There are so many people who left their names in history by the founding fathers of the Northern Song DynastyPan Mei(Pan Renmei in "The Biography of Yue Fei") is one we are familiar with, and the other oneCao BinIt's his boss.
Cao Bin was a benevolent general, and in the process of conquering the Southern Tang Dynasty and capturing the queen Li Yu, he showed a benevolent style, strictly ordered the army to commit no offenses in the autumn, and treated Li Yu with great courtesy.
It's rare for a general to be able to stop the killing and not think about it.
With Cao Bin's good causes, his granddaughter Cao later became the empress of Song Renzong.
Xiao Cao Nu is the fourth daughter of Cao Bin's second son Cao Wei, this little beauty born with a "halo" is destined to be unusual.
When Miss Cao grew up, a song "Cao Men Gao" was popular in Bianjing, and this superstitious proverb was often a foreshadowing, and it was very popular among the people.
Sure enough, after this "Cao Men Gao" became popular for a period of time, the Cao family, who had not been in the palace for a long time, was made the queen.
Everyone said that "Cao Men Gao" was fulfilled.
Before Miss Cao entered the palace, the family had already chosen a marriage for her, and her husband was Li Zhi, who served as the guard officer of the Bianjing Forbidden Palace.
The guards of the forbidden palace are also regarded as the emperor's side, and their level is very high, but there is no comparison with the emperor.
What's even more amazing is that on the day of the wedding, the groom official Li Zhi rode a high-headed horse, took the eight-lift sedan chair used by his daughter-in-law, and went to marry Miss Cao with great interest.
When he arrived at Li's house, the bridegroom who came forward to marry saw the ghost and god blocking the sedan chair and glared at him angrily.
What is this?Eye-catching?Li Zhi rubbed his eyes, opened his eyes wide and looked at it with his eyes, and now he saw clearly that there were really some angry gods in front of him.
How can this daughter-in-law marry?It shook the gods, although Li Zhi was an officer, he was a mortal after all, so frightened that he turned around and ran, and his shoes fell off.
This marriage can't be married, it's not your food, how can you afford it!
Soon came the news that Cao was canonized.
I can't help but say that there is a providence in the dark, and you should guess the reason.
Before the Cao family, the queen of Renzong Zhao Zhen was the Guo family.
Zhao Zhen, who likes beauty, originally didn't like Guo, he preferred peerless, bewitching and moving beauties, so he took a fancy to the granddaughter of Zhang Mei, the general of the Xiaocai guard, and the daughter of Wang Mengzheng, a wealthy man in Sichuan.
But the Empress Dowager Liu, who was in charge, did not allow it, he knew that if the young emperor indulged in women, it would be troublesome.
Therefore, the queen mother made Pinglu Jiedu make Guo Chong's granddaughter Guo Shi the queen.
In order to control the emperor, Empress Dowager Liu forbade Zhao Zhen to get close to other concubines at will.
Guo, who was jealous by nature, relied on the support of the queen mother and became a tigress who locked the door, and other beauties had nothing to do with the emperor.
So much so that Zhang Meiren, whom Zhao Zhen liked, was unbalanced, and soon died of depression, which made Zhao Zhen feel very uncomfortable and bored with Guo's heart.
In the second year of Ming Dao (1033), Empress Dowager Liu died.
Zhao Zhen, who has been suppressed for many years, can finally take a breath.
Empress Guo also stood aside, and Shang Meiren and Yang Meiren took the opportunity to compete for beauty and flattery, flattering the emperor who had been lost for a long time.
One day in December, Zhao Zhen retired early, and Guo's, Shang's, and Yang's hearth to keep warm, and the two beauties hugged Zhao Zhen one by one, which made Guo's who was hanging aside angry, so angry that he fidgeted, knocked over the vinegar jar, and couldn't help but curse a few words in a low voice.
Shang, who was being favored, could eat Guo's anger, and immediately ridiculed each other, Yang also cheered from the side, and Guo, who lost his mind, didn't care about any etiquette, and relied on the queen's majesty to step forward and slap Shang, and Shang fell into Zhao Zhen's arms.
At this moment, Guo Shi couldn't bear it anymore, and still didn't let go of Shang, and even reached out to scratch Shang, she wanted to scratch the beauty face, who let you bewitch the emperor with your face!
Shang hurriedly dodged, and Guo's nails cut through Zhao Zhen's neck.
This time I got into trouble, and the queen actually scratched the emperor!
Guo was also frightened, and he didn't dare to come out, seeing that it was a big problem, the two beauties were also stunned, and they didn't know what to do.
Zhao Zhen was annoyed and ashamed, and his anger at Guo's suppressed anger for many years erupted, and he angrily instructed his cronies and eunuch Yan Wen: "You go and summon Prime Minister Lu!."”
Prime Minister Lu is Lu Yijian, this is a treacherous minister who is not afraid of big things and sees the wind and rudder.
Lü Yijian had long been dissatisfied with the Guo family, so he suggested: "The queen is rude and not enough to be a mother in the world, so she should be deposed." ”
Zhao Zhen still had some scruples, and Lu Yijian continued: "The queen has no children for nine years, and she is jealous, which has long been retired to her parents' house according to the terms of seven out in the people!."”
Zhao Zhen then made up his mind.
In this way, Zhao Zhen issued an edict, saying that the Guo family had no children for many years, and was willing to meditate on the Tao, specially seal the pure concubine, Yuzong Chong Miao Immortal, give the name Qingwu, and move to Changning Palace.
The price of this slap is too great, and the queen has nothing to do.
Therefore, we still have to enlarge the pattern, and endure it if we can.
In this context, Cao was made empress.
When Cao was the queen for more than a year, one day, Emperor Renzong went to visit the back garden, and when he saw the shoulder of Empress Guo sitting before, he couldn't help but think of Guo's coming, so he sadly made a poem of "Qingjinzhi", and sent the little eunuch to Guo in Changle Palace, and asked the little eunuch to send a message that the emperor would still summon you to the palace, please be patient and wait.
Dare to love this is to rekindle the old love!Renzong is really a big carrot.
The little eunuch told the emperor about the emperor's actions to the great eunuch Yan Wenying, and Yan Wenying immediately informed the prime minister Lu Yijian.
Yan and Lu were taken aback, afraid that Guo would retaliate after the reinstatement, so as soon as the two of them combined, they simply did not do anything and did not stop, and the first strike was stronger.
It happened that Guo had a minor illness, and Yan Wenying bought off the imperial doctor and turned the minor illness into a major illness.
Guo's condition worsened, lying on the bed and moaning, before he could breathe, Yan Wenying put Guo's in the coffin, smashed the nails to seal the coffin, and sent someone to report to Renzong that Guo's illness had died.
The official Wang Yaochen felt that something was wrong, and said that Guo was not dead, and the inner court would prepare the coffin first, please investigate Guo's medical records in detail, whether someone deliberately murdered, Renzong did not listen, and just buried Guo in the Buddha house with the queen's gift.
Since ancient times, emperors have been the most ruthless, and in this way, Guo was "buried alive".
It can be seen from here how bad the eunuchs in the court are, no wonder in China's feudal history, eunuchs are the "protagonists" of many dynasties.
Minister Fan Zhongyan was indignant about this, and played ** again, but found out that Guo's tyrannical four was related to Yan Wenying, and Renzong issued an edict to exile him to Lingnan, and Yan Wenying, who deserved it, died halfway through.
What should come will always come, Yan Wenying has no humanity, regards human life as a mustard, and his retribution is also deserved, and he is to blame.
However, in this way, a harem crisis was also avoided, and the Cao family retained the status of the queen.
There is a little girl surnamed Zhang, her father Zhang Yaofeng was a Jinshi and the first, and died when he was an official in Shizhou.
The helpless little girl has lived with her uncle Zhang Yaozuo since she was a child.
Later, Zhang Yaozuo was to be transferred to Sichuan to take up a post. Aunt Qian sent her to the palace and worked as a maid with Empress Dowager Yang.
After the death of Empress Dowager Yang, the 14-year-old Zhang was transferred to the palace of Shen, another noble concubine of Zhenzong, as a maid.
The older the Zhang family grew, the more beautiful they became, and in 1041, at the age of 19, Zhang was named a talented person, and soon after that, he was promoted to Xiuyuan.
With her coquettishness and cuteness, she became more and more loved by Renzong, and soon promoted her to a beauty.
In the first month of the eighth year of Qingli (1048), there was a palace coup.
The attendants Yan Xiu, Guo Kui and others colluded with the eunuchs and palace maids to make a rebellion, intending to assassinate Renzong.
At that time, Renzong was staying in the palace of Empress Cao, and when he heard a strange sound outside the door, he immediately closed the door and closed the window, and informed the governor Wang Shouzhong to bring troops to escort him.
Empress Cao was in danger, and called the eunuchs who served around her to go out to kill the thieves, and personally cut off a small lock of each person's hair, and said to them: "Tomorrow will be rewarded, and this will be used as a basis." So the chamberlains fought to slay the thief.
Yan Xiu and the others saw that they could not attack, so they quietly fled.
Empress Cao immediately ordered the palace maid to carry a bucket and follow behind the thieves to prevent the thieves from setting fires.
As a result, Yan Xiu and the others really set fire to the curtain, and the palace maids and attendants extinguished the fire that had not yet ignited.
It is known that Wang Shouzhong and Zhang Meiren came at the right time, hunted and killed Yan Xiu and others, and quelled the **.
Afterwards, Renzong promoted Zhang Meiren to a concubine, saying that she had a meritorious escort.
The Cao family is righteous and awe-inspiring, and has the style of his ancestor Cao Bin's general. It was also Empress Cao's positive energy that made the lustful Renzong feel uncomfortable.
Once, he said to Prime Minister Liang Shi: "I live in the palace, and there are the eyes and ears of the queen's henchmen on the left and right, which makes me feel that I am under surveillance, and I don't know if I can abolish Empress Cao?"”
Liang Shi knew that Renzong was careful, and said solemnly: "The villain of Luxiang can't bear to divorce his wife, Your Majesty is the honor of ten thousand times, how can you abolish the queen again and again?"”
Renzong had no choice but to give up.
Renzong once chatted with Empress Cao, mentioning this past and saying: "I want to abolish you, but fortunately, thanks to Liang Shi's advice, you were spared." ”
Empress Cao was very grateful to Liang Shi, and after Liang Shi died, Empress Cao spent 5 million yuan to make Jiao (set up an altar to worship) to pray for Liang Shi's blessing. After that, Empress Cao did Jiao once a year until she died.
Zhang Guifei died in the fifth year of Huangyou (1053) at the age of 31.
First there was the Guo family, and then the Zhang family once threatened the position of Empress Cao, but the Cao family, which had its own divine help in the dark, was in danger.
There is no perfection among mortals in this world, and the same is true for Empress Cao.
Not only did she not give birth to a son, but Renzong and the other concubines also had no heirs.
This should be a common problem of many emperors, especially most emperors after three generations.
There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and none of them gave birth to a son, which is a problem.
Faced with reality, Empress Cao persuaded Renzong to appoint Zhao Shu, the son of his younger brother Pu Anyi Wang Zhao Yunrang, as the crown prince.
Zhao Shu is Renzong's nephew and nephew and son-in-law of Empress Cao, and Gao, the daughter of Empress Cao's sister's family, is married to Zhao Shu.
Therefore, Empress Cao liked Zhao Shu as the crown prince. Although it is said that "the virtuous do not avoid relatives", there is also Cao's selfishness in it.
In March 1063, Song Renzong, who had been emperor for 41 years, died at the age of 54.
The 32-year-old Zhao Shu is the emperor, is Yingzong, and respects the Cao family as the queen mother.
But Zhao Shu fell ill after becoming the emperor, and it seems that this position is not done by everyone.
After four years of illness, Yingzong died.
During this period, all political affairs were adjudicated by Empress Cao and handled in an orderly manner.
Yingzong gave birth to four sons and four daughters before he became emperor, and after his death, his eldest son Zhao Xuan ascended the throne, which was for Shenzong, and the Cao family also became the empress dowager.
Shenzong respects filial piety to this grandmother.
Once after Cao's illness was cured, Shenzong made a very delicate chariot decorated with ** pearl and jade, and presented it to Cao's and said: "Niangniang tried to take this to the Liangdian to relax." ”
Cao happily sat on the chariot and came to the Liang Palace, and when he got off the sedan chair, Cao's niece Empress Dowager Gao supported Cao's left hand, and Shenzong held Cao's right hand, leading Cao to get off the sedan chair.
Cao Shi said happily: "The official family (emperor) and the queen mother personally supported the concubine, when I was a daughter in the Cao family, how could I have thought of such a beautiful day!."”
What a blessing!In China's more than 2,000 years of feudal history, there have been thousands of queens, but there are only a handful of emperor's wives who can start and finish well and laugh to the end.
Cao's sentence"When I was a daughter in the Cao family at that time, how could I have thought of such a beautiful day!"Food for thought.
So why is the Cao family so beautiful?
We can look to history for the answer.
Deng Yu, the head of the "Twenty-eight Generals of Yuntai" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, once said such a sentence:
"I will kill a million people, and I will not kill a single one in vain, and there will be those who will rise in the Hereafter. ”
It means, "I have led a million troops in my life, and I have never killed a man in vain, and there will be a prosperous man among my descendants after me."
As the head of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, Deng Yu was the marquis and worshiped the prime minister, and he was extremely noble, so how could his later generations surpass him?
Deng Yu's granddaughter calledDeng Sui, Deng Sui was the empress of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the emperor, and later became the empress dowager, she was in charge of the Eastern Han Dynasty for 16 years.
History is strikingly similar, nearly a thousand years after Deng Yu left that sentence, the famous general Cao Bin is also like Deng Yu, and his granddaughter became the queen, the queen mother, and the queen mother.
I can't help but wonder if time is exchanged for space, and I have crossed over!
So how did Cao Bin do it?
In the campaign against the Southern Tang Dynasty, Cao Bin was appointed commander-in-chief by Zhao Kuangyin.
All the way was like a bamboo, Cao Bin quickly led the army to Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and was about to launch a general attack, but the commander Cao Bin suddenly fell ill.
The generals came to visit one after another, and found that Cao Bin was in good health, and he was very good at eating, this ** is sick!
Cao Bin saw that everyone was about to arrive, and pointed to his heart and said: "I am sick here, it is a heart disease, as long as everyone swears here, and do not kill anyone after entering the city, my illness will be cured!."”
Therefore, the generals swore an oath: they will never kill innocents indiscriminately, and they will not rob the people ......
Seeing this, everyone may understand the answer, it turns out that what Cao Bin did is the same as Deng Yu, so his future generations are alsoThere will be those who will prosper.
It's no wonder that there will be a scene like at the beginning, even the ghosts and gods came out to stop the granddaughter of Cao Bin, who was about to get married, it turned out that the family came to prosper the Cao family.
Reading history wisely, we just want to gain wisdom from history, see how people's doors continue, and understand how people's doors grow.
Maybe our generation can't change, can't achieve something, you can educate!Educate the next generation. If the law of "cause and effect" is implanted in the hearts of oneself and children, and the educational concept is transmitted according to the rule of "God has the virtue of a good life", then after the second and third generations, our future generations will also "have those who will prosper".