The empress is the head of the harem, and the queen can lead the harem concubines. Generally speaking, those who can become empresses are the first wives of the emperor, and their status is naturally very noble. And the emperor and the empress are also the most affectionate, after all, a husband and wife for a hundred days. Although the emperor was the ninth and fifth emperor, he also wanted to live an ordinary conjugal life, so the empress was very important.
You must know that Qin Shi Huang, who swept through the Six Kingdoms to unify China, did not establish an empress, and the highest level of women in his harem was a concubine, so why did Qin Shi Huang not establish an empress? Of course, both the ministers and the people of the Qin State were speculating whether Qin Shi Huang was waiting for someone, but he never waited?
First, the girl who has lost her beloved
The life of Qin Shi Huang can be said to have created a dynasty that unified China, he not only unified the whole country, but also implemented a unified system in education, culture and economy, making the Qin state very strong. Compared with the fragmented situation in Europe, Qin Shi Huang's credit to China is enormous. To rule such a huge dynasty, Qin Shi Huang naturally worked day and night, rarely relaxing himself.
You know, there are many concubines of Qin Shi Huang, but the historical data rarely records the harem of Qin Shi Huang, and many courtiers are even more unlikely to spy on the harem of Qin Shi Huang. In fact, there were also ministers who proposed to make an empress, but they were all rejected by Qin Shi Huang, and strictly ordered that no more empresses were allowed. However, Noshi has a bold guess.
The most famous Afang Palace was built by Qin Shi Huang for his beloved woman, and in the eyes of many ministers, Qin Shi Huang built the Afang Palace to let the concubines live in, and he secretly met them. But later I learned that Qin Shi Huang built the Afang Palace not to let the harem concubines live, but for a girl named Afang?
Although Qin Shi Huang was a native of Qin, he did not live in Qin Guo, but lived in the city of Handan in the Zhao Kingdom with his mother and father, and It was here that Qin Shi Huang met A Fang, a girl who made him very excited. Because Qin Shi Huang was not welcomed by the princes of the Zhao kingdom in the Zhao kingdom, he was often bullied by the princes.
Qin Shi Huang's young soul was greatly traumatized, but he still had to endure it, after all, he could not fight those princes of the Zhao Kingdom. At that time, Ah Fang, a medicine picker, often saw Qin Shi Huang being bullied and even beaten by the princes. She couldn't see it very much, but at that time, she couldn't do anything herself, and could only silently watch Qin Shi Huang being beaten.
When the princes of the Zhao Kingdom left, Qin Shi Huang stood up with a wounded body, and just when he was about to leave, Ah Fang walked to Qin Shi Huang and took the initiative to treat his wounds. The two people became familiar with each other, and gradually Qin Shi Huang also regarded Ah Fang as a close friend, and the two people also liked each other.
When Qin Shi Huang grew up, he returned to the Qin Kingdom, and he ascended the throne and sat on the throne, but he always remembered Ah Fang, so he sent someone to the Zhao Kingdom to take Ah Fang to the Qin State. It is said that the two of them really had a fate, after Ah Fang was found, he took her to the Qin State, after seeing Ah Fang, Qin Shi Huang immediately ordered her to be made empress, but Lü Buwei, the father of Qin Shi Huang at that time, did not agree.
At that time, although Qin Shi Huang was the emperor of the Qin State, the power was all in Lü Buwei's hands, and he was powerless. Ah Fang did not want to embarrass Qin Shi Huang, so he left the Qin State and never heard from Qin Shi Huang again. Therefore, Qin Shi Huang built Afang Palace to remember Afangnu, and in Qin Shi Huang's heart, only Afangnu was worthy of being an empress.
Political considerations
However, some scholars believe that the reason why Qin Shi Huang did not establish an empress was still politically considered. Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms was bound to be a conquest everywhere, and those who did not surrender must be killed, thus offending the people of the world. But at that time, the armed force of the Qin soldiers made those who wanted to assassinate Qin Shi Huang afraid, so they did not dare to approach Qin Shi Huang.
In addition, the concubines in the harem of Qin Shi Huang were not all Qin women, but many were women of Zhao Guo, Qi Guo and other countries. Although these women were superficially obedient to Qin Shi Huang, who knew if they would have contact with those rebels and take the opportunity to kill Qin Shi Huang? In addition, Qin Shi Huang also knew that the women who had been made empresses since ancient times would be jealous and framed by the concubines, and he did not want the harem to be in turmoil, so he did not make an empress.
Moreover, the reason why Qin Shi Huang did not make an empress was because of his mother Zhao Ji, you know. Zhao Ji and Lü Buwei had always controlled the government, and Qin Shi Huang had no rights at all, so how could he not remember hating Zhao Ji and Lü Buwei. In addition, Zhao Ji actually got married with a fake eunuch and gave birth to a child.
At first, Qin Shi Huang did not get angry, it was because Zhao Ji was his mother, and he turned a blind eye. Who knew that the fake eunuch Yan Yi actually had the audacity to lead thousands of servants in the palace to rebel and kill Qin Shi Huang! Fortunately, Qin Shi Huang reacted quickly and had already made preparations, so that the false eunuch Yan Yi could succeed.
Think about it, Zhao Ji took control of the government when Qin Shi Huang was a child, which made Qin Shi Huang very annoyed, and Qin Shi Huang grew up and conspired with a fake eunuch to rebel, which made Qin Shi Huang really hurt his heart. So after he executed the fake eunuch Yan Yi, he also killed Zhao Ji and the children born to Heri Yi, cut the grass and roots, and Zhao Ji was also locked up in the harem and never allowed to come out.
Third, long-term consideration
It is said that it is the political influence that makes the empress the most convincing, but the life of Qin Shi Huang can be said to be very cold-blooded, and he has never shown mercy to some people who oppose him. Moreover, he established a state with a "centralized power" system, all the rights were in the emperor, and he could never give the rights to others, which was enough to show that Qin Shi Huang did not trust anyone.
However, regardless of whether Qin Shi Huang built the Afang Palace out of love or out of political considerations, he was completely right not to make an empress. In the Qin Dynasty ruled by Qin Shi Huang, there was really no harem to interfere in politics, and there was no harem cholera program, he also did this so that future generations of emperors would not be interfered with by the harem, and there would be no outbreak of civil unrest, so after the Qin state, many emperors also made rules, "the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics."
4. Summary
The court battles of the ancient feudal dynasties have been very terrible, and although these nobles have enough food and clothing, they have fought for the power in their hands. You must know that Qin Shi Huang was not happy when he was a child, and even the life of ordinary children was not as good, he could only send people under the fence of the Zhao Kingdom, and it was difficult to return to the Qin State to do the imperial throne and not in his own hands.
Coupled with the fact that his own mother, Zhao Ji, had acted recklessly to depose him, how could Qin Shi Huang not feel resentful. Affected by his mother's shadow, Qin Shi Huang could not establish an empress again, he was afraid of repeating the mistakes of his mother Zhao Ji, after all, cholera in the harem could endanger Great Qin's Jiangshan Sheji, so Qin Shi Huang was still thinking about the long term.