Know all about the secrets of the harem

Chapter 58
Emperor Cheng died strangely and suddenly, without even having time to summon the imperial physician, which naturally aroused many doubts and speculations.The Queen Mother ordered Wang Mang to investigate the emperor's daily illness together with the prime minister and the censor.Zhao Hede knew that he could not escape the responsibility for the chaos. Amidst the denunciation of the officials, Zhao Hede committed suicide, which was regarded as preserving the last bit of dignity.

After Zhao Hede's death, although Zhao Feiyan was not involved much, she was frightened and could no longer fly.In the palace, except for Zhao Feiyan, all the Zhao family were exiled to the barren land.Zhao Feiyan suddenly fell from heaven to hell, and she shed tears every day.

Emperor Cheng had no heirs, and his nephew Liu Xin succeeded to the throne, known as Emperor Ai of Han in history.When Liu Xin became emperor, Zhao Feiyan made a lot of contributions. The emperor was grateful for his kindness and still made Zhao Feiyan the empress dowager.Although Zhao Feiyan lost her former glory, she saved her life.But the good times didn't last long, Liu Xin died after only six years as emperor, and Zhao Feiyan lost his last backer.Wang Mang, who was the prime minister at the time, and the empress dowager Wang Zhengjun unanimously decided to get rid of Zhao Feiyan, abolished the name of the empress dowager in the name of the empress dowager, and relegated him to Beigong.Soon, he was sent to guard the mausoleum of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.Zhao Feiyan, who had been accustomed to a luxurious life for more than ten years, knew that the situation was over, and couldn't bear the loneliness and humiliation, and finally committed suicide in the Yanling Mausoleum of Emperor Cheng.

A fortune came rushing in like a tide, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Xu Zhaopei: Mature, still charming
The land is dangerous and the sky is long, and the king of Jinling is full of Yaoguang.

Don't boast that this place is divided into the world, so Concubine Xu has half makeup.

This is a seven-character quatrain by Li Shangyin - "Southern Dynasty", in which the beauty of Concubine Xu is highly praised, so who is this woman with half-face makeup?According to historical records, she was Xu Zhaopei, the royal concubine of Emperor Xiao Yi of the Southern Liang Yuan Dynasty when he was the king of Eastern Hunan.After she married into the emperor's house, she tried her best to get Xiao Yi's favor, so she acted recklessly, did not give Xiao Yi a good look, drank alcohol, had an affair, and even tried to return to her mother's house to regain freedom... Xiao Yi first endured and avoided it, but finally, his son After being killed in battle, Xu Zhaopei was forced to commit suicide.

The fate of parents is hard to break, marry the king of eastern Hunan

Xu Zhaopei is not Xiaobiyu, she came from a prominent family. Her grandfather was Xu Xiaosi, one of the six assistant ministers during the Xiao Baojuan period of the Southern Qi Dynasty. Battle exploits.Her father was Xu Kun, General Xinwu, who served in the Liang Dynasty. He had many cronies and great power.

But it was Xu Zhaopei who really made the Xu family famous.Of course, she is famous not because of Hua Mulan who joined the army in place of her father, nor because of her poems and prose like Cai Wenji, nor because of Wang Zhaojun's devotion to the country. She is famous because of love, because of the famous red apricot.

As the daughter of a general, being a princess is already very good.It's a pity that this beauty was very popular with elders because of her beautiful appearance and intelligence since she was a child, and her heart was relatively high.Before she entered the palace, she and Zhang Bing, the son of General Zhang of the Liang Dynasty, often played together.It is said that Zhang Bing, the son of General Zhang in the Liang Dynasty, has a face like jade, eyebrows like swords, and a jade tree facing the wind. He belongs to the image of a white-clothed swordsman in a typical martial arts novel.Xu Zhaopei has read poetry and books since she was a child, and is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially singing and dancing, which is even more amazing.But Zhang Bing was influenced by his father and was good at fighting.The two are a perfect match, but unfortunately, this is just their own thoughts.

Her father, Xu Kun, General Xinwu, a servant of the Liang Dynasty, was a very discerning person. Among the many royal heirs, he took a fancy to Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan who had only one eye, and thought that this person would soon become a dragon among men.So, in order to allow himself to climb the dragon son of the future, he began to block his daughter from interacting with Zhang Bing.For this reason, Xu Zhaopei was so worried that she was imprisoned by her father in the boudoir all day long to practice singing and dancing.During this period, she had created many songs, among which "Remnant Plum Makeup" which was the most popular at that time was created by her.Seeing her daughter not thinking about eating and drinking, and losing weight day by day, Xu Kun worried that her daughter's appearance would be damaged, which would affect the beauty pageant.For this reason, he listened to his concubine's opinion and proposed marriage for Zhang Bing within a month, and urged Zhang Bing to get married quickly.Of course, he is also very generous. On Zhang Bing's wedding day, the big gift he gave made everyone envy General Zhang for having such a good confidant.What he was talking about for Zhang Bing was Wang Lan, Wang Jizhi, who was also an official of the imperial court. This Wang Lan was the same age as Xu Zhaopei, with a dignified appearance and a gentle temperament, and she was an image of a good girl.But Zhang Bing didn't have a good impression of her at first, but after getting married, as time went by, he felt Wang Lan's knowledge and understanding, and a friend in adversity saw the truth. In the end, the two became a jealous loving couple.Of course, these are things for later.The reason why Xu Kun is so enthusiastic about helping the Zhang family is to make his daughter give up.On the day when he proposed marriage for Zhang Bing, he smelled heavily of alcohol, and said loudly to his daughter, don't take Zhang boy too seriously, he has already proposed marriage with the Wang family today, and agreed to get married in one month.The naive Xu Zhaopei thought her father's words were true. At that time, she was heartbroken and cried for days and nights.

On the third day of Zhang Bing's marriage, Xu Zhaopei obeyed his father's arrangement and married Xiao Yi.Xiao Yi was the king of eastern Hunan at that time, guarding Jiangling with heavy troops.Xiangdong Wang Xiaoyi was fond of literature since he was a child, but had no interest in politics. He was influenced by his father, dressed in commoner clothes, and ate only coarse grains of beans and lamb.When Emperor Wu of Liang set up a Shilin Museum in the west of Jiankang City to collect scholars' lectures and papers, Xiao Yi was also in the beautiful riverside, talking with literati and scholars every day.

Xu Zhaopei is beautiful, smart, good at poetry, in the Mood for Love, coupled with a passionate nature, just the time when she needs love and affection, although she dresses up every day, she still can't arouse Xiao Yi's mood, so she is depressed , I don't know how to deal with myself.

The most direct way is to accept her husband's way of life and try to break into his circle of interests, so she changed her normal routine and went to her husband's poetry and wine party with light makeup.She often makes friends with Xiao Yi's literary friends, so that her spiritual field and emotional life have been developed and relieved to a considerable extent.

Although her beauty and talent have been objectively affirmed, Xiao Yi is still unmoved, so Xu Zhaopei threw a strong drug into her married life even more aggressively, intentionally only changing her face when putting on makeup. Half of the face was called "half-face dress" at that time.

A woman who puts on powder, rouge, and lipstick only reaches half of her face, think about what it looks like, not only ruining her own beauty, but also intentionally abusing the vision of others.And Xu Zhaopei wanted to use this to vent her anger and injustice, and even used it to humiliate Xiao Yi.

The maids were afraid that Concubine Xu's ruthless move would resent the prince, and even cause terrible consequences in a fit of anger.But Xu Zhaopei asked the maids to rest assured. She said: "The prince and his son talk about benevolence and morality, and they will definitely not burn the piano and cook the crane for such a trivial matter. At most, it is just expelled from the palace. It’s annoying. That’s fine, instead of maintaining a married life in name only, it’s better to choose someone else to marry.” Who knows that Xiao Yi’s self-cultivation has indeed reached the point of perfection, although he knows that Xu Zhaopei deliberately wants to make him angry, but he turns a blind eye to it, as if something happened Nothing ever happened.

Several years passed like this.

At that time, Emperor Wu of Liang became emperor on the grounds that "the heart of heaven cannot be violated, and the heart of man cannot be lost". , in order to listen to the sentiments of the people, trees and lungs and stones were set up beside them, so that the sentiments of the lower class could be conveyed, so there was a scene of peace everywhere.But his old man has one of his biggest weaknesses, that is, he respects Buddhism.According to legend, the ring scars left on the heads of monks originated from Emperor Wu of Liang.Emperor Liang Wu became a monk three times and was redeemed three times before becoming emperor. In addition to chanting sutras and Buddha every day, he often went to Tongtai Temple to give lectures, often day and night, for seven or eight days before coming to an end.At that time, monks and nuns accounted for nearly half of the country's population, and there were more than [-] Buddhist temples in Jiankang alone.Emperor Wu of Liang never again unified China and clarified the aspirations of the world.State affairs were mostly mere formalities, which eventually led to the Hou Jing Rebellion.

Hou Jing was originally the prefect of the Central Plains of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Northern Dynasty. Because of a gap with Gao Cheng, the prime minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he came to surrender in the land of Henan.This was a good thing at first, but Emperor Wu of Liang's repeated slaps made the villain Hou Jing turn against Liang. At the beginning of Hou Jing's rebellion, Emperor Wu of Liang said brazenly: "What can I do? I broke the whip Answer it." But Jiankang was breached soon, and Emperor Wu of Liang died in confinement.

After Hou Jing's rebellion was settled, in the first year (552) of the Southern Dynasties Emperor Liang Yuan followed the army, Xiao Yi took the throne in Jiangling, changed Yuan Chengsheng, and became Emperor Liang Yuan.When he heard the news, Xu Zhaopei felt that he completely admired his father, Jiang was still hot.But at this time, Xiao Yi couldn't bear his wife's indifferent face, so he didn't like to say anything to her.The one-time temperature towards her in the past has gradually turned cold in her silence, so the empress do not want to make Mrs. Xu the empress.

However, Xiao Yi still got used to it, dismissed all the beauties in the harem, and still took pleasure in reading literature, and taught Lao Zhuang's Taoist scriptures with civil and military officials at every turn, tirelessly for a long time.Xu Zhaopei was still a lonely official, and her youth was wasted. At this time, she was almost [-] years old, and she had no passion for anything, and her heart was full of boredom. Xu Zhaopei began to drink alcohol to relieve her sorrow.Unexpectedly, after being drunk once, when Emperor Yuan entered the room, he vomited into his clothes, which made Emperor Yuan angry and walked away.Seeing the angry back of Emperor Yuan, Xu Zhaopei felt the happiness he had never had before.As a result, the relationship between husband and wife became even weaker.

Because Xu Zhaopei was emotionally frustrated, and fame and fortune seemed to be empty, Xu Zhaopei also began to look for excitement and became one of the famous lewd women in history.Just because at a banquet, I saw the courtier Ji Jiang's beauty, which was almost the same as that of Zhang Bing back then, so I took the banquet to watch the singing and dancing, and waited for him to pass by at the corner of the corridor, leaving him to have an affair in the harem.Xu Zhaopei stayed by Ji Jiang's side day and night, serving him.Ji Jiang was flattered to see that the concubine, who was high and serious on weekdays, was now like a little daughter-in-law in front of him, obedient to her words.After a few days, Xu Zhaopei personally feeds Ji Jiang three meals a day.This lasted for a month, feeling Xu Zhaopei's enthusiasm and warmth like a girl, Ji Jiang sighed: "Xu Niang is old, but she is still passionate." Or said: "Although Xu Niang is old, her charm still exists!"

Later generations described the style of middle-aged women as undiminished, and often said that "middle-aged women still have charm", which is where it comes from.

Sometimes, in order to find the feeling of madness, she even travels thousands of miles to have an affair with Taoist Zhiyuan of Yaoguang Temple, causing Emperor Yuan to burn Taoist Zhiyuan away after knowing about it.Seeing the man who gave her physical pleasure burn to death in front of her eyes, she went completely crazy, no longer the princess of the past, and began to be jealous of other women, especially when she saw the concubine Ji who was abandoned by her husband in the palace, she felt hapiness.Because she saw that those women who revolved around their husbands all day long were finally like herself, no longer favored by men, and felt a balance.When she saw these women who fell out of favor, Concubine Xu acted very generously and regarded them as confidantes, often drinking with them.But once she found out that the court lady was pregnant and loved by men, she couldn't help but hate in her heart, so she killed her with a knife.

Later, Concubine Xu learned that the poet He Hui was handsome and handsome, so she wrote a love poem to court him with a "white horn pillow". Ai Ji Wang died after giving birth to a child. Suspecting that she had poisoned Xu to death, she was imprisoned in the cold palace and sent Xu Zhaopei's son Xiao Fang to fight.This war is recognized as a battle to the death, and poor Xiao Fang became a victim of the struggle between his parents.Soon, Xiao Fang died in battle.Without the trouble of his son, Xiao Yi forced Xu to commit suicide.In the third year of Emperor Liang Yuan's Taiqing (554), concubine Xu threw herself into a well and died.Emperor Liang Yuan sent someone to send Xu Zhaopei's body back to her natal family, which was called "exiting a wife" in history.Later, Emperor Liang Yuan wrote "Jinlouzi", which exposed Concubine Xu's promiscuous behavior.

This poor beauty, just because of a setback in love, led to the destruction of her life.I really don't know whether the infatuation of this famous half-makeup beauty finally ended up with an allusion of "milfs", whether it is sadness or helplessness.As a woman, she is lonely, and she has never met a man who truly understands her, loves her and loves her in her life.As a princess, she is pathetic.Although living in a prosperous place, my heart is desolate.As his husband, he is also a man worthy of sympathy. Although he has this peerless beauty, he has spent his whole life but still has no heart for her.

Can only watch her self-defeating.As the man she liked in her later years, Ji Jiang was also very helpless. Although he didn't love this woman who was ten years older than him, he didn't want to lose this backer.At least in many things, she can use her love for herself to let herself enjoy the glory and wealth.Having said so much, everything is caused by love.

Liu Ziye, the deposed emperor of the Song Dynasty: Sister Tong forced his aunt to commit incest

As the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. This sentence vividly illustrates the diversity of creatures.

In the thousands of years of Chinese history, all kinds of ridiculous things will happen, and one of the directors is Liu Ziye, the most perverted emperor in Chinese history.

Liu Jun, Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, passed away suddenly. The precarious and precarious prince Liu Ziye was lucky enough to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. Soak your eyes in honey to make "ghost rice dumplings"; have an affair with your own sister, and bring your aunt into the harem; raise your uncle Xiangdong Wang Liu or naked in a pit, and ask him to eat from a wooden trough, calling him " Pig King"...

Many of his evil deeds finally led to his death. He reigned for less than a year.

In May of the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (464), Emperor Xiaowu Liu Jun of the Southern Song Dynasty died of illness, and the crown prince Liu Ziye ascended the throne.

Ordinarily, when Lao Tzu died, the son should be sad and sad.Even those emperors who killed Lao Tzu and ascended the throne had to howl a few times at the funeral of the first emperor to show his filial piety and to cover his eyes and ears.But the new emperor Liu Ziye behaved differently.Not only did he not cry loudly, but his face was cheerful, seemingly happy.Cai Xingzong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, presented the emperor's seal in person, and Liu Ziye lazily took it in his hand without any dignity. So Cai Xingzong was worried, and said to others in private: "Looking at today's situation, the disaster of the country is not far away."

After Liu Ziye ascended the throne, he once went to the Taimiao and found that there were only ancestral tablets in the temple and no portraits, so he summoned painters to come in and paint the remains of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty from Liu Yu down one by one.When the painting was finished, Liu Ziye went to the Taimiao to watch it, commenting on it while watching it.First he pointed to the portrait of Emperor Wu Liu Yu and said: "He is considered a great hero, he can capture several emperors alive." Then he pointed to the portrait of Emperor Wen Liu Yilong and said: "He is not bad in appearance, but it is a pity that in his later years, his son beheaded him." Later, when he saw the portrait of his father, he pointed to it and said, "This guy has a rosaceous nose, why didn't you draw it?" Immediately, a painter was called to add a rosacea nose to Liu Jun, and he returned to the palace satisfied.

Liu Yu's Humiliation of "Pig King"

Liu Jun left Liu Ziye with five ministers who took care of his life, so it can be said that they did not take care of them meticulously.These five are Taizai Liu Yigong, Hussar General Liu Yuanjing, Shixing Gong Shen Qingzhi, Pu Sheyan Shibo, and the leading general Wang Xuanmo.For every detail, Liu Yigong and Liu Yuanjing were consulted, major matters were discussed with Shen Qingzhi; matters of war were entrusted to Shen Qingzhi, internal affairs were entrusted to Uncle Yan, and external affairs were handled by Wang Xuanmo.It should be said that although Liu Jun is greedy for money and lustful, he is not confused about these matters.With this good card in Liu Ziye's hands, it is no problem to live in peace and security, but he never thought that he would make the Liu Song Dynasty miserable.

The first few months were relatively normal, because he was still covered by his mother, the Queen Mother, so he didn't dare to be too presumptuous.But the Queen Mother soon became seriously ill, and she was dying, so he never went to visit her.Later, when the queen mother was dying of illness, she asked the maid to go to Liu Ziye, probably to leave her last words.But Liu Ziye shook his head and said: "The patient's room is so spooky, it's frightening to death, how can I go?" The queen mother was furious when she heard this, and said angrily to the maid: "Get the knife quickly, and wait for me to cut open the stomach. Look at how I gave birth to such a good son!" The palace maid hastily comforted her, but a seriously ill person couldn't bear the anger, and the queen mother passed away soon after.Liu Ziye was so angry with his mother that he felt a little uneasy.He dreamed that the Queen Mother said to him: "You are not benevolent or filial, and you don't look like an emperor at all; your father is tyrannical and innocent, and he has provoked the anger of heaven and earth, and none of his sons can be an emperor." In the future, the emperor should let Emperor Wen's sons do it." Liu Ziye woke up, feeling very scared, and became suspicious of his uncles.

Therefore, he took advantage of the time when these uncles entered the court, detained them all in the palace, and insulted them to the utmost, with all sorts of tricks, and extremely perverted.Liu Ziye also nicknamed them all: Liu, the king of eastern Hunan, is called the pig king; Liu Xiuren, the king of Jian'an, is called the king of killing;He is most interested in the fat "pig king" Liu or, and often teases him.Dig a hole in the ground, pour water and mud to make a pigsty.Then he took off Liu Or's clothes and threw them into the pit.Then put the leftovers in the wooden trough, stir up mixed vegetables, let Liu or get on all fours, climb to the wooden trough to eat like a pig.He himself laughed beside him.Once when he was in the mood, he took off Liu Or's clothes, tied his hands and feet left and right, and carried him into the imperial kitchen with a wooden stick, saying that he was killing pigs today.Liu Xiuren saw that Liu's life was at stake, so he smirked and said, "Pigs shouldn't die." Liu Ziye asked him what he was asking, and he said, "It's a pity to kill this pig now. I'll kill it after His Majesty's birthday." Wouldn't it be better for him to take out the liver and lungs?"

(End of this chapter)