In ancient Chinese legends, there is a famous story of "Tanuki Cat for Prince", which was first written in many novels from the Yuan miscellaneous drama "Jinshuiqiao Chen Lin Hugging Makeup Box". There is also a relevant description in the Ming Dynasty novel "The Case of Bao Gong", saying that during the Song Zhenzong period, the harem Concubine Liu conspired with the internal supervisor to exchange a tanuki cat for the child born by Concubine Li Chen, causing Concubine Li Chenfei to fall out of favor. Later, Bao Gong came forward and rehabilitated the unjust case for Concubine Li Chen.
Although this story is wonderful, it is not completely in line with historical facts, and it is not so much history as it is a deduction. However, in foreign countries, there has really been a thing of stealing beams and changing pillars to ascend to the throne.
In 553 BC, Cyrus the Great, who was born from the small chief, unified parts of the ancient Middle East after a series of conquests, and established a huge empire, the First Persian Empire. He was very proud of his achievements and proudly claimed to be the king of the world.
But the gods will usher in the twilight, and the heroes will have a time to fall. Cyrus the Great was killed in battle with the Masagatai, and his eldest son, Cambyses II, brutally murdered his own sibling, Bardia, becoming the second emperor of the First Persian Empire.
Cambyses II led an army to defeat the Masagatai and brought back his father's body, burying him in Pasargard. Cambyses II then waged non-stop wars, bringing Egypt, Cyrene, and Libya under the rule of the First Persian Empire.
However, the heroic and warlike Cambyses II was repeatedly attacked in internal affairs, and his autocratic rule in the country was very unpopular, and there was often a commotion among his subjects.
At this time, Bardia, who had been killed by Cambyses II, was "resurrected", leading the officials to stage a coup d'état and promising to provide three years of tax relief to his subjects. Comparing the actions of Cambyses II and Bardia, the subjects naturally voted for Bardia.
Hearing that Bardia had "come back from the dead", Cambyses II hurriedly abandoned his army and embarked on his return journey home. Soon after, however, he died mysteriously on his way home, and Bardia took advantage of the chaos to kill Cambyses II's cronies and inherit the throne.
When he became emperor, Bardia began to live in seclusion, but no one around him was suspicious and thought that he was the legitimate successor of the empire.
As everyone knows, this new emperor is actually a fake, his real identity is a monk named Gao Moda, but he is somewhat close to the dead Bardia in appearance, and Gao Moda has also carefully changed his appearance.
The final discovery of Gomeda's true identity was empress dowager Cambyses II. After the death of Cambyses II, Gomeda seized his wife and made her his empress. The empress, on the other hand, discovered something was wrong when she shared the bed: Gomeda had no ears, and the ears he usually showed were actually some kind of props used for disguise. Since few people usually get close to Gao Moda, no one has ever noticed this flaw.
The Empress did not speak out directly about the incident, but ran to inform her father, Hortanes, saying that Gomeda was a fake because his ears were wrong. Ortanes united with the royal family of Darius and others overthrew Gomelda, and Darius later took over the throne, becoming the third emperor of the righteous Persian First Empire.
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Author: Lin Ren
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