Wei Zifu, an unknown singer from the Marquis of Pingyang, was favored by the young Emperor Wu of Han under a wrong opportunity, and eventually brought into the palace, and after Wei Zifu gave birth to a son Liu Zhao for Emperor Wu of Han, Wei Zifu's mother became an empress by virtue of her son Gui.
After Wei Zifu became empress, the entire Wei family received benefits, such as Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi and other people, relying on Wei Zifu's background and his own strength, became a great general of the Han Dynasty at that time, the Wei family at this time, it can be said that they were already powerful above the court, but no one thought that later Wei Qing and Huo Went ill died young, Wei Zifu and Liu Zhi were killed by adulterers, and finally Wei Zifu chose to commit suicide, ending the legend of the Wei family.
Wei Zifu was favored by Emperor Wu of Han
Wei Zifu's mother, Wei Mi (衛媪), was originally a servant in the palace of Marquis Cao of Pingyang, and after princess Pingyang married Cao Zan, she had many contacts with Wei Mi and others, and Wei Mi had three daughters, namely Wei Junru, Wei Shao'er and Wei Zifu, and a very famous son named Wei Qing.
At that time, Wei Zifu became a singer in the Marquis of Pingyang, and Wei Qing was mainly responsible for leading horses to the princess of Pingyang, at this time, the Wei family had no power to power, and there was no status in order to have status, but it was good that Wei Zifu was young and beautiful, born beautiful.
Princess Pingyang has always been more interested in power, so she wants to learn from Princess Guantao to send beautiful women to the emperor, so Princess Pingyang has raised a lot of beautiful women in the palace, waiting for the opportunity to let Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che choose one, Princess Pingyang is ready, just waiting for Emperor Wu of Han to go.
Once Emperor Wudi of Han just happened to be a guest at the Palace of princess Pingyang, so Princess Pingyang called out those beautiful women she had prepared in advance for Emperor Wu of Han after three rounds of wine, who had thought that more than a dozen young and beautiful women, but none of them could enter the eyes of Emperor Wu of Han, and could only end in dismal ends.
After more than a dozen beautiful women retired, Princess Pingyang arranged for Wei Zifu and other singers to come out to sing and dance to cheer for Emperor Wu of Han, and as a result, Emperor Wu of Han fell in love with Wei Zifu at a glance and has been looking at Wei Zifu intently, all of which was just discovered by Princess Pingyang, and after the performance, Emperor Wudi of Han spoiled Wei Zifu in the changing room.
After this time of favor, Princess Pingyang proposed on the spot to send Wei Zifu to the palace to serve Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu of Han was very happy to make Wei Zifu a concubine and brought him back to the palace, but after returning to the palace, Emperor Wu of Han seemed to have forgotten the existence of Wei Zifu and had not favored Wei Zifu for a long time.
The rise of the Wei family
Wei Zifu unconsciously suffered for a long time in the palace, and then Emperor Wudi of Han planned to let the elderly women in the harem go home, at this time Wei Zifu had the opportunity to see Emperor Wu of Han, so he wept and asked Emperor Wu of Han to let him return to Princess Pingyang, Emperor Wu of Han saw Wei Zifu with pear blossoms and rain, felt pity, and once again favored Wei Zifu, that is, this time, let Wei Zifu have a pregnancy.
It should be known that at this time, Emperor Wudi of Han and Chen Ajiao had been married for more than ten years, and still had not given birth to a child, and the fact that Wei Zifu was pregnant was a big thing for Emperor Wudi of Han and even the entire Han Dynasty, especially if he gave birth to a prince, let alone a prince.
Chen Ajiao's family heard that Wei Zifu was pregnant, so they planned to clean up Wei Zifu, so as to use the magic of witchcraft to harm Wei Zifu, the result was that things were exposed, stealing chickens did not become erosion of rice, Emperor Wudi of Han had long wanted to find an opportunity to combat the arrogance of the Chen Ajiao family, this time it was just a perfect opportunity, Emperor Wudi of Han took the opportunity to clean up the Chen Ajiao family to prevent them from continuing to point fingers at themselves in the future.
That is, during the period when Emperor Wu of Han took over the Chen Ajiao family, Wei Zifu gave birth to the first daughter for Emperor Wu of Han, and later gave birth to two daughters, before giving birth to the first son Liu Zhao, Emperor Wu of Han was excited and miserable at that time, and established Wei Zifu as empress, Chen Ajiao's empress was also deposed, and later when Liu Zhao was seven years old, he was also made crown prince by Emperor Wu of Han, and specially arranged for the most powerful teacher at that time to educate and train Liu Zhao from an early age, hoping that he would be able to succeed him in the future.
At the time when Wei Zifu was in the middle of the day, the People of the Wei family were also used by Emperor Wu of Han, such as Wei Qing and Huo Qi, Wei Qing was the younger brother of Wei Zifu, and Huo Went sick was the son of Wei Zifu's second sister Wei Shao'er, both of whom were very powerful, and were entrusted by Emperor Wu of Han with heavy responsibilities to attack the Xiongnu, and as a result, the two lived up to expectations, and the soul of the Xiongnu was scattered, and Emperor Wu of Han used the two more and more, appointing two people as the Great Sima and the Emperor.
Wei Qing later married Princess Pingyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of Han, prompting Emperor Wu of Han to be close to the Wei family, but unfortunately Wei Qing later died young, and Huo went ill after killing Li Guang's son Li Dang, and died less than a year after going to Shuofang, at the age of 24.
With the death of Wei Qing and Huo Qi, the glory of the Wei family basically lost more than half of its strength, before there was Wei Qing and Huo To disease, it can be said that Wei Zifu's position as empress and the position in the harem, can be regarded as a kind of escort, now that both are dead, the Wei family has begun to have a crisis.
Wei Zifu's cause of suicide
Just as the so-called tree is a big move, the Wei family can be so powerful, there are many people who have long been red-eyed, when Wei Qing and Huo Went to illness were alive, their prestige was too great, and no one dared to do anything, now both of them are dead, plus the new generation of young people in the Wei family, some are no longer low-key, began to do evil, offended many people.
At this time, the scourge of the witch deception came into being, originally the plague of the witch deception was only limited to the father and son of Gongsun He, but Gongsun He was the husband of Wei Zifu's eldest sister Wei Jun, so the nature was different, after the death of Wei Qing and Huo, Gongsun He could be regarded as a relatively powerful person in the Wei family, but now it has also been eliminated, but it is conceivable that the next fate of the Wei family is even more tragic.
As gongsun He's father and son's witchcraft incident gradually fermented, Emperor Wu of Han's favorite minister Jiang Chong found the opportunity to attack the crown prince Liu Zhao, Liu Zhao was very intelligent and upright from an early age, and after Emperor Wu of Han grew old and fainted, Liu Chong was very unaccustomed to some flattering people around his father, the most obvious of which was Jiang Chong, so Liu Zhao and Jiang Chong often clashed, and Jiang Chong hated him to the bone.
It just so happened that now Emperor Wu of Han was faint enough, Jiang Chong continued to implicate more people with the help of the matter of witchcraft, and finally blamed the crown prince Liu Zhao, when people went to Liu Zhao's mansion to find out the evidence of the crime of witchcraft, Liu Zhao, of course, did not want to be framed, so he followed the advice of the strategists around him and eliminated the people who came to search, but unfortunately, one of the fish that slipped through the net, Zhang Gan, was not killed, and ran to Emperor Wu of Han to complain that Liu Was rebellious.
At first, Emperor Wudi of Han did not believe that Liu Zhi would rebel, so he sent someone to find out, but this emissary did not go at all, so he went back to report to Emperor Wu of Han that Liu Zhu had come to the palace, and emperor Wu of Han panicked and immediately sent troops to suppress Liu Zhao.
Liu Zhi heard that there was already a large army coming, there was no way but to fight to the death, Wei Zifu gave his military power to Liu Zhao, let him fight to the death, but it was obvious that this was destined to be a failed war, because Emperor Wu of Han was an emperor, and the soldiers and horses he mastered far exceeded Liu Zhao, and finally Liu Zhi died on the battlefield after five days and five nights of fierce fighting.
After Liu Zhi's death, Emperor Wu of Han of course also had to pursue responsibility for Wei Zifu, Who had long thought of all this, and in the face of the sadness of losing his son and the helplessness of reality, Wei Zifu had nothing to worry about, and finally hanged himself, ending his own life and ending the legendary story of the Wei family.
epilogue
It wasn't until many years later that Emperor Wudi of Han realized his mistake, but it was too late. In the eyes of posterity, from the perspective of the whole process of the scourge of the witches, in fact, the end of the Wei family is so bleak, presumably there must be an inexplicable relationship with Emperor Wu of Han, after all, the Xiongnu have been almost cleaned up, and the next step is naturally to suppress these foreign relatives of the Wei family, but it is a pity that Liu Zhao, who is wise and wise, died so tragically, sadly!
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