Empress Xuan, surnamed Mi, was born in Danyang, Chu. She was also the first empress dowager in China's history after her stepson Ba Zi and Qin Dynasty. During the Warring States Period, the empress dowager of Qin, the concubine of King Huiwen of Qin and the mother of King Zhao Xiang of Qin.
At the beginning of Qin's accession to the throne, Empress Xuan assumed the post of Empress Dowager. During her reign, she conquered Yiqu and destroyed the great disaster in western Qin. In October of the forty-second year of Qin Dynasty (265 BC), Queen Xuan died and was buried in Lishan Mountain, Zhiyang.
The title of queen mother was first seen in her. In Song Dynasty, Gao Cheng wrote in Volume I of Tales: "Zhou, the mother of the cloud in Records of the Historian Qin Benji, was named Xuan Empress. The queen mother thought it was said. Therefore, Fan Sui said that the King of Qin had listened to the Queen Mother alone. Later, Zhao and Wang Xinli also said that the Empress Dowager was pragmatic. This is the name of Empress Dowager Cixi, since Zhao Haoqi of Qin Dynasty. The Han Dynasty attacked Qin, so the emperor also honored his mother as the empress dowager. "
The queen mother's authoritarian power also began with her. In Song Dynasty, Chen Shidao's Twenty-two Collection of Houshan said: "My mother entered politics after Qin Xu Antai." She ruled the state of Qin for 36 years as the empress dowager, and her national strength developed greatly. "She won the land of the East, the weakness of the princes, tasted the emperor of the world, and all the countries in the world kowtowed to the west" (Historical Records).
It can be seen from the process of fighting for her son that Queen Xuan is not a "weak woman". Anyone who looks at her with contempt for women is sure to suffer. Furthermore, this mature belle in her thirties became the originator of concubines in feudal society. One of the most glorious periods of Qin Kung Fu was the thirty-six years (some say forty-one years) of Xuan Di's reign.
At the age of 30, she became the Empress Dowager of Qin, and was called "Empress Xuan". In order to consolidate her youngest son's throne, she used the most direct method in the world: marriage-that is, marrying the princess of Chu to her own son as the queen and the daughter of Qin to Chu.
At the same time, the ruling Empress Xuan began to appoint cronies.
Needless to say, the cronies are all the family members of Queen Xuan. On her recommendation, Empress Xuan made Xiang Shou (a member of her mother's family) the prime minister of Qin. Judging from this recommendation, Abazi's mother should be surnamed Xiang.
At the same time, Wei Ran, who made great contributions to the protection of my nephew, was also in charge of the military power. He was named Anhou, and his fief was Anhou (now dengzhou city, Henan Province). Later, he was Xuan's half-brother Taoyi (Dingtao, Shandong Province). Mi Rong, another half-brother of Empress Xuan, was named Hua Yangjun, and the fief was given to Shaanxi Gaoling first, and then to Xincheng Jun. The fief also became Mi County (now xinmi city, Henan).
As for the other two sons of Queen Xuan, of course, they have to be sealed. Gongzi Fei was named Jingyang Jun, and the fief was in Jingyang, Shaanxi Province today, and the latter fief was changed to Wan (Nanyang, Henan Province); Childe Mao was named Gao Lingjun, and the fief was in An Gaoling. Later it was changed to Deng.