In the chaos in the Western Xia court, why did Li Yuanhao poison his mother and kill his wife
Li Yuanhao's mother and wife are both members of the Weiwu clan, and the Weiwu clan is a major party clan in Yinzhou and Xiazhou, and Li Yuanhao's marriage should be related to political factors. Later, the royal family and the royal descendant Yin clan competed for power and profit, and the contradictions continued to escalate. Later, Wei Mu's ex-husband Shanxi failed to assassinate Li Yuanhao, Wei Mu's family was beheaded all over the house, Empress Dowager Wei Mu was given an axe, and Empress Dowager Wei Mu was also implicated, and finally killed because of the slanderous words of Li Yuanhao's favorite wife Ye Li. Li Yuanhao himself was killed by his son Ning Lingge for marrying his daughter-in-law Ning Lingge.
Li Yuanhao's marriage with the Wei Wu family was the result of political necessity.
Li Yuanhao is a descendant of the Xianbei Tuoba clan, the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. His distant ancestor is Tuoba Sigong, who was given the surname Li because of his merits in the Tang Dynasty, so he is also known as Tuoba Yuanhao. When Li Yuanhao ascended the throne of Xiping, he abandoned the surname Li, called himself Weiman, and changed his name to Weiman Anxiao. However, in the tenth year of Li Fu (1047), he changed back to the surname Li.
Li Yuanhao's biological mother, Wei Mu, is a major CCP family in Yinzhou and Xiazhou. In order to expand his political power, unite the CCP clan, and prepare for the future emperor, Li Yuanhao married his mother's niece, Wei Mu, the daughter of Shanxi, his cousin Wei Mu.
As early as the sixth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1028), during the reign of Li Mingde, the father of Li Yuanhao, the Western Xia occupied the entire Hexi Corridor, and its influence could reach as far as Yumen Pass. Li Mingde posthumously honored his father Li Jiqian as Emperor Taizu Shenwu, canonized Wei Mu as empress, and Li Yuanhao as the crown prince.
In the ninth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1031), Li Mingde died, and his son Li Yuanhao ascended the throne, respecting his mother Wei Mu as the empress dowager and his wife Wei Shi as the empress.
Tensions between the empire and his descendants deepened, and his family was embroiled in an attempted assassination attempt on Wei Mushanxi.
However, disputes soon broke out between the royal family and the royal descendants. The Wei Wu clan was originally a big clan in the party, so the Wei Wu Shanxi clan began to expand its power with the support of the Empress Dowager Wei, and even intended to seize the supreme ruling power.
In June of the first year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1034), Wei Moxin plotted to assassinate Li Yuanhao, but the matter was revealed, Li Yuanhao captured Wei Moxin and his comrades, and at the same time drowned all Wei Moxin's family in the river.
After Li Yuanhao killed the entire Wei Mu clan, he walked into his mother's bedroom with poisonous wine, knelt on the ground and said"The law of the country is intolerable, and filial piety is difficult to achieve"。How could he not know Li Yuanhao's thoughts, he just used this incident to kill Wei Mu, so he picked up the poisonous wine and drank it in one gulp. After Wei Mu's death, Yuan Hao buried him to commemorate his unfortunate death.
When Empress Dowager Wei Mu found out, she was furious, scolded and interrogated Li Yuanhao, but because she was pregnant with six children, she was put in a confinement room.
Later, Wei Mu gave birth to a son. At this time, the Wei Mu clan had completely collapsed, and this son was the only hope for Wei Mu to make a comeback. In a fit of rage, Li Yuanhao killed Wei Mu's mother and son.
Due to the slander of her husband Murong Fu, Empress Yeli was deposed again and imprisoned in another palace, and her only chance to turn over was her son Ning Lingge. Even as the crown prince, Brother Ning Ling was still angry about his wife Wu Zetian being taken away by Li Yuanhao. At the instigation of Wu Zetian's brothers, Ning Lingge assassinated Li Yuanhao in 1048, and Li Yuanhao was injured and hid in Wu Zetian's proton house, eventually"Bleeding to death", Ning Lingge's mother and son Zizi were jointly executed for the crime of killing their father and killing the king. Ning Lingge's mother and son Zizi were executed for killing their father, and Murong Fu's child Li Liangzuo finally ascended the throne.