#wang clan

[randomtwinkinthetomb]

Wang Cen: As you can see, you are outnumbered

Wu Xie: I usually am

Wang Cen: Your situation has become quite untenable

Wu Xie: It usually does

Wang Cen: You are within moments of being ripped apart by lightning channeled through a ritual created by wiped out civilization thousands of years ago

Wu Xie: …okay, that’s a new one for me

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Li Cu: I’m here for the cult stuff.

Wang Cen: How did you find us?

Li Cu: I saw your ad on craigslist

[venicepearl]

Empress Xiaozhenchun (1440/1450 –1518), of the Wang clan, was a Chinese empress consort of the Ming dynasty, married to the Chenghua Emperor.

Empress Wang was chosen by the emperor to the position of empress after her predecessor had been deposed due to a conflict with the emperor's favorite concubine, Consort Wan. Aware of the mistake of her predecessor, Wang was very anxious to avoid any conflict with the emperor's favorite. Consort Wan had no son with the emperor after her first son died in infancy, and feared the competition if any other of the emperor's consorts or concubines gave birth to a son. It was said that Empress Wang deliberately stayed childless to avoid such a conflict with Consort Wan. The efforts to avoid all conflicts with Consort Wan and to show herself submissive to her, did secure the position of Empress Wang at court.

In 1487, the Chenghua Emperor died, and Empress Wang was given the title Empress dowager. In 1510, she was further raised in rank by the then-reigning emperor, the Zhengde Emperor, who was the eldest son of the Hongzhi Emperor and the grandson of the Chenghua Emperor.