When it comes to the queen's mother's family, everyone may invariably think of a word: foreign relatives. After all, foreign relatives have left too many traces in China's history, and to some extent, foreign relatives have appeared in history far more often than the emperor's direct blood relatives, such as uncles, brothers, cousins and cousins. Why, then, did the emperor not trust his immediate blood relatives, but trusted the people in his wife's family so much?
Is it difficult for the emperor to be "strict with his wife"? Apparently not. There must be other reasons for this. First of all, let's take stock of how many people with famous foreign relatives in history, this is a lot. For example, the famous brothers in the lü hou family, as well as the famous Wei Qing and Huo Quyi, as well as Dou Xian of Le Shi Yanran in the back, and Yang Guozhong of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, they are all foreign relatives, people in the family of the emperor's wife.
Then, let's take stock of the emperor's uncle or cousin, and what are the famous characters? If you don't search carefully, you really can't search for a few, even if a few dynasties have given these princes high positions due to his special system, but most of them are also unknown. What's going on here? Why is the uncle's sense of existence so low, while the brother-in-law's sense of existence is so high?
Moreover, it seems that the brothers-in-law of most emperors in history are particularly talented. Some of them have even become legends of an era, such as Wei Qing. Of course, there are also some that have become typical of the negative side - the same is very good, but the negative is excellent, such as Yang Guozhong. How successful is Yang Guozhong, the villain? Even Bai Juyi was writing poems mockingly:
"So let the parents of the world have their hearts, and not to regenerate men and women."
Meaning, what's the use of you having a man? It is the most promising thing to marry a daughter to an emperor, and a son to be a brother-in-law to the emperor. Moreover, the emperor also seemed to have a special trust in his brother-in-law, such as Wei Qing. At that time, Wei Qing's status was very low, and at that time, the Han Dynasty did not have a examination system, and the basic selection of talents was selected among the nobles. But when Emperor Wudi of Han took a look, his brother-in-law was very close to me, so let's give you an official.
"On the news, he summoned Qing to be the jianzhang supervisor, the servant, and the half-mother Kun Di Gui, and rewarded him with thousands of gold in a few days."
Not only did he suddenly promote his brother-in-law to a low-level military attaché in the palace, but he also rewarded him with a large amount of gold. It can be said that even if Wei Qing does not lead the soldiers to fight behind him, this life alone is enough. But Wei Qing was also very powerful, obviously able to live a good life by relying on his sister's care, and actually had to go to war. Once in a war, there were even consecutive victories. Not only did he fight fiercely himself, but even his nephew Huo Fu was born to fight.
Relatively speaking, the uncle was especially not welcomed by the emperor. For example, Emperor Wudi of Han, we can still see in the history books that Emperor Wudi of Han has many stories of entertaining his uncles and cousins, and constantly shows them his feelings and relationships with each other. But then again, if the relationship between the two parties is really intimate, where is the need to show what intimacy is there every day?
For example, Emperor Wudi of Han never told Wei Qing how close the relationship between the two of us was, and how much contact we had. Because there is no cost at all, people sometimes two people go to the toilet together, does this need to emphasize feelings every day? At the same time, Emperor Wu of Han was cruel to his uncle Liu An, the king of Huainan, and finally Liu An was forced to rebel, failed again, and had to commit suicide. In fact, it is not only Emperor Wudi of Han who is cruel to his uncle, but emperor Jingdi of Han, the father of Emperor Wudi of Han, who is equally cruel to his uncle.
Emperor Jingdi of Han came to power and followed Chao's advice and tried every means to weaken and monitor his uncles and uncles. In the end, one of his uncles, King Wu, couldn't stand it and directly raised an army to fight with Emperor Jing of Han, and the result was also very tragic, and the soldiers were defeated and killed. Not only the Han Dynasty, but also the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Zhu Yunjiao would not have slashed the domain in a big way; although Zhu Di initially opposed Zhu Yunjiao, he still cut the domain after he came to power.
Therefore, it can be seen that in history, the emperor always distrusted his uncle in particular, but was particularly kind to his brother-in-law who was not related to himself. What's even more strange is that it seems that the brother-in-law is still particularly angry, generally the brother-in-law can do things successfully, and the probability of the uncle's success is relatively small, Zhu Di is a successful example, and the others are relatively few. Why is that?
In my opinion, there may be two reasons. The first reason, as an uncle who is related to him by blood, is too much of a threat to the throne, so it is normal for the emperor to guard them. After all, no one wanted to be Emperor Jianwen himself. The second reason, why is the brother-in-law so angry? Because the brother-in-law's birth is generally not particularly high, at least it is not as high as those of the previous imperial relatives.
Therefore, the brother-in-law has a hard time climbing to the top class of society, which is naturally extremely cherished, and he is also eager to make a contribution. Therefore, they often fight in particular, more than the emperor's uncles who are relatives of the emperor and the state. Of course, this is just our family's words, what do you think about this? Feel free to share your views in the comments section.