On February 15 of the second year of the Later Yuan Dynasty (87 years ago), Liu Fuling, who was only 8 years old, ascended the throne for Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, because his biological mother had died, and no one among the concubines of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could be the queen mother, so Liu Fuling could only seal the only sister who was still alive, Princess Eyi, as the eldest princess, and let him enter the palace to take care of him.
The outer court has the general Huo Guang, the general Jin Riyan and the left general Shangguan and other auxiliary ministers, a year later, Jin Riyan died, and the government is almost all in the hands of Huo Guang.
In 83 BC, Liu Fuling was already 12 years old, and after the eldest princess of Eyi (also known as the "Gai Lord") was ready to choose for Liu Fuling, she selected the daughter of the Zhou Yang clan to enter the palace and planned to marry Liu Fuling.
Huo Guang's son-in-law Shangguan An thought after knowing it, Shangguan An is the son of Shangguan Ji, and his wife is Huo Guang's eldest daughter, because of this relationship, Shangguan An wants Huo Guang to find a way to send his daughter to the palace as the queen, which is a trivial matter for Huo Guang, who controls the government, but he is unwilling.
The reason is very simple, Shangguan An's daughter Shangguan is too young, only 6 years old, Shangguan An, the father, does not think about his daughter's happiness, but Huo Guang is unwilling to let such a young granddaughter enter the palace, so he said to Shangguan An: "She is too young to work." ”
Huo Guang thought that he had clearly rejected his son-in-law, presumably the son-in-law would not have the intention of sending Shangguan into the palace again, but he underestimated Shangguan An's ambitions, Shangguan An knew that if he couldn't let Shangguan enter the palace this time, but waited until Shangguan grew up, then Liu Fuling might have a queen a long time ago.
So Shangguan An must seize this opportunity, he found Ding Wairen again, Ding Wairen is the lover of the Lord of Gai, his status is relatively low, and he has no official position, so it is naturally impossible to be a princess, although Emperor Zhao of Han ordered Ding Wairen to serve Lord Gai, but it is impossible to let them marry.
Shangguan An had a good relationship with Ding Wairen, so he said to Ding Wairen:
"I heard that the eldest prince mainly selects women to enter the palace for His Majesty, my daughter is good-looking, if you can take this opportunity to let her enter the palace as a queen, then our father and son will be officials in the court, and they will have the favor of Jiaofang, and these are all up to you to fulfill. The practice of the Han family is to let Princess Liehou Shang, at that time you were still afraid that you would not be able to seal the Hou?"
Shangguan An's words reached the hearts of Ding Wairen, he has no official position, and naturally it is impossible to rely on meritorious service to seal the marquis, if he does not seal the marquis, he can only be the mistress of the lord, and he wants to be the marquis, he can only find another way, if he can really help Shangguan An to make his daughter the queen, then Shangguan Jian and Shangguan An father and son will owe him a big favor, maybe it can really be said that Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty will make him a marquis.
So Ding Wairen happily went to persuade the owner, and soon Shangguan's family entered the palace, first was named Jieyu, and more than a month later, he was directly named the queen, and he was the queen at the age of 6.
After Shangguan became the queen, Shangguan Ji's father and son began to seek the title of marquis for Ding Wairen, but Huo Guang refused, and the two retreated to the second, and wanted to seek the position of Guanglu Doctor for Ding Wairen, so that at least Ding Wairen could have the qualifications to be summoned by the emperor, but Huo Guang refused again.
At this time, Shangguan Ji's father and son and the owner of the cover all hated Huo Guang, and later there was a royal historian Sang Hongyang who was rejected for his son's official position, and he also hated Huo Guang.
So these people united with Liu Fuling's brother, Liu Dan, the king of Yan, to plot to get rid of Huo Guang, but Liu Fuling has always stood on Huo Guang's side, so that several people's plans have not succeeded, and then several people are ready to let the Lord Gai invite Huo Guang, ambush Huo Guang when the time comes, and then get rid of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, but the matter was revealed, Shangguan Ji, Sang Hongyang, Ding Wairen, etc. were all exterminated, and the Lord Gai and Liu Dan committed suicide.
Empress Shangguan was only 9 years old at the time, because she was too young, and she was not involved in this matter, and she was Huo Guang's granddaughter, so she escaped the catastrophe and still became her queen.
Shangguan Jian and Shangguan An finally let Shangguan's family be the queen, but in the end, Huo Guang was cheaper, and when the Shangguan family was wiped out, Huo Guang was even more powerful, and because of the relationship between Empress Shangguan and Liu Fuling, he was more intimate.
But Empress Shangguan is young after all, in order to ensure that Empress Shangguan can give birth to a son, Huo Guang also took great pains to stop Concubine Liu Fuling and not let him spoil other concubines.
Even the palace people in the palace, Huo Guang asked them to wear crotch pants, which was very cumbersome to put on and take off, which was most likely to avoid Liu Fuling from pampering them, and Liu Fuling was often sick at that time, and the imperial doctors persuaded Liu Fuling to control his desires according to Huo Guang's intentions.
In short, Huo Guang has one meaning, as much as possible to avoid Liu Fuling from favoring others, it is best to only be fortunate to Empress Shangguan, and when Empress Shangguan gives birth to a son, Liu Fuling can properly favor others.
But Huo Guang didn't get his wish, Queen Shangguan has never been pregnant, the possible reason is that Queen Shangguan is too young, and even the two may not have had a round room, after all, when Liu Fuling died, Queen Shangguan was only 15 years old, it was just the age when she was about to get married, and it was very likely that Liu Fuling had not spoiled her.
In 74 BC, Liu Fuling died of illness, and the 15-year-old Empress Shangguan was widowed, and Huo Guang and his ministers discussed the establishment of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Liu He, the grandson of Mrs. Li, as the emperor, and respected Shangguan as the empress dowager.
Liu He sat on the emperor's throne for 27 days before being deposed, during which the only role of the Empress Dowager Shangguan was to depose Liu He according to Huo Guang's wishes, and let Liu He return to live in Changyi.
By the time Liu He was deposed, Liu Ai, the great-grandson of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, had been established as the emperor, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and respected Shangguan as the empress dowager.
This fifteen-year-old girl who has just reached the end of her life has already walked through many heights that the queen may not be able to go to in her life, from the queen to the queen mother and then to the queen mother.
But no matter how her identity changes, she has always been a puppet of Huo Guang, and Emperor Xuan of Han is no exception after succeeding to the throne, fortunately, because of Huo Guang's relationship, Emperor Xuan of Han is still relatively good to this empress dowager who is 3 years younger than him.
But this kind of goodness is only superficial, after all, Huo Guang's wife poisoned Emperor Xuan's wife Xu Pingjun in order to get her daughter on the throne, and Emperor Xuan of Han had to temporarily forbear, making Huo Guang's daughter the queen.
In 68 BC, Huo Guang died, and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty and the Empress Dowager attended the funeral together, giving Huo Guang the greatest dignity and honor.
But as soon as Huo Guang died, the Huo family basically came to an end, two years later, the Huo family was exterminated, Queen Huo was deposed, but the 23-year-old Queen Mother was still not implicated, and she was still her Queen Mother, but she no longer cared about political affairs, until she died of illness in 37 years ago, at the age of 52.
We look at the life of Empress Shangguan, it is a tragedy, at the age of 6 she entered the palace as a queen, at the age of 9, her mother's family was wiped out, when she was 15 years old, her husband Liu Fuling died, she became the queen mother, and a month later she became the queen mother, and at the age of 23, her grandfather's family was wiped out, and she lost all her relatives.
And she herself is not free, she has been trapped in the palace since she was 6 years old, this trap is 47 years, during which there have been 4 emperors, these 47 years, she doesn't know how to spend it, so long, so lonely, so involuntarily.