Chapter 19 Section 4: Clearing Up Actions

In order to achieve the goal of abolishing the elders and establishing the younger ones, the Empress Dowager disregarded the objections of the ministers, proclaimed the system in front of the court, and monopolized the power.In order to consolidate her dominance, she also used extremely vicious means to mutilate dissidents.So, what kind of vicious means did the empress dowager use? One day, Empress Shulu summoned more than a hundred Khitan aristocratic ministers in the palace, all of whom were members of the Yelu family, who followed Taizu in the Southern and Northern Wars and fought through life and death.The Queen called them over and asked them, do you think of the first emperor (do you think of the first emperor)?There is no second answer to this question, you can’t say no, you have been favored by the late emperor, you don’t want the late emperor, are you human?So everyone said in unison, we miss the late emperor very much.Listen to the law, since you miss the late emperor so much, and the late emperor also misses you, how boring is the late emperor now?Follow the late emperor to the ground!When the sword and ax came up, they clicked and clicked, and more than a hundred people were all finished.These are all great Khitan nobles, all of whom were killed by Queen Shulu.Aren't you instigating in private?Don't you think I shouldn't be in charge of the imperial court?All right, follow the late emperor to the ground.

Now the family members of the minister quit.Let's say that Khitan women are more powerful, but even if they are not so powerful, they are in a hurry, and their husbands are chopped off.So the family members of these ministers went to the palace to ask Shulu, what crime did our husband commit, and why was he killed?After explaining the law, I asked them, the emperor and his ministers are one body. The first emperor was your husband's emperor, and I am your emperor. I am now a widow. How can you not be the same as me?The late emperor is gone, I am a widow, you should be widows, there is nothing to say about this, you still have the face to question me?Because you are not widowed, I help you widowed now, you should thank me.From then on, whenever the empress Shulu sees any ministers in the court who do not submit to her, she will say that the late emperor misses you, so go and serve the late emperor.This trick has been tried and tested.

Volume two hundred and seventy-five records: "After Shulu called the wives of the generals and chiefs who were difficult to control, they said: 'I am a widow now, you must not fail to follow me. Huh?" Confrontation said: "Received the kindness of the first emperor, how can you not think about it!" Said: "If you think about it, you should go and see it." Then kill it."