Chapter 0028: Taizu's eldest son

Han Xin took the opportunity to sneak attack the Qi State, whether Liu Bang had premeditated it, or whether Han Xin made his own decisions out of selfish desires, and later generations have no way of knowing.

But what is obvious is that after being put together by Liu Bang like this, and even losing Guozuo, Tian Heng, the last monarch of the Tian family's Qi State, no longer has the possibility of wearing the same pants with Liu Bang.

After losing the country, Tian Heng, who once served as the general of Qi and the prime minister of Qi, and finally established himself as the king of Qi, led 500 disciples and fled to an island.

Immediately afterwards, the Han general Han Xin played Liu Bang and asked him to be the king of Qi.

At that time, the Han army camp was full of fierce generals, and there was no second person except Han Xin.

In desperation, Liu Bang could only temporarily agree to Han Xin's request and crown Han Xin as the king of Qi.

Just a few years later, during the period of the Chu and Han dynasties, the overlord Xiang Yu Wujiang killed himself and the Han king Liu Bang ascended the throne as the emperor.

The state of Chu was destroyed, Liu Bang also ascended the throne as the emperor, and Han Xin came to the time when the cunning rabbit died and the lackeys cooked.

——Only a month after the end of the founding ceremony, Han Xin, the king of Qi, was relieved of his military power, and was transferred by Liu Bang to the king of Chu, and became the king of Xiang Yu's former fiefdom.

Han Xin became the king of Chu, and the state of Qi was vacant.

What to do?

It was only at this time that Liu Bang remembered: Oh, on an island not far east of Langya, there is a former King of Qi......

After nearly eight years of fighting with Xiang Yu, Liu Bang also felt deeply devastated that he had the cognition of 'harmony is precious', so he sent someone to that island to recruit An Tianheng.

Liu Bang promised: As long as Tian Heng surrenders, everything in the past will not be blamed, and Tian Heng will be awarded the position of Marquis!

In desperation, Tian Heng had no choice but to agree to come down and take a boat to Luoyang, the 'eastern capital' where Liu Bang was located at that time.

But when he came to the corpse village thirty miles away from Luoyang, Tian Heng stopped.

The messenger asked Tian Heng, and Tian Heng said: The king of Han is now the Son of Heaven, and I am a courtier, and the courtier should bathe and change his clothes when he sees the Son of Heaven.

Then, Tian Heng said to the doorman beside him: A few years ago, Liu Bang, like me, was the king of the south; Now that Liu Bang has become the Son of Heaven and I have become the king of the dead country, it is really a great humiliation for me to serve Liu Bang again;

Moreover, Li Shiqi was cooked and killed by me, and his younger brother Li Shang and nephew Li Ji were both officials in the Han Court, so they must have hatred for me; Even if Liu Bang doesn't let them seek revenge on me, I will feel guilty;

Liu Bang asked me to come to Luoyang, just to see what I look like, this is only thirty miles away from Luoyang, I cut off my head in the morning, and you can send it to Luoyang at noon.

After speaking, Tian Heng slammed his sword and wiped his neck tragically.

A few hours later, Liu Bang saw the head sent by Tian Hengmenke, and couldn't help but sigh: Tian Heng's brothers, uncles and nephews got up to cloth, but they were kings one after another, and now they are even more knowledgeable, how can they be unvirtuous people?

So Liu Bang wept and ordered: bury Tian Heng with the courtesy of the princes, and appoint the two men who came to send Tian Heng's head as captains.

After that, the entire Han family was shocked.

——After Tian Heng entered the earth for peace, the two disciples who were appointed as captains drew their swords and killed themselves in front of Tian Heng's tomb!

Liu Bang praised the loyalty of the two, and sent people to the island where Tian Heng was hiding before, wanting to pick up Tian Heng's five hundred guests.

As a result, when the five hundred guests heard the news of Tian Heng's death, they grieved and erected a mound for Tian Heng on the island, and sang in unison the elegy they had made for Tian Heng, and they killed themselves in front of the mound one after another!

When the news came out, Luoyang vibrated and the world was shocked!

There are more than 500 people, all of whom are loyal and righteous people, and there is no one who is greedy for life and afraid of death, all of them follow Tian Heng!

Such things have had an extremely far-reaching impact on the ideology and culture of the early Han Dynasty.

Since then, the idea of 'one minister does not serve two masters' has spread rapidly in the Han Dynasty, and the unique style of fierceness and loyalty of the Liu Han Dynasty has spread to every corner of the world!

And the elegy made by those doormen for Tian Heng has gradually been sung by thousands of people, and has become a special lament for nearly a thousand years in later generations.

- Pickled dew.

——In the history of Chinese culture, the first lament that will go down in history.

The matter of Tian Heng came to an end, and Liu Bang received the news that the king of Linjiang had rebelled in the fifth and thirty days after ascending the throne as emperor.

Liu Bang understood: As soon as Xiang Yu died, it was time for the rest of the Kwantung princes to die......

When it was, on the land of Kanto, the northeast corner was Yan Wang Zang Di, the north was Han Xin, the king of Han, the south of Yan Zhao was Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, and the south was Peng Yue, the king of Liang;

To the southeast, is Han Xin, the king of Chu, and to the west of the state of Chu, is Yingbu, the king of Huainan.

Together, these seven princes with different surnames added up to the territory that the central Han family could control, and only the land of Sanqin, that is, the Guanzhong of the Han family, was left.

After Han Xin was transferred to the king of Chu, the state of Qi became the only area directly controlled by the Han family except for the Guan.

The Kingdom of Qi, located on the coast of the East China Sea, can even be said to be a nail in the coffin that cut off the communication arteries between the Kwantung princes and made it impossible for them to communicate easily!

Just like the Warring States Period, when the five kingdoms of Yan, Zhao, Han, Wei, and Chu were united, and the Qin State only connected with Qi, it scared the princes' coalition forces away - the Han family, which dominated the Three Qins and controlled the Qi land, was also self-evident as a deterrent to other princes in the Kwantung region.

In this way, the strategic significance of Qi has been pushed to an incomparable height.

Liu Bang's arrangement for Qi Guo also proves this.

——Liu Fei, the eldest son of the emperor, is the king of Qi and rules the seventy-three cities of Qi!

——Ren Pingyang Hou Cao Shen is Qi Xiang, and Liu Feizhi, the eldest son of Emperor Zuo, is Qi!

Seventy-three cities can be said to be the largest princely land in the entire Han dynasty and even in the entire Chinese history.

And until now, Xiao He is only two years away from the end of his life, and Cao Shen, who is about to succeed Cao Shen two years later and take over the throne of the Han Dynasty, is still in Linzi, the capital of Qi, thousands of miles away from Chang'an, to be the king of Qi Liu Fei.

During Liu Bang's reign, the meaning of the existence of Liu Fei, the king of Qi, was to suppress Qi and suppress the strategic chess pieces of Kanto as the eldest son of the emperor;

And now that Liu Bang died, all the princes with different surnames were eradicated, and the crown prince Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, the meaning of the existence of Liu Fei, the king of Qi, has become a model of harmony within the Han family.

——For the brother to enjoy the broadest and richest land in the world, Liu Ying, the son of heaven, has no opinion!

For this point, although Yang Yi and Liu Ying's ideas are different, they are not very different.

Since the death of the first emperor born by Liu Ying, Liu Bang has been fighting in the south and the north almost all times; Liu Ying's most contact on weekdays is his brother-in-law Liu Fei, who was raised by his mother Lu Pheasant, and his eldest sister Liu Le.

For Liu Fei, Liu Ying may not have the idea of 'pretending to be friendly', but she will definitely have the most sincere and heartfelt intimacy!

But now, when Yang Yi personally stood in the oath hall, stood beside Liu Ying, and listened to Liu Ying's desperate self-muttering of 'Brother Wang's life is over', a dusty memory was also slowly unfolding in front of Yang Yi's eyes like a picture scroll......