In ancient China, the emperor had the supreme social status and could also sit in the harem of three thousand beautiful women. Entering the palace to become a concubine is the dream of many women, and the queen is the lifelong pursuit of many concubines. In our eyes, the empress is carefree and able to manage the entire harem, the power is not small, and the emperor treats the empress very favorably, so the empress is simply a female fantasy status. It is good that the empress was born in the stable era, but if she was born in a chaotic world, especially the queen of the subjugated country, the fate is the most tragic. Today we are talking about a particularly fertile queen, who gave birth to 12 children in fifteen years. Logically, she should enjoy her old age peacefully, but in the end she was executed by the emperor.
This tragic woman was Emperor Wendi of Western Wei's empress Dowager Yifushi. Yifu (乙福氏), compound surname Yifu (乙弗), was a member of the Xianbei Murong clan, whose ancestor was Qu Shuai of the Tuguhun Kingdom and had long lived in Qinghai in the northwest region. Later, Gaozu Yifu Mogui was attached to Northern Wei, received preferential treatment, and married a Northern Wei princess. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, the family also moved to Luoyang.
It is precisely because of the family's Xuanhe, coupled with the fact that the Yifu clan itself is out of the water spirit, the sixteen-year-old YiFushi is married to the Northern Wei imperial yuan baoju. Yi Fu's Xiaoyuan Baoju was three years old, and the two were similar in age and very affectionate. In the sixth year of Zhengguang (525), the sixteen-year-old Yifu gave birth to Yuan Baoju's eldest son, Yuan Qin.
Beauty instrument, less words and smiles. (Li Yanshou's History of the North)"
In the following ten years, the love between Yi Fushi and Yuan Baoju was born one after another. In the third year of Yong'an (530), Yuan Baojujin was made the King of Nanyang, and his wife Yifushi was made a princess. Ten years later, Yuan Baoju became emperor and established the Western Wei regime, and the original Yifu clan was naturally made empress.
Empress Yifu has been a reader since she was a child, educated, and her character is very approachable, generous, and it is most appropriate to describe her in terms of knowledgeable Dali Mother Yi Tianxia! As an empress, she naturally had to manage the harem for the emperor, and she did a very good job in this regard, leading by example, so the harem was very peaceful, and there was no trivial matter that disturbed the emperor, so that Yuan Baoju was very at ease to take care of the government.
Although Empress Yifu was already an empress, her status was too high to say, according to common sense, she should wear gold and silver to enjoy endless glory and wealth, but she was taught to be frugal and simple since she was a child, still like before, wearing old clothes, jewelry is not brought, naturally there will be no concubine jealousy
However, Heaven was not beautiful, and Empress Yifu was finally involved in political issues. At that time, the northern nomads Rouran posed a great threat to Western Wei, and the imperial court planned to negotiate peace with Rouran in the form of marriage, so that Yuan Baoju would marry the daughter of the leader of Ruoran, not only that, but also abolish the position of Empress Yifu and make Rouran's princess the empress. Empress Yifu put the overall situation first and took the initiative to give up the position of empress to Princess Rouran.
After the abolition of the Ephraim, he moved to the palace, cut off his hair, and became a nun. Princess Rouran was a big vinegar jar, and she felt that Yuan Baoju had been very affectionate with Yi Fushi before, so she asked to be expelled from the capital. In order to defend this hard-won peace, Yuan Baoju had to relegate Yi Fushi's son to Taizhou as an assassin and let her leave with him.
After Yi Fushi left Beijing, Yuan Baoju still had a longing for Yi Fushi in his heart, and secretly ordered Yi Fushi to cultivate his hair, and he wanted to find an opportunity to take Yi Fushi back to the palace. However, the secret hair raising of the Yifu clan made the Rouran Princess Yu Jiu Lu clan detect, and the vinegar-haired Yu Jiu Lu clan did not hesitate to write a letter back to complain, saying that she had been bullied by Yuan Baoju and had to let her mother's family come to give her this breath.
Later, Rouran's army attacked again, and this female empress of Rouran forced Yuan Baoju to kill Empress Yifu. Yuan Baoju was forced to die in desperation, so he had to tearfully kill Empress Yifu. She was thirty-one years old. If he could, Yuan Baoju was naturally reluctant to give death to his wife, but he was powerless. This feeling is estimated that the later Zhao Shuo also deeply experienced it. Empress Yifu married the emperor at the age of 16, gave birth to 12 children in 15 years, worked hard, and estimated that she could not imagine that she would be killed by her husband in tears at the age of 31.
From the birth of Yuan Qin at the age of sixteen to the age of twenty-nine, in the fourteen years before and after, Empress Yifu actually gave birth to twelve children, almost one a year, which is a miracle in history, but in the end only two of these twelve children survived, which undoubtedly added a little sadness to the end of this tragic story.