During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, after the division of Northern Wei, it was divided into Western Wei and Eastern Wei, and Western Wei held the land west of Luoyang in Northern Wei, and built a capital in Chang'an, which was geographically located in the west of Eastern Wei, so it was called Western Wei. The founding emperor of Western Wei was Emperor YuanBaoju of Wei, and after Yuwen Tai killed Emperor Xiaowu, Yuan Baoju, the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen, was proclaimed emperor by Yuwen Tai, but the military and state affairs were managed by Yuwen Tai, who controlled the real power, and Yuan Baoju only ruled with his hands, and the relationship between the monarch and the subject was very delicate.
Although Yuwen Tai held the actual military and political power, Yuan Baoju still cooperated with him tacitly, because Yu Wentai did have the ability to govern, change the official system, rule by virtue, reform su and others, create prefectural soldiers, adopt and attack the south with the north, make the Western Wei further stronger, and lay the foundation for the northern Zhou to unify northern China and the Sui Dynasty to unify China. And Yuan Baoju's record in the Book of Wei is "frivolous and thin, and the wine is obscene." "Therefore, it is better for the power to be controlled by this powerful minister Yuwen Tai, and history has also verified this."
Yuan Baoju had not only one powerful minister, he also had a powerful woman, Empress Yifu. YiFushi, born in 510 AD, a native of Luoyang, Henan, her ancestor was the chief of Tuguhun, who lived in Qinghai, known as the King of Qinghai, and after the surrender of Liangzhou, her great-grandfather took the tribe to submit to the imperial court, and was appointed as the Assassin of Dingzhou and the Duke of Xiping. That is to say, from this generation onwards, three consecutive generations of his family's descendants have married princesses of the State of Wei, and naturally most of the women of the Wei family have become princesses, so the power of the Wei family is still possible in the middle of the dynasty.
Yi Fu's father was named Yi, Guan Yi Tong Sansi, Yanzhou Assassin History, and his mother was Princess Huaiyang Chang, the fourth daughter of Emperor Xiaowen, so Yi Fu clan had a good origin, she herself was also very beautiful, but rarely spoke and laughed. Her parents thought that the daughter was peculiar, and thought that such a daughter was no less than a man.
Sure enough, the fifteen-year-old YiFushi was chosen by Emperor Wen of Wei as a concubine, at this time Yuan Baoju had not yet been proclaimed emperor, the two were a loving couple, in 535 AD, the first year of the unification, Yuan Baoju took the throne, made Yuan Baoju empress, and made their son Yuan Qin the crown prince. In this way, it seems that Yuan Baoju still likes this empress quite much, has the friendship of green plum bamboo horses, and has the experience of sharing happiness and hardship.
Yi Fushi is low-key and humble, dignified and generous, simple and frugal, from the past as a princess, and later became an empress, but she eats and wears extremely simple, does not like extravagance and waste, eats general vegetables and grains, wears ordinary old clothes, she does not like to wear gold and silver, nor does she like Ayara silk, as an empress, she is kind and magnanimous.
She was not jealous of Emperor Xinna's concubines and got along with them in harmony, so the harem did not make a miasma, but was governed by her in an orderly manner, such an empress was competent, virtuous and dignified, so that the emperor no longer needed to worry about the harem, the two had a deep affection, and Yuan Baoju respected her very much. The two were married for fifteen years, and a total of twelve women were born, most of whom died prematurely, and only survived two sons, the prince and the king of Wudu.
At that time, the northern nomadic Leader OfeHan repeatedly invaded the northern border of Western Wei, and Considering that Western Wei had just established a new capital in the Zhongguan region and had friction with Eastern Wei, and now it was not suitable to fight with Rouran, he thought of using marriage to appease the First Soldier Khan, first asking Yuan Baoju to make the daughter of Yuan Yi of the Shuren Yuanyi a princess of Huazheng, and let her marry Tahan, the younger brother of the First Soldier Khan, and then asked the emperor to depose Empress Yifu and marry Princess Ruoran Yujiulu as empress.
In order to save Yi Fushi from persecution, Yuan Baoju asked her to leave the palace and become a nun, but Yu Jiulu was extremely jealous and arrogant, and was very dissatisfied when he knew that Yi Fushi was still living in the capital. Yuan Baoju then appointed Yi Fushi's son Wudu Wang Yuanwu as the Assassin of Taizhou, and asked her to follow her son to the place where she was appointed, still as a nun, but she could bring her hair to practice, which meant that Yuan Baoju was still reading Yi Fushi, which was a short-lived plan for the country's grand plan, and he would bring Yi Fushi back in the future.
Even so, Rouran still wanted to send troops to invade Wei Territory, and the vanguard troops had already passed through Xia prefecture, when there were rumors that the Khan had raised the army for his daughter, and in order to block the mouths of the Yoyo crowd, Yuan Baoju could only send the Zhongchang attendant Cao Pet to send his handwritten edict to Yi Fushi and let her commit suicide.
When Yi Fushi learned the news that she was going to be given death, she did not panic, but calmly treated it, and said a sentence before dying: "If I die, I can exchange my life for the emperor to live for ten million years, and the world can be safe, it is worth it, I will not have any resentment." Before she died, she left a message for her two sons, and the listeners were so sad that they did not dare to look at her and wept bitterly. When everything was taken care of, she went inside and pressed herself to death with a quilt, only thirty-one years old at the time of her death.
Yuan Baoju was grateful for everything the empress had given, and after he built the mausoleum, he personally wrote that after ten thousand years, he would sacrifice the Yifu clan, and the ministers also commemorated the empress, proposing to posthumously honor the Yifu clan as "Empress Wen", attached to the Taimiao Temple, and finally their sons succeeded to the throne, and buried the Yifu clan and the Yuanbao torch together in the Yongling Tomb.