In ancient feudal society, it was a world of male superiority and female inferiority, and the fate of women was usually very tragic, even if you were an empress, you sometimes could not escape the tragedy of fate. And in history, there is such a person, staged a supreme tragedy, she became an empress at the age of 6, became the empress dowager at the age of 15, and became the empress dowager at the age of 40, looking infinitely beautiful, in fact, it was a lonely life, she was the Shangguan Empress of the Western Han Dynasty.
The Shangguan family was very prominent, and in the time of Emperor Wu of Han, there was a scourge of witchcraft, when the crown prince was slandered and eventually wrongfully killed, and Emperor Wu of Han crowned Liu Fuling, who was 8 years old, as the heir before his death, but feared that his biological mother had usurped power, so he killed Liu Fuling's biological mother, Shangguan's grandfather and father became the rulers of the imperial situation at that time, and Empress Shangguan was born in such a prominent family.
When Liu Fuling was 12 years old, the chancellor of the imperial family decided to choose a concubine for it considering the reproduction of the imperial family, but Huo Guang did not agree with this statement, he was worried that Shangguan Jie's power was too great, but Huo Guang still bought the palace of the harem and sent Empress Shangguan to the palace.
Not long after Shangguan became empress, Shangguan Jie attacked Huo Guang, but did not expect that this matter was leaked, Huo Guang first killed Shangguan Jie, and then killed the entire Shangguan clan, but because Empress Shangguan was still young at that time, and did not participate in her grandfather's actions, plus Empress Shangguan was still Huo Guang's granddaughter, so Huo Guang did not abolish Empress Shangguan.
After removing Shangguan Jie, Huo Guang monopolized the power of the government, in order to let his granddaughter give birth to the crown prince as soon as possible, he also forced the emperor to spoil The Empress Shangguan alone, but unfortunately, knowing that Liu Fuling died did not let Empress Shangguan give birth to a child, and Liu Fuling's death also made Empress Shangguan a widow.
At this time, Huo Guang chose Liu He to inherit the throne, and Shangguan naturally became the empress, but this Liu He not only indulged in beauty, but also wanted to get rid of Huo Guang's control, so Huo Guang dispatched his secret weapon, Empress Shangguan, when Liu He was in the dynasty, Huo Guang took hundreds of soldiers, and in the name of the official empress dowager, he asked Liu He to abdicate and give way.
After Liu He was abolished, Huo Guangyou made Liu Yi become emperor, and at this time, the 40-year-old Empress Shangguan also became the empress dowager, and also became the youngest empress in history, and Huo Guang, in order to control the situation, wanted his daughter Huo Chengjun to marry the emperor, but Huo Chengjun was originally Shangguan's aunt, and if he married the emperor, it was not the granddaughter-in-law who established Shangguan, and this generation was chaotic enough.
However, Emperor Liu Yi was very fond of his wife and did not want to marry Huo Chengjun as the new empress, so he used a story to remind Huo Guang that he only loved his wife alone, and the empress could only be his own wife, and finally Liu Yi had successfully crowned his wife as empress, and also gave birth to 2 children for the emperor.
But the good times were not long, Huo Guang's wife saw that her daughter could not be the empress, so she vented her anger on the empress, ordered people to poison the empress, the emperor was very angry at that time, but there was no way huo Guang's influence in the dynasty was too big, so he could only swallow his anger and marry Huo Guang's daughter, and became the emperor, after two years, Huo Guang died, the emperor took the opportunity to kill Huo Guang's entire clan to avenge his empress, and at this time, Empress Shangguan's father and mother clan died tragically in the fight, and he really became a lonely family And the only thing that accompanies him is endless loneliness and loneliness.
Empress Shangguan seemed to have been born noble, and although her status was also very noble in her later life, she could not live her own life, and she became a tool for her grandfather and maternal grandfather all her life, and her fate was also sad.