Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang was born in February 566 in Jiangling, the capital of the Later Liang dynasty, the daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Western Liang, and her mother was Empress Zhang.
In ancient times, a woman born in February was considered ominous. She was born and adopted by Xiao Qian, the sixth brother of Emperor Xiao of Ming. Xiao And his wife adopted Xiao Shi for less than a year, and both died. Xiao was adopted by his uncle Zhang Ke.
Coincidentally, Zhang Ke and Yuan Tiangang were friends, and Zhang Ke knew that Yuan Tiangang had the ability, so he asked Yuan Tiangang to help his niece calculate his fortune, and as a result, he looked at Xiao's face and said: Extraordinary appearance, the future will be rich and extraordinary. After careful inspection, he asserted: "Mother Yi is in the world, and the murderer is peach blossom." ”
In the year of her birth, the Sui Dynasty was established, and eight years later, the whole country was unified, and the small Western Liang state collapsed in an instant.
In recognition of the outstanding deeds of Yang Guang, the King of Jin, in recognition of the outstanding merits of Yang Guang, the King of Jin, in the war, yang Jian, specially selected a beautiful woman from the famous family and selected a matching princess for the twenty-one-year-old Yang Guang.
Perhaps by fate, Emperor Wen of Sui and his wife took a fancy to Xiao Shi, who was only 9 years old, and chose a zodiac auspicious day to bring her back to the palace. Yang Guang's mother, the Lonely Empress, was very fond of this little daughter-in-law and regarded her as her own daughter-in-law. In four or five years, Xiao Shi became a knowledgeable, versatile and beautiful little beauty.
Thirteen years after the opening of the emperor, the twenty-five-year-old Yang Guang officially married the thirteen-year-old Xiao Shi.
Because he had privately heard that Xiao Shi was destined to enter the Middle Palace and the legend of the mother's world, Yang Guang regarded Concubine Xiao as his lucky star, and also made Yang Guang, who had never been delusional about the imperial throne, think about the position of prince of his eldest brother Yang Yong.
The little couple staged a seven-year-long bitter love drama in front of the Lonely Empress, Yang Guang deliberately pretended to be a benevolent and filial piety in front of his mother, deliberately alienating Concubine Xiao, and the clever Concubine Xiao also cooperated with Yang Guang in a serious manner, and from time to time ran to the Lonely Queen to cry that Yang Guang only cared about government affairs and snubbed himself. Under the painstaking management of the young couple, the LoneLy Empress finally deposed the crown prince Yang Yong and pushed Yang Guang to the throne of the crown prince.
A year later, the Dugu Empress died, and soon Emperor Wen of Sui died. Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, and Xiao Shi, who was only twenty-four years old, was made empress.
After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he was dazed, abused his people's strength to dig canals, expeditioned to Goryeo to labor and hurt the people's wealth, and every day he served more than 2 million people to build the eastern capital Luoyang, in order to satisfy his extravagant and lavish life, he forcibly recruited people's women, resulting in boiling public resentment. In 618, Yu Wenhua and launched a coup d'état in Jiangdu, strangling the Sui Emperor who had favored him.
When Yu Wenhua and Empress Xiao saw the heavenly fragrance and national color and the charm of the country in the main hall, she was deeply impressed by her beauty. When Empress Xiao was captured, she still took the descendants of the royal family with her and had to commit herself to Yu Wenhua. Yu Wenhua established himself as Emperor Xu and renamed Empress Xiao as Lady Shu.
Since getting the beauty of Empress Xiao, Yu Wenhua has temporarily forgotten his political purpose and has been entangled with Empress Xiao all day. At this time, Dou Jiande, who had raised an army in the Central Plains, led an army to defeat Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenhua and led his troops to Liaocheng in the northeast, Dou Jiande attacked Liaocheng and killed Yu Wenhua.
Dou Jiande, who had won a temporary victory, was fascinated by Empress Xiao's peerless beauty and noble temperament, and accepted her as a concubine.
Princess Yicheng, the sister of the Sui Emperor, who was married to the Turkic Khan and the sui emperor, heard about Empress Xiao's suffering and sent emissaries to bring Empress Xiao to the Turks, and Dou Jiande did not dare to confront the Turks, so he had to hand over Empress Xiao and the people of the imperial family to the envoys.
Empress Xiao came to turkistan, and when the Turkic Khan saw that Empress Xiao was beautiful, she immediately felt pity, so Empress Xiao, who had experienced many vicissitudes, became the Khan's concubine again.
After the khan's death, his younger brother succeeded to the throne, and the Turkic custom was that the brother and the brother were the same, so he married his sister-in-law Princess Yicheng and Empress Xiao.
Ten years later (the fourth year of Zhenguan), the Tang Dynasty general Li Jing broke the Turks, and in order to show the strength of the Tang Dynasty, he asked the Turks to return Empress Xiao.
At this time, although Empress Xiao was nearly fifty years old, she still had charm, especially the chuchu and pitiful that had been bred by the vicissitudes inadvertently displayed between her eyebrows, which was even more pitiful. In particular, the graceful and elegant temperament is not possessed by ordinary red and pink women. Li Shimin couldn't help but be moved by this wise and divine emperor, regardless of the disparity in age and the fingering of outsiders, resolutely and resolutely named her Zhaorong.
In 648, Empress Xiao died of illness in the Tang Palace at the age of 82. It is also said that Xiao Hou died of illness in the eleventh year of Zhenguan (647 AD)
Her life has experienced ups and downs, and her fate is uncertain, which seems to verify Yuan Tiangang's criticism: the mother's world is in the world, and the murderer peach blossom.
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