The most embarrassing queen

The queen with the most embarrassing identity - Empress Zhang of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty

Due to the complex power struggle and the intricate marriages of powerful people, the harem had a lot of problems. It is often filled with a bunch of concubines who are related by blood. In ancient times, marriages between cousins ??were considered scandalous, and Zhang Yan's union with Emperor Hui of Han was veritable incest, because the emperor was the queen's uncle—and close to her.

However, the cause of this incest was not the common debauchery of emperors in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but the coercion and inducement of the emperor's mother, the famous Queen Mother Lu Zhi.

While Queen Mother Lu was persecuting other concubines and princes one by one, she also gradually lost Emperor Hui’s feelings for her. Emperor Hui was desperate and helpless for such a mother, and Lu Zhi was also disappointed with such a mother. The cowardly son became increasingly dissatisfied. In order to firmly control his son, one of the amazing ways Lu Zhi came up with was to marry his granddaughter to Emperor Hui.

Both Emperor Hui and Zhang Yan's mother, Princess Lu Yuan, raised their hands to oppose such an arrangement, believing that it was incest that only animals could do. However, their mother had already surpassed the level of a beast. Lu Zhi cried, coaxed and threatened, forcing the siblings to surrender. So Zhang Yan, who was only ten years old, married her twenty-one-year-old uncle, becoming the most noble and most nondescript person in the harem.

The marriage arranged by his mother only made Emperor Hui even more miserable. Unable to vent his accumulated anger, Emperor Hui chose the path of self-destruction and died of depression three years after their marriage. .

When Emperor Hui was alive, Zhang Yan’s life was nothing but boring. But after Emperor Hui’s death, her life became bleak. No one loved her, no one cared about her, and no one could talk to her. There were many people in the palace. Grandma was in charge, but she was just clinging to life. But after Zhu Lu's rebellion was put down, the situation did not improve, because she also had Lu's blood flowing in her body.

The newly established Han Emperor honored his biological mother, Bo, as the Queen Mother. Zhang Yan lost her title as Queen Mother and found it difficult to cope with her life. She finally died silently at the age of thirty-six, and her body was buried in her place. Only then did the maids realize that the queen had always been perfect.

The empress with the most destiny as empress - Empress Dou of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty

With the effect of "Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty", the name of this old lady should also be widely spread . In the early Western Han Dynasty, there were many queens with poor backgrounds, and even Wang Quan, who remarried, could become a queen. This shows that women's marriage was still not valued very much at that time.

Dou Yifang was only a daughter of a good family, and after entering the palace, she was just a maid serving Empress Lu. Empress Lu wanted to select some maids to leave the palace and give them to the princes. In order to make it easier for her to go home, Dou asked her chamberlain to assign them to the Zhao group. Unexpectedly, the chamberlain had a hairless mouth and was not good at work. She forgot about this. In one stroke, Miss Dou was sent to the country of Dai with a stroke of a pen, and Miss Dou had to go on the road crying.

The result is exactly what the saying goes: "It's a blessing in disguise." King Zhao Liu Ruyi was the son of Mrs. Qi, whom Empress Lu hated most. After Liu Bang's death, Empress Dowager Lu summoned King Zhao to Beijing four times, and finally got her wish and killed the fourteen-year-old boy, while the acting king Liu Huan miraculously He lived until Empress Lu fell and was hit in the head by the vacant throne.

In this way, the Dou family, who was sent to Dai Kingdom by accident, had a good time. But even so, the position of the queen originally had nothing to do with Dou Yifang. Although the king liked her, there were queens and the queen's four sons, but miracles happened one after another.

First, the queen died of illness, and among the remaining concubines, only Dou Yifang had children, so it was natural for her to act as the queen's work. When Dai Wang became emperor, his four legitimate sons also died of illness one after another. Dou's son Liu Qi became the eldest son, so he successfully became the prince, and Dou Yifang lived like a dream. After becoming a queen, I completed the leap from a sparrow to a phoenix.

The youngest queen - Empress Shangguan of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty

Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty was Liu Fuling, the youngest son of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. I don’t know what his great father thought. In his later years, he almost wiped out his own sons. In the end, the throne passed to this eight-year-old kid.

Emperor Zhao was only eleven years old when he came to the throne, so naturally, his wife would not be much older. At that time, the person who chose the queen for him was his nominal guardian, Princess Eyi. As a result, people who wanted to help her find connections made her choose Miss Shangguan. At that time, Shangguan was only six years old.

Shangguan's father was General Zuo, and his grandfather was General Zuo. His maternal grandfather was even more famous, being Huo Qubing's younger brother, Huo Guang, the Grand Sima Grand Chancellor. However, although these two families are related to each other, they have a lot of internal conflicts. In the early days, the matter of establishing the Shangguan family as the queen was already a bit difficult to deal with, and later it became a life-and-death fight. In the end, it was Huo Guangqi who was superior and eliminated the enemy. It was clear that this naturally included Empress Shangguan's father and grandfather. However, she was only eight years old at the time and was Huo Guang's granddaughter, so not only was her life safe, she didn't even have the phoenix crown on her head.

In the history of the late Western Han Dynasty, Huo Guang was considered a relatively thoughtful person. In order to restrain his relatives, he was not polite to the Shangguan family. However, as Emperor Zhao grew up, he became more and more In the hope that their granddaughter would give birth to a prince, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty even took the initiative to understand Master Huo's meaning. They talked a lot of nonsense about the health of the dragon body and wrote to the emperor that he only wanted to have a relationship with the queen. Therefore, the Shangguan family specializes in pampering, but unfortunately he is too young and has little hope of having children.

Emperor Zhao died at the age of twenty-one. Shangguan was fifteen years old and was honored as the empress dowager. The new emperor was not liked by his officials and was soon deposed. Another emperor was made the grandson of Liu Ju, the deposed prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. , based on seniority, Shangguan was respected as the Empress Dowager. In this way, she became the youngest Empress Dowager in China (but she was not the youngest Empress Dowager). Although he lived a life of wealth and glory, he was still a widow for the rest of his life. He died in Changle Palace at the age of fifty-two.

The most unworthy of the name - Empress Fu of Emperor Ai of Han

Empress Fu is definitely not as well-known as her husband, Emperor Ai of Han, and Emperor Ai of Han is definitely not as famous as his favorite, Dong Xian , in the end, none of these three people were as well-known as the allusion of "The Addiction of the Cut Sleeve". From this, we can see why we think Queen Fu is feeling aggrieved.

Some queens may not be favored, not pregnant, or disliked by others, but the Fu family did not even have such a chance, just because Emperor Ai had the same hobbies as his ancestors—— She is a man's favorite, and she will carry this hobby forward to the point where she is only close to men's lust but not to women's lust. Everyone turned a blind eye to bisexuality. Pure homosexuality made the women around Emperor Ai feel as big as a head.

What is even more troublesome is that Emperor Ai is not only pure glass, but also only with Dong Xian. When it comes to BL's loyalty, Aidi's classmate is definitely unprecedented and unprecedented. How big is this kind of pampering? Even the Dong family themselves can't stand it. At that time, the Xiao family had two brothers who were officials in the same palace. Mr. Dong was very envious, so he asked someone to go to the Xiao family to propose marriage for Dong Xian's younger brother. As a result, they were frightened to death and the matter failed to be negotiated. At that time, Mr. Dong was very unhappy. She sighed, "How come my family has failed the world and made people fear the Dong clan like a tiger!"

As much as Emperor Ai loved Dong Xian, Empress Fu was so depressed, not to mention that Emperor Ai later named Dong Xian's sister Zhao Yi, alongside the empress, Dong Xian and his wife also lived in the palace, seeming to merge the Dong family and the Liu family into one family, which made Empress Fu look more and more like an outsider.

Emperor Ai died of a sudden illness on the 26th, and of course he had no heirs, so he made Zong's son the new emperor. Empress Fu finally got angry and saw the thorn in her eyes and the thorn in her flesh following Emperor Ai's suicide. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After the new emperor succeeded to the throne, the royal family of the Empress Dowager came back to power. Due to political needs, Mrs. Fu was eventually demoted to a commoner. I wonder what she felt when she ended up in the same fate as her former love rival. ?

The luckiest deposed queen - Empress Guo of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty

Speaking of Liu Xiu’s wife, probably not everyone knows it, but when it comes to "being an official is like Jin Zhiwu" "You should marry Yin Lihua when you marry", probably many people know this sentence, and Guo is the predecessor of Queen Yin and Liu Xiu's first queen.

As for the question of who is better between Guo Shengtong and Yin Lihua, we can’t say clearly, but we still believe that there is no one in the harem who can ascend to the lower position simply by virtue. So at least one thing, Guo Shengtong Definitely not as good as Yin Lihua, that is wisdom (but ironically, a few years later, a girl from the Deng family used similar techniques to Yin Lihua to completely eliminate another queen of the Yin family and the Yin family) ).

Guo originally had many advantages. She was younger and more beautiful than Yin Lihua, had a child before Yin Lihua (and was a prince), and had a stronger background than Yin Lihua. Since Liu Xiu has made her his queen, according to his character, no matter who he truly loves, he will never treat Guo badly. Therefore, Queen Guo, who still lost her fortune under such circumstances, could only blame herself for not living up to expectations.

However, Guo Shengtong lost her fortune but not her life. This is why she is lucky. Throughout the ages, Guo Shengtong was the only one who could survive such a deposed queen, enjoy the title of emigrated queen mother and move with her young son, and allow her family to enjoy the treatment of the queen mother's relatives in advance. And even after her death, her family has always been favored by Yin Lihua's sons and even grandsons.

But having said that, luck or not is ultimately the opinion of outsiders like us. Guo Shengtong was lucky enough to marry the best man in the world at that time, but he could not get this man’s sincerity, and when he thought of his husband’s love for his first love, It's profound, and if you compare it to your own situation, it's probably difficult for a woman to balance it. Finally, in the same year that his eldest son voluntarily resigned from the crown prince (Liu Jiang was probably the luckiest deposed prince in history), Guo Shengtong died of illness. Some said it was because she had no worries, and some said she died in depression.

The longest-lived queen

After much thought, this title still includes more than one queen.

The person with the longest lifespan is undoubtedly Emperor Qianlong’s biological mother, Empress Xiaoshengxian, Niu Kulu, who died at the age of 86. However, this mother-in-law's title of queen was Empress Dowager. Everyone knows that she was just a concubine in the Yongzheng Dynasty. After Qianlong ascended the throne, she jumped directly to the Queen Mother without ever being the queen for a day.

If we talk about the longest lifespan among the empresses in the past dynasties, it was Wang Zhengjun, empress of Emperor Yuan of Han Dynasty, who died at the age of 84.

This queen went through the seven dynasties of Xuan, Yuan, Cheng, Ai, Ping, Ru Ziying, and Wang Mang, and had several ups and downs in her life. Although he had a peaceful personality, he lacked political insight and was eventually usurped by his nephew Wang Mang, which indirectly ruined the Liu family.

The longest-lived person who ever served as a queen was Empress Wu of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, who died at the age of 91. However, since Ms. Wu finally became the emperor, she was not included in this group of people for the time being.

The longest-serving person in the position of empress is Wang, the empress of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. Because her husband is a long-lived man and she herself is quite long-lived, she is in the post-empress position. Stayed for 42 years. At the same time, her husband also won the honor of "the laziest emperor in history" because of his great achievements in not going to court for 28 years.

The ugliest queen - Empress Jia of Emperor Hui of Jin

The Dinosaur Code says: If a woman is not sexy, she must be beautiful; if she is not beautiful, she must have temperament ; If you don’t have temperament, you have to be cute; if you don’t have cuteness, you have to be gentle; if you don’t have gentleness, then you have to be young... And Jia Nanfeng, this woman, can only reach the point of "young" at most, and she can even be on the list. The queen's throne, what reason do we have to belittle ourselves!

Different from Zhong Wuyan, the famous sage and ugly empress of the Warring States Period, Jia was not only thick, short, and black in appearance, but also had a bad personality, jealous, cruel, and cold-blooded. Once she heard that a certain concubine was pregnant, and actually stabbed her to death with a halberd as a dart. At that time, her father-in-law was about to kill her, but unfortunately, a group of pillow winds headed by the queen stopped her, and finally let Janan Feng She was promoted from Crown Princess to Queen without any danger.

In the final analysis, there are only three reasons why she was not Shuanggui: first, her father was a great hero in the founding of the country; second, her husband is an idiot; third, she herself is "deceitful with too much power."

A small part of the short-lived history of the Western Jin Dynasty was buried by Empress Yang of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, and a large part was completed by Empress Jia. Not only did she kill her husband to death, but externally, she used the hands of Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, to kill the Yang family, the late emperor's relative, and razed the three clans. Later, he united with the king of Chu to destroy the king of Runan and Zeng He. Her family had competed with the Ziyang public guard Guan's family for the crown prince, but in the end he defeated him and killed the young King of Chu. Until she killed the prince and started the "Eight Kings Rebellion", she finally killed herself and broke up the Western Jin Dynasty.

It can be seen that God is fair in the end. He gave Jia Nanfeng an ugly appearance, but gave her a strong and shameless heart.

The empress who has been reinstated the most times - Empress Yang of Emperor Hui of Jin

This Empress Yang is the successor of the ugly Jia Nanfeng. Although the previous empress did The courtiers were frightened, but the post could not be left vacant after all, so after many insider manipulations, Yang Xianrong, who came from a well-known family, became the second wife of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty.

Although Yang's process of becoming queen was the same as that of Empress Jia, and she was also very dissatisfied with her husband, she did not have time to deal with her husband like her predecessor. , because just two months after she entered the middle palace, her maternal uncle instigated King Zhao to usurp the throne and establish himself. This chaotic situation was naturally caused by her predecessor.

The "Eight Kings Rebellion" caused by Jia Nanfeng lasted almost until the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty. During this period, the kings of the Sima clan took turns to compete for positions, and Sima Zhong, the idiot emperor, was like a page in the torrent. The lonely boat floated here and there, almost never stopping.

Her husband is being held hostage from one side to another. As a queen, Yang's life will naturally not be easy. She was deposed four times and re-established four times. In the end, even the penniless general stationed in the place could decide whether she should be deposed or re-established. Compared with the ugly Jiananfeng who toyed with others while applauding, the beautiful woman Yang Xianrong who was toyed with by others was so miserable.

At the age of forty-eight, Emperor Hui finally ended his miserable life and died suddenly in the Xianyang Palace. The cause of death was unknown. However, Yang was not promoted to the queen mother, but was only succeeded by his brother-in-law. He was left alone, living a life like a living dead.

So far, Yang Xianrong, who has been resurrected four times, can leave her name in history. However, her strange life is not over yet, but has ushered in another climax.

The man who made Yang's life suddenly turn around was called Liu Yao. He was the prince of Han and Zhao, and later became the emperor. When he captured Luoyang, he captured the Sima family, and the Yang family became one of the prisoners. But Yang Xianrong was 120% satisfied with the man who captured her - in fact, it is estimated that no woman would be dissatisfied, especially compared with Emperor Hui of Jin.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Emperor Hui is an idiot. In today’s terms, he is the one who can participate in the Special Olympics. That such a person can inherit the throne can only be described as a miracle. Just because his mother, Empress Yang, protected him in every possible way, and probably wanted to use the whole world as compensation for her son, and because his father, Emperor Wu of Jin, somehow agreed to it, Sima Zhong finally boarded the Western Jin Dynasty of the throne. One of his famous quotes at that time was to ask the hungry people why they had no rice to eat and instead drank meat porridge. It caused an uproar in both the government and the public.

Although Liu Yao was a Hu emperor with blood-stained hands, he was not elegant and elegant, but he had experienced a bloody storm since childhood. His elders called him "my family is a thousand-mile horse".

Liu Yao could make Yang Xianrong a well-deserved queen, allow her to participate in military and political affairs, and allow her to enjoy everything a wife deserves. So when Liu Yao occasionally asked Yang Shi how he compared with Emperor Hui, Yang Shi praised him fiercely, saying that he didn't know what a real man in the world meant until he met Liu Yao. Although there was inevitably a suspicion of flattery, but It definitely comes from the heart.

The empress who listened to politics behind the curtain the most often - Empress Chu of Emperor Kangxi of Jin Dynasty

There were many queens who did the job of listening to politics behind the curtain when they became the queen mother, but they basically ended up once and for all. Moreover, this is a high-risk technical job, and if you are not careful, you and even your entire family may be involved. But Empress Chu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a rare exception. She not only survived a good death in this turbulent dynasty, but also listened to the government behind the curtain as many as three times.

Having so many opportunities to hang the curtain is of course related to the emperor's unstable position. The appearance of the emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was often inversely proportional to their IQ and lifespan. Those who are dissolute and immoral will naturally die early. Those who are not dissolute and immoral will not live long.

First of all, Chu's ability to become the queen is related to the short life of the Eastern Jin emperor. She was originally just Princess Langya, but because her husband's brother died young, her husband became the emperor. But she had only been the queen for two years, and her uncle's situation happened to her husband again. Emperor Kangdi of Jin died of illness, leaving behind the 21-year-old Empress Chu and a two-year-old little emperor.

The Chu family still had some political opinions, and her father Chu Pei was a well-known celebrity, so a group of ministers naturally invited her to come out, and the Chu family began to listen to politics behind the curtain for the first time. At this time, Chu Pei recommended several important ministers for his daughter, and he sat in the north of the Yangtze River. The ministers restrained each other, and they spent thirteen years in peace, until the little emperor came of age and Chu Suanzi retired.

Unfortunately, just a few years after his retirement, his only son, Emperor Mu of Jin, died without a son. The Chu family had a white-haired man and a black-haired man, but they did not have much time to grieve, because the newly elected Emperor Ai of Jin had no children. Tian was only interested in cultivating immortals and refining elixirs, and did not care about anything else. There was also a powerful minister named Heng Wen who was gradually becoming a hidden danger in the court. The ministers had no choice but to ask Chu to listen to politics behind the curtain for the second time.

After a year of hanging up the curtain, the emperor really rode a crane and became a god. He had no choice but to choose Emperor Ai's younger brother to succeed him. Since this nephew had grown up, the Chu family temporarily retired again. But before a year of peace, inexplicable rumors began to appear in the court, saying that the emperor was inhumane, that the prince was not a descendant of the Sima family, and so on. As a result, the important minister Heng Wen appeared "in time" and asked the queen mother to change the emperor. When Mrs. Chu saw his performance, she understood in her heart. But at this time, Constant Temperature was gaining momentum, and Ms. Chu could not openly break up with him, so she finally acquiesced to his request.

The new emperor was also Sima Yu, one of the important ministers recommended by Chu Pei. Back then, he held the title of two princes and became the prime minister. Heng Wen even called him the prime minister, but now he has been changed to Constant temperature's puppet, becoming emperor is just a stepping stone for Constant temperature to usurp the throne. Fortunately, fate is not as good as fate. Sima Yu died eight months after taking the throne. He did not have time to rush back to the capital when it was almost constant temperature. So the ministers headed by the Wang and Xie families hurriedly asked the Chu family to come forward to replace Sima Yu's crown prince. In power, Chu took office for the third time, and again as a cousin-in-law.

Not long after taking up the post, her old enemy Heng Wen died. When the young emperor grew up, Chu Suanzi finally truly retired until his death at the age of sixty-one. Thanks to her ability to assess the situation, keep a low profile and live a relatively long life, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not left to suffer at the hands of one short-lived emperor after another.

The most imaginative queen - Empress Hu of Emperor Wucheng of the Northern Qi Dynasty

The Gao family of the Northern Qi Dynasty can be regarded as a family full of beasts. Although there are also figures like King Lanling who have left their names in history, but Compared with his relatives, this handsome man Gao Changgong is really different. The standard Gao family's children should be walking between geniuses and madmen.

Hu's husband Gao Zhan was such an unreasonable emperor. He was obsessed with his sister-in-law Li Zu'e and threw Queen Hu aside. And Empress Hu was not idle either. She flirted with her husband's cronies and officials, and had a great time having secret affairs. Finally, He Shi came up with an idea to let Gao Zhan give up the throne and marry Hu's son Gao Wei. From then on, the couple who became the Supreme Emperor and the Empress Dowager became more and more active. The river is in perfect harmony.

The most interesting thing in Hu's life happened after the Northern Qi Dynasty was annihilated by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. At that time, Empress Dowager Hu was already in her forties, but she still had the charm of a mature woman, so she and her daughter-in-law, Empress Mu, became prostitutes in Chang'an, claiming that "it will be more fun to be a prostitute in the future." Whether it was from sincerity or self-comfort, at least Ah Q's spiritual victory method was profound.

The queen who is most inconsistent with the historical image - Empress Liu of Song Zhenzong

The story of "The civet cat exchanges for the prince" made the people realize that good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and at the same time, Empress Liu was thrown on the opposite side of the masses and became a complete villain. However, Empress Liu in history left a comment that "she has Lu Wu's talents but not Lu Wu's evil".

Liu E came from a humble background, and was even suspected of having a previous marriage. However, she was inseparable from Zhenzong, who was then King Xiang, and secretly maintained a relationship for fifteen years. It was not until Zhenzong succeeded to the throne that she The identity of a fourth-grade beauty will be revealed.

After Zhenzong's first wife, Guo, died of illness, Liu E became Zhenzong's favorite candidate to become his successor. However, there were many opponents for two reasons: first, Liu's family background was low; That is, the Liu family has no heirs. It was under this circumstance that the inside story of "borrowing a child" came into being, but Zhenzong was obviously one of the planners.

In the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Liu E's maid Li gave birth to a son, who became Renzong. Zhenzong recognized the child as Liu's son, and finally made Liu his queen three years later. Liu E became forty-four years old when she became the empress of the Song Dynasty.

After becoming the queen, Liu still maintained her usual level of wisdom and became Zhenzong's right-hand man. After the death of Zhenzong, the Liu family listened to the government from behind the curtain. During the period of governance, the orders were strict and the rewards and punishments were measured. Although he was biased towards his relatives, he never made any serious mistakes in his life. In terms of personal feelings, he always regarded Renzong as his own son, and finally peacefully returned power to him.

Mr. Liu died of illness at the age of sixty-five, and Renzong personally performed filial piety for him. Only then did some ministers tell the story of Renzong's life, and there were even rumors that Li was poisoned by Liu E. Renzong was greatly surprised. He sent someone to check Li's coffin and found that Li was actually dressed in a queen's dress and buried with the ceremony of a first-class lady. Only then did the rumors get out of the way. Afterwards, Renzong personally went to Liu E's memorial tablet to blame himself and apologize, and gave him the posthumous title of "Queen Zhuang Xian Mingsu", whose standards far exceeded those of his biological mother and previous queens of the Song Dynasty.

The most loved empress - Empress Zhang of Ming Xiaozong

In the harem, there are always more concubines than empresses in the harem, but the empress does not Completely useless. Among the several favored concubines with names in history, Empress Zhang of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty may be the only one who has a special soft spot, because in Xiaozong's huge harem, there was always only Empress Zhang. Xiaozong, Zhang and their only son Houzhao formed a real family of three.

Queen Zhang was able to monopolize the harem for several years and had an inseparable relationship with her husband. The 18 years of Xiaozong's reign were called "Hongzhi Zhongxing", and he was therefore included in the list of the most wise monarchs of the Ming Dynasty.

Xiaozong's childhood was very miserable. The person who was causing trouble in the harem at that time was the famous Concubine Wan Guifei. Concubine Wan had no children herself, so she did not allow others to have children. So Xiaozong's biological mother was naturally killed, and Xiaozong himself was secretly hidden for several years before he recognized his father.

Perhaps it was this kind of growth experience that made Xiaozong not very enthusiastic about marrying a wife. Empress Zhang gave birth to two sons and one daughter. One of the sons died in infancy, leaving only her only son Houzhao. Due to the small number of people, the ministers naturally took the trouble to urge Xiaozong to find more partners. When encountering an emperor who has slightly different intentions, he would probably "force" himself to take a concubine for the sake of the motherland and the people. However, Comrade Xiaozong always took a clear stand and sent all the idlers away with just "This is my family matter." This happened to a feudal centralized monarch, and it had to attract people's attention.

However, the fly in the ointment is that Xiaozong died young, and his son really did not inherit any of my advantages. In the end, he lost his life due to excessive indulgence and had no heirs. As a result, the Zhang family ended up in a miserable state. . This probably shows that the beautiful monogamy may not be suitable for the royal family.

Speaking of this, I suddenly thought of another person. Although she was not her husband's only wife and was honored as a "Queen" after her death, her husband's feelings for her were always strong until their marriage. Her nephew succeeded to the throne, which was probably an out-and-out affectionate move. She was the wife of Guo Wei, the founding monarch of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and also the aunt of Zhou Shizong, Chai, who initiated the unification of the north and the south after the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

The queen with the most far-reaching malignant influence - Empress Lu of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty

Lushi, of course, is Lu Pheasant. Because of her ruthless and sharp methods, everyone in the country knows her. dawn. However, Lv Zhi was not the first or the last person to serve as an agent for the emperor. I think her influence was the most profound. It was because after her, the emperors gradually regarded "killing the mother and leaving the son" as an inherent rule. The means remain.

Wang Ji, the wife of Song Xianggong, wanted to kill Song Zhaogong and welcomed his brother. Zhaogong knew it was a trap, but he had no choice but to die. It can be seen that from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the Warring States, Spring and Autumn Period, there were queen mothers and emperor queen mothers who had the power of life and death, but it seems that people at that time did not think there was anything incomprehensible about the emperor's mother being "nosy". In fact, until the Western Han Dynasty, the influence of matrilineal clans in society still remained. For example, the prince of Emperor Wu's empress Wei Zifu was called "Prince Wei", and the son of Shi Liangdi was called "Shi Huangsun", which was Cong's mother's surname. So because of this historical legacy, it is understandable that my mother is more powerful.

But Lu Pheasant left a profound impression on the rulers of the Han Dynasty. She killed half of Liu Bang's sons, and she was also the first to practice "human pigs". Everyone in the harem was in danger, and the children of Zhu Lu outside were even more lawless. All kinds of situations made the succeeding emperors realize that they could no longer turn a blind eye and let this kind of situation of young children and mothers grow up - of course, if the emperor wants to be a filial son, that is his own business, but the generous government... ...Sorry, we have to make a decision in advance.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a crab eater of this spirit, and Mrs. Gou Yi directly hit the muzzle of the gun (in fact, this woman was indeed not a good bird).

Six hundred years later, the spirit of "killing the mother and leaving the son" continued to flourish. The royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty simply regarded this as a basic national policy. Apart from biological mothers, there are only two kinds of people: the emperor's wet nurse and the late emperor's wife. But as the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Emperor Wencheng's empress Feng had a sharp conflict with her stepson, but she could still listen to politics from behind the curtain and treated Emperor Xianwen as a piece of cake; Emperor Xuanwu's empress Hu ended up with her because of her kind husband. She broke the policy and lived to see her own son ascend the throne (but her queen mother failed too much. If Emperor Xuanwu had a spirit underground, he would definitely regret not killing his wife).

Until the last dynasty of feudal society, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ms. Cixi almost ascended to heaven early because of the historical tradition of killing her mother and raising her son. However, she and many other queen mothers who came to the stage of history because the emperor was young Similarly, he did not cherish this opportunity to survive, but used his own actions to prove that what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did back then was very reasonable... This must be said to be an irony.

The most empress-producing family - the Xiao family of the Liao Dynasty

Probably the goal pursued by all the families in China that have produced queens is to be like the Xiao family of the Liao Dynasty. . Looking at the pedigree of the queens of the Liao Dynasty, we can find that, except for the founding queen Shulu, all the queens were surnamed Xiao. However, there are also special reasons for this. To put it bluntly, the nobles of the Liao Dynasty only had two surnames: "Yelu" and "Xiao", while the descendants of the descendants of the past dynasties, the Baoli family, the Yishiji family and the Shulu family were all assigned to the "Xiao" family. "The surname is Li, so once the name monopoly was formed, it was difficult for the queen not to have a surname of "Xiao".

The queens of the Xiao family are not only large in number, but also of good quality. They may be strong and courageous, or gentle and talented. They have almost no record of causing harm to the country and the people. The worst is just mediocre.

The first is Shuluping, the queen of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji (although her surname is not Xiao, her family was later classified as Xiao). One of the most famous things she did It means cutting off one's wrists and clarifying one's ambitions. When Taizu passed away, the Shulu family needed to get rid of a group of important ministers in order to stabilize the national situation, so they asked them to commit suicide and die for the emperor. At that time, some ministers shouted, "The queen is the closest person to the emperor, why doesn't the queen die for burial?", narrated Without saying a word, Lüshi cut off his right hand and replied, "Children should not be separated from their mother when they are young. They cannot live together in the ground for the time being, so they can replace it with their hands." Although it was cheaper to cut off one's hand than to be buried in a grave, apart from Shu Luping, there was no other woman who could do such a thing without hesitation.

Then came the three generations of Empress Xiao from Taizong, Shizong and Mu Zong. Although they were no longer as tough as Shulu, they were also reasonable and responsible, and had never caused any serious trouble in their lives.

The Queen of Jingzong, Xiao Yanyan, made her debut later - the famous Queen Mother Chengtian who lived at the same time as General Yang. There is no need to go into details about her political achievements. Judging from her personal life, she can be regarded as a rare romantic and happy woman. Six of Jingzong's eight children were born to the Xiao family. It would be impossible for him to have such a number if he was not in a good relationship. After Jingzong passed away, Xiao found a new lover, her first love as a girl, Han Derang. The Khitan didn't take women's widowhood seriously, even the Queen Mother, so the two of them basically went out together and had no scruples. Moreover, Han Derang was also an important minister in the military and political circles, and he was a backer who could kill two birds with one stone for the Xiao family. After Xiao's death, the two sides of her mausoleum were the mausoleums of the two men in her life (Han Derang was also the only courtier in history to enter the imperial mausoleum), which can be said to be both husband and lover. By the way, Xiao's two sisters, one for her husband and one for her lover, both turned against her. Although they were both executed by Xiao Yanyan in the end, the three sisters in the family still had a different attitude towards men. They all have the enthusiasm to dare to take risks.

Xiao Yanyan's daughter-in-law is her own niece and Han Derang's niece. She has been with the emperor for more than 20 years and is deeply loved. Unfortunately, the disadvantage of not having a son is that after her husband passed away, Xiao Yujin, as the emperor's biological mother, was too unkind and proclaimed herself the queen mother, causing her predecessor to die.

After the death of Xiao Yujin, the era of Queen Xingzong Xiao Tarili came. This queen was a woman who did not show favor to her men. When her son succeeded to the throne, her brother-in-law rebelled. Xiao Tarili personally took charge of the formation and led the guards to kill Entering the enemy's formation, he defeated the enemy twice until the rebel Yelu Chongyuan committed suicide.

Xiao Tarili’s daughter-in-law Xiao Guanyin (her husband’s aunt by generation) did not have outstanding political talent, but she was the most famous female poet in the Liao Kingdom. Unfortunately, in her generation, honest people have become Not popular, he was slandered as an adulterer and died. Her grandson-in-law Xiao Sesu also inherited Xiao Guanyin's talents, but she fell in love with the last emperor Tianzhao and was executed for giving too many remonstrances.

At this point, after two hundred years of ups and downs, the fate of the descendants of the Xiao family retreated from the stage of history along with the Liao Kingdom. But looking forward and looking back, such a powerful descendant is worth it no matter what.