The Most Vicious Women’s Hearts: How many are the most vicious women in history?

In Chinese history, there are three women who are very vicious, and they are extremely vicious and notorious. Their vicious methods were horrifying, and they were eventually nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever. These three vicious women are Empress Lu, Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi.

Let’s talk about Empress Lu first. Empress Lu was the wife of Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Who was Liu Bang? He was the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty who was born as a rogue. Queen Lu's name was Lu Pheasant. She was regarded as a virtuous woman in her early years. When she first married Liu Bang, her life was not rich. Liu Bang often disappeared for three days because of official business and dealing with friends. In his early years, Liu Bang was a bit of a rogue. He often wore a homemade bamboo hat and wandered around, stealing food and drink. Once he was escorting a prisoner, but he was drunk and the prisoner escaped, and he had to flee to the swamp area at the foot of Mangdang Mountain. Queen Lu was always worried about her husband and sent him clothes and food.

Later Liu Bang rebelled, defeated Xiang Yu, became emperor, and Queen Lu was named queen. As her status increased, her desire for power and cruelty also gradually increased. In order to achieve her goal, she could play hard.

Liu Bang loved his concubine Madam Qi very much. She gave birth to a son, King Zhao Liu Ruyi. Liu Bang wanted to depose the prince Liu Ying who was born to Queen Lu and make King Zhao the prince instead. In order to preserve Liu Ying's status as prince, Empress Lu wooed the ministers of the court and formed a political group with her as the center.

In the twelfth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (195 BC), Liu Bang died. Liu Ying became the emperor at the age of 17, and Lu Fei became the queen mother. Liu Ying was young and weak, and the power was in the hands of Empress Dowager Lu. She began to eliminate dissidents and massacred those who opposed her, including Liu Bang's son. Especially in killing Mrs. Qi and King Zhao Liu Ruyi, Queen Lu's methods were cruel and bloody. Mrs. Qi was tortured and killed by Empress Lu. Her hair was tweezed, her hands and feet were chopped off, her eyes were gouged, her ears were deafened, she was given mute medicine, and she couldn't speak. She was thrown into the toilet and was called "human pig". The end was extremely tragic. Mrs. Qi wailed for three days and died. She also asked her son Liu Ying, Emperor Hui, to watch. Liu Ying was frightened and died of melancholy in 188 BC. She then established the (former) young emperor Liu Gong, who assumed the title of emperor and exercised the power of the emperor. The young emperor complained because his biological mother was killed by Empress Lu. In 184 BC, Empress Lu killed the young emperor Liu Gong and established Liu Hong as the (later) young emperor. Empress Dowager Lu continued to rule the world. Empress Lu was in power for fifteen years. She was the first of the three major female rulers in Chinese history (Queen Lu, Wu Zetian, and Empress Dowager Cixi). On August 1, 180 BC, Empress Lu died of illness at the age of sixty-two.

From this, we can see that Queen Lu is an unprecedented and very cruel woman. She used such cruel methods to kill Mrs. Qi, destroying a defenseless and weak woman, and exposing her bloody and beastly side. If she uses it now In other words, he is a born sadist, making people filled with righteous indignation. If she were alive today, she would definitely be shot for "crimes against humanity."

Let’s talk about Wu Zetian. She was originally a talented person of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and later became the queen of his son Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. Taizong called her "Meiniang". Gaozong was frail and sick, so she assisted him in handling military and state affairs. After controlling the government for thirty years, she succeeded to the throne, claiming to be the Holy Emperor, and changing the country's name to Zhou. She became the only empress unprecedented in Chinese history.

After Wu Zetian came to power, she vigorously attacked dissidents, reused the Wu family, massacred political opponents, and even deposed the emperor's son at will. The most outrageous thing is that in the sixth year of Yonghui (655), Wu Zetian, who was extremely favored by Gaozong, urged Gaozong to establish herself as his queen. However, in feudal society, the abolition of the queen was a major national event, and loyal ministers such as Chu Suiliang and Changsun Wuji strongly opposed it. However, Gaozong's ideas were also supported by Wu Zetian's accomplices Xu Jingzhong and Li Yifu, and some other military factions supporting the DPRK and China. Later, Wu Zetian's daughter died suddenly, and she was killed by Empress Wang, forcing Emperor Gaozong to finally issue an edict in October of that year, abolishing the Queen Wang family, and officially enthroning Zetian as empress. , Xiao Shufei chopped off her hands and feet, put them into a wine vat, and called them drunken bones. He scolded fiercely: "Let's see if you two can stand up!" In this way, the two young lives of Concubine Xiao Shu and Queen Wang came to a bloody end. She even forced Gaozong to kill her uncle Changsun Wuji.

In the 16 years from the first year of Shangyuan (674), when Wu Zetian began to rule with the title of "Queen of Heaven", to the first year of Tianshou (690) when she officially proclaimed herself emperor, Wu adopted various strategies to become emperor. A variety of powerful and effective measures. Emperor Gaozong wanted to cede his throne to his eldest son, Li Hong. Empress Wu ignored the love between mother and son, poisoned Li Hong to death, and made her second son Li Xian the crown prince. Li Xian was entrusted by Emperor Gaozong with the post of Lin Guo, and he was very capable in handling government affairs. Empress Wu deposed Li Xian as a commoner and established her third son Li Xian as the prince. In the first year of Hongdao (683), Gaozong died, Zhongzong Li Xian just succeeded to the throne, and Empress Wu came to the court in the name of the Empress Dowager. A year later, Zhongzong was abolished, and he was granted the title of King of Luling. His fourth son, Li Dan, was made emperor and became Ruizong. Li Xian and Li Dan were both mediocre and incompetent people. They were also puppets in the emperor's position and were controlled by Empress Wu in everything.

In 705, Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi took advantage of Wu Zetian's old age and critical illness, supported Zhongzong's restoration, and respected Wu as the "Great Sage Emperor of Zetian". In the winter of the same year, Wu died at the age of 82. Her last edict was: "Remove the title of emperor and call her the Great Sage Queen Zetian."

It can be seen that Wu Zetian was also a very vicious woman, cruel and ruthless, and heinous. , she played with the emperor in her hands and killed the princes and ministers wantonly. She was a greedy, ruthless and evil woman, and she was insane. It was a pity that Li Shimin did not kill her at the beginning. It was a pity that Li Shimin was really blind.

Finally, let’s talk about Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1851, Empress Dowager Cixi was elected to the palace as a beautiful girl, with the title of Lan Guiren. Because she was favored by Emperor Xianfeng, she was promoted to Yi concubine in 1854. In 1856, his son Zai Chun was born. The following year she was promoted to "Concubine Chuxiu Gongyi". In August 1861, Emperor Xianfeng died of illness in Rehe, and his posthumous edict established Zaichun as the crown prince and heir to the throne. Eight people including Prince Yi Zaiyuan, Prince Zheng Duanhua, and Minister of Household Affairs Sushun were appointed as "Ministers of Zanxiang Government Affairs" to assist the administration. The reign name is "Qixiang", and the birth mother Nala is honored as the "Holy Mother Queen Mother". In November of the same year, Cixi and Prince Gong Yixin launched a coup and dismissed or executed eight "Zanxiang Ministers". After the Tongzhi reign of the Yuan Dynasty, Cixi implemented the practice of listening to politics behind the curtain and actually controlled the power of the country.

After Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, she relied on Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army and Li Hongzhang's Huai Army to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Nian Army, and the Hui and Miao uprisings. On July 19, 1864, when the Hunan Army broke into Tianjing (today's Nanjing), the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they searched and killed them in sections. In three days, they killed more than 100,000 Taiping soldiers. "The corpses in the Qinhuai River were like hemp."

After the contents of the "Secret Treaty between China and Russia" were made public, public opinion at home and abroad was in an uproar. People across the country were furious and denounced the Qing government's traitorous behavior, which further promoted the in-depth development of the nationwide revolutionary movement, and the Qing government fell into a very embarrassing situation. Under the pressure of strong public opinion at home and abroad, the Qing government had to abandon its plan to sign the "Secret Treaty between China and Russia".

The Empress Dowager Cixi was so angry that she cruelly ordered reporter Shen Xin to be "executed". Later, because she was afraid that the execution would affect the "celebration" of the Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an edict: "Immediately carry the death stick."

In 1898, Cixi launched the "1898 Coup" and imprisoned Emperor Guangxu. Killed the Six Gentlemen of Wuxu.

On November 15, 1908 (the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu), the actual supreme ruler of Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties, the biological mother of Emperor Tongzhi and the concubine of Emperor Xianfeng, Empress Dowager Cixi passed away. She ruled China for half a century.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was cruel, moody, and killed without blinking an eye. She was a very vicious woman. Unfortunately, she was not wiped out by the gunfire of the revolution, which was really a disadvantage to her.