Xiao Guanyin was the first wife of Emperor Yelü Hongji of Liao, a well-known talented empress of the Khitan Kingdom, from a noble birth, a knowledgeable dali, and the mother of the crown prince, so that the empress who had made people impeccable in virtue and speech was overthrown by Yelü Yixin with stealing love and beautiful poetry, and even harmed her daughter-in-law, which was really lamentable.
Many people think that Yelü Yixin is ambitious and wants to usurp the throne, so they dare to attack the empress and the prince, so they think that it is too much to lift up the poor son Yi Xinjun, in fact, Xiao Guanyin's death is only because of the internal volume of their Xiao clan's descendants.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" >01, a talented daughter of a descendant who lost her father at an early age</h1>
Empress Xuanyi Xiao Guanyin (1040-1075), from the yingtian empress dowager Shu Luping, the fatian empress dowager Xiao Yunjin, and the Zongtian empress dowager Xiao Taoli, her father was Xiao Yunjin's fifth brother, Xiao Taoli's fifth uncle Xiao Xiaohui (Xiao Xiaozhong), and her mother was the second daughter of Emperor Shengzong of Liao and Xiao Yunjin, and the sister of Emperor Xingzong of Liao, Princess Yelü Mugu of the State of Qin.
Yes, Xiao Guanyin's parents were still married as uncles and nephews, so Xiao Guanyin was not only the granddaughter of Liao Shengzong Yelü Longxu and Empress Dowager Xiao Yunjin, but also the niece of Xiao Yunjin, and the Khitan nobles liked to marry close relatives, and the generations were already chaotic to be counted.
Some readers may say, no, no, the History of Liao clearly records that Xiao Guanyin was the daughter of Xiao Hui, the brother of Empress Qin, and how can you say that she is the daughter of Xiao Xiaohui? Are they one?
Xiao Hui and Xiao Xiaohui are not one person, and for their discernment, we can see the old text of Monkey Ge, yelü Qigu, and the errors and omissions in the History of Liao are well known, according to the excavated "Epitaph of Xiao Zhixing", "Epitaph of Princess Taifei of the Qin Kingdom", "Epitaph of Xiao Degong", etc., it is enough to prove that Xiao Guanyin is the daughter of Xiao Xiaohui (Xiao Xiaozhong), the fifth brother of Xiao Yunjin and Princess Shangqigu, and not the daughter of Xiao Hui (Xiao Guanning) of Xiao Yunjin's brother and Princess Shangyan Muyan.
At midnight in May of the ninth year of Emperor Chongxi of Liaoxing (1040), Xiao Guanyin, who was "a champion of posture, poetry, good talk, self-made lyrics, and a pipa", was born.
Regarding Xiao Guanyin's birthplace, scholars believe that she was born in Yizhou, the head of her mother, Princess Qigu, and Liu Fengzhu, an ethnic researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an authoritative expert on the interpretation of Khitan characters, also wrote in Khitan characters for the ancient City of Yizhou: "Liaoguo Yizhou Thousands of Springs and Autumns, the Birthplace of Empress Xuanyi".
However, Monkey Ge was still a little confused about this, according to the resume of Xiao Guanyin's father Xiao Xiaohui, he served as a retainer in Tokyo in the seventh year of Chongxi (1038), until the twelfth year (1043) in the first month of the first month of the northern court, fengchu wang, that is to say, when Xiao Guanyin was born, their family should be in Tokyo, right?
Princess Makigu's head Xiazhou Yizhou, founded in the third year of taiping (1023) when Makigu married her uncle Xiao Xiaohui, was initially named Qingyi Jun, later renamed Guangshun Jun, at this time Yizhou was subordinate to Shangjing Province, and it was not until after Makigu's death that it was offered to the imperial court by Xiao Guanyin in the seventh year of Qingning (1061), and the initial army name was Ningchang, which was changed to Tokyo Province.
Therefore, Princess Makiko, who married a chicken with a chicken, should also follow her uncle and husband to Tokyo to take up a post, right? You can't live separately, right? Isn't It true that Xiao Guanyin should have been born in Tokyo? Why is it agreed that Xiao Guanyin was born in Yizhou, Shangjing Province? Could it be that Xiao Xiaohui abandoned his official duties and stayed in Yizhou in Shangjing Province to accompany his wife? Confused face.
Speaking of Xiao Guanyin, the little girl who has been intelligent since childhood is actually very unfortunate, at the age of 4, on the first day of July in the twelfth year of Chongxi (1043), her father Xiao Xiaohui died of illness, and xiao Guanyin in childhood lived in the fiefdom of Yizhou with her mother Princess Mugu.
According to scholars, yizhou at that time was relatively developed in economy and relatively dense in population, and was the intersection of nomadic culture of northern ethnic minorities such as Khitan and Central Plains culture, and Xiao Guanyin's mother, Princess Mugu, was also a virtuous boudoir woman with a "beautiful posture and self-discipline", so whether it was the living environment or the family atmosphere, Xiao Guanyin was influenced by good Han culture, allowing her to grow into a talented woman with high cultural attainment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" >02, because of the weakness of the empress</h1>
In the twenty-second year of Chongxi (1053), the 14-year-old Xiao Guanyin was betrothed by his uncle Emperor Yelüzong of Liaoxing to the 22-year-old King of Yanzhao, Yelü Hongji.
The marriage of Xiao Guanyin and Yelü Hongji can be called the master of the Marriage of Khitan Close Relatives, and these two families have at least three layers of relationship, Hongji is Xiao Guanyin's cousin and cousin and cousin, and Xiao Guanyin is Hongji's cousin and cousin and cousin, wiping a handful of sweat.
At this time, the crown prince Hongji was not only the Grand Marshal of the Terracotta Army, zhi ti hidden affairs, but also the privy councillor of the Northern and Southern Yuan, although he did not have the title of crown prince, but he was already the crown prince on the board, so Xiao Guanyin was also the future Empress of the Great Liao.
Why did Emperor Xingzong of Liao marry a son who had lost his father and daughter? In fact, the reason is very simple, Xingzong, who was deeply affected by foreign relatives, hired his son to marry the only daughter of his widowed sister in order for his son to no longer be restrained by the descendants.
As we all know, xiao Yunjin, as a yuan concubine, only because she gave birth to Emperor Xingzong, did she flaunt her martial prowess, and also promoted her mother's family to fly Huang Tengda, surpassing the family of Empress Xiao Yanyan of Chengtian and becoming the most prominent foreign relative family of the Khitan Liao.
Xiao Yunjin had five brothers, the eldest Xiao Xiaomu, the second Xiao Xiaoxian, the third Xiao Xiaocheng, the fourth Xiao Xiaoyou, and the fifth Xiao Xiaohui, and the five brothers naturally twisted into a rope to support the eldest nephew at the beginning of Emperor Xingzong's ascension to the throne.
However, with Xiao Yunjin's ascension to the throne and his superiority over imperial power, the relationship between mother and son deteriorated rapidly, and then in May of the third year of Chongxi (1034), xiao Yunjin and his second brother Xiao Xiaoxian wanted to depose his eldest son Xingzong and establish another younger son, Chongyuan, but was exposed by Chongyuan, and Xingzong preemptively exiled the old woman to Qingling. (See the old text of the Heavy Yuan)
The pro-government Xingzong could not change the situation of the Manchu Dynasty, and under the pressure of his uncle's family, Xingzong had to welcome the old woman back to the dynasty in July of the eighth year of Chongxi (1039), continuing the endless mother-son dispute.
Emperor Xingzong wanted to pass the throne to his son Hongji, but Xiao Yunjin forced the eldest son to pass the throne to the younger son Emperor Chongyuan, in order to keep the imperial power of the Yelü family from falling, Xingzong was struggling to support, as the crown prince Hongji grew older, Xingzong finally found a way to divide the mother-in-law's family.
In order to consolidate the power of his mother's family, Xiao Yunjin deposed the empress Xiao Sanju of the Chengtian lineage, and set up Xiao Taoli, the daughter of his eldest brother Xiao Xiaomu and the son of Hongji, as his successor.
Well, now that Hongji has grown up, as Hongji's grandfather, uncle's family, and Xiao Xiaomu's family, who was originally partial to Emperor Xingzong, he naturally chose to support the closer prince Hongji, and it was impossible to support the emperor's brother Chongyuan.
Cracks began to appear between the five xiao brothers, and Emperor Xingzong saw the stitches and inserted needles, and more and more relied on the filial piety of the family of his great uncle and wife, which was the foundation of his son's life.
However, the second elder Xiao Xiaoxian and his sister Xiao Yunjin were the hardcore of the snake and rat nest, and resolutely supported his brother Chongyuan, and Xiao Yunjin married the daughter of the third Xiao Xiaocheng for Chongyuan, and Xiao Xiaocheng naturally wanted to support his son-in-law.
The old fourth Xiao Xiaoyou was ostensibly supporting the Xingzong father and son, but secretly still supporting Chongyuan, and the Xingzong father and son did not know that the fourth uncle was two sides and three knives, until the later Chongyuan rebellion, the filial piety father and son were exposed.
The old fifth Xiao Xiaohui, like the eldest brother Xiao Xiaomu, belongs to a relatively upright person, and is a bit biased towards Xingzong in itself, although Xiao Xiaohui died early, but Princess Mugu is still there, marrying his daughter-in-law, naturally pulling together the forces representing the five houses of the Xiao clan.
Moreover, Xiao Xiaohui's branch is also relatively thin among the brothers, only Xiao Guanyin and Xiao Aso sisters, Xingzong will feel that even if Xiao Guanyin gives birth to a prince in the future, the mother's family Ding is not prosperous, and will no longer let the grandson be bullied by the foreign family.
Therefore, Emperor Xingzong hired his son Hongji to marry Xiao Guanyin, who was both talented and beautiful, so that, on the surface, the five houses of the Xiao clan had three branches of the Xiaomu clan, the filial friend clan, and the filial hui clan, which fell to the imperial power.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" >03, from incomparable love to drifting away</h1>
In the twenty-fourth year of Chongxi (1055), Emperor Xingzong of Liao died at the age of 40, and his testament allowed the 24-year-old crown prince Hongji to take the throne as Emperor Daozong of Liao.
Before the Emperor's brother Chongyuan could recover from his loss and blow, the Chicken Thief's Daoist Emperor honored his uncle as the Emperor's uncle, expressing his respect for his uncle, and in December, he made his 16-year-old wife Xiao Guanyin empress.
In November of the second year of QingNing (1056), the 25-year-old Daozong Shangzun Emperor Tianyou gave his 17-year-old young wife the title of Empress Yide, making her the fourth empress with the honorific title of Daliao after Empress Shu Luping, Empress Xiao Bodhisattva of Qitian, and Empress Xiao Taoli of Chongsheng.
The Qingning era was a period of deep affection between Xiao Guanyin and Daozong, and in this decade, Xiao Guanyin successively gave birth to three daughters and four children, namely Yelü Sagar, Yelü Zhili, Yelü Tri, and Yelü Jun, and their feelings were as good as Honey's oil.
In August of the second year of Qing Ning (1056), they were in the autumn bowl near Yongzhou, and the husband and wife hunted together, and Xiao Guanyin left behind the "Fuhu Poem" of Chongzhi Shangyong, which was praised by her husband as a female talent, and even won the special favor of the pepper room, and her honorific title was honored in November of that year.
In August of the third year of QingNing (1057), Emperor Daozong presented "Comrade Huayi Tongfeng" to Empress Xiao Taoli, and the 18-year-old Xiao Guanyin should make a poem and a poem of five laws, which was neat and solemn in content, and was deeply loved by Emperor Daozong and the empress.
In the fourth year of Qingning (1058), the 19-year-old Xiao Guanyin gave birth to the crown prince Yelüjun, which added to the couple's relationship.
In July of the ninth year of Qingning (1063), the 24-year-old Xiao Guanyin, together with the 32-year-old Daozong couple, faced the Luanhe Rebellion launched by the Emperor's uncle Yelü Chongyuan and won the victory.
After the Chongyuan Rebellion, Chongyuan's father and son died, and most of the comrades who supported him were destroyed, among which the Xiao clan's three-room filial piety and four-room filial piety suffered heavy losses.
Xiao Huyan, the son of Xiao Xiaoyou, who was the most powerful of the jumps, was exterminated; the xiaocheng clan, who was the family of Chongyuan Yue, was also severely damaged, crouching up and tucking his tail between his legs; Xiao Xiaoxian, the most active second room in the Xingzong Dynasty, died early, and his children and grandchildren did not fight, but were not affected.
After thirty years of open and dark struggle, Daozong finally realized his old father's long-cherished wish, let the imperial family defeat the hou clan, make his throne stable, and with the death of his uncle Chongyuan, the sensitive and suspicious and insecure Daozong could finally sleep well.
However, because of the members who followed the Chongyuan rebellion, there were many close relatives of the imperial family and the magnates of the hou clan, which also made Daozong completely lose trust in the members of the imperial family and the hou clan, and his sensitivity and suspiciousness were even more serious.
The original Taoist emperor, because of the stability of the imperial power, unloaded the former disguise, the flaws in the personality began to be exposed, and the direct impact was the deep and righteous husband and wife feelings, if the Qingning decade was the ten years of their husband and wife working together to the outside world, then the Xianyong decade was the decade in which the husband and wife gradually drifted apart from each other.
Xiao Guanyin's parents were highly culturally cultivated, and she herself was even more intoxicated with Han culture, and she was determined to become a sage and assist Her husband in creating a peaceful and prosperous world, so she often advised The Taoist Sect to gain or lose.
And the Taoist sect who hunted for nothing but wanted to sit in peace was more and more tired of demanding his wife with high standards, and like his father Xingzong, he was essentially just a vassal and elegant person, and his liking for Han culture was only superficial, not Xiao Guanyin's heartfelt liking.
What's more, The Daoist Sect had no interest in being an open-minded and self-disciplined sage, and the more Xiao Guanyin advised, the more the Daoist Sect resented it, and the initial good feelings between the husband and wife were eventually consumed in time.
Xiao Guanyin, who suffered from her husband's snub, was depressed and sad in her heart, so she made ten songs of "Huixinyuan" to express her mood, and also composed "Huixinyuan" into a song for people to sing, but the difficult music score, only the Han musician Zhao Guanyin can play, Zhao's only talent in music, so that the literary and artistic young woman Xiao Guanyin can't help but look at him differently, and it is this that ultimately brings misfortune to Xiao Guanyin's mother and son.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="103" >04, was given death for erotic poems and affairs</h1>
On the first day of the first lunar month of the first year of the Xianyong Dynasty (1065), Emperor Daozong added the honorific title, changed the eleventh year of Qingning to the first year of the Xianyong Dynasty, issued a general amnesty, and appointed his only son, Yelüjun the Prince of Liang, as the crown prince, with different internal and external official ranks.
On the thirtieth day of the first month, Emperor Daozong also specially stipulated that in the future, every time the New Day, the Noonday, and the Winter Solstice, the group of courtiers should go to the Table to congratulate the Eastern Palace to show their attention to the only beloved son.
Around the ninth year of Xianyong (1073), the 16-year-old crown prince got married, and Emperor Daozong chose Xiao Sanfang of the much-suppressed Xiao Sanfang filial piety line and Xiao Zhiwei (Khitan name: Xiao Shuzhe) as his wife.
In the leap April of the first year of Dakang (1075), Crown Princess Xiao Bone Bath gave birth to Emperor Yelü Yanxi, and in this year, Prince Yelüjun was 18 years old, Emperor Daozong was 44 years old, and Xiao Guanyin was only 36 years old, and she was promoted to grandmother.
Emperor Daozong, who was pleased with the Golden Sun, was very happy, and specially gave the relatives of the crown princess and rewarded the subordinates of the Eastern Palace, and in June, he issued an edict to let the prince YelüJun lead the Privy Counsellor of the Northern and Southern Yuan, and the general government.
Crown Prince Jun was entrusted by his father with the heavy responsibility of starting the imperial government, which made a person very unhappy, this person was the Han menzi who had risen since the Chongyuan Rebellion, and the Privy Councillor of the Northern Yuan, Yelü Yixin.
The rise of the wise man Yi Xin was based on Daozong's distrust of the nobles of the family and The dim and lazy government of Daozong himself, who flattered Daozong and consolidated the emperor's favor while forming parties for personal gain and excluding dissidents.
Yi Xin, who was guarding food, was not willing to let the power be divided by the prince, and for the sake of his own power and position, he did not hesitate to create the case of Empress Xiao Guanyin of Yide and the conspiracy of Prince Jun, and brought down the Empress Dowager And the Crown Prince one after another.
Yi Xin had a lover named Qingzi, who was the wife of Zhu Dinghe, the sister of Qingzi, Shan Deng, who was originally the happy maid of the Emperor's uncle Chongyuan family, and was submerged in the palace because Shan Zheng and Pipa had to save their lives.
Although Shan Deng's level was far inferior to xiao Guanyin's, he was often summoned by Emperor Daozong to play the kite, and Xiao Guanyin, for the sake of Daozong's safety, advised Daozong to place Shan Deng, the maid of the rebel family, in the outer palace courtyard.
Shan Deng believed that the empress was blocking her way to ascension, so he was very resentful of Xiao Guanyin, and Yi Xin, through Qingzi, asked Shan Deng to find Xiao Guanyin's mistakes, and Shan Deng told his sister that the empress and the official Zhao were the only ones who had an affair.
Yi Xin felt that the empty mouth could not kill the empress without a hammer, so he ordered others to make ten fragrant words, let Shan Deng bring it into the palace, and coaxed Xiao Guanyin to say that it was the work of the Empress of the Song Dynasty, and if it was written by the Empress of the Liao Kingdom who was good at calligraphy, it could be called the second best.
Xiao Guanyin believed that it was true, so he wrote it by hand, and improvised a "Huaigu Poem" after the end, and Shan Deng passed it on to his sister Qingzi to yixin, who asked Shan Deng and Zhu Dinghe to report the lingguan Zhao's only adulterous affair with Empress Yide, and the evidence was the Ten Fragrant Words and the Huaigu poem.
On October 23, 1075, in the first year of Dakang (1075), Yi Xin secretly played "Empress Yide's Private Official Shu" to Emperor Daozong, which basically means:
As early as September of the sixth year of Xianyong (1070), when Emperor Daozong was driving on Mount Xingmuye, the official Zhao Only openly claimed that Empress Yide had a purpose to summon him to see the kite, and the two secretly had an affair, and later the empress wrote the "Ten Fragrant Words" to reward Zhao Yi, and the scandal of their secret affair was discovered by Shan Deng, who was afraid that the incident would implicate her, so he advised the empress, but was reviled by the empress to the outside. Shan Deng told his brother-in-law Zhu Dinghe about this matter, and the two of them thought about it again and again, if they did not expose the empress's secret affair, once the incident occurred, they would definitely not be able to escape the crime of lianlian, and it would be better to make meritorious deeds, so they bravely came out to expose the empress.
Emperor Daozong was furious when he heard this, and immediately summoned Xiao Guanyin to ask him, and Xiao Guanyin was confused by the sudden disaster, and cried and pleaded: As an empress of a country, a concubine is already at the peak of the status of a woman, and even though she has given birth to a prince, and recently she has won a grand grandchild, how can I, who is full of children, do the ugly thing of "a person who runs and loses his way"?
The angry Daoist emperor threw the "Ten Fragrant Words" down on Xiao Guanyin's face, and although Xiao Guanyin stated the origin of the incident, he could not listen to a word, but instead hit Xiao Guanyin with an iron bone, almost beating his wife to death on the spot.
Next, Emperor Daozong ordered Yi Xin and the governor Zhang Xiaojie to be responsible for handling the case, Zhang Xiaojie was Yi Xin's hardcore nemesis, the case fell into the hands of them, the unfortunate Xiao Guanyin was difficult to fly with his wings, and sure enough, under torture, Zhao Wei and Gao Changsheng were beaten into confessions and became a big prison.
Although The Privy Councillor Xiao Weixin advised Daozong not to shake the position of the mother of a country with the report of the traitor's slave, the hesitant Daoist, at the instigation of Zhang Xiaojie, was angered by the inclusion of Zhao's only name in the Huaigu Poems.
On the third day of the first month of November, Empress Xiao Guanyin, who had only been promoted to her grandmother for half a year, was given death by her husband Daozong, the desperate Xiao Guanyin wrote a "Desperate Word", and the desolate Self-Hanging died, and the angry Daozong ordered people to send the empress's naked body back to her mother's home, and Zhao Andi, who was involved in the case, was also killed and had no home.
On the first day of June in the third year of Dakang (1077), Prince Jun was reported for rebellion, and was imprisoned in the Eastern Palace after being reprimanded, and on the eighth day of June, he was deposed as a Shuren and imprisoned in Shangjing, and in November, Yelü Yixin sent someone to murder Prince Jun and his wife.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="117" >05, the deep cause of Xiao Guanyin's death</h1>
Why did Yelü Yixin, who came from a humble background and had no foundation, dare to take the empress and the prince off his horse? Is it really because of the desire for power? How dare he attack the emperor's only son and his mother?
In fact, if there were no winks from the descendants of the Xiao clan, the han disciple Yelü Yixin would never have acted rashly, that is to say, the fall of Xiao Guanyin's mother and son was just an internal volume of the mother's family's power.
Because of the unremitting efforts of Emperor Xingzong and Emperor Daozong's father and son for decades, Xiao Zhizu (Khitan name: Ah La), who was loyal to Xiao Mu, was killed by Emperor Daozong; the descendants of the Xiaoxian clan did nothing; the filial piety clan was cautious because they were involved in the Chongyuan rebellion; and the filial piety clan was destroyed because they were the main culprits of the Chongyuan rebellion.
Only the Filial Piety clan, because of the emergence of Empress Xiao Guanyin of Yide and the crown prince Yelü Jun, led the way, and then existed like a clan leader. Xiao Zhiwei, a small third room of the Xiaocheng family, because his daughter Xiao Bone Bath became a crown princess and gave birth to the imperial grandson Yelü Yanxi, which is also a future that can be seen by the naked eye.
The prosperity of these two branches naturally made the Xiaomu clan, who had been the head of the Qin'ai family continuously and was now in decline, blush, especially Xiao Zhizu's second son, Xiao Deliang (Khitan name: Yu Liye, Princess Zhengguo of Shangxingzong), and xiao Derang, the fifth son of Xiao Delang (Khitan name: Xiao Xiamu, the eldest daughter of Emperor Shangdaozong of Wei), were unwilling to accept the decline of their own position.
For the hou clan, if you want the family to prosper, you must have an empress and a prince, otherwise you can only sit back and watch others enjoy the glory, if you overthrow the Xiao Guanyin mother and son of the Xiao Hui family and replace them with the girls of the Xiao Mu clan, then the Xiao Mu clan will rise again and restore the glory it once had.
Therefore, Xiao Deliang and Xiao Derang, the main forces of the Xiaomu clan who coveted the post-throne and the crown prince's throne, immediately hit it off with yelü Yixin, the first assistant who was not willing to be divided by the prince, and established a post-fall alliance.
In fact, Xiao Deliang, who was born into a noble family, was also the object of Yelü Yixin's prevention and suppression, as early as December of the second year of Xianyong (1066), Yixin was jealous of Xiao Zhiwei (the prince's father-in-law), the prime minister of the Northern Province, and falsely accused Xiao Zhiwei of plotting to kill him with his bodyguard Xiao Kugu, and Xiao Deliang was also implicated, because of this incident, Xiao Zhiwei went out of the Zhenshun rebel army, and Xiao Deliang also went out of the Zhenning Yuan army.
Through the false accusation case, Xiao Deliang realized the status and energy of Yelü Yixin in front of the Taoist Sect, so he turned his head to Yi Xin and "thought about Yi Xin and poured his heart into it", becoming a hardcore Yi Xin Party, and serving as the uncle of the state under the recommendation of Yi Xin.
In November of the first year of Dakang (1075), Xiao Guanyin of the Xiaohui clan was given death, and the throne was vacated, and after the operation of Yi Xin and Xiao Deliang, on June 23 of the second year of Dakang (1076), emperor Daozong established Xiao Deliang's niece and the eldest daughter of Xiao Dewen (Khitan name: Beilila) as empress.
The later throne once again fell to the Xiaomu clan, so Xiao Tansi's father Xiao Dewen, who died early, was posthumously awarded the title of King of Zhao, his uncle Northwest Road envoy, Xiao Deliang, the duke of Liaoxi County, the fifth uncle of the Han Dynasty, and Xiao De, the lieutenant of the Horse Capital, was made the king of Liucheng County.
Xiao Deliang also married his little niece, Xiao Tansi's sister Xiao Huite, to Yelü Suiye, the son of Yelü Yixin, and Yixin also became a relative.
Subsequently, Yi Xin eliminated the prince Yelüjun and his wife in the third year of Dakang (1077) in preparation for Xiao Tansi to have a son. But the irony is that Xiao Tansi did not have children for several years when he entered the palace, what would happen to an empress without a son? Brother Xiao Bodhisattva and Xiao Sanjian are all lessons from the past.
In order to break the deadlock, Xiao Deliang took advantage of the Khitan people's superstitious saying that "sisters and husbands are conducive to having children" to recommend Xiao Tansi's sister Xiao Huite, who was already married to Yelü Suiye and had several sons, to Emperor Daozong.
The dimwitted Daoist emperor ordered The lazy and her husband to divorce and enter the palace, but still did not give birth to a man and a half woman, so it can be seen that the problem is not the Xiao sisters, but the Taoist who indulged in wine.
Seeing that their nieces had no hope of having children, Xiao Deliang and Yi Xin set their sights on Yelü Chun, the king of Beiping County, who was the grandson of Emperor Xingzong, the nephew of Emperor Daozong, the son of Yelü Hongben (Khitan name: Helu Hui), the king of Song and Wei, and the son-in-law of Xiao Deliang's third brother Xiao Degong.
Xiao Degong's daughter Yao Geniang was Yelü Chun's concubine, and his son Xiao Ying married Yelü Chun's sister Princess Zheng guo, and as the emperor's brother, Yelü Hongben served as the remainer of Nanjing for a long time, and was the most powerful prince of the Daozong Dynasty (see the old Wen Hong).
Therefore, Yi Xin recommended the emperor's nephew Yelü Chun to Emperor Daozong as the imperial heir, and no one dared to oppose it, only the Northern Yuan Xuanhui made Xiao Wuna and Yi Lixiao Tao Kui oppose, and they advised Emperor Daozong to establish his grandson Yelü Yanxi.
In the case of direct descendants, few people would be willing to pass the throne to their nephews, and seeing that Daozong, who could not give birth to a son, had to follow the advice of his loyal ministers, turned his eyes to his only grandson, Yelü Yanxi, and for the future of the heirs, began to alienate and suppress the Xiaomu clan and Yi Xin, and cleared the obstacles for Yanxi to ascend to the throne.
In this way, although Xiao Deliang overthrew the empress and the crown prince, he did not achieve the final victory because his niece did not give birth to a son, which was also the luck of Xiao Guanyin's mother and son. Just imagine, if the Xiao Tansi sisters really gave birth to a son, then Xiao Guanyin's mother and son really had no room to turn over.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="125" >06, Monkey said</h1>
Talented woman Xiao Guanyin, in fact, shelved modern times is a petty bourgeois female Wenqing, she is born into a noble, do not worry about eating and drinking, people are smart, good at poetry and painting, but also proficient in musical rhythm, quick thinking, at the same time, not afraid of riding and shooting, such a woman who can write and fight, heroic posture, of course, there is a high capital.
The most important thing is that people still have lofty ambitions - determined to be a good daughter like Xiao Guanyin, who is willing to be an assistant to the Holy King, and marry a goods like Yelü Hongji, in fact, it is really a bit buried, if she does not marry Daozong, sit on the head of the old woman, rich and powerful, she may be able to live as a legendary woman like the concubines of the Qin and Jin dynasties.
Suddenly, I found that there are really quite a few legendary women in Khitans, probably because the status of Khitan women is higher than that of Central Plains women in the same period!
However, Xiao Guanyin's flaws are also obvious, her vigilance is too poor, for Shan Deng, since she is worried about becoming a female Yu Rang, why not send far away? Leaving her in the outer courtyard, didn't he dig a pit for himself? This is also the personality caused by her living in a simple environment since childhood, loyal and honest, and her heart skills are insufficient.
In other words, Daozong Hongji is also ridiculous, Xiao Guanyin married him when he was a teenager, bore him four children, the two have been husband and wife for more than twenty years, there is affection from adolescence to middle age, but in the face of the so-called male dignity, it is so vulnerable, it can be seen how serious the suspicion of the emperor is, and the wife who is close to him does not believe it, just ask, who else can he trust?
Xiao Guanyin of the post-birth clan, because of the family, is destined to be entangled with the royal family, it can really be said that it is a descendant of the clan, a descendant of the defeated clan, and finally died under the family's overthrow, which is really sighing.
That's it.
The pictures are purely indiscriminate and come from network intrusion and deletion. The lineage table is made of monkey grids.
References: Kang Peng's "The Case of Emperor Daozong of Liao's Yi De Hou", Cai Meibiao's "Three Cases of the Liao Dynasty Descendants and the Liao Dynasty Concubines", Zhang Zhiyong's "Multidimensional Perspective Study on the Unjust Imprisonment of Empress Xiao Guanyin of the Great Liao", Yu Wei's "Liao Dynasty Yizhou Examination", "Burning Pepper Record", "Liao History", "Khitan Guozhi", etc
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