She was a juggler who was attracted by the prince and raised outside the palace for more than ten years. She had no heirs but was made a queen and almost became the second Wu Zetian. Recently, "Meng Hua Lu" starring the fairy sister Liu Yifei and the handsome young boy Chen Xiao

She was a juggler who was attracted by the prince and raised outside the palace for more than ten years. She had no heirs but was made a queen, and she almost became the second Wu Zetian .

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Today we tell the story of Song Zhenzong’s queen, Liu E.

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This drama begins with the Northern Song Dynasty spy organization Imperial City Division being ordered to find a painting. According to the play, this painting called "Night Banquet" actually depicts the queen of the dynasty serving officials and entertaining guests in her early years. In fact, people in the court have been secretly rumoring that the queen was a lowly singer in her early years. The appearance of this painting directly proves that this rumor is true.

This is not bad. You must know that the Queen's origin is a closely guarded topic and has been banned by the court. Now both the faction opposing the queen and the faction supporting the queen sent people to search for the whereabouts of the painting.

In the play, the queen Liu Wan who worked as a lowly singer is based on the queen Liu E of Song Zhenzong we are going to talk about today.

Speaking of Liu E, everyone feels unfamiliar, but when it comes to the story "The Civet Cat Exchanges for the Prince", almost all Chinese people know something about it. Liu E is the prototype of the villain in this play.

"The Civet Cat for the Prince" is a drama that appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. The story tells that during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Empress Liu and Empress Li were both pregnant in the harem. The emperor was very happy and asked the two people, who would give birth to the prince? Whoever is made the queen, the child will also be made the prince.

Concubine Liu has a bad character, is jealous, and is cruel and vicious. She is afraid that the Empress Li who gave birth to her first will take away her good things. He conspired with the eunuch leader. After Empress Li gave birth, she replaced the newborn child with a skinned civet cat, and asked her maids to take the newborn prince out of the palace, strangle him, and throw it away.

When the emperor saw how Li Empress gave birth to a monster, he was shocked and angry, and sent her to the cold palace. Empress Liu's maid here couldn't bear to do something to the newborn prince, so she secretly handed him over to someone else. Then she lied to Empress Liu and said that she had taken care of the child according to your instructions.

Empress Liu later gave birth to a son as she wished. She was also made a queen, and her son was made a prince. It seemed that she got everything she wanted.

But who knew that God’s calculations were not as good as those of God, and Empress Liu’s son died when he was less than six years old. The emperor had no choice but to adopt a child from his brother's family and make him the prince. In fact, this child was the child that civet cat replaced.

After Liu Niangniang learned the truth, she wanted to kill Li Niangniang to silence her. Li Niangniang escaped with the help of others and made a living by begging. It was not until she met Bao Qingtian Bao Zheng that the unjust case was vindicated. Mother and son were reunited, but Empress Liu also committed suicide out of fear of crime.

This is the story of "The Civet Cat Exchanges for the Prince". In fact, compared with historical facts, most of the content in this story is interpretation. According to the time in the play, Bao Zheng had just won the Jinshi at that time and did not have that much energy. Moreover, Liu E had never given birth to a baby in her life. One man and half a woman, this is obviously made up.

In fact, Liu E is a woman with a very long life span. She went from a poor and humble singer on the street to the mother of the country. This process is not too inspiring.

She comes from a very humble background, not even considered an ordinary family. She is from Sichuan, a beautiful Sichuan girl . Her parents died young, and she got married when she was 12 or 3 years old. Her husband is a craftsman named Gong Mei, who works as a silversmith.

The history books say that her ancestor was an official, and her grandfather and father were officials. These are all unbelievable. They were filters added to her by historians later. She was most likely an underfed person. rural girl.

Historians in history love to do such things, like Emperor Wu of Han is the reincarnation of a red pig, Li Shimin his family is the descendant of Lao Tzu, Zhu Yuanzhang was born after his mother took the elixir given by the immortal Damn it, there are a lot of such things in the history books. This is to emphasize the divine right of kings, or to say that this person was born in a noble family and should be rich and powerful. Just listen to this statement, but it is not true.

Having said that, because the young couple Liu E was in distress in Sichuan, just like the young people today who travel to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to look for opportunities, they came to Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty , to seek life.

She must have never imagined that this decision would change the lives of two people.

After arriving in Bianjing, her husband Gong Mei still worked as a silversmith in his old bank, making some gold and silver jewelry and making handicrafts to support the family. It is not easy for a poor and humble couple to live alone, so Liu E also has to find a living in the public eye. She is good at playing drums and often performs on the street to supplement the family income.

Later, maybe it was because life was really difficult, or maybe he had other plans. Anyway, Gong Mei sent his daughter-in-law to an official's house to be a maid. Some people said that he just sold his daughter-in-law, and slaves could be bought and sold at that time.

This official is called Zhang Qi, and he is a subordinate of Song ZhenzongZhao Heng. At that time, Zhao Heng was just a prince. Somehow he heard that Sichuan girls are passionate and capable, so he wanted to find a Sichuan girl to accompany him. Of course Zhang Qi was willing to serve his master, so he bought Liu E and dedicated it to him.

After Zhao Heng got Liu E, he felt like he had found a treasure, and for a while they were inseparable.

Once, Song Taizong summoned his son to the palace for a meeting. He found that Zhao Heng looked gloomy and was in low spirits, so he asked Zhao Heng's nurse what was going on. Normally, the nanny always loved Zhao Heng as her own son. She didn't want Zhao Heng to be bewildered by a country girl like Liu E, so she went all out to complain to Taizong about Liu E.

Song Taizong was furious when he heard that his son was so obsessed with a lowly married woman that he looked haggard. How unbecoming was this? He ordered Zhao Heng to send Liu E away immediately.

Zhao Heng did not dare to disobey the emperor's order, but he was reluctant to let go of Liu E. After much thought, he came up with a way to secretly hide Liu E in his subordinate Zhang Qi's house so that he could go on dates from time to time. Of course Zhang Qi did not dare to neglect, and served him delicious food and drinks. In order to avoid suspicion, he even found a place to live outside and did not dare to go home again.

Although the two of them were truly in love, Zhao Heng had to marry his wife and take a concubine according to the emperor's father's wishes. However, he did not forget Liu E who was hiding in someone else's house and would visit her from time to time.

From a woman's point of view, it is really not easy for Liu E. It is the same as being raised in an outer room by others.

Like " Dream of Red Mansions " Jia Lian Second Sister You, who was raised outside, was still a concubine after all, and Liu E didn't even have the title of concubine. It doesn't matter if the time is short, just bite the bullet and pass. Who would have thought that Liu E stayed at Zhang Qi's house for 15 years. In the past 15 years, she had no status, nor had she given birth to a boy or a girl. She stayed alone in other people's homes. Who could bear this situation? How many 15 years does a woman have?

But Liu E was not noisy at all. She was patient and patient. During the 15 years of seclusion, she read a lot of books, gained a wide range of knowledge, and built her own inner world bit by bit.

I remember that there is a 10,000-hour theory in success studies, which means that in any field, as long as you work hard for 10,000 hours, you will achieve something. I did some calculations and found that if I use an average of 4 hours a day and persist for 15 years, it will exceed 20,000 hours. Even if it cannot be completely transformed, it should be no problem to renew it.

It took Liu E 15 years to become a brand new self.

Therefore, I think that even if she is a woman who is raised outside like Jia Lian's Second Sister You, if she enters Jia's house and faces Sister Feng, she will definitely not be killed by Sister Feng, and she will be with Sister Feng. If she's upfront, she won't necessarily lose.

When Liu E was 30 years old, Song Taizong died and Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, known as Song Zhenzong in history.After he succeeded to the throne, he established a queen, sealed his concubines, and brought her back to the palace after being raised outside. The two finally no longer had to be secretive and could be together openly. Two things can be seen from this. First, Zhao Heng is not a heartless person, and second, Liu E is attractive enough. You know, she was already 30 years old at the time.

She was the oldest among the concubines, but Zhenzong always favored her. First she was named a beauty, and then she was promoted continuously. At the age of 36, she was named a first-class concubine, second only to the queen.

A 36-year-old woman can still be considered a young person today, but in the Song Dynasty, this age was reserved for the grandmothers.

all say that men are actually very specific. No matter how old they are, they only like young and beautiful women. In the face of true love, Song Zhenzong broke this rule. Of course, this also shows that Liu E is really not an ordinary woman.

A few years later, Song Zhenzong's first queen, Guo, died. Zhenzong wanted to make Liu E his queen, but he encountered opposition from the ministers headed by Kou Zhun. Kou Zhun requested that the noble-born Shen be made his queen. , Song Zhenzong refused without even thinking about it. The two sides were in a stalemate, and Zhenzong simply left the queen's position vacant without compromising.

At this time, the hatred between Kou Zhun and Liu E was forged, which paved the way for Kou Zhun to be demoted to old age and die on the border.

What did Liu E do in order to become queen? Whose hand did she borrow to get rid of Kou Zhun? We will talk about it in the next episode.

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