Welcome to The History Column No. 1065. The TV series "Qing Ping Le" is popular, and there is a beautiful but stubborn woman in the episode who is very eye-catching, this person is Zhang Meiren, later Zhang Guifei. After her death, she was posthumously honored as empress by Zhao Zhen. Why would a harem woman with low emotional intelligence be so favored?
According to the style of general historical dramas, harem women like this kind of pampering and proud are generally difficult to be spoiled in their lifetime, and the ending is very bad. But Zhang Meiren seems to be a person with a bit of a special case. Song Renzong was very fond of this woman with low emotional intelligence, not only did he not punish her because of her arrogance, but he became more and more pampered, step by step from beauty to noble concubine. It should be known that Zhang Meiren is very jealous, often opposing Empress Cao, and looking for opportunities to embarrass each other from time to time. If you want to say the reason why the officials connived at her, in addition to Zhang's own beauty, it may be that Emperor Zhao Zhen has a penchant for spoiling the temper of a "little woman".
Zhang Meiren's later encounters also exacerbated this obedient personality, because all 3 children she gave birth to died prematurely, and harem experience and jealousy made her think that the death of the child was inevitably related to Empress Cao, so the imbalance of mentality made the other party stumble everywhere. Especially for Zhao Huirou, a peaceful and untroubled princess, it was full of great hostility.
When she became a noble concubine, her position in the harem was close to that of the queen, and for this reason she accelerated the pace of challenging the queen, and even repeatedly intended to design to replace the other party. There was a limit to everything, and the emperor's tolerance was limited. Zhang Guifei's behavior eventually made the emperor unable to look at it, and he withdrew many of her privileges, and even did not allow her to use a red umbrella that showed the status of a harem noble concubine. Zhang Guifei felt the gap in treatment, very sad, and felt that everyone would look down on her.
At this time, Zhang Guifei gradually woke up to the fact that Empress Cao's past "virtuous and virtuous" was tolerant and did not care, in fact, it was in response to the old harem saying that "no dispute is contention". The sophisticated and clever empress did not need to compete for favors by herself at all, and she could stimulate Zhang Guifei to expand boundlessly, gradually moving towards the abyss of making mistakes, making the emperor himself alienate her, thus ensuring the status of Empress Cao, which was not much higher than Zhang Guifei in terms of rank. In other harem history episodes, similar settings are common. But at this time, it was too late to repent, and Zhang Guifei was gradually depressed, but she was powerless to change the situation.
In the end, because of long-term sadness and emotional depression, Zhang Guifei fell ill and died. At this time, the emperor remembered his past love affair and even wanted to posthumously honor this wrong noble concubine with the title of empress. Although no one agreed, Zhao Zhen still did this with an iron heart, which was also a kind of comfort to the dead Zhang Guifei. On this point, even Empress Cao, Zhang Guifei's greatest enemy before her death (the empress was still alive, and it was very strange that the emperor posthumously posthumously created another person) did not dare to say much.