Have you ever seen such an example: someone accompanied a friend to the director's audition result, the friend was not selected, but he (she) was selected! It is the reflection of that saying, called "unintentional willow shading"...
In the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms" period in the history of the mainland, there were also similar incidents, which was roughly that Miss Qianjin married with a dowry, and finally did not admit that the lady became an empress and the lady was just a concubine! In any case, it seems difficult for people to understand why Ya Gui was able to become an empress "in a flat step"?
As we all know, to become the empress of the mother's world, being born in the family of dignitaries is a necessary condition, and the extraordinary temperament of Zhishu Dali is also a major element. So, where did this lady stand out and become the "exceptional queen" in history?
This "exceptional empress" was Song Fujin, the founding empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It's not surprising that many people are somewhat unfamiliar with the name, as she lived during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
This Song Fujin is not as simple as Guangguang becoming an empress, her achievements can almost "match" Wu Zetian!
01 Ben is also Miss Qianjin, who was adopted because of the death of her family in the war
In fact, Song Fujin's original origin is not low, she was born in Jiangxia during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which is now the Hubei region, since childhood the family is well-off and quite popular with her father, so when she was a child, Song Fujin was taught calligraphy and painting etiquette, etc., making herself a big miss who knew how to read dali - this is also a prerequisite for her to become an empress.
However, in that doomed era, in the midst of the war, Song Fujin's parents and family were killed, and she herself became a poor orphan with no one to rely on.
Song Fujin, who witnessed the death of his parents, could only wipe away his tears afterwards despite being frightened and crying, and fled with the neighbors, wandering in this land where the people did not have a good life.
At a young age, he encountered life and death, coupled with the wandering life of no one to rely on, so that Song Fujin had long experienced the cold and warmth of the human world and put life and death aside.
Fortunately, on the road of heaven and earth, Song Fujin, who was experiencing a turbulent and displaced life, soon met a nobleman, that is, Wu Guoshengzhou Assassin Shi Wang Rong. Wang Rong accidentally saw the wandering Song Fujin and felt that she was very pitiful when she was wandering at a young age; and then looked closely at the handsome girl in front of her, which could be described as beautiful and extremely sensible.
"It's a pity that she's about the same age as my girlfriend." Wang Rong thought so and felt that she was very suitable to be his daughter's personal servant, so he adopted her, and Song Fujin became a maid in the palace.
Song Fujin was only one year younger than Wang Rong's daughter Wang Shi, and the two people of similar age felt sorry for each other at first sight, and the sisters were commensurate.
Although Song Fujin was nominally a servant, Wang Rong did not treat her badly, but asked her to learn piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and poetry with her daughter Wang.
And Song Fujin herself is also from the Shuxiang family, and has learned a lot of knowledge under her father's arrangement, which also allows her to smoothly learn related content with the Wang family.
The unhindered communication made the Wang clan also look at her, and the days of mutual learning and companionship made Song Fujin gradually forget the previous pain, and she grew up with the Wang clan in a healthy and happy way, and the mutual feelings became deeper and deeper.
When he grew up, Song Fujin was even more intelligent and endearing.
02 The future husband has a similar experience with Song Fujin, and he will eventually make a difference under the fence
We turn our attention again to a man named Xu Zhichen.
This experience of Xu Zhihuan when he was young was not much different from that of Song Fujin, both orphans who had lost their parents in the war, and were all adopted by powerful people in their own mansions.
Xu Zhiyan was first adopted by Yang Xingmi, the grandfather of Southern Wu, but Yang Xingmi's own son was not as generous as Wang Rong's daughter, and they were afraid that Xu Zhiyan would enter the house to compete for favors, so they squeezed him out with their mother.
Helplessly, Yang Xingmi had to foster him in the palace of the great general Xu Wen, and Xu Wen also liked this handsome boy, and Xu Zhiyu settled down in Xu Mansion.
Because of the previous experience of being targeted by the Yang family's sons, Xu Zhihuan, who entered the Xu Mansion, always acted cautiously.
In order to gain a foothold in Xu Mansion, he followed Xu Wen up early every day and often accompanied his adoptive father to handle related affairs for him as much as he could.
However, Xu Wen's sons were very unhappy to see Xu Zhiyan "patting his ass" like this, and they often ridiculed and bullied him, but Xu Zhihuan understood that he was sending people under the fence and had to endure silently, and he silently still served next to Xu Wen. Even when Xu Wen was sick and bedridden and could not take care of himself for a while, Xu Zhihuan did not complain about his.
Xu Wen was very touched by all this effort, and in addition to his growing love for him, he also entrusted the housework to him to manage.
But this was bound to cause dissatisfaction among Xu Wen's sons, who had secretly plotted to murder Xu Wen many times, and fortunately, Xu Wen cleverly avoided it each time.
As Xu Wen's power grew in the court, he gradually took control of the Wu state, and his eldest son was promoted to become an assistant to the King of Wu.
However, this eldest son was just arrogant and had no brains and finally killed others, and Xu Wen's other biological sons were also unfinished material, which made Xu Wen have to turn his eyes to the talented Xu Zhiyan.
Under Xu Wen's cultivation, Xu Zhihuan also made many battle achievements!
Back to the point, when both Wang and Song Fujin grew into big girls, the matchmakers also came in an endless stream.
Once, there was another matchmaker in the palace--this matchmaker was not ordinary, it was sent by xu Wen, the general of the State of Wu, to give his adopted son Xu Zhihuan a media job, and let him marry Wang Rongzhi's queen clan also out of political marriage considerations.
At that time, It was the period of Xu Zhihuan's career rise, and the marriage recommended by Xu Wen could be said to be a plan for his future career. Seeing that Xu Wen's power in the court was unmatched, Wang Rong naturally could not offend and had to agree.
Wang and Song Fujin sisters have a deep affection, and she is very reluctant to part ways with Song Fujin, so she lets her go to Xu Mansion as a dowry.
03 Song Fujin was straightened out and helped his husband to maintain his political power rationally
After Wang and Xu Zhihuan became relatives, the husband and wife respected each other as guests and lived a calm and smooth life. However, due to the weakness of the Wang family since childhood, so that she did not conceive a child for several years after marriage, coupled with her own arrogance and laziness to please her husband, so the Hu family members talked about it, which also made Xu Zhihuan, as the husband, bear a lot of public pressure.
Song Fujin, who is a servant, can often talk together because he and Xu Zhihuan have encountered similar childhood experiences, and the so-called long-term love is more or less so, and soon the two fell in love. And the Wang clan saw the situation and naturally let her husband accept Song Fujin as a concubine.
Song Fujin is also a person with high emotional intelligence, who still loves his good sister in Xu Mansion, and the two get along the same as before.
Soon after, Song Fujin bore a son for Xu Zhihuan, named "Xu Jingtong". Now that the Xu family has descendants, everyone is very happy!
However, it is regrettable that Wang Shi later died of illness, and since then Song Fujin has lost the good partner and good sister who grew up together.
Since then, Song Fujin, who has been raised as the main chamber, has given birth to two sons for Xu Zhihuan in succession, and she seems to be born as a "nobleman" of her husband, and since officially becoming Xu Zhihuan's wife, her career has climbed all the way.
Time passed, and Xu Wen, the spirited adoptive father of that year, could not resist the invasion of the disease, and finally died of illness in Jinling.
Xu Zhihuan, who was leading the troops outside, wanted to rush from the garrison of Wu Guo's capital to Jinling to mourn immediately, and although the seeds of gaining power sprouted in his heart at this moment, he still had great respect and heartache for his adoptive father.
Wife Song Fujin is a wise man, and in the face of her husband's impulsive and unthinking decision, she gave advice at the right time: "You should do filial piety for your adoptive father, but if you go back now, you will most likely lose power here in Yangzhou, and Yangzhou is the place where Wu Du is!" ”
Thanks to the reminder of the cautious Song Fujin, Xu Zhihuan did not leave Yangzhou in a panic and be seized of power. So he sent someone else to Jinling to deal with his adoptive father's affairs, and he continued to guard Yangzhou by himself.
Xu Wen's own sons were powerless to get rid of Xu Zhiyan at this time, because the latter's power had become increasingly powerful, and for a while it was not something they could match.
Without the interference of his successor brothers, Xu Zhihuan successfully proclaimed himself king of Qi and monopolized the power of the State of Wu.
04 Kennai helped Song Fujin to obtain the throne and was crowned empress
Xu Zhihuan, who became the queen of Qi, was not satisfied with the present, and his goal began to march towards the emperor.
Of course, some court ministers did not want Xu Wen, the adopted son, to seek the throne, so Xu Zhihuan eliminated the forces that opposed him one by one, and his constant behavior of buying people's hearts made his position in the dprk more and more consolidated.
During this period, the wise and resourceful Xiannai Helper Song Fujin often gave advice to her husband, such as letting him visit the people in the folk, and actively helping those who encountered hardships in life.
This kind of "winning the hearts and minds of the people" also made more and more people support Xu Zhihuan, and then he took the opportunity to seize the Jiangshan of the State of Wu and establish the Southern Tang regime.
When he became emperor, Xu Zhihuan was nearly half a hundred years old, and after he changed the name of the country to "Great Tang" (historically known as Southern Tang), he also changed his name to "Li Fu", Song Fujin was officially crowned empress, and his sister Wang Shi was posthumously named Shunfei.
From this point of view, the status of Song Fujin in Xu Zhihuan's mind is obviously higher, and she is worthy of being the most successful dowry in history!
During Li Fu's reign, he governed properly, so the people of the early Southern Tang Dynasty lived a very rich life, and the emperor's reputation among the people was also good.
Of course, all this depends on the "rear help" of Empress Song Fujin: when her husband ruled the country at the imperial court, she managed the harem wisely and handled the harem affairs in an orderly manner;
Not only that, Song Fujin, who had the general political ability of Wu Zetian, was often allowed to discuss state affairs with Li Fu and provide him with reasonable and feasible suggestions.
The ministers of the DPRK also seemed to have acquiesced to the actions of the emperor and the empress, after all, they believed that the empress of the dynasty did have a talent for governing the country, so the Southern Tang Dynasty could present a prosperous scene.
05 Sober as Song Fujin, although he had great talent, he did not interfere with the imperial court
However, in his later years, Li Fu committed a common disease of ancient emperors, that is, he could not give up power in a vain attempt to live forever, so he often asked Taoist priests to refine Dan medicine for himself to take.
But where in the world is there any elixir of immortality? Moreover, as he continued to take medicine, his physical personality gradually appeared some problems, and Li Fu became more and more irritable, so that the ministers were cautious and did not dare to speak.
The role of Empress Song Fujin was also reflected at this time, the emperor could not listen to the words of others, but for what the empress said, Li Fu, who respected and loved her, would always listen to a few points, so when some ministers who were not afraid of power and dared to speak out were degraded by him, thanks to Song Fujin's help, these courtiers were not innocently killed.
Because there were too many poisons gathered in his body, Li Fu finally died of illness, bidding farewell to the throne that he was in love with, and then succeeded his eldest son Li Jing.
Although Song Fujin became empress dowager and possessed Wu Zetian's political talents, she had no ambition to dominate the imperial court. Although her ministers, who were optimistic about her, pleased her and wanted her to "listen to the government of the dynasty", Song Fujin did not agree.
Xu is well aware that a woman's involvement in politics may cause greater problems, or perhaps she trusts her eldest son to have the ability to govern the country, so she has never thought of interfering in the government.
But her son Li Jing finally failed to live up to her and the expectations of the former emperor.
Li Jing was not so much an emperor as a poet who liked to write lyrics, and he did not have the same state rule as his father, but he still had the dream of expanding the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Although in the early stage, he fought many victorious battles with his army, but in the later stage, because of the long-term battle, the army was weak, and he suffered a defeat in the last battle, and the trend of decline was uncontrollable...
Seeing that the jiangshan was already in chaos, Song Fujin, although worried, had no choice, and finally died in 945 AD, and was buried next to Li Fu's tomb, with the title of Empress Yuanjing.
epilogue
Song Fujin, the strange empress, can be described as having the wisdom and cleverness of everyone, virtuous and good, and she has been restrained and obedient throughout her life.
Even so, he could not escape the shackles of the feudal etiquette system, and even if he saw that his son had destroyed the country, he did not want to bear the insult and exert his political talents. If she had been born in today's society, she would have been a strong woman who could make a contribution.
But it is undeniable that Song Fujin also has many excellent shining points in her body: she understands the great righteousness and is not tempted by the power, and always adheres to her own principles (although this principle is imprisoned by feudal etiquette);
She was willing to be the one behind her husband's career, regardless of whether she had the right to get it, and she was a model of help, and she understood why she could get the favor of the emperor and the sincere admiration of her ministers.
So what kind of enlightenment does Song Fujin's deeds give us in modern times? I think it's "born to be useful."
Throughout her life, the beginning was not smooth sailing or even a lot of hardships, but she was not knocked down by difficulties and bumps, but after grasping the life-saving straw of the royal palace, she persevered to enrich herself, whether it was knowledge or emotional intelligence, she did her best to learn, and finally grew into a successful woman with a good personality and a favorite.
So we are born with great potential, and the key is how you treat your "gifted" nature.
No one is born successful, only those who believe and practice hard have the possibility of success, right?
bibliography:
1. Fun History Network - "What is the origin of Song Fujin, the Empress Of the Southern Tang Dynasty?" How legendary is she? 》
2. Encyclopedia of History - "What is the origin of The Southern Tang Dynasty Empress Song Fujin?" 》