It is said that "women are not ruthless and their status is unstable", but Miyue, a woman, proved the correctness of this sentence with practical actions. She was a little concubine, and although she did not have a high status in the harem, she eventually became the most noble woman in the Qin State and ruled the Qin State for 36 years.
Her romantic affair and the death of her old lover King Yiqu have kept people immersed in her story, and it is only then that people realize that this woman is really not simple.
Even though she almost fell cold when the queen was in trouble, she still persevered, and finally succeeded in taking the Yiqu Kingdom into her pocket and relieving the hidden danger of the western frontier.
Miyue's story tells us that no matter where you are, as long as you have a tenacious heart, you will be able to achieve your goals.
Mi Yue was not favored in the harem of the Qin State at first, and was only named the "eighth son", but after giving birth to three sons, the situation changed. After the death of King Huiwen of Qin, Empress Huiwen was eager to point the finger at Miyue and her son Yingji, because Yingji was sent to Yan as a hostage.
It seemed that Mi Yue's life was about to end, but at this moment, King Qin Wu died unexpectedly, which made things take a turn for the better.
After the extremely sad Huiwen, he angrily pointed the finger at Meng Shuo, who was with his son, causing Meng Shuo to be beheaded all over the house. At this time, King Wu of Qin had no heirs and had to choose one of his brothers to inherit the throne.
Yingji, who was originally regarded as an abandoned son, had no chance of succeeding to the throne because she was not a concubine, not the eldest son, and had served as a proton in the Yan Kingdom. However, Yan and Zhao suddenly sent people to escort Yingji back to China to compete for the throne.
This move can't help but make people curious: why did Yan Guo and Zhao Guo get involved in this matter? This was obviously not well-intentioned, and they were trying to cause civil strife in the Qin state for their own benefit.
At the same time, the struggle between the Wei forces and the Chu forces also intensified.
In the history of the Qin state, there were two main factions. One is the Wei faction of Empress Huiwen, and the other is the Chu faction led by Mi Yue's half-brother Wei Ran.
Empress Huiwen was a native of Wei, and the Empress Wu married by her son King Wu of Qin was also a woman of Wei. When King Wu of Qin died, Empress Huiwen and her daughter-in-law supported her eldest son, Yingzhuang, to succeed to the throne.
Yingzhuang's mother may also be from Wei. And Wei Ran served in the Qin State during the reign of King Huiwen of Qin and has always been reused. Therefore, Wei Ran tried to support his nephew.
However, Miyue's other two sons may not be able to compete because they are too young. Just when Wei Ran was confused, Yan and Zhao escorted Yingji back to China, which increased the possibility of the Chu forces seizing the throne.
Yan and Zhao hoped that Qin would fall into civil strife, and their goal was temporarily achieved.
Under the circumstances at that time, the powerful Qin State sent the proton of national power like a waste child, while the other vassal states sent the excellent sons of the country to the Qin State. Yan and Zhao believed that if Yingji could succeed to the throne, then the future King of Qin would be much less of a threat to them.
However, they ignore an unremarkable woman - Mi Yue, that is, Yingji's mother. They also underestimated a man named Wei Ran. In the future, the siblings will reuse a "god of killing" named Bai Qi, who once almost slaughtered Zhao's army.
That was later. Now, Yan and Zhao have shrewd calculations, and they have made a lot of efforts in order to make Yingji succeed to the throne.
After three years of the "Jijun Rebellion", the Chu forces were finally defeated, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin succeeded to the throne. At the same time, the eighth son "Miyue" also became the Empress Dowager of Qin. Empress Huiwen, Yingzhuang, and other princes of Qin were brutally murdered by Wei Ran, and the fate of Queen Wu became confusing, and she was finally driven back to her mother's home, Wei.
There are contradictory accounts of the cause of Huiwen's death in the Historical Records, but this article adopts another version of the Qin Benji. Judging from this process, although Mi Yue plays a certain role, we have no way of knowing whether she first had the intention to seize the throne and went to her younger brother to help, or whether her younger brother first had the intention of seizing power and went to her sister to plot.
However, Mi Yue's courage can be seen, her son is neither a son-in-law nor the eldest son, but he stubbornly competes with the eldest son of the queen and the first heir in line to the throne, which is undoubtedly a very risky behavior, and the consequences can be predicted by anyone, but Mi Yue resolutely did so.
The success of Miyue has made the harem ** show a precedent of "listening to politics in the court", which is also an important contribution of beautiful women.
In the early days of Miyue's reign, King Qin Zhaoxiang was young, and Empress Dowager Xuan consolidated the throne for him, married Princess Chu as the queen, and married Chu to reuse Chu people. The younger brother Wei Ran was named the Marquis, the mother's family Xiang Shou was the prime minister, Mi Rong was named Huayang Jun, and the other two sons Ying Fu was Jingyang Jun and Ying Kui was Gao Lingjun.
Although King Qin Zhaoxiang felt uncomfortable about this, the 36th year of Empress Dowager Xuan (some say 41 years)**Qin's land expansion was obvious to all, and King Qin Zhaoxiang could only accept it.
Speaking of the Empress Dowager Qin Xuan during the Warring States Period, her resourcefulness and sharp words were known as "heroes among women". Among them, there is such an allusion: Chu and Han were at war, and Korea asked for help from Qin.
The envoy Shang Jin came to the Qin State and explained to the Empress Dowager Xuan the truth that Han and Qin were "cold lips and cold teeth". However, Empress Dowager Xuan, as a native of Chu, was not interested in this. She said to Shang Jin: "The concubine was also the king before, and the first king was a concubine with his concubine, and the concubine was not tired; is placed above his concubine, and the concubine is heavy, why not?
With its less, it is advantageous. Now in Sahan, if there are not many soldiers and not enough food, it is not enough to save Han. The husband saves Han Zhi's danger, and he spends a lot of money every day, but he can't make the concubine less profitable? Her words directly made Shang Jin pale, and translated into the vernacular: "You think that when I served King Huiwen, if he sat on me, I would feel tired; But if he's lying on top of me and I'm not tired at all, why is that?
Because it's good for me. Now you want me to save South Korea, and spend so much food and grass on my soldiers, and spend a lot of money a day, what good can you give me? Shang Jin was shocked and speechless on the spot, and later generations of scholars were all amazed by the wisdom of the Empress Dowager Xuan when they saw this historical material.
Although Empress Dowager Xuan is a woman who can't stand loneliness, she was widowed at a young age, and it was not her pursuit from the beginning, and it was no secret that she had many lovers at the time, but her resourcefulness and words have become classics praised by later generations.
Among Miyue's lovers, the most eye-catching is the King of Yiqu. With the chaos of the situation in the Central Plains and the passage of time, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Yiqu has grown and has the momentum to compete with the Central Plains countries.
During the reign of King Huiwen of Qin, Yiqu had become a vassal of Qin, however, after King Zhaoxiang of Qin succeeded to the throne, King Yiqu, who came to congratulate him, began to have bad feelings because he saw the lack of wisdom of the young monarch of Qin, and his words and deeds were full of contempt for Qin.
In this case, in order to temporarily stabilize King Yiqu, Mi Yue chose to sacrifice her beauty and started a "transnational love" with King Yiqu.
The relationship between Miyue and King Yiqu lasted for more than thirty years, and even though both were over sixty years old, they still maintained close contact. Whether Miyue's beauty makes her still attractive, or whether King Yiqu is deeply in love with her, this is a mystery.
But no matter what, during this period of time, the Qin State was able to focus on improving its own strength and compete with other Central Plains vassal states without worries, and no one laughed at the empress dowager of a dignified country for doing this"Transactions"。
In fact, under the circumstances at that time, for the sake of the country, personal sacrifices were worth it, and Empress Dowager Xuan not only saw openly, but also far.
When people thought they were a pair of "true love", Empress Dowager Xuan turned her face. In the past thirty years, the national strength of the Qin State has changed from what it used to be, and it is no longer afraid of the threat of the Yiqu State.
On a sunny day, Empress Dowager Xuan lured her lover to Ganquan Palace on the grounds of "tryst", and then made a difficulty, killed the king of Yiqu, and then sent troops to destroy the country of Yiqu and pocketed all the territory of the king of Yiqu.
Perhaps King Yiqu couldn't believe that this woman who had been dating him for thirty years could kill him so ruthlessly before he died. Empress Dowager Xuan's series of operations shocked the world, who would have thought that the once beautiful woman would be able to resist the threat of the rear with her own strength, and after enduring it for thirty years, she took a large piece of land almost effortlessly, completely eliminating the hidden dangers in the rear, this woman is more than imagined.
With the appearance of Mr. Fan Ju, Empress Dowager Xuan quietly retired.
Fan Ju's legendary road: From an exile in Wei to a powerful minister of Qin, Fan Ju pretended to be dead and escaped, changed his name and surname, and lived in secret. By chance, he was recommended to King Qin Zhaoxiang by Wang Ji, the envoy of Qin, and was deeply appreciated and became a guest of King Qin Zhaoxiang.
Soon, he found that his relatives were too powerful, and began to give advice to King Qin Zhaoxiang, and finally succeeded in helping King Qin Zhaoxiang weaken the power of his relatives, and even regained the power of Empress Dowager Xuan, allowing her to live in the palace for a long time.
With his intelligence and courage, Fan Ju rose to prominence in the Qin State and became a powerful minister, and his legendary experience is amazing.
Although she no longer cares about the government, the Empress Dowager Xuan still lives a freewheeling life. Despite his old age and frailty, he is still accompanied by a lover named Wei Choufu. However, as she grew older, Empress Dowager Xuan fell ill, and she realized that her time was running out, and she became more and more reluctant to have a little mistress.
In order not to feel lonely on Huangquan Road, she ordered Wei Choufu to accompany her to the funeral. When Wei Choufu heard the news, he was very alarmed, he originally thought that he would be free after the death of the Empress Dowager Xuan, but now he was asked to accompany him with his life.
Fortunately, when the minister Yongrui heard about this, he persuaded the Empress Dowager Xuan: If the first king saw Wei Choufu on Huangquan Road, he would definitely get angry and fight. When Empress Dowager Xuan heard this, she felt that Yong Rui made sense, so she dismissed the idea of letting Xiao Qinglang accompany her to the funeral.
In October of the 42nd year of King Qin Zhao, Empress Dowager Xuan died. Mr. Ma Feibai commented that although Empress Dowager Xuan sacrificed Hue as the queen mother to have an affair with King Yiqu and finally killed her, eliminating the great western troubles of the Qin State, so that the Qin State could concentrate on the east and no longer have any worries, her contribution was not inferior to that of Zhang Yi and Sima Cuo in capturing Bashu.
Empress Dowager Xuan is also the first woman in Chinese history to listen to the government, her achievements are incomparable, it can be said that she made a great contribution to the unification of the world by the Qin State.
The pottery inscription on a terracotta warrior on the soil of the Qin Terracotta Warriors pit is suspected to have the word "Miyue", but according to archaeologists, it should be the word "spleen", which has nothing to do with "Miyue".
Historically, the Empress Dowager Xuan only had two titles, "Mi Bazi" and "Empress Dowager Xuan", and the title of "Miyue" was fictitious.