Chu Garlic zi is an unknown historical figure, but she has supported six emperors, and is an empress dowager who has experienced the vicissitudes of the six dynasties, so which emperors have ascended to the throne with her help? Why does she have so much energy? What kind of woman is she?
In 324, the year after the death of Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Chu Was born in Jiangnan to a family of eunuchs for generations. Her father was the famous scholar Chu Qiao at that time, known for his arrogance and noble style, which was admired by the people of the time; her mother was from the famous Xie family, and was the cousin of the famous scholar and famous Xie An. Chu Garlic zi is born beautiful, beautiful and wise, and deeply influenced by the culture of the poetry and book house, and when he was more than ten years old, he had already become a famous girl with a beautiful and generous appearance. It happened that at this time, Emperor Jincheng wanted to choose a wang ji for his younger brother Sima Yue, the king of Langya, from among the girls of the Gaomen Wang family, so the famous Chu Garlic Zi was successfully selected and began her half-century-long harem career.
In 342 AD, Emperor Jincheng died young, and his two sons, Sima Pi and Sima Yi, one of whom was waiting to be fed and one of whom had just fallen to the ground, were not suitable for succession to the throne, in this case, Sima Yue, the king of Langya, was pushed to the emperor's throne, historically known as The Jin Kang Emperor, and Chu Garlic zi was naturally promoted from princess to empress. Emperor Kang of Jin was fortunate but unfortunate, because he ascended the throne at the age of twenty and died in a hurry at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind an infinitely sad Chu Garlic zi and a son who was only one year old, Sima Tan.
Chu Garlic was only twenty years old at the time, but she had to muster up enough courage to face the complicated state affairs behind her husband, and with the support of the Wen and Wu courtiers, she carried her infant son step by step to the highest part of the Golden Ruan Hall, and from that moment on, she became the regent of the Lin dynasty and the supreme empress dowager of the world.
During Empress Chu's reign, taking advantage of the decline of Zhao in the north and the chaos in the Central Plains, she made two northern expeditions, intending to restore her old shang, but unfortunately did not succeed because of the lack of good generals. In the process of the Northern Expedition, a generation of famous generals Huan Wen came to the fore and gradually became prominent. In the tenth year of Yonghe, that is, in 354, the second year that Wang Xizhi wrote the "Orchid Pavilion Collection", Huan Wen, who had already served as a lieutenant, conquered Chenghan in Sichuan, unified China south of the QinLing Mountains, and then went north to Guanzhong, which was a prelude to a major defeat, recovering the old capital Luoyang and greatly expanding the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In the thirteenth year of Yonghe, Sima Mu, the Emperor of Jinmu, performed a crowning ceremony symbolizing adulthood and was able to handle state affairs on his own. Empress Dowager Chu exhorted her subjects to "work hard to assist the young lord and save the lack of days", and then return to the government and retire, resting in peace at Chongde Palace, "to live in the end of his old age".
However, the heavens did not go according to people's wishes, and four years later, Emperor Mu of Jin, who had not yet passed his seventeenth birthday, unfortunately died of illness, and Chu Garlic lost her only child. After the widow in the early years, he encountered a white-haired person sent in, how deep the wound was, and how painful his heart was, you can imagine. Although she is the empress dowager, this special status can only deepen her pain, because the heights are cold...
Since the Jin Kang Emperor Jin Mu Emperor's vein was broken, the throne returned to the Jin Cheng Emperor's branch, and Emperor Cheng's eldest son Si Pi the Prince of Langya succeeded to the throne as emperor. Sima Pi's birth mother was a concubine, not an empress, so Chu Washizi was still revered as empress dowager.
Sima Pi was a super fan of elixirs, and he took the elixir they had refined for a long time according to the arrangements of the Taoists, but the result backfired, and he not only did not survive, but also gave his life at a young age, because of the poisoning caused by overdose. As early as when Sima Pi's health was abnormal, Empress Chu had once again gone out of the mountains to assist the government, and after the emperor's death, Empress Chu had another burden on her shoulders to support the new monarch. Sima Yi, the younger brother of Sima Pi's compatriots, was the best candidate for the throne, and with the support of Empress Chu and her courtier Huan Wen, Sima Yi became the seventh emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Although Sima Yi was already twenty-three years old at the time, he had just ascended the throne and was not familiar with handling government affairs, so Empress Chu still had to worry about state affairs.
After the defeat of the Third Northern Expedition of Huan Wen, the powerful minister Huan Wen had to give up the dream of Liufang Hundred Lives in his old age, and instead began to pursue the "great cause" that had been left behind for ten thousand years, because he believed that if the eldest husband did not flow for a hundred lifetimes, he would leave a stink for ten thousand years. Huan Wen wanted to test the political limelight by deposing the emperor and make preparations for the future usurpation of the throne, but in the face of Sima Yi, who was obedient and cautious, Huan Wen made a mistake, because he really could not find an excuse to abolish the other party, especially the excuse that the respected Empress Chu had nothing to say.
Finally, in the seventh year of Sima Yi's ascension to the throne, Huan Wen received a treasure-like intelligence--Emperor Sima Yi had a particularly close relationship with Xianglong, Ji Hao, Zhu Lingbao, and other court attendants. Therefore, Huan Wen grabbed this small braid and spread such court rumors inside and outside the court that when the emperor had the habit of breaking sleeves, the good of Longyang, and impotence could not produce heirs, the third son born to the harem may not be the emperor's own child. Subsequently, Huan Wen rushed to the capital Jiankang to petition Empress Chu to depose Sima Yi, who had behaved inappropriately and defiled the court, and set up a new monarch. Empress Dowager Chu was burning incense and worshipping the Buddha in the official palace at that time, and after reading the first few lines of the recital, she said to herself, "I thought that such a thing was going to happen." Halfway through the reading, she did not want to look any further, so she took a pen and replied with trembling hands as follows: "I say this Prozac, I miss the living and the dead, and my heart is like a knife." Huan Wen, who was weak-hearted, worried that Empress Chu would raise objections while waiting for the result, was nervous and sweaty, and saw that Empress Chu did not object, which turned from worry to joy.
With the helpless acquiescence of Chu Dahou, Huan Wen dropped Sima Yi and took the fifty-two-year-old Sima Cheng'an Yu with the emperor's throne. Sima Yu was historically known as Emperor Jianwen, the youngest son of Sima Rui, the Emperor of Jinyuan, and should be called his uncle according to his generations, but the highly respected Chu Garlic was still revered as empress.
Although Sima Yu had worked closely with Huan Wen before he ascended the throne, he was actually very dissatisfied with Huan Wen's monopoly of power, and this feeling became even stronger after becoming emperor. On the one hand, he took pains to deal with Huan Wen, and on the other hand, he secretly guided Xie An and Wang Tanzhi to fight Huan Wen. Just when his strategy first came to fruition, he fell ill because of his anger at state affairs, and he could not afford to fall ill and died unfortunately.
The ten-year-old crown prince Sima Yao was proclaimed the new emperor, and Empress Chu came to the court for the third time at the request of Wen wuqun's courtiers. The following year, the powerful minister Huan Wen fell ill and died, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty finally restored the good situation of harmony between the monarch and the subject. After another three years, Sima Zhao, the Emperor of Xiaowu, who performed the crowning ceremony, began to pro-government, and Empress Chu, who was not in love with power, once again retreated to the second line and returned to the Houguan Li Buddha with confidence. This year, Chu Garliczi, who has gone through the vicissitudes of the six dynasties, is fifty-two years old, and she can really "end her old age" well.
With the loyal assistance of Xie An and Wang Tanzhi, the national strength of the Eastern Jin Dynasty gradually increased, the lives of the people improved day by day, and with luck and strength, they defeated the invading Former Qin Emperor Fu Jian in the Battle of Guanshui, so that the nomadic peoples in the north no longer dared to covet the vast territory of Jiangnan. When the good news came, Xie An was so excited that he broke the teeth on the bottom of the clogs when he entered the room to write the chapter, and we should be able to understand how excited Empress Chu, who had experienced six dynasties, was excited.
The subjects are harmonious, the people are happy, the country is stable, the string of concern for state affairs in Empress Chu's heart is naturally no longer so tight, and she may not pay as much attention to the body as in the past, but she did not expect that the hateful disease would take advantage of the void at this time and wrap around The young Empress Chu.
In 384 AD, the sixty-year-old empress dowager Chu Garliczi, who had successively assisted the six emperors of Jin Kangdi, Jin Mudi, Jin Aidi, JinFudi, Jianwendi, and Xiaowu Emperor, died of illness at the Xianyang Hall in the capital Jiankang, and the historical legend of the six empresses solemnly and solemnly closed the last page under the moonlight of stone city and the sound of the Waves of the Taihuai River, leaving infinite remembrance and endless thoughts for future generations.