I am the queen, the wife of today's emperor Duan Bingzhang, and the daughter of the powerful prime minister Fu Qingshu.
I married into the palace at the age of six. Duan Bingzhang was only nine years old at the time, but I was already the fourth queen at that time. Before me, the daughter of the general who protected the country was sixteen years old and died on the day of her wedding; the granddaughter of Liu Taifu, the great scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, was fifteen years old and died on the dragon bed in Weiyang Palace. The emperor was drunk that night and stayed in the Queen Mother's palace; It is said that at that time, all the officials of the third rank and above in the imperial court and all the relatives of the emperor were in danger. Those who had daughters of the right age at home were rushing to marry off their daughters, and they were living in panic. In less than half a month, there was not a single unmarried woman of the right age within a hundred miles of the capital. However, the emperor cannot live without a wife for a day, and the country cannot live without a queen for a day. Although the Queen Mother has repeatedly stated that the emperor should observe mourning for the first emperor for three years, and the wedding can be postponed until later, the ministers all insisted that the matter of establishing a queen should not be postponed on the grounds that "it concerns the crown prince and it is a serious matter." (To be honest, I really don't know how a nine-year-old child can have a crown prince immediately.) But no noble minister has a daughter of the right age to take care of him.