In 91 BC, Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty sent Empress Wei Zifu into the Cold Palace, and then told her a message that caused Wei Zifu to commit suicide in anger. Before dying, Wei Zifu left his last words: "I have served Your Majesty for 49 years, and now I know that Your Majesty is weak and widowed to this point!" "Hang yourself and die with hatred."
Wei Zifu's life is indeed very dramatic, she and her mother (naturally including her half-brother Wei Qing) were originally domestic slaves of the Pingyang Princess family, and she was a slave specially cultivated by the master's family to sing and entertain.
It is said that even if they are close relatives, they will be estranged if they do not move around often, and they are born in the imperial family, and the politics and interests are very complicated, so princess Pingyang, who is an older sister, also has to have the heart to marry her brother.
There was a time when Liu Che traveled past his sister's house, and princess Pingyang saw that the opportunity was rare, so she called a dozen beautiful women from good families that she usually found to her brother together, ready to let her brother pick one to choose, but in the end Liu Che did not have anything to say, that when the sister's heart was called a "wow cool".
When it came to the banquet, the slaves who sang to help come in again, but this time Liu Che's eyes actually lit up, and he looked at one of them, obviously she was the lucky Wei Zifu. It is true that the east is not bright and the west is bright, and the black north has the south.
Then, just as Liu Che got up to change his clothes, Wei Zifu followed the emperor to serve him to change his clothes, and it was in the Xuan car that Liu Che, who was twenty years old, gave her a blessing.
When the emperor returned, he was obviously very happy, so he simply rewarded his sister with gold and gold, and when the sister was more willing to push the boat along the water, he sent Wei Zifu into the palace.
Liu Che readily agreed, and when the husband got into the car, the princess even patted her back and said seriously, "Go well, try to cheer up, if you are rich in the future, don't forget me!"
At this time, the master's hope seemed to be all pinned on her slave maid, but unfortunately, the good dream was only overnight, and the zifu "entered the palace for more than a year, and was not lucky", as soon as he entered the harem of beautiful women, a small Wei Zifu was immediately drowned.
Later, more than a year later, the emperor chose to "rebuke the undesirables" among the palace people, and Wei Zifu had another rare opportunity to run to the emperor and "cry out", which was probably indeed desperate. Perhaps seeing her crying too sadly, Liu Che's heart of pity was suddenly born, so he once again blessed her.
Only this time, the god of luck finally descended on Wei Zifu's side - she was actually pregnant! This may be nothing for other emperors, but for Liu Che, who has no heirs, it is undoubtedly the beginning of a new perfect life. Even in the future, whoever can give him children, except for rewards and promotions, he must look at them differently.
From then on, Wei Zifu was also greatly favored by the emperor, and gave birth to three daughters for him in a row, and by the time of the fourth, she finally bore fruit in the first year of Yuan Shuo (128 BC), and she gave birth to the later crown prince Liu Zhao; Liu Che, who was nearly 30 years old, was happy, so he made Wei Zifu, who was from a humble background, empress (at that time, he obviously still did not pay much attention to Mendi). One person attained the Tao, the chicken and dog ascended to heaven, and the Wei family of XuanHe's once-for-a-kind Wei clan was established at this time.
Later, with the ruthless passage of time, the young Empress Wei obviously could not hang up the appetite of the emperor who was eating color, especially out of great suspicion of the Wei family, Empress Wei began to be slowly snubbed.
But she is not as self-pleasing as Chen Ajiao, she is well-behaved and sensible, although she was not favored later, she never showed jealousy, but "good at self-defense and avoiding suspicion", so she can "not be favored for a long time, but still be treated with courtesy (by the emperor)", and she is still the mother of a country in name.
Most of Wei Zifu's life was also spent in the harem's pampering, and he originally thought that he would be waiting for the end of his life in this life, but he did not expect to kill an ambitious Jiang Chonglai halfway through.
It was under the circumstances of being forced to be helpless that she decided to join Jiang Chong with her son, and finally in the case of the emperor sending someone to "collect the empress's seal", she did not want to be humiliated, leaving a last word: "I served the emperor for 49 years, and only when I died did I realize that the emperor was so weak and widowed!" "So much so that I made a crisp decision on my own."
None of Wei Zifu's sons and daughters had a good ending, and the eldest daughter, Princess Wei Chang, had always been favored, first married to Princess Pingyang's son Cao Xiang, the Marquis of Pingyang, and had a son, Cao Zong; However, after Cao Xiang's unfortunate early death, she was cruelly married to Fang Shi Luan Da by her father, but only a few months after the marriage, Luan Da was brutally executed by her father; She became a widow again at a young age, and naturally her heart was miserable, and since then there is no record of her in the history books, but the history of the wild says that she was probably crazy, because her only son Cao Zong was also implicated in the scourge of witchcraft to death, and even the hope of life was taken away.
Wei Zifu's second two daughters were executed together in the "Prison of witchcraft" of Gongsun He's father and son in the first year of Zhenghe (92 BC), and after Liu Zhao's death, he was viciously honored as "Prince Of Qi", a tyrannical prince; In essence, under the huge shadow of the strong father, he is just a good son who is "kind and gentle". Later, even Wei Qing's sons and so on were deliberately planted together, and even eventually "Wei Clan was destroyed".....
"Not to be born again male and female again", in the end is still a delusion of Nanke's dream; Although "ruthlessness is the most imperial family", how can the rich and noble be received in vain?
However, it still depends on which imperial family he was born into. When he encountered Liu Che, an emperor with a contradictory personality, complex thoughts, and decisive determination, it seemed that he should be unlucky, and if he really was not a good lover and a good father, it was because he was really an incredible monarch and politician, and the pathology of history was precisely that here a great righteousness and annihilation of relatives was not the goal, but it was a means to deter the world.
Although this is not easy for everyone to understand, although it is still far from the ideal of perfection as a broken reality.
When the truth of the "Prison of the Witches" was revealed a year later, the old emperor remembered the prince, so he built the Si Womb in Chang'an, and also built a Wangsi Platform elsewhere to talk about mourning...
