It's day and night, Chang'an Shangguanli.

Since Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, entered the customs and ordered Xiao He to build the two palaces of Changle and Weiyang, Chang'an City has persistently implemented the 'curfew' system for more than two hundred years: when the time comes, the city gate is closed, and the people are closed to the house and are not allowed to go out.

But Chang'an City after the Hai Shi will not be completely lonely because of the curfew - it is claimed that throwing a brick can hit several noble gathering areas of the marquis, and Shangguanli belongs to a small part of the area that is free from the 'rules'.

Shangguanli is not far from Weiyang Palace, from the north gate of Weiyang Palace, through Beique to the arsenal, even if you don't look carefully, Shangguanli, which is close to the east wall of Weiyang Palace, will inevitably attract everyone's attention - the lights are bright all night!

In the midst of such prosperity, there is a high-gate mansion with a lot of traffic in front of the Ming Dynasty, but there is an eerie silence inside it - the residence of Zhou Bo, the imperial lieutenant of the dynasty: 绛 (jiàng) Houfu.

In the guest hall of the main courtyard, all the famous figures in the court were present, and the three princes and nine kings gathered, which gave people the illusion of 'being in the court' - if it was not Zhou Bo who was sitting at the top, but Liu Hong.

Since that day, after Liu Hong led thousands of soldiers of the Northern Army who showed their left shoulders into Weiyang Palace in front of Zhou Bo, Zhou Bo's status among the courtiers has quietly undergone some subtle changes.

If it is said that when Empress Lu was there, everyone regarded Zhou Bo as the backbone; When Zhu Lu was annihilated, Zhou Bo was respected as the spiritual leader, and after the incident in Beique that day, the big guys didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Zhou Bo...

——The situation has changed suddenly, and the puppet emperor Liu Hong, who originally "committed suicide in shame", has been 'resurrected', so that the courtiers are a little unsure of what direction the situation will develop next.

In feudal society, the vast majority of politicians did not refer to right or wrong when making decisions, but considered which choice was more beneficial to them.

Now, it is a typical political dilemma in the feudal society period - the confusing situation, so that these people sitting in this hall, who are at the top of the pyramid of the Han Dynasty, cannot see which choice is more wise.

As one of the actual controllers of the Han Dynasty at this time, Zhou Bo, who was sitting at the top, was also very confused.

In his opinion, whether it was when Empress Lu was there, he and Chen Ping's long-sleeved good dance, or the previous move of contacting the princes to destroy Zhu Lu, it was completely out of the explanation of the eldest brother, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang - take care of this Liu Han Jiangshan!

But Zhou Bo couldn't understand when this righteous act of gaining fame and fortune and being worthy of his heart gradually changed its taste...

Is Liu Hong the son of Emperor Hui?

Zhou Bo is very clear.

is not only Zhou Bo, but also a courtier who knows a little about the affairs of the palace; Any person with clear logic and a certain ability to think and judge knows that Liu Hong's 'non-Emperor Hui' is just a fig leaf to prevent everyone in the court from being infamous as 'killing the king'.

This is very easy to explain: even if Emperor Hui Liu Ying ascended the throne at a young age, and his mother, the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant, controlled the government and even abused Emperor Gao's favorite concubine Mrs. Qi as a 'human being', it is impossible for Liu Ying, as the emperor, not to figure out whether the child born by a concubine is his own.

- If Emperor Hui is really so stupid, let alone Shangshan Sihao, even if Empress Lu really invites the Red Emperor and his old man to the mortal world, I am afraid that he will not be able to stop Liu Bang from abolishing the crown prince!

As for the 'Lu family's children fornication-chaotic harem'...

At first glance, it seems very likely: the children of the Lu family relied on the support of the Empress Dowager Lu to bully the young brother-in-law Liu Ying and occupy his harem concubines; Wang Mang at the end of the Western Han Dynasty and Dong Zhuo at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty also did this...

But don't forget, Emperor Hui Liu Ying is not Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty or Emperor Shao of the Eastern Han Dynasty!

Liu Ying's storage position was sealed by the founding emperor Liu Bang, and the founding heroes stayed for Zhang Liang, Hou Xiao He, Wuyang Hou Fan and other manpower support, and all the soldiers of the Northern and Southern Army were loyal, and the world was decided!

It is Liu Bang who wants to abolish it, but because he is afraid of the turmoil of the government and the opposition, he can only give up!

Such an emperor would let his mother's uncles and uncles mess around in his harem?

Joke!

Don't look at Liu Ying's nickname as 'Hui', you really regard Liu Ying as a 'benevolent and weak king' - saying that Liu Ying is weak is based on the emperor's judging standards!

In fact, Emperor Hui Liu Ying, who is considered by historians to be 'benevolent and weak', was not as submissive as shown in later film and television works - after ascending the throne, the 'benevolent and weak' Liu Ying almost had a head-on conflict with Prime Minister Cao in order to take power!

Because the prince's career has been in turmoil for a long time, Liu Ying has saved up a lot of energy in her heart, wanting to prove that she is not as useless as her father Liu Bang thinks, so at the beginning of her ascension to the throne, Liu Ying began to lay out; The aim is to take power as soon as possible, and then to show what is in mind.

In this process, Liu Ying found that no matter what he wanted to do, the old guys with 'Founding Fathers' written on their foreheads would always look at themselves with a child's eyes, and then drop a sentence: Your Majesty think twice, Emperor Taizu Gao's peace is not easy in the world...

Later, Xiao He died of illness, and Pingyang Marquis Cao Shen succeeded him as prime minister, Emperor Hui thought that this was a good opportunity to seize power, so he hurriedly started and called Cao Shen to his side.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Liu Ying just thought that Cao Shen was incapable, so he wanted to take the opportunity to extract a little power as the prime minister from Cao Shen, so as to gradually control the court.

As a result, Cao Shen said 'hang the arch and rule the holy son of heaven', and Emperor Hui's body was completely sprayed; Liu Ying also understood that if he wanted to take power, the most important thing was to become an adult first, so he hid in the deep palace from then on and no longer interfered in court politics.

In the end, Liu Ying was scared to death by the old lady Lu Pheasant in the process of 'Gou development', and died of depression...

And the two allusions left by him and Cao Shen also had an extremely far-reaching impact on the history of China for the next 2,000 years.

Cao Shen's sophisticated and calm methods of governance have been summarized by historians as 'Xiao Gui Cao Sui', but not many officials are willing to follow suit, thus causing many political disasters; and Cao Shen's angry squirting of Liu Ying's sentence of 'ruling the holy son of heaven' has become a 'golden and jade good word' when the powerful ministers of later generations hindered the emperor.

This event was recorded in Taishi Gong's "Historical Records: Emperor Hui Benji"; It's just that Sima Qian has the key to 'sharpening the Spring and Autumn Period', and this incident has become a corroboration of Cao Shen's praise for 'loyal and upright ministers'.

But as an eyewitness at the time, Zhou Bo knew a lot about the reason - the emperor of the old Liu family did not have a soft persimmon!

Even Liu Gong, the former young emperor who is Liu Ying's eldest son, can be extremely bloody and angry at Empress Lu (although a little stupid), how can Liu Ying be an emperor who is so weak that he allows his concubines to be humiliated by his maternal uncle?

Now, Liu Hong is 'coming back from the dead', the man in front of him is out of the mountain again, and the fig leaf of Liu Hong's 'non-Hui Emperor' has completely lost the meaning of its existence.

On the contrary, everyone here needs to give Liu Hong an explanation - how was this fig leaf born?