Wei Zifu was the second woman in the life of Emperor Wu of Han and the first woman he favored. Because of his favor with Wei Zifu, Wei Zifu bore three daughters and one son for Emperor Wu of Han.
This son was the later crown prince Liu Zhao, and when Emperor Wu of Han had this eldest son, he was already thirty years old, and he could be regarded as an old son.
With this son, it is equivalent to having a successor, and he is of course very happy.
However, in the later years of Emperor Wu of Han,his son named Liu Zhao and Wei Zifu were forced to die because of Emperor Wu of Han's ruthlessness.
Let's take a look back!
Emperor Wu of Han met Wei Zifu
The first woman of Emperor Wu of Han, who was also his empress named Chen Ajiao, has an allusion in history called "Jinwu Zangjiao" that says that Before Emperor Wudi of Han became emperor, he said that if he became emperor, he would use gold to build a house for Ajiao to live in.
After Emperor Wu of Han really became emperor, he not only did not give Chen Ajiao a golden house, but instead beat Ajiao into the cold palace. In short, both people are people with tempers and can't play together.
Ah Jiao also did not allow Emperor Wu of Han to spoil other women, and Emperor Wu of Han was very unhappy, so he often went to relax.
One day he went to the home of his sister Princess Pingyang and met a slave girl who brought tea and poured water at the home of Princess Pingyang, who was only 16 years old at the time, and she was Wei Zifu.
Emperor Wudi of Han liked it very much, and he let Wei Zifu dance a dance, which made Emperor Wudi of Han look mesmerized. On the same day, Emperor Wu of Han spoiled Wei Zifu.
In the evening, before Emperor Wu of Han left, he also took Wei Zifu away.
Wei Zifu was favored, and her family was reused
Because of the favor of Emperor Wu of Han, Wei Zifu's fate was changed, and the fate of her family was changed. Because Emperor Wu of Han favored Wei Zifu, he also reused Wei Zifu's brothers and sisters and gave them official titles.
Wei Zifu had a younger brother named Wei Qing, and in order to promote Wei Qing, Emperor Wu of Han made Wei Qing, who had never fought before, a general, and did not expect that Wei Qing would make a great contribution to the first battle he fought.
Emperor Wu of Han was very happy, and in the future, he used Wei Qing in the expedition, and every time he made Wei Qing a great general, of course, Wei Qing also had this military talent.
Because Wei Qing made great contributions to Emperor Wu of Han in the process of the Great Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of Han also made Three sons of Wei Qing a Marquis.
In short, Wei Qing became the most popular person around Emperor Wu of Han.
Wei Zifu was not idle, because she was favored, she bore four children to Emperor Wu of Han, and after the birth of her son Liu Zhao, Wei Zifu was also promoted to empress with her mother.
Emperor Wu of Han was empathetic and did not fall in love
As Wei Zifu grew older, her posture faded, and Emperor Wu of Han favored a young Lady Li, and then Emperor Wudi of Han reused Lady Li's younger brother Li Guangli and asked Li Guangli to lead troops to fight.
However, Li Guangli did not have the talent of Wei Qing, and later lost the battle, involving the witches, and surrendered to the Xiongnu.
During the period when Emperor Wu of Han favored Lady Li, it was equivalent to Wei Zifu being snubbed by Emperor Wu of Han. At the same time that Wei Zifu was snubbed, her family was also left out in the cold.
Wei Qing was also devastated, of course, during this period, Emperor Wu of Han used more heavily an excellent general named Huo Toyi, but Huo Wentong's illness did not live long...
Emperor Wudi of Han was such a person, and if he loved a person, he would love the whole family of this person. If you don't love this person, this person's whole family will be unlucky, even if you want to see him, it is difficult.
Crown Prince Liu was framed by the chancellor
In the later years of Emperor Wu of Han,there was a cool official named Jiang Chong, who provoked the relationship between Emperor Wu of Han and the crown prince Liu Zhao, causing them to kill each other.
Jiang Chong once offended the crown prince Liu Zhao, who was afraid that after the death of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Zhao's becoming emperor would be unfavorable to him. Therefore, he wanted to create conditions for Emperor Wu of Han to abolish Liu Zhao.
The thing that Emperor Wu of Han was most disgusted with was "Wu Jiao", Jiang Chong knew this, just when there was a "Wu Jiao" incident, Jiang Chong framed the crown prince Liu Zhao by the way, saying that the prince was related to the "Wu Jiao" and wanted to curse Emperor Wu of Han through the Wu Jiao.
Emperor Wu of Han believed it, because in his later years he was often ill, and in his opinion, someone cursed him for being sick. This Jiang Chong was ordered to check on Liu Chong, and Liu Chong knew that Jiang Chong was harming him, and in anger, he killed Jiang Chong.
At this time, many people said that the crown prince Liu Had rebelled, after all, he killed the ministers sent by Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu of Han was also credulous, so he asked Xiang Xiang to lead troops to quell the rebellion.
The crown prince Liu Zhu escaped and was finally captured, and Liu thought that Emperor Wu of Han was going to put him to death, so he committed suicide.
In fact, during this period, this misunderstanding, whether it was Wei Zifu or Liu Zhao, as long as the person who found Emperor Wu of Han would be clear if he said it. However, at this time, Emperor Wu of Han, he did not see anyone. That is to say, without the order of Emperor Wu of Han, no one could see him.
In the end, the crown prince Liu Zhu was forced to die in this way.
Wei Zifu chose to commit suicide for fear of being deposed as empress.
The saddest person for the death of the crown prince was Wei Zifu, but Emperor Wu of Han still did not spare him, and he blamed the death of the crown prince Liu Zhi on Wei Zifu's head, saying that Wei Zifu had no way to teach his son.
He wanted to revoke Wei Zifu's title of empress, knowing that the revocation of the empress was the greatest insult to Wei Zifu, and in order not to accept this unreasonable request, Wei Zifu chose to commit suicide.
It was tantamount to her death in the position of queen.
Later, the cause of the whole incident was ascertained, the crown prince Liu Zhu was wronged, and Emperor Wu of Han knew that he was very angry and killed hundreds of thousands of people for this, as long as it was related to this matter, whether it was right or wrong.
Jiang Chong, who provoked this incident, was even more exterminated, although he was already dead at the time. Crown Prince Liu Zhu was wronged, and it was obvious that Wei Zifu was also wronged.
Did Emperor Wu of Han have any regrets about forcing Wei Zifu to die?
Regret is certainly there, but he is the emperor and does not want to admit it. No matter what the emperor does, he is right, even if he is wrong, he is right.
For this world is his.
But why should we say that he regrets forcing Wei Zifu to die?
Because after Wei Zifu's death, he never made an empress again, and he did not even mention the word empress. Originally, his first empress was Chen Ajiao, and after Chen Ajiao was deposed, he established Wei Zifu.
In his later years, Emperor Wudi of Han also fell in love with a little beautiful woman named Lady Hook Yi, who bore Emperor Wudi of Han the last son, Liu Fuling, and finally Emperor Wudi of Han made this son crown prince.
The crown prince's mother should have been made empress, but not only did he not set up Lady Hook Yi, but he also killed Lady Hook Yi.
It is equivalent to the fact that after Wei Zifu committed suicide, he never mentioned the queen again, and often the more a person avoids something, the more guilt he feels about what he has.
Emperor Wu of Han unjustly killed the crown prince Liu Zhao, and in order to commemorate this son, he specially established a "Sizitai". After empress Wei Zifu died, he never stood up again, which should be his apology to Wei Zifu.