According to the previous book, Princess Maria, the sister of the Byzantine infant Lord Alexius II, dissatisfied with the regency of her stepmother Empress Maria and the prime minister who is said to have a leg with the empress, who was also the cousin of the young emperor, Alexius, invited the governor of The Uncle Bendus, Andronica, to the side of the Qing King. Uncle Ann proposed, demanded and demanded, unless the prime minister and too retreated into hiding.
Originally, Uncle An's army was not superior, and there were no ships to cross the Bosphorus Strait guarded by the imperial navy to further force the palace. But soon, the prime minister did not agree, people said that Uncle An was the savior, one after another, even the naval commander guarding the strait also led the fleet to defect, the incompetent prime minister was in chaos, forgot to resist at the gate of the capital and forgot to use the hostages in his hand, so no one could stop Uncle An from entering Beijing.
The empress dowager can usually exchange the charm brought by beauty for some support, but this trick has no effect on Uncle An, who was affectionate when she was young and had a period with the late sister of the empress dowager, Filipa - in order to gain the support of the people, Uncle An, who regards himself as a Qing monarch, naturally consciously cut off with the empress. When he was facing the saint, he was very respectful to the little emperor, but he was very perfunctory to the empress, only acknowledging that she was the emperor's mother.
The conditions that Uncle An had originally proposed to the prime minister could now be implemented by himself.
First, the prime minister stepped down, and he has already done it - the prime minister was tragically gouged out after his arrest, and it is said that he was even more emasculated, and you were called to the phoenix bed of the empress dowager. It doesn't matter how he dies or when he dies, and it's not impossible to die of his wounds on the spot, but he's already politically dead anyway.
Second, the empress dowager was imprisoned in the monastery. Uncle An needed to first break the edict of the former emperor Manuel I to make the empress dowager regent. Theoretically, the Empress led a 12-member regency council headed by Patriarch Theodosius I, who was above the Patriarch and had to be regent until the young emperor was 16 years old. Uncle An then threatened the Patriarch with the will of the people: This is a document expelling the empress dowager from the palace, if you don't sign it, I will leave, and the people of the capital will tear you apart.
At that time, with the arrival of the savior in Beijing, the people of the capital had indeed begun to release themselves, massacring and enslaving Latins such as Venetian and Genoese merchants, including certainly acquaintances of the empress, and it was said that a total of 60,000 people were killed (probably exaggerated). In order to gain support, Uncle An certainly did not ask about this.
After Uncle An obtained the patriarch's documents, the empress dowager was expelled from the palace and placed under house arrest in a palace outside the northern walls of the capital—what about the agreed monastery? In fact, the empress dowager had long planned to build one, but in fact, I don't know who was full of money or really had no money, and it was not built at this time - if it was built, maybe it would be used to close herself. Although other monasteries were not absent, Uncle An was too lazy to make sure that the empress dowager did not have a chance to speak when the circle of friends was mass-tortured.
Uncle An found three judges and wanted to impeach the empress dowager for treason. However, these three people had a solid eye and actually went to the little emperor for approval. Of course, as the new regent, Uncle An had already controlled the little emperor's every move, and if he did not cooperate, he said that these three people were the henchmen of the notorious former prime minister, and almost instigated the people of the capital to beat them to death.
The former defecting naval commander and others also began to plot to overthrow Uncle An. If someone opposes Uncle An, the empress dowager has hope, her status can obviously become her amulet for the time being, and the house arrest she is currently under is not a legal procedure on the table - but the people of the capital still hate her.
Uncle An really couldn't find a reason to kill the empress dowager for the time being, but her imprisonment was getting stricter and stricter. What made the empress dowager even more afraid was that even the eldest princess couple who were with Uncle An were poisoned by Uncle An. The eldest princess looks at the wrong person and takes her own fault, and Uncle An is the ultimate demon king who covets the highest power!
The empress dowager did not want to sit still, but could not imagine, simply wrote to her brother-in-law King Bella III of Hungary, hoping that Besan would look at the relationship with relatives and also look at the fact that she had had a coexistence experience in Byzantium, pulling her orphans and widows, even if she could not come to Beijing to save the car, robbing In Branichev and Belgrade to distract Uncle Ann.
Then, it is not known whether part of the letter was sent out, in short, some of it was intercepted. This is exactly what Uncle An is thinking: colluding with foreign monarchs to rob our country's territory is not treason, what is treason?
So the empress dowager was imprisoned in a narrow dungeon, materially, basically food and drink, mentally, full of ridicule and insults from the soldiers, and the executioner showed her the bladed instrument of torture.
With specific evidence of the crime, and then installing her own people in the courtroom, it is much easier to go through the legal process, and the judge appointed by Uncle An convicted the empress dowager of treason and took the lead in shouting that she must die.
The next step was to get the little emperor to approve the execution of his own biological mother, which was not difficult for Uncle An. And after the holy will is obtained, it is enough to send someone to carry it out.
When Uncle An entered Beijing, his two sons Manuel and John, who had been imprisoned for making trouble with the eldest princess, were naturally released, and Uncle An felt that they must hate the empress, so he sent Manuel and his brother-in-law George to supervise the execution. When he clears all obstacles and ascends the throne, these two people are the eldest son of the emperor and the uncle of the country, and they should always do their best to help him ascend to the throne, right?
Unexpectedly, the executor had a problem - these two family members had a big idea, and they felt that they had not participated in the whole process of sentencing the empress dowager to death, and killing a woman they thought was innocent did not conform to their three views, and they actually disobeyed!
Uncle An could only give up, but this was only temporary; the rest of the empress's life depended only on the time difference between him and the re-search for the executioner.
A month later, two executioners were found, one was a guard, and the other was the eunuch who sent the eldest princess and the couple on the road. Even if the empress dowager didn't do anything so that Uncle An couldn't find the guilt, Uncle An had a hundred ways to make the empress dowager die like the eldest princess.
The empress dowager was buried on a nearby beach, and the grave markings were omitted. It is thought that she was hanged, and there are also rumors that she was tied to a sack and drowned.
The following year, after Uncle Ann usurped the throne as Andronica I and killed the Little Emperor, he also insulted the Empress twice: he kicked the Little Emperor's corpse and mocked his father as a liar and his mother as a famous slut. Manuel also paid a temporary price for his own non-cooperation — it was his brother John who was made co-emperor.
Not only that, but An Yi also destroyed most of the portraits of the empress. If someone suggested that the empress of the hall always had to save some portraits in the world, he would arrange for a make-up painting on the spot, but all the paintings were old women with wrinkled faces.
Who will believe it? The empress dowager was only 37 years old when she died.