Empress Dowager Hu was a promiscuous person throughout her life and was a strict enforcer of timely pleasure. In the end, she died of marrow exhaustion due to excessive pleasure. And the era she lived in was also a filthy era.

Era Background

The Northern Qi Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty that lasted for twenty-eight years. But there were six emperors in just twenty-eight years, with an average of four and a half years per person. Although their time was short, these six emperors were all like wolves and tigers, brutal and promiscuous, and were known as the beast dynasty. They do not follow the law, and act based on their personal likes and dislikes. If you are asked to die, you will die. There is no reason or excuse, it all depends on your mood. Therefore, everyone in the court is in danger, and so are the common people.

Because everyone was living in a precarious situation, in that era, both the court and the people developed the habit of enjoying themselves in time, and Queen Mother Hu was the benchmark for this habit!

A romantic life

The Queen Mother Hu was the queen of Gao Zhan, Emperor Wucheng of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the mother of Gao Wei, the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so she was called the Queen Mother Hu.

Empress Dowager Hu and her husband Gao Zhan are a good match. They are both lustful and have hard-to-satisfy desires. Gao Zhan had countless beauties in his harem, and he had an incestuous relationship with his sister-in-law Li Zu'e, and there were cases where he couldn't take care of Empress Dowager Hu for a while. Queen Mother Hu looked at her husband's wanton revelry and was very depressed because she was not satisfied. But besides the palace maids, there are also eunuchs around, so what should I do? So the only way to quench your hunger and thirst is to play with the false dragon and the false phoenix - find a eunuch, and fake the real thing. According to the records of "Northern History": "When he first became a martial artist, he later had an affair with all the eunuchs." This is also a helpless solution!

It wasn’t until she met Gao Zhan’s favorite minister He Shikai that she found the happiness of being a woman again. He Shikai was good at both civil and military skills. He was good at holding the sword in martial arts and good at playing the pipa in literature. He also had a good appearance and was very popular with Empress Dowager Hu. So she took advantage of Gao Zhan's incest with his sister-in-law, bribed the palace maids, and led the monks into the palace to make a fool of themselves. He Shikai also flattered in every possible way and tried his best to please Empress Dowager Hu. Empress Dowager Hu felt refreshed both physically and mentally.

Gao Zhan also knew about the affair between Queen Mother Hu and He Shi. Maybe it was because he had an affair with his sister-in-law and felt guilty, so he didn't care much about her. You play with yours and I play with mine. , do not disturb each other.

When Gao Zhan was alive, Empress Dowager Hu was still secretive. After Gao Zhan's death, she became even more unscrupulous. It can be said that she was promiscuous day and night. But as time passed, Empress Dowager Hu's son Gao Wei became unhappy and found an opportunity to kill He Shi. Empress Dowager Hu was sad for a long time.

Time will heal the scars, but it cannot fill the desire! When Empress Dowager Hu was feeling lonely and unbearable, she went to the temple to worship Buddha and met the obscene monk Tan Xian. Tan Xian was an amazing man. He was born with supernatural powers and extraordinary talents, and he could compete with Lao Ai of the Qin Dynasty! They did good deeds in the Zen room that day. After Empress Dowager Hu received Tan Xian, she felt as if she had found a treasure and felt much better than He Shikai. So he gave Tan Xian many gold, silver and jewelry. Even the bed where Gao Zhan lay on when he was still alive was moved to the temple, and he and Tan Xian sat on it and played together.

Empress Dowager Hu was not satisfied with this, so she summoned Tan Xian and some of her disciples into the harem in the name of doing things, and had fun day and night. In order to please her, Tan Xian gave her many handsome things. Disciple, she is like an emperor, one who comes to her in one night, and her joy is boundless. Tan Xian was even nicknamed the Supreme Emperor by his disciples! Empress Dowager Hu was afraid that Gao Wei would find out, so she tried to cover up these monks by dressing them up as nuns.

But the good times did not last long, and the romantic was mistaken for the romantic! Gao Wei is also a romantic and lustful person. This is something they have learned from the same family! One time, two monks put on makeup that was too glamorous. Gao Wei saw it, which made him crazy. He grabbed them and asked for sex. The two fake nuns would rather die than obey. After pulling off their skirts, they realized that everyone was the same! They are all pure men! In this way, Queen Mother Hu's scandal was exposed. Tan Xian and other disciples were all executed, and Queen Mother Hu was imprisoned in the cold palace and guarded day and night.

Do you think her life is over like this? No! It hasn’t started yet!

In 577 AD, the Northern Qi Dynasty fell. Gao Wei and his son Gao Heng were killed. All the Gao family members were executed, and only the female relatives were spared. Queen Mother Hu will still have to live in the future! So in Chang'an City, the capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, she started her beloved business - skin and flesh business! She led her daughter-in-law, Gao Wei's first wife, Queen Mu Huanghua, to open a restaurant. Because they were once queens and queen mothers, they had great gimmicks. They became famous for a while, patrons gathered, and business was booming. When business was booming, Queen Mother Hu shamelessly and excitedly said to Mu Huanghua: "It's more fun to be a prostitute than to be a queen." Once this sentence left her mouth, it became an eternal saying and her label!

In the end, Queen Mother Hu died of marrow exhaustion after partying day and night without restraint.

Conclusion

The life of Empress Dowager Hu was colorful. She slept with emperors, ministers, monks, and finally became a prostitute. Is this joy or sorrow?