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Empress Dowager Hu used a trick to break the forbidden, and Yuan Xue pitied her mother and mother
When the powerful eunuch Liu Teng of northern Wei died, yuancha, who had no ability, gradually relaxed his surveillance of Empress Dowager Hu and the emperor, which was equivalent to giving Empress Dowager Hu a very good chance to turn around.
She gave full play to her acting skills, and in front of the emperor and many ministers, she came to a play of grievance against the little daughter-in-law. It tells the story of the suffering they suffered after their mother and son were separated. Instead of living like this, it is better to shave your hair and become a nun.
Immediately take out scissors to shave your hair, the superb acting skills make the editor feel very impressed! Emperor Xiaoming naturally did not see his mother like this, and in order to appease her, he proposed to depose Yuan Fork.
In the next few days, Emperor Xiaoming hung up his mother's request to see him more every day and told Yuan Cha about it. Yuan Fork, who had long since relaxed his vigilance, did not have the slightest doubt, and also advised the emperor to obey the empress's wishes, and mother and son met frequently. But how could Empress Dowager Hu be satisfied with this little favor, she wanted the whole regime.
At a family banquet, The Chancellor, Empress Dowager Hu, and the Emperor discussed a plan against the Yuan Fork. After returning to the palace, Empress Dowager Hu said to Yuancha, "If you are really loyal to Northern Wei and have no intention of rebelling, why don't you serve in other auxiliary positions and occupy the position of leader?" ”
Yuan Fork listened to a spirit, and in order to show his loyalty, he had to surrender his military power.
Yuan Fork was given death, and Empress Dowager Hu was once again in charge of the imperial government
After Yuan Fork handed over the military power, there were still many henchmen, and it could not be completely eliminated for a while. It was not until the news of Yuan Cha and his brother's rebellion was thoroughly confirmed that Empress Dowager Hu, at the suggestion of many ministers and emperors, gave them both suicides. The death of Yuan Fork also marked that the power of Northern Wei had completely fallen into the hands of Empress Hu.
After Empress Dowager Hu came to power again, she reused a group of incompetent courtiers and let the power be in the hands of this group of scum. Not only did they have no political action, but they also let the people suffer. Empress Hu, who was blinded by power, never thought of checking her own behavior, and even had the idea of becoming a king herself.
As Emperor Xiaoming grew older, the gap between mother and son became more and more. The emperor wanted to regain the power he deserved, but how could Empress Dowager Hu, who was accustomed to holding great power, give up her power. At the instigation and instigation of her courtiers and lovers, Empress Dowager Hu went so far as to poison her own son.
However, when it comes to lovers, Empress Hu's fornication and boldness really surprised and shocked Xiaobian.
Empress Hu's most beloved lover, Zheng Yu
Empress Dowager Hu's favorite face, Zheng Yu, was a petty official who had a wife. It doesn't look very funny, but it's clever. She always pleased Empress Dowager Hu, and was deeply loved by her. It is natural to express that she loves a person, and Empress Hu is already absurd, and it is also very generous to seal her position.
On the one hand, it satisfies a man's ambition to have status, on the other hand, it also makes Zheng Yu more grateful to himself and thus more obedient.
Although Empress Dowager Hu was promiscuous and debauched, she really cared about Zheng Yu. Asking him to accompany him every day, at any time to spread the word at any time, there is no intention of sharing with Zheng Yu's wife.
Once Zheng Yu explained to Empress Dowager Hu her request to go home to see her, and although Hu agreed on the surface, he insisted on sending someone to follow Zheng Yu. From time to time, Zheng Yu urged Zheng Yu to hurry back to the palace, and zheng Yu, who was so persecuted, had the opportunity to do something else? After hurriedly explaining a few words to his wife, he returned to the palace to continue to serve Empress Hu.
The second lover who is in cahoots with Zheng Yu - Xu Qi
Since Zheng Yu is not the kind of little man who just wants to rely on Empress Hu's favor and live a lifetime. As an official eunuch who had been in the imperial court for a while, he naturally had his own ambitions to achieve. So he pushed his good friend Xu Qi into the pit of wealth and wealth, and came together to serve Empress Hu. Not only that, but the two men also played a small calculation to earn silver.
It has to be said that these two people are very clever in cajoling the empress dowager and doing business, one person is responsible for appeasing Empress Hu in the palace, and the other is out of the palace to talk about business. Selling some officials at a large price, the two people made a lot of money through perfect cooperation. At the same time, it also disturbed the already dirty atmosphere of the Northern Wei court and disturbed it even more restlessly.
It is not possible to fight a war, and serve the empress dowager's first-class military general Li Shenlu
As a military general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Shenlu was supposed to fight the enemy with all his strength on the battlefield, but he was not. When Erzhu Rong attacked Luoyang City, Li Shenluo, who had gone out of the city to meet the battle, was defeated and returned with only one blow. Although the people could not fight wars, they were good at serving Hu Tai later.
He and Zheng Yu were two people who were the favored faces of Empress Hu and had great power. He was favored by the empress dowager, and for the sake of the court, he made the loyal servants and the people miserable. At the same time, they are also very good at cunning, firmly grasping Empress Hu's heart and using Empress Dowager Hu to complete their ambitions step by step.
The Hu clan was extravagant, and the Northern Wei Qi was exhausted
During the more than ten years that Empress Dowager Hu took charge of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the economic, military, and political levels of the Northern Wei Dynasty declined year by year. Although the palace was chaotic and singing at night, the people outside the palace walls lived a life worse than death. Empress Dowager Hu also always did not manage the phenomenon of corruption and official deception of the people, and naturally the people complained for a long time.
Empress Dowager Hu was ignorant of political affairs, fainted and incompetent, and poisoned her own son. This kind of behavior finally forced people to a dead end, and at the same time gave Erzhu Rong a good reason to rebel. Seeing that she had no way to live, Empress Hu followed her aunt to the temple to become a nun, hoping that the heavens could save her.
But how could someone who had done so many evil deeds be forgiven, and soon she was captured by Erzhu Rong. After becoming a prisoner, Empress Dowager Hu was not dead-hearted and wanted to seduce Erzhu Rong. Erzhu Rong did not eat her at all, and directly threw her into the river.
In this way, a generation of Northern Wei Yan Empress Xiang disappeared and got the punishment it deserved. With the fall of Empress Dowager Hu, the Northern Wei court was also exhausted, and it was replaced by the era of Erzhu Rong.
Overall:
Obviously, the change of a dynasty and the demise of a country are often caused by multiple factors. And Empress Dowager Hu's reckless behavior is the most obvious reason for the uprising and rebellion, which we cannot deny.
But she was only a powerful fuse and hastened the demise of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The root cause of the real demise behind the Northern Wei Dynasty still depends on the problems left over from the development of the entire dynasty and the subtle problems that are not easy to find in the dark.
Leaving aside the root causes of the demise of the Northern Wei Dynasty, let's briefly talk about why Empress Hu became a person who not only did nothing, but also had a lavish style.
The reason for this is most likely because of the early death of her husband Yuan Ke. It brought a lot of pain to her life, after all, she was only in her early twenties at the time. It is the time of the good times, and it is the need for the nourishment of love.
However, her husband died, and she also had a 5-year-old son, Yuan Xuan (Emperor Xiaoming). So as a woman, she feels a heavy burden. So in order to divert the pressure, she decided to numb herself. So I lost my duty and got into trouble with those who were in the face.
Later, she was betrayed by her lover, causing her to completely lose her love. Become self-willed and depraved, self-destructive and self-abandoned. What a luxurious life, an absurd style, she dared to act. In short, it was because of the emptiness in her heart that led to her later irrationality. It can be seen how serious the persecution of women by the ancient idea of widowhood is.
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