Empress Feng of Northern Wei was a prominent figure in history, helping her husband Emperor Wencheng to ascend the throne and experienced four generations of Northern Wei. It was later known as "Northern Wei" Wu Zetian.
During the reign of Emperor Xianwen, Empress Feng assisted her husband in killing the powerful minister Yihun, and The famous reforms of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei all contributed indelible to Empress Feng.
The Feng family was originally a nobleman of Northern Yan. After the fall of Northern Yan, the family was implicated, captured in the palace, and reduced to slaves. At that time, she met the most important man in her life, Takumi.
The young Tuoba Lian and Feng Shi met. Later, Zhongchang killed the Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao and supported Tuoba Yu, the king of Nan'an, to ascend the throne. In October of the same year, Tuoba Yu was assassinated, and Tuoba Yu became emperor and became Emperor Wencheng of Wei.
Shortly after Tuoba Mao ascended the throne, he made feng guiren, who was only 12 years old, as Feng Guiren. In the three years of Feng Guiren's company, he talked about his heart, family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs.
But two people who love each other do not have children, why is this? The two are young and young. Why didn't Tuoba Mao dare to let the beloved woman have a child?
This stemmed from a very terrible ancestral system in the Northern Wei Dynasty. When Emperor Wu of Han was old, he made his youngest son Liu Fuling emperor, and fearing that the harem would interfere in politics, he put the crown prince's biological mother, Lady Hook Yi, to death. Emperor Tuoba Jue of the Northern Wei Dynasty continued this formulation.
The emperor did not want to lose Feng Guiren, and finally decided not to have children, and adopted Tuoba Hong, who was less than two years old at the time. Feng Guiren carefully raised.
In the sixth year of the Peace of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wencheng died young, at the age of 25. The pain of losing her husband made Empress Feng's heart like a knife. He even martyred himself for the sake of Emperor Wencheng. Thanks to someone stopping her, it saved her life. Since then, she has had an epiphany about life and death. Empress Feng's path to power, from this moment on, was bloody. Tuoba Hong ascended the throne, and Empress Feng bowed to the government.
After the death of Emperor Wencheng, the young Empress Feng was sad for a while, but she could not stand the loneliness of widowhood, so she hooked up with the young and beautiful nobleman Li Yi. Li Yi was handsome, so he was deeply loved by Empress Feng.
After the adulterous affair was betrayed and killed by Emperor Xianwen, Empress Feng was furious, forced him to abdicate, and poisoned Emperor Xianwen. He was the son of Emperor Wen and became Emperor Xiaowen.
Feng became empress dowager. Her private life remains unruly and even more unscrupulous. During this period, her main faces were Wang Rui and Li Chong, who were favored for their handsome appearance. Among them, Li Chong was brilliant and was the "right-hand man" of Empress Feng and Emperor Xiaowen. Emperor Xiaowen also "trusted him very much and respected him."
Empress Feng did achieve many political achievements during her tenure, such as the implementation of the three-chief system, the Juntian law, the Banlu system, etc., which eliminated the political chaos at that time and accelerated the sinicization process of northern Wei. After her death, all the reform measures were inherited and perfected by her grandson Emperor Xiaowen, which eventually completely changed the face of Northern Wei.
In the fourteenth year of Taihe, she supported Emperor Xiaowen for 14 years, and Empress Feng died in Pingcheng.
He ruled the Northern Wei Dynasty for more than 20 years, and its national strength reached its peak. Some descendants called her "The Queen of the Ages", one of the outstanding women of ancient China.