Yuan Qin, the deposed emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty: The true monogamous emperor in history, he was the first person
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Originally a political marriage, who knows but achieved a thousand years of love song. The protagonist of the story, one is the emperor, the other is his only woman.
In the emperor's harem in Chinese history, there are many concubines, needless to say, if you cite an emperor who has only one wife in his life, the Western Wei deposed emperor Yuan Qin will definitely be the first person.
The emperor who practiced monogamy had the following different statements:
One was Emperor Yang Jian of Sui. Emperor Yang Jian of sui married Dugu shi as his wife in his early years, and he once made an oath: "Oath no son of alien birth". He swore that he would not give birth to a man and a half woman with another woman in this life. Several of Emperor Wendi's children were indeed born of the Dugu clan. However, after the death of The Dugu clan, Emperor Wen of Sui still took other women as concubines, the most famous of which was Lady Xuanhua, the sister of Lord Chen Hou.
The second is Emperor Mingxiaozong Zhu Youfan. He favored Empress Zhang alone and gave birth to two sons, of which the second eldest, Zhu Houwei, died prematurely, and only One son, Zhu Houzhao, survived. However, in addition to Empress Zhang, Emperor Mingxiaozong also had several women who were officially canonized, but the rank was a very low lady, and it was not much noticed.
The above two emperors cannot be completely said to be monogamous, and Yuan Qin, according to historical records, until his death, had only one empress in his lifetime, and no other concubines, and in the circle of emperors in Chinese history, he was the first and probably the only one.
Yuan Qin (525–554), the eldest son of Emperor Wen of Western Wei, was the second emperor of Western Wei, reigning from the seventeenth year of the reign of Emperor Wen of Western Wei (551) to the third year (554) of the Western Wei Dynasty.
In the sixth year of the Northern Wei Dynasty (525), Yuan Qin was born in Fanyang (Beijing). It was also during the reign of Emperor Xuanwu of northern Wei.
In the first year of the reign (535), when Yuan Baoju ascended the throne to establish Western Wei, the 10-year-old Yuan Qin was made crown prince. Soon, Western Wei Quanchen and Yu Wentai took the initiative to give his daughter to Yuan Qin and became Yuan Qin's father-in-law.
In the seventeenth year of the reign (551), Emperor Wen died, and Crown Prince Yuanqin took the throne, using Emperor Wen's era name, and the following year (552) last year's number, called Yuan Nian.
Western Wei began with Yuan Baoji, and most of the power was in the hands of Yuwen Tai, and the imperial power of the Yuan clan existed in name only, and many Yuan clan relatives were worried about this.
The young emperor Yuan Qin was unwilling to be a doll led by others, and was bent on restoring the Great Wei Society, reunifying the north, and then unifying the world. After ascending the throne, he wanted to regain power from his father-in-law Yuwen Tai. However, he was also the opponent of Yuwen Tai, the old fox who had experienced the political whirlpool.
In 553, Yuwen Tai took the initiative to resign from the post of chancellor and announced his retirement. However, Yuwen's sons still controlled the Western Wei regime. In November of that year, a member of the Western Wei imperial family and Shangshu Yuanlie, together with some ministers, plotted to kill Yuwen Tai to regain power for the emperor, but unfortunately leaked it out, but was killed by Yuwen Tai.
After this incident, Yuan Qin felt more pressure, knowing that the struggle with Yuwen Tai was already on the string, either you die or I live, you must first strike to be strong. Therefore, he first consulted with yuanyu, the royal linhuai king, and Yuanzan, the king of Guangping. Several imperial ministers, who had just experienced the defeat of Yuan Lie, still had lingering feelings in their hearts, and knew that there was no hope of defeating the Yuwentai clique, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, so they resolutely opposed it, and knelt down and wept, asking the emperor not to act so obstinately.
However, Yuan Qin's heart was like a rock, and he was determined to do it. He also brought Yuwen Tai's other sons-in-law who were usually very good to him, that is, his brother-in-law, Li Ji the Duke of Qinghe, Li Hui the Duke of Yicheng, and Duke Yuyi of Changshan, who were in charge of the forbidden army, and promised them to bribe them with the high-ranking officials Houlu and let them use the forbidden army in their hands to kill the Yuwentai family. It was just that when these few of his brothers-in-law heard that they wanted them to destroy the father-in-law's family, they were frightened, and on the surface they promised to be good, but behind their backs, they hurried to the father-in-law to inform them.
The plan leaked, and Yuwen Tai deposed Yuan Qin and imprisoned him in Yongzhou. Yuan Qin's fourth brother, Wang Yuankuo of Qi, was made emperor for Emperor Gong of Western Wei.
In April of the same year, Yuwen Tai killed Yuan Qin, and Empress Yuwen was also killed.
The marriage between Yuan Qin and Empress Yuwen was originally a political marriage, and Yuwen also had a special mission, that is, to remember the emperor's husband's every move and tell his lao tzu.
However, Yuwentai is Yuwentai, his daughter is his daughter, and the father and daughter are different. Empress Yuwen not only did not act as her father's "secret agent", but also sympathized with Yuan Qin and urged him to cheer up and become a good emperor in the future. Yuan Qin has great respect for his wife, and the two little ones are very affectionate.
Because the husband and wife were very affectionate and loving, Yuan Qin did not appoint any concubines, but only guarded the life of the empress, and the empress was able to "three thousand favors in one".
Yuwen Tai deposed Yuan Qin and imprisoned him in Yongzhou. Subsequently, Yuwen Tai made Yuan Qin's fourth brother Yuan Kuo the Prince of Qi emperor, emperor, as Emperor Gong of Western Wei. Although he was deposed from the throne and there was no hope of reviving the country, yuan qin still had a little relief in his heart when he was accompanied by his wife. If they live like this all the time, they can still be a happy couple. However, his existence, for Yuwen Tai, has always been a safety hazard, a time bomb, making it impossible for him to sleep.
In April of that year, Yuwen Tai sent someone to bring a cup of poisoned wine, and Yuan Qin saw this, hugged and cried with Empress Yuwen, and then drank and died. Empress Yuwen was overwhelmed with grief and heartbroken, and then took poison and committed suicide.
Yuan Qin was defeated politically, but in love he was no different from a victor. The love of this tragic couple has touched future generations.
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