History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In ancient Chinese history, there is a mother who is the most "cattle", she gave birth to a total of six sons and two daughters, four of whom are emperors, the other two sons are wang ye, and two daughters are empresses. The mother of the most "cattle" in ancient times was Lou Zhaojun, the empress dowager of the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, who was a typical great woman of the virtuous wife and mother type, who not only helped her husband Gao Huan to create the foundation of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but also gave birth to four emperor sons and two empress daughters for him, which is a must!
When Lou Zhaojun was young, she was very pretty and intelligent, and many powerful families at that time wanted to marry her, but she did not look at any of them. Once, by chance, she met a poor but yuxuan man in the city, he was her future husband Gao Huan, Lou Zhaojun can be said to be love at first sight for Gao Huan, she said in surprise: "This is my Lang Jun." So he sent a maid to express his heart to him, and several times sent him money to use to marry himself.
Because Gao Huan's birth was not rich, and her birth was low, she was not worthy of Lou Zhaojun, who was rich and beautiful, but under Lou Zhaojun's repeated and hard work, her parents had to agree to this family affair. After the marriage, Lou Zhaojun really had the wisdom to see the pearls, and tried his best to assist Gao Huan to befriend Haojie, and Gao Huan also lived up to high expectations, and eventually became a vassal of Eastern Wei, laying the foundation for his descendants to establish the Northern Qi Dynasty.
After Lou Zhaojun married Gao Huan, he not only contributed to her husband's ideas in her career, but also gave birth to eight children for Gao Huan. After Gao Huan's death, the eldest son Gao Cheng inherited his father's title, and later Gao Cheng had the opportunity to claim the title of emperor on Wei's behalf, but on the eve of the Zen ceremony, he was mysteriously assassinated, and as a result, Lou Zhaojun made her second son Gao Yang the emperor, became emperor, and became the "founding emperor" of Northern Qi.
After Gao Yang was proclaimed emperor, while appointing his mother Lou Zhaojun as empress, he did not forget to posthumously honor his father as Emperor Shenwu and his brother Gao Cheng as Emperor Wenxiang. However, Gao Yang had a short life and died nine years after ascending the throne, so crown prince Gao Yin successfully ascended the throne and called the emperor Lou Zhaojun the empress dowager.
At this time, Lou Zhaojun should have enjoyed the blessings of Qing, but Gao Yin, at the instigation of some auxiliary ministers, alienated the kings of the imperial family, which annoyed Lou Zhaojun, so Lou Zhaojun and his sixth son Gao Yan joined forces to execute Yang Yan and others, and abolished emperor Yang Yan and others, and Gao Yan was thus sent to the throne by Lou Zhaojun.
Gao Yan also died a year later, at this time, Lou Zhaojun once again had to put his son Gao Zhan on the throne, and he was still the empress dowager.
In addition, Lou Zhaojun's two daughters were even more unique, the eldest daughter married the Eastern Wei Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanmi, becoming the empress under one person, and the younger daughter also married the Northern Wei Xiaowu Emperor Yuan Xiu and became his empress.
Lou Zhaojun's life can be said to be the ultimate glory, the first half of her life, through the wind and waves, countless times of upheaval and displacement, nine deaths, the second half of her life in the face of dangerous power changes, always able to calmly calm, control everything, have to be admirable!