As the first true emperor in Chinese history, Qin Shi Huang was admired and revered by many people, and he led the army of the Qin State to defeat the Six Kingdoms with his own majestic martial strategy, established a unified multi-ethnic state, and laid the foundation for the development of the Central Plains Dynasty with a centralized system in later generations.
However, Qin Shi Huang, as the first emperor, never crowned an empress in his life, mainly because he was waiting for a person, that is, the sweetheart of Qin Shi Huang, but in the end he could not wait, so what kind of love story did this emperor of the ages have? Is this really the reason why he did not become empress?
The legendary Afang girl
Qin Shi Huang as the hegemon of the unification of the six kingdoms, its personal ability and the strength of the Qin State is beyond doubt, in his successful unification of the world, after becoming the emperor, naturally also has its own harem, Qin Shi Huang's life has dozens of children, from the number of children to see the concubines of qin shi huang harem is definitely not in the minority.
It is reasonable to say that each emperor would choose the most suitable concubine among the many concubines, or the concubine whose family background was most compatible with the emperor as an empress, but Qin Shi Huang did not do this, even if there were many concubines in the harem, he never established an empress in his life.
For the reasons for this, there are many sayings, the most important thing is of course that Qin Shi Huang had a different love story before unifying the world, simply put, these concubines in the harem of Qin Shi Huang were not the most loved people in his life, he has always been crowned empress, that is, the woman who loved the most when he was young, then speaking of this, did Qin Shi Huang have an unknown love experience when he was young? Who was this woman he was waiting for?
This matter also starts from the childhood of Qin Shi Huang, when Qin Shi Huang was young, he and his mother Zhao Ji and his father Qin Yiren were sent to the Zhao kingdom as protons, the so-called proton is to go to the enemy country as a hostage, so the life of Qin Shi Huang's family in the Zhao country is not good, the young Qin Shi Huang is often bullied by the children of those princes and nobles of the Zhao kingdom, and even sometimes beaten all over the body, and in a chance, the bullied Qin Shi Huang met a medicine girl, and the people of later generations called Afang nu.
Afang nu saw the bullied Qin Shi Huang could not help but feel pity, so he boiled a soup medicine for him, over time, the two gradually developed feelings, the tortured Qin Shi Huang felt the warmth of the world here in A Fang Nu, which made him always remember this woman, until Qin Shi Huang returned to the Qin Kingdom, and then later inherited the throne to unify the world, he sent people to find the former lover, and later found A Fang Nu and built a palace for him to live, this palace is also A Fang Palace.
After the two reunited again, their feelings were even better than before, and Qin Shi Huang was also deeply in love with Ah Fang's daughter, so much so that he later wanted to make her empress, but things went so smoothly, because Ah Fang had no family background, let alone any talent, and even said that some of the sources were unknown, so Lü Buwei, the minister of the court at that time, and Zhao Ji, the mother of Qin Shi Huang, were opposed to this matter.
Ah Fang Nu saw that his beloved man was embarrassed by this matter, and simply chose to die to avoid causing political chaos and causing many innocent people to die because of her, in the face of such an ending, Qin Shi Huang was grief-stricken, so in order to commemorate the woman he once loved, he kept the empress position for her.
Another version of Afangnu - Li Jiang
There is another version of this legend, that is, this Afang woman named Li Jiang, she was originally the maid of a princess of the Zhao Kingdom, when Qin Shi Huang was a proton when the two met in Handan, as peers, each other was attracted by each other's charm, the hormones of youth were released wirelessly, so this also made the two unconsciously have love, but this love was broken with Qin Shi Huang was sent back to the Qin Kingdom.
In order to be able to meet the woman he once loved, Qin Shi Huang continued to work hard, first became the monarch of the Qin State, and then slowly developed and grew, becoming the most powerful existence among the six kingdoms, zhao guo in order to avoid the qin state to retaliate against it, so he wanted to ease the contradictions and conflicts of interest between the two countries through the way of peace, so he sent the princess of his own country to Heqin, and this princess was exactly what Li Jiang served, and she also married to the qin state as a dowry as a princess's maid.
When Qin Shi Huang saw the woman he once loved deeply again, he wanted to accept her as his concubine, but Li Jiang's identity was too lowly, it was impossible to become a concubine of Qin Shi Huang, Li Jiang was also very clear about this, in order to save himself, but also to avoid bringing trouble to Qin Shi Huang, the two could only bury this love deep in their hearts, but this peace was broken with the birth of Prince Fu Su later.
The name of the so-called "Fusu" comes from the "Book of Poetry" in the "Mountain has Fusu, The Shadow has Lotus", the meaning of which is to hope that this prince can develop and grow the Qin Dynasty in the future, and can also achieve the ambition of building a meritorious career, and the original text means that there are lush Fusu on the mountain, and there are beautiful lotus flowers in the pool, so many people think that the name qin shi huang gave to his son actually implies the love of Li Jiang.
And later Fu Su's birth mother died early due to illness, as a maid Li Jiang raised on his behalf, raised Fu Su to adulthood, but did not expect that when Fu Su grew up, he became the estrangement between Fu Su and Qin Shi Huang, so that the father and son had a certain contradiction, for this reason, Fu Su still had some resentment towards his adoptive mother, helplessly Li Jiang finally chose to commit suicide to end all this, Li Jiang's death became a regret in Qin Shi Huang's life, and he felt that he owed something to her, so he left the empress position empty.
Qin Shi Huang was crowned empress for other reasons
For the previous love story about Qin Shi Huang when he was young, although there is a certain truth, these are only folk rumors after all, and they do not have a certain degree of credibility, so if you want to explore the real reasons, you must also speculate about other reasons from the life of Qin Shi Huang in history.
According to the speculation of many historians and scholars, many reasons have been found, the most widely recognized of which is from a political point of view, first of all, Qin Shi Huang, as the monarch of the unified six countries, relied on powerful force to conquer other countries, and in this process, many princes and nobles of other countries, and even the royal family were exterminated by Qin Shi Huang, and many of the concubines he married were also from those declining royal families, so these women had a certain resentment towards Qin Shi Huang. If Tang made them empresses, wouldn't it be very likely that the future Qin Dynasty would be retaliated against?
Secondly, Qin Shi Huang was afraid of women taking power in the Qin Dynasty, his mother Zhao Ji was the best example, in the process of his rule over the Qin State, his mother and Lü Buwei did not cause him any trouble, and often hindered some of his decisions, which left a huge psychological shadow on the young Qin Shi Huang, so he did not want such a thing to repeat himself after his death on his son, and he did not want to bury the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, which is why he has not been crowned empress.
epilogue
Of course, these are all folk legends or people's speculations, the real reason why Qin Shi Huang was crowned empress has always been a mystery, and this truth is only known to Qin Shi Huang himself, perhaps he did have a love experience that made it difficult to forget, there is a person who has been waiting but has not waited, or maybe it is really out of the consideration of national interests, for future generations to take charge of the Qin Dynasty to make plans!
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