Chapter 1276: The Fall of a Queen (Part II)
Yang Huairen has reservations about such an account.
It's not that the historical records are all a set of nonsense, especially this kind of court matter, and the historian doesn't necessarily dare to write nonsense.
But if you go through the life of Empress Meng from beginning to end, then the whole process of her deposing is too exaggerated.
This bloody plot of palace struggle doesn't sound unreasonable, but the problem is that although Empress Meng is very kind and has a gentle temperament, she is not a fool, on the contrary, she is actually an extremely capable woman.
Everyone can understand her life after being beaten into the cold palace, first grounded in Yaohua Palace, and then went out of the palace to Yuqing Nunnery to be a nun and worship Buddha.
This nun was a nun for several years, until Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, and the Empress Dowager Xiang remembered to recruit Empress Meng back to the palace and named Empress Yuanyou.
But the good times didn't last long, less than a year later, Empress Dowager Xiang died of illness, the Yuanyou party lost power again, and Queen Meng, the queen of Yuanyou, followed the blame again, was abolished again, and went back to be a nun.
This time it was a long time, twenty-six years later, the Jingkang disaster occurred, the Zhao clan was almost all taken hostage by the Jin people, and the fifty-four-year-old Empress Meng was invited by Zhang Bangchang and Lu Hao to preside over the overall situation.
At this time, Empress Meng really showed everyone's demeanor, a woman turned the tide, helped the generals of the Song Dynasty, re-established the imperial court, and found King Kang Zhao Gou to establish the Southern Song Dynasty regime.
Let's imagine that Empress Meng has been deposed for more than 30 years, and almost all of her life has been lived as a nun with a pure heart and few desires.
In other words, people's calmness may increase with their youth, but the degree of intelligence is basically destined by birth.
Looking at Liu Jieyu's life history, I won't go into detail here, although it seems that she has some clever tricks, but many facts have proved that this person is not smart, and she has done a lot of stupid things, and she is definitely not a smart person.
Why was a woman who could save a country toyed with by a stupid woman in the palace when she was young? Is this possible? It is completely out of line with common sense and law.
Everyone will have it in their hearts, it's impossible. Then the experience of Empress Meng being deposed in the historical records is a bit exaggerated.
But if you think carefully about the overall situation at that time, you will understand why the historian recorded it like that.
Let's talk about Zhao Xu first, from his life experience, he is very familiar with the party struggles in the court and the palace fights in the harem, because he has also been a victim of these struggles.
But when he returned to power, he found that he could use the feud to gain more power.
In the social atmosphere of the supremacy of the literati in the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor had no way to take the literati, at most he was to demote the officials, and it was absolutely impossible to directly kill the head, and even corporal punishment rarely happened.
In other words, the emperor could not stop the party strife, but on the other hand, the emperor could use the party strife to keep a group of courtiers who agreed with his political views and had no brains to support him, and on the contrary, he was deposed from the court.
In the end, it's still Game of Thrones, and the same is true in the harem.
Although Yang Huairen did not have much contact with Empress Meng, he still learned a lot about the things between them from Zhao Xu, and he knew better what Zhao Xu's attitude towards Empress Meng was.
When Empress Meng entered the palace and was canonized as the queen, it was all arranged by the Empress Dowager Gao, what is the relationship between Zhao Xu and his grandmother, needless to say, from the Empress Dowager Gao's attitude after the death of Zhao Xu, it explains everything.
Zhao Xu hated his grandmother from the bottom of his heart, so Empress Meng, the queen imposed on him by his grandmother, must have rejected it in his heart.
Maybe he just snubbed her a little in his usual life, but you can imagine how unwilling Zhao Xu was in his heart to keep Empress Meng in the palace, every time he saw her, it was as hateful as seeing his grandmother.
So everything has an explanation, Liu Jieyu obviously doesn't have enough wisdom to give Queen Meng so many sets, even if there is, with Queen Meng's intelligence, she won't drill so easily.
But what if these sets are under Zhao Xu? Queen Meng just can't drill if she doesn't want to.
So there is such a historical record, a gentle and virtuous wife, a woman who believes in Buddhism, allowed her mother and sister to invite some Taoist priests or dance gods or burn talisman water, killing her "daughter".
After that, he pretended not to know Liu Jieyu's tricks, and let Zhao Xu play a big drama and beat her into the cold palace.
The historian saw such a surface and recorded it, even if the historian was smart enough to understand that all this was arranged by Zhao Xu, but did he dare to write the facts?
Everything is just a set of tricks that Zhao Xu tried to get rid of the shadow left by the Empress Dowager Gao in his life.
Therefore, this injustice, Zhao Xu is naturally clear in her heart, with Queen Meng's ingenuity, she also knows it in her heart, but she is in such a position and has no strength to resist.
Perhaps, she never resisted from the beginning, and when she saw the dark cunning of the harem on the night she gave birth to the prince, her heart died, and she saw her future fate early.
It's just that God played a big joke on her, and nearly 30 years later, she never thought that she would have the opportunity to stand up and write a strong stroke in a period of Chinese national disastrous history.
This is the story of a queen who fell twice and rose bizarrely.
Yang Huairen figured all this out and seemed to be relieved. Empress Meng's current fate may be tragic, but these things are expected by her, and the facts prove that she chose to accept all this peacefully.
If you change anyone who has a slightly less bright brain, after all this, it is estimated that he would have committed suicide by hanging himself a long time ago, where can he still have the courage to live in this world?
Yang Huairen was suddenly very relieved that he adopted the son of Empress Meng, perhaps it gave her the motivation to live tenacity.
One day in the future, perhaps when Yang Xiaozu grows up, Yang Huairen may take him to meet with Empress Meng and let her know that she is worth living in this world, because she still has a historical mission that has not yet been completed.
Of course, Yang Huairen also tried his best not to let the Great Song Dynasty fall to the point of counting on an ill-fated woman to support him, which is really too embarrassing for all men in a country or nation.
But thinking of this, Yang Huairen also felt more and more that he couldn't stay in the capital, and keeping a secret was not just as simple as not telling it, because there were always all kinds of accidents that would happen.
Therefore, Yang Huairen made a decision to leave the city of Tokyo, the farther away from the palace, the safer he was.