Chapter 020: The vicious Empress Lu
Although Empress Lu was named the princess, but Empress Lu did not live a comfortable life because of this, in the next Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought in the dark Chu-Han War, Empress Lu became Xiang Yu's prisoner, and even when Xiang Yu escorted Empress Lu to the front of the two armies, when Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang with cooking and killing Empress Lu, Liu Bang actually smiled and said: "If you like to kill, you will kill, listen to it." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info”
When Empress Lu heard this, her heart was as cold as ice, and her bones were cold, she didn't expect that Liu Bang would treat herself like this because of the love between her husband and wife for many years. During the four-year Chu-Han War, Empress Lü had been imprisoned as a hostage in the Chu army, she was tortured and humiliated, struggling on the edge of life and death, which caused her to suffer a serious blow to her psychology and spirit, and also caused her sequelae of suspicion and insecurity in the future.
When Chu and Han stopped making peace and divided the world equally with the chasm as the boundary, Xiang Yu returned Empress Lu to Liu Bang, which was really like a world away for Empress Lu. Later, Liu Bang broke the contract, re-provoked, and finally defeated Xiang Yu in the Battle of Qixia and established the Western Han Dynasty.
Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, has been fighting abroad for many years, and there is naturally no shortage of pink beauties in the military tent, including Bo Ji, Qi Ji, Cao Ji and many others. Since a person is a son of heaven and rich from all over the world, it seems to be a matter of course that there are several more women to wait, and Empress Lu also understands this truth. But the palace was originally a battlefield of power struggle, and its cruel struggle was no less than a battlefield where swords intersected, and Empress Lu herself was a woman with a very strong desire for power.
The biggest problem lies in Qi Ji's body, Qi Ji's figure is slender and her temperament is noble, and she is very favored when she meets Liu Bang in Dingtao. And this Qi Ji is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is bent on letting her son Liu Ruyi inherit the throne. Ruyi's speech and demeanor have Liu Bang's demeanor, Liu Bang loves him very much, coupled with Qi Ji's pillow words, Liu Ying's cowardice of Empress Lu's son does not please Liu Bang's liking, Liu Bang has the possibility of abolishing Liu Ying's title of prince and setting up Liu Ruyi to inherit his mantle. Qi Ji is not only Lu Zhi's rival in love, but also her political enemy, she must fight back, but she must also be careful.
Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang has tried every possible means to recruit the highly respected Shangshan Sihao to give advice on governing the country, but Shangshan Sihao heard that Liu Bang does not attach much importance to Confucianism, and he likes to scold people without doing anything between words, so he has always refused to agree.
The so-called Shangshan Sihao is the four hermits in Shangshan, named Dongyuan Gong, Qili Ji, Xia Huang Gong, and Yongli. These four well-educated people have successively established Mao Mountain, Lin Shang Mountain, forest and Shang Mountain, the forest is beautiful, the clouds are steaming, the terrain is steep, and it is a good place to live in seclusion.
In order to consolidate his son's status as the crown prince, Empress Lu sought advice from Zhang Liang. After Zhang Liang's threading, Liu Bang did not invite Shangshan Sihao, who was moved by the sincerity of the prince Liu Ying and Empress Lu, and agreed to go out of the mountain as the prince's guest. Through the teaching and subtlety of these four elders, Liu Ying's cultivation and knowledge have greatly improved.
One day, there was a big banquet in the palace, and the four elders with white hair stood behind the crown prince Liu Ying, and when Han Gaozu learned that they were Shangshan Sihao, he knew that the prince could not be abolished. Liu Bang knew that Shangshan Sihao, who couldn't even invite himself, had become the prince's guest, and it seemed that the prince had already fledged, and when Liu Bang returned to the harem to tell Qi Ji the news, Qi Ji immediately burst into tears, she knew that her hope of becoming the mother of a country was dashed.
This time, with the help of Zhang Liang, Empress Lu achieved an unexpected victory, and even the eloquent Liu Bang was at a loss. After consolidating the position of the crown prince, Empress Lü then wanted to establish his prestige, and one of the most famous things that Empress Lü did in establishing prestige was to kill Han Xin, build his prestige on Han Xin's head, and make the subordinates subdued.
The three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, in the midst of strategizing, won the decisive victory over Zhang Liang, who was thousands of miles away, lived a semi-secluded life after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, and no longer posed a threat. Xiao He, who appeased the people and made the country rich and the people strong, was not the kind of person who fought for the world, and after the establishment of the country, he was a talent who urgently needed to develop production. Only Han Xin, who led the more troops the better, attacked the city and captured the pass, and won by surprise, was always the most reassuring for Liu Bang, not to mention that Han Xin wanted to coerce Liu Bang into becoming the king in the battle between Chu and Han and at the most critical moment for Liu Bang.
After Liu Bang ascended the throne of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he generally fought with him to fight the world's heroes, still behaved rudely, regardless of etiquette, and even drew his sword and danced after being drunk, cut off the temple pillars, and made a lot of trouble, until the court was determined by his uncle and grandson, and there were rules in the court, it is said that Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, said sincerely at that time: "I only know what it is like to be an emperor today." ”
But a group of autobiographical generals still have a heart of disobedience, Han Gaozu struck hard, the first to bear the brunt of the Han Xin who made Liu Bang deeply uneasy, he first changed Han Xin from the king of Qi to the king of Chu, and then demoted from the king of Chu to the marquis of Huaiyin, and used Chen Ping's strategy to catch Han Xin, abolished as a civilian, but Han Gaozu Liu Bang has not killed Han Xin, because Gaozu once had an appointment with Han Xin: "Don't kill when you see the sky, don't kill when you see the ground, don't kill when you see iron." ”
Empress Lu just took Han Xin, who didn't kill Liu Bang, up with a cloth bag, stabbed him to death with a bamboo stick, and killed him without seeing the sky, the earth, or the iron. Liu Bang's mood after hearing that Han Xin was killed by Empress Lu was: "And happy and sad", how much the story behind this said, he couldn't bear to kill the heroes, but his wife was resolute and resolute to understand the pimple in her heart.
Empress Lu's trick did have the effect of killing chickens and making monkeys, and the ministers of the DPRK and China couldn't help but be a little afraid of her when they saw that she dared to kill someone like Han Xin.
When the news of Huainan's rebellion reached Chang'an, Han Gaozu was ill, and he was originally going to send the crown prince Liu Ying to lead the army to ask for the throne, but he was forced to go to the battlefield by Lu Hou with a handful of snot and tears, and said: "Duo Bu is a fierce general in the world, and it is not easy to deal with it. ”
Liu Bang heard this and had no choice but to help himself to go on the expedition, although he quickly put down the rebellion, but unfortunately he was hit by a wound, his wound festered, and he died after three months, only living at the age of sixty-three.
Before Liu Bang died, he specially killed the white horse as an alliance, and told the world that the non-Liu family could not be crowned king. It seems that Liu Bang is also on guard against Empress Lu, the crown prince Liu Ying ascended the throne, only seventeen years old, Liu Ying is benevolent and weak by nature, all the power is in the hands of Empress Lu, Empress Lu hated Qi Ji and King Zhao Ruyi, so a thrilling bloody case quickly unfolded in the palace, first imprisoned Qi Ji, and then sent an envoy to summon King Zhao Ruyi from Handan into the capital, even though Liu Ying tried his best to protect this half-brother, the result was still poisoned by Empress Lu.
For Qi Ji, who was a thorn in her eyes and a thorn in her flesh, Empress Lu cut off her hands and feet, gouged out her eyes and ears, poured dumb medicine, and threw her into the toilet, making her toss and wail, calling her a human biao, that is, the meaning of a human pig, which was miserable. Empress Lu also specially asked her son the emperor to go to see it, and when Liu Ying learned that Ren Bi was Wei Ji, she was shocked, burst into tears, and muttered: "It's too cruel, what kind of thing is this done by people, the queen mother is like this, how can I govern the world?"
On the one hand, Empress Lu used bloody means to deal with the descendants of the Liu family, on the other hand, he made the Kunzhong of the Lu family an important position, and also used the method of laughing Yingying to win over the relatives of the emperor, dreaming of usurping the world of the Liu family step by step.
Liu Ying, the biological son of Empress Lu, died after seven years as a puppet emperor, and Liu Gong, the son born to a harem beauty, succeeded to the throne as the young emperor.
After another four years, Empress Lu was seriously ill and still refused to give up his authority. But at this time, the descendants of the Liu family and a group of veteran ministers could not tolerate her presumptuousness, Zhu Xuhou Liu Zhang, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping took the lead and launched a mutiny, which was the result that Empress Lu did not expect, her brothers, nephews Lu Lu, Nissan and others held heavy troops, all of them were vulnerable, and Empress Lu died in fright.
After the death of Gaozu, she was in power for fifteen years, and was a powerful character, although she was full of blood, but she also had some commendable political achievements, first assisted Gaozu to draw a strategy, compete for the world, and later reduce the burden of the people, correct the social atmosphere, and abolish many draconian decrees, especially to abolish the crimes of the three clans and the evil words for the people to praise.
The biggest disadvantage of Empress Lu is that the jealousy is too heavy, the selfishness is too heavy, and the means are too cruel, and he wants to replace the country that the Liu family has worked so hard to get, and finally he is defeated.