As we all know, the emperor is the lord of a country. In order to maintain his authority, others don’t even dare to speak loudly, let alone be on an equal footing with him. Although the queen is the lord of the harem, everything she has is given by the emperor. If the emperor is unhappy, you can replace her at any time. During the Northern Song Dynasty, a queen beat the emperor in front of everyone. What is the situation? What fate did this queen have later? Let's continue to read.
This beaten Northern Song emperor is Song Renzong Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen is the sixth son of Zhao Heng, , Song Zhenzong, , and his biological mother is , Li Chenfei, . Because the beauties Liu, whom Song Zhenzong favored, did not have a son, Song Zhenzong asked Liu to raise Zhao Zhen. On February 19, the first year of Qianxing, Zhao Heng passed away. Zhao Zhen, who was only thirteen years old, succeeded to the throne, and the Empress Dowager Liu ruled from behind the curtain. Although Liu is not Zhao Zhen's biological mother, he regards Zhao Zhen as his own. Not only did he stabilize the government affairs for him, but he also chose a queen for him.
But Zhao Zhen was quite dissatisfied with the queen. At that time, Zhao Zhen liked the daughter of the wealthy businessman Wang Mengzheng, and also mentioned this matter to Empress Dowager Liu . Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Liu not only disagreed, but also betrothed her to Liu Mei's eldest son Liu Congde on the excuse of "too charming and being too charming, may not be beneficial to the young master". Liu Mei is the ex-husband of Empress Dowager Liu. Later, after Empress Dowager Liu was attracted by Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Empress Dowager Liu recognized him as his elder brother. Zhao Zhen was very dissatisfied with Empress Dowager Liu doing this now.
Later, Zhao Zhen reached the age of his wedding, and Empress Dowager Liu chose the daughters of several officials' families to enter the palace. At that time, the queen's candidates were the late Zhongshu Ling Guo Chong's granddaughter Guo and the late General Zhang Mei, the great-granddaughter Zhang Mei. Zhao Zhen fell in love with Zhang at a glance and planned to make her the queen. As a result, Empress Dowager Liu strongly opposed it and forced Zhao Zhen to make Guo the queen. Relying on the support of Empress Dowager Liu, Guo was domineering in the harem and did his own thing. After Empress Dowager Liu passed away, she still had difficulty changing her bad habits.
After Zhao Zhen took power, he tried his best to get rid of the influence of Empress Dowager Liu, and a major change he made was to re-dividing the harem power. At that time, Song Renzong favored Meiren and Meiren Yang. His favor for these two made Empress Guo really envious, jealous and hated. Shang Meiren knew that Song Renzong did not like Empress Guo, so she often criticized Empress Guo in front of Song Renzong. In theory, the concubine commented that the queen was a serious crime committed by the following, but Song Renzong turned a blind eye to this matter because they were comrades in the same trench as them.
One day, Shang Meiren mocked Empress Guo in front of Song Renzong, but was heard by the passing Queen Guo. Queen Guo is used to being domineering, how can she tolerate a small concubine to arrange herself in front of others? So she ignored her image and stretched out her hand to give Shang Meiren a big slap. Meiren Shang was also very clever. Seeing that she had caused trouble, she hurriedly hid behind Song Renzong. Song Renzong wanted to fight, but he was really scrambled by Queen Guo. Because Empress Guo pushed hard, two blood marks were also scratched by her fingernails on her neck.
Song Renzong had long been unhappy about Empress Guo, and happened to take advantage of this to defeat her. So Song Huizong immediately called the imperial doctor to "examine the injury" and asked the imperial doctor to issue a diagnosis. The next day, Song Renzong threw this problem to his ministers in the court: "The queen injured me, what do you think?" Some ministers with wink immediately understood and shouted loudly: "Destroy Queen." Of course, some ministers disagreed with the deposed queen and cried out to Emperor Renzong of Song. But Song Renzong had made up his mind, so he imprisoned Empress Guo in Changning Palace and became a Taoist nun on the grounds that she had no children for many years.
