Fear of daughter-in-law is not unusual for us modern men, after all, men and women are equal. However, in the feudal society where men are inferior to women, there are still people who are afraid of their daughters-in-law, and in the end they are scared by their daughters-in-law and become mentally ill. What is even more puzzling is that this person is actually the king of a country, Song Guangzong Zhao Huan, and in the end he actually lost the throne because of this.
Emperor Guangzong of Song was the third son of Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Zhao Xuan (shen), and it was supposed that the eldest son of The Concubine should inherit the throne as the crown prince, but Zhao Xiao's eldest brother died early, leaving him and his second brother alone. When Zhao Huan was young, he was clever and clever, diligent and studious, and deeply loved By Emperor Xiaozong of Song, so he tried his best to overcome the difficulties of the public and established Zhao Huan as the crown prince.
After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, his crown princess Li Shi naturally became empress. Originally named Li Fengniang, this Li clan was the daughter of Li Dao, the emissary of the Qingyuan Army, who was chosen by Emperor Gaozong of Song (Zhao Huan's grandfather) to become a crown princess because of her beautiful appearance and noble appearance. However, as everyone knows, Li Fengniang has a strong personality and a strong sense of jealousy, when Zhao Huan married Li Fengniang, he was still young, which made him slowly develop a "afraid of his wife" personality, and even after becoming emperor, he was still afraid of Li.
After Li Shi became empress, he not only interfered in internal affairs, but also regarded all the concubines of the harem, even the palace women with better posture, as love enemies in order to compete for favors. Once, because Zhao Huan said that a palace girl's hands were beautiful, that night Li Shi looked down at the palace girl's hands, put them into a box, and gave them to Zhao Huan, scaring Zhao Huan's soul away. In addition, Zhao Huan was very fond of Huang Guifei, and Li Shi was particularly angry about this matter. So when Zhao Huan went out to sacrifice, he poisoned Huang Guifei to death, and then sent someone to inform Zhao Huan that Huang Guifei had died violently. When Zhao Huan heard this news, he naturally knew what was going on, but at this time, just in time for the dark clouds to press the top, the wind was fierce, the lightning and thunder were roaring, and even the candles on the sacrifice platform were blown out by the fierce wind, and in an instant, the surrounding area was pitch black, which suddenly made Zhao Huan feel that this was Huang Guifei's ghost at work. Since then, he has begun to look confused, sometimes good and bad, unable to handle the government normally, and the power has fallen into the hands of the Li clan, but the Li clan is not capable, resulting in chaos in the whole country.
While Emperor Gaozong was still alive, Li often told Zhao that Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Xiaozong were threatening Zhao's throne. Over time, Zhao Wei and Song Xiaozong became more and more distant, Song Xiaozong fell ill, Zhao Huan did not visit, and in the end, after Song Xiaozong died, Zhao Huan did not preside over the funeral. In a feudal society where the word "filial piety" was large, Zhao Huan's practice caused great dissatisfaction among the ministers. Therefore, the ministers joined forces to invite the then empress dowager, that is, Zhao Wei's mother, Empress Chengmu, and requested that The Crown Prince Zhao Berhou be made emperor.
In this way, after five years of being confused by Zhao Huan, he became the Emperor Taishang again. It was really sad and ridiculous that an emperor in the hall would eventually lose his throne because he was afraid that his daughter-in-law would lose his throne.