Empress Guo was the first empress of Emperor Renzong of Song, she was born into a famous family, her ancestors were the northern chieftains for generations, her grandfather was the Northern Song Dynasty Pinglu Junjie envoy, the Gift of Shang Shu Ling and the Zhongshu Ling Guo Chong, and her father Guo Yungong was also a high-ranking official of the dynasty, when she was twelve years old, she was made empress by Empress Liu, who was in charge of the dynasty at that time, and married the fourteen-year-old Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
Empress Guo's family background is deep, and she has the blessing of the empress dowager, but it was deposed after only nine years, what is the reason? According to the edict of Emperor Renzong of Song, it is because there is no son, in fact, this is only one of the reasons, but not the root cause,
The most fundamental reason was that Song Renzong did not like her.
In fact, Empress Guo did not win the favor of Emperor Renzong of Song from the very beginning. Song Renzong first liked Wang Mengzheng's daughter, but Empress Liu thought that she was too charming, unfavorable to the lord, and gave her to his nephew; later, when she was officially elected, Song Renzong was also the great-granddaughter of the general Zhang Mei, but Empress Liu insisted on making Guo empress.
Empress Liu was a very powerful person, known in history as "there is the talent of Lü Wu, but there is no evil of Lü Wu", after the death of Song Zhenzong, because Song Renzong was very young, she came to rule the dynasty, at her insistence, Song Renzong had to establish Guo as the queen, but he did not like Empress Guo in his heart, and Empress Guo was very arrogant and jealous, making it rare for Song Renzong to get close to other concubines, deepening Song Renzong's dislike of her.
The empress is the mother of a country, and the abolition is a major affair of the country, and an emperor will not easily depose the empress, unless the empress behaves ill, or makes a mistake that is intolerable to heaven, and there is a fuse.
Empress Guo's fuse was to hit Song Renzong by mistake.
After Empress Liu's death, Emperor Renzong of Song began to pro-government, and Empress Guo lost her patron, but she did not know how to be humble and tolerant, and she also competed with harem concubines everywhere. At that time, there were two other beauties in the harem, the Shang clan and the Yang clan, who were extremely favored, and Empress Guo was greatly dissatisfied with this, and Shang Meiren knew that Song Renzong did not like Empress Guo, so she often told Song Renzong that Empress Guo was not.
One day, Shang Meiren ridiculed Empress Guo in front of Song Renzong, just happened to be heard by Empress Guo, Empress Guo was furious, and she was about to slap Shang Meiren, Song Renzong saw that the situation was not good, and hurried over to persuade her, Empress Guo had already fought with all her might, and she could not stop the situation, just hit Song Renzong's neck.
Song Renzong was a famous good emperor in history, known for his tolerance of benevolence, and Empress Guo hit him on the neck, although he was very angry and angry at the time, but he did not have a seizure, but just took Shang Meiren away.
Empress Guo did not mean to just beat the emperor by mistake, there was no big deal, if there was no other person's incitement, without the participation of the minister of the court, Lü Yijian, Empress Guo would not have been deposed.
It was the intervention of the chancellor Lü Yijian that directly led to the deposing of Empress Guo.
After Song Renzong was beaten, Shang Meiren continued to stir up trouble, and the eunuch Yan Wenying took the opportunity to say: "In the homes of ordinary people, wives cannot yet bully their husbands, and His Majesty is the son of heaven, and he was actually bullied by the empress. Emperor Renzong of Song was instigated and angrily sent Yan Wenying to summon the chancellor Lü Yijian.
Lü Yijian had been demoted because of Empress Guo, and after Empress Liu's death, Emperor Renzong of Song implemented the "de-Liuhua", and he consulted with Lü Yijian to prepare to depose the ministers who had been attached to the empress, but song Renzong leaked this plan to Empress Guo, and Empress Guo said: "Will Yijian be alone and not tend to be attached to the empress?" But it's just fickle. ”
Song Renzong immediately changed his view of Lü Yijian and deposed Lü Yijian's phase. The eunuch Yan Wenying befriended Lü Yijian, who told lü Yijian that it was because Empress Guo casually said that he had been deposed, and Lü Yijian had always been angry about it. However, soon after, Emperor Renzong of Song recalled Lü Yijian and appointed him again.
Of course, The Prime Minister Lü Yijian would not let go of this opportunity for revenge, and after his arrival, he immediately talked about Empress Guo's disrespect and lack of motherhood. Although Song Renzong resented the empress, when he heard the chancellor mention the abolition, he still took a more cautious attitude, saying:
"Although the empress is hateful, the matter of abolishing the queen is clearly discussed
。 ”
Lü Yijian then provided two powerful reasons for the abolition, one was that the empress was childless for nine years, and the other was that the Han and Tang Dynasties had their own stories. Under the persuasion of Lü Yijian, Song Renzong made up his mind to abolish it.
After the news of Song Renzong's dethronement spread, there was an uproar in the DPRK. More than a dozen people, including Yushi Zhongzhong Gong Daofu, the counselor Fan Zhongyan, the Tongzhi Yuan's Sun Zude, and the attendant Yushi Jiang Tang, jointly played the song, saying that "there is no fault in the future and cannot be abolished" and resolutely opposed Song Renzong's abolition of Empress Guo. Prime Minister Lü Yijian had already made preparations, and preemptively ordered that Yousi should not accept The Taizhi Zhangquan.
On the second day of November 1033, emperor Renzong of Song officially issued an edict saying:
"The empress, as childless, wished to enter the Taoist Temple, and specially appointed her as a pure concubine and a jade jing chong miao immortal, and gave her the name Qing Wu, and did not live in Changning Palace to raise her."
At this point, Empress Guo was completely deposed, and the storm came to an end after the abolition.
In August of the first year of Jingyou (1034), Emperor Renzong of Song issued another edict to expel Guo Jingfei from Yaohua Palace, and in October, he also gave Guo Jingfei the title of Head of the Golden Court and Chong Jing Yuanshi, and at the same time, Empress Guo's in-laws Qian Weiyan was also demoted from Pingzhangshi to Chongxin Junjie to leave the town.
Shang Meiren and Yang Meiren, who competed with Empress Guo for favors, did not end well, and were also sent out of the palace, Shang Meiren went out of the Dongzhen Palace as a Taoist monk, and Yang Meiren was placed in another house.
Later, Emperor Renzong of Song later thought of Guo and sent a secret envoy to summon her to the palace, and Guo said that if he was re-edicted, he would have to be registered by a hundred officials. However, at that time, Cao Bin's granddaughter had been established as empress, and Song Renzong had to give up.
In November of the second year of Jingyou (1035), Guo Hou fell ill, and the Song Ren Sect sent Yan Wenying to take the imperial doctor to the hospital for treatment, and on the eighth day, Empress Guo died violently, only twenty-four years old.
Yan Wenying always said bad things about Guo in front of Emperor Renzong, worried that Guo's entry into the palace would be detrimental to him, and Guo's illness was that he brought a doctor to cure the disease, so people suspected that Yan Wenying was the poisoner, but it was not true.
In the first month of the second year of Jingyou (1035), Emperor Renzong of Song mourned Guo and posthumously made her empress, but he did not give her a title, a canon, or a tribute to the temple court.
Empress Guo's fate in life was bumpy, and the most fundamental reason for her dethronement was that she did not win the emperor's favor, and she offended the ministers, and was seized by the ministers, and under the joint action of these two aspects, she was finally deposed.