Princess Jingwu was the younger daughter of Emperor Xuan of Han, who her birth mother was, has been obscured, Jingwu has gone through the five dynasties of Xuan, Yuan, Cheng, Lai, and Ping, married three times, as the daughter of the emperor, she was inevitably involved in political struggles, in order to maintain the imperial power of the Liu clan, and was eventually poisoned by Wang Mang.
Emperor Xuan of Han had two daughters recorded in history, the eldest daughter, Princess Guantao, Liu Shi, and the second daughter was Princess Jingwu Chang. Princess Jingwu, who had lost her reputation, reached marriageable age, married Zhang Lin, the Marquis of Fuping, the grandson of Emperor Wu's famous courtier Zhang Tang, and gave birth to a son named Zhang Fang after marriage.
In the second year of the first century (47 BC), Zhang Lin attacked the Marquis of Fuping, and died of illness in the first year of jianshi (32 BC), and Princess Jingwu and Zhang Lin lived together for nearly twenty years.
Since Zhang Fang and his cousin Emperor Hancheng were good friends who grew up together with Qingmei Bamboo Horse, Emperor Hancheng was also very kind to the aunt of Princess Jingwu.
In the fourth year after Zhang Lin's death, in the fourth year of the founding (29 BC), the widowed Princess Jingwu chang remarried to Zhao Qin, who had only just attacked the knighthood. Zhao Qin was the grandson of Zhao Chongguo, one of the famous generals of the Three Dynasties who was listed as one of the heroes of the Qilin Pavilion, and his father was named Zhao Hong, who attacked the Marquis of Ping and married the emperor's aunt Princess Jingwu.
At this time, Princess Jingwu was nearly forty years old, the fertility period had passed, and without giving birth to a child for Zhao Qin, the princess let Zhao Qin's concubine Xi Clan fraudulently conceive, and then got back a baby from outside pretending to be born of Xi Clan and named it Zhao Cen.
Princess Jingwu and her second husband Zhao Qin lived together for seven years, and in the third year of Yangshuo (22 BC), Zhao Qinxue, by the false son Zhao Cen, the concubine Xi Shi became the Marquis of Yingping in the name of her birth mother, and the elderly Princess Jingwu Chang was widowed again.
Although emperor Hancheng loved Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede's sisters, he was also very fond of his cousin Zhang Fang, loved Wu and Wu, and also had great respect for his aunt Princess Jingwu, and was closer to his mother, Empress Wang Zhengjun.
Seeing that his aunt was depressed because of the widow, Emperor Hancheng was ready to lead a red line for his aunt, and it just so happened that Xue Xuan, the Marquis of Gaoyang, lost his wife, and Emperor Hancheng wanted to introduce Xue Xuan to his aunt.
Compared with the second-generation husbands of Princess Jingwu Chang's previous two officials, Xue Xuan was a capable minister, who served as a minister and a thousand households, he was proficient in the law, good manners, and graceful, and was a very exquisite middle-aged beautiful man.
In the third year of Yongshi (14 BC), Xue Xuan, who had been deposed for two years, was recruited into the dynasty by Emperor Cheng of Han, reinstated as the Marquis of Gaoyang, and added favors to Tejin, giving shizhong and seeing Shang Shushi. After marrying Princess Jingwu Chang, she became the uncle of the Heavenly Son of the Dynasty, and Xue Xuan was very happy in the face of Emperor Cheng's hints, so Princess Jingwu Chang married for the third time and became Lady Gaoyang Marquis.
Just when the princess was enjoying the third marriage, Yuan Yan three years (10 BC), the ex-husband Zhao Qin's family had an accident, the fake son Zhao Cen because his father and mother repeatedly asked for money from the Xi clan, the two sides had entanglements, and in the quarrel, Zhao Cen's lineage was exposed, and Zhao Cen was stripped of his knighthood and removed from the country.
The initiator, Princess Jingwu Chang, used the son of another person to confuse the bloodline of her ex-husband's family, but because she was the emperor's aunt, she did not receive any punishment, but the unfortunate Zhao family was cut off.
Seven years after their marriage, in November of the first year of Suihe (8 BC), Xue Xuan was implicated by his friend Marquis Chun of Dingling and was deposed and returned home. Chun Yuchang was Emperor Cheng's cousin, and his uncle and cousin Wang Mang, the Marquis of Xindu, failed to seize power and died in prison, Xue Xuanping and Chun Yuchang had a good relationship, so they were also implicated, and deposed the official and became the vacant marquis.
Xue Xuan, who had resigned from office and returned to the first place, soon had another accident, he originally had three brothers, his younger brother Xue Mingguan was at least in the province, Xue Xiu was the commander of Linzi County, their mother died early, and their father married another.
Later, Xue Xiu's father died, and his stepmother followed Xue Xiu to live, and after Xue Xuan became a minister, he wanted to take his stepmother to live in Chang'an, but was rejected by Xue Xiu, and later, when his stepmother died of illness, Xue Xiu resigned from the government to guard the funeral, and was ready to spend three years in the cemetery.
Xue Xuan thought that his brother had done a little too much, after all, there were not many people who had served their father and mother for three years at that time, let alone their stepmother? There was really no need to resign from the government to guard the funeral, but Xue Xiu insisted on guarding the funeral, and Xue Xuan could not stop him, so he ignored his brother and returned to Beijing by himself, and the two brothers also lost peace.
In March of the second year of Suihe (7 BC), Emperor Cheng of Han died, and his nephew Liu Xin (劉欣), the crown prince, took the throne as Emperor Wai. Princess Jingwu's only son, Zhang Fang, the Marquis of Fuping, was heartbroken by the death of His good cousin Emperor Cheng, and actually vomited blood to death.
Just when Princess Jingwu was sad about the death of her nephew and son, Xue Xiu's friend, Shen Xian, jumped out and accused Xue Xuan of not supporting his stepmother, not performing mourning clothes, being thinner than flesh and bones, and not being in the ranks.
Xue Xuan's son Xue Quan was a right Cao Shilang, and when he heard that Shen Xian reprimanded his old father, he was furious and bribed his doorman Yang Ming to ruin Shen Xian's appearance and make him an official. Yang Ming stopped Shen Xian outside the palace, not only cutting off his nose, but also cutting him eight times.
Such a simple and rude means, naturally soon the incident occurred, there was a division to pursue the case, Yushi Zhongcheng believed that Xue Quan was a courtier, his father Xue Xuan was a former prime minister, and he was also a marquis, this kind of behavior was too bad, should be severely punished, and both Xue Quan and Yang Ming were sentenced to death.
Ting Wei believed that Shen Xian and Xue Xiu had a close relationship, and accused Xue Xuan of not filial piety for obviously showing his head to his friends and acting with no integrity, while Xue Quan, in order to protect his father's reputation, led to excessive behavior, and there was no other great evil, and should be sentenced to four years in prison (Chengdan).
The Han Emperor consulted the ministers of the Gongqing, and the chancellor Kong Guang and the Grand Sikong Shidan advocated following the opinions of Yushi Zhongcheng, while the generals down to the doctor and The Speaker supported the opinions of the court lieutenants, and the two sides were at loggerheads.
In the end, Emperor Wu still looked at his aunt Princess Jingwu for the sake of his grandmother, Princess Jingwu, and reduced the guilt of the princess's stepson Xue Quan to a lower degree, and exiled to Dunhuang, while Xue Xuan was spared from returning to his hometown.
Princess Jingwu Chang, who grew up in Jingshi, was unwilling to follow her husband back to her hometown, and Xue Xuan could only go home alone, and later fell ill and died in her hometown, and the couple did not see each other until their deaths.
When Princess Jingwu heard that Xue Xuan had died of illness, she wrote to her nephew Emperor Lai and requested that Xue Xuan be buried in Emperor Cheng's Yanling Tomb, and Emperor Lai did not refuse her grandmother's plea and allowed Xue Xuan to accompany him to yanling.
Speaking of Xue Quan, who was exiled to Dunhuang, he sneaked back to Chang'an not long after he went, which was obviously illegal, but in the first month of the first year of Jianping (6 BC), the Han Emperor once again granted amnesty to the world, and Xue Quan was among the pardons, so he justifiably stayed in Chang'an and lived in the Jingwu Chang princess mansion.
At this time, Princess Jingwu chang, who was already fifty or sixty years old, was second only to the noble existence of the empress dowager Wang Zhengjun in the imperial family, and because emperor Wu was on the throne, his maternal grandmother Fu Zhaoyi and the foreign family Ding clan also became prominent, and fought for power with the Wang clan, in this conflict, with the support of the heavenly son of the dynasty, Fu and Ding's relatives naturally won.
In this power war, Princess Jingwu took a clear stand on the side of the nouveau riche, she was the eldest princess of the Liu royal family, and openly supported the Fu and Ding clans, which naturally made the Foreign Relatives of the Wang Clan headed by Wang Mang hate her to the bone.
Emperor Wu's support for his aunt and grandmother was also repaid with peach, and he showed great respect for Princess Jingwu, and the honorable princess lived a very comfortable life, and under the full of warm thoughts and lust, the eldest princess who was dressed in gold and jade actually hooked up with her stepson Xue Quan for adultery.
Princess Jingwu Chang's unscrupulousness shocked the upper echelons of Chang'an, thinking that the fierce Princess GuanTao Chang was just Dong Yan, who had no relationship with the care of Princess Jingwu, how could Princess Jingwu roll with her stepson? Isn't that against humanity?
Unfortunately, the emperor does not care, the empress dowager does not care, who is qualified to manage the head of the eldest princess? Princess Jingwu and Xue Quan were together without scruples.
In September of the second year of Yuan Shou (1 BC), Emperor Wu died, and the empress dowager reappointed her nephew Wang Mang as the head of the Shangshu of the Great Sima and took charge of the imperial government, and the Liu family's Jiangshan once again fell into the hands of Wang's foreign relatives, and Wang Mang supported the nine-year-old Zhongshan King Liu Yan as emperor, for the Hanping Emperor.
Emperor Hanping was also the nephew of Princess Jingwu Chang, still the noble princess of the empire, and seeing that Liu Jiajiangshan had once again fallen into the hands of Wang Mang, Princess Jingwu Chang was indignant and often spoke ill of Wang Mang.
Wang Mang, who had self-esteem as the Duke of An Han, saw that Liu Clan was weak and his ambitions were growing more and more, and wanted to take Liu Clan's place, and Princess Jingwu Chang, the highest ranking and highest generational princess of the Liu Clan, naturally became a thorn in Wang Mang's eye, secretly seeking opportunities to get rid of her.
At this time, Wang Mang's eldest son Wang Yu, because he did not approve of his father's suppression of Emperor Ping's foreign relatives, discussed with his teacher Wu Zhang and his brother-in-law Lü Kuan how to let his father and Emperor Ping's relatives share power, so as not to retaliate when Emperor Ping grew up.
Wu Zhang thought that he could start with Wang Mang's superstition, and while advising Wang Mang to allow Wei's relatives to enter Beijing, he also let Lü Kuan take advantage of the night to sprinkle human blood at Wang Mang's door, who knows, Lü Kuan's behavior was discovered by the palace guards, and the matter was known to Wang Mang, and the angry Wang Mang arrested his eldest son Wang Yu and imprisoned him, and executed Lü Kuan, and by the way, he also pulled Xue Kuan, who was friendly with Lü Kuan, into the water.
Wang Mang pretended to be entrusted with the edict of the empress dowager, criticized Princess Jingwu for fornicating with her stepson, humiliating the royal family, and specially giving poison to make her commit suicide. Princess Jingwu, who was arrogant and half-alive, naturally did not listen, and she angrily rebuked the emissary: Liu Clan was lonely and weak, the Wang Clan was arrogant, squeezing out the clan room, the Empress Dowager was my sister-in-law, how could she interfere in the private affairs of the sister-in-law's boudoir? And to kill the sister-in-law?
Of course, the emissaries who acted on orders could not let this untamed old princess go outside and force Princess Jingwu to drink the poison, and her lover and stepson Xue Quan was also ordered by Wang Mang to be shown to the public.
Wang Mang, who learned of the death of the eldest princess, turned his head to coax his aunt Wang Zhengjun, saying that Princess Jingwu chang had suddenly fallen ill violently, and the dim-witted and elderly Empress Wang Zhengjun was still very sad when she heard about it, and was ready to go to the princess's mansion to pay tribute, and Wang Mang took great pains to coax the old lady to stop and not let her go.
Princess Jingwu, the daughter of Emperor Xuan of Han, the sister of Emperor Yuan of Han, the aunt of Emperor Cheng of Han, and the aunt and grandmother of Emperor Ping of Han, even if she saw Wang Mang's ambitions, she did not have the ability to return to heaven, so she was killed by the courtiers.
Five years later, Wang Mang replaced Han and established a new dynasty, and Wang Zhengjun, an old widow of the Liu family who was in the dark, learned that the jiangshan of her husband's family had been swallowed up by her nephew, and it was too late to regret it.
Reference: Book of Han
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