Comrade | Guevara
Friends familiar with the history of the Han Dynasty know that the mother of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was Empress Xiaojing, and before she entered the palace, she was a wife from a commoner family and had children. Then, in the royal family, which attaches great importance to women's origin and chastity, why did she allow Wang Jiao, who is a wife and mother, to enter the palace, and how did she climb to the throne of the empress? Today, we will talk about the extraordinary life of this legendary woman.
A man's wife entered the palace
Wang Jie, born in an unknown year, was born in a civilian family in Younei Shihuaili County, although her appearance was absolutely beautiful and her temperament was gentle, but due to her family's cold family, she could only marry the rich family, and when she became an adult, she could only marry Jin Wangsun, who was also born a commoner. After marriage, although the family was not rich, the relationship between Wang Anderson and The Golden King's grandson was still quite loving, and she gave birth to a daughter to her husband. However, just when Wang Huan was planning to spend her life with Jin Wangsun, she was forced to divorce her husband by her mother Zang Er", who "beat the Mandarin Duck with a stick".
Before entering the palace, Wang Xian had already married and had a daughter
According to the records of the Zhengshi, Zang Er (the granddaughter of Zang Di, the king of Yan in the late Qin and early Han Dynasties) did not want to live in poverty for the rest of his life, so in order to counterattack the transfer, he invited Xiangshi to meet his children, hoping that at least one of them would show wealth and nobility. Sure enough, after showing Wang Jie and his sister Wang Erjie a face, Xiang Shi exclaimed in surprise, claiming that both sisters would be rich and noble in the future, especially Wang Jie, and that they would give birth to a son of heaven in fate.
Xiang Shi's words made Zang Er happy and worried, and the joy was that since Wang Xian was destined to give birth to the Son of Heaven, she was naturally the future empress and empress dowager; the worry was that Wang Er had already married a human wife and had already given birth to children, where would she still have the opportunity to become the emperor's woman? After much thought, Zang Er actually used strong means to force Wang Huan to divorce Wang Sun of Jin, and then used money to unblock various relations and send her to the palace of the crown prince Liu Qi, thus successfully solving the problem (for details, see Book of Han, vol. 97).
Zang Er forced her daughter to divorce and enter the palace
Although the record of the canonical history is quite authoritative, it is very problematic to speculate according to common sense. Just think, how can a commoner woman from a humble background, who is married to a human wife, and has children be easily accepted by the royal family, who attaches great importance to birth and chastity? Therefore, the author boldly speculates that the crown prince Liu Qi should have taken a fancy to the beautiful wife Wang Jie when he was out on a tour, and only then instructed Zang Er to force her daughter to divorce and send her to the Eastern Palace. As for Zang Er forcing her daughter to divorce because of Xiang Shi's words, it is just a fabrication by Shi Guan.
Two Palace fight winners
Since she was the woman favored by the crown prince, it was reasonable that Wang Xian was deeply favored after entering the palace, and her belly was also quite "contentious", and after a few years of remarriage, she had three daughters and a son, namely Princess Pingyang, Princess Nangong, Princess Longxu, and Liu Che of Han Wu. In the first year of the Han Jing Emperor 's reign ( 156 BC ) , the year after Liu Qi ascended the throne as empress , Wang Was officially crowned lady for her merits in giving birth to a crown prince. Soon, Wang Eryi entered the palace at the recommendation of her sister Wang Jie and gave birth to four sons for Emperor Jing of Han, who was also very favored.
Stills of Liu Qi, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
According to the system of the Qin Dynasty and the early years of the Han Dynasty, the emperor's wife was called "empress", and the concubines were uniformly called "lady", until the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, who began to add titles such as "JieYu", and then the titles became more and more complicated. Therefore, as a lady, Wang Xian was second only to Empress Bo in status. However, when Empress Bo was the crown prince of the Han Jing Emperor, her grandmother Empress Bo forced her to give his wife, and her relationship with Liu Qi was not close, plus she had no children, so she was very unfavored, but she was just a nominal empress. In this way, It provided Wang Huan with a good opportunity to seize the throne.
However, in order to become empress, Wang Wei had to defeat another powerful opponent, Li Ji, who was also deeply favored by Emperor Jing of Han, who was also the birth mother of the crown prince Liu Rong. In Wang's favor, although Li Ji had the upper hand in the campaign for the throne, she was narrow-minded and obedient, repeatedly confronting Emperor Jing of Han because she often ate the "vinegar" of other concubines, and had strongly rejected the proposal of Princess Liu Yan (the sister of Emperor Jingdi of Han) to marry her children, thus causing herself endless trouble.
Liu Yan helped Wang Huan seize the throne as empress
After wang concubines sensed that Emperor Jingdi of Han and Liu Yan were dissatisfied with Li Ji, she took the initiative to propose to her eldest sister that Liu Che marry the princess's daughter Chen Ajiao, and the latter agreed. After forming a family with Liu Shu, Wang Huan continued to frame Li Ji and the crown prince in front of Emperor Jing of Han, and finally succeeded in convincing the emperor to depose Liu Rong and make Liu Che crown prince in the seventh year of THE COMMON Era (150 BC). At the same time, the mother and son of The Noble Princess officially replaced Empress Bo as the lord of the Six Palaces. Wang Xian entered the palace as a human wife, and finally ascended to the throne through the palace dou body, which is a strange story.
Three strong empresses
In the third year of the Later Yuan Dynasty (141 BC), the 48-year-old Han Jing Emperor died of illness, and the 16-year-old crown prince Liu Che ascended the throne as emperor. After Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne, he immediately issued an edict honoring his mother Wang Jiao as empress dowager and crowning his wife Chen Ajiao as empress. At the same time, Emperor Wu of han also wantonly rewarded his mother's family, his maternal grandmother Zang Er was given the title of Pingyuan Jun, his uncle Wang Xin, Tian Yu, and Tian Sheng were marquises, and his half-sister Jin Feng was Xiu Chengjun, which can really be described as "one person gets the Tao, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven" (Note: Zang Er remarried the rich merchant Tian Clan of Changling County after the death of Wang Zhong's father Wang Zhong, and gave birth to the brothers Tian Feng and Tian Sheng)
Stills of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che
Because Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne as a teenager and lacked experience in governing the country, the major politics of the military state were often decided by the empress dowager Dou Shi, but Empress Dou was blind and could not adjudicate all important political affairs alone, so that Wang Xian was provided with a good opportunity to interfere in the government. In order to consolidate and expand her power, Wang Also deliberately promoted her half-brother Tian Jie and his cronies, who had considerable political ability, and gradually formed a post-party clique with her as the core and including most of the important members inside and outside the imperial court.
In May of the sixth year of Jianyuan (135 BC), Empress Dou died of illness, and Wang Xian immediately took over the major politics of the military state, and dismissed them on the pretext that the chancellor Xu Chang and The Imperial Grand Master Zhuang Qingzhai were not considerate in handling the funeral of the empress dowager, and immediately appointed Tian Feng as the chancellor and Han Anguo as the imperial chancellor, using them to control the foreign dynasty. At this time, Wang Xian's control over the empire reached its peak, and even interfered in the private life of her son, and she forcibly executed Han Yan, the favorite male favorite of Emperor Wu of Han, so that the emperor dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
She sat on the empress dowager's seat for 15 years
She sat on the empress dowager's throne for 15 years, and after enjoying all her glory and wealth, she died of illness in June of the third year of Yuan Shuo (126 BC) with an unknown life expectancy (if Wang Was of the same age as Emperor Jingdi of Han, she should have been around 63 years old at the time of her death). After her death, She enjoyed an extremely beautiful funeral and was buried with Emperor Jingdi of Han in Yangling (located in The Plains of Xianyang, north of Zhangjiawan and Hougou Village, Zhengyang Town, Weicheng District, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province). With the death of Wang Wei, the story about this legendary woman ended.
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