However, nine years later, Emperor Injong found an opportunity to abolish Queen Guo. What's the story?
Queen Guo accidentally injured Emperor Injong because she was jealous of her concubine.
Guo has a fierce temperament. When she became queen, she supported the Queen Mother and was often unscrupulous. She even prevented Emperor Injong from approaching other concubines.
Although Injong was not very satisfied with Queen Guo, because of his cowardice, he had no choice but to take the operation on Queen Guo.
But in the second year in Ming Dow (1033), a great event happened. Empress Liu, who was in charge of state affairs 1 1 year, passed away. Emperor Renzong was raised by the Empress Dowager since childhood. After Injong ascended the throne, the empress dowager always listened to politics and even controlled the power of the emperor.
With the death of the Empress Dowager, Emperor Injong had no worries and could do whatever he wanted. The first thing he does is to be partial to the person he likes.
He frequently favored Shang and Yang, leaving Queen Guo in the cold. One day, Shang was rude and "contradicted the queen" in front of Injong. Queen Guo was about to slap her. However, Renzong hurried to protect Shang's family. His protection is irrelevant. The queen's slap actually fell on Injong's neck, leaving several fingerprints.
There is no airtight wall in the courtroom. From the chamberlain to the prime minister to the court minister, it is known that Queen Guo beat Renzong. Injong himself was very unhappy and had the idea of abolishing legislation.
Renzong was indecisive, and at the critical moment, Prime Minister Lv Yijian helped make the decision.
Although Injong has the idea of being abolished, he is also a weak person. On the issue of abolishing the queen, the attitude is not very decisive. Not only that, ministers were divided into two factions around whether it should be abolished in the court, which made Renzong very embarrassed.
The representatives who support the abolition of the death penalty are Prime Ministers Lv Yijian and Li Di. They insisted that Queen Guo had harmed the emperor and had a jealous trip. More importantly, they hoped that Renzong would take this opportunity to completely get rid of the influence of Empress Dowager Liu's administration. After all, during Queen Liu's listening to politics, they hoped that Queen Liu would return to the emperor in time more than once.
In addition, after the abolition of Lv Yijian's support, there is an selfishness. At that time, Queen Guo was dismissed because she ignored Injong. Although he will be reinstated soon, he bears a grudge against Queen Guo.
Although both prime ministers supported the abolition of Injong, more protesters in Taiwan Province disagreed. They believe that the queen is the mother of the world, and it is not good for the country to abolish the queen without major mistakes.
To this end, the Taiwan remonstrance officials were at loggerheads with Lv Yijian, and they even suggested that the next day, officials would fight with each other, that is, they would argue in court.
However, Lv Yijian, who had more experience as an official, got the support of Emperor Injong before remonstrating with Taiwan Province officials. Early the next morning, when the suggestion was preparing to argue with Lv Yijian, Lv Yijian took out an imperial edict, and Fan Zhongyan and others were demoted.
After lobbying, Emperor Injong finally made up his mind and decided to abolish Queen Guo. However, Emperor Injong left room, and only wrote in his letter that "Queen Guo sealed the net princess and Yujing drove the seedlings away" so that Guo could leave the queen in the way of Taoist practice.
Renzong's sufferings finally hurt the Guo family.
Although Injong abolished the Guo family, he soon put up with it and kept talking about her. On one occasion, he was very sad to see Guo's sedan chair in the backyard.
Renzong even wrote a small letter to Guo and asked him to give it to her. After seeing this letter, Guo also wrote back to Injong.
Renzong saw the words like a face, and even moved the idea of letting the Guo family return to the palace. However, Guo has a very arrogant temper. Although it has been abolished, she is still very arrogant. She even suggested that "it takes hundreds of officials to set up classes to register". But at this time, Injong had registered a new queen, so he did not agree to Guo's request.
At the same time, people in the imperial court who learned that the Guo family was going back to the palace were very upset, especially those who supported the emperor to abolish the Guo family. He was very afraid that if Guo returned to the palace, his position would be lost.
There is just an opportunity at this time.
Guo is ill. Injong sent Yan Wen and a doctor to the clinic. However, a few days later, Guo suddenly died of illness. We can guess some reasons, but due to insufficient evidence, there is no way to prove what Yan Wen should do.
But when the poor emperor Guo Renzong died, he was preparing for the winter ceremony, and people around him deliberately kept it from him for several days. After the ceremony, he was very sad to learn of Guo's death.