Author: Qi Yunke
After Zhao Mourning, she was the last empress dowager of the Zhao Kingdom during the Warring States period, she was born lowly, a dramatist and a prostitute, but with her superhuman wisdom and wrist successfully counterattacked, a small sparrow flew up the branch to become a phoenix, and climbed to the peak status that a woman could reach in ancient times.
<h1>First, the road of counterattack</h1>
After Zhao mourned the initiative, Zhao Guoren, name unknown. As an advocate for people to have fun, to sell laughter for a living, fell into the wind and dust, it is difficult to have a day out, this is her misfortune. However, unlike other peers, she has the beauty of the country and the city, and the other is the superhuman wisdom.
Beauty is the precondition for its counterattack success, if it is average looks, it is difficult to have a chance to ascend, after all, in the wind and moon field, men's first impression of women is still a face. It is not enough to have the external conditions of beauty, but also to have the internal conditions, that is, the wisdom of superhuman, so that you can have more confidence to make yourself stand out and become a superior person.
Sure enough, it was gold that would glow sooner or later. Because of her outstanding beauty, good at greeting, and talent for singing and dancing, she soon became famous in the wind and moon field of Handan City. Many people come to see her, only to see her, to listen to her sing a song, dance a paragraph, and see her face.
Her luck lies in the fact that she soon met the noble man of life. A royal relative of the Zhao kingdom took a fancy to her. This Zhao Someone, fascinated by her beauty, song and dance, and radiant temperament, was fascinated and intoxicated. Since you can't do without her, then redeem herself and bring it back to the palace, after all, Zhao Someone is not short of money.
In this way, she relied on her own beautiful face and a clever mind to win the heart of Zhao Someone, to be precise, to firmly grasp the heart of Zhao Someone, making him confused and addicted.
Since then, she has been freed from the sea of suffering, from a small person at the bottom of society, into the upper class, and has become a close relative of the royal family. She should be content with the status quo, at least not for her livelihood, let alone worry about the rest of her life. In the future, if you can give birth to a man and a half a woman for Zhao, will there still be room for improvement in status?
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and soon after, her patron Zhao Someone died, leaving her alone and becoming a widow.
The death of her husband is said to be her sorrow, but it is also an important turning point in her fate. It turned out that Zhao Yan, the son of King Zhao, had long admired her, or coveted her for a long time, and had always wanted to be included in the palace and appropriated for himself, but he was suffering from no chance and had not been able to succeed. Now that her husband is dead and has become a widow, it is much easier for Zhao Yan to accept her into the palace.
Despite this, Zhao Yan, as a prince, wanted to accept her into the palace, but was strongly opposed by many ministers led by Li Mu. They believed that she was originally a prostitute and came from a humble background, so how could she enter the palace and become a concubine of the prince? Does she deserve it?
However, the ministers opposed and opposed, but Zhao Yan did not care about these, or forced it into the harem, becoming the so-called "Advocate Ji" of the people of the time, which means song and dance Ji, implying that she was not from a good origin.
<h1>Second, the road of the empress</h1>
After she was with her son Zhao Yan, she was also like-minded, affectionate and confidant, saw and hated late, and liked to sing and dance, eat and drink, and have fun, and naturally won zhao Yan's favor. Soon, she gave birth to a child, and it was a son, that is, the prince Zhao Qian.
After having a son, her status has invisibly improved, and her waist plate has also hardened a lot. However, she is not satisfied with her scheming, and she still wants to have more. At that time, Zhao Yan already had a wife and a concubine, and she still wanted to take a wife for her son.
In the twenty-first year of Zhao Xiaocheng's reign (245 BC), King Xiaocheng of Zhao collapsed and died, and Zhao Yan succeeded to the throne as King Xiang of Zhao. Zhao Yan made his wife his queen and his concubine Zhao Jia the crown prince. The road to winning the wife of The Advocate Ji began to officially move forward.
The queen was not pleased by King Xiang of Zhao, and the son born to the queen would naturally not be welcomed by her father. Advocate Ji grasped this point and made full use of this to gradually carry out his own ulterior motive.
She did not know how many means she used, and finally succeeded in framing the crown prince Zhao Jia, who was said to have committed a crime. Since the prince had sinned, he had the name of deposing him.
When the queen saw that her children had been framed, she was anxious and angry, and at the same time hated her husband's lack of affection for her mother and son. Before and after the facts of her son's crime were "clarified", the desperate queen was depressed, bid farewell to the years of hardship that were worse than death, and left her son to die. Although the queen had too much reluctance, too much uneasiness, too much unwillingness, she also understood that Zhao Guo's tomorrow and her son's tomorrow, she really couldn't influence it.
Once the queen died, the weak crown prince Zhao Jia was easier to deal with.
Lady Zhao instigated King Xiang of Zhao to depose Zhao Jia as crown prince and make Zhao Qian the crown prince, and at the same time, she herself became a queen and a woman who reached the peak of power. After a country, it turned out to be a prostitute, which is really an incredible reality in history, is it true that there are no women in the Zhao Kingdom? Do you have to set up a prostitute to be the queen?
Zhao Mourning used his own practical actions to create a miracle, breaking a record, and becoming a model of success in turning sparrow into phoenix counterattack.
<h1>Third, the road to death</h1>
After Zhao mourned and became the queen of the Zhao Kingdom, she was high up in the sky, enjoying the bliss and prosperity of the world, and originally wanted to enjoy life with ease and prosperity for a lifetime. However, her dream was thrown away by reality and shattered by what she did.
King Xiang of Zhao died after nine years on the throne. Zhao Qian,the crown prince of Zhao's posthumous son, succeeded to the throne as King Youmiao of Zhao, also known as King Qian of Zhao, and was the last great king of the State of Zhao.
When Zhao Qian took the throne, his age would not be too large, it was estimated that he was more than ten years old, he was a teenager, and just in his prime, Zhao Mourning also wanted to encroach on the supreme power of the Zhao State. As the empress dowager, she betrayed officials and knights, frantically amassed wealth, and also colluded with Guo Kai, Chun Pingjun and others to attack loyal ministers, nepotism, and do whatever she wanted, pushing the already crumbling Zhao Guojiangshan step by step into the abyss of eternal disaster.
For his son's Jiangshan, he was afraid of overturning late; for himself, he was dead.
She confronted Chun Pingjun, the brother of King Xiang of Zhao, who had returned from the Qin State as a hostage, and the two became an underground couple, often meeting in secret.
Chunping Jun was the son of King Xiaocheng of Zhao, who had been a proton in the Qin Kingdom for many years, and after returning to China, he saw that King Xiangxiang of Zhao had succeeded to the throne, and he was originally the most important son of his father King Zhao Xiaocheng, and was the best candidate for the heir to the throne. The Qin people took the opportunity to win over Chun Pingjun and bribed him with the high-ranking official Houlu Xiang. Chun Pingjun was not a confused person, knowing that it was difficult for him to have great prospects for development in the Zhao Kingdom, and the situation of the Qin State unifying the world was already very clear at that time, it was only a matter of time, and it was sooner rather than later to throw himself into the arms of the Qin State. Therefore, he was willing to be a spy for the Qin state and a traitor to the Zhao state.
Chun Pingjun not only betrayed the interests of the state himself, but also pulled Guo Kai and Zhao Mourning, joined hands, and at the behest of the Qin state, killed a generation of famous generals Li Mu, dismissed the great generals Sima Shang and Pang Yan who could fight a good war, and destroyed the Great Wall.
In the seventh year of King Youmiao of Zhao (229 BC), after Li Mu was killed and Sima Shang was deposed, the Zhao army suffered a serious defeat in the battle against the Qin army and suffered a devastating blow.
After that, it was difficult for the Zhao state to organize a strong army to resist the Qin army, and the period of national subjugation was getting closer and closer.
In the eighth year of King Youmiao of Zhao, that is, in the nineteenth year of the reign of King Zheng of Qin, in 228 BC, the Qin army entered the city of Handan and captured King Qian of Zhao. Zhao was not as lucky as her son, and was caught and killed by the officials and people of the Zhao state who hated her; at the same time, her family was also destroyed by the Zhao people. It can be seen how deep and fierce the Hatred of the Zhao people is!
When Zhao Was killed, he was about forty years old and should still be alive. People say: Red face and water, what is it? It is also.
Throughout the life after Zhao Mourning, she went from a laughing woman at the bottom of the society, after working hard to become the concubine of the royal family, and then walked into the deep palace to marry the prince, became the queen and the empress dowager, step by step to the peak position of life, completed the counterattack of the sparrow into a phoenix, can not help but say that she is indeed very capable, her life is successful. However, her comfortable life was based on the suffering of the whole country's military and people, and she exchanged it for the fundamental interests of the country. She personally succeeded and lived a good life, but the country was defeated, the people were exploited miserably, her son's country and mountains were lost, and she undoubtedly became a sinner of history and spurned by future generations.
【About the author】Qi Yunke, male, educator. In recent years, he has published more than 800,000 words in media at all levels. Signed author of The Reading Platform. He is a member of the Henan Provincial Writers Association and a standing director of the Henan Provincial Youth Writers Association.
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