Glorious Song Dynasty (Part II, Chapter II, Section III)

? Chapter II My Motherland and My Family

? After the establishment of Cao Cao in the third quarter

Shortly after Queen Guo was abolished, the eunuchs around introduced the rich Chen's daughter to the palace. Yang Guifei likes Chen very much and recognizes her as her adopted daughter. Later, she promised to intercede for Chen and let her be the queen.

When Queen Guo was abolished, Song Shou, who was ordered to take part in politics, wrote down the imperial edict: "Seek virtue and be called Kun Yi" (seek a noble family to dominate the world).

I have deep feelings for Yang Guifei. Seeing that Chen was dignified and lovely, he forgot the letters written by Song Shou before. Yang Yi spoke and immediately acquiesced.

The next day, Zhao Zhen personally took the Gregorian calendar and chose the date in the palace. Yan Shiliang, Yan's adopted son, is also a chamberlain eunuch, who happened to be working around that day. He said to him, "Does this official want to accept Chen's daughter as the queen when he looks at the solar calendar?"

Zhao Zhen was noncommittal, "Hmm!" Let me know.

Yan Shiliang bravely went on to say, "Chen's father is not only a wealthy businessman, but also a servant of a minister." I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the government to accept his daughter as the queen? "

Zhao Zhen heart movement, looking at Yan Shiliang, put his hand in the zodiac, didn't speak.

Yan Shiliang was so clever that he immediately shut up and straightened up.

Soon, the prime minister and other ministers of North Korea knew that the emperor intended to accept Chen's daughter as the queen. Song Shouli immediately went to the palace to remonstrate and said, "Isn't it inconsistent with the previous imperial edict that your majesty regards an imperial secretary as the middle palace?"

A few days later, Wang Zeng, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, entered the palace to play the Song of the Emperor and also advised Zhao Zhen. He agreed: "Song Shou is just like you."

In addition, Cai Qi, the prime minister and a Tang dynasty, tried to persuade Chen not to be a queen. So I made up my mind not to accept Chen as the queen.

1034 September, Zhao Zhen issued a letter and made Cao the queen.

Empress Cao is the granddaughter of Cao Bin, korean king, the daughter of the King of Wu, and the younger sister in the folklore "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea".

Queen Guo was abolished, and Cao Shi was hired into the palace at the age of eighteen. I chose the Queen and wavered between Chen and Cao Shi for some time. Thanks to the minister's intervention, Cao Shi finally won.

1 1 month, the court held a ceremony to canonize Cao Zhi, and Cao Zhi officially became the empress of Cao Zhi.

Empress Cao's experience is very interesting. She was married once before she entered the palace, but the groom ran over the wall on their wedding night. I don't know why. It seems that the groom's vision is very prescient, and the emperor's woman can't move!

It should be noted that before the prevalence of Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, the attitude of society towards women at that time was more tolerant and humane. Otherwise, Zhao Zhen would never let his second wife become a queen.

Before Yuan Dynasty, women's marriage and love were relatively loose. It was only after the Southern Song Dynasty, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, that Zhu's Neo-Confucianism was pushed to the extreme, saying that "starvation is a trivial matter, dishonor is a major matter", which bound women's thoughts to the bottom and entered a dark world.

However, it is not completely without influence. Maybe it's the second marriage of Queen Cao, or maybe it's the reason why she looks ordinary. Zhao Zhen doesn't love Queen Cao.

However, Empress Cao is virtuous and virtuous. Attach importance to agricultural work, often grow rice in the back garden of the palace, raise silkworms personally, and be good at flying white calligraphy. In a word, empress Cao is a generation of sages, and I will talk about it in detail later.

In addition, Queen Guo was named the "Royal Scenic Temple" by Zhao Zhen and lived in Hua Yao Palace. Hua Yao Palace and Dongzhen Palace, known as temple sites, are actually special prisons for female prisoners of the Song Dynasty.

Soon, Guo was named "the leader of Jinting and the owner of Chongjing Garden", with a high name. After calming down, he always felt that it was impulsive to abolish the Guo family, and he often missed the Guo family.

One day, I went to the backyard for fun and suddenly saw the sedan chair of the old queen of the Guo family. He couldn't help feeling sad. He wrote a poem "Celebrating Golden Branches" and sent Xiao Huangmen (the eunuch who just entered the palace) to the Guo family. And sent a message: "I'll call you back to the palace in a few days."

Guo was very excited and wrote a poem to sing with, which was also very sad. A few days later, the chamberlain was ordered to call the Guo family to the palace with a gentle attitude, but the Guo family said to the visitors in a dog-like manner, "If your majesty wants to summon me, he must set up a new class in front of the officials!"

At this point, Zhao Zhen has married Cao Shi as the queen. How can he promise Guo's request to restore Guo's throne?

Zhao Zhen listened to the return of the chamberlain, which made him dull. After hearing the news, Yan set off a storm in her heart, fearing that Guo would regain power and his bad luck would come.

It happened that Guo got a slight illness at this time. Ordered to take a medical officer to treat Guo.

A few days later, in response to the report, the Guo family suddenly fell apart. It was 1035 1 1 month, and Guo Cai was 24 years old. Guo died suddenly, and there were some doubts inside and outside the palace and the court. Maybe Yan did something from it.

The admonisher Wang asked to interrogate the medical officer and investigate Guo's death. Zhao Zhen didn't approve it, but he was deeply saddened and regretted. In the first month of the following year, Guo Fu was the queen, without posthumous title, and the ancestral temple was not enshrined, and was buried in Fengxian Temple.

Because of willfulness, Guo got the box lunch in advance and bid farewell to the lively stage.

Seasoning: Why did Queen Guo suddenly die? The Biography of Guo in the Song Dynasty records: "Chinese and foreign people suspect that they should be poisoned, but they are not." This means that Yan Wen is suspected of poisoning, and there is no definite evidence. However, the Biography of Yan Wen in Song Dynasty clearly pointed out that "since Renzong repented of abolishing Guo, he should be afraid of the restoration. There was a slight illness after the meeting, which was treated by the doctor for a few days. It is sudden death after the speech, and the real text should be it. " This means confirming what Yan Wen should have done wrong. Inconsistency between Song and history is common.

Analyzing it, The Biography of Yan Wenying is full of loopholes and can't stand scrutiny. When Guo was ill, Li Caoshi became the queen for nearly a year. How can he restore Guo's status as queen?

Sima Guang's Sushui Story gives a comprehensive description of the death of Queen Guo:

Yan was shocked when she heard that she was going to recall the Guo family. It's just that Guo Sheng is ill, and the medical officer should be deliberately given medicine to cause Guo's illness, but Guo's illness is getting more and more serious. A few days later, he was dying, but he didn't die.

It was reported that the Guo family had no medicine to cure, and they ordered people to collect the body in coffins. The admonisher Wang said, "Guo was not completely dead when he died. The chamberlain prepared the coffin a few days ago, and Guo's death was very suspicious. We should have a good trial, for Guo Pingfan! "

Zhao Zhen didn't listen, but buried the Guo family in the Buddhist temple with the queen's etiquette.