In recent years, due to the prevalence of harem dramas, there is also a hot word on the Internet, called "palace fighting champion". Usually speaking, the women who sit on the throne of the "Palace Fighting Champion" start from the innocent maidens when they enter the palace, and then defeat the enemy step by step, laugh and be proud, and finally become the empress. There are many dynasties that have been used by directors to shoot harem dramas, including Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and so on.
The most attractive place of harem drama is, on the one hand, the antique etiquette, background, and costumes; on the other hand, the beautiful people in the harem, for the throne or true love, use all means to compete, everyone wants to make their son a prince, so today you give me musk, tomorrow I will push you into the water... Under the design of the screenwriter, the audience watched these plots with relish.
If the harem rivalry based on the throne is summed up as a "law", then there is a dynasty in Chinese history that should be the most afraid to make harem dramas, because it perfectly avoids this law. The beauties in the harem of this dynasty basically did not want their sons to be princes, nor did anyone long for having a son, but they were all looking forward to having daughters and holding thousands of gold.
The reason is simple: in this dynasty, before their sons ascend to the throne, they are first made princes, and once their sons are made princes, their biological mothers are executed by the emperor's orders. This rule seems inhumane, in our impression, harem women are usually "mother to son", giving birth to sons to have status, why is this dynasty completely reversed?
Because of the founder of this dynasty, the spirit of learning is too strong. This dynasty is the famous Northern Wei Dynasty, and its founder is named Tuoba Jue. As a Xianbei tribe, the Northern Wei was able to enter the northern part of the Central Plains, entirely because of the chaos of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty fought with the most powerful ethnic minority dynasty in the north, the Great Qin, and both sides were injured, and as a result, the Xianbei found an opportunity to rise and establish the Northern Wei.
In 398, Tuoba Jue was proclaimed emperor and changed the name of the country to "Wei". Tuoba Jue, while marching south to the north, while groping for ways to maintain the stability of the dynasty, finally found that it was unreasonable for the Han people to be able to fix the Central Plains for hundreds of years, their etiquette and system were much more advanced than the Hu people, the Hu system, the small company that managed the tribe was OK, and the large company that managed the dynasty was a bit overwhelmed.
Therefore, Tuoba Jue read a lot of han dynasty history books, and then learned a lot of Han dynasty culture, one by one applied to the rules and regulations of the Northern Wei. He found that the longest-lived emperor of the Han Dynasty (Emperor Wu of Han) had done a special thing, in his later years, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to make his youngest son Liu Fuling the crown prince, but his mother was prosperous, and Emperor Wu of Han was worried about the empress dowager and foreign relatives chaos, so he executed Liu Fuling's mother early.
Reading this, Tuoba Jue couldn't help but clap the case. He thought that Emperor Wudi of Han was really too wise, the Han Dynasty lasted for four hundred years, and there were so many examples of foreign relatives in chaotic politics, was it not because the emperors were not as decisive as Emperor Wudi of Han. Therefore, Tuoba Jue set an iron law for his dynasty: after establishing the candidate for the crown prince, whether his mother was an empress, a concubine or a palace maid, he was executed.
This method can be described as cruel, but the Northern Wei Dynasty has continued. Of course, even if Tuoba Jue could make up his mind, the emperors of later generations would not necessarily be able to make up their minds, so Northern Wei still produced female historical figures such as Empress Dowager Hu (Zi Li did not die, Empress Cheng interfered in politics), Empress Feng (raising the crown prince, and later taking charge of the imperial government), and it can only be said that Tuoba Jue's method is too absolute to be effective for a long time.