In the long history of ancient China, there were countless emperors. And because of the emperors' three palaces and six courtyards, their concubines can be said to be countless. Just as the so-called ''the forest is big and there are birds'', with a huge base number as a support, the concubines of the emperors are naturally tall, fat, thin, and thin.
Among the many imperial princesses and concubines, those from foreign countries are not absent, because in history, foreign conquests or foreign countries took the initiative to pay tribute, and many foreign women were sent to the emperor's harem.
For example, Liu Xun, the descendant of the Southern Han Dynasty, was once a Persian woman, black-fated and wise, and good at adultery. The emperors of many other dynasties are said to have more or less foreign concubines. Among the many foreign concubines, most of them are from the Korean Peninsula, because they are not far from the Central Plains Dynasty, and the second is from ancient times, they are the vassals of the Central Plains, and they often need to pay tribute.
If you want to say that the best of the Korean concubines, the author believes that it is the Qi Empress of the Yuanshun Emperor, then, why is it said that the Qi Empress is a historical sinner, and she really likes the Yuanshun Emperor?
In the second year of Emperor Woninjong's reign (1315), Empress Qi was born in Gyeongju, Goryeo, in the area of present-day Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and her father was a Goryeo nobleman and headquarters of Sanlang Qizi'ao, so she was also known as Empress Qi. Empress Qi was already famous in Gyeongju because of her good looks when she was young, and later the Goryeo Kingdom sought a beautiful girl to dedicate to the Yuan Dynasty and chose her.
Empress Qi was originally only a tea palace maid who offered tea to Emperor Yuanshun, but because of her beauty, she was fortunate to be blessed, coupled with her "sexual beauty", that is, she was clever and cunning, so she gradually gained the favor of Emperor Shun. As Empress Qi's grace grew, the then Empress Chinchadana was very jealous when she learned of it, so she "counted the insults", that is, whipped her many times. However, Chinchadana was soon expelled from the palace and poisoned by his rebellious brother.
In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1335), Emperor Yuanshun saw that the first empress was dead, and he wanted to establish his beloved Qishi as the queen.
At that time, the important minister Boyan believed that Qi Shi was from a palace girl, and her status was too low, making it difficult for her to be an empress.
Emperor Shun had always obeyed Bo Yan, so he had to give up. In the end, Emperor Shun's daughter Boyan Kudu was made empress, and the Qi clan was given the title of 'Second Empress',' although in fact she was still a concubine, but she could be called empress when she was called.
Because When Emperor Shun wanted to canonize himself, Boyan strongly discouraged her, Empress Qi held a grudge in her heart, so she constantly blew the pillow wind in Emperor Shun's ear, saying that Boyan was arbitrary and arbitrary, and the power was tilted toward the opposition. By the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1340), Emperor YuanShun overthrew Boyan and demoted him to Yangchun County, Nan'en Prefecture, located in present-day Yangchun, Guangdong, where he fell ill and died.
Because she gave birth to two sons for Emperor Shun, Empress Qi was even more loved by Emperor Shun, and when her people who were far away in Goryeo heard about it, they did not even pay attention to the King of Goryeo and even said that they wanted to replace him, and as a result, the King of Goryeo was furious and killed all of Empress Qi's father and brother.
Empress Qi broke with Goryeo and instigated her eldest son, Aiyo Zhili Dala, to attack Goryeo when he grew up, and the war ended in the defeat of the Yuan Dynasty.
In order to gain greater power, Empress Qi found a eunuch park Buhua, who was also from Goryeo, and the two of them worked together to eliminate all the forces that were dissatisfied with themselves, and slowly, the power of the harem alone could no longer satisfy Empress Qi, and she even wanted to force Emperor Yuanshun to abdicate and let her son Aiyu Zhili Dara succeed to the throne and become empress dowager herself.
In order to better complete this coup, Empress Qi found the then chancellor Taiping, who was unwilling to cooperate and accused her of rebellion. After Being rejected, Empress Qi began to frame Taiping, and as a result, Taiping followed in Boyan's footsteps and was exiled and executed. In the twenty-fifth year of Zhengzheng (1365), empress Dowager Boyan Kudu died, and Empress Qi was given the Mongolian name Su Lianghe Kudu by Emperor Shun, and was made the new empress at the end of the year.
She finally became empress at the age of nearly fifty, but Empress Qi did not have time to enjoy it, and only three years later, the Ming army attacked Dadu like a bamboo, and the Yuan Dynasty was declared dead. After this, Emperor YuanShun fled north with Empress Qi and other nobles to Hala and Lin in present-day Mongolia and established the Northern Yuan regime. In the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), Empress Qi died, and the following year, Emperor Yuanshun followed suit, and their eldest son Ai youzhi LiDala succeeded to the throne as Emperor Zhaozong of Yuan.
The reason why later generations will say that Queen Qi is a historical sinner is actually because of her main mistakes:
First, she instigated her eldest son to requisition Goryeo and to work hard and hurt the people;
Second, she excluded dissidents from the palace and the court, and suppressed many capable ministers;
Third, she killed two important ministers, Boyan and Taiping, which directly led to a decline in the level of governance of the imperial court.
In short, Empress Qi played some negative role in the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, not only with the officials and eunuchs, but also in the politics of the dynasty, which indirectly led to the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.
As for whether Empress Qi really liked Emperor Yuanshun, the author believes that in this special environment in the ancient palace, the only object that concubines can rely on is the emperor, and judging from Empress Qi's attempt to force Emperor Shun to abdicate, the probability that she really likes him is not high.