Mention Qin Shi Huang, we can all think of his great achievements - the same book, the same track, the unified currency value, the unified weights and measures... It is these policies that have laid the basic pattern of China's political system for more than two thousand years, and it is absolutely an emperor for thousands of years.
But when it comes to who the empress of Qin Shi Huang is, it is estimated that everyone is very confused. When I think about it, I really don't know who this queen really is. We are familiar with the wrongful suicide of the grand duke Fu Su, and we are familiar with Hu Hai, the son of a loser, who suffered his own consequences, but we have never heard who the empress of Qin Shi Huang really was.
Not only that, but there is no record in the history books, as if it has been deliberately erased. Isn't there this person? That's definitely not. Of course, Qin Shi Huang had wives and concubines, otherwise where would there be more than 20 sons and 10 princesses?
Many people believe that Qin Shi Huang had an empress, and the empress came from the Chu clan of Lady Huayang. Qin Shi Huang and his father, King Xiang of Qinzhuang, both relied on the power of Lady Huayang to gain a firm foothold, and Lady Huayang would never give up such an important position as the empress in order to consolidate her position, so she would definitely arrange for the women in the clan to marry Yingzheng.
And Fu Su was the eldest son of this Chu empress and qin shi huang. Later, perhaps because Qin Shi Huang hated the early Lady Huayang to prevent her from pro-government, or was implicated in the rebellion of Changping Jun, in short, this Chu empress failed to leave her name in the history books, and Qin Shi Huang deleted all traces.
And after that, there is no record of women. Think about it, Qin Shi Huang even thought that the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" were inferior to himself, where would he sit on an equal footing with a woman? What's more, the stupid things his mother Zhao Ji did also gave him a shadow in his heart.
After the death of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, the lonely Zhao Ji was very fond of the concubine sent by Lü Buwei. This concubine was a false eunuch, and Zhao Ji also bore him two sons. With Zhao Ji's power, Yan Yi also became a new force in the dynasty, and Yan Yi was even more arrogant to say that she was the "false father" of Qin Shi Huang.
After this matter was exposed, Yan Yi took advantage of Yingzheng to go to Yongcheng to hold a crown ceremony and launch a rebellion. After the defeat, the three ethnic groups were exterminated, and all the party members were suppressed. His two sons, born to Zhao Ji, were also executed.
The occurrence of such a thing not only created a huge gap between Yingzheng and her mother, but also cast a huge shadow on Yingzheng's heart and deepened the distrust of women. Moreover, in the early days, he had been living under the strong supervision of Lady Huayang, and he was also very disgusted by such a thing as the harem's power.
Based on all the above reasons, Qin Shi Huang did not crown an empress. The harem concubines were only tools for him to reproduce, and in his heart, no woman deserved to sit on an equal footing with him.
The life of Qin Shi Huang is the life of a great man, who pioneered a cause that has never been done before, and its influence continues to this day. However, after he unified the Six Kingdoms, he was unable to let the people rest and recuperate, but instead used all his troops and major repairs to repair the fortifications, so that the people could not survive, and the work of himself and his ancestors for hundreds of years ended up in the fate of "two deaths".
As for the deeds of Empress Qin Shi Huang, we can only rely on the development of archaeology in the future to continue to examine.
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