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Throughout the history of China, almost all emperors were harem beauties, and many emperors died young. Few emperors will be single-minded to any woman, or even stay together for life.
Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, is one of the few emperors in the history of China. This lucky woman is Yin Lihua who later entered Liu Xiu's harem. Whether he was a teenager, a rebellious hero or eventually became an emperor, Liu Xiu had the same feelings for Yin Lihua.
Although Liu Xiu is the ninth grandson of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, by his generation, he has become like ordinary people. At the age of 20, he chose to study in Chang 'an. In imperial academy, Chang 'an, he studied hard and made great progress in his studies. A few years later, Liu Xiu, who returned from studying in Chang 'an, was already a brilliant and ambitious young talent.
Yin Lihua is a famous beauty in Liu Xiu's hometown. All the rich children and young talents in his hometown have admired him for a long time. Liu Xiu is naturally one of these admirers. He accomplished nothing in his early years. He just has a crush on Yin Lihua in his heart and feels that he is not qualified to express himself. However, when he returned from school, he told his family to marry Yin Lihua. Liu Xiu met Yin Lihua through his brother-in-law. Liu Xiu's sister Liu Yuan married Chen Deng. Deng Jia and Yin Jia have certain in-laws and often walk around. Liu Xiu stayed at her sister's house after her study tour, and they naturally got to know each other.
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After knowing Yin Lihua, the two gradually cultivated their feelings. The more I know, the more Liu Yue thinks that this beautiful woman Yin Lihua is her dream lover, so she is determined to make a career and marry Yin Lihua.
Soon, Liu Xiu led a group of hometown children to rise up. Not long after, Liu Xiu assembled 8,000 elite soldiers by virtue of his personality charm. Under the banner of "Liu Bang's Ninth Sun", Liu Xiu established his invincible "outlaw hero". At this time, Yin Shi, Yin Lihua's brother who has been fighting beside Liu Xiu, saw Liu Xiu's great future and persuaded his family to marry his sister Yin Lihua as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade.
Soon, because of the integration and expansion of the team, Liu Xiu embarked on the art of marriage and married Guo Shengkun. Liu Xiu always feels sorry for Yin Lihua. Guo Shengkun is also a beauty. Her beauty is different from that of Yin Lihua. She exudes a natural elegance. Unfortunately, she came a little late. If she appears in front of Yin Lihua, she may still get Liu Xiu's true love. However, since Liu Xiu has Yin Lihua, Guo Shengkun can only stand aside, and her love tragedy is inevitable. However, this political marriage brought great political benefits to Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu's army became stronger. In 25 AD, Liu Xiu established his own political power in Baixiang, Hebei Province, which was called the Eastern Han Dynasty in history, and Liu Xiu became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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After the country settled down, Liu Xiu was embarrassed. Now that he is the emperor, which of the two ladies should be the queen? Yin Lihua and Guo Shengkun, these two women are very important to him. Emotionally, he is inclined to Yin Lihua, but Guo Shengkun is like a stone in his heart, because she has a strong backer behind her. If we offend her, her 100,000-strong army will defect.
Liu Xiu decided to compromise first, neither named Yin Lihua as the queen nor named Guo Shengtong as the queen. Let's make them nobles after the queen.
Later, Guo Shengtong was killed for rebelling against the whole family, and lost the qualification of being named queen. Liu Xiu decisively decided to pursue the title of Queen Yin Lihua.
Surprisingly, however, Yin Lihua refused to be the queen. Yin Lihua told Liu Xiu that she didn't deserve to be a queen, and she was very grateful to Liu Xiu for her love over the years. However, the queen is not a private matter of the two of them, but a matter of national importance. And she was born in poverty, the more important reason is that she never gave birth to a son for Liu Xiusheng, while Guo Shengkun gave birth to the eldest son Liu Qiang for Liu Xiusheng. She doesn't know if she can have children in the future. How can a barren woman be queen? Therefore, she begged Liu Xiu to make Guo Shengtong queen and make her son Liu Qiang a prince.
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Yin Lihua's profound understanding of justice not only touched Liu Xiu, but also touched the ruling and opposition parties, making Liu Xiu cherish this beautiful woman more. In 26 AD, Liu Xiu officially canonized Guo Shengtong as the queen, Guo Shengtong became the first queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and her son Liu Qiang was also made the first prince of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Guo Shengkun is full of gratitude to Yin Lihua. Her family betrayed the court and she lost her patron. Yin Lihua gave her the position of queen at this time, which was tantamount to giving timely help. Guo Shengkun therefore affectionately called Yin Lihua "Sister".
Yin Lihua gave up her position as queen, but she got more and more strong love from Liu Xiu. Guo Shengkun became a queen, but Liu Xiu became more and more cold to her. In order to make up for Yin Lihua's guilt of not being a queen, Liu Xiu lived in her bedroom almost every day, and Guo Shengkun's bedroom actually became a cold palace. Only under Yin Lihua's reminding and persuasion, Liu Xiucai occasionally went to Guo Shengkun's bedroom several times. The more humble Yin Lihua is, the more sorry Liu Xiu feels for her. On one occasion, Liu Xiu wanted all Yin Lihua's brothers to be Marquis. Yin Lihua politely declined again. She said she was just a concubine. How can her brother be a marquis?
Liu Xiu also gave Yin Lihua jewelry, but she refused. She said that the country is just stable now and needs a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop production. As a woman, what's the use of asking for so much jewelry?
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Yin Lihua's profound understanding of the great sense of justice has also made him more and more important in Liu Xiu's heart. Every time Liu Xiu went to war, he never forgot to bring Yin Lihua, but he always left Guo Shengtong in the palace. At the same time, in AD 28, Yin Lihua finally gave birth to a son for Liu Xiusheng, who was later Emperor Gaozu Liu Zhuang.
The whole harem was immersed in joy, and the ladies-in-waiting came to congratulate Yin Lihua on her lucky birth of a dragon son. As a queen, Guo Shengkun should lead the concubines to congratulate Yin Lihua as a mother instrument, but she didn't come. At the same time, as a prince, Liu Qiang doesn't like Liu Xiu. His ideas are always inconsistent with Liu Xiu's, and even aroused Liu Xiu's disgust.
Not long after, Liu Xiu, who had gained a foothold in China, made up her mind to canonize Yin Lihua, the love of her life, as the queen and abolish the prince. However, Guo Shengkun became the luckiest of China's abandoned empresses. She is the only abandoned wife queen in the history of China. Not only that, Liu Xiu is very kind to her family. She has lived a free and prosperous life all her life.
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