#239 - Ming 26: Red Lead Prescription
The History of China
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Dodging's Third Principal Consort
Dodging's third and final principal consort was selected from those nine special consorts brought into the palace in 15 31. Stood apart from the first two empresses as being a southerner from the vicinity of nanjing, whereas her predecessors had been northerners, local debasing. The emperor found her deportment in this and other ceremonies very appealing. For all her natural affinity to the emperor's love of rituals, unfortunately for her, empress jan failed to produce an eir as a result. It is speculated that she may have found herself on the bad end of trying to intercede on the empress dowager's behalf against her husband. Stripped
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