There has always been a saying on the Internet: "Marry someone without marrying a phoenix man, and marrying a wife without marrying a brother and a demon." "Phoenix men refer to those who are born at the bottom of society, but after being promoted to a high position, they do not keep pace with the times in their hearts, or they have the mentality of inferiority and sensitivity in the past, and they have no sense of security; Fu Di Mo refers to the fact that women after marriage are influenced by the traditional concepts of the old society, and they seek benefits for their mother's brothers regardless of their own happiness, even at the expense of the interests of their partners.
In today's society, marriageable men and women will have a headache when they encounter these two types of beings. Indeed, the behavior of the Phoenix Man and the Fu Di Demon brought great variables to the marriage of the two, and the light ones quarreled day by day or ended in divorce; The heavy drags the other side down into the abyss and loses both.
In the history of the mainland, there was such an empress dowager during the Western Han Dynasty. She is a collection of phoenix men and fudi demons, during her reign, she reused and promoted her brothers at any cost, realized the dream of "one person to get the ascension of chickens and dogs to heaven", and finally personally pushed the Western Han Dynasty to extinction, which also led to the fate of the mother's family being wiped out, she was the empress dowager of the Western Han Dynasty - Wang Zhengjun.
Before telling her, let's tell a story:
When Emperor Xuan of Han's son Liu Yi (shi) was still crown prince, she was very fond of the beautiful concubine Sima Liangdi (良娣), a concubine of the harem.
However, sima Liangdi fell seriously ill shortly after the good times, and before she died, she probably did not want her concubines to compete for favors after her death, so she said to Liu Yi:
"The death of a concubine is not the destiny of heaven, but the concubines and concubines are even more willing to curse me!"
In short, Sima Liangdi said that I was cursed to death by others, and I hated it in my heart! At this time, the young Liu Yi also believed that it was true, and the young people all had a love vision of a lifetime and a couple, and Liu Yi fell into a deep thought of Aifei and respected the rest of the concubines.
Liu Yi was the crown prince of the Western Han Empire and had no children under his knees, and he fell into a love affair and did not approach the female color, which naturally worried the close courtiers of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, and they did not dare to conceal and secretly report to the emperor Liu Qian.
Liu Qianyi was a little anxious when he heard it, he was also a lover who had a deep affection for Xu Pingjun, and as a result, his beloved wife was poisoned and killed by the Huo family. Out of guilt for Liu Yi's mother Xu Pingjun, Liu Xiang has always been very fond of this son. He immediately asked Empress Wang to choose a beautiful young palace girl to give to Liu Yi, so that he could transfer his feelings.
Empress Wang did not dare to be idle and hurriedly selected five palace women, and after bathing and changing clothes, dressing up, let the prince come over.
As soon as Liu Yi arrived at the Empress's Palace and saw five beautiful women standing below the Empress, he immediately knew it. When Empress Wang asked him which beautiful and beautiful person, Liu Yi, out of respect for her stepmother, closed her eyes and casually pointed to a palace girl nearest to her. This palace lady is the prince.
As we all know, there was never a shortage of beautiful women in the imperial palace in the feudal era. They fight for appearance, talent, and family lineage, all of which want to kill a bloody road in the harem, get the favor of the emperor (including the future crown prince) and soar to the sky. For Wang Zhengjun, these three items are not particularly prominent, and the reason why she can be photographed by Liu Yi can only be said to be due to luck.
When Wang Zhengjun's mother was pregnant with her, she dreamed of the moon in her arms. When she grew up and married, she "killed" two fiancés in succession, and the neighbors began to talk about it. Wang Zhengjun's father, Wang Ban, was also very depressed, so he superstitiously found a Xiangshi, and xiangshi finally concluded: "This woman is noble! ”
Wang Ban was very happy to hear this, and he thought that the world's wealth was greater than in the palace, so he entrusted people to send Wang Zhengjun to the palace to become a family son.
In the beautiful palace, Wang Zhengjun was not valued, but when the time came, he was sent to the womb and began his own path to the clouds.
As a teenager with "pure love", Liu Yi always liked Sima Liangdi to stay at her place at night, but more than ten concubines in the name of the crown prince had never given birth to an imperial grandson. The arrival of Wang Zhengjun changed this situation, and she and the prince successfully became pregnant after a night of joy, and in October they conceived a grandchild.
Like all grandfathers in ancient and modern times, the arrival of the eldest grandson made Emperor Xuan of Han overjoyed, and he personally named the emperor's eldest grandson Liu Xiao and raised him with him, which was also equivalent to secretly declaring to the world: I like this grandson very much. He also inadvertently sent an amulet to Liu Xiao's mother and son.
Since the ancient mother relied on her son Gui, the son got the emperor's favor Wang Zhengjun naturally rose in the water, and after Liu Yi ascended the throne as the empress dowager, he was crowned as an empress and became the little prince of the country.
However, Wang Zhengjun is not the object of Liu Yi's liking after all, and Liu Yi is no longer the pure love teenager he was at the beginning, after he ascended the throne, he gradually became charming in the face of the beautiful flowers like clouds, and soon had a new love. For this reason, he also had the idea of deposing the crown prince, although in the end it did not work out, but it made Wang Zhengjun feel vigilant, and he trembled all day in the harem to maintain the status of his mother and son, and he could not take care of his brothers and sisters in the mother's family.
In 33 BC, Liu Yi, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, whose body was hollowed out by wine, died, and Wang Zhengjun assisted his son to ascend the throne and became the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor and queen were integrated, and the empress dowager had a tradition of assisting the empress dowager with great authority, and the foreign forces played an important role in the court. However, despite this, if a foreign relative wants to be knighted or an official, he must also have real merit or strong strength, such as Dou Bao during the period of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, and Wei and Huo during the period of Emperor Wu.
However, Wang Zhengjun did not do this, and after seizing power, she became a peerless brother and demon, and wantonly rewarded her mother's brothers and nephews. The living marquises and those who died early were also posthumously honored as hou (wang Mang's father, Wang Man, was like this), and people at the time called them "five marquises and ten generals".
In Wang Zhengjun's shallow political cognition, the brothers who fight the tiger brothers and sons and soldiers are not at all wary of the complexity of human nature, especially under the deception of huge interests. The mother's family that they do not spare any effort to support, they will only get more and more inching, and sometimes it is not others who destroy themselves, but it is precisely the unrestrained love and gifts to others.
Sure enough, the Wang clan people had no merit before, and after suddenly gaining power, they began to eagerly eliminate dissidents above the court to monopolize power.
For the actions of his uncles, Liu Xiao, the recently enthroned Emperor of Hancheng, knew it. Since the ancient emperor could push his relatives but would not tolerate their unscrupulous misdeeds, but the connivance of Wang Zhengjun, coupled with the fact that at this time, the Wang clan had spread all over the court and moved his whole body, Liu Xiao was powerless to start alone. He himself was not the Prince of the Holy Ming, and in the face of this situation, he simply hid in the harem and spoiled the palace women from then on.
Liu Xiao's behavior disappointed Wang Zhengjun, she could not understand how her son could become so, and finally Wang Zhengjun could only blame his son's behavior on the harem's Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede sisters, believing that they seduced the lord to seduce their son and hated the two from then on.
In 7 BC, Liu Xiao finally ran out of oil and died violently in Zhao Hede's palace, leaving no heirs. Although Wang Zhengjun was sad when the news came out, she was most concerned about the interests of her mother's family, so after consulting with the courtiers, she also established Liu Xin, the son of King Tao Gong, as emperor.
In Wang Zhengjun's view, Liu Xin was able to ascend the throne as the emperor himself, and he would certainly protect the interests of himself and the Wang clan after he came to power. Who knew that Liu Xin had long been unaccustomed to the flying and tumbling of the Wang clan, and did not want to learn from Liu Xiao to be a nominal empty heavenly son. After he came to power, he began to learn from him, appointing his birth mother Empress Ding's clan, and after gradually gaining power, Liu Xin began to exclude the Wang clan, the "star of hope" of the Wang family, and Wang Zhengjun's favorite Wang Mang was relegated to Xinye.
Wang Zhengjun was impatient to see her family being bullied, but it was not very useful for her to speak now that she was marginalized, after all, Emperor Liu Xin was not his own son. But at this time, good luck once again helped Wang Zhengjun, Liu Xin died of a serious illness less than six years after ascending the throne, and Wang Zhengjun was overjoyed when he heard about it, and quickly sent someone to threaten Liu Xin's confidant Sima Dongxian (the one who broke his sleeve and divided the peach) to hand over the jade seal of the country.
A counter-offensive then began, and Dong Xian, Zhao Feiyan, and Empress Fu (Emperor Of Han) were forced to commit suicide. After eradicating political enemies, Wang Zhengjun returned to the imperial title system, and replaced the nine-year-old Zhongshan king Liu Yan as emperor, known as the Hanping Emperor in history, and still reused his nephew Sima Wang Mang to assist the government.
However, what Wang Zhengjun did not know was that at this time, Wang Mang, the nephew of "filial piety", was no longer satisfied with the position of a powerful subject, and he wanted to establish himself as emperor on behalf of Han. In order to achieve this goal, Wang Mang on the one hand used disguise to show people and win the favor of courtiers; On the other hand, he disguised filial piety and let Wang Zhengjun hand over the power to himself and go out more to exercise. The elderly and tired Wang Zhengjun knew what he was thinking in his heart, and naturally he was so happy, and it was the best thing for her to come to Liu and Wang to protect their wealth together.
In 6 AD, the young Emperor Ping of Han died (some say that Wang Mang killed him), and Wang Mang stepped up the pace of self-reliance on behalf of han, and he instructed his courtiers to forge the Book of Baishi Dan, inscribed: Wang Mang of the Duke of An Han as emperor. In the face of Wang Mang's temptation, Wang Zhengjun knew what his nephew was thinking, he wanted to establish himself as emperor!
Although Wang Zhengjun favored his mother's family, he still regarded himself as the daughter-in-law of the Han Dynasty from beginning to end, and never replaced the mind of the Han Dynasty. So she angrily expressed her disapproval, but at this time, Wang Zhengjun was already far away from the power of Wang Mang, and she could not stop Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne at all.
Three years later, Wang Mang usurped the throne and established himself, and sent his cousin Wang Shun, the Marquis of Anyang, into the palace to meet Wang Zhengjun and ask for the imperial jade seal. Wang Zhengjun angrily rebuked them for enjoying the kindness of the Han Dynasty, but he did ungrateful things, and after saying that, he smashed the Chuanguo Jade Seal down the stairs and broke a corner.
Wang Mang was very happy to receive Yuxi, and after the establishment of the "new" dynasty, he was crowned as the greatest contributor in the change of dynasty, and his aunt Wang Zhengjun was made "Empress Dowager Wenmu of the New Chamber". And destroyed the Han Yuan Emperor Temple and renamed it the Longevity Palace for Wang Zhengjun to live, when Wang Zhengjun saw that the ZongMiao temple where he sacrificed his husband was destroyed, he cried bitterly no matter how strong he was: "I was originally a concubine of the Han Yuan Emperor, how could I destroy my husband's Zongmiao temple as a place for me to dine?" ”
But at this time, it was too late, after she took power, she did a lifetime of brother support, with a lifetime of energy to support her brothers and nephews, but in the end it breeding the ambitions of her family, resulting in the fall of the Western Han Dynasty and making herself discredited. The Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Fuzhi used a sentence to evaluate her: "Those who died in the Western Han Dynasty, the sins of the Yuan Hou are all in heaven!" ”