Preface
Although Chinese history is very ethical and moral, when a person's power reaches a certain level, even the law is of no use to them, let alone etiquette.
Among them, the king is the biggest extralegal fanatic, they don't even dare to ignore the ethical relationship, and dare to mess around with their families, there are such a number of beast kings in history who finally became elders, and even their daughters-in-law did not let go, which can be said to be quite beasts!
1. Wei Xuangong and Xuanjiang
Wei Xuangong, the fifteenth monarch of the Spring and Autumn Period, was a rather disorderly king, and before he succeeded to the throne, Wei Xuangong had already begun to have an affair with his father's concubine Yi Jiang, gave birth to his eldest son Wei Ling, and made him the crown prince after succeeding to the throne.
Wei Ling naturally wants to start a family when she grows up, because she is a noble prince, so Wei Xuangong asked for Xuanjiang, the princess of Qi State, as the crown princess for his son.
However, after seeing the beautiful Xuan Jiang, Wei Xuangong coveted the beauty and cut off the beard directly, and took her for himself when Xuan Jiang was not married to his son, and he was very pampered, and Wei Ling's mother Yi Jiang also committed suicide because of falling out of favor.
However, Wei Xuangong didn't know at this time, and since then Wei Guo has fallen into chaos, and Xuanjiang gave birth to two sons Wei Shou and Wei Shuo for Wei Xuangong, so he had the idea of wanting his son to be the prince.
So Xuan Jiang began to speak ill of Wei Ling to Wei Xuangong, which made Wei Xuangong hate Wei Ling more and more, and even wanted to send him far away to other countries, and Xuan Jiang also took the opportunity to prepare to kill Wei Ling.
She planned to wait for Wei Ling to arrive at the border of the Kingdom of Defense, and the robbers she arranged to kill him, but her son Wei Shou quickly caught up with the eldest brother to report the news and dissuade Wei Ling from advancing.
However, Wei Ling insisted on obeying his father's orders, Wei Shou had no choice but to get drunk on Wei Ling and pretend that he was killed by robbers.
Since then, Weiguo has entered a chaotic period of restlessness in the fifth generation, and the brothers have been fighting constantly, which has greatly damaged the strength of Weiguo, which can be said to be precisely because of the evil consequences brought about by Wei Xuangong's coveting daughter-in-law's beauty.
Second, King Chuping and Meng Huan
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was another country whose monarch was also a beast who robbed his daughter-in-law, he was the King of Chuping of Chu, and everyone may not be familiar with King Chuping, but everyone should know Wu Zixu.
King Chuping was the culprit who forced Wu Zixu to flee to Wu State, and King Chuping's robbery of his daughter-in-law can be said to be the fuse of Wu Zixu's escape.
is very similar to Wei Xuangong's incident, King Chuping also asked Qin for a princess Meng Huan from Qin for the marriage of the crown prince Xiong Jian at the beginning, but after seeing Meng Huan's beauty, he loved her very much, and took her for himself behind his son's back, and then married one of Meng Huan's concubines to his son.
After Meng Huan married King Chuping, she gave birth to a son, King Chuping, who was happy and began to worry that his son would know about his forcible occupation of his daughter-in-law, so he planned to send his son away.
However, the prince's teacher Wu Hao disagreed with this matter very much, so he tried his best to persuade King Chuping, but his political opponent Fei Wuji seized the opportunity to slander Wu Hao and the prince for rebelling together.
King Chuping then ordered the death of the crown prince and Wu Hao, and the prince fled to the Song State to save his life after knowing it, but Wu Hao was not so lucky, he and his eldest son Wu Shang were both killed, and only the second son Wu Zixu successfully escaped to the Wu State.
And the retribution of King Chuping also came decades later, a few years after the death of King Chuping, the army of Wu State under the leadership of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu attacked the capital of Chu State, and King Zhao of Chu also fled for his life.
And Wu Zixu and Sun Wu dug up the grave of King Chuping together, dragged out his corpse and whipped him fiercely, and in this way avenged the murder of his father and brother, which was also deserved.
3. Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan
In 735 AD, Tang Xuanzong's beloved daughter Princess Xianyi was married, and Yang Yuhuan, as the child of the Yang nobles, was also invited to attend, and it was at this wedding banquet that Yang Yuhuan met her first husband.
Sister Princess Xianyi got married, and Li Mao, the king of Shou, as the younger brother of the same mother, naturally wanted to participate in the congratulations to help, so Li Mao, who was in the prime of his youth, met Yang Yuhuan, who was alluring to the country and the city, and fell in love at first sight.
Li Mao's mother, Concubine Wu Hui, was also very happy when she learned her son's thoughts, so she asked Tang Xuanzong to give them a marriage, and Tang Xuanzong was also happy to satisfy his favorite concubine and agreed to the marriage.
In this way, Yang Yuhuan became the princess of Shou, and the life of the husband and wife after marriage was quite loving and harmonious, but the good times did not last long, and the accident happened, with the death of Concubine Wu Hui, Tang Xuanzong was grief-stricken and gradually emaciated.
So there were ill-intentioned people who praised Tang Xuanzong for the beauty and fragrance of Princess Yang Yuhuan, who was suitable for entering the palace, such a big and unorthodox suggestion, Tang Xuanzong really listened to it, so he decisively issued an edict to let Yang Yuhuan enter the palace.
But after all, they are Weng daughters-in-law, if they directly rob Yang Yuhuan, they will inevitably be infamous for incest, and everyone is long-winded, Tang Xuanzong did not directly take Yang Yuhuan as a concubine, but took a detour.
He first issued an edict to let Yang Yuhuan become a monk for a few years, which meant that he would cut off the fate of the dust and no longer have a husband and wife relationship with Li Mao, and then married another wife for Li Mao.
In this way, Yang Yuhuan and Li Mao were completely single again, so Tang Xuanzong hurriedly took Yang Yuhuan into the palace, made her a concubine, and began to favor her alone.
Ten years later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Tang Xuanzong fled in a panic, even on the way out, he did not forget to bring his favorite Yang Yuhuan.
But this time, his preference for Yang Yuhuan finally aroused public indignation, and when he was in Ma Weipo, Chen Xuanli and others mutinied and forced Tang Xuanzong to give up Yang Yuhuan, and in the end Yang Yuhuan could only die of incense and jade, and Tang Xuanzong was separated from yin and yang.
Fourth, Zhu Wen and daughters-in-law
Time came to the end of the Tang Dynasty, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty completely began to decline, under the destruction of the country by generations of mediocre monarchs, the Tang Dynasty gradually came to the end of the strong crossbow.
Among them, the most powerful feudal town in the late Tang Dynasty belonged to Zhu Wen, who was named King of Liang and later destroyed the Tang Dynasty to start the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
However, Zhu Wen is also a promiscuous and incestuous monarch, he likes beautiful women, but prefers other people's wives, but her reasons for liking women are different from Cao Cao's, he is just a bad taste.
So Zhu Wen even extended his claws to his daughter-in-law, his sons not only had biological sons, but also several righteous sons whom he recognized, but there was no difference between these two sons, and they were as beasts as Zhu Wen.
After the death of Zhu Wen's wife Zhang, Zhu Wen was particularly fond of beauty, and his sons were fighting outside the home, so Zhu Wen summoned his daughters-in-law to serve him in the palace.
When his sons found out, not only did they not get angry, but they rushed to send their wives to their father's house, in order to make Zhu Wen look at themselves and Gao, so that it would be more advantageous to compete for the storage position.
Therefore, this kind of appalling incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law has become a very common thing in the Zhu family, and it makes people feel that their eyes are spicy after hearing about it.
However, this can also be released in the troubled times of the Tang Dynasty and Ten Kingdoms, where women are the most uncontrollable, and they can only be ravaged by men, which is really pitiful.
epilogue
It is true that when you become a king, you will reach the peak of power, but after having power, you act recklessly, which can only show that the king's character is inferior, and incest and robbery of daughters-in-law can show the ugliness of human nature.