History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In ancient China, after the emperor died, he usually ordered that the concubines who were favored by the former emperor be buried. However, in most dynasties, the empress was pardoned and not buried because she had a prince. However, The Empress Shu Luping of the Liao State encountered persecution and martyrdom, but she suppressed it with a bloody method.
Shu Luping was the empress of Yelü Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Liao State, and she was fierce and strategic, and was known as the most terrible woman in the Liao Kingdom. After Yelü Abaoji succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan, he hoped to change the original three-year election to a lifelong hereditary system like the Han Chinese. However, his idea was opposed by many people, and he took advantage of the absence of Apaoji to sneak up on Apaoji's base camp. At this time, Shu Luping led his troops to resist, and finally repelled the rebels and saved Apaoji's Khan position.
Later, when Apaoji sent troops to recruit the Yellow Head Room Weibu, he was held hostage by the combined forces of the remaining seven departments and forced to dismiss the Khan. After the abdication, Apaoji vigorously produced salt iron in the Luanhe area, and the remaining seven salt irons were provided by the tribe of Apaoji. Years later, Shu Lupin suggested that Apaoji invite the leaders of the remaining seven ministries to drink and take the opportunity to eliminate them. Abaoji agreed to Shu Luping's suggestion, eliminated the remaining seven ministries, unified the Khitan in one fell swoop, and established the Liao state.
In 926, Apaoji died, and Shu Luping did not like his eldest son, so he ordered his second son to succeed him. And vigorously excluded dissidents, many soldiers who followed Apaoji's birth and death were ordered by Shu Luping to accompany the burial. At this time, a Han minister, Zhao Siwen, confronted Shu Luping in front of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and asked why the empress did not accompany the funeral. Just as the ministers were waiting to see Shu Luping's good play, she actually pulled out a golden knife and directly cut off her right hand, and let people put it in Apaoji's coffin to accompany her to the funeral.
From then on, everyone realized the terrible nature of the queen, no one dared to oppose her, and no one dared to disobey all her claims. It can be said that Shu Luping exchanged one arm for his supreme majesty.