Western Wei YuanBaoju: Gave death to the empress, and married Princess Rouran, the new empress died of difficult childbirth at the age of 16
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In 534, Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei, Yuan Xiu, was angry with the power of the powerful minister Gao Huan, so he led some of his ministers and clans to the west into Guanzhong and defected to Yuwen Tai. Gao Huan made Yuan Shanmi emperor and moved the capital to Yecheng, known historically as Eastern Wei. Eastern Wei had only one emperor when it was in power, and Gao Huan's son established Northern Qi.
On the other hand, Yuwen Tai killed Yuan Xiu in 535 AD and established Yuan Baoji as emperor, known in history as Western Wei, and Yuan Baoji was the first reigning emperor of Western Wei.
Yuan Baoju (元宝炬) (507 – March 28, 551), a native of Luoyang County, Henan (present-day Eastern Luoyang, Henan), grandson of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, son of Yuanyu the Prince of Jingzhao, and mother Ofe Yang.
Yuan Baoju was born in the fourth year of the first year (507), and suffered bad luck shortly after his birth.
In the first year of Yongping (508), Yuan Baoji's father Yuan Yu claimed that the powerful minister Gao Zhao was plotting to kill Emperor Xuanwu Yuan ke, so he plotted a rebellion in Jizhou.
Gao Zhao was the brother of Emperor Xiaowen's Empress Dowager Gao Zhaorong and the uncle of Emperor Xuanwu Yuanke. Gao Zhaoxian married Princess Pingyang. Princess Pingyang was married to Emperor Xuanwu's aunt Princess Gaoping. Gradually taking power, the power fell to the opposition, and the kings were mutilated. It was not until Emperor Xiaoming succeeded to the throne that he was killed. That's a postscript.
Soon after Yuan Yu raised his army, he was defeated and captured, hanged himself, and was killed by people. Princess Yang was also executed after giving birth to her widowed daughter Yuan Mingyue (Princess Fengpingyuan). Yuan Baoju and his brothers Yuan Baoyue, Yuan Baohui, Yuan Baozhao (元宝明) and his sister Yuan Mingyue are all imprisoned at Zongzheng Temple. It was not until the fourth year of Yanchang (515), after the death of Emperor Xuanwu Yuan Ke, that he regained his freedom and was attached to the clan family.
Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei reigned, and Empress Xuanwuling was the regent of the dynasty, spoiling the adulterers and forbidding the palace. Yuan Baoju conspired with Emperor Xiaoming to kill these traitors, and as a result, the matter was leaked and he was dismissed.
In the third year of Yongxi (534), after Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu broke with the powerful minister Gao Huan, he made Yuan Baoju the governor of the four sides of the Chinese army. Gao Huan led his troops south from Jinyang, and Emperor Xiaowu led his people into Guanzhong to defect to Yuwen Tai.
After Yuan Baoju entered the customs with Emperor Xiaowu, he was appointed as Dazai and Lu Shang shushi. Yuan Baoji's sister Yuan Mingyue was a cousin of Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu and was greatly favored and was given the title of Princess of Pingyuan.
Not long after, Emperor Xiaowu was rude and instructed the kings of the Yuan clan to kill Yuan Mingyue, and Emperor Xiaowu was angry about this. In December of the same year, Yuwen Tai killed Emperor Xiaowu. Qunchen Duozan established Emperor Xiaowu's brother's son, Guangping Wang Yuanzan, and the servant Puyang Wang Yuanshun advised Yuwen Tai not to emulate Gao Huanli's young lord and use his dictatorship, but to do the opposite and support Changjun. Yuwen Tai then proclaimed Yuan Baoju as emperor.
On the first day of the first lunar month in the first year of the reign of Emperor Da tong (535), Yuan Baoju assumed the throne as emperor and changed his era name to Datong as Emperor Wen of Western Wei.
During the reign of Yuan Baoju, all the power of the dynasty was vested in Yuwen Tai, and Yuan Baoju only sat on the emperor's throne and ruled, maintaining a delicate relationship with Yuwen Tai.
The empress of Yuan Baoji was Empress Yifu (510-540), who was frugal by nature, benevolent, magnanimous, and jealous, and was very much loved by Yuan Baoju.
The ancestor of the Yifu clan was the head of the Tuguhun regime, who lived in Qinghai and was known as the King of Qinghai. After liangzhou surrendered, Yi Fu's great-grandfather Yi Fu Mogui led all the people to surrender to Northern Wei, and was appointed as the Assassin of Dingzhou and the duke of Xiping. After Yifu Mogui, their family's descendants married Northern Wei princesses for three consecutive generations, and most of the women of Yifu Mogui's family also became princesses, which were very respected in the Northern Wei court. Yi Fushi's father, Yi Fuyi, was the official Zhiyi Tongsan Division and Yanzhou Assassin History. Yi Fu's mother, Princess Yuan of Huaiyang, was the fourth daughter of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei.
In the sixth year of Zhengguang (525), the 16-year-old YiFushi was married to Yuan Baoju, the son of the Northern Wei royal family and uncle Yuanyu of Jingzhao.
From the age of 16, when she gave birth to Yuan Qin, to the age of 29, when she became a nun, in the fourteen years before and after, Empress Yifu gave birth to twelve children.
Almost one a year, most of these twelve children died prematurely, and only Prince Yuanqin and Wudu Wang Yuanpeng survived.
At that time, the head soldier Khan, the leader of the northern nomadic Rouran people, repeatedly invaded the northern border of Western Wei. Western Wei's chancellor Yuwen Tai, considering that he had just established a new capital in the Guanzhong region and was in conflict with Eastern Wei, wanted to use marriage to appease the first soldier Khan. Yuan Baoju was asked to make the daughter of Yuan Yi the sher of Sheren a princess of Huazheng and let her marry Tahan, the younger brother of the First Bing Khan.
This was not enough, and Yuwen Tai persuaded Yuan Baoju to depose the Yifu clan and marry the daughter of the Chief Soldier Khan. On February 15, the fourth year of the reign (538), Yuan Baoju had to depose YiFushi as empress, demote her to the palace, cut her hair as a nun, and sent Yuanfu, the king of Fufeng, to welcome Yu jiulu (i.e., Empress Mo) as the new empress of Western Wei.
After Yi Fushi became a nun, he lived in the other palace, but yujiu Lu was still jealous of her, and the imperial court appointed Yi Fushi's son Wudu Wang Yuan peng as the taizhou assassin, and let her follow her son to the place where she served.
Although Yuan Baoju established the Yujiu Lu clan for the sake of the country's grand plan, he did not forget the good of the Yi Fu clan, and he secretly let the Yi Fu clan grow long hair, showing the intention of taking her back.
In the spring of the sixth year of the reign (540), The whole country of Ruoran crossed the Yellow River and invaded to the south, and Rouran's vanguard troops had already passed through Xiazhou. At that time, many people said that the Rouran people were only mobilized because of the Yujiu Lu clan, and Yuan Baoju listened and said, "Where is the matter of requisitioning millions of people for a woman?" Even so, if someone says such a thing, what face do I have to see? ”
The Yuanbaoju sect's Chang Shi Cao Pet gave him a handwritten edict to Yi Fushi and gave her to commit suicide. Yi Fushi cried and said to Cao Pet, "May the emperor live for ten million years and the world be at peace, and if all this can be realized, I will not have any resentment when I die." ”
His son, Wang Yuanpeng of Wudu, came to say goodbye to his mother. Yi Fushi left another message to Prince Yuanqin, and the words were very sad, and she cried bitterly for a long time. The attendants wept bitterly and did not dare to look up. She also called on the monks to set up buddhist utensils, and asked dozens of servants to leave the house and personally drop their hair for them. After doing this, he went indoors and pressed himself to death with a quilt at the age of 31.
Yuan Baoju did not want to kill the former empress at all, but had to do so. Therefore, after building his own mausoleum, he personally wrote an edict to sacrifice the Yifu clan after ten thousand years. Later, after Yi Fu's son Yuan Qin ascended the throne as Emperor Yuan Qin of Western Wei, he buried Yi Fu clan with Yuan Baoju in Yongling.
It is said that after the death of Yi Fushi, the imperial court excavated the maiji cliff stone niche to bury her, and when the coffin was sent into the stone niche, two clouds floated into the niche first, and after a while one of them disappeared and the other floated out. Later generations called this stone niche the Silent Tomb.
After the death of The Yifu clan, the new empress Yu jiulu was pregnant and waiting to give birth, living in the Yaohua Temple, and heard the sound of dogs barking, and her mood was very unhappy. Seeing a woman dressed up and coming to her residence, Yu Jiulu asked the others who this woman was, but no one saw anyone haunting, so some people thought that what she saw was the ghost of Yi Fushi.
Soon Yu Jiulu died in childbirth, only 16 years old, and was buried together in Yongling, with the title of Empress Dowager.
On the sixth day of the first month of March of the seventeenth year of the reign (March 28, 551), Yuan Baoju died at the Qian'an Temple at the age of 45. He was buried in Yongling with the title of Emperor Wen.
After Yuan Dingju's death, he was succeeded by the crown prince Yuan Qin.
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