There was such a queen in the history of the Song Dynasty. She went through four dynasties, established three times in her life, was deposed in two times, and was relegated to the cold palace for nearly thirty years. In the end, it was a blessing in disguise. He listened to the government twice and single-handedly saved the Song Zhao Dynasty and helped Song Gaozong complete the transition from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty. This woman who was abandoned by the Song royal family but saved the Song royal family from disaster was the Montessori Queen of Song Zhezong.
Meng was dignified and virtuous, and came from a famous family. She is the granddaughter of Ma Heqiu, the Fangshi of Meizhou in the Song Dynasty.
Song Zhezong ascended the throne when he was young. When he grew up, his grandmother, Queen Gaotai, selected more than 100 daughters from aristocratic families to enter the palace for him. One of them was Montessori, who was sixteen years old at the time. A few years later, he practiced in the palace. In the seventh year, when Zhezong was seventeen years old, Empress Dowager Gao told Zai Zhi: "If the son of Meng can salute a woman, he should be in the middle palace." So Meng was named queen and the wedding was held. At the wedding, Empress Dowager Gao said to Zhezong: "It is no small matter to have a good wife to help." Compared with Zhezong of Song Dynasty, Empress Meng, who was three years older than him, did not like it. She endured it because she was worried about Queen Gao. A year later, Queen Meng gave birth to her daughter Princess Fuqing.
The good times don’t last long. In the autumn of the eighth year of Yuanyou, Queen Gao died, and Queen Meng lost her backer. Gradually, she became alienated from Queen Meng and fell in love with the beautiful and talented Liu Jieyu.
In the third year of Shaosheng's reign, Princess Fuqing became seriously ill and the medicine failed to work. Montessori's sister entered the palace for treatment using Taoist healing spells. Since the matter of Fu Shui was taboo in the palace, Meng was shocked and ordered people to hide Fu Shui. After Zhezong arrived, he explained what happened. Zhezong believed that this was human nature and did not blame him. After the princess died of illness, Queen Meng's adoptive mother, Mrs. Yan, went to the palace to pray for Princess Meng and Princess. Unexpectedly, things would end like this. Liu Jieyu, who wanted to take second place, connected the two incidents and made irresponsible remarks in front of Zhezong, saying that Queen Meng was cursing the emperor. After hearing this, Zhezong also began to suspect, and ordered Liang to join politics and Su Jue to investigate the case. Under the instructions of Prime Ministers Zhang Dun and Liu Jieyu, they arrested dozens of maids and eunuchs around the queen, and tortured these people. History books record that "everything was looted, all limbs were destroyed, and even the tongue was broken." . The eunuchs and maids were unwilling to frame Queen Meng, so they were all beaten to pieces, and many had their tongues cut off and their limbs mutilated. In the end, Liang He and others had to forge confessions to make Zhezong believe that Queen Meng had an agenda. As a result, the queen was deposed and the Meng family was placed in the palace. The deposed concubine became a monk here and was given the titles of "Huayang Cult Leader" and "Yu Jing" with the legal name "Chongzhen". The queen became a female Taoist priest.
Due to the fierce struggle between the old and new parties at that time, Montessori supported the old party's Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang, who took power and tried to get rid of the shadow of her grandmother. Instead, she supported the New Party and promoted Zhang Dun of the New Party to prime minister. Zhang Dun also supported Liu Jieyu, who was favored by Zhezong, and had the image of being the successor to abolish Montessori, which led to this unjust imprisonment.
In the third year of Yuan Dynasty, he died of illness and King Duan succeeded to the throne. With the support of Queen Xiang, the old party re-emerged, Meng Shilai was able to turn around, and he was restored to power. Because it was sealed during the reign of Yuanyou, she was called "Queen Yuanyou". At this time, Queen Meng was already twenty-eight.
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother died of illness the following year. Then, in the first year of Chongning, the Yuanyou Party incident occurred again. Huizong reappointed Cai Jing and others from the new party, and demoted old party members. Because Empress Liu Wei
After successfully driving away Empress Meng, Liu used her status as empress dowager to "do political work without publicity", which made her furious and wanted to depose Liu. Even the attendants around Queen Liu pushed each other many times. Empress Liu had no choice but to hang herself with a curtain hook. She is thirty-five years old. I wonder if before Queen Liu died, did she think about Queen Meng who was forced to leave by her and was still in the cold palace?
For the next twenty-five years, Montessori lived a miserable life in Huayao Palace, albeit a bleak and peaceful life. However, in the first year of Jingkang, a fire reduced the palace to ashes, and Meng had to move to the palace. Soon, another fire broke out in the palace, and Meng had to move to his brother's home near Suoguo Temple. In the second year of Kang Dynasty, after hearing about Meng's experience, he discussed with the officials around him and wanted to take Meng back to the palace and respect him as queen again. However, before the imperial edict was issued, nomads captured Bianjing, which was known as the "Jingkang Disaster" in history.
Under the instruction of Jin Taizong, the Jin soldiers decided to take the most vicious measures against the Song Dynasty and brought all the royal family of the Song Dynasty to Xu Jin in an attempt to completely eliminate the Song Dynasty. The Jin soldiers were identified as traitors, and all members of the royal family inside and outside the capital were arrested.
Later, the Jin soldiers of the Jin Dynasty brought all the queens, princes, daughters, grandsons, royal family, relatives and cronies of Huizong, Qinzong and Song Dynasty to the north.
Only Meng was lucky enough to escape this disaster because he was abandoned and lived outside the palace. Not only did he avoid the disaster of being kidnapped by the Jin people and dying in a foreign country, he also enjoyed supreme glory in the years that followed. A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. Meng's survival from the "Jingkang Disaster" is a good explanation.
After the Jin soldiers retreated from the north, Zhang Bangchang, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, was appointed as the puppet emperor. Zhang Bangchang knew that he was rare among the common people, so in order to protect himself, he took Queen Meng back to Yanfu Palace and honored her as the Queen Mother of the Song Dynasty. But some people think that this is an example during the reign of Emperor He, who respected the Queen Mother Zhou as the Queen Mother Zhou and welcomed her to live in the West Palace. Zhang Bangchang had the ambition to represent the Song Dynasty in self-reliance. Later, ministers Hu Shunzhi and Ma Di wrote another letter, saying that government affairs should be decided by the Queen Mother's orders. Zhang Bangchang had no choice but to restore Montessori's title of "Queen Yuanyou" and ask her to lower the curtain and listen to politics.
At this time, Queen Meng was actually regarded as a symbol of the monarchy of the Song Dynasty, and her political status and appeal were irreplaceable. The 55-year-old Queen Meng rose from the trough of her life to the peak of power. For the first time, she demonstrated her outstanding political talents.
The first thing she did after taking power was to appoint Zhao Gou, who was captured by the fleeing Jin people, as an envoy, the empress dowager, and the emperor. Historical records record: "Look for a piece of calligraphy and tell it to the world." In May, Zhao Gou ascended the throne for Song Gaozong in Yingtian Mansion. Yuanyou pulled down the curtains, stopped listening to politics, and was honored as Queen Yuanyou. Soon, because the word "Yuan" violated her grandfather's name, it was changed to Queen Mother Longyou. When Queen Mother Meng was deposed, who would have thought that a woman abandoned by the Zhao Song royal family would make such a huge contribution to the Zhao Song royal family decades later.
Since Bianjing could no longer be defended, the Meng family followed Gao Zongnan to Hangzhou. In March of the third year of the brief history, the imperial guards took control of the Miao Mansion and Liu Zhengyan. They were dissatisfied with Song Gaozong's passive resistance to the Jin Dynasty, launched a mutiny, forced the emperor to abdicate and pass the throne, and asked Queen Meng to listen to the government behind the curtain. In times of crisis, Queen Meng remained calm and focused on the overall situation. She held her three-year-old son in her arms and listened to the government again. Queen Meng encouraged the rebellious generals and sent people to contact Han Shizhong and other generals to fight back the rebellion. After the mutiny was put down, Queen Meng withdrew the curtain and returned to the rope
Shortly after Emperor Gaozong crossed south, the nomads invaded the south in large numbers. Zhao Gou fled to the southeast coast and Montessori fled to Hongzhou in the southwest. Montessori managed to survive a thrilling mutiny and embarked on a turbulent journey. The Jin people chased him again and again, and Montessori's accompanying soldiers dispersed unhappily, even to the point of being trapped in a peasant's sedan chair. After the Jin army retreated, Zhao wanted to visit Meng's family, so he sent someone to visit him. After he learned about Meng's situation, he said very sadly: "I didn't know the Queen Mother at first, so I welcomed her to Nanjing because I love myself. Thousands of miles away, the terracotta warriors and horses are harassing me, and I want to welcome her, so that I can admire her every day. "Me." So the imperial camp was sent to meet her, and the Queen Mother went to Yuezhou. The emperor himself met her outside the palace gate and asked all the ministers about their rules.
From then on, Montessori settled down. From the Jingkang crisis to Zhao Gou's accession to the throne, Queen Meng's presence reduced the political turmoil from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty to a certain extent. Without Montessori, Zhao Gou could not legitimately be the emperor; without Montessori, it would not be easy for Zhao Gou to regain power. Meng's status and prestige supported half of the power of the Southern Song Dynasty. In view of Montessori's irreplaceable role in the country's two crises, Zhao Gou was very filial to Montessori. "Although all the tents and accounts are close to each other, the results must be presented to the Queen Mother before she dares to taste them." Meng can be said to be exclusive. Montessori's long-term experience among the common people made her develop the habit of thrift. She is only willing to receive a monthly living allowance of 1,000, so that she can still get by.
Montessori liked to drink more wine. Zhao Gou believed that the bitterer the wine, the worse the taste. When he ordered someone else to buy another liqueur, Montessori sent someone to pay for it, never forcing him not to pay for the drink.
The Meng family felt dizzy in the palace, and a maid claimed that Fu Shui could be used to cure the disease. Meng's family remembered what happened to him when he was young and said, "How dare I hear this again!" They immediately ordered the palace people to leave the palace.
In the spring of the first year of Shaoxing, Montessori suffered from wind disease, and Zhao took good care of her. For several days he could not take off his clothes. "The emperor never leaves his side, and those who take off their clothes will take off their clothes all night long." In April, Meng was ill in the west hall of the palace at the age of fifty-nine.
Mr. Zhao issued an edict: "I should obey the flesh, I should obey it. My mother will attend the funeral.
"The title is Ci Xian Lie, and her memorial tablet is placed in the memorial room, ranking above Empress Liu, "attached to the royal family, and placed above Empress Zhao Huai." Meng was buried in Huangshang Village, Kuaiji County. In the third year of Shaoxing Instead, the queen was presented to Zhao Cisheng.
Meng's experience was full of twists and turns, ups and downs, joys and sorrows, which is rare among Chinese concubines in the past. "Misfortunes and blessings depend on each other; wherever there is loss, there is gain." "The true meaning of this dialectic in Chinese philosophy can only be explained by the legendary woman Meng Shi. She experienced a strange and tortuous life, experienced ups and downs, and played an important role in the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty.