The years make people old. It has been almost fifteen years since Empress Lu came to the court, and now she has to admit that even if she is powerful, she will not be able to defeat the ruthlessness of the years after all. Back then, he and Xiao He booby-trapped Han Xin together, how delicate and decisive, in the past two years, I have felt more and more lacking in energy. When I get up in the morning to make up, I am often surprised to find that there are a few more gray hairs on my sideburns, my face in the bronze mirror is becoming more and more haggard, and the best balm cannot cover the wrinkles at the corners of my eyes.

In the late spring of March 180 BC, Empress Lu went to the suburbs to hold a purification sacrifice to ward off disasters and seek blessings. This is the custom formed during the Zhou Dynasty, the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the Shangsi Festival, people wash the dirt by the water, sacrifice to remove disasters. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Shangsi Festival was changed to the third day of March every year, and gradually evolved into the activities of the Han people drinking and feasting by the water and going out in the suburbs.

After the sacrifice was over, when she came back and passed by the Yidao Pavilion, Empress Lu saw a dog in a trance, bumped her armpit, and suddenly disappeared again. In ancient times, the greyhound was a piece of foreboding. Empress Lu felt pain in her armpits, returned to the palace, and found someone to calculate a hexagram, saying that Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, was doing trouble. Since then, Empress Lu has suffered from armpit pain.

The so-called suspicion gives birth to dark ghosts. Empress Lu brutalized Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi, and there was always a pimple in her heart, at this time, her old eyes were dizzy, thinking that she had seen some ghosts, and naturally thought of the people she hated and feared the most. She realized that she was going to live to the end, so she hurried to reward the people around her, and the eunuchs above a certain level in the palace were all named marquis.

In the summer of that year, floods occurred in the Yangtze River and Han River basins, and the rolling floods washed away the houses of more than 10,000 people.

In early autumn, Empress Lu's condition became more and more serious. She couldn't rest assured that her nephews were relieved, and specially explained to Lu Chan and Lu Lu, and said: "Now that our Lu family has been crowned king, the ministers have opinions in their hearts. After I die, I am afraid that they will cause chaos, you must have good military power, defend the palace, do not go out of the city to mourn for me, do not be controlled by others! Lu Chan and Lu Lu naturally agreed.

Empress Lu has nothing to say about how good her mother's family is. Before his death, Empress Lu arranged another marriage and asked the little emperor Liu Hong to marry Lu Lu's daughter as the queen, which was thoughtful. After fighting for a lifetime, Empress Lu can finally rest assured. On August 18, 180 B.C., the first empress dowager in history, Lu Pheasant, died in Weiyang Palace. She left an edict and gave each prince and king a thousand catties of gold, and officials of all sizes gave gold according to their rank, and gave amnesty to the world.

Lu Hou walked very safely. She never imagined that her nephews were just a bunch of rice buckets. Rats leave a sinking ship. Without his aunt as a backer, these good nephews were quickly eliminated. At the beginning, the ministers who pretended to be confused and honest with Empress Lu were more powerful than the other, and destroyed the old Lu family.

Although during the reign of Empress Lü, many members of the royal family surnamed Liu were killed, which was a power struggle, and the upward development momentum of the Han Dynasty did not change. This point was recognized by both the people of the time and later historians. Empress Lu was buried in Liu Bang's long mausoleum, with a separate grave, which was almost the same size as Liu Bang's tomb, and this funeral specification never appeared again in the Han Dynasty.

Sima Qian did not even write a book for Liu Ying in the "Historical Records", but wrote a separate "Empress Dowager Lu Benji" for Empress Lu. It's awesome, unique in history. The death of the empress must be written into the biography, and only when the emperor dies is qualified to be written into the present chronicle, which is to treat Empress Lu as a monarch.

Mr. Sima Qian highly praised Empress Lu's achievements in governing the country, and the original text is as follows: "The heroine of the Empress Gao is the system, and the government is not out of the house, and the world is silent." Punishment is scarce, and the sinner is Xi. Civil affairs crops, food and clothing. These words were later copied into the "Hanshu Gao Houji" by Ban Gu. With this evaluation, do you have no regrets in this life?