Wu Runjin

Empress Yang (30 June 1162 – 18 January 1233), formally titled Empress Gongsheng and also known as Yang Meizi, was a Chinese empress consort whose political acumen enabled her to serve as de facto empress regnant for years. She is considered "one of the most powerful empresses of the Song dynasty and...[possibly] the Southern Song dynasty's most powerful Empress." Yang is generally described as intelligent, ruthless and, at times, malicious, while outwardly maintaining a saintly and liberal imag…