In 1032 AD, the biological mother of Song Renzong who guarded the tomb in Yongding Tomb , Song Renzong, , died in loneliness. Regarding her treatment after her death, the Empress Dowager , Liu E, said lightly that it was just a palace person who died, just bury it.
Prime Minister Lu Yijian could not stand it anymore. Regardless of Liu E's anger, he tried his best to persuade Liu E to be buried with a generous concubine, and said that Liu E would be grateful for his suggestions in the future, so Liu E reluctantly treated the funeral with a first-class courtesy.
However, although Liu E, who was uncomfortable, compromised, decided not to go out of the palace gate to mourn, but to demolish the palace wall, which meant that the treatment behind Li Chenfei was still lowered. Lu Yijian insisted again before going out of the Xihua Gate.
Lu Yijian secretly found Liu E's confidant Luo Chongxun to explain his interests, and once again increased the treatment of Concubine Li Chen, buried him with the queen's ceremony, and used a solid coffin with a mercury coffin. Only then did Song Renzong's biological mother barely get the treatment she deserved.
Then, as the biological mother of Song Renzong, why did Li Chenfei not be respected as the queen mother, but instead guard the tomb for Song Zhenzong ?
Let’s put it this way, Concubine Li is the prototype of Concubine Li in the folk legend “The Crown Cat Changes to the Prince”.
Speaking of which, she was a miserable woman. At first, she was a maid of Liu E. Liu E was favored by Song Zhenzong and wanted to make her the queen, but her family background was not prominent. She was suppressed by her father-in-law, Taizong of Song and had no descendants yet, so the ministers strongly opposed her as queen.
Therefore, Liu E and Song Zhenzong played a trick to give birth to a child through their womb, and served Song Zhenzong with their maid Li. Soon after, they became pregnant and gave birth to the later Song Renzong Zhao Zhen . Liu E claimed that this was for her and was raised by Yang Shufei .
Liu E is a person with a strong desire for power. She can be regarded as version of Wu Zetian . She used Song Zhenzong's favor to become the queen, and she abducted power during Zhenzong's serious illness. After Song Renzong ascended the throne, Liu E was upgraded to the empress, and was promoted to the throne and was promoted to , and she took control of the power.
Liu E has always wanted to imitate Wu Zetian and became emperor, and has conducted many tests.
For example, in the second year of Tiansheng, she wanted to be honored in Tian'an Palace and enjoy the treatment of the emperor, but the second prime minister had strongly opposed it and had to change it to be accepted in Wende Hall.
At the beginning of the reign of the dynasty, Liu E said that when Song Renzong grew up, he returned to power. As a result, in the sixth year of Tiansheng, Renzong was 19 years old, and she had no intention of returning power. The censor Liu Sui just asked Renzong to handle daily affairs, but was expelled from the court by Liu E.
What's even more outrageous is that Liu E also made two preparations. According to the biography of Lu Yijian of the Song Dynasty, Liu E also raised the sons of the kings in the palace, as if she was intending to replace Song Renzong. If Renzong, who had grown up, was disobedient, then she would really be obedient.
At the same time, he also crazily tested the minister's meaning, and asked him how to view Wu Zetian when he asked him how to view Wu Zetian, and he was retorted: "The sinner of the Tang Dynasty is, how many people are in danger of the country" .
also wanted to build the seven temples of the Liu family according to the emperor's specifications, but it was opposed by Lu Zongdao.
In this case, Liu E could only give up her Wu Zetian dream, and she could only wear the Emperor's robe and wear to spend the emperor's addiction when she was sacrificing to the Taimiao. And when a minister presented the "Picture of Empress Wu's Reign to the Dynasty" to test her, he hypocritically said that he would not proclaim himself emperor and would not do anything to sorry for his ancestors.
On the other side, Song Renzong's biological mother, Li, had no sense of existence and was jealous of Liu E. Therefore, although he gave birth to an emperor, he did not have a mother who was noble for his son. Even Song Renzong did not know that his biological mother was Li.
Li did not make a fuss, but she was obedient. After all, she could not beat Liu E. She was promoted to Talent, Wanyi, Shunrong, but she was just an ordinary concubine. After the death of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, he was sent to Yongding Tomb to guard the tomb.
In 1032 AD, the year before Liu E's death, Li fell ill. Liu E sent her confidant Zhang Huaide and imperial physician Yang Kejiu and others to treat it. As a result, the more he was treated, Li died of illness at the age of 46. Before her death, Liu E promoted her to Concubine .
Reference Later, Zhang Huaide and the Imperial Doctor Yang Kejiu and others treated Li's illness. After Song Renzong took power, they were demoted, which shows that there was indeed something wrong with Li's death.
It is very likely that Liu E knew her life would be shortly there. She was afraid that after her death, the truth that Li was the biological mother of Song Renzong would be made public, and that her name would be suppressed after her death, so she "sent" Li away in advance.
Although Liu E did not become Wu Zetian of the Song Dynasty, she still did not give up and wanted to continue the harem's interfering in politics and rule the dynasty. At the end of her death, she even ordered Song Renzong to respect Concubine Yang Shu as the empress dowager and wanted to continue to control the dynasty with Concubine Yang Shu.
This is unprecedented. The emperor has always been the emperor who pursued the honor of his biological mother or adopted mother as the empress dowager. This is the first time that the empress dowager appointed his concubine of his generation as the empress dowager at the end of his life.
However, Liu E did too much, and the ministers naturally disagreed. In the end, although Song Renzong appointed her as the queen mother in order to thank Concubine Yang Shu for his raising, he did not let her interfere in politics.
After Song Renzong took power, his uncle Zhao Yuanyan told him that your biological mother was Li, and he died inexplicably. Renzong was very sad and sad.
At this time, Liu E's family's Liu clan was in danger. The sad Song Renzong once wanted to destroy the Liu clan and sent troops to surround the Liu clan's mansion.
However, the benefits of Lu Yijian's layout at that time were revealed. Song Renzong went to Hongfuyuan to pay homage to his biological mother. He opened the coffin and wanted to see his mother. He found that Li's jade color was as beautiful as a life, and his crown and clothes were like the empress dowager. He raised it with mercury, so it was not bad, which was very touched.
In this way, there was no such great hatred towards Liu E immediately, and the Liu family survived. It was only found that there might be a problem with the death of his biological mother Li, but there was no exact problem. He could only demote the people who were treated at that time.
Liu E dreamed of being the Song Dynasty version of Wu Zetian, but she failed, but almost implicated her family. Fortunately, she met Lu Yijian, but the consequences were unpredictable.
Even if Song Renzong was a generation of Renzong, if he was really burying his biological mother, he would be extremely harsh on him. In addition, he had undermined Renzong for 11 years, and the addition of new and old hatreds, the Liu clan might really be erased.
Fortunately, Song Renzong saw that Liu E was very good at treating her biological mother, so he did not count the previous old accounts.
But I felt sorry for Li. As the emperor's biological mother, after his son ascended the throne, he did not become the queen, nor was he promoted to the empress dowager, but just watched his son grow up quietly.
was later deprived of the power to see his son's growth, sent out of Beijing to guard the tomb, and died inexplicably at the age of 46, which is a pity!
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