Queen Xiao, the great-granddaughter of Xiao Tong, Prince Zhaoming of Liang Dynasty, and the daughter of Xiao Kui, Emperor Xiaoming of Western Liang Dynasty, was the princess of Liang Dynasty.
When Princess Xiao was born, the famous divination expert Yuan Tiangang was amazed by her appearance. He carefully calculated her birth date and finally came to an eight-character conclusion: "Mother is destined to the world, and she is destined to bring peach blossoms." "However, because Princess Xiao was born in February, and local customs considered children born in February unlucky, Xiao Kui gave her to his cousin Xiao Qi for adoption. Soon, her adoptive father Xiao Qian passed away, and her uncle Zhang Ke had to adopt his niece.
After Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian came to the throne, he made his eldest son Yang Yong the prince and his second son Yang Guang the king of Jin. The founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty hoped to select a princess from the Xiliang Kingdom, which had always had good relations, as the concubine of the Jin Dynasty. After Xiao Kui learned about this, he went to divination, but the result of the divination was that none of the daughters around him were suitable. In the end, Xiao Kui had no choice but to take back the daughter adopted by his uncle. The result of the divination was good luck. Therefore, Princess Xiao, who was only nine years old, married Yang Guang, who was already 21 years old, and was named Princess Jin. Because Princess Xiao was still young, she did not get married immediately after entering the palace. Yang Jian's Queen Dugu loved this young and lovely daughter-in-law very much. She raised Princess Xiao as her own daughter and hired many masters for her to teach her reading, composition, painting, playing the zither, etc. The extremely smart little daughter-in-law learns everything she wants, and often gets it right with just a few clicks. After four or five years, Princess Xiao not only became a graceful and graceful beauty, she was also knowledgeable, courteous and versatile. In the blink of an eye, in the thirteenth year of the founding of the Emperor, Jin Wang Yang Guang, who was ordered to guard Yangzhou, returned to Chang'an, the capital, to marry his young daughter-in-law, Princess Xiao. This year, Yang Guang was twenty-five years old, and his wife had just turned thirteen. Yang Guang was a well-known womanizer, so he naturally fell in love with his beautiful and charming young daughter-in-law. And Yang Guang was even more happy when he learned that Yuan Tiangang, the divination wizard, had said in his early years that his little daughter-in-law was "the mother of the world". Consider this little daughter-in-law as the lucky star in your life.
After getting married, Yang Guang immediately roped in powerful minister Yang Su and others to start seizing the heirloom. But at this time, the prince Yang Yong was troubled by the competition between his wives and concubines. It turned out that Yang Yong didn't like the Crown Princess Yuanshi and spent all his attention on Yun Zhaoyi, the side wife. As a result, Yuanshi couldn't stand the pain of being left out and hanged herself. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty abolished Yang Yong's crown prince in a rage. Yang Guang took advantage of the situation and, with the strong support of his mother, Queen Dugu, sat on the throne of the prince. In this way, Xiao's daughter, who had been the Princess of Jin for seven years, became the Crown Princess. Soon after, Yang Guang ascended the throne of the emperor ahead of schedule after some intensive planning and conspiracy. The Xiao family's daughter became Empress Xiao, the "mother of the world" in the Sui Dynasty, which confirmed Yuan Tiangang's statement that she would be the "mother of the world". prophecy.