In the history of China, there are not many women with real power. In order to stand out from your competitors, you need to be smart and ruthless. Only by being ruthless can we gain a foothold.
Empress Dowager Cixi is recognized as a vicious woman in the world. After the Empress Dowager Cixi married Xianfeng, she was loved by Emperor Xianfeng because of her good handwriting. After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup, arrested many powerful ministers and returned to their nests, and began to contact the power center from Empress Dowager Cixi. Since then, Empress Dowager Cixi has mastered the power of North Korea.
During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, the court was corrupt and the financial deficit was high. In order to survive, Empress Dowager Cixi signed many unequal treaties with foreigners. In order to please foreigners, Empress Dowager Cixi constantly exploited the people, and the people were miserable. There are also foreigners slaughtered in the Qing dynasty. And innocent. Burning and looting, empress dowager cixi doesn't care about people's lives like ants. Empress Dowager Cixi has countless innocent people in her hands.
Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in the history of China. She can sit on the throne by extremely cruel means. When Wu Zetian was in power, in order to make others obey, she invented many cruel punishments to interrogate prisoners. Anyone who opposes Wu Zetian's accession to the throne will be tortured and die in these tortures, even his own flesh and blood will be killed by him.
There is also a vicious woman in history, that is, the wife of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang. This woman is the first woman in China to become a ruler. Her method sounds frightening. After Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, in order to help Liu Bang stabilize his power, Lv Hou became ruthless and began to kill people. She stabbed a man to death with a sharp knife and a bamboo stick, and chopped his body into meat paste and steamed it into steamed bread for other princes to eat. This is to scare others. When many ministers saw Lv Hou's cruelty, they were very scared.