Chapter 7 The absurd emperor cut off his children and grandchildren

The reason why Empress Xu and Ban Jieyu of Emperor Han Cheng fell out of favor was not only that Emperor Han Cheng lost his novelty towards them, but also because they failed to leave heirs for Emperor Han Cheng.Empress Xu gave birth to a son and a daughter, but both died young.Ban Jieyu gave birth to a son, but he did not survive.Now, the Zhao sisters have become the emperor's new favorites. For them, the key to consolidating their status is to give birth to a son for the emperor. This doesn't seem to be difficult.Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty was in his prime at this time, and he loved the Zhao sisters very much, and was with them almost every day, and it was only a matter of time before he gave birth to a son.But many years later, the Zhao sisters still remained silent.At this time, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty began to favor Zhao Hede more, and less to Zhao Feiyan.Zhao Feiyan saw that the emperor's favor was declining day by day, but she hadn't been able to give birth to a son yet.The queen's position is in danger of being lost.So, in a state of panic, she came up with a ridiculous idea: send people to inquire about the servants and palace servants who have many children, secretly call them into the palace, and secretly have sex with her, hoping to use this method to make herself have a child. son.At the beginning, she was cautious, but after she probably tasted the sweetness of being a bride every night, she became unscrupulous and simply built a secret room in the palace. On the pretext of praying for a son, even Emperor Han Cheng refused to let him in, and hid her daughter in it. A handsome young man who wantonly prostitutes himself day and night.Later, even when Emperor Cheng was lucky, Zhao Feiyan was too tired, but she reluctantly agreed.There is a saying that there is no impenetrable wall, Zhao Feiyan's way of doing things slowly spread to the ears of Emperor Han Cheng.Ordinarily, the emperor should be very angry when he knew that there were piles of green hats on his head at some point.But the smart Zhao Hede had already laid the groundwork before him, saying that his sister had a strong personality and would easily attract resentment. It was inevitable that someone would go forward to slander and frame her sister.While speaking, he was still crying and crying.Emperor Han Cheng hurriedly wiped away Zhao Hede's tears, comforted him with kind words, and vowed not to misbelieve rumors.So later when someone learned of Feiyan's adultery and came forward to report, they were all beheaded by Emperor Cheng.

Here, Zhao Feiyan spreads his colorful flags and makes a big fuss about wild men.Over there, Zhao Hede took advantage of the emperor's special favor on her, and tied the emperor firmly by his side.Her tactic was still the tried-and-tested trick of wanting to greet and yet rejecting.For example, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty had a special habit of watching Zhao Hede take a bath secretly.Once, Zhao Hede bathed in the orchid room at night.Her body was glamorous and moving, "the blue soup is shining, and Zhaoyi is in it, like a three-foot cold spring soaking bright jade", even the flame of the candle was suppressed.Emperor Han Cheng inadvertently glimpsed Zhao Hede's delicate posture and beauty in the bath through the gaps in the doors and windows, and was immediately fascinated.At this time, the maid told Zhao Hede about his behavior, and the clever Zhao Hede immediately came up with a countermeasure. She quickly grabbed the bath towel to cover her body, and asked the servants to put out the candle, and disappeared into the darkness.Therefore, in order to see Zhao Hede's seductive body in the bath again, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty secretly bribed her court lady with gold.Later, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty suffered from the wind and cold because of hunting in the snow, and suffered from the problem of "not lifting". Every time he could only get excited by holding Zhao Hede's feet, but Zhao Hede hid from place to place, so he was not allowed to hold it often.The maid beside her was puzzled, and said to her: "The emperor is looking for pills and medicines everywhere, in order to restore his power, but the effect is not very good. Now, once he holds Zhaoyi's foot, it will be very effective. This is a gift from God. Why are you still avoiding him?" Zhao Hede said: "It is because I often avoid him that the emperor wants to hold my feet. If I cater to him, he will be tired of it long ago. It can be seen that she knows the psychology of Emperor Han Cheng like the palm of his hand, and it is no wonder that Emperor Han Cheng is so fascinated by her that he doesn't think about food and drink.

It's just that one of the two sisters was concentrating on chasing men, and the other was concentrating on chasing the emperor. They worked very hard, but they still couldn't give birth to a child.Naturally, they were very anxious, but they didn't realize that the problem was the trick they depended on to be favored. It turned out that the Zhao sisters made a kind of "Xiji Pill" with musk in order to make their skin fair and tender, and have a strange fragrance on their bodies, so that Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty would be infatuated with it. Extraordinarily radiant.But musk has always been a medicine used by the people for contraception and abortion. The Zhao sisters have used it for many years, but the result is severe infertility, and naturally they will no longer have children.At that time, Shangguan Wu, a female doctor in the palace, was very helpless when she heard about this situation: "How can you have children in such a situation." She taught the sisters to cook medicinal soup and take a bath to try to remedy it, but it didn't work.

As a result, the sisters were completely desperate to have children.However, in order to consolidate his position in the palace, even though he could not give birth to a child, he could not let other women give birth to the emperor.From then on, a great battle to eliminate the heirs of Emperor Cheng began. There was a female official named Cao Weineng in the palace who was pregnant with Emperor Cheng's child. Emperor Han Cheng was secretly happy when he heard about it, so he sent six court ladies to serve him.Unexpectedly, Zhao Hede found out that she falsely issued an imperial decree to imprison the Cao family and force her to commit suicide. Her child was raised by a wet nurse for eleven days, and then was taken away by the palace chief Li Nan with an edict, and then sent to the prison. Zhao Hede's bedroom, the result can be imagined.Six serving maids were also forced to commit suicide.Although Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty learned about this, he was afraid of sister Zhao Hede and did not dare to rescue her. He sat and watched Cao's mother and son die and return to Yin.Later, Xu Meiren in the harem became pregnant again, and Emperor Cheng secretly sent an imperial doctor to visit her, and gave Xu Meiren three precious health-care pills for miscarriage protection.After Xu Mei gave birth to a son, the emperor was naturally elated, but with the previous experience, he was worried that he would not be able to pass Zhao Hede's test.So, while sending people to take good care of Xu Meiren's mother and son, they also figured out how to get Zhao Hede's permission to take their son into the palace to raise them.Finally, he decided to take the initiative to confess to Zhao Hede.When Zhao Hede learned that he really quit, he took out the folk shrew's method of crying, making troubles and hanging himself three times, but Han Chengdi still ate it. After Zhao Hede cried and made a big fuss, his little sympathy for Xu Meiren's mother and child Also scared.So he asked someone to put Xu Meiren's son in a reed sack and send it to Zhao Hede's bedroom. After that, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty immediately asked the waiter to leave, and got up to close the doors and windows himself.The waiter stood outside, watching the doors and windows being closed one by one, knowing that something bad was about to happen, but there was nothing he could do, he could only wait in the unbearable silence for everything to end.After a while, the door was opened again, and the child in the reed box was already dead.Emperor Cheng actually strangled his own son to death under the coercion of Zhao Hede. This kind of stupidity and cruelty is really outrageous.Lady Cao and Meiren Xu still had some status in the palace, so Emperor Cheng of Han knew about and even participated in the execution of their children, leaving a record in the history books.As for those low-status court ladies and their children, how many died tragically under the hands of the Zhao sisters, it is impossible to investigate.The nursery rhyme circulating in Chang'an at that time: "Swallows fly to peck the emperor's grandson" is about this incident.As a result, Emperor Han Cheng never had any heirs in his life, and the "efforts" of the Zhao sisters really paid off.