There were many virtuous empresses in ancient times, such as Empress Yin of Emperor Guangwu, Empress Changsun of Tang Taizong, Empress Ma of Zhu Yuanzhang, etc., but who was the most shrewd was Empress Wang of the Han Jing Emperor. As an ordinary woman at the bottom, married to the Han Jing Emperor for the second time, giving birth to a son or an emperor through the ages, such an experience is too fierce, even the novel does not dare to write like this, what kind of woman is she? Before the story begins, please like the new netizens.
In terms of shrewdness, Wang's mother, Zang Er, was no less than that. Zang Er was born noble, was the granddaughter of Zang Di, the king of the late Qin and early Han Dynasties, and after Zang Di's death, she suddenly fell from Miss Qianjin of the princely family to an ordinary commoner at the bottom.
Zang Er's later life was also more bumpy, and when she grew up, she married her first husband, Wang Zhong, and after giving birth to a man and two daughters, her husband died. In order to survive, she took her two daughters and remarried to another family surnamed Tian and gave birth to two sons.
In this way, Zang Er gave birth to a total of three men and two girls, and the eldest daughter is the protagonist of this article, Wang Jie.
Once, Zang Er found someone to calculate for her two daughters, and the gua said that her two daughters would be rich and wealthy in the future. Since they were rich and noble, the blessing must be in the palace, so Zang Er planned to send her daughters to the Prince's Mansion.
However, the eldest daughter, Wang Xian, is already married to a woman, what should she do? This was not difficult for Zang Er, and she secretly called Wang Xian back and forcibly let her daughter break the marriage contract with her husband's family.
In this way, Wang Huan concealed her marriage history and was sent to the Prince's Mansion. Why is she hiding her marriage history? The history books say that it was not until long after Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne that he learned from Han Yan that he still had a half-sister left in the folk. It shows that before this, no one knew that his mother was married twice.
Sure enough, Wang Huan, with her beauty and wisdom, quickly captured the heart of the crown prince Liu Qi, became the most favored concubine around him, and gave birth to three women and a man in succession, and the boy was the later famous Emperor Wu of Han.
Due to the late entry of Wang Xian into the palace, when her first son Liu Che was born, she was only the tenth among Liu Qi's many sons, and according to the succession sequence, it was not his turn to become the heir to the throne under any circumstances.
However, Wang Xian was very scheming, and when she was pregnant with Liu Che, she told her husband Liu Qi that when she slept, she dreamed of a round of sun pouring into her arms. Liu Qi was convinced and said happily: It seems that this is a sign that the child is going to be born.
Of course, this is just Liu Qi's casual remarks, Liu Che really wants to be a son of the day, but it is not easy, because after Liu Qi ascended the throne, he made his eldest son Liu Rong the crown prince, and his mother Li Ji was also very favored and was a popular candidate for the empress.
Next, Wang Huan was full of thoughts about how to bring down Li Ji. Li Ji was as beautiful as a flower, but she was a brainless person, who thought that her son was the crown prince, and did not take Liu Qi's sister, the eldest princess Liu Yan, as a cadre, and rudely refused her request for marriage.
The eldest princess, who was ashamed and angry, turned to form an alliance with Wang Jiao, and also gave her daughter Chen Ajiaoxu to Liu Che as a wife. Next, the two clever women aimed their spearheads at Kurihime in unison.
The eldest princess said bad things about Li Ji in front of Liu Qi every day, and after a long time, Liu Qi also began to doubt Li Ji's personality. Once, he deliberately and tentatively asked, "After I die, you must be kind to the children born to other concubines in the harem, remember!" ”
Who knows, Li Ji made a bitter face, making the little boy say, "I can't be busy with my own affairs, and I don't have time to take care of them." ”
Liu Qi's face suddenly darkened, and he thought to himself, if such a woman becomes an empress, will there still be a way for other concubines to live in the future? From then on, he abandoned the idea of Tachibanahime as empress.
At this juncture, something happened in the palace, which directly pushed Kurihime into the abyss. The thing is, after a big official finished playing other things in the courtroom, he suddenly said somewhat abruptly: "The son is precious to the mother, and the mother is precious to the son, and now the mother of the prince has no name and should be made empress." ”
Of course, all this was a poisonous plan used by Wang Jie behind her back, she saw that Emperor Jing had a deep grudge against Li Ji, felt that it was time to take action, and secretly sent someone to instruct the Daxing official, who would play in the court to invite Li Ji to be the empress.
Emperor Jing was furious and ordered the execution of Daxingguan, beat Li Ji into the Cold Palace, and deposed Liu Rong as crown prince. Wang Huan became the biggest beneficiary, becoming empress as she wished, and her son Liu Che was officially crowned crown prince.
In 141 BC, Emperor Jing of Han died, and Liu Che ascended the throne, becoming the seventh emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty, as Emperor Wu of Han. At this point, Wang Wei's merits were perfect, relying on her own painstaking management, gorgeous turn, from an ordinary people's woman to the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty, and her life experience was legendary.
In Tan Shijun's view, shrewdness seems to have become a derogatory term here, as it is now called exquisite egoism. Wang Huan listened to Xiang Shi's words and abandoned her husband and daughter, indicating that she was ruthless and unjust; Wang Huan concealed her marriage history and used fox charm to confuse Liu Qi, indicating that she was not honest enough; Wang Huan relied on conspiracy and trickery to crush Li Ji's mother and son, indicating that she was somewhat sinister.
Of course, from another point of view, if Wang Is content with the status quo, she may always be just an ordinary people's wife, and after giving birth to children for others, she will complete an ordinary life. It is precisely because she is full of yearning for a better life, constantly enterprising, climbing to the high position of the empress by hard work, and also giving birth to an emperor for thousands of years, which has profoundly changed the future political pattern of the Han Dynasty, and can be called a remarkable woman.