She was originally a Chaimen woman, who was nicknamed "Hanami Shame" because of her beautiful appearance, and was known as the first beauty of the five generations; she went through five dynasties, from a concubine of the shogunate to the emperor's favorite concubine, and became the de facto head of the six palaces; she ended miserably, although she contributed a lot to the stability of the situation in the Central Plains, but died with her adopted son under the butcher's knife. This legendary woman, who was favored by fate and eventually abandoned, was Wang Shufei, the concubine of Li Siyuan of the Later Tang Dynasty.
Princess Wang Shufei is absolutely beautiful in appearance, and has the reputation of "flowers see shame"
Princess Wang Shufei was a native of The Late Tang Dynasty and made a living selling cakes. But although the Wang girl was born in a small family, she was born with a beautiful embryo, and she did not know how many men she had charmed, and gradually she had a reputation of "flowers and shame". Although beauty should not be eaten, in some cases, it can be eaten in exchange. When Lady Wang was very young, she was sold to the famous general Liu Huan as a concubine due to the difficulties in her family's livelihood.
Liu Huan was a famous general of Later Liang, and the official envoy held the position of chancellor (節度使 with the title of prime minister), and at this time he was already an old man who was more than half a hundred years old. Not long after Wang shi stepped into Liu Mansion, he was favored by Liu Yu because of his delicate appearance and cleverness, and thus received a large amount of money. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and In his later years, Liu Huan was framed by the courtiers Yin Hao and Duan Ning, and was eventually forced to commit suicide by Emperor Liang. In the third year of Longde (923), after the fall of Liang and the succession of Later Tang.
Wang was initially a concubine of Liu Yu, and later remarried to Li Siyuan of Tang Mingzong
Not long after Liu Yu's death, Wang Shi, at the recommendation of An Chongjie, was adopted as a concubine by the newly widowed Later Tang general Li Siyuan. Wang Clan is very good at wooing people, since stepping into the Door of the Li family, he has taken out all the money from his private house to bribe An Zhongzhi and the people around Li Siyuan to let them say good things for themselves, and when they come and go, they make Li Siyuan like her more. At this time, although Lady Cao was Li Siyuan's wife, because she was timid and afraid of things, she did not like to show her face, so the Wang family became the de facto hostess of the Li family.
Lady Wang, The Lady of the Yingzhou Cake Family, has a beautiful color, and is called "Hanami Shy". Shao Sell liang therefore made Liu Yu a waiter, a pawn, and the Wang clan had nothing to return. At that time, Lady Mingzong Xia had died, and Fang asked for a farewell room, and there was a saying that the Wang clan was in an important way, and the heavy teaching was accepted by Emperor Mingzong. The Wang clan received a lot of gold, and all the sons and wives of Emperor Mingzong were sent, and everyone was praised by the Wang clan, and Emperor Mingzong loved it. The Lady Cao clan is simple and often avoids things, and is the exclusive favorite of the Wang clan. See The New History of the Five Dynasties, Vol. 15, The Third Biography of Tang Mingzong's Family.
Empress Cao was not a council member, and Princess Wang Shufei became the de facto empress
Although the Wang clan was very popular with Li Siyuan, they were not proud of it, and they never competed with Lady Cao in terms of fame, and the two even became a pair of good sisters. Li Siyuan ascended the throne as emperor, and Lady Cao was supposed to be made empress, but she hoped to give up her seat to the Wang clan on the grounds that she was ill. Unexpectedly, the Wang clan repeatedly resigned, and on the grounds that the supreme position could not be easily conjured up, insisted that Lady Cao be made empress, and the latter reluctantly agreed.
The harmony between his wives and concubines greatly pleased Li Siyuan, so while making Lady Cao empress, he also gave the Title of Princess Shu to the Wang clan. However, although the Wang clan was nominally a lady concubine, she was the de facto head of the six palaces when Empress Cao was basically not a member.
In the 14 years after Li Siyuan's death (933-947), Wang Shufei experienced the four eras of the Later Tang Dynasty, the Last Emperor, the Later Jin Dynasty Gaozu, and the Emperor Chu, encountering various ups and downs and dangers, although she was able to overcome dangers repeatedly, but not long after the founding of the Later Han Dynasty, she still did not escape the curse of fate.
Liu Zhiyuan sent troops south, pointing directly to Kaifeng
It turned out that after the Khitan lord Yelü Deguang was destroyed in the south, he wanted to rule the Central Plains for a long time, but the people of the Central Plains resisted, forcing him to finally make the decision to withdraw his army and return to the north. After the main force of the Khitan army retreated, Xiao Han, the general who remained in Kaifeng, feared the power of Liu Zhiyuan in Hedong, so he made Li Siyuan's son Li Congyi a puppet emperor, and his adoptive mother, Princess Shufei, bowed to the government in an attempt to use them to oppose Liu Zhiyuan and stabilize the situation in the Central Plains.
After Xiao Han also led his army to retreat north, Liu Zhiyuan led the main force to Kaifeng. In the face of a fierce enemy, Li Congyi urgently summoned Gao Xingzhou and Wu Xingde to lead the army to qin wang, but they were ignored by the two. Knowing that she was powerless to return to heaven, Princess Wang Shufei sent someone to submit a surrender form to Liu Zhiyuan and asked the former to spare their mother and son. But Liu Zhiyuan was a cruel and cruel master, how could he leave them a way to live. Therefore, not long after Li Congyi surrendered, he sent his troops to take Guo Congyi into Beijing first and kill Wang Shufei's mother and son.
Both Princess Wang Shufei and her adopted son Li Congyi were killed by Liu Zhiyuan
Wang Shufei not only spared the soldiers and civilians of the Central Plains from the pain of a sword soldier, but also enabled Liu Zhiyuan to successfully seize the world, such a great merit, not only did not get preferential treatment, but ended up with the death of mother and son, which was really unjust. Therefore, before Wang Shufei was killed, she was full of grief and anger, and shouted at the heavens: "What is the crime of my mother and son?" Why don't you leave my son behind and make him take a cup of rice and wine to the tomb of Emperor Mingzong every year on the Cold Food Festival? When the people present at that time heard these words, they all felt sad.
When Gao Zu heard that he had tried to summon Zhou Zhou but did not arrive, he sent Guo Congyi to enter the capital to kill the concubine mother and son. The concubine cried out, "What is the crime of my mother and son?" Why not leave Wu'er and sprinkle a bowl of rice on the tomb of Emperor Mingzong with a cold meal every year. "The hearer is sad. Ibid.