Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties, is an ancient beauty that everyone is very familiar with, and it is not known that among the historical figures of her contemporaries, there is also a beautiful woman named Wang Zhengjun.
As far as the fame of later generations is concerned, Wang Zhengjun naturally cannot speak the same day as Wang Zhaojun, but if we talk about the status at that time, Wang Zhengjun is far higher than Wang Zhaojun.
In 71 BC, Xu Pingjun, the empress of emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty, was killed by Huo Xian, the wife of the powerful minister Huo Guang, because she wanted her daughter Huo Chengjun to become empress. Although Huo Xian's plot eventually succeeded, after Huo Guang's death, the Huo family, which failed in the coup, paid a heavy price for the entire clan to be condemned.
In the year of Empress Xu's tragic death, Wang Zhengjun was born in the home of Wang Ban of Tingwei Shi (equivalent to the current secretary of the Ministry of Justice), and her mother Li Shi later chose to divorce and remarry because her husband "did not see the old people crying, only the new people laughing", and she was also involved in the jealous struggle between the concubines after she entered the palace as an adult, but she laughed to the end with a steady and cautious personality and mysterious good luck, and laughed to the best.
In fact, before entering the palace, Wang Zhengjun's luck seemed to be very bad, and there was simply a terrible momentum of who died and who died. Wang Zhengjun was engaged to a family when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, but the man suddenly died inexplicably, and later, when the King of Dongping heard that she was beautiful and intelligent, he was ready to take her into the palace as a concubine, but before she could pass the door, the King of Dongping died. Later, the emperor selected palace women among the daughters of the civil and military officials to enrich the harem, and Wang Zhengjun was fortunate to enter the mysterious harem of the Han Dynasty, when she was eighteen years old.
When Wang Zhengjun entered the palace, Emperor Xuan of Han had been in the dynasty for more than twenty years, and the head of the harem was his third empress, Wang Zhengjun was still a carefree little palace girl at that time, and she would never have imagined that after five years, she would turn around gorgeously and become the new empress.
Don't think that Wang Zhengjun came to power by means of palace fighting, she sat on the throne of the empress by complete luck, and she did not replace the old queen, but first became her first daughter-in-law, the princess, and then rose from princess to new empress.
Wang Zhengjun's life course of turning sparrow into a phoenix begins with the death of Sima Liangdi, the prince's favorite.
Crown Prince Liu Yi was the son of Empress Xu who was unfortunately killed, and his favorite woman was Sima Liangdi, which can be described as "three hundred beautiful ladies in the Eastern Palace, three hundred pets in one", but unfortunately Sima Liangdi was a thin-lived red face, and before the crown prince ascended the throne and made her empress, she was both heartbroken and unwilling, and said such a sentence: The death of concubines is not the destiny of heaven, but the concubines of the concubines are more willing to kill me. In today's parlance, it is: I am not to blame heaven for my death, it is the result of the jealousy and curse of those concubines who do not get the favor of the prince! The crown prince loved Wu and Wu, believed in Sima Liangdi's words, and was full of resentment towards the concubines around him, and no one wanted to take care of them, and he was about to become depressed.
In order to let the prince get out of the pain of losing his beloved as soon as possible, Emperor Xuan of Han asked Empress Wang to carefully select five palace girls for the prince to choose from, and Wang Zhengjun was fortunate to become one of them. The crown prince did not forget Sima Liangdi, but did not dare to disobey the emperor's will, so he helplessly and casually said: "One of them can." Wang Zhengjun happened to be sitting in the position closest to the prince at that time, and Empress Wang liked her plain dress, so the empress thought that the person the prince was talking about was Wang Zhengjun, so she sent her to the prince's Eastern Palace.
If being elected to the Eastern Palace was the first luck of Wang Zhengjun, then her second luck came in 51 BC.
Although the crown prince was particularly fond of Sima Liangdi, he did not forget his responsibility to open branches for the Han Dynasty, unfortunately, neither his beloved Sima Liangdi nor her other concubines who loved her deeply could give birth to a son and a half daughter for him until Wang Zhengjun gave birth to a boy more than a year after entering the Eastern Palace. Wang Zhengjun was really not an ordinary luck, because when the prince first spoiled her, she was secretly knotted and pregnant with a dragon seed. Emperor Xuan of Han was very happy about the birth of his first grandson, and he personally named the emperor's grandson with the name of a thousand-mile horse and asked him to use the word taisun as a word.
Regrettably, the prince was not cold to Wang Zhengjun, although she gave birth to his first child, and it was still a boy, but Wang Zhengjun did not seem to mind whether the prince was warm to her or cold, she seemed to put all her feelings on her son, and never expressed resentment towards the prince, this indifferent and quiet mentality brought her a third luck.
In 49 BC, Emperor Xuan of Han unfortunately died, and the crown prince Liu Yi ascended to the throne This is the historical Emperor Yuan of Han. Emperor Yuan of Han first made Wang Zhengjun a concubine and then promoted her to empress, and she unknowingly became the new empress dowager, while the old empress dowager was called empress dowager.
Wang Zhengjun is a lucky person in terms of character promotion, but he is a loser or even a loser in the emotional process.
The Han Yuan Emperor Liu Yi favored three women for a long time in his lifetime, namely Sima Liangdi, Fu Zhaoyi, and Feng Zhaoyi mentioned above, and Wang Zhengjun, as his only empress, seemed to have never received his true love.
Under the auspices of the empress dowager, Wang Zhengjun was made empress of the Han Yuan Emperor according to the harem principle of "mother and son", but he was not favored by the emperor because of this. The excitement of ascending the throne caused Emperor Yuan of Han to completely get out of the depression of losing his favorite Sima Liangdi, and then he fell in love with Fu Jieyu (later zhaoyi), gave birth to a second son, Liu Kang, and later fell in love with Feng Meiren (later given the title of jieyu and promoted to Zhaoyi) who sacrificed his life to block the bear for him, and gave birth to a third son, Liu Xing.
Among the three sons, Emperor Yuan of Han liked Fu Zhaoyi's second son Liu Kang the most, and several times wanted him to replace his eldest son Liu Xiao to sit on the throne as crown prince, but all of them were abandoned because of the bitter advice of the old minister Shi Stan and the noble character of Wang Zhengjun's mother Yi Tianxia. For the favor of Fu Zhaoyi's mother and son, Wang Zhengjun has almost no jealousy, and her subsequent life experience can be used as proof of this.
In 33 BC, Emperor Yuan of Han died tragically, and the crown prince Liu Xiao ascended the throne as emperor, known as Emperor Cheng of Han in history, and Wang Zhengjun became the one who laughed best at the end, and she was promoted from empress to empress.
Special Writer of "Night Wolf Literature and History Studio": Yi Jiangnan