Emperor Han Cheng snubbed Queen Xu and began to love Ban Jieyu. Ban Jieyu is the grandparents of Ban Gu, the author of Hanshu. She gave birth to a boy and died a few months later. Ban Jieyu is beautiful but not gorgeous, beautiful but not bronze, gilded, dancing and buttoning.
Vulgar, but also knowledgeable about literature and history, knowing the book and reaching the ceremony. She doesn't have the "jealousy" problem of ordinary women. She dedicated her maid, Li, to Emperor Han Cheng, and Li Ping was favored again, and was also named Jieyu. Emperor Han Chengdi said: "Empress Wei, who was filial to Emperor Wu, also started from humble beginnings." So Ping Li was given the surname "Wei" and she became Wei Jieyu.
However, as a king, the emperor also wants to seek excitement in the world outside the palace. In the year of Hong Jiayuan (the first 20 years), accompanied by Fuping Hou Zhangfang, Emperor Hancheng "wandered around" in casual clothes and went to the downtown area to have fun, but he met a peerless beauty.
The new owner of Zhaoyang is in the magnificent and row-by-row palaces of the Western Han Dynasty, and Zhaoyang Hall is unique because it is in harmony with heaven and earth. Weiyang Palace, Ganquan Palace, Changyang Palace and other palaces have long been famous for the names of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Wudi, but the ancient and auspicious Zhaoyang Hall has been unknown. When the Han Dynasty proclaimed itself emperor, there lived two extremely talented women who spoiled Wenlong. Since then, Zhaoyang Hall has become a symbol of luck, glory and honor, and an alias of "Gong Zheng" in operas and novels. Emperor Han Chengdi met a stunning beauty during his "micro-trip", which brought such fame to Zhaoyang Hall. She is Zhao.
Zhao is a dancer of Yang Agong's family, with a beautiful face and light posture. There is a saying in history that "Yan is thin and fat". Yan is Zhao's; Yang Yuhuan, the imperial concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Once, Emperor Han Chengdi passed by Yang Afei's house, and the princess gave a banquet and invited several beautiful women to sing and dance. When Emperor Cheng saw that one of them was a gorgeous girl with a clear voice and graceful dancing, he couldn't help but feel shaken. He begged the princess to give the swallow to himself and bring it back to the palace, so that she could become the new owner of Zhaoyang Hall.
Zhao's father, Feng, is the shed of Jiangdu. He had an affair with Princess Gusu, the granddaughter of King Jiangdu, and gave birth to twin sisters Zhao and Zhao Hede. Because Princess Gusu married Jiangsu Zhongwei, the sister changed her surname to Zhao. When she grew up, she was sold to Yang Agong's house to learn singing and dancing. Because of her light posture, my sister won the title of "Flying Swallow".
Due to the favor of Zhao, Zhao's family won great glory because he and his younger brother were successively named as Chengyang Hou and Xincheng Hou. However, in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, the influence of consorts gradually expanded, and Huo, Xu, Wang and others successively took charge of the state affairs, which Zhao, with a small population and ethnic minorities, could not compare with. Therefore, Yan Fei's harem pets did not have much influence on court affairs, and her humble background also cast a shadow over whether she could keep pets. Soon after she entered the palace, she recommended her sister Zhao Hede to Emperor Cheng as her mother-in-law. Through the protection of her sister and pets, she made up for the lack of family power.
Since Zhao Hede entered the palace, Emperor Cheng gradually turned his mind to her. This is because Hede not only has excellent appearance, fair and smooth skin, but also has gentle temperament. Compared with Yan Fei, Hede has more charm of bronze mirrors in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Cheng called Hede's embrace "gentle hometown" and sighed: "I will always be my hometown, so I can't help but invite Bai Yunxiang, the good fairy of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty." Emperor Cheng let Hede live in Zhaoyang Palace, which satisfied her extravagant demands. Emperor Cheng favored Hede more and more, while his affection for him gradually declined. Of course, because Yan Fei and Hurd are sisters, it is not good for Emperor Cheng to ignore Yan Fei too much.
After Zhao sisters entered the palace, they attacked Queen Xu and Ban Jieyu with their new favorite arrogance, and a battle between the old and the new started in the harem.
Courtiers accused Wang's autocratic power of causing the three-year solar eclipse, but Gu Yong, a member of Wang Group, pointed the finger at Xu, saying it was because she was "immoral". In this way, Queen Xu's "dressing cost of pepper house" was reduced, and even the face of the emperor could not be seen. Queen Xu has no way to vent her dissatisfaction. Her sister, Mrs. Ping An Hou Xu Wei, came up with a clumsy and stupid way, that is, playing tricks behind her back and viciously cursing the motorcycle general Wang Yin and a pregnant Wang Meiren in the harem. The matter was quickly mastered by the Wangs, but they felt it was best to expose it by others. And the best person to expose Zhao is it. As a result, Zhao entered the palace that year 1 1 month, and Zhao went to the front desk to expose the Wangs. Xu Wei and others were executed, Xu Empress was deposed, and all members of the Xu family were exiled. Zhao told Queen Xu with Ban Jieyu. But was saved by the empress dowager.
When the post of queen became vacant, Zhao clamored for the emperor to make her queen. However, the idea of conferring Zhao Wei as emperor was blocked by the empress dowager Wang. Later, Chun Yuchang mediated, and Zhao Ruyuan ascended the throne of the queen.
Chun Yuchang is the son of Wang, the sister of the Queen Mother, and also the cousin of Wang Mang. Chun Yuchang ran to the king to establish Zhao, which would not pose a threat to the autocratic power of the royal family. This reason touched Wang's heart and finally nodded. In the first year of yongshi (BC 16), Zhao Yanfei was the queen, Zhao Jin Hurd was the queen, and Zhaoyang Hall gave her the privilege of living alone. In order to thank Chun Yuchang for his mediation, Emperor Cheng named Chun Yuchang as the Hou of Guannei and soon named him as the Hou of Dingling.
In order to please the new queen, Emperor Cheng asked the craftsmen to build a magnificent royal ship named "He Gong Ship" in the Taiye Pool of the Palace. One day, Cheng Di and he went boating to enjoy the scenery. Yan Fei, dressed in the purple dress of Nanyue Gong Yunying, was graceful and graceful, and danced while singing the song "Phoenix Return and Send Away". As an emperor, he asked assistant minister Feng blowing sheng to sing and dance. When the boat reached the midstream, the wind suddenly blew down Zhao, who was as light as a swallow. The emperor ordered Feng to save him. He threw away the musical instrument, grabbed the queen's foot and refused to let go, but continued to sing and dance. Since then, the story of "Swallows can dance on their hands" has been circulated in the palace.
While Zhao was immersed in the splendor of the mother instrument world, her feet had already set foot on the old road of Ban Jieyu. She never thought that being a queen was a kind of pampering and extremely fond of rest. She was afraid of affection, and it was her sister Zhao who took away what she loved. Zhao Hede and Zhao grew up together and respected their elder sister very much. They tried their best to protect their elder sister before the emperor, so their position was not shaken by the emperor's favor. At the beginning, Zhao was so proud that he didn't want to associate with residual leakage's indifference, and he didn't want to encounter cold reception and indifference. She heard that the emperor likes to spy on Zhao Hede's soup bath, and she did the same thing herself and invited the emperor to see it. In order to regain her favor, she even lied that she was pregnant, but all this did not change her fate.
Emperor Han Chengdi has no son. In the autocratic era of "one family in the world", the childlessness of the emperor is a serious social problem, which worries all courtiers. Zhao's sister has been spoiled for more than ten years, and has no children for a long time. She is deeply worried about her future fate, but the two sisters have never given birth.
Yan Fei knew that if she wanted to keep the queen's crown forever, she must give birth to a son and inherit the imperial estate. So she is anxiously looking forward to having a child. In order to increase the chances of bearing children and to pass the lonely time, she often took advantage of the opportunity of the emperor to spend the night in Hede, making the palace messy, and also attracted some young assistants and palace slaves to join her, hoping to get pregnant, but failed.
The Zhao sisters can't have children by themselves, and other concubines are not allowed to have children. There is a female official named Cao Weineng in the palace. She is pregnant with a child who has become an emperor. When it was time for production, Zhao Hede took the imperial edict to Huangmen Tianke, poisoned Cao Ji and took the baby away. The baby was raised by Zhang Yi, a wet nurse 1 1 day, and was taken away by the imperial edict of Nan Li, the palace master, and his whereabouts are unknown. Later, Xu in the harem was pregnant, and Emperor Cheng secretly sent a physician to visit her and gave Xu three precious health pills for preventing miscarriage. After Xu gave birth to his son, Zhao Hede found out, cried and made a scene, and finally coerced Emperor Cheng to strangle his son. The cruelty of the Zhao sisters is outrageous, and the ignorance of Emperor Han Chengdi is beyond measure. At that time, a nursery rhyme teased Zhao: "Yan Yan, Wei Kou, Zhang Gongzi, meet each other when you are free. Wooden door canglanggen, swallow, pecking the emperor's grandson. When the grandson dies, the swallow pecks at the arrow. "
In March of the second year of He Sui (the first seven years), Emperor Hancheng suddenly died in Zhao Hede's arms, Queen Xiao Yuan and Axe Wang Mang "treated the emperor's daily life disorder", and Zhao Hede committed suicide. In April, Liu Xin, the adopted son of Emperor Cheng, acceded to the throne, mourning for Emperor Han. Buried in Yanling (now east of Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province) as the emperor.