In 515, Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei died, and the 5-year-old crown prince Yuan Xuan succeeded him as emperor, the historical Xiaoming Emperor. After Emperor Xiaoming ascended the throne, he honored his biological mother Hu Shi as empress dowager. Because the new emperor was still young, Empress Dowager Hu began to bow to the government and assist the young emperor.
Subsequently, Empress Dowager Hu, who was increasingly obsessed with imperial power, turned out to be a poisonous woman who was greedy for profit and unscrupulous--she had completely controlled the government of the dynasty, and she did not hesitate to poison Emperor Xiaoming because she was afraid that she would have to return power to her relatives in the future, and then re-established a puppet emperor at her own mercy to ensure that the power in her hands would not fall by the wayside.
Empress Dowager Hu's perennial misdeeds and absurdity had long put the Northern Wei regime in a precarious situation, and in 528 AD, the Northern Wei chancellor Zhu Rong, under the banner of revenge for Emperor Xiaoming, provoked a massacre of northern Wei's dim-witted imperial family and courtiers and officials, known in history as the "Change of Heyin".
After the success of the mutiny, Zhu Rong captured Empress Dowager Hu and the puppet Emperor Yuanzhao, who pretended to be a family to avoid disasters, and in order to completely eliminate the royal scourge, Zhu Rong ordered people to put Empress Hu and Yuanzhao into a bamboo cage and throw them into the Yellow River, at this point, a generation of demon queen Hu Chonghua ended her sinful life.
Curve into the palace: The woman with the heart learns Buddhism as a nun first for the concubine
Hu Chonghua was the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei and the biological mother of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, who was the eldest daughter of Emperor Xuanwu's courtier Hu Guozhen, whose real name was Hu Xianzhen, and "Chonghua" was only a title for the emperor's concubine.
At that time, when Hu Chonghua was born, it was rumored that there was an auspicious omen in the sky above the Hu family, and everyone thought that this daughter of Hu Guozhen would be glorious and noble in the future.
And Hu Guozhen really loves this intelligent and handsome eldest daughter, who not only cultivates and nurtures Hu Chonghua carefully, but also looks forward to sending her to the royal palace in the future, hoping that she can soar to the sky and shine in the court.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, both the royal family and the common people were proud of respecting Buddhism and promoting Buddhism and learning Buddhism, and Hu Chonghua's aunt happened to be a nun who was good at explaining Buddhism and often went to the court to preach Buddhism, in order to be able to seek a good future for her daughter, Hu Guozhen let Hu Chonghua follow her aunt to become a nun very early, and immersed herself in studying Buddhism for 10 years.
When Hu Chonghua was about to reach adulthood, his aunt took the opportunity to enter the palace to preach Buddhism to Emperor Xuanwu and often hinted to the emperor that Hu Shi, the eldest daughter of the courtier Hu Guozhen's family, was proficient in Buddhism and had both talents and appearances.
After Emperor Xuanwu summoned Hu Chonghua, he was impressed by his otherworldly talent and appearance, so he ordered him to be included in the harem and sealed the concubine rank of "Chonghua Shi woman". After entering the palace, Hu Chonghua, who was good at pandering to the holy will, soon gained the exclusive favor of Emperor Xuanwu.
At that time, the Northern Wei imperial family imitated Emperor Wu of The Han Dynasty in implementing the method of "setting up children and removing mothers" to avoid the matriarchal clan interfering in politics and power. Therefore, during the xuanwu period, women in the harem did not dare to give birth to a prince in order to protect themselves, which directly caused the embarrassing situation of Xuanwu Emperor's heirs withering and having no children under his knees.
But the clever and resourceful Hu Chonghua chose not to care too much, she insisted on conceiving and successfully giving birth to The Crown Prince Yuanxu for Emperor Xuanwu, who was crowned prince at the age of 3, and everyone in the harem was waiting to see a good play - because they knew that the coming of age of the Prince Yuanxuan was the time of Hu Chonghua's death.
With the favor of Emperor Xuanwu, Hu Chonghua spent a day and a day in the palace unhurriedly, and half a year later, Hu Chonghua, who had been secretly planning for a long time, quietly sent 10,000 taels of gold and 1 secret letter to the two humerus ministers in the court, and the letter was extremely earnest to ask them to help the emperor to abolish the bloody rule of "setting up a son and going to a mother" when he went to the palace.
Emperor Xuanwu loved his favorite concubine Hu Chonghua very much, and at the same time was even more reluctant to let the young prince lose the protection of his mother, so Emperor Xuanwu naturally agreed to the request of the 2 important ministers, not only abolished the palace system of "setting up a son to go to the mother", but also specially assigned a bodyguard to let the guards stay around Hu Chonghua's palace day and night to protect the life of the favored concubine.
Curtain-down obedience: At first, he worked hard as a result, but later he was in turmoil
In 515, the 33-year-old Xuanwu Emperor Yuan Ke died suddenly of illness and died in a hurry, and the 5-year-old crown prince Yuan Xue was helped to the emperor's throne overnight.
Seeing that his own son had successfully become the king of a country, Hu Chonghua was overjoyed, and soon, this scheming woman instructed her son Yuan Xue to honor herself as the empress dowager of Northern Wei.
Because the new emperor Yuan Xuan was too young, Hu Chonghua took the opportunity to listen to the government as the empress dowager, and every day accompanied the little emperor to listen to and decide on political affairs.
At first, the trembling Empress Dowager Hu pretended to be calm, listened as much as possible and said less, and always made a final decision after fully listening to the various opinions and statements of the courtiers.
With the passage of time, Empress Dowager Hu gradually grasped the ideas and essentials of governing the country, and during that period, she sought to do everything herself, and important omissions would be seen one by one.
Once upon a time, the Manchu Dynasty was both obedient to the empress dowager, which led to Empress Dowager Hu's position of power becoming more and more stable, so that she eventually took the power of the emperor firmly over her, and embarked on a downward spiral of solipsism and arrogance in the absence of supervision and restraint.
After the regime was secured, Empress Hu, who revered Buddhism, began a series of "rejuvenation of the Buddha": in order to protect the royal family with Buddha's light, Empress Hu ordered people to build a royal temple with more than a thousand Zen rooms, Yongning Temple, in the open space outside the palace walls, and raised tens of thousands of monks and nuns here.
In order to atone for her sins and seek forgiveness, Empress Hu, a firm believer in Buddhism, ordered more than 800,000 craftsmen and officials to spend more than 20 years in Luoyang to chisel the Longmen Grottoes, which had been passed down for thousands of years, costing countless sums of money; in order to show her compassion, Empress Hu also set up a wide range of fasting meetings, and gave tens of thousands of silver and gold at every turn to support Buddhist believers.
Because the imperial family took the lead in vigorously advocating the Buddha, the Northern Wei Dynasty blew up the most serious "wind of rejuvenating the Buddha" in the history of our country during the period of Emperor Xiaoming, and the historical records evaluated the wind of rejuvenating the Buddha in that period as: Since China, there has been Buddhism, but there has not been.
Seeing that the supreme Empress Dowager Hu believed in Buddhism so much, they approached and courted her under the banner of honoring the Buddha.
Empress Dowager Hu, who thought that she was sought after and supported by everyone everywhere, would reward her followers and powerful cronies as soon as she was happy, and since then, Empress Hu not only spent all day indulging in feasting and drinking, but also gradually squandering and increasingly extravagant, resulting in frequent emergencies in the Holy Treasury, the people suffering from it, and the social atmosphere being corrupted.
Widowhood and shame: Because of her male pet and absurd lust, she has become a famous sex wolf empress in history
As the saying goes: full of warmth and lust, and this sentence has also been fulfilled in the body of Hu Chonghua, the queen of the Northern Wei Demon. Because Emperor Xuanwu died early and Empress Dowager Hu was still prosperous, she gradually developed a lustful heart that was not willing to live forever, which is called in the historical records: Xuan fornication in the dynasty is defiled by the four directions.
Emperor Xuanwu had a younger brother named Yuan Yi, who was handsome and elegant in appearance and personable, and could be said to be a handsome man who was unique in the world at that time.
When Empress Dowager Hu first rose to prominence, she first looked after her younger uncle Yuan Yi, and after Yuan Yi was ordered to enter the palace, Empress Dowager Hu trapped him in her own palace and forced him to sleep with her, otherwise she would be killed.
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, Empress Dowager Hu also turned the courtier Zheng Yu into her own male favorite, eating and sleeping together every day, and only occasionally letting Zheng Yu go home to have a small gathering with her relatives.
Later, Zheng Yu recommended the young ministers Li Shenlu and Xu Qi to the empress, and these people also became empress dowager Hu's male favorites, without shame.
Once, the military general Yang Dayan took his son Yang Baihua to the palace to play an affair, and afterwards, Empress Hu was obsessed with the young and handsome Yang Baihua, and several times ordered her to enter the palace alone to meet the empress.
Yang Baihua did not want to be involved with the mercurial Empress Dowager Hu, and in order to protect himself, he did not hesitate to bid farewell to his parents and waited for the opportunity to quickly escape from Northern Wei.
After hearing the news of Yang Baihua's disappearance, Empress Hu, who could not love but could not help it, felt very sad, and in order to relieve the grievances in her heart, she even wrote a love poem with a pen and ordered the palace ladies to compose and sing, which was really sensational.
Mischief: Poisoning and killing relatives and children, and making baby girls emperors are all in order to be able to continue to hold power and control the country
In 528, Emperor Xiaoming's concubine gave birth to a princess, but the sleek and cunning Empress Hu took the opportunity to declare that the emperor had a crown prince.
Emperor Xiaoming was at first greatly puzzled by his mother's actions, but he then "had an epiphany" about the deep meaning: after the emperor gave birth to a prince, it meant that he was already a mature emperor.
Mature emperors naturally want to take full control of the country, and Empress Hu's move is a hint to the world - even if my son is already a mature emperor, I will still not return the government to him.
Ever since Emperor Xiaoming saw through the empress dowager's thoughts, he couldn't help but feel great anger in his heart, and he originally wanted to join hands with his close subjects to secretly force the empress dowager to return to power, but he did not expect to be poisoned by Empress Dowager Hu in the palace, and the death was very tragic.
After Emperor Xiaoming's death, Empress Dowager Hu immediately announced that emperor Xiaoming's newborn "crown prince" would inherit the throne, but a few days later, the shocking news again spread from the court to the four directions - Empress Hu suddenly announced to the world that the new "emperor" was the body of a princess, and immediately set up a distant nephew, Yuanzhao Wang of Lintao, to become the new emperor.
Empress Dowager Hu's almost "crazy" behavior made the courtiers and the people of the world feel very cold, and a month later, Zhu Rong, a powerful minister who had long been deeply dissatisfied with the rule of the Northern Wei imperial family, waited for the opportunity to launch a mutiny, and Empress Hu, who had a different heart, felt that she was not good, so she quickly cut her hair and became a nun and lived in the temple, intending to show the outside world that she had given up her power and no longer coveted Jiangshan and red dust.
The deaf and discerning Zhu Rong did not buy into Empress Hu's cunning, and he ordered his men to quickly capture Empress Dowager Hu and the young lord Yuan Zhao, and then mercilessly threw them into the rolling Yellow River to never end the trouble.
The life of Hu Chonghua, the queen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was full of calculations and plots, she studied and studied Buddhism in order to enter the court when she was young, and strived to give birth to an emperor for the sake of stabilizing her position, listening to the government in order to seize power and power, killing her relatives and children for long-term hegemony, lying about female babies as emperors, raising male pets, and being extravagant and lascivious in order to satisfy greed.
When Empress Dowager Hu, who is desolate and ruthless, and the people's hearts are lost, the rebellion and the general situation has gone, there is only one fate waiting for her - death.
Turning to the history of Haohao, the harem women first became nuns and then became empress dowagers to take power, in addition to the Tang Dynasty empress Wu Zetian, there was only the northern Wei empress Hu Chonghua.
But unfortunately, Hu Chonghua, the demon queen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, did not have the wisdom and foresight of Wu Zetian, she was wrapped up in the weaknesses of human nature, handled things in a shocking way, and acted recklessly all her life, causing the stormy Northern Wei to slide into the abyss of subjugation.