The reputation of Yang Xianrong is not significant in history, but it is clear that her noble empress was deposed several times during the warlord melee and restored several times and finally died as an empress, it can be seen that her person is not simple. Her last empress was made empress during the Yongjia Rebellion, when the former Zhao Xiongnu general Liu Yao captured Luoyang and captured him, but he was later pampered and made empress dowager again after he ascended the throne as emperor. In the former Zhao regime, he not only participated in the government but also gave birth to three children for him, so that Liu Yao abandoned his original eldest son and made Yangzi the prince, which showed his honor. And there is such a passage in the Book of Jin:
"Luoyang was defeated, not liu yao." Obscure throne, thinking of the empress. Because he asked, "Why am I like Sima Jia'er?" Later: "Hu Ke and talk?" His Majesty the Holy Lord of Kaiji, the secret husband of the fallen kingdom, has a wife, a son, and three ears, and cannot be sheltered, and he is an emperor, and his wife is humiliated by the hands of mortals. When the concubines were sent, they really did not think about life, and He Tufu had today. Concubines were born in Gaomen, often referred to as all men in the world. Since the beginning of the fengjiao, I have known that there are husbands' ears in the world. "Yao loved his pet very much, gave birth to Yao's second son and died, and pretended to be Empress Wen."
The translation is that Liu Yao said that the empress dowager once asked the empress Dowager Yang how she was compared to Sima Zheng, the Emperor of Jinhui, and the Yang's answer was obvious, first praising Liu Yao for the founding of the Holy Lord, and then saying that Sima Yi could not save the society Ji Er could not but save his wife and children and then entered the flattery that he had always wanted to die and did not expect to have such a special honor as today, and then he was even more fond of him. Because of this sentence, many historians in later generations scorned it, and Cai Dongfan of the Qing Dynasty deeply rebuked it:
"Jin Kang has a daughter, Shang Zhi Shou Zhen, and the Yang clan was once the empress of China, but she committed herself to being a strong captive and offering tribute, and I am ashamed to die for China."
At that time, her original partner, Emperor Hui of Jin, was imprisoned and then reduced to a puppet of the kings, and was humiliated and miserable, but the Yang clan did not have the slightest feeling of affection between the words, and abandoned the old people for the sake of the new joy. How such a woman who did not know chastity and no integrity was not despised by men in the ancient times of "male superiority and female inferiority". If this is a pure expression of true feelings, the descendants are not weak and widowed, but the author does not think so.
After the first establishment of the Yang clan, it was a political conspiracy, precisely because his father had a deep friendship with Sima Lun, the favorite minister of the King of Zhao at that time, and Sun Xiu immediately thought of the Yang clan after Jia Nanfeng was deposed and killed by the King of Zhao, and the purpose was naturally for his own foreign relatives. Just like Yang Jun, the father of Empress Wu mourning Yang Zhi, Jia Mi, the nephew of Jia Nanfeng, and her uncle Guo Zhang. And shortly thereafter, Emperor Hui was imprisoned in Jin Yongcheng, and the Yang clan was naturally no exception. And the tragic situation after that is even more unbearable for ordinary people, historical records
"The palace people have to hold the liter of yu rice and dried garlic salt sauce to enter the emperor, the emperor is the emperor, and the imperial yellow door cloth is quilted." The second prize is jia, the city coarse rice, the wabon, the emperor two cups. There was an old father who offered steamed chicken, and the emperor received it. To Wen, there will be gurudwara, the emperor mourning, the followers' footsteps, the lower worship and weeping, and the left and right are all mournful. ”
This was the situation when the emperor was quiet at that time, and people were overwhelmed. At that time, the Yang clan was abolished, like a commoner: "The yangshu people's portal is broken, the palace is abandoned, the door is tightly controlled, if the heavens and the earth are desperate, there is no reason to make trouble with the adulterers", such a harsh environment is not as good as the daughter of a hundred people, and the weakness of the heart may have long been dead. In the following two years, they were deposed by Sima Ying the King of Chengdu, Sima Yong the King of Hejian, the warlord Zhang Fang, and The Luoyang Ling He Qiao, and Sima Qiao, the King of Hejian, almost took his life, but fortunately Liu Tun, Xun Fan, Zhou Fu and others were able to survive. Being a queen is like a chopping board fish meat for others to play with, and the bitterness and hatred in it are self-evident. As a woman who can survive in purgatory, she will definitely not be martyred for such a court, because she is ambitious.
Former Zhao of the Yang clan was deeply concerned by the hearts of his subjects for his intervention in the affairs of the dynasty, and liu Yao's desire to depose the crown prince and the establishment of his eldest son, the Qunchen, unanimously opposed it, and his thinking can be seen. And Emperor Hui's nature is stupid and does not learn and has always been a puppet, and the Yang clan naturally knows everything when he enters the palace, although it is difficult to have a loving feeling in the name of a husband and wife, and the honor of being an empress is naturally happy in it. Second, shi zai
"And Emperor Huanluo, the sheep queen of the palace." Xie Tun said, "Lai Liu Si is loyal to his ambitions, and he must have this dynasty." ”
It can be seen that he knows how to be grateful and remembers Liu Tun's feelings of salvation, so that "concubines were born in Gaomen, often called men in the world." Since the beginning of the fengjiao, it has been known that there are husbands' ears in the world" is obviously against the heart of the flattering words. For a tortured and ambitious woman, it is clear who she will really love. There is nothing wrong with being flattering and undefiled, but it would be obviously unfair to think that she was wrong about it. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings was not initiated by her, nor was the weak emperor established by her, and it was reasonable for a female exile to restore her former life after being reduced to fish meat, while gui, as the empress of the enemy country, did not serve the favor and instigated revenge on her husband. Most of the ancient men who "men were inferior to women" thought that they were not ashamed, and today's "equality between men and women" should naturally be discussed in peace.
I have to say that almost all the ancient literary historians commented on the shackles of "male superiority and female inferiority", considering the rise and fall of eternity from the standpoint of male supremacy, and could not help but defend male rulers so that they left a jaw-dropping joke about eternity. The Sui Dynasty fell and complained about Empress Xiao, the Anshi rebellion blamed Yang Guifei, the Qing army entered the customs only because of Chen Yuanyuan, so absurd only because of its meat-eater ideology itself. Don't believe you see Tang Emperor Li Yan:
(In the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, that is, 884 AD), in the autumn, in July, at noon, Shi Pu sent an envoy to offer Huang Chao and his family head and concubines, and went to the Imperial Xuanlou to receive them. Xuan asked Concubine Ji, "Ru Cao is a noble child, who has received the favor of the state in the world, what is a thief?" The leader of the group said: "The mad thief is fierce, the country has lost its ancestral order with millions of people, and it has sown the migration of Ba and Shu; now His Majesty cannot refuse to rebuke a woman for the thief, and where does the secretary of state be handsome!" "Don't ask any more questions, they all kill the city." When people compete with them for wine, the rest are miserable and drunk, and the one in the first place does not drink or cry, and as for the punishment, he looks solemn. - Sima Guang, Liu Shu, Zizhi Tongjian, Tang Dynasty Seventy-two Emperor Huisheng Gongding Xiao emperor (Li Yan) under emperor Zhonghe 4 Jiachen, 884 AD
It is said that Emperor Li of Tang, with the assistance of a good general, quelled the Huangchao rebellion, and then questioned the women captured by Huangchao, accusing them of ignoring the favor of the state and not "following the thief". One of them said indignantly, pointing out that his able generals and generals were still invincible to the rebels, and guiwei Tang Tianzi fled the city in spite of the people of Li Min, leaving a group of old and weak women and children without the strength of chickens and not "following the thieves". Emperor Li of the Tang Dynasty "did not ask questions again, but killed the city."