Throughout history, the dictatorship of the empress dowager is not a rare thing. Empress Lu and Cixi are the representatives. Lu Hou was the wife of Liu Bang, the founding monarch of the Western Han Dynasty, about 2,200 years ago. Therefore, many people think that Lu Hou was the first female under dictatorship in Chinese history.
So is history really like this?
Obviously not. In fact, there are many women like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as Miyue, which everyone knows. Of course, Miyue is not our heroine today. What we are going to talk about today is Qi Wangjian's mother, the Queen.
Then someone will ask again, who is Qi Wangjian? This person is no one else. He was the last monarch of Qi during the Warring States Period!
Historical background
The background of the time when the queen is located is very interesting. It was the last few decades of the Warring States period. And the year the queen died, there were still twenty-nine years left before the fall of Qi.
The Qi State at that time was destroyed by other countries because it touched the interests of the other six countries. At that time, the king of Qi Dynasty, King Qi Zhao, was killed by the Six Kingdoms, and his son Tian Fazhang, who was later King Qi Xiang, ran away, changed his name to hide his identity, and ran to one of the last two cities in Qi. Judi, worked as a servant in the house of the scholar-official Tai Shiqi in Judi.
and Tai Shixu’s daughter is the heroine of our article, the king queen .
The king and queen has a very good vision. She looked at Tian Fazhang, and she vaguely felt that this person was not an ordinary person. So he concealed his family members and Tian Fazhang fornication. At that time, the people of Qi were looking for the heirs of King Qi Zhao, and wanted to make his heir the King of Qi, so after being verified by the people, Tian Fazhang was adopted as King Qi Xiang. So the queen became the queen.
In 280 BC (the fourth year of King Qixiang), the queen gave birth to his son Tian Jian.
In 265 BC (the nineteenth year of King Qixiang), King Qixiang died, and his son Tian Jian became King of Qi, and respected his mother, the queen, as the queen mother. Thus began the era of the dictatorship of the queen.
"Shi Qin Jin, and the princes letter
The King Queen is quite powerful, and his son became the King of Qi. At the time, he was only fifteen years old, so everything was handled by the queen. Even on the day the queen died, his son didn’t know who could be employed. The queen and Qi Wangjian said their names, Qi Wang Jian did not hear clearly, so he asked his mother to write it down. This is the origin of the famous "dying words".
During the dictatorship of the queen, the most important thing she did was to serve Qi Guo A national policy was formulated, called "Being honest with the princes in Qin's affairs." What does it mean is to serve Qin cautiously and to be honest with the princes. This national policy is actually indirect and helped Qin calm the world. Because of this national policy, It precisely catered to the Qin State’s strategic policy of calming the world—distant communication and close attack. We will talk about this next time.
At that time, the influence of this national policy on Qi State was very huge, and it made Qi a very comfortable period in the short term. But in the end, it led to the demise of Qi.
Qin attacked the other countries, and these countries asked for help from Qi. But Qi was in a corner, serving Qin, so that he did not send troops to save other countries. And the other five countries have perished, and that Qi country will only have its share of destruction.
At that time, due to the dictatorship of the queen, Qi Wangjian was an insignificant monarch. The queen died, and one of them became used to it. How is it possible for a monarch who lives comfortably and has no ability to let him go to war.
So in 221 BC, the Qi state fell, and the first unified dynasty in history opened a new era of the Chinese nation.
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