Empress Yan was the younger sister of Marquis Yan, and the two of them were at odds due to their respective needs clashing. Empress Yan was King Yu's adoptive mother, and she fully supported King Yu's concubine. As a prince with no foreign power, if there is no support from the empress, he will not even have the opportunity to fight with the prince, and he will be worse than the King of Jing, who still has his own mother, Concubine Jing, in the harem.
After learning that there was no hope for the concubine and that he knew his origins, King Yu entered the palace to persuade the empress to rebel, and Empress Yan was also a ghost at that time, helping King Yu to rebel, only to be thwarted by King Jing and Mei Changsu and others. After Emperor Liang returned to the palace, he sent someone to depose the empress, but it was not the eunuch Gao Zhan, but the obscure Concubine Hui.
1, High Cham proclaims the will
At Emperor Liang's side, Gao Zhan was Emperor Liang's most trusted person, even Meng Zhi and Xia Jiang were not comparable. As the grand internal administrator of the harem, Gao Zhan not only had to often follow Emperor Liang's side to serve, but also often acted as Emperor Liang's tongue and preached some words for Emperor Liang. Help Emperor Liang declare some of the more important wills. When the King of Jing was crowned prince, he was the King of Jing, where Gao Zhan personally went, and when gao Zhan's arrival could startle the palace and others, in the past, it was not a good thing to generally declare his will to the Palace of Jing.
I didn't think that this time it was actually the crown prince, and the canonization was, Gao Zhan looked at the small eyes of the King of Jing, but it was very ambiguous. After The defeat of King Yu's rebellion, Empress Yan also participated in it, and naturally she was punished. When the emperor did not send Gao Zhan to announce the deposing of Empress Yan, he sent a concubine who was not noticed. I want to say that I don't want to pay attention to Empress Yan anymore, send an unimportant concubine, and depose her casually.
2, Huifei and Jingfei
Princess Hui was the most low-profile presence in Emperor Liang's harem, but Empress Yan hated Princess Hui. Only because of the sudden plague in the former harem, Empress Yan and Princess Hui's children were sick, but as a result, Empress Yan's children died, and Princess Hui's children did not die, but became disabled. Therefore, from then on, Empress Yan began to look at Huifei unfavorably, and if there was nothing to do, she would make it difficult for Huifei.
In the harem, Huifei and Jingfei had a close relationship, and perhaps they were both unloved concubines. Concubine Jing often helped Concubine Hui, and Princess Huifei would often be harassed by Empress Yan and punish her to go to the ancestral hall to light candles. Jingfei knew that Huifei was timid, so she would often accompany Huifei to the ancestral hall and accompany Huifei to talk.
When Jiu'an Mountain was besieged, Concubine Jing waited closely by Emperor Liang's side to comfort him. Moreover, in the matter of The Concubine Chen's tablet, although Emperor Liang knew that he had wronged Concubine Jing, and That Princess Jing was kicking him in the back, for his face, he still punished Concubine Jing at that time, so Emperor Liang had a sense of guilt for Concubine Jing. He knew that the relationship between Concubine Jing and Concubine Hui was like a sister, and Princess Huifei was often bullied by Empress Yan, so he sent Concubine Huifei to proclaim the deposing of Empress Yan, let Empress Yan kneel down to Huifei, and let Princess Huifei get angry, which can be said to have given Concubine Jing's face.
3, Emperor Liang's suspicions
Emperor Liang used the art of checks and balances, and he knew that once Empress Yan was deposed, there would be no more concubines in the palace who could compete with Concubine Jing, so he carried Concubine Hui out and could not let Princess Jing alone be too popular in the harem. Moreover, Huifei and Jingfei have a close relationship, and Jingfei will not do anything to Huifei. The crown prince was deposed, the king rebelled, and the king of Jing made a contribution to saving the car at Jiu'an Mountain. For a while, there was no longer any prince who could compete with the King of Jing, and after a while, the entire imperial court was the voice of the King of Jing. Jingfei was the mother of King Jing, and in order to suppress the limelight of their mother and son slightly, it was enough to let a concubine with no identity background declare her will.
Princess Hui was timid, and told her that her proclamations must have been read out according to the script, and there was no cattiness. If you call others, you may do something to empress Yan who has lost her power, after all, Empress Yan is still the main palace of Emperor Liang, and has been the empress of Liang for decades, and she must not be allowed to have an accident, otherwise it will damage the face of the royal family. Emperor Liang's personality was complex, and he liked to use the art of checks and balances, no matter how much he loved a person, he had to pull out a person to share the favor with him, just like the prince and the honorary king, the more noble concubines and the empress of Yan. When Concubine Yue fell out of favor, she pulled Concubine Jing out and confronted Empress Yan, and when Empress Yan fell out of favor, she had to pull Concubine Hui out to balance with Concubine Jing.
As Mei Changsu said: "Our majesty has never really trusted anyone" If it were not for the incompetence of the other princes and the inability to pull, it is estimated that one of them would have to be pulled out to balance with the King of Jing. Originally, it was just to depose the empress and let Gao Zhan pass, in order to express his other meanings to others, he specially called Concubine Hui to go and declare his will, which showed the complexity of Emperor Liang's thoughts. In the Langya list, you also found out what kind of checks and balances Emperor Liang was doing?