Emperor Wu of Han's eldest son, Liu Zhu, was deeply loved by his father and thought that Liu Zheng could naturally inherit the throne, but then the scourge of witchcraft occurred, and Liu Zhu finally fell into the fate of being arrested and committing suicide.
Liu Che's third son Liu Dan and fourth son Liu Xu were not liked by Emperor Wu of Han, and Liu Dan also completely lost the opportunity to inherit the throne because of his struggle for the position of crown prince, while Liu Che's second son Liu Hong and fifth son Liu Qi were short-lived ghosts and died at a very young age. Of the six sons in Liu Che's life, the first five either died early or lost the opportunity to compete for the throne.
Photo: Stills of Liu Che's son's early death
So after Liu Che's death, the throne was inherited by his sixth son Liu Fuling, and Liu Che also created a team of orphans headed by Huo Guang. When Liu Fuling succeeded to the throne, he was only an eight-year-old child, but he managed the country with the assistance of Huo Guang and other powerful ministers.
When Liu Fuling was twelve years old and preparing to become empress, Shangguan Feng'er, the lovely little granddaughter of the Huo family, was elected empress, and she also became the youngest empress after the establishment of the empress system and even the end of the feudal dynasty.
In addition to the empress, Shangguan Feng'er also served as the empress dowager and the empress dowager, far ahead of her peers in terms of generations, and even her own aunt became her own grandchildren.
Image: Xiao Shangguan Feng'er was chosen as the empress still
She became empress at the age of one or six
Liu Che was worried that his young son would be controlled by his mother because he was too young to reproduce the history of Lü Hou, so he executed Liu Fuling's birth mother early. However, Liu Fuling did not have a woman to take care of him in life, so Liu Che let his daughter Princess Eyi Gaichang enter the palace to take care of Liu Fuling.
When Liu Fuling was preparing to become empress, the whole process was taken care of by his sister Chang Chang, in fact, the empress that the eldest princess first looked for was not Shangguan Feng'er, but the daughter of an official surnamed Zhou, so how did Shangguan Feng'er win the favor of the eldest princess and become the empress of the Han Dynasty?
Photo: Stills of the young Liu Fuling's succession to the throne
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Experience of entering the palace
Huo Guang, as the chief figure of the orphan team founded by Emperor Wu of Han for Liu Fuling, was the right-hand man of Liu Fuling, the emperor of Han Zhao, and Huo Guang's power in the imperial court could be imagined. We all know that Shangguan Feng'er is Huo Guang's granddaughter, so Shangguan Feng'er becoming Liu Fuling's empress is only a matter of Huo Guang's words, however, Shangguan Feng'er did not get the help of her grandfather Huo Guang after she was established, on the contrary, Huo Guang was strongly opposed to this.
Huo Guang believed that Shangguan Feng'er was too young, and entering the palace would not have the right to speak, but would increase Shangguan An's ambition and prestige. Shangguan An was Shangguan Feng'er's father and Huo Guang's son-in-law, and he was the one who tried his best to facilitate this.
Shangguan An was not only Huo Guang's son-in-law, but also the son of the assistant chancellor Shangguan Jie, who was a man of great ambition and did not hesitate to make his daughter a tool for him to expand the power of the imperial court.
Image: Stills of Huo Guang
When Shangguan An learned that the eldest princess was looking for an empress for the emperor, he was anxious, so he asked for help from his father-in-law Huo Guang, but Huo Guang knew Shangguan An's wolf ambitions and did not agree. Since Huo Guang did not help, Shangguan An had to go to find another target, at which time he found another important figure, that is, the eldest princess's lover Ding Wairen.
Shangguan An had heard about the feelings of the eldest princess and Ding Wairen, and he knew that Ding Wairen could change the heart of the eldest princess. So Shangguan An found Ding Wairen, asked for his help, and promised to reward him with the title of Marquis. The eldest princess obeyed her lover's words, and naturally could not withstand the wind blowing on the pillow all day long, so the young Feng'er successfully entered the palace and became the empress as her father wished.
Picture: Xiao Feng'er enters the palace to become a queen still
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The father was murdered
The development of things was indeed as Huo Guang expected, with the daughter who became the empress, Shangguan An's power in the imperial court was getting bigger and bigger. Because he had promised Ding Wairen before, Shangguan An wanted to give him the title of Marquis, but the matter of sealing the Marquis was opposed by Huo Guang.
This greatly annoyed Shangguan An, but also annoyed Ding's lover, the eldest princess, who had long been unhappy with his old father-in-law, and with the help of the eldest princess this time, he joined forces with Liu Dan, the King of Yan, and other auxiliary ministers of the imperial court to get rid of Huo Guang's confidant in one fell swoop.
Shangguan An and his gang attacked Huo Guang twice, the first time writing to Emperor Han Zhao to impeach Huo Guang on trumped-up charges, but they underestimated Huo Guang's position in the emperor's mind and were recognized by Emperor Han Zhao.
The second time, the eldest princess offered to lure Huo Guang out, and then sent troops to ambush and kill Huo Guang, and this time Shangguan An had a bigger plan, that is, to get rid of Liu Dan and Emperor Han Zhao, the King of Yan, and make his father Shangguan Jie emperor.
However, Huo Guang was lucky to escape the disaster, and an emissary heard about Shangguan An's plot and informed Huo Guang, Huo Guang knew that Shangguan An's thief was not changing, so he sent troops to kill Shangguan An, and after this incident, the eldest princess and Liu Dan, the king of Yan, also committed suicide.
Image: Stills of the suicide of the eldest princess
Second, through three dynasties, he has done all the empresses, empresses and empresses
At this time, Shangguan Feng'er, who was only eight years old, did not know that such a huge incident had taken place in the imperial court because of herself. However, although Huo Guang hated Shangguan An to the bone, because Shangguan Feng'er was not involved in the incident, Huo Guang did not turn his anger on Shangguan Feng'er. On the contrary, because the threat of Shangguan An had been removed, Huo Guang began to vigorously support Shangguan Feng'er in the imperial court.
Honored as empress dowager
Huo Guang knew in his heart that if he wanted Shangguan Feng'er to gain a foothold in the imperial family, he must give birth to an eldest son for Liu Fuling. So Huo Guang began to gradually control Liu Fuling's harem, trying to get Shangguan Feng'er to conceive the emperor's dragon species.
The ministers in the imperial court also understood Huo Guang's intentions, and wrote to the emperor to reduce the female color in order to be physically less female, and Huo Guang also ordered that the palace ladies of the harem should not serve the emperor at night. Although Huo Guang had made so many efforts, Shangguan Feng'er still had not been able to give birth to the Crown Prince.
Liu Fuling died at a very young age because of his perennial frailty and illness, and it is a pity that Liu Fuling was unable to leave a son and a half daughter before his death, so the throne passed to Liu He's son Liu He, so Shangguan Feng'er naturally became the empress dowager.
Image: Stills of Liu He
Honored as empress dowager
Liu He was an extremely absurd emperor, who indulged in wine, played and enjoyed himself all day, and was absurd. Moreover, Liu He could not govern the country, and was deposed by Huo Guang after only twenty-seven days on the throne, which was a veritable "Deposed Emperor of Han".
However, there are other theories about Liu He's deposing, some people say that Liu He is very ambitious and eager to seize power, so he became a major problem for Huo Guang's confidants, so he was quickly deposed. Liu Zhi's grandson Liu Yi had already inherited the throne after Liu He, called Emperor Xuan of Han, and although Emperor Xuan of Han was older than Shangguan Feng'er, he was the grandson of Shangguan Feng'er in terms of generations, so Shangguan Feng'er became the empress dowager.
Picture: Shangguan Feng'er became the empress dowager still
III. Conclusion
Shangguan Feng'er entered the palace at the age of six, and during the period when she should have enjoyed a happy childhood, she became an empress, an empress dowager, and an empress dowager. According to the generational division, Shangguan Feng'er should call Huo Guang's daughter Huo Chengjun an aunt, but Huo Chengjun later married Emperor Xuan of Han, so she became Shangguan Feng'er's granddaughter-in-law.
At an age when girls are still in junior high and high school and worrying about exams and homework all day, Shangguan Feng'er has become a highly respected empress dowager. Although it seems enviable, Shangguan Feng'er entered the cruel palace at a young age, lost the joy of childhood, was used as a tool for expanding power by men, and was constrained by the strict feudal system all day, which was actually very pitiful.
Article author: Zi Haojun
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