The Four (part 2)

As Wei Zifu became the second empress of Liu Che, it seemed to be calm since she was a meek woman. What was more, Liu Che decided to have Wei Zifu’s only son become the crown prince. However, a poem changed everything.
At that time, the most famous poet Li Yannan, a eunuch, wrote a poem called “Beauty in the north” which described his perfect sister. Liu Che was greatly attracted by the beauty in the poem and made her a concubine, called Mrs. LEE. However, it didn’t last long. Mrs. LEE died soon after she gave birth, which completely broke Liu Che’s heart. Because of the yearning for Mrs. LEE, he appointed Mrs. LEE’s brother a general. Since then, Liu Che hadn’t found a new love for decades.
The most important turning point appeared when Liu Che made his last inspection tour during which he found a girl looked almost the same as Mrs. LEE. He immediately took her back to Changan even though he was already over 60 years old and named the girl “Mrs. Gou Yi” for the scar on her hand. Soon Mrs. Gou Yi gave birth to a boy. In the meantime, the chief governor, Jiang Chong, who wanted to bring down crown prince prosecuted that crown prince is going to revolt and forged many evidence. Liu Che was so angry that he required the army to kill crown prince without a thoroughgoing analysis. Crown prince was killed innocently, in the meantime, his mother, Empress Wei Zifu committed suicide, which made Mrs. Gou Yi empress When Liu Che found out that everything was faked by Jiang Chong, he couldn’t be more regret and became seriously sick. He knew his time was coming, but the only son fit for crown prince was the son of Mrs. Gou Yi, who was only 2 years old. To avoid the young mother of emperor controlled too much power; Liu Che decided to kill Mrs. Gou Yi even though she was only 24 years old and abandoned her corpse into wild.
After Liu Che died, officers found that there was no empress to be buried with Liu Che while they also couldn’t bury Liu Che alone. However, the 3 former empress’s corpses were all impossible to find, so that they decided to appoint Mrs. LEE the empress to have her accompany Liu Che. So Mrs. LEE also became empress though she had been dead for decades.
That’s the story of the four empresses of Emperor Han Wu, Liu Che.