Empress Dowager Dou had a nice name, called Dou Yifang. Although it is only a name recorded in the "Historical Index", this name has the atmosphere of a Han Dynasty woman, so this name cannot but be believed to be true. In the various TV series now, her name has changed to Dou Yifang, which feels more feminine.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Dou Yifang's father went to be a fisherman because he avoided the Qin chaos. This incident actually shows that Dou Yifang's father should be a learned person. Only learned people will live a life of seclusion and choose to do such a more elegant thing as fishing. From this point of view, Empress Dou's name is Dou Yifang, which is likely to be true.
Unfortunately, Dou Yifang's father had a very bad ending, fell into the river and drowned. Acting in the way of dust, but dying in the way of dust, this is more or less absurd.
(Dou Yifang stills)
Due to the death of his father, Dou Yifang had to enter the palace as a palace maid. Fortunately, the master she was able to serve was Empress Lü. Lü Hou was the most powerful figure at that time.
However, Dou Yifang was just lucky, and she didn't seem to learn any political wisdom from Lü Hou.
When he was a little older, Lü Hou married a group of women around him and married some princes, which was also a rule of the Han Dynasty, and it was also a practice of wooing the princes. Dou Yifang also became Empress Lü's mother's family and was able to play such a role.
At that time, Dou Yifang was preparing to go to Zhao Guo. The history books say that the reason why she wanted to go to Zhao Guo was because her hometown Qinghe was relatively close to Zhao Guo. But from this place, it can be seen that Dou Yifang really does not have any political wisdom. Zhao Guo was a disaster-stricken place at that time. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, during the reign of Liu Bang and Lü Hou, several Zhao kings died, all of whom died very tragically. The master is of course the backbone of everyone, and if the master is miserable, his concubines and subordinates will not be much better.
In order to go to the Zhao kingdom, she asked the eunuch to put her name on the list of the zhao kingdom. But the eunuch turned his head and forgot, and handed the list to Lü Hou before remembering. Unfortunately, the list was handed over, and it could not be changed.
Dou Yifang couldn't do anything, so he had to cry and cry and go to Daiguo.
But what Dou Yifang did not expect was that it was precisely because she went to the Daiguo that her life began at that time.
Along with Dou Yifang, there were four other palace women. However, Liu Heng, the Acting King, only liked Dou Yifang and did not like the other four palace girls, and Dou Yifang thus gained exclusive favor.
In fact, when Dou Yifang went to Daiguo, Liu Heng already had a Dai Queen. However, in the historical records, this generation queen has no name and no surname, and the queen has given birth to four sons, and these four sons are even nameless and surnameless. There is also a very strange thing.
What was even more strange was that dou Yifang had gone to daiguo not long ago, and the dai queen, along with the four sons she gave birth to, died very strangely
All five people died, dead clean, which cannot but make future generations doubt this history. Some researchers believe that perhaps it was Dou Yifang who gave the mother and son five a drink of poison. That's why they're poisoned. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain that all five of them died cleanly.
(Liu Heng stills)
However, because the record is not detailed, it is not possible to verify.
It's just that I think it seems unlikely that Dou Yifang was poisoned, and Dou Yifang itself is a person with no political brainer and no fierce side, and she is unlikely to do such a thing. Besides, Liu Heng was a smart person, and if Dou Yifang did such a thing, Liu Heng would definitely not spare her.
It can only be said that the luck of Dou Yifang is really too good.
In fact, the history books are written like this to show that her life is good. Even if she is a, even if her status is extremely low, even if there are mountains and rivers in front of her, as long as the heavens give her that life, others will give way to her.
Dou Yifang's good fortune is not only this. Later, although she went blind, her status remained unchanged. She is still the empress, and her son is still the prince. In addition to her son being crown prince, another daughter was also made Princess Guantao by Liu Heng, and another son, Liu Wu, was made the Prince of Liang. They are all sealed in a very good and extremely rich place.
Liu Wu, the King of Liang, is very famous in the history of literature. The most important literary genre of the Han Dynasty was "Han Fu", and "Han Fu" was able to flourish, and more than half of the credit depended on Liu Wu. He had a liang garden that brought together the very famous poets of the time. For example, Sima Xiangru, Mei Cheng, and Zhuang Ji all became a generation of great writers because they were protected by Liu Wu, the King of Liang. Sima Xiangru's "ZiFu" and "Shanglin Fu" also vividly expressed Liu Wu's luxurious and prosperous life.
Dou Yifang had good luck, but her lack of political acumen was also vivid in dealing with the relationship between the two sons. In a sense, Liu Wu was "spoiled" to death by her.
Originally, the relationship between Emperor Jingdi of Han and the brothers Liu Wu had always been relatively good. As soon as the two brothers met, they would get together for a drink. And as soon as I drank, I drank a mess. Once, Emperor Jing of Han was so happy that he even said that he would pass the throne to Liu Wu.
In fact, the reason why Emperor Jingdi of Han said this is to show that the relationship between the two brothers is particularly good, and he and Liu Wu are particularly relaxed in drinking, and they do not really intend to do so.
If Dou Yifang understood this truth, she should try to maintain the relationship between the two. How to maintain it? It is to educate two children, each keeping their own bottom line, each grasping their own identity, not being able to go beyond the boundaries and beyond the identity.
(Liu Heng and Liu Wu)
For example, she should have told Emperor Jingdi of Han that the succession should be passed on to her son, not to her brother. She should also tell Liu Wu that your brother is drunk, and you must not take it seriously. As a courtier, you should do your duty as a courtier.
If Dou Yifang did this, she would definitely be able to save both brothers.
Especially with regard to the succession of the throne to the younger brother, it only happened in very special circumstances in ancient times. For example, the emperor has no son, or has a son but the son is too young, and the international and domestic situation is very complicated, and he urgently needs a chief monarch. However, none of this was in line with the situation of the Han Jing Emperor at that time, how could he pass the throne to his younger brother?
However, Dou Yifang, who had no political wisdom, actually believed the words of Emperor Jingdi of Han. Therefore, after she saw that Emperor Jingdi of Han had deposed his son Liu Rong, Dou Yifang proposed to Emperor Jingdi of Han that he would honor the promise he had made. Really passed the throne to Liu Wu
Why did Dou Yifang let emperor Jingdi of Han do this?
There are two reasons: one is to put the throne on the throne of one's own son better. Once passed on to her grandson, it means that she is not the empress. Not the empress dowager, it is not so convenient to control power, and it is not so effective to speak. Second, because Dou Yifang was blind very early, Liu Wu was often around her, bringing her a lot of happiness. Therefore, Liu Wu was able to become emperor, and she was extremely happy in her heart.
But Dou Yifang did not expect that her words would break the intimate relationship between the brothers and make the brothers jealous of each other. Ancient times were an identity society, and if a person broke his identity and did things that did not conform to his identity, he would inevitably have family stability and social stability.
In the end, it developed into the matter of Liu Wu sending people to assassinate Yuan Ang.
Because Yuan Ang and other ministers opposed Emperor Jing of Han's passing of the throne to Liu Wu, Liu Wu held a grudge and sent someone to kill Yuan Ang. After killing Yuan Ang, emperor Jing of Han certainly couldn't just leave it at that, so he sent someone to investigate Liu Wu.
At this time, Dou Yifang did not play the right role, saying that this was emperor Jing of Han who wanted to deliberately kill Liu Wu.
At that time, she said a sentence: "The emperor killed my son!" These words obviously did not treat Emperor Han Jing as a son, so how could Emperor Han Jing be happy in his heart?
Later, after Liu Wu was depressed and died, Dou Yifang said another sentence: "Emperor Guo killed my son!" "Once wronged Emperor Jing of Han. The feelings of mother and son can be seen to have reached the point of intolerable water and fire.
To be precise, it was actually Dou Yifang himself who killed his son Liu Wu. It's just that she didn't feel it.
Later, after the death of Emperor Jing of Han, Dou Yifang, as the empress dowager, intervened in the court of his grandson Emperor Wu of Han, setting off a great storm. All this is a manifestation of Empress Dou's lack of political wisdom.
There was no political wisdom, but the luck was so good that even if she was blind, she could live that long. It must be said that this is a miracle.