Lu Lingxuan, also known as Lu Mi, was a female official of the Northern Qi court, that is, Lu Zhen in the TV series. She was the wife of the Eastern Wei general Luo Chao during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, who was killed for treason, and Lu Lingxuan and his young son were forced into the palace as slaves.
In 550, the Eastern Wei vassal Gao Jia usurped the throne to establish Northern Qi, beginning a 28-year reign of Northern Qi. In 561, Gao Yan died of illness, and his younger brother Gao Zhan succeeded to the throne, and Lu Lingxuan, as the nursing mother of Gao Zhan's son Gao Wei, took good care of him and won the trust of the emperor and empress, and was named a county prince, and a nursing mother was named a county lord, which was an unprecedented honor. Gao Zhan, who placed the throne in Gao Wei's place at the age of 9, indulged in wine and promiscuousness, and died at the age of 32. Lu Lingxuan, as the person most dependent on the little emperor, was named a maid, and his power was also increasing, because the desire for power Lu Lingxuan and Empress Hu at that time gradually formed a contradiction of opposition, and both wanted to control the emperor in their own hands and secretly began to compete for power. They first started with the beautiful women around the emperor, and finally Lu Lingxuan's adopted daughter Lady Mu was made empress, and the empress dowager was also imprisoned because of her "lustful" scandal, and Lu Lingxuan was honored as "Tai Ji", regarded as a pin, ranked above the eldest princess, for which Lu Lingxuan finally became the real master of the harem. Even so, Lu Lingxuan was not satisfied, and extended his claws forward. She cooperated with her son, got rid of a group of disobedient courtiers, accepted a bunch of adulterous courtiers as sons, and finally called the wind and rain in the former harem.
Under the joint efforts of Lu Lingxuan and several generations of Northern Qi emperors, the Northern Qi state went to the end of the road, in 576 AD, Northern Zhou attacked Northern Qi in a big way, the Qi army was defeated and retreated, so that the short-lived dynasty of Northern Qi withdrew from the historical stage, Lu Lingxuan's son also surrendered to Northern Zhou, Lu Lingxuan was powerless to return to heaven and had to draw his sword to kill himself, this is the truth of Lu Lingxuan.
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