sent to the palace, he will never become relatives with the original family. why?The answer is very simple, the family that the pony girl is betrothed to is the bullish Dou family in Chang'an.The Dou family is not kind, Ma Yuan is dead, and Dou Gu is still stepping on two feet. Is it necessary to continue such an in-law family?

Under Ma Yan's instigation, Ma's family really divorced Dou's family.At that time, Ma Yan sent a memorandum to Liu Xiu, saying that my uncle Ma Yuan failed the emperor's kindness, and His Majesty was merciful and pardoned the whole family of wives and children.Our Ma family didn't reciprocate, and felt quite guilty.My uncle Ma Yuan has three daughters, the eldest is fifteen, the younger is fourteen, and the younger is thirteen, all of whom are good-looking and quite gentle in character.You don't hesitate to send people to investigate, if they are chosen by you to fill the harem, Ma Yuan will be immortal in the underworld.

After Ma Yan sent out the book, news came back shortly after—the girl Xiao Ma was selected into the womb of the crown prince. At that moment, Ma Yan was very excited and burst into tears.In the boundless world, he seemed to see hope.Give me a fulcrum, and I can move the whole earth, as Archimedes said.Ma Yan wanted to say, give me an egg, and I can become a millionaire.The egg lays the chicken, the chicken lays the egg, endlessly, is the millionaire still far away? By analogy, after Xiao Ma was sent to the palace and became a court lady, one day he might be targeted by the prince, and he might be favored by the prince.Oh my god, the queen is not far from the pony.The day when Majiadian reopens seems to be not far away.

After the pony girl entered the womb of the Tai Tai, she dedicatedly served the Empress Dowager Yin Lihua.This little girl is very good, and soon won the favor of the Queen Mother.The Queen Mother Yin found that the once bleak life did not destroy the little pony girl's confidence in loving life.On the contrary, she is tough, simple, virtuous, neither humble nor overbearing. Throughout the ages, human beings have a common hobby, that is, they like things like themselves.At the beginning, Liu Bang, the great ancestor, looked down upon Liu Ying, born to empress Lu Zhi, because he was not like himself.On the contrary, he likes Qi Jisheng's Liu Ruyi, because Liu Ruyi has a personality like him.But we all know that Liu Bang messed up the matter, and in the end Liu Ruyi's mother and son were all eliminated by Lu Zhi.

As with men, so with women.The Queen Mother Yin is a virtuous, humble, and prudent person.From her point of view, if she is asked to choose a wife for Prince Liu Zhuang, she must choose someone who has similar tastes and personalities with her.Very well, Miss Xiao Ma met her criteria for choosing a daughter-in-law. It is said that when a man chooses a wife, he always likes to use his mother as the standard and example.In fact, this complex is not difficult to understand.In Freud's words, it is caused by the Oedipus complex.When a son chooses a woman who is similar to his mother as a spouse, he satisfies his Oedipus complex.

In this way, the Empress Dowager Yin liked the pony girl, so she recommended it to Prince Liu Zhuang.Liu Zhuang was originally very filial, and readily accepted his mother's matchmaking.After Liu Xiu's death, Liu Zhuang named Xiao Ma a nobleman.If nothing else happens, the future queen will belong to the pony girl. Speaking of accidents, accidents came. Soon, the Empress Dowager Yin and Liu Zhuang both discovered a serious problem, the pony girl had no children.Mother is more valuable than child, this is the basic law of harem survival, now something goes wrong, what should I do? Soon, Liu Zhuang found a solution to the problem.At that time, Jia Shi, the daughter of Miss Xiaoma's half-sister, was also selected into the palace and gave birth to a son.This child is Liu Da.Liu Zhuang told Xiao Ma that you don't have to raise your own son to have a future. If you raise my son well, he will also have a bright future. Everything in front of me is exactly what the astrologer said in the past, if you are destined to have no children, you will be able to raise other people's children.Is this the fate that is destined to be inescapable?If yes, I accept fate's arrangement. From then on, Ma Guiren went all out and took raising Liu Da as his lifelong career.Under her careful care, Liu Da thrived.Ma Guiren regards the children as their own children, and the children also regard their adoptive mothers as their own mothers. They love each other very much, and the harem is full of family happiness. In addition to taking care of the children, Ma Guiren is also very concerned about Liu Zhuang's private life.Liu Zhuang had a young son, Ma Guiren chose a woman for him in the harem, and sent someone to Liu Zhuang's residence.If someone is lucky enough to win the lottery and becomes pregnant with Liu Zhuang's child, Ma Guiren will give them special trophies and irregular subsidies as bonuses. The front hall of the imperial palace is the arena for men to play politics, while the harem is the stage for women to seize the bed.However, there are thousands of women in the world, and a smart harem woman like Ma Guiren is rare in a lifetime.Ma Guiren didn't take the bed from you, but took the initiative to send you to Liu Zhuang's bed.This is not only open-minded, but also a manifestation of high self-confidence. She seems to want to tell the women in the harem that they are not afraid of comparing goods, but they are afraid of not knowing them. Fortunately, she met the empress dowager Yin and Emperor Liuzhuang who knew the goods.Soon, Liu Zhuang is going to establish a queen, and is going to be auditioned in the harem.The chief examiner of the audition is not Liu Zhuang, but the Queen Mother Yin.The Empress Dowager Yin settled it with one sentence, and said: "Ma Guiren is the crowned harem, and she is the queen." In this way, Liu Zhuang immediately made the girl the queen.From now on, we can call her Queen Ma. We know that there is a romantic love story between Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua.In fact, the love between Liu Zhuang and Queen Ma is quite sweet. This kid Liu Zhuang is very intelligent in reading, and he can master "Spring and Autumn" at the age of ten, which shocked Liu Xiu back then.As everyone knows, Queen Ma is also very intelligent in reading.Empress Ma was able to recite very early on, and she loved to read "Spring and Autumn" and "Chu Ci", and even had a deep study of the thoughts of Dong Zhongshu, a great academic scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.This is one of the reasons why Liu Zhuang is fascinated by her. Empress Ma is famous for her virtuousness, and her reading has improved. It is said that she is also quite good in height and appearance.Among the many queens of the Han Dynasty, it is difficult to find one as tall and handsome as Queen Ma.She is seven feet two inches tall, which is nearly 1.7 meters in modern standards.Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiucai was seven feet three inches, or about 1.73 meters. If Empress Ma wore high heels again, wouldn't even Liu Xiu be inferior? Men often say that women are not cute because they are beautiful, but beautiful because they are cute.Empress Ma is beautiful and lovely. She has a square mouth, fair skin, and beautiful hair on her shoulders. Coupled with her tall figure, she is simply stunning. In a word, Empress Ma has practiced a peerless magic skill, and she is proud of the harem, no one can shake her!