Preface.
After Boyan abdicated in 1340, Huizong came to power and appointed a foreign beauty as the second empress
Since then, this beauty has become the only foreign queen in the history of our country.
However, when this beauty ascended to the throne, she did something that shocked everyone - she sent troops to destroy her homeland.
So who is this beauty? How did she become "the only foreign queen in Chinese history" step by step?
Why did she send troops to destroy her homeland?
Tribute girls into the Yuan. In 1333, Yuan Mingzong's son, Tuohuan Timur, embarked on the road to Beijing. Soon after he entered Beijing, he ascended the throne and became a famous Yuan Huizong in the history of our country.
After Tohuan Timur became emperor, he did not forget the support and help given to him by the powerful minister Yan Timur.
As a token of appreciation, Tohuan Timur decided to canonize Timur's daughter, Chin Chatanasili, as the official empress. At that time, a Korean named Tu Mandier served as a eunuch in the palace of the Yuan Dynasty and served as an envoy to the Hui Dynasty.
He knew Qi's background and personality very well, so he recommended Qi to Yuan Huizong and asked him to enter the palace to take care of Yuan Huizong, mainly responsible for making tea for Huizong.
When Turmandier took Qi to meet Huizong, Huizong was fascinated by his appearance.
Favored by Huizong.
Since Qi entered the palace and became Yuan Huizong's personal care, Yuan Huizong's daily life has been greatly affected by her.
Qi's intelligence and unique personal charm made Yuan Huizong have a strong interest in her and a deep affection for her. Therefore, she gradually became the focus of Yuan Huizong's life and gained his endless favor. 。
Faced with such a situation, his wife Dana was very angry.
Although she didn't pay much attention to the young Yuan Huizong before, the Qi clan's competition for favor openly challenged her family's authority.
This caused a raging anger in Danashri's heart. In order to teach the other party a lesson, she ordered Qi to be arrested, tied to a wooden frame, and whipped day and night.
However, Dana's anger did not go out.
One night, she again instructed her men to infiltrate Qi's house and kidnap her to the interrogation room.
In the interrogation room, Dana loses his dignity and begins to interrogate Qi.
In the face of Dana's baseless accusations against her, Qi Jianzhen was unyielding and refused to admit it.
However, this did not allow Dana to vent her anger, but instead provoked her deeper anger.
In order to force Qi to confess, Danashri ordered her to be branded.
This kind of torture made Ms. Qi extremely painful, but she was determined and did not give in to the ** force.
The next day, Si Tianjian reported the incident to Yuan Huizong.
Yuan Huizong was shocked when he learned of this.
However, he was well aware of the power of the Danasiri family and was grateful for their support.
But in the face of Qi's tragic experience, Yuan Huizong's heart was full of sympathy, and he became more and more indignant and disgusted with what Dana had done.
In 1335, the growing power of the Timurid family began a rebellion, preparing to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Huizong family.
As a result, before the plan could be implemented, it was known by Yuan Huizong, which eventually led to the demise of the family. As a result, Dana Shili was deposed by Yuan Huizong, became a prisoner, and died soon after.
With the decline of the Timur family, Boyan naturally began to take power.
During this period, Yuan Huizong originally wanted to make his beloved Empress Qi the empress, but Boyan did not agree with Yuan Huizong's approach. After all, during the Yuan Dynasty, the position of the queen in the palace has always been held by the girl of the Hongji clan. In addition, during the reign of Won Sejo at that time, a family law was established to "not work with Korean women".
But now Yuan Huizong wants to be the queen of the palace. Isn't this tampering with the ancestral will?
In this regard, Yuan Huizong even ignored it, and had no choice but to set up the Hongjila clan Boyan Hudu as the main queen.
Even so, Qi was still Yuan Huizong's favorite person, and soon after, she gave birth to a son for Yuan Huizong.
But her good fortune wasn't over yet.
Become the second queen.
In 1340, Boyan was overthrown, and Yuan Huizong ascended the throne. During this period, at the suggestion of Saraban, Yuan Huizong made Qi Qi the second empress, and even canonized her family with a position.
After becoming the second queen, Empress Qi began to deliberately create the image of "Empress Xian". In her spare time, she took out books such as "Female Filial Piety" to study, hoping to absorb the advantages of the queens of the past dynasties by studying history and classics. to improve their self-cultivation. Not only that, whenever she received tributes from all over the world, she would always sacrifice these precious ingredients to the ancestral temple to show respect for her ancestors, and then eat them herself.
In addition, she also catered to the trend of the time, insisted on Aiyou Shilidala to learn Confucian and Mencian knowledge, and encouraged him to practice Confucian culture.
And let him refute those Tibetan Buddhist masters who opposed the study of the ways of Confucius and Mencius, in order to show his adherence to the ways of Confucius and Mencius.
During this period, she also brought many beautiful women from her hometown of Goryeo, befriended the ministers of the imperial court, and consolidated the national power.
Among them, she has a particularly close relationship with Totokh. Not only does she have Aiyu take care of Dara at Totok's house, but she also pushes Tokhta's comeback.
She was well aware of Toto's talent and character, and believed that he could bring great help to the development of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, even if Tokhtar returned from the mountains, it could not change the fate of the decline of the Yuan Dynasty.
It was not until 1351 that Huizong's negligence led to a peasant uprising, and the Yuan dynasty gradually began to collapse.
It was also during this period that the Qi clan realized that Yuan Huizong was in ruins and planned to support his son in overthrowing Yuan Huizong.
Overlooking Yuan Huizong from afar.
When the Yuan Dynasty faced collapse, the Qi clan did not ignore it, but worked hand in hand with Yuan Huizong to overcome the difficulties.
During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a famine in most of the capitals, and the Qi clan provided money and positions to allow the people to make a better transition.
However, the already devastated Yuan Huizong didn't care about the life and death of the people at all, and just indulged in the demon dance every day.
Faced with such a situation, Qi couldn't stand it anymore and decided to get him back on track.
So Qi pulled Yuan Huizong's sleeve, hoping that he would stop indulging in pleasure.
As a result, Yuan Huizong did not appreciate it, but retorted angrily: "Since ancient times, am I the only one who has done this? Then he left Qi and continued his life of pleasure.
However, misfortune never happens alone. Just as the Qi family was busy saving the Yuan Dynasty, a huge change occurred in their hometown, and their family was wiped out.
During this time, Won Huizong imprisoned the Goryeo envoys and threatened to conquer Goryeo, but internal unrest made the phrase an empty phrase.
In the face of Yuan Huizong's actions, Qi Guo was completely disappointed in him.
Soon, the leader of the peasant uprising took refuge, which gave Qi the idea of supporting his son to hide from Yuan Huizong.
Later, the Qi clan tried to win over He Weiyi, the left prime minister beside Yuan Huizong, and He Weiyi's accomplices, but he didn't dare to listen, because he was afraid of losing his head.
In desperation, the Qi family had no choice but to persuade their son to replace He Weiyi with Wu Liang Hardy, a member of the Privy Council. But this matter was known to He Weiyi's colleagues, which eventually led to Wu Liang Hadi being demoted to the state and dying soon after.
After the Qi family learned the news, they thought that He Weiyi had killed Wu Liang Hatai, so they planned to kill He Weiyi.
A year later, He Weiyi resigned as prime minister and was eventually killed.
In this way, after the operation of Qi's father and son, Yuan Huizong was completely eliminated, and the mourning friend Shili Dala successfully grasped the real power of the Yuan Dynasty.
Seeing that the goal had been achieved, the Qi family decided to send troops to Goryeo.
Sending troops to North Korea. Ever since Aiyou Shilidara came to power, Qi had been egging him to attack Goryeo and avenge his mother's family.
Soon the news reached the ears of King Gongsu of Goryeo, which made him very alarmed. In order to let the Qi family give up this idea.
He sent Qi's cousin Li Gong to the Yuan Dynasty to do Qi's ideological work. Although Qi's mind was shaken by Li Gongsui's persuasion, he still did not give up his belief in avenging his mother's family.
In order to make this operation go smoothly, Aiyu Shilidara directly deposed King Gongsu and established Tass Timur as the new king of Joseon.
In 1364, an army of 10,000 yuan entered Korea under the command of Choi Ru.
The battle went well at first, and Xuanzhou was soon conquered.
Just as this battle of revenge was going so well, the Yuan army suffered a crushing defeat at Dachuan, and in the end only a part of the cavalry returned to the Yuan capital.
After that, the Qi family did not give up, but set their sights on the warlord Polo Timur stationed in Xijing.
Flee to the north and disappear.
At the instigation of the Qi clan, Aiyu Shilidala asked Kuokou Timur to raise troops and seize military power on the grounds that Boluo Timur was hiding "rebel ministers".
However, before they could set off, the army of Boro Timur had already arrived at the gates of the Yuan capital.
It turned out that under the order of Ayushlidara, Polo Timur had already sent troops to most of the capital in the name of "Qing Army Said".
Aiyu Jiridra, who had never experienced such a thing, was so frightened that she chose to run away.
In the end, Yuan Huizong handed over Xie Sijian and Pu Buhua, and the war was calmed down.
Ayushlidara did not give up on this, but prepared to attack Polo Timur again, but in the end it ended in failure.
From then on, Bala Timur took control of the palace, and not only began to want to drive the Qi family out of the palace, but also used the Qi family to trick Ayushlidara back and get rid of him.
As time passed, the pleasure-hungry Yuan Huizong gradually couldn't stand the arrogance of Polo Timur, and immediately found someone to assassinate him.
However, it didn't end there. Soon after, Mother and Son broke with Timur, and the civil war, which was supposed to end, broke out again.
It was not until 1367 that Zhu Yuanzhang, who rose to prominence in the south of the Yangtze River, began the Northern Expedition against the Yuan. Eventually, the Yuan Dynasty fell and the Ming Dynasty was established.
Subsequently, Yuan Huizong led Qi and others to flee north to Xanadu.
Eventually, Qi disappeared from the world and was never seen again. There is no record of her in the history books of the Yuan, Ming, and Goryeo.
Conclusion. Qi was definitely one of the most influential women in Eurasia in the mid-14th century.
Her beauty, political wisdom, ambition, and intrigue have left a deep mark on history.
Her beauty and wisdom won the favor of Yuan Huizong, thus cementing her position as empress.
Her charisma and strategic skills have made her stand out in the midst of political battles and she has built a vast network of connections.
This network of relationships covers every corner from the imperial palace to the locality, from the Mongolian capital Dadu and Xanadu to the Goryeo capital of Gaijing.
Her relatives and friends are spread across the country, which undoubtedly strengthens her political influence.
At the same time, her super expectations for her son even put pressure on her husband, the emperor, and King Gongsu of Goryeo.
Well, the story of the Qi family tells us that the status of women during the Mongol Empire was quite high.
Although she was not a Mongolian woman, she still had considerable political power during this period.
This undoubtedly broke the traditional shackles on female roles and showed the unique gender concept of that era.
Finally, Empress Qi's ambition and talent had a profound impact on the Yuan Empire and international relations in Northeast Asia.
Her political career and decision-making shaped the international landscape of the era to a certain extent.
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