In the Sui Dynasty, there was a well-known god man, who was Yuan Tiangang. Yuan Tiangang once divined the fate of two women, one was the female emperor Wu Zetian who was in power and opposition, and the other was Xiao Meiniang, the first beauty with the appearance of the country. When he saw Xiao Meiniang, he only left 8 words, mother yi tianxia, and killed peach blossoms. Like the baton of fate, this eight-character proverb directs the legendary life of Xiao Meiniang. It is rumored that she has gone through three dynasties, married 6 emperors successively, and over sixty years old can still make Li Shimin obsessed. So what is the origin of Xiao Meiniang? Why let the 6 emperors compete madly? What kind of strange woman is she?
Xiao Meiniang was born noble, is a genuine golden branch and jade leaf, her father is the Western Liang Xiaoming Emperor Xiao Yue, and her mother is Empress Zhang. But Xiao's childhood was very unfortunate, she was not a little princess born with a golden key. All this is only because she was born in February, jiangnan has the custom of "not giving birth in February", so as soon as she was born, she was sent to her uncle's house to raise her. But before she grew up, her uncle and husband died one after another, and she was transferred to her uncle Zhang Ke's family to raise her. But Zhang Ke's family was very poor, and she suffered a lot at a young age. Fortunately, Xiao Meiniang has been gifted and intelligent since childhood, and at the age of nine, she can play chess, calligraphy and painting, and sing and dance are all exquisite.
Later, Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty and chose concubines for Yang Guang, the King of Jin, in Liangdi. After some sea selection, only Xiao Meiniang was the most suitable, Xiao Meiniang was good at everything, but she was younger, only nine years old. However, she was still taken back by Yang Jian and became Yang Guang's child bride.
At the age of 13, she married Yang Guang and became the Princess of Jin. Before the two were married, Yuan Tiangang, a national first-class divination master, was invited to see Xiao Shi. He let Xiao Meiniang take a few steps, touched the bones again, and then said to Yang Guang, the little princess's mother is in the world, and she has killed Peach Blossom. But at that time, Yang Guang was only a King of Jin, the prince had someone else, and his princess was the mother of the world. Facts have proved that Yuan Tiangang was right, the mother's world is true, and the murderer Peach Blossom is also true. Yang Guang was later able to remove his brother Yang Yong from the position of crown prince and replace him, and Xiao Shi played a big role in it. As for how they do it? Quite simply, what Yang Jian and the LoneLy Queen like, they will act.
After Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, unlike other emperors, he had three thousand harem beauties, and he only had one empress, Dugu Jialuo. The reason why Yang Jian can be so single-minded is because the LoneLy Queen has a clean habit for feelings, as long as Yang Jian has other women, she will cut people down. Xiao Shi and Yang Guang seized on this point, and they pretended to be affectionate to the outside world. In addition to Xiao Shi, Yang Guang can be said to be not close to a female color, and this is exactly in line with the intention of the LoneLy Queen. On the other hand, Prince Yang Yong lived in luxury, did not love his wife, and loved concubines... She was still picking flowers and weeds everywhere, and the Lone Queen was getting more and more unwilling to see Yang Yong.
After getting the mother, the next step is to get the father and the emperor. With the lesson of Lord Chen Hou, Yang Jian had a strong sense of distress, and he hated the princes the most for indulging in sound and color, and without learning any techniques, Yang Guang broke all the strings on the instrument. In addition, he also created a new person for himself - a poet, and later generations only remembered that Yang Guang was a tyrant, but forgot that he was an excellent poet. His talent and character successfully impressed his father and mother.
Later, Emperor Wen of Sui deposed the crown prince Yang Yong, and Yang Guang became the new successor, and in order to eradicate the troubles, he killed the deposed prince Yang Yong. In the fourth year of Renshou, Yang Guang officially ascended the throne, known as the Sui Emperor in history, and Princess Xiao also became Empress Xiao. The prophecy of "Mother's World" has been fulfilled, will the peach blossoms of life be far away, will it not! Empress Xiao's one look, one smile, and even one breath could make the Sui Emperor's soul unstoppable. Xiao Shi was able to secure the throne of the Empress, and no one in the harem could shake her position. But after Yang Guang ascended to the throne, he was very happy and cruel, the state society was in danger, the great cause was fourteen years, and the Sui Dynasty was crumbling...
When the whole country was in chaos, Yu Wenhua rebelled in Yangzhou and killed Yang Guang, and took Empress Xiao for herself, and from then on, Xiao Shi also began her nightmare-like career.
After Yu Wenhua killed the Sui Emperor, he ascended the throne himself as emperor and made Empress Xiao a concubine. But he didn't have long to be arrogant before he was destroyed by Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande successfully took over the baton Empress Xiao, and at this time, her fate was not up to her! After Dou Jiande saw Empress Xiao's beauty, he immediately took her as a concubine and indulged in the sound and color of dogs and horses, but Dou Jiande's wish was soon disappointed. The wife of the Turkic Khan, Princess Yicheng, was Yang Guang's sister, and she could not bear to have her sister-in-law held hostage, so she used the Turkic power to bring Empress Xiao to the Turks.
When Empress Xiao arrived in Turkistan, she became a concubine of the Khan. There was a Turkic custom that after the death of the old khan, the new khan wanted to accept the wives and concubines of the old king, so Empress Xiao married the new khan. In this way, she lived in turks for 11 years.
Eleven years later, the Tang Dynasty was established, and Li Shimin attacked the Turks, taking Empress Xiao back to Chang'an, ending an 11-year Turkic career. According to ye shi, Li Shimin was also deeply attracted to Empress Xiao and accepted her as Zhaorong.
Empress Xiao had previously experienced a total of 5 marriages, the empress of the Sui Dynasty, the concubine of Yu Wenhua, the concubine of Dou Jiande, and the concubine of two generations of Turkic khans. If Li Shimin really accepted her as Zhaorong, it would be married to 6 generations of kings.
According to the "Biography of the Concubines of the Northern History", empress Xiao returned to the Tang Dynasty and gave her a house in Xingdaoli. This shows that Empress Xiao did not enter the harem, but was placed in the capital "Xingdaoli". Moreover, at that time, Empress Xiao was more than half a hundred years old, and Li Shimin was in her prime, and a bunch of beautiful women such as Wu Zetian were not lucky, but they were obsessed with her, and it was inevitable that it was a bit unreasonable. Even if it is really sealed as Zhaorong, it may only be to give her a place to stay.
Another point is that Li Yuanyi and Yang Guang are blood relatives, and they received the care of Yang Jian's father and son during the Sui Dynasty. Now taking care of Yang Guang's widow is also reasonable. Compared with Empress Xiao, the Xiao family power behind her may be what Li Shimin values most.
In her later years, Empress Xiao was accompanied by her brother Xiao Yu, but she had a smooth life.
Twenty-two years after Zhenguan, the 83-year-old Empress Xiao completed the course of her life. Li Shimin ordered her to restore her title as empress of the Sui Dynasty, and was buried with Yang Guanghe in the ceremony of empress.
Her bumpy life has finally come to an end!