There is a political pattern of the Han Dynasty, and the situation in which the foreign relatives control the government has become the norm, and the foreign relatives have ascended to heaven completely by virtue of the beautiful daughter in the family, so it is easier to get carried away and fly around after gaining power, and therefore, most of the fate of the empress family is very tragic:
The entire Lü family (the Lü Yan family of Liu Bang, the emperor of Han Gaozu) was killed; the Shangguan family (the family of Empress Xiaozhao of The Han Zhao Emperor Liu Fuling) was exterminated; the Huo family (the family of Empress Huo Chengjun of the Han Xuan Emperor Liu Qing) was exterminated...
But there are exceptions to everything, the Empress Yin Lihua family of the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, although also prominent for a while, but in the future it was very peaceful, did not suffer the fate of the whole clan being slaughtered, analyzing the reasons, probably related to the fact that the members of the Yin Lihua family were more sober when they gained power.
One day in 33 AD, a gang of robbers killed Yin Lihua's mother and a younger brother, in order to comfort the Yin family, Liu Xiu ordered Yin Lihua's other younger brother Yin to be the Marquis of Xuan'en, and summoned Yin Lihua's brother Yin Xing, put the seal letter in front of him, and said that he would also give him the title of Marquis, unexpectedly, Yin Xing rejected this good thing, and he said to Liu Xiu: "I have no merit in charging into the battlefield, and in the family, there have been several people who have been knighted and given land, so that the world complains, I do not want this to happen." ”
Liu Xiu saw that Yin Xing was so knowledgeable and admired, and he was no longer reluctant. Later, Yin Lihua asked him why he refused to give the gift, and Yin Xing said solemnly: "The greatest danger of the imperial relatives and relatives is that they do not know how to retreat from humility. The idea that the daughter should be matched with a prince, and the boy has been beating the idea of a princess, which makes me uneasy. Riches have their limits, and people should know to be satisfied. Pompous people, disgusting! ”
Yin Lihua listened to her brother's words and thought that what her brother said was very reasonable, and since then, she has been quite restrained and has never sought an official for her relatives, so when Yin Lihua gained power, there was no phenomenon of power in the Yin family.
In the twentieth year of Jianwu (44), when Liu Xiu was seriously ill, Yin Xing was ordered to become a minister of gu orders in yuntai Guangshi, and a few days later, Liu Xiu's condition improved, and he wanted to make Yin Xing the Grand Sima again, but Yin Xing once again pushed back on the grounds that it was detrimental to the holy virtue.
Yin Lihua herself also knew the truth of concessions, and soon after the founding of the country, Liu Xiu once wanted to establish Yin Lihua as an empress on the grounds that Yin Lihua was "elegant and generous, and had the beauty of motherhood", but Yin Lihua insisted on resigning on the grounds that she was not qualified to assume the position of empress.
Although the people in the Yin family did not have a good ending later, they were all caused by personal moral conduct problems, which belonged to individual phenomena and did not cause the collapse of the entire Yin family, which was extremely rare in the two Han dynasties full of bloody atmosphere.
Compared with the Yin family, the other empress family of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dou family, had a much more tragic end, the third year of the founding of Emperor Han Zhang(78), dou was made empress, after the death of Emperor Han Zhang, the 10-year-old crown prince Liu Zhao took the throne, that is, Han He Emperor, Empress Dou was the empress dowager, because the emperor was young, by Empress Dou came to power, the Dou family therefore chicken dogs ascended to heaven, full of doors, Dou Xian as a great general; Dou Du as a guard; there were more than ten people who served as attendants, generals, doctors, lang officials, and other positions.
The whole clan was in power, noble and prominent, and the members of the family competed for luxury, poverty and skill, and relied on power to do wrong, and the people were silent and swallowed. Dou Xian had a protégé named Cui Xiao, who was a sober man who had given Dou Xian a memorandum in which Cui Xiao listed seventeen families of empresses who had been slaughtered, with the intention of reminding Dou Xian to understand the principle of advance and retreat, so as not to be affected by accidents in the future.
Cui Xiao said, "Your Excellency's favor and official position, just as the sun rises, the civil and military officials, all watch what you do, how can you not be careful day and night, in order to seek glory for life!" The main reason why the empress family was ridiculed by the people of the time and condemned by future generations was that the power was too great, and it did not know how to converge; the official position was too high, the moral ability, but could not match... How can you not be cautious! ”
Unfortunately, at that time, Dou Xian was already arrogant to the extreme, and he could not listen to Cui Xiao's heartfelt words at all, and lost himself in the field of power, falling deeper and deeper, and finally ended up with a suicide. The once "wat full bed" has become an empty hall; the former song and dance hall has become a fading grass and dry poplar... I don't know if when Dou Xian was dying, did he remember Cui Xiao's advice? However, it was all too late.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Qin Keqing gave Wang Xifeng a dream before her death, telling her: "It is often said that 'when the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows; and the Tao is 'If you ascend high, you will fall heavily... If the glory and disgrace of the ancient world have been repeated since ancient times, is it possible for manpower to maintain the normal? ”
There is a saying: "It is advisable to retreat in the depths of grace", if you do not understand the truth that prosperity will decline and "the tree will be a big move, and the official will be a big trouble", you only know how to advance, but do not know how to retreat, and the disaster will not be far away.
The Yin Lihua family understands the truth that "if you ascend to a high level, you will fall heavily", so although you are in a high position, you always remind yourself: Don't be too proud! This is not only a sense of self-protection, but also a spirit of introspection; and what about the Dou Empress family?
But he only knew how to advance and did not know how to retreat, and finally ended up with a family scattered. The different fates of the two queen families can bring a lot of thinking and enlightenment to the people of Vanity Fair.
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