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As we all know, Wu Zetian is a famous empress in Chinese history, but what few people know is that in fact, there was a woman who was even more ruthless than Wu Zetian, poisoned her own son, almost sat on the emperor's throne, and became the first female emperor in Chinese history, she was Empress Hu of northern Wei.
(Empress Dowager Hu of Northern Wei)
Hu Shi, a name of Hu Chenghua, the history books are called the Ling Empress, anyway, do not know what the specific name is. Daughter of Situ Hu Guozhen, mother of the Huangfu clan. Hu's aunt was a nun and was very good at explaining Buddhism. In the early years of Emperor Xuanwu's reign, Hu's aunt entered the court to teach. After a few years, she used her convenience to suggest that the people in the palace would help this Hu Chenghua to say good things, saying that this woman was a beautiful and radiant immortal, and when Emperor Xuanwu heard about it, she was naturally very moved, and soon summoned her to the harem as a concubine. Hu Chenghua did understand the emperor's mind quite well, and soon became favored and conceived the emperor's children, because most of the previous princes of Emperor Xuanwu died prematurely, and the so-called prince Yuan Xue, who was born to her, was immediately crowned prince, and in 515 AD (the fourth year of Yanchang), Emperor Xuanwu died, and Yuan Xuan took the throne, for Emperor Xiaoming. Emperor Xuanwu's empress Dowager Gao was made empress dowager, and Emperor Hu was made empress dowager. Soon, Hu Forced Empress Dowager Gao to go to Yaoguang Temple to become a nun and honor herself as empress dowager. Because Yuan Xuan was on the throne at a young age, Empress Dowager Hu came to the court to listen to the government, and the chancellor also called her Her Highness and ordered the affairs to be handled. Later, the order was changed to Zhao, and the group of courtiers called her Majesty, and she called herself Yuan.
(Empress Dowager Hu called herself Emperor and felt in her heart that she was already emperor.
Empress Hu was ambitious and wanted to become a female emperor, so she constantly enhanced her prestige for herself, on the one hand, she cultivated cronies, on the other hand, she cut off dissidents, and at the same time, she did everything that the emperor could do, whether it was to sacrifice heaven and earth or preside over funerals, as well as examination officials, etc. were all personally out of the horse, she did not let her son hold any power, and soon, Empress Hu had great power, and all inside and outside were her people.
After taking power, she swelled, and When Empress Dowager Hu saw that no one could limit herself now, she simply indulged in sex. Unlike the ordinary empress dowager and later Empress Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi, these people preferred monks and rogues and the like, while Empress Hu liked the very famous handsome men and talents at that time. At that time, Emperor Xiaoming's uncle Wang Yuanyi of Qinghe was a famous handsome man, and she forced him to have sex with herself, and she was far more than such a lover, according to historical records, she had more than a dozen lovers.
(Empress Dowager Hu and her lover)
At the same time, Empress Dowager Hu was still a young literary woman, and she personally created the lyrics of "Yang Baihua" to remember her lover Yang Hua, who had gone away and flew away, "... Weak feet out of the house, yang hua tears were stained. Autumn to spring also double swallows, may the Yang flowers into the pot. "Let the palace ladies wrap their arms around each other day and night, step on and sing, and remember their lovers." However, it was several of her lovers who caused the bane of several palace coups. Among them, the two ministers who made Empress Dowager Hu eventually go to the end of the road were Zheng Yu and Xu Qi, of course, these two were also her lovers.
Although the world was in turmoil at that time, and the forces in various places began to rebel, her power was still stable. At this time, Empress Dowager Hu not only did not want to make the world stable, but for the sake of power, she listened to the rumors of Zheng Yu and Xu Qi, and in order to be able to ascend to the throne, she simply poisoned her own son, first established a little girl as emperor, and later established a three-year-old little emperor, and she also planned to wait for the time to mature, and deposed the young lord as emperor, but she never thought that shortly after she killed her own son.
(Emperor Xiaoming was poisoned by his biological mother, Empress Dowager Hu)
Erzhu Rong was very angry when he learned that Empress Hu had killed her own son, and he had an excuse to attack Empress Hu. Yuan Ziyou the Prince of Changle was made emperor and sent troops to attack Empress Hu. Empress Dowager Hu was anxious and very afraid, after all, it was impossible to say which dynasty to kill her own son, and the tiger poison did not eat children. What Empress Dowager Hu did, she herself has always felt afraid. He asked the courtiers for countermeasures, but no one answered, and everyone was dissatisfied with his killing of his son. At this time, Zheng Yu and Xu Qi told him that Erzhu Rong had nothing to fear, but he was just a rebel army, and he would definitely not be able to defeat us at that time.
(Zheng Yu, Xu Qi)
On April 11, a generation of tyrants Zhu Rong raised an army to cross the Yellow River, and Zheng Yu and Xu Qi, who had previously said that they were not afraid, escaped overnight, leaving Empress Dowager Hu alone. Empress Dowager Hu summoned all the palace ladies of the Six Palaces to enter the monastery, and she herself was so frightened that she quickly shaved her hair and pretended to be a nun, trying to escape at the opportunity, but she was still caught by Erzhu Rong. On April 13, Erzhu Rong sent cavalry to arrest and escort Empress Dowager Hu and her young lord to Heyin. Empress Dowager Hu defended Erzhu Rong in many ways, but Erzhu Rong did not listen at all, rolled up her sleeves, and directly sunk Empress Hu and the young lord into the Yellow River and drowned. This ambitious woman, who wanted to become a female emperor of a generation, died at the hands of another careerist and was finally buried in the gushing river.
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