The relationship between men and women in the Tang dynasty royal family was very chaotic: after the change of Xuanwumen, Emperor Taizong of Tang named his brother's wife Yang Shi "Yang Concubine" and was very favored;
After the death of Emperor Taizong, Emperor Gaozong of Tang incorporated the talented Wu clan, who had been favored by his father, into the harem, and achieved the later empress Wu Zetian;
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, coveted his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan and adopted her as a noble concubine through means and power.
Later generations explained this phenomenon that the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty had Hu ancestry, and the Hu people had the tradition of "fathers and sons, brothers and brothers", which was not only manifested in the throne, but also in the harem wives and concubines.
Although this explanation is conclusive, it is still very difficult for Chinese sons and daughters who advocate etiquette to accept.
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However, compared with Wei Xuangong, the king of the State of Wei in the Spring and Autumn Period, the behavior of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Tang Dynasty was much more civilized.
Historical background
The Zhou Dynasty became the titular king of the Zhou Dynasty due to the great feudal princes and the growing power of the princes, which led to the zhou tianzi becoming the nominal king, watching each princely prince act independently, and hundreds of princely states and monarchs occupy one side, including powerful overlords and small countries with few land and few people.
Wei Guo, located in the northern part of Henan this year, his first monarch was the son of King Wen of Zhou and the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, surnamed Ji, who was the legitimate bloodline of the Zhou royal family.
The capital of the Wei state was in Chaoge (now Hebi, Henan), during the Spring and Autumn Period it was sandwiched between the great powers such as Qin, Chu and Jin, and was surrounded by the three kingdoms of Chu, Han and Wei during the Warring States period, which can be said to be a small country.
Although the state was small, Weiguo was the longest surviving princely state, which perished in the Qin II era; and the country attached great importance to education, and many celebrities emerged, such as Shang Martin, Lü Buwei, Wu Qi, Jing Ke, Nie Zheng and others.
The sense of existence of Weiguo in history is relatively small, so many people and things have been swept by the torrent of history, and future generations rarely know, today we come to know the most absurd monarch of this country - Wei Xuangong.
Feudal monarch
Duke Xuan of Wei, courtesy name Ji Jin, was the son of Duke Zhuang of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period. After the death of his father Duke Zhuang of Wei, the throne passed to his eldest son, Ji Quan, the Duke of Wei Huan. At this time, Ji Jin was sent to a neighboring country as a proton (during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, countries had the tradition of sending their sons to other countries to be protons in order to form alliances).
Duke Wei Zhuang's favorite son during his lifetime was called Zhou Wu, he bravely and fiercely worshipped martial arts, and after his brother ascended the throne, he was extremely unconvinced, believing that he was his father's favorite son and had the ability to be the monarch himself, so he assassinated his brother Wei Xuangong and established himself as a king.
After zhou wu succeeded to the throne, he was very belligerent, causing dissatisfaction among the people, and his seat was not honorable, so he was quickly killed by his subordinates.
The prince Of Jin, who was far away from the throne, died one after another due to the internecine killing of his two brothers, and he was welcomed back to Wei by his ministers as a monarch, known as The Duke of Wei Xuan.
Married stepmother and Jonah's daughter-in-law
When Duke Wei Xuan was young, he often went in and out of the court, and became acquainted with his father, Duke Wei Zhuang's concubine Yi Jiang, and the two were similar in age, and gradually secretly fell in love.
After the death of Duke Wei Zhuang, the two had an adulterous affair, and the pearl fetus was secretly knotted, Yi Jiang gave birth to a son for him, named Qiuzi, in order to hide the eyes and ears, Ji Jin gave the child to his uncle Right Prince to raise in the people.
After Duke Wei Zhuang became the new monarch, he did not forget his old feelings, deposed his unloved Lady Zhengmu, made his mother-in-law Yi Jiang the lady of the monarch, and crowned him as the crown prince. Duke Wei Zhuang was also very fond of Yi Jiang, and later gave birth to two sons.
If history continues like this, then Wei Xuangong is still a man of great affection, but the next thing is absurd.
Ruthless is the most imperial family, and the decay and love of chi are the portrayal of the tragic life of the harem woman. As the children grew up, Yi Jiang no longer looked good, and Wei Xuangong began to fill the harem with beautiful women.
When the crown prince became an adult, the ministers proposed to marry other monarchs to consolidate the power of the state of Defense, and finally selected Xuanjiang, the daughter of the monarch of the state of Qi.
Stills from the new Tainna daughter-in-law
Xuanjiang was at this time in her youth, a well-known beauty in the State of Qi, and the envoy responsible for welcoming her from the State of Qi to the State of Wei described her beauty to Duke Xuangong of Wei.
When Wei Xuangong heard this, he became greedy, sent the bride-to-be to the Song Kingdom to go on an envoy, put on his own wedding clothes and boarded the new palace built for his marriage, Xintai, and married his daughter-in-law.
Anxious son was taught from an early age to be serious about love and righteousness, to observe etiquette and etiquette, and when he returned to China, he could only accept the established reality; the bride on the other side, Xuan jiang, was originally going to marry a young pretty boy, and when he lifted the hijab, he found that he was a bad old man, and his heart was infinitely bitter and aggrieved, but he could only swallow his anger in a foreign country.
With the new person, Yi Jiang was snubbed, coupled with her disdain for Wei Xuangong's behavior, and hanged herself in the palace.
Two sons of filial piety and benevolence
After Xuanjiang entered the palace, he gave birth to two sons: Ji Shou and Ji Shuo, Gongzi Shou Ren Ai, and Gongzi Shuo sinister.
As the two sons grew up, the position of prince of the anxious son was in jeopardy.
Xuanjiang and Gongzi Shuo often said bad things about Xuangong in Xuangong's ear, saying that he hated Xuangong and Xuanjiang's mother and son because of Yijiang's suicide, and was plotting to usurp the throne.
The dim-witted Xuangong killed this once beloved son, pretending to arrange for the hasty son to send an envoy to a neighboring country, and then arranged for the killer to assassinate him at the border of the Weiguo.
Xuan Jiang and Wei Xuan Gong Stills
Xuanjiang and Gongzi Shuo summoned the killer just in case and told him that the prince was a man holding a white sword, so as not to kill him by mistake.
These words were overheard by Gongzi Shou, who immediately rode up to his brother, told him the news of the assassination, and advised him not to go on an envoy and flee to another country.
After hearing this, he insisted on obeying his father's orders, saying that he would be ridiculed for disobeying the king's orders and his father's orders, being unfaithful and filial, and even if he fled to another country.
In Ji Shou's heart, Heiko is both the eldest brother and the prince, he is a younger brother and a courtier, and the older brother is loyal and filial, and he himself follows suit. After he drunk his anxious son, he picked up Bai Xu and resolutely died on behalf of his brother.
When he woke up drunk, he found that his brother had died generously instead of himself, and he was so distraught that he rushed to the Assassins and told the Assassins that he was the prince, and that they had killed the wrong person, so they were also killed.
Overnight, the loss of two sons, Wei Xuangong was deeply shocked, Xuanjiang also regretted not being at the beginning, holding Ji Shou and crying bitterly, only Ji Shuo was secretly happy in his heart, this swept away two obstacles, he was crowned prince.
The following year, Duke Xuan of Wei died, and Ji Shuo ascended to the throne as the Prince of Wei, because his position as monarch came disgraceful, and his uncle Duke Xiang of Qi, in order to control the State of Wei and consolidate the position of his nephew, forced Xuan Jiang to marry Ji Shuo's half-brother Ji Ji (Yi Jiang's son, The younger brother of Qizi).
The Spring and Autumn Period is an era of collapse and happiness in history, and the two generations of Wei Xuangong's father and son are the best examples, and the brothers of the later feudal dynasties, fathers and sons, and acts of fornication are all exemplified between the royal families from the Spring and Autumn Period.
The situation in Europe today is the same as that of the Spring and Autumn Warring States on the mainland, and we were fortunate to unify the world in the era of Qin Shi Huang, and only then did we have the Great Rule and Taiping in later generations.