The only female champion in history, who is both talented and good-looking, and is in a high position, but in the end she became the plaything of others

If you want to say what is the most important system in ancient China, I believe that the imperial examination system can definitely be regarded as one of them. As a system unique to China, the imperial examination not only provided a fairly scientific talent selection system for the imperial court, but also gave the majority of ordinary people born in poor families a channel to rise, which can be said to be extremely important. However, there are some drawbacks to the imperial examination system, one of which is that women cannot sit for the imperial examination. However, there are always some exceptions to everything, just like there is a Wu Zetian among the emperors who can only be held by men, there is also a woman who participated in the imperial examination and became the champion, and she is Fu Shanxiang.

What is the reason why Fu Shanxiang can become the only female champion in Chinese history? And what kind of interesting stories has she experienced in her life? If you want to understand this, you still have to start with Fu Shanxiang's life experience, only by understanding this aspect, can we solve our doubts.

The story of Fu Shanxiang

Fu Shanxiang was born in Nanjing to a family of cultured people, her father was a showman, and later became a scribe in Shangyuan County. Fu Shanxiang has shown quite an extraordinary talent for learning since she was a child, and she is naturally beautiful, so people think that she will definitely marry a very capable person in the future and live a life of fine clothes and food. However, fate still did not favor Fu Shanxiang, and her parents died one after another when she was eight years old.

Fu Shanxiang, who was only eight years old at this time, definitely had no way to take care of herself, so she could only live in her brother and sister-in-law's house temporarily. Later, her brother also married Fu Shanxiang to a family surnamed Li according to the last words of her parents, and her husband was only eight years old at this time. For Fu Shanxiang, it would be stable if she could live like this for a lifetime, but she was really unlucky, and her husband died of illness when she was 18 years old.

became a widow at a young age, and no one dared to guarantee what Fu Shanxiang's future would be. And her mother-in-law also thought that her daughter-in-law Fu Shanxiang was a disaster, and killed her son, so she planned to sell Fu Shanxiang for money. Fu Shanxiang was actually quite helpless at this time, she didn't know what she should do in the future, and she didn't know where she would be sold. But at this time, a change changed the trajectory of her life.

Upheaval in society

At this time, the Qing Dynasty had begun to weaken violently, since the Opium War opened the country, the Qing Dynasty was gradually transforming into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and a series of unequal treaties and foreign invasions also made it difficult for ordinary people to continue to live, and more and more desperate people chose to embark on the road of rebellion against the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Among such a series of rebel armies, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be said to be the most powerful one.

At this time, Fu Shanxiang was desperate, and she later chose to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Xiuquan, who had just established power, also had a very strong desire for talents, so he began to prepare for the opening of armor and soldiers in a decent manner, and even opened a women's department for the first time. After hearing about such a thing, Fu Shanxiang immediately prepared to participate in such a imperial examination. In the examination room, Fu Shanxiang did play super well, and even conquered Yang Xiuqing and became the first female champion.

In the face of such a talented and intelligent female champion, Yang Xiuqing did know people and make good use of them, every time when dealing with political affairs, Yang Xiuqing would also let Fu Shanxiang assist him, and Fu Shanxiang, who was appreciated and reused, later became a female prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After becoming the prime minister, Fu Shanxiang was still conscientious and conscientious, and he was able to arrange all the affairs within his share quite perfectly.

After becoming prime minister, Fu Shanxiang also put forward some of his own political propositions, including such avant-garde political propositions as the equal status of men and women to promote women's liberation. After learning of such a thing, the Taiping army was able to get the strong support of all kinds of oppressed women wherever they went, and the women also enthusiastically joined the army and participated in the war, or provided logistical support for the Taiping army, so that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom developed extremely rapidly.

Later stories

In addition to winning rights for women, Fu Shanxiang also has a rather advanced political proposition, that is, we must pay attention to the protection of culture, and even set up a museum for this purpose to store the collected cultural relics, not to mention the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, even some other feudal dynasties can not do this. However, after all, the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were only the peasant class, and they could not be so far-sighted, so this matter did not receive strong support from the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom later.

In the process of studying history, everyone also basically understood the most fundamental reason for the failure of the Taiping Rebellion, that is, the corruption of the leadership. Originally, in the process of resisting the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping army was still able to work together, but later, after they had some achievements, the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lost their fighting spirit and began to be greedy for pleasure. Take Yang Xiuqing as an example, he was not satisfied with marrying 66 wives and concubines, and even started Fu Shanxiang's idea.

Fu Shanxiang's appearance and figure can be regarded as superb, and he is also quite knowledgeable, how can Yang Xiuqing easily let him go? So after that, it was difficult for Fu Shanxiang to continue to display her skills in the political arena, she became a concubine of Yang Xiuqing and was completely reduced to a vassal. Fu Shanxiang usually often persuades Fu Shanxiang, hoping that he can rekindle his fighting spirit and restore his original heart, but Yang Xiuqing is proud and doesn't care at all, and his ambition is getting bigger and bigger, but he doesn't know that he is about to die in Huangquan.

epilogue

Later, in the process of fighting for power, Yang Xiuqing was too harsh on his subordinates, which led to the loss of his own hearts, and later he was defeated in the struggle for power. After Wei Changhui united with King Yan to attack the East Palace, Yang Xiuqing was also defeated and died, and there have been different opinions about what happened to Fu Shanxiang.

Some people think that Fu Shanxiang died in such an incident at that time, and some people think that Fu Shanxiang escaped early and found a place to live in seclusion. But no matter how you say it, this woman, who is extremely rare in China's feudal history, finally led to her tragic ending due to the problems of the times, which is really embarrassing.