Ancient marriage, most of them involuntary, even the emperor, also need to win over the ministers through marriage, not to mention those women, the deer world is the right of men, but it is often women who are sacrificed as chips.
Guo Shengtong, who came from a famous and prestigious family in Zhongshan County, would never have imagined that he would become a pawn in the political game. Although his father Guo Chang died early, the Shengtong mother clan was the Zhending royal family, and Guo Shengtong's life was still comfortable, and the Zhending royal family and the Guo family were partial to the peaceful side at the beginning of the regime.
However, the calm was always temporary, and with the great momentum of the general Liu Xiu, the power owned by the Zhending royal family was targeted by Liu Xiu, who wanted to win over Liu Yang, the king of Zhending, in order to conquer Hebei. After a series of trade-offs and lobbying, King Zhending finally decided to defect to Liu Xiu.
The Ancients Alliance has always liked to marry, and Guo Shengtong, the niece of King Zhending, is the best glue for their union. Guo Shengtong could not refuse, nor was he powerless to resist, in front of the man's country, a woman's happiness counted as something. In this way, King Zhending sent out 100,000 elite soldiers to use this marriage to help Liu Xiu fight the world in the name of dowry.
Guo Shengtong brought such a great help, no matter whether Liu Xiu had feelings for her or not, he would definitely be kind to her, so Shengtong and Liu Xiu, who were married as brides, lived a period of love like glue. It seems that this marriage has a good ending, Guo Shengtong is very favored, and her eldest son Liu Jiang, who was born for Liu Xiusheng, is also highly valued by Liu Xiu.
But until the end, no one knows the ending. With the help of the family brought by Guo Shengtong, Liu Xiu's Jiangshan fought quite smoothly, and his ascension to the throne seemed to be only overnight. After becoming emperor, Liu Xiu made Guo Shengtong empress dowager and Liu Jiang crown prince. A political marriage here seems to be the most perfect.
But who let such a Yin Lihua exist, "Marry a wife like Yin Lihua", this sentence that Liu Xiu said personally seemed to implicitly hint at the end of Guo Hou at the beginning. When a man's heart is full of another woman, and that woman is also his pillow person, Guo Shengtong' original existence of politics is only a little companionship.
Sure enough, in October of the seventeenth year of Jianwu, Guo Hou was deposed by the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu without mistake, and Yin Lihua took the throne. More than ten years later, Liu Xiu finally promoted his beloved "wife" Yin Lihua to the position of mother of the country. Guo Shengtong, who was deposed for no reason, suddenly seemed to become a joke.
She lost her posthumous position, the crown prince Liu Jiang lost his concubine status and became a concubine, the ancient concubine was clear, Liu Jiang knew that he could not be the emperor, he was taught the art of emperor by Liu Xiu for more than ten years, and finally only became the king of the domain. All the prosperity of Guo Shengtong's mother and son was like a dream, suddenly broken.