The emperor favored his cousin and exterminated his uncle's family in order to marry her, and the cousin became empress and ruled the country for 20 years
In feudal society, the concept of male superiority and female inferiority has always been respected, because in ancient times most people needed to rely on the fields for a living and the climate of the continent was not extremely humid, the land was relatively hard and often required stronger male labor to reclaim the land, and women were only able to take charge of the responsibility of childbearing at home because of their delicate stature, which formed the reality of male superiority and inferiority. Under the patriarchal oppression of the feudal dynasty, women lost even the most basic right to education and were imprisoned in the cage of the family.
Of course, there are also some outstanding women who want to change the entire patriarchal society by their own efforts, in fact, there has been a single female emperor in history. Most women can only choose to rely on their literary talents to leave behind psalms that have been passed down through the ages to warn future generations, and few are able to participate in real political activities.
Among them is a unique woman, who not only dares to directly participate in the struggle for power, but even has a certain military ability, once led a huge army to the battlefield and obtained unattainable feats one after another, becoming almost one of the most relied on figures in the whole country.
However, this woman was targeting her own matriarchal people, and she was the Empress Liang of the Xia Kingdom. Although the founding emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty was quite good at politics, he was below the passing line in terms of personal morality, and even decided to include his son's wife in the harem, which also caused the disaster of killing. At that time, the crown prince was not even one year old and had to ascend to the throne in a hurry, and almost all the financial power was in the hands of his mother.
After the death of his mother, his uncle came to power, and the emperor could only deliberately cover up his own merits in order to save his life, but after growing up, the emperor had the honor of being invited to play in his uncle's house and even had a personal relationship with his cousin, afraid of being discovered by his uncle, the emperor decided to immediately conspire to kill his uncle's family so that he could fly with his cousin.
After the plan was successfully put into practice, the emperor who regained power immediately made Liang an empress and made Liang's son his crown prince. As a result, the emperor died suddenly of illness shortly after succeeding to the throne, leaving only the young crown prince and empress. This was a great opportunity for The Liang to use her young son as a puppet to take control of the country, a reign of 20 years.
In order to establish a certain prestige in the Western Xia, she even personally led an army ready to attack her own country, the Song Dynasty, and finally succeeded in winning the love of the people in the Western Xia with her outstanding military achievements, and consolidated the position of mother and son in the government, of course, for the people of the Song Dynasty, the Liang clan was a complete betrayer.