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A woman is sitting upright, smiling at the camera and saying:

"Hello, everyone, my name is Xiaoping. Some time ago, many fans have been calling on me to make a historical commentary video about the Shangzhen Qinghuang Guangwu Empress.

Since it is the request of the fans, of course the anchor must satisfy it, but the history of Empress Guangwu is too legendary. There are many official and unofficial histories, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

So I spent a lot of time collecting and organizing information and making comparisons, which has been delayed until today.

But even so I can't guarantee accuracy.

Some of the content is even my guess, so please don’t take it too seriously. After all, I am not a professional.

In fact, to be more serious, just listen to the story. "

“Now back to the topic.

I will first briefly tell you about the life of the Empress, and then I will focus on some important events.

Empress Guangwu was born in the Lin family in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Her father was Lin Ruhai, a prostitute, and her mother was Jia Min, the legitimate daughter of Duke Rongguo. Her background was definitely not low. No matter how you calculate it, she was a wealthy lady. Her maiden name was Daiyu, and she was very smart.

Lin Daiyu has been quite magical since she was a child. When she was five years old, the century-old pomegranate tree in her family became a spirit and became a god. She accepted her as a disciple. From then on, she traveled to the Kingdom of God every day and studied hard.

Whether it is true or false, let’s not debate it for now.

But this is indeed recorded in official history.

And there are many legends about the pomegranate god, so let’s take them as true for now so that we can continue talking about them later.

At the 15-year-old birthday ceremony, the Pomegranate God floated over and gave Daiyu two gifts. It is said that one is called Langya Pavilion, which contains thousands of books in the world, and the other is called Tianmen Pearl. Misfortune, you can use the blood of the descendants of the Lin family to open the orb and be protected.

It’s hard to say whether it’s true or not, after all, no one has seen it, but people at the time should have believed it. In the words of the capital’s tabloids, from the prince to the son of a minister, anyone of the right age would try to pursue him. Daiyu, but Daiyu rejected them one by one.

This actually went against the common sense of the time. Generally speaking, women at that time paid attention to the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers. However, regardless of official and unofficial history, it can be seen that Daiyu seemed to have absolute autonomy in marriage at that time. Her parents did not interfere. Even the emperor did not interfere.

All the irrational phenomena are just that everyone is afraid of the Pomegranate God, or they think that the Pomegranate God is a real existence, and Daiyu, who is also known as a disciple of the Pomegranate God.

All have privileges to a certain extent.

In the following years, many people should have quit pursuing Daiyu one after another. There was only one person who kept pursuing Daiyu, and that was the Ninth Prince, Tu Huaixia. He persisted for nine years, and finally moved Lin Daiyu, and got married. And only one year after the wedding, he had the fruit of love, and at the same time, he was promoted from prince to prince.

No matter how I read the history books, I have never seen anything special about the Ninth Prince from some previous historical records, or that he has made any great contributions. He is neither heir, elder, nor meritorious, but he is He did become a prince, and the officials didn't object too much.

At this time, we still need to assume that the Pomegranate God is real.

Then it seems much more reasonable.

If a prince who married the only disciple of a god ascends the throne and becomes emperor, he will definitely be protected by the gods. As long as he is not a tyrant and a coward, there is no problem in maintaining his status.

Therefore, when he was made the crown prince, all the officials did not object.

It seems more reasonable.

But no matter whether the Ninth Prince's feelings for Daiyu are true or not, how much of it is true feelings, and how much of it is because he thinks that by marrying Daiyu, he can become the prince, but at least he has fulfilled his promise, and they will be together for the rest of their lives. , whether he became the prince or ascended the throne as the emperor nine years later, until his death, he only had Daiyu, and there was never any record of the idea of ​​taking a concubine.

And the couple gave birth to six children.

It can also be seen that they really love each other.

Tu Huaixia ascended the throne at the age of 35, and Lin Daiyu became the queen this year. But before she became the queen, her reputation and achievements were already huge, so many that it is unimaginable. Let me list them for you.

Lin's Commercial Bank was founded when she was 15 years old. By the time she became queen, Lin's Commercial Bank's annual income had exceeded 3000 million taels of silver. At that time, the national treasury's revenue was 4000 million taels, making her extremely wealthy.

Lin's College was founded when she was 16 years old. It was founded after Lin's Trading Company began to make profits. It initially taught literacy and literacy, and later added some specialized skills teaching, becoming the earliest vocational and technical school in history. Later, it gradually added medical courses. , science and engineering, mechanical and chemical engineering, etc., it has always been hailed as the world's first comprehensive university and the cradle of scientific and technological civilization.

It is said that the textbooks in the college were provided by Lin Daiyu, but Lin Daiyu has always denied that those books were written by her, and only said that her master gave them to her. Some people think this is her modesty, and some people think it is true.

Becoming a queen is a watershed in her life for Lin Daiyu. Although she has done a lot before, she is still relatively limited. At most, Lin's Commercial Bank prefers to recruit female employees in many industries. Lin's College allows Enrollment of women, etc.

The status of queen gave Lin Daiyu greater rights. She began to try to use her few rights to change the status of women in the world. For example, she began to build a factory that only recruited female workers.

Special colleges for women were opened.

In addition, she tried to do a lot, but she soon discovered that her power was not big enough, and the privileges of the queen were not enough to allow her to fight against secular society.

There are many things that not even the Queen can do.

For example, the woman Heli intervened personally to help the woman Heli, but was scolded by many officials for destroying family harmony. For example, when a certain family was exterminated, she intervened and asked the Yamen to severely punish the excommunicated person, who was impeached and the harem interfered with politics.

She found that after she became queen, she seemed to have more power, but more restrictions. Those ministers impeached her at every turn and tied her hands and feet.

Perhaps it was from that time that Lin Daiyu first had thoughts about imperial power. She did not simply love power, she just wanted to use power to do what she wanted to do, and wanted to change the world after gaining supreme power. Break the rotten old social system.

Recreate her ideal world.

It can be seen from the history books that Lin Daiyu was very active in the first two years after becoming queen, and then she became silent. However, a careful analysis of the identities and backgrounds of some officials in the court ten years later shows that many young officials came from Lin Daiyu. It is not that Lin Daiyu did nothing in the school, she just changed from doing things openly to doing things secretly and developing her own power. "