In fact, the Cao Empress in history is far more dashing than that in TV series. She not only proved that she can be Renzong's wife, but also be Renzong's minister with first-class field control ability at a critical moment. She also helped Su Shi, a great writer, get out of the haze of Wutai poetry case with extraordinary intelligence and saved the "seeds of Confucian scholars" for Dasong.
First, the door tiger girl
Speaking of Queen Cao, we have to mention her splendid family background. Queen Cao was born in Cao Shi, one of the best aristocratic families in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the words of the Prime Minister, it is "the head of the Wang family today, headed by Cao".
Queen Cao, who was born in a noble family, was also the granddaughter of Cao Bin, the founding father of the Northern Song Dynasty. The collision between the wind of the gate and the cultural accumulation of the aristocratic family on Queen Cao made Queen Cao not only familiar with classics and history, but also good at calligraphy, and also possessed the super psychological quality of staying in danger.
In a.d. 1033, 18-year-old Cao empress was called into the palace. With her virtue and outstanding talent, empress Cao was quickly appreciated by Injong's foster mother, Empress Zhang Huiyang, and was placed in the palace the following year, and was named empress.
Unfortunately, although the Queen Cao is the head of the Sixth Hospital, she is a swallow hole in bad karma. She only cares about chasing flowers and waves to see beauty, but she doesn't care about the plain Queen Cao at all.
In the face of indifference, Queen Cao didn't feel sorry for herself like an ordinary little girl, but turned pressure into motivation and worked hard to run a good backyard so that she didn't have any worries.
Second, the field control experts
One day in the eighth year of Li Qing, several soldiers took advantage of the night to make an insurrection and went straight to Song Renzong's bedroom. At that time, Queen Cao was serving. After hearing the accident, she jumped up and tried to escape, but was held down by Queen Cao.
Later, Empress Cao showed her true colors and ordered the attendants to close the gate of the temple immediately to protect the emperor. While sending an emergency call to Wang Shouzhong to lead the troops into the palace to calm the chaos.
At this time, the mutinous soldiers parked in the periphery have begun to cut down the concubines, and at that time the cries resounded through the sky. The eunuch who stayed with Song Renzong was afraid of scaring the emperor and quickly comforted Song Renzong, saying that these voices were made by a wet nurse who was beating a disobedient little maid-in-waiting.
But when Cao heard this, he immediately reprimanded the eunuch and said, "The mutinous soldiers are nearby and may endanger the emperor at any time. How dare you talk nonsense! "
After that, Queen Cao suddenly moved her mind. She thought that the mutinous soldiers might set fire to force Injong to appear. So, the empress Cao immediately ordered the eunuch to fetch water nearby, just in case. Sure enough, as soon as the eunuchs got the water back, the mutinous soldiers really set fire everywhere, burning curtains like dragons, and were swallowed up wherever they went.
Although the Queen Cao was in danger, she called all the imperial secretaries together, then cut off a lock of hair for each of them and told them to wait until it was done and give them a lock of hair. With Queen Cao's promise, everyone in the palace worked very hard. Everyone put out the fire and killed the enemy together, and soon all the mutinous soldiers were wiped out.
Third, skillfully treat the imperial concubine
Unfortunately, the first-class field control ability of Queen Cao fell into Song Renzong's eyes, but it became a "counter-insurgency drama" deliberately directed and staged by Queen Cao in an attempt to rescue the driver. As a result, Song Renzong, a big pig's hoof, was not only ungrateful, but also planned to abolish Queen Cao and make beautiful woman Zhang Guifei queen.
Although the farce was abolished, it was strongly opposed by courtiers in the end. However, Zhang Guifei's arrogance is growing day by day. Gradually, Zhang Guifei became increasingly dissatisfied with the unloved Cao Empress, and he could not help but attempt to challenge the authority of Cao Empress.
On one occasion, Zhang Guifei coquetry in front of Song Renzong, crying and shouting to take the Queen's ceremonial trip. Song Renzong made Zhang Guifei cry her eyes out. In desperation, he turned to Tai Chi and sent Zhang Guifei to borrow Tai Chi from the Queen.
Who knows that with Injong's love, I really went to ask Empress Cao to borrow ceremonial etiquette. Cao looked sad and sneered secretly, but said quietly, "Since you like it, take it." .
Zhang Guifei didn't expect to borrow ceremonial so smoothly, singing and dancing all the way back to Renzong. Unexpectedly, after listening to Zhang Guifei's retelling, Injong immediately felt that the Queen was magnanimous and tolerant. On second thought, he felt that Zhang Guifei's blatant disregard for etiquette had gone too far. So Song Renzong criticized Zhang Guifei with a straight face, which made Zhang Guifei afraid to borrow etiquette supplies.
Poor people may never understand why they play Tai Chi with Cao Niangniang, but in the end they all hit themselves. This cannon fodder is too bitter for this imperial concubine.
Fourth, save Su Shi with wisdom.
After the Zhang Guifei Incident, Injong's life came to an end. Since Injong died in the middle of the night, in order to prevent people from making trouble at night, Queen Cao tried her best to endure the pain of losing her husband, and once again made the palaces deadlocked and blocked the news with first-class field control ability. Then the next day, etiquette hurried into the palace, and then Han Qi read the testamentary edict on the spot, completing the power transfer of Yingzong's succession in one go.
After Yingzong succeeded to the throne, Cao was honored as the queen mother. However, Queen Cao did not rely on the title of Empress Dowager, but strictly prohibited consorts from interfering in government affairs, which led to a new atmosphere in the palace.
On one occasion, Yingzong was unable to be the director because of illness, and asked Queen Cao to handle military affairs on his behalf. Queen Cao listens to politics in the small hall of the East Gate. When ministers are hesitant, Queen Cao always says, "Discuss it among yourselves." . However, every time Queen Cao went to the imperial court, she would find out how to deal with the problems that ministers had doubts about that day, and then tell her predecessors the experience of Yingzong.
Later, when Yingzong recovered from illness, Queen Cao immediately withdrew her curtain and returned to politics. However, it made Yingzong reluctant to leave Queen Cao, and simply withheld the imperial edict of "returning to politics" for a long time and refused to implement it.
A few years later, Yingzong died and Empress Cao was old. Although the emperor honored Cao as the empress dowager and tried his best to support her, she still couldn't stop her life from disappearing bit by bit.
One day, Queen Cao, who was in a coma, vaguely heard someone saying "Wutai Poetry Case". Cao suddenly woke up. She called Zongshen and said to him, "When Emperor Renzong admitted the Su Shi brothers in the imperial examination, he was happy to say that the Su Shi brothers were outstanding talents of the country and could help my son in the future." Now I heard that Su Shi was imprisoned for several poems. Could his enemies have framed him? "
At this point, Queen Cao paused and continued: "The mistakes found in the poem, even if they are really mistakes, are also small mistakes. Why did the emperor ruin a good minister because of some trivial things? It is difficult for me to recover from my illness. I must not hurt the integrity and peace between the monarch and the minister because I have wronged a good man. "
This sentence made Zongshen shed tears. After returning to the imperial court, Zongshen stood on the side of the minister who saved Su Shi, and ordered Su Shi to be exempted from the death penalty.
Su Shi walked out of the prison alive, but Queen Cao missed it. In the winter of the second year of Yuanfeng, Queen Cao died of illness. After Renzong, Yingzong and three dynasties, this Cao Empress won the respect of the Manchu Dynasty with her legendary life, and even left a shining star in the long river of history, illuminating the eternal night.
Of course, if possible, perhaps Queen Cao wanted to be in harmony with Renzong's harps from the beginning, just like in Qing Ping Le, to achieve a happy marriage that only envies Yuanyang but not immortals!