Zhu Yuanzhang was lonely in the first half of his life, his parents died early, his brothers were separated, he lived by begging for food, and even went to the temple to become a monk, just because he could have food to eat, and later joined Guo Zixing's rebel army, and also met the empress of renma, who was important in life. Empress Ma was the first person to sincerely treat him sincerely after the death of his parents and the separation of his brothers, and saved Zhu Yuanzhang's hateful soul with kindness and tolerance.
Empress Ma has been reading poetry since she was a child, and after years of wandering and tempering, some of the ways of dealing with the world are still handy. Moreover, Empress Ma was intelligent and loved to read, and followed Zhu Yuanzhang's career of many years of horse fighting, which gave Zhu Yuanzhang great help.
It is important to note that Empress Ma does not arbitrarily favor her family. In successive dynasties, there were not a few things that harmed the government because of the dictatorship of foreign relatives, and the Ming Dynasty controlled it well in this regard, because Empress Ma was selfless.
Empress Ma said: "The lordship of the state should be shared with the magi and the master, and should not be privately given to the concubines, and the foreign relatives of the past dynasties have caused many misfortunes due to arrogance." ”
Empress Ma was clear about right and wrong, paying attention to strategy, with Rou Kegang, Song Lian was a Great Confucian of the Ming Dynasty, became the teacher of the crown prince Zhu Biao, and later returned to his hometown. Song Lian's grandson was involved in the Hu Weiyong case created by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Song Lian was implicated and saw that he was about to be executed. Empress Ma vigorously persuaded:
"The people's family is a disciple of the disciples, and the etiquette is always the same, but the son of heaven is the son of heaven? And lian home, will not know."
Empress Ma's remarks were irrefutable to reason, and Moreover, Song Lian was also wronged.
Therefore, until her later years, Empress Ma also advised Zhu Yuanzhang: "May Your Majesty seek advice from the wise and be cautious in the end."
Zhu Yuanzhang really loved and respected Empress Ma, but we should know that Empress Ma filled in The heart of Zhu Yuanzhang's lack of family affection and love, so that he had companionship in a lonely life, and this importance is self-evident.
Lü Yan, the original wife of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was the first female ruler in Chinese history to hold power, and the first empress and empress dowager in history.
When Lü Yan first married Liu Bang, he personally led his children to engage in nongsang knitting and lived a life of self-sufficiency. Liu Bang led the people to revolt, and Lü Yan was imprisoned by the government, and after suffering hardships, his personality was more resolute and courageous. After his release from prison, he went to the army with Liu Bang, experienced the storms of war, and increased Wen Tao's martial strategy. Liu Bang was proclaimed empress dowager, and Lü Yan was made empress.
However, Lü Yan put a green hat on Liu Bang, because he was a fellow villager of Liu Bang, and he had a deep friendship with Liu Bang, and he had a beautiful face and could speak the Tao, so he was deeply loved by Liu Bang, and Liu Bang called him the Duke of Pei, entrusting him to take care of his father. During the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu and fled in a hurry. Liu Bang's father, Liu Taigong, and his wife Lü Hou were both captured by Xiang Yu, and those who were also captured were also interrogated. Since then, he has begun to follow Lü Hou. After two years of imprisonment, they have accumulated deep feelings. Because of this special experience, he later became a close confidant and lover of Lü Hou.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan attacked Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi to clear the obstacles on the way to the throne for Liu Ying. She began to reuse her mother's family, suppressed the Liu clan, and broke the original balance of the imperial court, and the Lü clan was dominant, angering the scholar class and the princes, and opening up the precedent of the Han Dynasty's foreign relations' monopoly, and later this trend did not stop. In the eyes of others, Lü Yan may have the idea of wanting the Lü family to become emperor.
Lü Yan also killed Liu Bang's favored Lady Qi, and after Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou cut off Lady Qi's hands and feet, poisoned and smoked deaf, and made her a human, and also let Liu Ying, the Emperor of Han Hui, go to watch, and as a result, Emperor Hui of Han fell ill directly in fright. The Book of Han describes it very clearly, "The emperor looked at it and asked, knowing that his wife Qi was crying, and because of illness, he could not get up for more than a year." Treating Lady Qi in such a cruel way, Lü Hou has always been regarded as a snake and scorpion woman, and her means are cruel and ruthless.