In 523, the Six Towns Rebellion occurred in Northern Wei, and then Erzhu Rong borrowed the Six Towns Uprising to send troops to Luoyang and launch the "Heyin Revolution". Subsequently, Erzhu Rong was killed, and Northern Wei was again controlled by Gao Huan, and Emperor Xiaowu was established as Emperor Yuanxiu, but Emperor Xiaowu was not willing to be Gao Huan's puppet, broke with Gao Huan, and fled west to Chang'an.
After Emperor Xiaowu fled west, Gao Huan deposed his imperial title on the grounds that he had abandoned the country and fled, and established Emperor Yuan shanjian of the Qinghe King's son, Yuan Shanjian, as emperor, that is, Emperor Xiaojing, and moved the capital to Yecheng, known in history as Eastern Wei. The following year, Yuwen Tai poisoned Emperor Xiaowu on the grounds that Emperor Xiaowu had committed adultery with his sister and injured Daya, and established Yuan Baoju as emperor for Emperor Wen of Western Wei. At this point, the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into two, and the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties stood side by side.
Yuan Baoju was the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, the son of Yuanyu the Prince of Lintao, and his mother was Princess Yang Aofei, who escorted Emperor Xiaowu to Chang'an.
Although Yuan Baoju was the founding emperor of Western Wei, during his reign, all the power was vested in Yuwen Tai, who was in charge of the government as a taishi and a large master, and the military and state affairs were all handled by him, and Yuan Baoju could only be ruled by him.
Yuan Baoju's wife is Yi Fushi, Yi Fushi is beautiful, rarely speaks and laughs, when she was a few years old, her parents felt very strange, pointing at her relatives and saying, what does it matter to have a daughter, if like Yi Fushi, it is better than having a boy.
The ancestor of the Yifu clan was the leader of the Tuguhun regime, and after submitting to the Northern Wei, he was very respected, and the Yifu family married the Northern Wei princess for three consecutive generations, and most of the women of the Yifu family also became princesses. Yi Fu's father, Yi FuYi (乙福瑗), was the fourth daughter of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei and Yuan Baoju (元宝炬) of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In 525, at the age of sixteen, he married Yuan Baoju. After Yuan Baoju became emperor, he made Yi Fushi empress and made Yuan Qin, the son born to Yi Fushi, crown prince.
Yi Fushi is very frugal, eating ordinary vegetables and grains, wearing old clothes, never wearing pearls and jade, Ayara satin, being benevolent and generous, and Yuan Baoju loves her very much. The two were in love, and the symbiotic children of twelve, may be due to the marriage of close relatives and other reasons, most of the children died prematurely, only the prince Yuanqin and the Wudu Wang Yuanpeng survived.
The peaceful life of Yuan Baoju and Empress Yifu was not long. Western Wei was weak and weak, threatening on all sides, with the Eastern Wei of the Tiger's Eye to the east, Tuguhun to the west, Xiao Liang to the south, and the increasingly powerful Rouran to the north. The Western Wei dynasty was in internal and external difficulties, and everything was in ruins to be rebuilt.
At that time, the leader of Rouran was Anahuan, whose national strength was at its peak, while Western Wei was just established, in ruins to be rebuilt, the national strength was weak, and it needed time to recover and develop, not only did Rouran pose a powerful threat to Western Wei, but Also Gao Huan of Eastern Wei was also looking at the tiger and wanted to annex Western Wei at any time. In order to eliminate the northern border troubles and oppose the Eastern Wei, the Western Wei "Northern and Eastern Wei refused", and tried their best to win over Rouran, and joined forces with him to oppose the Eastern Wei.
Yuwen Tai used the method of harmony to woo Rouran, so that Yuan Baoju "called the princess of Huazheng and his wife Anahu brother Tahan", and also asked Yuan Baoju to marry Anahu's daughter Yujiu Lushi as empress. Yuan Baoju and Empress Yifu were in love, and after Yuwen Tai bitterly persuaded Yuan Baoju to abolish the society, Yuanbaoju had no choice but to depose Empress Yifu and let her be demoted to another palace and cut her hair as a nun. Later, Yuan Baoju made Yu Jiulu empress.
After becoming a nun, he lived in the palace, but Yu Jiulu was extremely jealous and was very dissatisfied with the fact that Otoshi still lived in the capital. Yuan Baoju had no choice but to send Yuan Peng, the king of Wudu, to the town with Yi Fushi as the assassin of Qin Prefecture. Despite this, Yuan Baoju still had a thought of Yi Fushi in his heart, and secretly ordered Yi Fushi to cultivate his hair, with the intention of recovering.
In the spring of 540, The whole country crossed the Yellow River and invaded south. At that time, many people said that the Rouran people were only mobilized because of the Yu jiulu clan, and Yuan Baoju listened helplessly and said, "Who has recruited millions of people for a woman?" Even so, if someone says such a thing, what face do I have to see? ”
When the country was in ruin, he sent the Zhongchang attendant Cao Pet to send his handwritten edict to Yi Fushi and let her commit suicide. Yi Fushi cried and said to Cao Pet, "May the Supreme Being enjoy ten million years of age, the world is peaceful, and there is no hatred in death." ”
Yi Fushi said goodbye to his son Yuan Peng, and left a message to Prince Yuan Qin, the words were very sad, and she cried bitterly for a long time. He placed the maid next to him, and then hanged himself, Chinese New Year's Eve a year old.
It is rumored that when Yu Jiulu was pregnant and about to give birth, she saw the soul of Empress Yifu, after which she died of difficult childbirth, at the age of sixteen.
After building his own mausoleum, Yuan Baoju personally wrote that after ten thousand years, he would sacrifice Yi Fushi and posthumously name Yi Fushi as "Empress Wen". After the crown prince Yuan Qin ascended the throne, he buried Yi Fushi and Yuan Baoju together in Yongling.
The positions of Western Wei and Rouran in peace and pro-China were very unequal, and Western Wei was always in a humble and even praying role, without the slightest initiative. Marrying Analu's daughter, not only accompanied by a large amount of money, but also sacrificed Empress Yifu, and after Empress Yujiulu's difficult birth, she was even more afraid of Rouran Xingshi's guilt and asked for relatives again.