In the feudal history of more than two thousand years in ancient times, the most important thing is the drama of palace fighting.
Whether it is the wise and divine Emperor Qianqiu or the tyrant emperor who does not care about political affairs, their harem concubines are always fighting for favor and power.
In the battle of the palace, the concubines who lost often had a very miserable end, either being beaten into the cold palace and never having a holy day again; or being relegated to the rank of a commoner, but these could only be regarded as relatively easy to end compared with lady Qi's encounter.
As we all know, Lady Qi was finally made into a human figure by Lü Hou, but some people will ask why Lady Qi did not choose to commit suicide before she was made into a human figure by Lü Hou? Don't think too complicated, the reason is simple! No chance.
1. Poor and lowly couples
If you want to know why Lü Hou treated Lady Qi so viciously, you have to talk about why Lü Hou had such hatred for Lady Qi.
As we all know, when Lü Hou married Liu Bang, Liu Bang was just a small, although he had an official position as a pavilion chief, but in the family background of Lü Hou, it was still not worth mentioning, and Lü Hou could marry Liu Bang, but it was only a father's fate.
When the two of them got married, Liu Bang was already middle-aged, and Lü Hou was just a yellow flower girl.
After the marriage, Lü Hou not only did not mind that Liu Bang had a son before marriage, but even treated him as his own son.
In the face of Liu Bang, who was idle all day, Lü Hou did his best to manage the housework, although the family was not rich, but Lü Yan still lived a well-organized life.
Later, Liu Bang hid in the mountains because of the private release of fugitives, and Lü Hou not only had to take care of the family, but also had to deliver food to Liu Bang every day, even so Lü Hou did not have half a complaint.
I have to say that at this time, Lü Hou was the representative of the ancient sage Liang Shude, and then Liu Bang raised troops from Pei County, And Lü Hou still did a good job as a wife, not only taking care of all the housework, so that Liu Bang was relieved of worries, but also using his own wisdom and wisdom to always give Advice to Liu Bang, as if she were a woman behind a successful man.
Even in the great war between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, Liu Bang abandoned his wife and children, old and young, and Lü Hou willingly took care of Liu Bang's parents and children as Xiang Yu's captives.
Such a filial and virtuous person, it is difficult for anyone to imagine that she will become a cruel queen who will be resented by everyone later.
When Liu Bang and Xiang Yu divided the Chu River and Han Boundaries and rescued Lü Hou's family back to the Han camp, Lü Hou, who was originally thinking about her husband, suddenly found that Liu Bang already had a new love around him, which immediately made Lü Hou's thoughts gray.
Originally, Lü Hou thought that since you were a heavenly son, then the three palaces and six courtyards were really a common thing, and since Liu Bang no longer loved her, then she would honestly be an empress of the motherly world.
Ne Cheng thought that Liu Bang not only took Lady Qi with him at all times, but even deposed her son as crown prince, but fortunately, thanks to the strong persuasion of all the loyal ministers, he was safe and sound.
This immediately made Lü Hou's heart ignite a fire of resentment, determined to take revenge on Lady Qi.
Second, the grace of saving lives, with the promise of life
After talking about Lü Hou's love-hate relationship with Liu Bang, let's take a look at Lady Qi's encounter with Liu Bang.
In that year, Liu Bang secretly attacked Xiang Yu and was counterattacked by a large army led by Xiang Yu. Although Liu Bang's generals were several times that of Xiang Yu, they were still invincible to Xiang Yu's courage and were forced to flee alone.
On the way to escape, he met a family, fortunately, with the help of this family, hiding in a dry well, which escaped a disaster, and this family is Mrs. Qi's family.
After dodging the pursuing soldiers, Liu Bang revealed his identity to Lady Qi's family, and Qi's father was surprised.
After talking to Liu Bang, he learned that Lady Qi's family was also famous, and in order to repay her father's life-saving grace, Liu Bang wanted to marry Lady Qi as a wife.
At that time, Liu Bang and Lady Qi were more than thirty years apart, and Lady Qi was in her youth, and her beautiful appearance and wonderful age had long made Liu Bang fall in love at first sight.
Although in the name of repaying the favor with him, in fact, it is difficult to say whether Liu Bang made this decision because he coveted Lady Qi's beauty.
After Liu Bang married Lady Qi, he returned to the Han camp, and from then on he gave all his favor to Lady Qi, even if some ministers accused him of indulging in beauty, he did not care.
After taking back Lü Hou and the family, Liu Bang's spoiling of Lady Qi did not lighten by half a point, and even when he was traveling, he did not care about the eyes of others, insisting on leaving Lü Hou in the palace to supervise the administration and taking Lady Qi with him.
For the sake of Lady Qi, Liu Bang and Lü Hou and the ministers tit-for-tat confrontation was not once or twice, and Lady Qi at that time seemed to be Liu Bang's heart meat and treasure in her arms, and she was not allowed to say that she was half bad.
At this time, Liu Bang did not care about his past love affair with Empress Lü at all, and even once wanted to pass the position of prince to his children and Lady Qi.
This caused chaos in the middle of the country, but fortunately, under the persuasion of the powerful ministers, Liu Bang finally gave up this plan.
After experiencing this series of events, Lü Yan's hatred for Lady Qi had reached its peak.
Imagine if you were to change into the current woman, you worked hard and did not abandon your husband for more than ten years, and even willing to be in an enemy camp for her and be taken prisoner.
After being saved, how many people can bear this anger when they find that their husband has already had a new love, not only is he extremely indifferent to you, but even wants to rob your son of his power?
Third, Liu Bang died of illness and Lady Qi suffered
Lü Hou's hatred for Lady Qi had long been overflowing, but she had never had the opportunity to take revenge on Lady Qi, because she knew that as long as Liu Bang was there, all the revenge she had done to Lady Qi would be easily resolved by Liu Bang.
Finally, Lü Hou got Liu Bang's illness and died, and although Lady Qi at this time had a heavy army to rely on, Lü Hou also held great power and had no fear of Her Father, so she began a crazy revenge against Lady Qi.
After Liu Bang's death, Lady Qi also knew that her good fortune had come to an end, and Lü Hou would definitely launch a fierce revenge on her.
She also thought about taking the initiative to follow Liu Bang, but she committed suicide many times, but she was stopped by Lü Hou.
How could Lü Hou tolerate Lady Qi's death? In order to prevent Lady Qi from committing suicide again, Lü Hou abused her a lot, and even made her an adult suffer day and night, because she could not survive and die.
I have to say that Lü Hou's methods were too brutal, even if she had great grievances in her heart, she should not have acted so cruelly, but in such an era when imperial power was supreme, as empress dowager, who could stop her?
Unfortunately, Lady Qi did not have the opportunity to choose a painful method of death because of her rights, and she was tempered for so long!