Most women in our country, gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, kind and filial piety, are very good, but some women, in order to gain power, their hearts are incomparably gangsters, typical representatives, are Lü Hou, Wu Zetian, Cixi, these three historically powerful women.
1. Lü Hou
Lü Hou was Liu Bang's original wife, and when Liu Bang became empress, he crowned her as empress, but Liu Bang gave Lü Hou the status of empress dowager, but he gave her favor to the younger and more beautiful Lady Qi. In this regard, although Lü Hou was jealous, she had no choice but to accept the status quo, but Lü Hou's son Liu Ying was made crown prince by Liu Bang, and after Liu Bang's death, Liu Ying would become emperor, at this time, Lü Hou would be able to turn defeat into victory.
After Lü Hou and Lady Qi became emperor, Lady Qi and her son Liu Ruyi were difficult to have a good ending, so Lady Qi used Liu Bang's favor for her and constantly blew the pillow side wind, allowing Liu Bang to make her son Liu Ruyi the crown prince. Liu Ying was weak, unlike Liu Bang, who also wanted to replace him and make Liu Ruyi the crown prince.
Lady Qi put all the weight on Liu Bang, and when Liu Bang wanted to propose the change of the prince, although Lü Hou panicked, she actively contacted the ministers, obtained their help, and finally with the help of the ministers and Shangshan Sihao, liu Bang gave up changing the prince. Although Lü Hou retained her son Liu Ying's position as crown prince through active operation, her feud with Lady Qi deepened.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou summoned Lady Qi's son Liu Ruyi (劉如意) the Prince of Zhao to Luoyang and poisoned him. Subsequently, Lü Hou cut off Lady Qi's feet, gouge out her ears, dumbEdin Qi, let her live in a pigsty, and gave Lady Qi the name "Ren Yan". When Lü Hou asked Liu Ying to come and see, Lady Qi was already torturing her into not being human, and Liu Ying asked Lü Hou, what is this? When he learned that it was Lady Qi, he cried out in fright. After Liu Ying scolded Lü: "This is not what people do", Liu Ying began to fall at this point, and died within a few years.
2. Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian was originally Li Shimin's concubine, but when Li Shimin became seriously ill and died soon after, Wu Zetian, in order to preserve his glory and wealth, went to seduce Li Shimin's son Li Zhi. Shortly after Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi made Wu Zetianna his concubine.
Wu Zetian was a very ambitious woman, and after she entered the palace, she joined forces with Empress Wang to overthrow Concubine Xiao Shufei, but Wu Zetian's ambition was the position of empress. One day, After Empress Wang visited Wu Zetian's daughter, just after leaving, Wu Zetian was keenly aware that her opportunity to overthrow Empress Wang had arrived, and she strangled her own daughter with a cruel heart, marrying her to Empress Wang, resulting in Empress Wang being deposed and replacing her.
After Wu Zetian became empress, Empress Wang and Consort Xiao Shu were both sent to the Cold Palace. But one day, Li Zhi went to the Cold Palace to visit them, and after being known by Wu Zetian, she was afraid that Xiao Shufei and Empress Wang would renew their old love with Li Zhi, so she cut off the hands and feet of Empress Wang and Xiao Shufei, threw them into a wine tank, and tortured them to death for several days. At the same time, Wu Zetian's 4 sons were all stumbling blocks to Wu Zetian's struggle for the throne, among which the eldest son, Li Hong, died suddenly at the age of 23 in the Qiyun Hall of hebi Palace, which is said to have been killed by Wu Zetian, the second son Li Xian was forced to die by Wu Zetian's cool officials, and the remaining two sons were also deposed by Wu Zetian, and the situation was difficult.
3. Cixi
Cixi was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor. Before XianFeng's death, he left his son Tongzhi eight ministers, including Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Jingshou, and Sushun, to assist Tongzhi in governing Jiangshan, but Cixi, for personal gain, after Xianfeng's death, joined forces with Ci'an and Prince Gong Yixuan to launch a coup d'état of Xin You, eliminating the eight ministers of Gu Ming and taking power into his own hands, but the disaster of the Great Qing also began.
At the hands of Cixi, the Qing Dynasty suffered successive fiascos to the great powers, signed many unequal treaties, and ceded a large amount of land to the great powers. At the same time, a large amount of reparations were also paid to the great powers every year, which added a heavy burden to the people of the Qing Dynasty. After the country faced danger, the Guangxu Emperor, in order to save the Qing Dynasty, began to support Kang Youwei and others in implementing the "Penghu Reform Law", preparing to change the Qing dynasty from various aspects such as the system.
The Guangxu Emperor's change of law threatened Cixi's power, and Cixi once again disregarded the interests of daqing, launched a coup d'état, killed the reformists, and put the Guangxu emperor under house arrest, which made daqing lose the last chance to save himself. Subsequently, Cixi also learned that when the great powers were preparing to interfere in the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty and force Cixi to return to Guangxu, Cixi Li Lingzhi was unconscious, and in order to maintain his own power, he declared war on 11 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, triggering the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance and leading the people of the Qing Dynasty to the abyss of disaster.
Even before her death, Cixi was not thinking about the people of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Great Qing Dynasty, but herself, she poisoned the Guangxu Emperor, and chose a 3-year-old child Puyi for the Great Qing to be the emperor, in order to wait for her to recover from her illness, so that she could continue to control the court and hold power.