The first empress dowager in history was not Lü Yan, but Empress Dowager Qin Xuan, who was also Mi Yue in the TV series.
Stills of The Eight Sons
Lü Yan was the first empress and empress dowager in history. The Qin Dynasty did not establish an empress, and the matter of the palace was rarely written and inked, perhaps zhao Ji's stimulation to the first emperor was too great.
Stills of Zhao Ji
Liu Bang has been fighting outside for many years, and Lü Hou has a strong personality, is proficient in power and strategy, decisive and fierce, and gradually holds power in his hands.
Gao Zubeng, Hui DiXiao, he was used to listening to his mother's words.
The courtiers feared the empress dowager, because these ladies were familiar with their breasts, and they did not follow the routine, and the whole person was put to death. What if you don't pay attention and are also made into adults? I couldn't afford to be annoyed by her.
Therefore, Lü Hou took power alone.
Lu Yan stills
In 188 BC, Liu Ying, the Han Hui Emperor of severe depression, died prematurely, and Lü Houli Li Shao Emperor Liu Gong (name to be examined) was given the title of Emperor Linchao.
Since the Qin Dynasty, the emperor's order has been called "system", which means the exercise of imperial power, and Lü Hou is actually a female emperor, but there is no real name.
In order to consolidate her power, Lü Hou began her actions.
1. Suppress political opponents;
2. Let the old man be good at judging his supervision of hundreds of officials and affairs in the palace;
3. Crown Zhu Lü as king and firmly control military power;
4. Send palace maids to monitor the king of Liu Clan.
For example, the Right Emperor Ling opposed Zhu Lü as king, which made her very unhappy. Considering that Wang Ling was Liu Bang's old team, and when Gao Zu was not revealed, he was also the younger brother of Wang Ling, this kind of person was not easy to move, and took the way of emptying his authority to deal with it, and Wang Ling had to resign and return.
Stills from the royal tomb
Lü Hou liked to cultivate "female spies" and send the women he trusted to the king of the clan to grasp their movements in time.
Empress Lü also used this trick to control Emperor Hui, forcibly making Princess Luyuan's daughter Zhang Yan empress and forcing Liu Ying to marry her.
At that time, Zhang Yan was only 11 years old, and was Liu Ying's niece, Emperor Hui endured everything else, this matter could not be endured, angry to the point of explosion, and asked the empress: "Old lady, you treat me as an animal?" ”
Lü Hou was strong, and although Emperor Hui made some resistance, he finally chose to obey.
Liu Ying's psychology was extremely depressed, and she resolutely did not touch a finger of Zhang Yan. In order to relieve his troubles, he began to indulge in sex, let go of himself, and fool around in the palace, eating both men and women.
Zhang Yan was loyal to Empress Lü, so Empress Lü especially hoped that she would have a male baby and be made crown prince in order to control the imperial power for a long time. However, Liu Ying hated the empress and did not approach her, and it is said that Zhang Yan was still a virgin until her death.
What if I don't have a baby? Lü Hou decided to steal the beam for the pillar, anyway, Liu Ying and the palace women promiscuously, it is inevitable that several are pregnant.
On the one hand, Lü Hou arranged for the empress to pretend to be pregnant. On the other hand, a boy was obtained from the palace maid, and his birth mother was executed and transferred to Zhang Yan. This child was the Young Emperor Liu Gong.
With such a heartbroken old mother, it is no wonder that Liu Ying only lived for 23 years.
After Liu Gong got older, he didn't know where to learn the truth, learned that his birth mother was killed, and the child had no mouth to cover, vowing to take revenge when he grew up in the future.
Lu Hou said, don't be funny, you don't grow up.
In 184 BC, four years after Gao, Lü Hou deposed the Young Emperor and secretly killed him. Then he welcomed Liu Hong, known in history as the Later Shao Emperor, and continued to the dynasty.
Lü Hou claimed to have been in power for eight years, calling the wind and rain, arbitrarily gaining power, and vainly trying to embezzle the Jiangshan that Liu Bang had built with his old life.
However, in 180 BC, Lü Hou also collapsed, and he was still one line away from "victory". Lü Hou became seriously ill, and the once-debauched courtiers and princes of the domain finally became active, colluding inside and outside, and eliminating Zhu Lü in one fell swoop (the specific situation is described in detail in the next article).
Lü Hou's death is also rumored, saying that she went out to sacrifice, and on the way back to the palace, she was bitten by a black dog and suffered from rabies.
Although the "On Balance" records that Lü Hou died and the demon elephant dog was also in the form of a dog, I still firmly did not believe it. An authoritarian female emperor, lurking around the no-kill machine, when she goes out, she must arrange a large number of escorts to follow around, and sitting in the car will not easily appear, a wild dog can never approach.
This story can only show that some people hate Lu Lu too much.
Objectively speaking, in order to stabilize her rule, although Lü Hou overshadowed the rain and clouds above the high hall, for the entire Han Dynasty, she always insisted on ruling the country with the art of Huang Laozhi and adopted a lot of policies of resting with the people to restore the wounds of war, stabilize the situation in the country, promote the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and rapidly increase the national strength.
The people have escaped from the sea of suffering from hundreds of years of chaos, taxes and servitude have been relatively reduced, and most of them will not hate Lü Hou, and the idea of mad dog disease should not come from the people.
Moreover, more than 200 years later, the Chimei Army excavated the tombs of various emperors and insulted the body of Lü Hou. Personally, I think that this insult is only the meaning of destroying the corpse, raping a 61-year-old woman who has been dead for a long time, and the island fool does not have such a heavy taste.
Books cannot be believed. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is said that "those who have jade caskets are as good as life, so the red eyebrows are more obscene..." Although the jade coffin has the function of preventing the decay of the corpse, can it really reach the level of lifelike? Even if it is, is there no odor? Moreover, when the coffin is opened, the body will quickly oxidize and wrinkle and deteriorate, and in the process of catharsis, the people under the body will become ghosts, only to be afraid of unforgettable!