She married at the age of 16, became empress at the age of 26, and gave birth to 12 children in a row in 14 years of marriage, which was not only extremely noble, but also favored by the emperor. But what is unexpected is that the woman's ending is tragic. This woman with an extremely difficult fate was empress Dowager Yifu of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Yi Fu was born in the Northern Wei frontier Hao clan, his father Yi Fu was an official to Yanzhou, and his mother was Princess Huaiyang, the fourth daughter of Emperor Xiaowen. According to the historical records, Yi Fushi was beautiful in appearance, dignified in nature, did not speak casually and laughed, and often gave people a serious feeling. When Yifu was 16 years old, he married his cousin Yuan Baoju, and 10 years later, Yuan Baoju became the founding emperor (Emperor Wen) of Western Wei with the support of the great warlord Yuwen Tai in Kansai, and Yifu was made empress.
At that time, the imperial court was controlled by Yuwen Tai, and at that time, when the war was chaotic, Yu Wentai demanded that Yuan Baoju depose his current empress and ask him to make a new empress. Although Yuan Baoju was unwilling, Yuwen Tai's strength was too great, and there was no way but to depose his own empress and marry the new empress. Ephraim moved to another palace, shaved off her hair, and became a nun. She understands her husband's plight, so she has no resentment in her heart. But the new empress hated her very much, because when the new queen arrived at the palace, she found that the people in the palace had great respect for Ephesus.
After Yi Fushi left, Emperor Wen was deeply missed, and secretly collected Yi Fushi's long hair, hoping to one day bring her back ("After mourning, he was still suspicious, and after the resurrection, he lived in Qinzhou, and Yizi Taizhou assassinated King Shi Wudu.) Although the emperor limited the grand plan, he did not forget it, and then secretly ordered his hair to be raised, and he had the intention of recovering it"). Unexpectedly, the new empress knew the emperor's thoughts, so she contacted her mother's family and asked her father to lead an army to force the emperor to put Ephesus to death. The Emperor knew that all of this was the new Empress's plan, but there was nothing he could do about it.
After the edict reached Qinzhou, Yi Fushi was struck by five thunderbolts, and soon he could not cry. After a long time, Ephesus said goodbye to his son, who had already wept into tears, and left a last word to the prince. Immediately afterward, Yi Fushi ordered the monks to display Buddhist utensils and personally dropped the hair of dozens of servants and made them monks. After doing all this, Ephraim returned to the inner chamber, buried his head under the multi-layered quilt, and finally suffocated to death. He was only 31 years old when he died.
After getting rid of the love enemy, the new queen thought that she had no more troubles, but she did not expect to be punished soon. Soon after Ephraim's death, the new empress heard a strange dog bark in the main hall and dreamed that Ephraim had come to ask for her life, so she was very nervous, and eventually died in childbirth at the age of 16.
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