As the saying goes, "Behind a successful man, there is always a great woman." "Because any man who can have no scruples and chase his dreams must have a caring woman behind his back to support him, encourage him, run the whole family for him, and not let him be distracted, if this woman herself is also very capable, she can help him at work."
Throughout China's thousands of years of history, behind many successful emperors and generals, there is also a powerful woman, and even some people rely on the support of their wives to ascend to the throne. However, "success is also Xiao, and what defeat is also Xiao He", the woman can also destroy this man with her own hands. The 2 women I want to talk about today have the same name, but they have completely opposite fates, one has lost the country, and the other has prospered.
The first woman: Yin Lihua
In the 5th year of AD, the famous Yin family of Nanyang Xinye welcomed a baby girl, and her parents named her "Lihua", hoping that her life would be beautiful and gorgeous. Of course, born in such a prominent family, Yin Lihua did not worry about eating and wearing all her life, and the only thing her parents worried about was her marriage.
With the passage of time, Yin Lihua became more and more beautiful, and the people who went to the door to ask for relatives stepped through the threshold, but they failed to hold the beauty back. On the day of the March Three Shangwei Festival, the wind and the sun are beautiful, men and women are wearing new clothes to play outside, Yin Lihua naturally can not miss such a good weather, the beautiful she caught the flying butterflies by the river, this scene, into the eyes of Liu Xiu on the other side.
Liu Xiu was directly fascinated by Yin Lihua, but at this time Liu Xiu was just a farmer, even his brother laughed at him for only doing farming, where it can be seen that he is the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, originally Liu Xiu did not care about this, but heard that the Yin family did not recruit "white-clothed sons-in-law" (idle people, useless people, too ordinary people), in order to marry Yin Lihua, Liu Xiu decided to "fight".
Through the help of her brother-in-law, Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua were alone for a while that day, and they couldn't imagine talking very happily, and Yin Lihua was also very touched by the handsome man in front of him who was "seven feet three inches long and had beautiful eyebrows", and the two fell in love.
I have to say that the power of love is really great, from then on, Liu Xiu desperately sought to study, coinciding with Wang Mang's usurpation of the new dynasty, the world was in chaos, Liu Xiu seized the opportunity, and his brother Liu Yan raised an army, and gradually established his own power.
But Liu Xiu while running, while never forgetting his lover, he took time out of his busy schedule to marry Yin Lihua, protect the Yin family, the couple after marriage is like glue, incomparably loving, but the current state affairs, Liu Xiu had to go, Yin Lihua told him to be careful, she will wait for him at home to return. With the care and support of his wife, Liu Xiu became more and more courageous in battle, and in 25 AD he was proclaimed emperor, known in history as later Han, and Liu Xiu was the emperor of the Han dynasty.
In the following days, the husband and wife are still as loving as ever, Yin Lihua even dared to accompany Liu Xiu into the battlefield, regardless of life and death, usually concerned about the people, integrity and kindness, Liu Xiu sighed: "Elegant and generous, there is the beauty of motherhood!" "Yin Lihua's personality, recognized by all the courtiers and the people, is a rare empress.
Second woman: Zhang Lihua
Compared with the previous Lihua, this Lihua can be described as being scolded to nowhere to hide, when the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty, people even blamed everything on Zhang Lihua, calling her "Red Face Disaster Water", so what did she do?
Zhang Lihua was born in a bing family, but the family has long been defeated, very poor, the family relies on weaving mats for a living, so Zhang Lihua was sent to the palace when she was 10 years old, and her family thought of her entering the palace to do things and help them. With her extraordinary beauty, Zhang Lihua, who was originally only a maid, was favored by the crown prince Chen Shubao, and immediately blessed her, Zhang Lihua gave birth to a son to Chen Shubao, and a few years later gave birth to a son.
The so-called mother by the son of Gui, when Chen Shubao ascended the throne as emperor, Zhang Lihua directly became a noble concubine, she is not only beautiful, but also good at insightful people's hearts, so she has always been deeply loved by Chen Shubao, for her to build a lot of civil engineering, build countless pavilions, just to make her smile. At the same time, Chen Shubao allowed Zhang Lihua to participate in politics and deliberations, allowing her to make many important decisions, and Zhang Lihua's rights became more and more powerful, almost becoming a "female emperor".
Of course, her strength is far from being enough to govern a country well, resulting in all kinds of flatterers taking advantage of the void, colluding inside and outside, introducing each other, bribing the public, and the entire court law and discipline are all in chaos, such a court, a blow, broken. In 589, the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty, and Zhang Lihua was beheaded in public.
References: Book of the Later Han Dynasty, History of the South, Book of Chen