Fortune telling and retirement.

In the tumultuous ancient dynasty, male dominance was supreme and women were humble, but there were also many queens who were famous for their virtue. For example, Ma Huanghou, queen of Bigfoot, the eldest grandson of Tang Dynasty. As the most distinguished woman in the world at that time, the status of the queen was the dream of all the concubines in the harem. It represents not only a title, but also the power to control life and death, which is the supreme honor.

However, few people in this high position are not fascinated by power. Empresses and concubines spent most of their lives in the harem fighting wits and wits with concubines and princes, and they did nothing all their lives and fought their heads off. Therefore, it is really hard to be queen in her position and get her job. As the saying goes, "a successful man needs a woman behind him."

This charming woman takes care of his family affairs, so he can have no worries. I'm going to talk about Ma Huanghou today, but not Ma Huanghou in the Ming Dynasty, but Ma Huanghou in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of Jianwu, Jiaotoe women rose up and occupied Jiaotoe County, and Jiuzhen, Rinan and Hepu responded one after another. Liu Xiu appointed Ma Yuan as the general, Le Fuhou as the general, and led the shipbuilding general Duan Zhinan to attack his toes. In the eighteenth year of Jianwu, Ma Yuan led the army to Langbo, defeated the resistance army, beheaded thousands of people, dropped more than 10,000 people, beheaded the frontier and levied two, and spread to Luoyang.

In the 20th year of Jianwu, Ma Yuan led his troops back to Beijing in triumph. Liu Xiuci, Ma Yuan's chariot, was listed as the ninth minister in the court.

Moreover, in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Ming De Ji and Ma Huanghou Ji, Ma Huanghou was also introduced at a great length: "Ma Huanghou was originally the daughter of a general, and her name was unknown. Her father was one of the founding heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He made many great achievements for his country and was fortunate to be a marquis. However, in a crusade against local civil strife, he died of infection with the plague ... "

It can be said that his death did not receive a pension from the court, but he was framed by the same bureaucrats and his family members were jailed. As a result, the general who died for his country was deprived of his title, and the whole family was implicated. When he was buried, he couldn't even get into his ancestral grave.

Because of this series of changes, Ma Huanghou's brother died one after another, and his mother was in a trance all day because of grief, and soon died. When these things happened, Ma was only ten years old. However, she still shoulders all the burdens of the family. It never occurred to her that the ten-year-old girl handled things at home and abroad in an orderly way, which made people who had heard of it sigh.

Ma Shi was ill for a long time, so her grandmother asked someone to read her divination. Ma Shi lives a rich and expensive life, even though he has been ill for a long time. I will be a vassal of this woman. However, noble as she is, she seldom gives birth to children. If she can effectively raise children born to others in the future, she will be stronger than her own children. "

Since something happened at home, the Ma family has fallen out of power and become a family that big officials and small officials like to bully. Ma Shi's cousin couldn't bear to see the past, so she asked the emperor to let her sister enter the palace to serve Zhuang or the kings for the sake of her family's repeated achievements. When Liu Xiukuan heard that he was also sympathetic, he agreed to Ma's suggestion of entering the palace.

Thirteen-year-old horses are precocious because of their early experiences, so their brains and skills after entering the palace are unmatched by their peers. Yes, she serves the Queen wholeheartedly, which makes her future mother-in-law very impressed. For the concubines in the Prince's harem, she can get along well with them.

For a time, the kung fu horse was highly praised from top to bottom, and the prince loved her very much. After she ascended the throne, she was made a nobleman. Later, Ma Shi's cousin entered the palace and gave birth to her son Liu Wei. At that time, Ma Shi, who had been in the palace for many years, had no son, so the emperor decided to give this son to Ma Shi to raise.

Although the son is not his own, Ma has been trying his best to raise him, even harder than his own mother. Fortunately, Wei Liu is a pure and kind person. He always cares about Ma Shi's kindness to him. He is also very filial to Ma Shi. Besides, Ma Shi has a profound sense of justice that ordinary wives don't have.

Perhaps because she can't have children, she often recommends maids around to the emperor. If other women in the harem come to see the emperor, she will also introduce them. She will also reward those who can capture the emperor's heart and make him lucky many times. As a harem concubine, both other concubines in the harem and the empress dowager all praised her.

Therefore, when it was time to establish a queen, the Queen Mother recommended Ma Shi before the emperor could speak. The emperor thought so, too, so he pushed the boat forward and Ma Chenggong successfully became the queen.

After that, Ma Shi, who was in a high position, was not blinded by this position, but was more humble, respectful and even more frugal. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the ladies-in-waiting princes came to see the queen in thick cloth robes. This frugality has become a landscape in the palace, which also makes other concubines in the palace sigh.

In addition to managing court affairs, Ma Huanghou also helped the emperor to handle government affairs. Whenever the emperor encounters a problem, he will ask the queen for advice, and Ma always analyzes the interests of things thoroughly, so these things will be solved. However, Ma did not take the opportunity to participate in politics because of this incident, which also made the emperor respect and love her very much.

Maybe we can't understand the bad jealousy of horses. But as a queen, it was really a rare virtue at that time not to be selfish, not to live up to expectations, and to serve the world as best as possible. In addition, Ma Huanghou was the first female historian in China, and she wrote The Story of Xian Zong's Residency, which initiated the style of "Residency".

In 79 AD, Ma Huanghou died in Mingde Yu, at the age of 40, in posthumous title, and was buried with Emperor Han Ming in the mausoleum of Xian Jieling. Continued Biography praised her: "At home, she can be a teacher for many women, and at home, she can be a role model for her mother."