Speaking of which, in terms of treating heroes, Liu Bang is quite interesting among the founding emperors of the past dynasties. Except for a few kings with different surnames who held military power, the vast majority of heroes were preserved. Chen Ping and Zhou Bo not only have the title of Liehou, but also have corresponding fiefs, which are divided according to the size of their merits, with 10,000 large fiefs and 5 or 600 small fiefs.

Liu Bang's bottom line is that the princes must obey me, the emperor, and cannot engage in separatist activities. As long as you don't touch this bottom line, Liu Bang won't think about how to fix you. The "Book of Han" records the oath of the feudal princes: "Make the river like a belt, Mount Tai is strong, the country is Yongning, and the Miao descendants", even if one day, the Yellow River is only left with a narrow belt wide, and Mount Tai becomes as thin as a whetstone, your feudal kingdom will always be strong and can be passed on to your descendants.

When Liu Bang was worried about Liu Ying's ability, he still did not weaken the meritorious group, but acquiesced to Empress Lu's participation in politics, so that the Lu family's relatives and the meritorious group reached a balance in strength. The highest art of politics is balance. Liu Bang is an excellent politician who is good at political balancing, but Lu Hou is not.

Liu Ying was too weak and played herself to death by playing chronic suicide. The political balance envisioned by Liu Bang was thus shattered. Empress Lu is much worse than Liu Bang in terms of personal ability and mind, and lacks a balanced view of the overall situation. She began to want to eradicate the hero group but failed, but instead formed a bond with the hero group, although there was a move to win over and appease later, but it was no longer possible to gain the trust of the hero group.

Empress Lu blindly defended the Lu family, persecuted Liu Bang's sons, and squeezed the power space of the hero group. Zhou Bo is famous for his simplicity and kindness, or a hero who started from abundance, and has been an old acquaintance with Empress Lu for many years, even he is dissatisfied, how can the power base of the Lu family be firm?

Under the impetus of Lu Jia, the two factions within the Hero Group found an entry point for common interests, and through the integration of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, the two leading brothers, they formed a powerful force against the Lu family.

Although Prime Minister Zuo Cheng and Biyang Hou are also from Pei County, due to the different division of labor, they became the leader's personal assistant after the uprising in Pei County, and accompanied Liu Bang's family all the year round, unlike Zhou Bo and Xiahou Ying, who fought on the battlefield. Everyone knows the relationship between Judge and Lv Hou, although he is a fellow villager in Pei County, he is usually not close to Judge Eat, and now he is planning such a big thing, so he naturally hides it.

Empress Lu's two elder brothers, Lu Ze and Lu Shizhi, died a few years ago, and the juniors such as Lu Chan and Lu Lu did not have much friendship with the older heroes. Empress Lu's brother-in-law, Fan Xu, has also died. The meritorious group has no good impression of the now powerful Lu family.

The only scruple of the hero group is Empress Lu. After all, Empress Lu is Liu Bang's wife and the grandmother of the current little emperor, and her identity has natural legitimacy. As long as Empress Lü did not officially announce that Lü would replace Liu, there would be no reason for the ministers to openly oppose her.