In the seventh year of Yuanyou, the Empress Dowager Gao arranged a heart-blocking event for her grandson Song Zhezong a year before her death, and she arranged a marriage for Zhezong, the object of which was the granddaughter of Ma Jundu Yu Meng Yuan.
The traditional Chinese concept of marriage pays attention to the life of the parents, and for Zhezong, it is the life of the grandmotherZhezong ascended the throne at a young age, and the power was in the hands of the Empress Dowager Gao, so for the arrangement of his grandmother, Zhezong, who had no real power, had no right to refuse at allHe can only passively accept it.
Empress Dowager Gao, who supported the old school, won a complete victory, she herself not only listened to the government and set up Zhezong, but also the ministers of the old school in the court, even the pillow people of Zhezong, she also had to arrange a woman who suited her heart, and Zhezong was suppressed so that he had no power to resist.
However, Zhezong, who supported the change in his heart, had long vowed to change all thisSo after the death of the Empress Dowager Gao, the pro-government Zhezong vigorously suppressed the old school, and the Empress Dowager Gao was even put on the hat of "old traitor and trespassing".Empress Meng was also deposed later, but this deposition was only the beginning of Empress Meng's wonderful life.
The marriage between Zhezong and Empress Meng is not sweet, even if Empress Meng has a pure temperament and is not an arrogant and jealous person, Zhezong has always looked at Empress Meng unpleasantly, and then he will find a reason to abolish Empress Meng.
Speaking of which, Empress Dowager Gao's favorite queen at the beginning was not Meng, but the granddaughter of the famous general Di Qing, but Di's daughter's family background is too complicated, she is the daughter of a concubine, and she has been fostered in her uncle's house since she was a child.
This leads to a problem, Di's daughter has a biological mother, a mother-in-law, an adoptive mother, a biological father, and an adoptive fatherThis relationship is really complicated, so Empress Dowager Gao gave up on the Di family and chose the Meng family with an innocent background instead.
Meng was born in a family of eunuchs, received a good education since childhood, and was a good woman who was knowledgeable and reasonable, and the Empress Dowager Gao was very satisfied with her, but Zhezong was lukewarm to herThe reason is that in addition to the fact that Meng is the queen designated by the Empress Dowager Gao, her appearance is not outstanding.
Empress Dowager Gao also knew that Zhezong liked beautiful women, so she enlightened Zhezong many times, and a virtuous wife would be of great help to him, but Zhezong was noncommittal about this.
Soon Zhezong began to favor the beautiful Liu Jieyu, and Liu Jieyu also began to challenge the position of Empress Meng, relying on Zhezong's favor, Liu Jieyu unabashedly opposed Empress Meng.
For example, there was a winter solstice court meeting, and the concubines should sit on seats of different specifications according to different ranks, but the Liu family made the seats the same as Queen Meng.
This is a naked provocation, how could Queen Meng endure this breath, so she ordered someone to shout that the Empress Dowager Gao had arrived, and everyone stood up to greet her, but at this time Liu Jieyu's chair was moved, and everyone did not see the figure of the Queen Mother and could only sit down again, and Liu Jieyu didn't know that the chair was gone, and fell directly to the ground, causing laughter.
Although this matter was finally settled, after Liu Jieyu cried to Zhezong, Empress Meng's status in Zhezong's mind would naturally decline.
Later, because Empress Meng was involved in the case of witchcraft in the palace, Zhezong finally decided to abolish Empress Meng and ordered her to live in Yaohua Palace, called Yuqing Miaojing Immortal Master, and then Liu Jieyu was successively named a virtuous concubine and queen because she gave birth to a child.
Generally speaking, the treatment after the abolition will not be good, and basically the end of being abolished is to die silently, but Queen Meng's life has not developed like this.
Empress Liu's sons and daughters died one after another, Zhezong died of illness not long after, and then Zhezong's younger brother Huizong Zhao Ji ascended the throne, in order to repay his mother's support to the Queen Mother, Huizong respectfully asked the Empress Dowager to listen to the government, and the Empress Dowager Xiang was in support of the old law, so Empress Meng was taken back.
So there was an embarrassing scene in the court of the Song Dynasty, Empress Meng and Empress Liu were both Empress Zhezong, in order to facilitate the two of them, they were called by the names of the two of them, so Meng was called "Empress Yuanyou", and Liu was called "Empress Yuanfu".
However, Empress Meng, as the original partner of Zhezong, is naturally above Empress Liu, which almost makes Empress Liu mad, but she is helpless.
After the death of the Empress Dowager Xiang, Huizong found that the new law seemed to be more in line with his taste, so he tossed it and then restarted the new law.
In order to get by on the face, Huizong also added a few more legal names to Queen Meng, Queen Meng was deposed, the happiest was Queen Liu, although she was the queen of the first emperor, Huizong succeeded to the throne and became the queen mother, but Huizong in order to show respect for her, specially called her "Queen Mother Yuanfu".
Huizong's respect made Empress Dowager Liu's ambition soar, and she actually intended to listen to the government when Huizong was ill and grasp the power of the imperial courtEmpress Dowager Liu's actions caused dissatisfaction among the ministers, and Huizong planned to depose Empress Dowager Liu, and eventually Empress Dowager Liu hanged herself.
At this time, it seems that the Meng family can only chant in the Yaohua Palace, for the rest of his life, not long after, the Yaohua Palace caught fire for unknown reasons, and Queen Meng moved to Yanning Palace, and later Yanning Palace also caught fire, and Queen Meng could only go out of the palace to live in the private house in front of Xiangguo Temple.
No one expected that living out of the palace would make Queen Meng lucky to escape.
In the second year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers went south, the two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong were taken away, and all the concubines with titles in the harem of the two were taken away.
The Jin people plundered and set up Zhang Bangchang as the puppet emperor and then withdrew, and Zhang Bangchang was forced to be the emperor who drove the ducks to the shelves, and as soon as the Jin people left, Zhang Bangchang announced that he would return the throne to Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, who was outside, and took the initiative to return the seal of the Great Song Dynasty.
At that time, Zhao Goyuan was in Jeju, and Jingshi needed a person to talk to, so Zhang Bangchang searched and found the queen Meng Shi during the Zhezong periodAlthough she was a deposed queen, she was a queen, so Zhang Bangchang restored the title of Empress Yuanyou of the Meng family and asked her to listen to the government.
Empress Meng let Huizong's son Zhao Gou inherit the throne as Empress Zhezong, which made Zhao Gou's accession to the throne justified, and later Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Yingtian and became emperor, Meng no longer listened to the government, and was respected as the Empress Dowager Yuanyou (later changed to the Empress Dowager Longyou), and went to Yingtian to meet Zhao Gou.
When Zhao Gou ascended the throne for two years, the Miao and Liu mutinies broke out, and they forced Zhao Gou to give the throne to his three-year-old son Zhao Yang, and let the Meng clan listen to politics againOn the one hand, the Meng clan made a false deal with the rebels, and on the other hand, he ordered Han Shizhong to come to King Qin quickly, and after the rebellion was quelled, the Meng clan returned to Zhao Gou again.
Meng Shi so well understood, so that Zhao Gou was extremely moved, he will Meng as a mother love, every time he gets the seasonal fruit, Zhao Gou must first give Meng to taste, and then taste it himself, Meng once suffered from wind disease, Zhao Gou did not untie the belt, day and night with the attendant.
In the first year of Shaoxing, Meng died as the empress dowager of the Southern Song Dynasty, 31 years after the death of her husband Zhezong, and 4 years after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Meng's life is quite legendary, when she was the queen, her husband didn't like her, insisted on abolishing the queen, after the reset, the new emperor abolished the queen for her brother again, she was a chess piece, taking and discarding it involuntarily.