In the past feudal rule period, power was greater than heaven, and many people could say that they tried everything for these so-called powers and positions, and the same was true for women in the harem. Also as a wife and concubine, when the country lacked a wise and capable leader, Wu Zetian chose to be called emperor, while Empress Lü and Wang Zhengjun chose to assist the monarch who did not yet have a certain ability, although Lü Hou and Wang Zhengjun were in the same environment at that time, but the way of choosing was very different.
Lü Yan, the title recognized by people is Lü Hou, the background is relatively simple, in the early stage of diligent and earnest handling of household chores, and later her husband Liu Bang became emperor, she helped her husband expand his power, expand the territory, and suppress all opposing forces, so that in terms of state affairs, it can be said that he had a lot of experience, so that after Liu Bang's death, she did a lot as the empress dowager to assist the emperor.
Lü Yan gained the power to promote the Lü clan and set a precedent for appointing foreign relatives, in politics, the means were resolute and resolute, cruel and vicious, but fortunately, there were rewards and punishments, and she did not let the former dynasty collapse, and her series of political practices even laid a good foundation for the later "rule of Wenjing". For the harem, the fate of the wife and concubine who made her unhappy before can be described as tragic, the most famous is that Lady Qi was made into a human. Lü Hou's decisive and cruel approach shocked the court and the people at that time, and also made us in future generations tremble with fear.
Wang Zhengjun, in the marriageable period, said before and after that the two family affairs were yellow because of the death of the husband's family, her father felt very incomprehensible, found a fortune teller to look at each other, got the woman's particularly valuable statement, so in the appropriate age stage was sent to the palace as a family son, by chance, was selected to give to the prince as a concubine, I have to say that once the person is lucky, it is really impossible to stop, the five people sent, left her alone. Compared with Lü Hou, the ingredient of luck is really too big. Later, the crown prince was proclaimed emperor, and then died early, and Wang Zhengjun assisted the new emperor as empress dowager. After that, Wang Zhengjun also used the new emperor's need for talent assistance as an excuse, first sealing her brother and brother, and then various people who gave the Wang clan a mother clan, and the court at that time could be said to be the situation in which the Wang family was dominant.
In this way, although both men assisted the new emperor and were loyal to the country, there was a big difference between Wang Zhengjun and Empress Lü. Because Lü Hou had been following Liu Bang in handling state affairs for a long time, she could be said to be handy in the affairs of the court, and it could even be said that the affairs of the court were more dependent on her. And Wang Zhengjun is just a harem woman, where to understand this, but to ask about the court, only rely on the increasingly powerful matriarchal forces, concentrate on being the empress, the empress dowager, the empress dowager, she is also one of the longest-lived empresses in Chinese history, in the posthumous reign for 61 years, at the age of 84.
Compared with Lü Hou, Wang Zhengjun is recognized as "talentless" in the traditional sense, and it may be precisely because of this, even if both of them have made undeniable achievements in the country, and Lü Hou is more outstanding, posterity also admires Wang Zhengjun's generosity and recognizes her more, so Wang Zhengjun is more popular than Lü Yan.