Empress Hu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was also born in a famous family, and her father also held important positions in the dynasty, but in ancient times, it always favored sons over daughters, so she did not leave the name of Empress Hu and was called Hu. Hu's aunt was a nun who could speak about Buddhism, and after Emperor Xuanwu succeeded to the throne, she often went into the palace to preach Buddhism, and often praised Hu. Therefore, Emperor Xuanwu took Hu into the palace and called him Chenghua Shimu. However, because the Northern Wei Dynasty had a policy of "the death of the son and the noble mother", Emperor Xuanwu's harem had no heirs, and only had one son with the empress, but died at the age of three.
Because the concubines did not want to give birth to a prince, even if a prince was born, he died because of various means. Unlike The Hu clan, she said in front of her that she was willing to give birth to a son for the emperor, and Emperor Xuanwu was very happy and spoiled her. In 510, The Hu clan gave birth to a crown prince, and Emperor Xuanwu was very happy, and the Hu clan was promoted. After that, the crown prince was made crown prince, but Emperor Xuanwu believed in Buddhism and could not bear to let the little prince lose his mother, so he abolished the old system. After Emperor Xuanwu died of illness and died of illness after the Hu clan was also made a noble concubine, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and was known as Emperor Xiaoming in history. But at that time, she was only 5 years old, so the government fell into the hands of Empress Gao and her relatives. The Hu clan became a thorn in Empress Gao's eye, but Hu Shi was not simple, and he asked the ministers to remove Empress Gao's right arm and left arm, and also forced Empress Gao to become a nun. The Hu clan became empress dowager and seized state power.
Hu was very talented and had a great approach to korean politics. However, the Hu clan was in power, so in order to satisfy their selfish desires, they often had illicit relations with people. This also appeared a lot of people who wanted to get rich by relying on male color to promote officials, so that there were more traitors in the dprk, and local rebellions also appeared frequently. However, as the emperor grew up, when he reached the age of pro-government, the empress dowager was unwilling to return power, but instead weakened the emperor's power. As soon as someone got close to the emperor, that person was killed. The emperor knew Empress Hu's intentions, and the contradictions between mother and son continued to intensify. In order to regain power, the emperor issued a secret edict summoning Erzhu Rong to the king of Jingqin.
However, the edict fell into the hands of Empress Dowager Hu, who was very angry when she saw it and killed the emperor. The mother who was able to poison and kill her son, Empress Hu can be said to be the first. He did not hesitate to kill his own son for the sake of the power in his hands, which shows how tempting the power is. However, Empress Dowager Hu's fate was not good, and Erzhu Rong took the opportunity to rebel and entered the capital and killed her, so Northern Wei fell into a situation of fragmentation.