How did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty become an empress?
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, ancient China was a relatively open society, and the fact that women remarried very often was a feature of this phenomenon, but it was still enough to jaw people, such as Wang Huan, the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who apparently left her husband and threw herself into the arms of another man without respecting his divorce, if he was still alive. So, how did Wang Wan leave her husband, defect to Duke Huan, and replace Duke Huan as the queen?
She left her husband and daughter and entered the prince's palace, ruthless and strong-willed.
His mother, Zang Er, was the daughter of Zang Di, the king of Yan in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. However, Zang was killed in a conspiracy against the Western Han Dynasty, and the Zang family was disgraced as a result. Zang Er married a commoner Wang Zhong and had a son, Wang Xin, and two daughters, Wang Yu and Wang Erying. After Wang Zhong's death, Zang Er remarried the Tian family and gave birth to Tian and Tian Sheng.
Although Wang You was born in a famous family, he grew up in a bourgeois family, and his mother remarried, so he married a bourgeois woman, Jin Yunshun, and gave birth to a daughter, Jin Hu. Wang You's life was no different from other ordinary people at that time, until a fortune teller appeared.
Wang Yu's mother found the fortune teller Yao Weng and asked him to show the child. When Yao Weng showed Wang Yu his face, Zang Er said:"Wang Yu is rich and noble, and will give birth to a son of heaven"。Zang Er was very happy to hear this. Wang Yu was tired of the poor life and didn't want to live a boring life anymore, so he said that he would do his best.
So Zang Er found an excuse to take Wang You out of the Jin Dynasty's Sun family and sent him to the prince's mansion through the Liao. When the king of Jin found out that his wife was missing, of course he refused to give in, so he went to his mother-in-law to settle the account. When he knew that Wang You had been sent to the Prince's Mansion, he knew that wanting to go to the Prince's Mansion for help was tantamount to asking for hardship, so he had to silently accept this fact.
Wang abandoned his wife and daughter to go to the prince's mansion, obviously a person who did anything to get rid of the status quo, and his behavior was also extremely ruthless and decisive. When a woman is dissatisfied with the status quo and wants to seduce a man, it is undoubtedly extremely easy to do, especially if the woman has outstanding looks and certain other attractive qualities. Therefore, not long after Wang Wan entered the palace, he attracted the attention of the crown prince Liu Qi and quickly won his favor.
Of course, there is no shortage of beauties around the crown prince Liu Qi, but he can quickly win Wang You's favor, and his means must be extraordinary. The crown prince Liu Qi was not interested in Wang Li's background and previous marriage history, so he quickly dedicated his beauty to Wang Li. After that, Wang Li gave birth to three daughters for Liu Qi. When she was pregnant with Liu Che, Wang Meiren told the crown prince Liu Qi that she saw the sun enter her womb in a dream, which made Liu Qi very happy.
He and Liu Bang defeated Su Ji, and Wang Yu was good at seizing opportunities.
In June of the seventh year of the Han Dynasty (157 BC), Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng died, and the crown prince Liu Qi ascended the throne as Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. In the same year, Wang Wan gave birth to her son Liu Che, who later became Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At that time, Bo was the harem queen of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Su Ji and Wang Wan were the favorite concubines of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Su Ji gave birth to a son Liu Rong, and Wang Wan gave birth to a tenth son Liu Che.
Although Empress Dowager Bo was the empress, she relied more on Emperor Jing's grandmother, that is, the Empress Dowager Bo at that time, who was not popular in the harem and never gave birth to a son. Therefore, in the fourth year of Emperor Jing (153 BC), Empress Dowager Bo died, and Emperor Jing made his eldest son Liu Rong the crown prince, and Empress Dowager Bo's position was threatened.
Princess Tiantao is the younger sister of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. In order to consolidate the status of her husband's family and win the favor of the Empress Dowager Dou, she often presented beauties to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, so the relationship between the two brothers and sisters was extremely close. After Liu Rong became the crown prince, in order to further consolidate the long-term status of her husband's family, she once again set her sights on the crown prince and found Su Ji, expressing her hope to marry her daughter to Liu Rong.
Su Zhe was originally jealous, and he had long been dissatisfied with Princess Guantao's beauty. Since his son became the crown prince and his status has improved, he has never seen Princess Guantao again, and even resolutely rejected Princess Guantao's marriage proposal. Seeing Su Zhi like this, Princess Guantao was worried that her son would not want to marry her after he ascended the throne, so she found Wang You and said that she wanted to marry him.
In accordance with"Patriarchy"'s inheritance principle, although Queen Bo has no children, the crown prince is not Liu Che's tenth son, so Wang Yi originally did not plan to take over as the eldest son, but the olive branch extended by Princess Guantao made him see hope, after all, Princess Guantao is the Empress Dowager Dou and Emperor Jing of Han, and anyone can be sure of what they say. So, Wang You immediately accepted this political marriage"Kanaya Zangjiao"This is where the term comes in.
After that, Liu Juan kept saying in front of Emperor Han Jing that Su Ji often cursed Emperor Han Jing's other favored daughters and used flattery, and Emperor Han Jing gradually began to hate Su Ji. Later, Emperor Han Jingdi's health deteriorated, so he talked about his death in front of Su Ji, and entrusted his son to Su Ji, hoping that she could take good care of these children. Su Ji not only agreed, but also said the past, which disappointed Emperor Han Jing.
After that, Liu Wuzhou slandered Liu Rong's mother and son in front of Emperor Jing and praised Wang Yu's son. Influenced by this, Emperor Jing also thought that Liu Che was more virtuous. It can be said that Wang Yu made people and finally saved a heart, and only then did he spend a dreamy day in his daze, but he still did not make a final decision.
In the autumn and September of the sixth year of the first century (151 BC), the childless and unpopular Empress Dowager Bo was deposed. Wang You saw that the time had come, so he resorted"Kill"Wordword. Four months later, he encouraged his ministers to write to him:"The son is more precious than the mother, and the mother is more precious than the son:"The son is more precious than the mother, and the mother is more precious than the son:The mother of the crown prince should be the queen"。This made Emperor Jing think that Su Ji was taking pity on the minister, and in a fit of anger, he abolished Liu Rong's position as the crown prince, and Su Ji was soon frightened to death.
In April 7 BC (150 BC), Wang Wan became queen, and Liu Che, although in tenth place, gained the status of the eldest son and later became the crown prince.