The empress dowager who was more vicious than Lü Hou in history! Killed relatives, even sons were made into dry corpses...
When it comes to the vicious women of China's feudal dynasty, everyone will think of Lü Yan first. In fact, Lü Yan's bad is not caused by her personality, her viciousness is the consequence of political contradictions and the intensification of palace battles, if you carefully understand the biographical information of Lü Yan, you will find that Lü Yan used to be a naïve and innocent woman who fought for love, and the reason why she became vicious is also forced by life! And the empress dowager I want to introduce today, she is even more vicious and cruel than Empress Lü! In order to help her husband fight for power, she killed all her opponents, including her own relatives, and finally her son died of illness, and made the body into a dry corpse...
The Liao State was once a country that existed at the same time as the Northern Song Dynasty, and the founding emperor was Yelü Abaoji, and his wife Shu Luping was this fierce character! The Liao state originally belonged to the nomadic tribal system, if you want to unify the tribes, you must exclude dissidents to conquer other tribes, when Yelü Abaoji fought the world, Shu Luping was his military master, and many decisive policies were proposed by her! Even her relatives were killed by her orders because they were on opposite sides, so after Yelü Abaoji unified the Khitans, Shu Luping also won a lot of prestige among the various tribes. After the founding of the country, she and her husband embraced the world.
Shu Luping had three sons, the eldest son Yelü Bei was originally the crown prince, but he was gentle in nature and did not like war, Shu Luping did not want to see him the most, and arranged for him to be king in a small place; the second son Yelü Deguang and Shu Luping were very similar, Xiao Yong was good at war, decisive in killing, and was the grand marshal at that time; the third son, Yelü Lihu, although he was most loved by her, was unfortunately useless and was a straw bag. So in summary, the second son, Yelü Deguang, was most in line with the heir to the throne in her heart, and after the death of Yerushalayim, the second son, Yelü Deguang, ascended to the throne.
After Yerushalayim succeeded to the throne, he really lived up to expectations! Greatly defeated the Northern Song Dynasty, occupied the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun, and let the Northern Song Dynasty endure a hundred years of humiliation! Although Yelü Deping was invincible, most of his victories were bought by killing, in other words, he was too rigid and did not understand gentleness, so when he planned to further expand the territory of the Liao state, he used a bloodier way to deal with The Han Dynasty and the Later Jin, he slaughtered tens of thousands of city people, and the palace women and concubines of the Later Jin Dynasty were also taken for themselves, and they took everything by banditry.
Later, Yelü Deguang had a strange disease, called ''fever' in Chinese medicine, suffering from this disease, he could never have close contact with women, but he was young, strong, and frequently copulated with concubines until he vomited blood in bed and died, Empress Shu Luping was very sad to hear the news of her son's death, but she immediately did something strange - let the chef pickle Yelü Deping's body! Make sure it doesn't rot on the way and can't be passed on to others. She declared to the outside world, ''To live to see people, to die to see corpses'", showing the true nature of a loving mother, but who knows the real intention behind her? Some historians pointed out that Shu Lupin was a woman who paid special attention to fame, she did not allow the outside world to discuss the cause of this disease, as to why the chef disposed of the corpse in this way, it was through Shu Lupin's instructions, as long as Yelü Deping's body was dried, it would be dead without evidence, and all gossip would lose its true basis.
As we all know, mummifying corpses only appeared in ancient Egyptian culture, from the emergence of humanitarianism, this practice is extremely contrary to human nature, especially in the ancient concept, the body skin of the parents, Shu Luping did not indirectly reflect his own viciousness? However, from the perspective of those in power, this is also a means of maintaining the face of the royal family, which is right or wrong, can not be covered coffin, from your point of view, do you think that as a mother to treat the body of her son in this way is cruel?
Reference: History of Liao