In Song Dynasty, Gao Taotao was highly praised as Regent, and she was called Yao Shun, a middle school girl. But history is, after all, a little girl dressed up for everyone. In fact, Gao Taotao directly dragged the Northern Song Dynasty into the whirlpool of power struggle and party struggle, and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was inseparable from her. Gao Taotao was born in a noble family, and her starting point was the ending point of her predecessor Liu E ... His father and mother were both founding fathers. She is also the sister of Queen Cao Shi of Song Renzong. Gao Taotao was Song Yingzong's childhood sweetheart and later became the queen of DaSong. Yingzong has a short life. Eight years later, Gao Taotao became the Empress Dowager. After Song Shenzong died in 18, she became the empress dowager.
When Song Shenzong was alive, Empress Dowager Cixi put pressure on her son and strongly opposed Wang Anshi's political reform. After her grandson Song Zhezong ascended the throne, he began to listen to politics, even worse than Liu E who was still listening to politics in the harem at that time. The Empress Dowager Gao stood side by side with Emperor Song Zhezong directly above the palace. The courtiers turn their backs on each other and report to the Queen Mother Gao first. After Gao Taotao's regency, 1 sent eunuchs out of the palace to Luoyang to invite conservative boss Sima Guang to take charge of the mountain. After Sima Guang entered the DPRK as prime minister, he invited Wen Yanbo, Lv Gongzhu and other people who opposed the political reform back. Reformist Cai Que and Zhang Chun failed in the party struggle and were successively demoted. In less than a year, Wang Anshi presided over the reform, such as the new laws of land average tax, young crops, armor and immunization, which were all abolished overnight and returned to 18 years ago.
After Sima Guang's death, the conservatives were divided into three parts, and the endless party struggle among the three families of Shuluo and Shuozhou began. Empress Dowager Gao had no choice but to let such a country be swallowed up in the power struggle. During the reign of Kota Empress, there was another literary inquisition in Chegaiting. Cai Que, the leader of the lost new party, was killed because he wrote a poem in Chegaiting, which implicated many innocent people and became the largest literary inquisition in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. Empress Gao Tai completely denied that Wang Anshi's political reform pushed the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty to the brink of collapse, and political persecution further aggravated the party struggle in the Northern Song Dynasty. She also sold the land to Xixia for glory, which further stimulated Xixia's ambition to seize the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty.