Princess Yuyang of the Eastern Han Dynasty is also a person with a super desire for power.
Princess Yuyang's father is called Liu Yi, and you may not have much impression when you hear this name alone, but if you mention the triangular relationship between Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, Empress Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, you will immediately watch the drama.
After Liu Xiu became emperor, the first queen was Guo Shengtong, and the first prince was Liu Yi. Later, Guo Shengtong was deposed, Yin Lihua became the second queen, and Liu Yi's position as the crown prince was naturally not kept. Although Yin Lihua and her son Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty are very generous and did not trouble Liu Yi, Liu Yi's situation must be very embarrassing, and he must be cautious everywhere.
Princess Yuyang is the daughter of Liu Yi, that is, the daughter of the abolished prince, and she must be inferior, but Princess Yuyang does not accept her fate. She has always hated Yin Lihua and Emperor Ming of Han for robbing her father of the crown prince, and she is holding back the fire in her heart, and she must return to the top of power.
Princess Yuyang is a woman, so she definitely can't be the emperor. Wu Zetian of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not born yet, no one gave her a sample, and her ambition was not so big. She thought, I can't be the emperor myself, so I'll marry my daughter to the emperor. When the daughter becomes the queen and becomes the queen mother in the future, the world is still up to us.
In order to achieve her goal, she married Dou Xun and gave birth to four sons and two daughters, and then said to her daughter if she had nothing to do, you will enter the palace as a mother in the future, and give birth to the prince as soon as possible, and then help the prince to the position of the prince, we will be done. She also told her sons to study hard, but the purpose of studying was not to protect the family and the country, but to become the support of her sister.
However, no matter how perfect the plan is, there will always be twists and turns in its implementation. Her husband Dou Xun is a child of a family, and the original family was very powerful. But after Princess Yuyang got married, the Dou family was dismissed for committing a crime. A few years later, Dou Xun was arrested for breaking the law and died in prison.
was originally the daughter of the abolished prince, although she was a princess and had authentic royal blood, but the imperial power had nothing to do with them. Now that her husband's family is over, Princess Yuyang is a person with the title of princess, and she has no strength and connections. Under such conditions, how could she send her daughter to the palace and become a queen?
Princess Yuyang came up with a good idea, which was to build momentum. She found a large number of physiognomy practitioners to enter Beijing and asked them to show her daughter's face. These people all say that the eldest daughter of Princess Yuyang is unspeakably expensive. In ancient times, it was said that a woman was unspeakably expensive, didn't she just become a queen?
After successfully building momentum, Princess Yuyang began to drill the camp. At that time, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty had died, and the person on the throne was Emperor Zhang of Han, and the Empress Dowager was the adoptive mother of Emperor Zhang of Han. Princess Yuyang did what she liked and was courteous to the Queen Mother. Under careful maintenance, the relationship between the two is as close as that of mother and daughter.
The foreplay was done, and Princess Yuyang took her daughter into the palace to meet the Empress Dowager Ma. Empress Ma was very satisfied, and Emperor Han Zhang also felt that it was okay to look at it, she was good-looking and had an indescribable reputation, and she was a relative. That's it, you're the queen.
As a result, Empress Zhang Dedou, who is famous in history, appeared.
This Queen Dou is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp. When she entered the palace as the queen, Emperor Zhang of Han already had a crown prince. In order to seize power, she framed the prince's biological mother, Song Guiren, for being tired of winning in the palace, and let her brother search for the sins of the Song nobles outside the palace.
In the end, Song Guiren was expelled from the palace and committed suicide by drinking medicine. The crown prince was deposed, and Empress Dou's adopted son Liu Zhao was made the new crown prince.
However, it's not over yet. Liu Zhao is just the adopted son of Queen Dou, and his biological mother Liang Guiren is still alive. And Liang Guiren and the others are sisters, and they all entered the palace, even if one is killed, the other is troublesome. In order to completely control the crown prince in her hands, Empress Dou wanted to defeat these two nobles and their families.
She sent someone to frame Liang Guiren's father Liang Zhu for rebellion, and instructed the cool officials to torture Liang Zhu, and finally Liang Zhu was unjustly killed in prison, the Liang family was exiled, and the two Liang nobles in the palace were killed by her.
Although these things were all done by Queen Dou, she was in her early twenties, and she probably didn't have such a vicious mind, and she couldn't come up with such an interlocking plan. Therefore, the mastermind behind all this must be Queen Dou's mother, Princess Yuyang.
A few years later, Emperor Zhang of Han died, and the nine-year-old crown prince Liu Ji ascended the throne, that is, Emperor He of Han. Empress Dou was successfully promoted to Empress Dowager Dou, because the emperor was young, and Empress Dowager Dou was the regent of the dynasty.
The daughter became the queen mother, and Princess Yuyang's wish many years ago became a reality. She herself is in power, and the Dou family will rise immediately. Her four sons all held important positions in the imperial court, especially the eldest son Dou Xian, who defeated the Northern Xiongnu in the Battle of Jiluo Mountain and achieved the merit of "Le Shi Yanran". The Dou family was in the limelight for a while.
After Dou Xian returned to Beijing, Princess Yuyang was crowned as the eldest princess, increased the number of Tang Muyi by 3,000 households, and served the king of Tongfan. Guo Shengtong's nephew Guo Huang held an important position in the court, and his nephew Guo Ju could freely enter and leave the court, and was deeply liked by the Empress Dowager Dou.
Then, they swelled.
After Guo Shengtong was deposed, his son Liu Yi accepted his fate and was cautious all his life, but Liu Yi's children and grandchildren all refused to accept his fate. Liu Yi's daughter, Princess Yuyang, wanted to dominate the world, and her nephew Guo Ju wanted to use the power of Empress Dowager Dou to murder Emperor Han He. One does not admit defeat than the other.
But Emperor Han He was not a fool, they had not yet executed the plan, Emperor Han He knew about it, and made the first move. Guo Ju himself, along with his parents and children, were all imprisoned and executed, and three of Princess Yuyang's four sons were forced to commit suicide, including Dou Xian, and Empress Dowager Dou lost power from then on. Princess Yuyang lives with her youngest son Dou Gui.
A few years later, Empress Dowager Dou died. The Liang family, who was mutilated by the Empress Dowager Dou before, wrote to the emperor, saying that you were not born to the Empress Dowager Dou, and your mother was a Liang noble, who was killed by the Empress Dowager Dou. We are your relatives and have been exiled for years.
When Emperor Han and Emperor heard this, there was such a thing? After finding out the truth, they were furious, and the Dou clan was completely finished. After Liang Guiren's family returned to Beijing, they forced Princess Yuyang's youngest son to death.
Princess Yuyang, who was once the most powerful in the world, has nothing left. It's really time for retribution.