Wei Qing's promotion path initially benefited from the help of his sister.
Wei Qing went from a suspect in an fornication case to hardships, and finally became a famous general. His success is not based on relationships, but on his own strength and hard work.
Relationships are just stepping stones, and after entering the door of power, it depends on personal effort and talent. Wei Qing's story teaches us that no matter what your background, as long as you have perseverance and determination, you can achieve your goals.
Mrs. Wei, who was born in a poor family, worked as a servant in the Pingyang Hou Mansion in the Linfen region of Shanxi Province, and was based on hard work. She married an ordinary man surnamed Wei and had four children, the youngest of whom was Wei Zifu who later became the empress of Emperor Wu of Han.
Although the story of Mrs. Wei is different from that of those princes and generals, her experience is more common. It is already a great challenge for an ordinary low-level woman to survive and raise children in the Hou Mansion through her own efforts.
Mrs. Wei once had a husband, but then he was missing, and there is no record of this in the history books. In order to raise her children, Mrs. Wei had to seek other ways.
So, she got in touch with a person named Zheng Ji in the Hou Mansion. Zheng Ji has a strong local family and a powerful family, and his father even once served as a doctor in Hanzhong.
Later, Zheng Ji came to work in the Hou Mansion because of the transfer of his position, and he had the opportunity to contact Mrs. Wei. The two quickly fell in love and had three more sons.
It turned out that Wei Qing was not born in the main room of the Zheng family, but the illegitimate son of Mrs. Wei. Since Zheng Ji had already started a family and had a wife and multiple sons, after Wei Qing was born, the Zheng family's wives and concubines and sons were unwilling to admit them and refused to let them enter the house.
Although Mrs. Wei gave birth to three sons for the Zheng family, the Zheng family did not recognize them and was not willing to pay to raise them.
Although Zheng Ji tried his best to bring the three brothers home, the rest of the Zheng family treated them as servants, and even let Wei Qing go to herd sheep early. Wei Qing, who didn't want to be angry, chose to defect to his mother, but Mrs. Wei was a servant of the Hou Mansion and was under great financial pressure.
She could only find a way to ask the Hou Mansion to arrange a job for her son, but the Hou Mansion was reluctant to arrange it because many servants wanted to bring their relatives in to live. Before, Mrs. Wei even sent her third daughter to the Hou Mansion as a singer.
If everyone does this, the population of the Hou Mansion will increase rapidly, and even if the Hou Mansion has money, it will not be able to feed so many people. Fortunately, Wei Qing has some talents, he has seen horses when he was herding sheep, and he has a certain understanding of horses.
Therefore, under the constant request of Mrs. Wei, the Hou Mansion arranged Wei Qing to the horse farm as a groom. Since he entered the Hou Mansion as a slave, his next identity naturally became a slave.
Riding slaves were required to take care of the horses and were required to follow their masters out and serve beside them. For Wei Qing, although this identity is not good, it is much better than when she was herding sheep.
Wei Qing's life ushered in a major turning point, and soon after he became a slave, he met the noble man in his life, Princess Pingyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Because Princess Pingyang was very favored, and her husband Pingyang Hou also needed to deal with affairs in the capital, many of the people of Pingyang moved to the capital.
Several members of the Wei family also moved to the capital, and Wei Qing also became the riding slave of Princess Pingyang and had a relationship with this princess.
On the way back from that trip to worship his ancestors, Emperor Wu of Han visited the mansion of his sister Princess Pingyang. In the house, Princess Pingyang invited singers from the house to cheer him up, and Wei Zifu's dance deeply attracted him.
So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty blessed Wei Zifu and brought her back to the palace. However, in the following year, he did not pamper Wei Zifu again, and it was not until a year later that he remembered her again and gave her another blessing.
After this pampering, Wei Zifu soon became pregnant and gave birth to his first daughter for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Previously, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had no heirs. Therefore, Wei Zifu naturally got the favor of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In the time of Emperor Wu of Han, he was in dire need of establishing his own power base, and he chose to cultivate a strong party of relatives to help him. Since Empress Chen Ajiao was the granddaughter of Empress Dowager Dou and could not take on this important task independently, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose the Wei family and vigorously supported them.
The eldest sister of the Wei family, Wei Junru, was given a marriage to the servant Sun He, who was a confidant of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and later became the prime minister. The second sister of the Wei family, Wei Shao'er, was working as a maid in the Hou Mansion when she had an affair with a minor official and gave birth to Huo Quai.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally ** all this, allowing the Wei family to ascend to the sky in one step.
After Wei Zifu was favored, her sister Wei Shao'er became acquainted with another powerful person, Chen Zhang. And Chen Zhang's great-grandfather Chen Ping, who eradicated the Lu family with Zhou Bo back then, became an important minister during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Wei Zifu's half-brother Wei Changjun was directly appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as a servant, which is the emperor's personal confidant, although not as powerful as the ** of later generations, but he is the emperor's real confidant, often for the emperor to manage the carriage and horses, write copywriting, and after working in this position for a few years, the future future will be limitless.
Wei Zifu's three half-brothers were also highly regarded in the Han Dynasty. In addition to Wei Qing, the other two also directly entered the court as officials, and eventually became generals of the Han Dynasty.
Among the children of the Wei family, Wei Qing is undoubtedly the best. After Wei Zifu was favored, Wei Qing was promoted to the palace, and at first he was only the security captain in the palace. But in the process of protecting Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he showed outstanding ability and meticulous work attitude, which was appreciated and reused by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The rise of the Wei family aroused the jealousy of Empress Chen Ajiao, and Chen Ajiao's mother, Princess Guantao, even sent someone to arrest Wei Qing when he was on an errand, intending to kill him to intimidate Wei Zifu.
Fortunately, one of Wei Qing's colleagues appeared in time to save him. Emperor Wu of Han was very angry about this, but because Princess Guantao was both his mother-in-law and his own aunt, and the only daughter of Empress Dowager Dou, he could not punish her.
Emperor Wu of Han turned his anger into guilt and vigorously promoted the Wei family as a way to make up for his mistakes.
Wei Qing, as the main target of the assassination, and his personal talent is outstanding. His ascension was as fast as a rocket, and soon after the assassination, he was promoted to the rank of servant and became a close confidant of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
It didn't take long for him to be promoted to Taizhong Doctor, an official position subordinate to Lang Zhongling, one of the Nine Qings. Under the Han Dynasty's Three Princes and Nine Emperors, Lang Zhongling and his subordinates were responsible for the reception, transmission of folds, and protection of the palace security.
At that time, Zhao Gao controlled the palace by serving as Lang Zhongling, and then put Qin II in the air.