The young girl Xiao Yanyan in the hit drama "Yan yuntai" has an idol, that is, Empress Shulu.
Whenever she encountered a difficult situation, she would think about what Empress Shulu would do, and she hoped that she would become a person like Empress Shulu.
What kind of divine was this Empress Shulu that Xiao Yanyan could admire?
She is an even more ruthless character than Lü Hou and Wu Zetian.
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Empress Shulu was called Shu Luping (述律平), and was the empress of the Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji.
Her mother was Yelü Apaoji's aunt, so she and her husband Yelü Abaoji were cousins, which was a khitan tradition of kinship.
As the original wife of the founding prince, Shu Luping is by no means a woman trapped in the inner house who does not understand the world.
She has fought side by side with her husband many times, and has also witnessed the glory of Daliao with her husband many times, is a strange woman who can fight on horseback and rule on horseback, and is also a wife who has won the trust of Yelü Abaoji.
And all this was revealed when she was just married.
02
In 878, at the age of 14, Shu Luping married his 20-year-old cousin Yelü Abaoji. On the wedding day, Shu Luping's mother and mother-in-law were waiting for her to perform the kneeling ceremony, but Shu Luping did not want to do so.
Faced with an unfamiliar environment and unfamiliar people, 14-year-old Shu Luping said a sentence : "I worship heaven and do not worship people."
This is just more than the Han People's "Heaven and Earth Emperor's Master".
According to the meaning of this sentence, her husband Yelü Abaoji was not eligible to receive her prostration ceremony, but Yelü Abaoji did not mind at all, and Shu Luping's mother-in-law had nowhere to go, and could only be a little transparent.
Why did Yerushalayim protect Shu Lupin so much?
Because Shu Luping is indeed not an ordinary woman.
03
At that time, Yelü Abaoji had not yet established the Liao state, he was only a khan jointly elected by the eight khitan tribes, and according to the rules, he could only serve for three years. However, Yelü Abaoji had been leading the Khitan to open up the territory during these three years, so that the people in the three-year period were not embarrassed to say that they had changed people, so he served for three years and three years, and finally he was re-elected for three consecutive terms, and he was the boss for nine years.
Jeroboam was relieved, but the others stopped doing it, and the first person to stand up against it was his brother, who is known in history as the "Rebellion of the Brothers."
Many times the IQ of the brothers will also be much worse, and this is the case with these few people who have come out against Yerushalayim.
The Rebellion of the Brothers consisted of three rebellions, the first of which leaked information before they could act, and the second of which they suddenly attacked while Yerushalayim was out on a campaign, but they were easily cracked.
The third time they again chose to create chaos when Yerushalayim went out, and divided their troops into three ways, and they must drive him out of power.
Two of these three paths of soldiers and horses were easily handled by Yelü Abaoji, and the remaining road was Shu Luping resisting.
This rebel army broke into the Khan's tent of Yelü Abaoji, set fire to a large number of heavy weights, arsenals and tents, and tried to snatch the banners and sacred tents representing the khan's identity.
After receiving the news, Shu Luping sent people to put out the fire, while sending troops to chase, and personally led the pro-coral army (this is her private army) to defend herself, doing her best to hold the position and reduce losses.
In the end, Jeroboam and Shu Lupin joined hands to quell the rebellion of their brothers.
Later, Yelü Abaoji also wanted to forgive several brothers with incense and fire, but Shu Luping said bluntly that he could not do it, and eventually executed more than 300 people, and only two young people who were not involved in the matter were exonerated, which should also be the image project of politicians, not really heartless.
04
After the "Rebellion of the Brothers", Yelü Abaoji temporarily stabilized the situation, and a few years later he was forced to step down by the combined attack of the remaining seven nobles of the Khitans, but he demanded to give himself a piece of land and he wanted to establish an independent kingdom.
The territory chosen by Jeroboam was not large, and the seven nobles agreed. But they did not expect that Yerushalayim had developed an agricultural salt and iron economy in this humble place, and soon completed the monopoly.
The Seven Nobles had no choice but to do business with him if they wanted to get enough salt and iron, and shu Luping thought of a way to never have a problem.
She asked Yelü Abaoji to invite the leaders of the seven nobles to a dinner party, and when everyone was drunk and confused, she let the ambush soldiers who had already been arranged come out and chop them all.
This move was too fierce and too dangerous, and she lost everything carelessly, but she won, and Yelü Abaoji also won, and then the Liao kingdom was successfully established, and she became a well-deserved empress.
05
Shu Luping's empress dowager was very cool, and did a lot of things that Lü Hou and Wu Zetian did not dare to think about in the position of empress.
As mentioned earlier, she has a private army, the Coral Army, which is impossible for any Zhongyuan concubine to get.
She was able to confront the empress dowager on the day of her big wedding, and the empress of zhongyuan did not have the courage to do so.
Yelü Abaoji called the empress "Great Saint Great Tomorrow Emperor" and Shu Luping "Empress Ying Tian DamingDi", which is enough to show how high Shu Luping's status in the Khitan was.
She advised in the process of pacifying the Bohai state, and later cohabited the surrender ceremony of the Bohai state with Yelü Abaoji.
Again, this is a very windy thing.
At this time, Shu Luping was heroic and courageous, and he was a hero in khitan history. But her image was not always so positive, and after the death of Jeroboam, she fainted and almost became a Sinner of the Khitans.
06
The most important question after the death of Yelü Abaoji was who would be the next emperor, and his designated successor was the eldest son, Yelü Bei, but Shu Luping did not like it, preferring her younger son Yelü Lihu. But Yelü Lihu was third in line, and there were two older brothers on it, which was not easy to handle.
In order to achieve his goal, Shu Luping gathered the wives of the important courtiers as hostages, thus threatening the high-ranking officials to support him. If there were any people who disagreed, let them go to the former emperor to talk, and then send someone to kill all the people in front of the former emperor's tomb.
She killed hundreds of people in this way until she was pushed back by a courtier named Zhao Siwen.
She asked Zhao Siwen to go underground to follow the former emperor, and Zhao Siwen replied without humility: "If you say that you are close to the former emperor, who can compare with the empress?" I can go after the emperor, but I think the emperor wants to empress dowager you more. ”
Zhao Siwen's words could not be refuted, and Shu Luping also knew that he had to pass this hurdle, otherwise he would not be able to lead the situation in the future. But she can't die, and when she dies, there's nothing left.
What can I do to break the game?
I have to say that she is too cruel, not only to others, but also to herself.
She slashed at her right wrist with a golden knife, directly cut off her wrist with a steady and fierce posture, and then ordered the person with a light face to put this hand in the coffin of the former emperor and use one hand instead of her own burial on the grounds of "the lord is less suspicious of the country".
This fierceness frightened all the courtiers, but she also knew that it was too difficult to directly help her younger son to the throne, so she took a compromise approach, and the final success in ascending to the throne was her second son Yelü Deguang, known as Emperor Taizong of Liao.
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Shu Luping was really eccentric, and her operation made the eldest son have no regard for the Khitan and later defected to Hou Tang.
When the second son of the emperor, Yelü Deguang, was also trembling every day, he was forced to recognize the third brother Yelü Lihu as the emperor's brother-in-law, and concurrently served as the Grand Marshal of the Terracotta Army, and he himself had been emptied.
Every day in the face of his mother Shu Luping also has to be respectful, Shu Luping is sick and does not want to eat he can not eat, Shu Luping angry frown he has to quickly apologize, is completely a puppet emperor.
Yelü Deguang was by no means a mediocre waste material, he wanted to do something, but Shu Lupin pressed him on it and could not do anything, and it was inevitable that he would be depressed after a long time. In order to show his ambition, he went to great lengths to get Shu Luping to agree to his southern expedition, but he did not expect that he had marched south, and he had also achieved some results, but he died on the road.
08
Yelü Deguang died suddenly, and after experiencing the bloody rain and wind of the last imperial power transfer, the Khitan people no longer wanted to be subject to Shu Luping. On the way, they found Yelü Nguyen, the eldest son of Yelü Apaoji, and in order to avoid the long night, they directly let Yelü Nguyen ascend the throne in front of the coffin of his uncle Yelü Deguang.
After the news reached the Khitans, Shu Luping's anger could be imagined, in order to make her younger son emperor, she squeezed out the eldest son, controlled the second son, and lost a hand. Now that the second son is dead, but the eldest grandson has ascended the throne, what is this called?
Shu Luping, who did not accept defeat, did not recognize the throne of his eldest grandson, and also led the army to the army at the age of 68. It's just that the youngest son she has in mind is too indisputable, and she has not beaten her nephew in the hat of the Great Marshal of the Terracotta Army, and the two sides have entered a stalemate.
At this time, Shu Luping did not lose in terms of troop strength, but he lost in people's hearts.
At the time of Yelü Abaoji's death, her image of indiscriminate killing was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and in order to save her life, the Khitan heavy ministers had almost no one to support her, and Shu Luping's momentum was weak.
The new emperor Yelü Ruan was also not easy, his father fled the Southern Tang For many years, and there was almost no power in the Khitan country. And abandoning his homeland and leaving the Southern Tang dynasty was disgraceful after all, and he himself did not show how excellent his ability was, so there were not many people who supported him.
There are weaknesses on both sides, but state affairs cannot be dragged on so long. Eventually, under the persuasion of the clan and courtiers, they each gave in, and Yelü Nguyen was still the emperor, but Shu Luping and Yelü Lihu still held the power in their hands, temporarily passing each other.
Everyone knows that this is a transitional stage, and both sides must have to fight to win or lose.
The first thing that can't be held back is Shu Luping, who is already 68 years old, and if she can't see her young son sitting on the throne in her lifetime, it will be much more humiliating.
Shu Luping, who could not wait, wanted to use his remaining influence to help his younger son ascend to the throne, but before he could act, he was discovered by the new emperor, who had been paying close attention to her, and then the new emperor took the lead, Shu Luping and Yelü Lihu were arrested for treason, and finally imprisoned in Taizu's tomb.
Shu Luping spent the last seven years of his life there, dying of illness at the age of 75.
09
Shu Luping was imprisoned in her later years and did a series of stupid things, but she is still a successful woman and an enviable woman.
She was empress dowager and had a high status.
She can run the harem, participate in state affairs, and lead troops on expeditions, and there are only a few women in history who can do this.
She also persuaded Yelü Abaoji to reuse the Han people, and Han Kuangsi, the father of the Khitan chancellor Han Derang, gained her weight, which also gave Han Dejian the opportunity to enter the Khitan high-level and grow into a pivotal figure.
Putting aside the real history, the young Xiao Yanyan in "Yan Yuntai" regards Shu Luping as an idol of adult life, which is completely logical.
Special Contributor to Night Wolf Literature and History Studio: West Building Outside the Curtain