In the patriarchal society of the feudal era, women usually have no autonomy, and even if you become an emperor, the woman will not necessarily get good results. Today, I will introduce a cruel and widowed emperor to friends, Li Yuanhao, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, and see how he treats his own women. According to the Song Dynasty King's "Western Xia Chronicle", "Xiao Xiao (i.e., Li Yuanhao) married seven wives. That is, Li Yuanhao had seven concubines in his lifetime, namely: Mu Shi, Suo Shi, Du Luo Clan (early death), Mi Mi Clan, Ye Li Clan (born three sons: eldest son Ning Ming, second son Ning Lingge, third son Xue Li died early), Yelü Clan (who was a Khitan princess), and Wu Duoshi ("New Empress"). There is also a beautiful woman who is not hidden and li Yuanhao liked, but did not give a name before she died.
Regrettably, none of Li Yuanhao's concubines had a good ending, and their fate was bitter. Song Jingyou 2nd year 1035) In May, Li Yuanhao killed the first concubine, Wei Mushi. Wei Mushi was his uncle, she was orphaned at a very young age, adopted by Li Yuanhao's mother, and the two became Li Yuanhao's first concubines before they were 15 years old. Li Yuanhao killed his mother, and was reprimanded by Wei Mushi, who happened to be pregnant at that time, and Li Yuanhao did not kill her and imprisoned her. When the child was born, some people said that the child did not look like Li Yuanhao, and Li Yuanhao immediately turned his face and killed Wei Mushi and the child together.
In the third year of Song Jingyou (1035 AD), Li Yuanhao's second concubine Suo Shi secretly hated Li Yuanhao because she was "unloved", and when she heard that Li Yuanhao was killed in battle when she attacked Liugu Tubo in Liangzhou, she couldn't help but look happy, "Daily entertainment music, beneficial self-cultivation." As a result, Li Yuanhao returned safely, and Suo Shi was terrified in the song and dance field, and hanged himself. Li Yuanhao did not forgive and killed Suo Shimanmen.
The third concubine, Du Luoshi, died of depression shortly after marrying. In the first year of The Song Dynasty (1038), the sixth concubine, Princess Xingping of the Liao Kingdom, fell ill and died. "Princess Su and Yuanhao are not at peace", Li Yuanhao simply ignored her, and she was sick and did not give treatment. The Liao envoy came to inquire and deceived Princess Kangtai. After the death of the princess, the Liao dynasty and the public were indignant, and the Liao lord sent the Northern Yuan to undertake yelü Shucheng to "hold the edict and interrogate", that is, to send members of the royal family to track down the cause of death, and Li Yuanhao did not answer the question, which aroused xia Liao's hatred.
The fourth concubine, MiMishi, "gave birth to a son, Ali, no favor, and lived in the town of Wangting in Xia Prefecture". She lived with her son Li Ali in Wangting Town, and her marriage relationship with Li Yuanhao survived in name only. In the second year of the Qing calendar (1042), Li Yuanhao gave the crown prince Ning Lingge a daughter-in-law, not wanting him to see the princess not move much and the beauty of the clan, Jonah was his seventh concubine, due to the fierce opposition of the prince's biological mother, Empress Ye Lishi, Li Yuanhao built another palace room on Tiandu Mountain, lived with the Wuduo clan, and rarely returned to the palace.
In the fifth year of the Qing calendar (1045), when the Wuzang clan had an affair with Li Yuanhao, only the fifth concubine left in the Western Xia harem, the then empress Ye Lishi. In August, the two had an affair, and the Nori clan forced her out of the palace and became a nun at the Temple of the Ring Altar. Li Yuanhao simply stayed overnight at the Buddhist Temple, and Mi Mi and his son Li Ali thought that it was a serious violation of morality, and secretly gathered forces to prepare for the "Qing Jun's side", but unexpectedly, they were informed by Li Ali's close confidant Wo Xiang. In November, Li Yuanhao ordered the arrest of Li Ali, tied li Ali to a stone, and threw him alive into the Yellow River to drown, and Mi Mishi was given death.
In the sinister harem life, only because of the merits of the Yeli clan for giving birth to three sons, and the fact that the Yeli family was regarded as a humerus by Li Yuanhao, could they save their lives and be named "Empress Chengxian". By the time Li Yuanhao became the seventh concubine and lived in the Tiandu Mountain Palace, the relationship between the empress dowagers and empresses was already extinct in name only. In May of the seventh year of the Qing calendar (1047), Li Yuanhao was "resentful" by the Yeli clan, and set up another Wuduoshi clan living in the Tiandushan Palace as the "new empress", so that two empresses appeared in one country. In July, Empress Noritoshi was deposed, "deposed in the palace, never to be seen again."
At this point, Li Yuanhao's imperial concubine in the city of Xingqingfu in Western Xia was empty. It can be seen from this that the male lords of the Western Xia Dynasty were so ruthless to their own women, killing them if they wanted to, and changing them if they wanted, which was really hateful, and these women were so pitiful! It really fulfills the famous saying that "the red face is not old and the old is broken first, the most ruthless imperial family", it can be seen that whether it is a big family or a small family, if there are too many interests and power entanglements in the feelings between husband and wife, there is a good chance that it is rare to have a good ending.
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