Speaking of which, we have to go back and talk about Liu Xiu's first queen Guo Shengtong.

We always think that Guo Shengtong is also relatively good, and Liu Xiu still has feelings for her.

Before and after Liu Xiu ascended the throne, that is, before and after she was established, she gave birth to 5 sons for Liu Xiu one after another.

Liu Xiu also reciprocated her, not only making her son Liu Yi the crown prince, but also vigorously promoting and reusing her younger brother Guo Kuang.

It should be said that for more than ten years after Liu Xiu ascended the throne and became emperor, he was still very fond of Guo Shengtong and their old Guo family.

However, it has only been a few years since it was so peaceful and harmonious, and the contradictions between Guo and Yin have been ignited by sparks, and a series of things have happened that have a profound impact on the political situation.

Some historians say that not long after Liu Xiu ascended the throne, his two wives Guo Shengtong and Yin Lihua began to fight for the wind and become jealous, but this is actually completely wrong.

On the surface, Guo Shengtong became more and more dissatisfied with Liu Xiu's pampering of Yin Lihua and snubbing him, from dissatisfaction to jealousy, from jealousy to others, and finally made the situation out of control.

I carefully pondered the relevant historical materials about Guo and Yin, and concluded that this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the truth of the matter is far from being so simple.

For many reasons, we cannot see the truth of the facts that are happening around us, and the real facts we may never know.

When we try to sweep away the impetuous smoke and explore some problems in depth, although we often gain something, more often than not, it is difficult to achieve our wishes.

What is even more terrifying is that what we have worked so hard to obtain is often distorted facts, pretentious truths and intricate conclusions.

What to do?

How should we view what is happening, is, and going to happen around us?

For example, can we still see clearly when dealing with important people and events in history?

For example, can we still believe those authoritative opinions and accepted conclusions?

For example, what is happening and what will happen around us, can we still grasp it?

Friends, although these topics are heavy, my answer is: as long as we do it with our hearts, we can see through the facts, learn from history, and grasp ourselves.

I'm sorry, but as an amateur history buff, I would call this method of interpreting history a "civilian view of history."

I take some consolation in the fact that I have tried and tested history in this way.

There are several key aspects of this approach:

First, take people's interests as the starting point and main line to clarify various character relationships and events.

The history of mankind is in fact a history of interests.

In the past, everyone was embarrassed to say that it was a very vulgar thing to talk about "interests", and even regarded "heavy profits" as a bit dirty. For example, there is a famous poem that complains from the mouth of a resentful woman: "Merchants value profit over separation."

However, this kind of "embarrassed to talk about profit" in China's history, which has a long history, is actually just a fig leaf that is not very clean, and it does not affect in the slightest way that some people strive for power and profit, pursue fame and profit, and even grab public interests and other people's interests by unscrupulous means.

Don't be embarrassed, everyone has their own interests.

The beggar wants to occupy a little more space in the corner, the junior clerk wants to raise his salary, the housewife wants to kill the price with the vegetable seller, and Liu Xiu wants to be the emperor, all of which are interests.

When analyzing history from the perspective of people's vital interests, it is easy to grasp the nature of human beings, and it is also easy to grasp the essence of history.

Second, we must look at the essence through the phenomenon.

This is the basic method of understanding the world taught by the great Marx, and it is also very useful to interpret history.

As I just said, for a variety of reasons, it is difficult for us to grasp the truth about many phenomena.

If we can't get the truth, we are willing not to believe the unreliable so-called "truth".

No matter how difficult it is, we must tirelessly pursue the truth, abandon impetuousness and refuse to put on a show, and take out the patience and kung fu of panning for gold in the sand and turning 100 steels into finger twisting and softness, to explore the truth that has been wrapped in layers and repeatedly distorted.

Third, leave history to the common people to comment.

In fact, history is created by countless ordinary people, and it is vivid, vivid, wonderful, and deeply moving.

If such a history is only left to a few people to explain, it will certainly be boring.

If such a history is controlled by a few, it must be very dangerous.

True history is the history of the common people.

If we have a good grasp of these links, coupled with our ingenuity, we can become people who are good at grasping history.

Okay, let's take a look at Liu Xiu's family trivia again.

Seeing that Liu Xiu didn't love Yin Lihua enough, and his care for himself decreased, Guo Shengtong was very dissatisfied, very unhappy, and wanted to find an opportunity to vent.

(Later, the favor declined slightly, and the number of resentment.) ）

Originally, whenever a man has more than one wife, grievances and grievances will be entangled. In the emperor's house, it is even more indescribable.

Originally, Liu Xiu did his best to Guo Shengtong and the old Guo family, but Guo Shengtong was very dissatisfied.

In addition to her resentment of Liu Xiu's vinegar accident of pampering Yin Lihua, she also has another article.

Being jealous because of love is almost the nature of men and women.

Although China's unique feeling between men and women is expressed by "vinegar", which was only a thing in the early Tang Dynasty, this feeling has long existed.

In addition to Guo Shengtong not having Yin Lihua's mind, this "other article" also lies in her special family background and strength, so that she thinks that Xiaoyin is not worthy of competing with herself for favor at all.

Guo Shengtong believes that there is Hebei Group behind him, and Liu Xiu's world is what we helped to fight! It's only natural to be a queen by yourself! Whoever competes with themselves for favor is not allowed!

Indeed, the strength of this Hebei group is so strong that many people think that Liu Xiu relies on it.

This Hebei clique was one of the most important power groups that Liu Xiu supported and relied on to establish and consolidate the Later Han Dynasty.

The main members of the Hebei Group are all from the Hebei region where Liu Xiu Diye was founded, and the core figures are Guo Shengtong's old Guo family, and her maternal uncle, Liu Yang, the king of Zhending.

If you want to continue to look at this list, there are still these friends: Kou Sui, Geng Jing, Geng Yi, Geng Chun, Gai Yan, Pi Tong, Ren Guang, Wang Liang, Feng Qin, etc., this list is very long.

The above-mentioned friends have all made great contributions to Liu Xiujun on the way to the world, and they are all high-level cadres.

No matter how high the rank and influence of the above-mentioned friends are, let's pick up the least famous one and say one, let's think about it.

Let's talk about Feng Qin.

He is a native of Fanyang, Wei County (now Linying, Henan).

His great-grandfather Feng Yang was the Hongnong Taishou of Emperor Xuan of the former Han Dynasty, and his sons and brothers were all 2,000 stone high-level cadres, and the old lady was called "Wanshi Jun".

Feng Qin himself was an adjutant (Gong Cao) in the Taishou Cho period of the county in his early years, and was recommended to Liu Xiu by Cho Taishou.

Feng Qin is good at government affairs, distinguishes between right and wrong, is diligent, hard-working, and has been a general cadre of Liu Xiu's central organs (Langzhong) to the prime minister (Da Situ).

Liu Xiu trusted Feng Qin very much and doted on his old mother.

Mrs. Feng is 80 years old and can still be summoned by Liu Xiu.

At this time, Liu Xiu had to exempt the old lady from kneeling and bowing, and arranged for the staff around her to support her.

When Feng Qin died, Liu Xiu regretted it and personally arranged the funeral.

However, Feng Da Situ, who is so good and so favored, is just a little brother in the Hebei Group.

In this group, Kou Sui's strategy, Geng Yi's fierceness, and Geng Chun's loyalty are all things that everyone has already seen.

Of course, as for Liu Xiu, it was because he married Guo Shengtong that he got the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Liu Yang, the king of Zhending, and only then did he get the support of the royal forces and local heroes in Hebei, so that he won Wang Lang, occupied Hebei, and then won the world, which is something that everyone on the earth knows.

Therefore, Guo Shengtong feels that Liu Xiu's world is handled with the help of her mother's family!

Therefore, out of such a family background and mentality, Guo Shengtong feels that he should and can spoil the harem.

She thinks that she is of noble birth and that there is no need to be humble to anyone; Social relations are tough, and you don't have to be too polite to people; The son is already the crown prince, and he can be fearless; As a queen, of course, she should be condescending.

In this way, in the harem, Guo Shengtong is domineering, domineering, and self-respecting, and he must have the final say everywhere. And for the major policies of the imperial court, she also speaks and greets everywhere.

At this time, Liu Xiu often traveled.

What made Guo Shengtong very annoyed was that every time Liu Xiu went on a business trip, she took Yin Li and a noble person, not her, Queen Guo.

Annoyed!

It is worth mentioning that Guo Shengtong really did not regard himself as an outsider to Liu Xiu's Later Han Dynasty.

She thought about the affairs of the front court and the harem, and she was very emotional.

If there is fire in my heart, I will send it out!

Guo Shengtong was full of jealousy, and he wanted to train everyone when he saw it, especially Yin Lihua and the other concubines.

The harem is originally a place of right and wrong, and the concubines and palace maids dare not contradict the queen in the open, and it is easy to talk about it behind their backs, or even add oil and vinegar to it.

The palace was originally a vanity fair, and cadres at all levels had their own plans and thoughts, and Mingli did not dare to comment on the affairs of the harem, and it was still easy to discuss and discuss in private.

In this way, Guo Shengtong's temper is getting bigger and bigger, and his reputation is getting worse and worse.

People look at her, and then think about Yin Lihua's grace and generosity, and their evaluation of her plummets.

Guo Shengtong, an empress with the support of a powerful Hebei bureaucracy behind her and her son being made the crown prince, an arrogant and domineering empress who must be revenged, gradually became the empress that Liu Xiu could not tolerate.

Although we do not have the facts of the contradiction and struggle between the Guo and Yin families at hand, and judging from the performance of the Yin Lihua brothers and sisters, the Yin family has always been humble and courteous, but we have enough reason to believe that the family dispute caused by Liu Xiu's two wives and the power struggle between the government and the opposition that it inevitably brings are very complex and intense.

Everyone has seen it: the Yin family has been humble, and the Guo family has been aggressive.

However, the Yin family is not vegetarian, except for the Yin Zhi and Yin Xing brothers, who hold the forbidden army and are in charge of the imperial court's secrets, and have become the royal family and relatives who rarely grasp the power of the high-ranking cadres, and they also have Liu Xiu's absolute trust, and there is also a huge power group behind the Yin family: Nanyang Group.

I'm sorry, since I invited everyone to sit in the living room of Liu Xiu's house, it was mainly about tea and homely conversations, and I wanted to ask everyone to put aside the office affairs for the time being.

But there is no way, Comrade Liu Xiu, as the Son of Heaven, the first brother, and the emperor, his family affairs cannot be separated from state affairs at all, or in other words, his family affairs themselves are national affairs, and state affairs are also inextricably linked with his family affairs.