After talking about Lu Ze, the representative figure of the early stage of the Lu family's relatives, the next thing is the actual controller of the later period of the Lu family's relatives: Gao Hou Lu Pheasant.

It must be mentioned that the relatives of the Lu family are composed of the first generation of the prince Lu Wen, and the second generation of a total of five children.

The five children of the second generation of Lü's relatives are: the eldest son Lu Ze, the second son Lu Shizhi, the third daughter Lu Changju, the fourth daughter Lu Pheasant, and the fifth daughter Lu Xiao.

According to the Warring States Period, Qin and Han dynasties, the practice of taking single-character names for the descendants and double-character names for the Shu lineage, as well as the subsequent performance of these five people, can also be roughly inferred: Lu Ze, Lu Pheasant, and Lu Xiao should be the sons and daughters of the princess, and Lu Shizhi and Lu Changju were the sons and daughters.

Of course, this is not only judged from 'whether the name is a single word or two words', but also from the sense of existence, the deeds and the skills shown by these three people in history.

Lu Ze doesn't need to go into details, and the two sisters, Lu Pheasant and Lu Xiao, all reflect a fairly high level of political means and a view of the overall situation.

Lu Xiao married Fan Xu, Marquis of Wuyang, and finally almost made Liu Bang 'temporarily kill' Fan Xu, which can also see what role his wife Lu Xiao played in the process of Fan Xu's position becoming more and more biased towards the Lu family.

And the Empress Lu Pheasant, under the strong pressure of the founding emperor Liu Bang, forcibly secured the position of the crown prince Liu Ying, retaining the crucial seeds for the highlight moments of the Lu family's relatives in the future.

On the other hand, Lu Shizhi and Lu Changju both lack a sense of existence.

On the historical records, the only record left by Lu Changju is that his son Lu Ping was named the Marquis of Fuliu by Lu Hou.

From the fact that Fuliu Marquis Lu Ping has his mother's surname, it can be inferred that Lu Changju's husband should be a son-in-law who was called; Under the legal background of the Qin and Han dynasties' door-to-door son-in-law breaking the law, Lü Changju's husband should have died on the Qin Dynasty's infrastructure construction - perhaps at the foot of the Great Wall of Qin.

As for Lu Shizhi, it was a little strange.

It stands to reason that even if he is a concubine, but after the death of his eldest brother Lu Ze, as the only remaining male of the second generation of the Lu family, Lu Shizhi should have provoked the Liang of the Lu family, and then cooperated with the queen's sister Lu Pheasant to survive until the day Liu Bang died.

But the strange thing is: from the moment Lu Ze died, or even from the moment Lu Ze left Chang'an and left the political center of the court, it seems that it has always been Lu Pheasant who has become the speaker of the Lu family.

Why is that?

Is it because of the identity of Queen Lu Pheasant?

Or is Lu Shizhi really a straw bag, to the point where the Lu clan obeys a woman's command and is unwilling to take Lu Shizhi as the main backbone?

From the historical records, we can find that Lu Shizhi was named the Marquis of Che, not in the absolute sense, but in the process of Liu Bang's resistance to Qin, he made a lot of martial arts.

Although it can't be compared with his brother Lu Ze, as well as famous generals like Zhou Bo and Fan Xu, it should be barely reasonable.

As for the later period of the Chu and Han dynasties, Lü Shizhi spent most of his time in Fengpei as the escort of Lü Taigong Lu Wen and Liu Taigong Liu Xuan.

From Lu Shizhi's ability to cultivate a son like Lu Lu, it is not difficult for us to see that Lu Shizhi, the second son of the Lu family, may indeed have some mediocre abilities in the era of bright stars at that time, but it definitely has nothing to do with the word 'straw bag'.

Taking this as a reference, it can also be confirmed that more than 2,200 years ago, in that era when patriarchal thinking was the mainstream concept, how admirable it was that Lu Pheasant could get the control of the Lu family's relatives in the hands of an older brother who was not a straw bag.

As for the queen's status bonus, I personally think that it can be ignored - the queen is not the queen mother, and the theoretical power is limited to harem affairs.

So, in Liu Bang's transformation from the chief of the Qin Surabaya Pavilion to the Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, what role did Lu Pheasant play?

At the beginning, Liu Bang was wanted for the 'release from prison in Dangshan', and Lu Pheasant stayed at home to ensure that the family's affairs were healed in an orderly manner, and also took care of Liu Bang's meals.

Although it sounds like 'delivering food' is just a trivial matter, it is not difficult to find that it is precisely this small matter that proves Lu Pheasant's ability.

- Liu Bang fell into the grass, not by himself into the mountains, but by entangled dozens of old brothers and formed a bandit group in the mountains!

And under the Qin official mansion's wanted husband, Lu Pheasant, as a family member, ensured the huge food of such a group of people without any twists and turns until the world was in chaos.

This is already a sign of wisdom.

Later, Pei Gong went down the mountain to revolt, and Lu Pheasant acted as Liu Bang's royal mythological master, weaving a mythical story for future generations.

Such as cutting the white snake at night, knowing where Liu Bang is when you see the clouds, etc., these are all familiar stories.

After Liu Bang established Han Zuo, these 'rumors', which seemed to be quite childish in the past, became the key to the civilian emperor Liu Bang to calm people's hearts, consolidate his throne and imperial unity, and break the theory of 'chasing deer' and replace it with 'God bestows Liu Bang's monarchy'.

After the Hongmen Banquet, Lu Pheasant, who became the queen of the Han Dynasty, was softly bound to Fengpei by the overlord Xiang Yu together with his father Lu Taigong and father-in-law Liu Taigong.

After the battle of Pengcheng, Lu Pheasant was imprisoned by Xiang Yu, and it was not until after the next battle that he was able to return to Liu Bang's side.

And during this time, there is a character who seems to have piqued the interest of the reader's friends.

- Biyang Hou, judge it.

I probably read the opinions of those readers, and it is nothing more than remarks such as 'judging and eating it, and the head of the high back', 'Emperor Hui Liu Ying, or judging and eating his son'.

When I saw this remark, I remembered the wind theory that appeared in Xianyang, the capital of Qin, just a few decades ago.

- Lü Buwei, the former lord of Empress Zhao; Qin Wangzheng, the son of Lü Buwei······

It can only be said that history is always strikingly similar: the source of Yingzheng's bloodline is suspected to be Lü Buwei, and the source of Liu Ying's bloodline is suspected of being used to judge him.

That's right, the person who said this sentence was Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, who colluded with the courtiers and princes inside and outside, bloodbathed the relatives of the Lu family after the death of Lu Pheasant, and welcomed the successor of the king Liu Heng.

My view on this is that it is absolutely impossible.

The first point: At the time when Lü Pheasant was captured by Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, the king of Han, was over fifty years old, and as his wife, no matter how young Lü Pheasant was, it was impossible to be less than thirty years old.

It can be inferred from the fact that Lü Pheasant died in 180 B.C., according to the life expectancy of the woman at that time of about 60 years old, when she was captured by Xiang Yu, Lü Pheasant was already over 35 years old.

In contemporary times, thirty-five is naturally not considered 'old', but in the Qin and Han dynasties, when the people got married at the age of fourteen or fifteen, gave birth to children at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and began to decline at the age of twenty, the thirty-five-year-old Lu Pheasant can already be called the 'yellow-faced woman'.

What's more, at that time, Lu Pheasant was imprisoned by Xiang Yu as a prisoner, and he secretly raised his face in prison, which is a bit far-fetched no matter how you say it.

From the historical records, the information we can get is: The Marquis of Biyang tried to eat him, and he served the servants beside Lu Pheasant since Liu Bang's incident, and in the years when Lu Pheasant was imprisoned by Xiang Yu, he was on the side to take care of Lu Pheasant.

After the death of Emperor Hui Liu Ying, the Marquis of Biyang also served as the Han minister for a short time.

From these records, we can conclude that the 'secret news in the palace' between Lü Pheasant and the trial should also be the product of the political background of the 'Hei Lu clan' and 'Hei Liu Ying' after Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty succeeded.

As for the bloodline of Emperor Hui Liu Ying, there is no need to discuss.

If Liu Ying's bloodline is suspicious, then when Liu Bang's intention is easy to store, it is impossible for the Baiguan Gonghou to resist Liu Bang's order so firmly to support a prince with doubtful bloodline to continue to sit in the storage seat.

After Liu Bang's death, Lu Pheasant, the queen of Gao who was generally considered by the parties to be "greedy for authority" and "intended to subvert Liu Han Sheji", actually did not make any moves to usurp the throne.

During the reign of Emperor Hui Liu Ying, the Han family still implemented the political program of allowing the people to rest and rule by doing nothing, and Lu Pheasant did so many things in the seven years after Emperor Hui ascended the throne.

- Kill Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao;

- Torture and murder of Mrs. Qi;

- almost killed Liu Fei, the king of Qi;

But these seemingly vicious things are actually not entirely out of Lu Pheasant's selfish desires.

Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, mother and son, once threatened the position of the prince of Emperor Hui Liu Ying, and was named King of Zhao and was in charge of the defense of the north wall.

In such a situation, even if there is no grudge against the past, just the 'feng shui treasure' of King Zhao is enough to make Liu Ruyi die tragically.

Later, when Lü Pheasant killed three Zhao kings of the Liu clan successively, and finally made the sons of the Lu clan the king of Zhao, we can have two completely different, but not contradictory possibilities.

First, Lu Pheasant can't trust outsiders, or even the Liu family, and only by letting his own sons and nephews sit on the throne of King Zhao can he feel at ease.

Second, in the context of a different surname that cannot be a king, the position of King Zhao seems to be only possible by the Liu family, but the key is that every child of the Liu family is theoretically qualified to inherit the throne.

In this case, it is a relative of the Lu family who does not have the qualifications to inherit the throne, and it is safer and more trustworthy to be King Zhao.

Because King Zhao of the Lü clan rebelled, no one would follow; And the rebellion of King Zhao of the Liu clan will inevitably gain the support of some speculative forces.

- Anyway, they are all surnamed Liu, who sits on the throne is different?

Of course, it is not excluded that Lü Pheasant wants to use this to let Lü have more power and more military power, but as the biological mother of Emperor Hui Liu Ying, Lü Pheasant should not have the intention of 'replacing Liu with Lü', and in historical records, there is no clear reflection of Lü Pheasant's intention to usurp the Han Dynasty.

Later, Emperor Hui Liu Ying collapsed early, and during the eight years of the reign of the young emperor before and after, the logic of Lu Pheasant's behavior was the same as usual.

Emperor Hui Liu Ying is in power, with the righteous identity of 'grandson', and has the support of hundreds of officials in the court, and the throne is not too dangerous.

However, the brothers of the young emperor who inherited the throne after Liu Ying's death, whether they were the former young Liu Gong or the later young Liu Hong, were actually not 'elders': the former young emperor Liu Gong was the eldest son of Liu Yingshu, and the later young emperor Liu Hong was the second son of Liu Yingshu.

Coupled with the 'suspicion of the lord and the country', it makes Lu Pheasant have to grasp more power if he wants to stabilize his grandson on the throne and keep Liu Han's country for her husband and son.

As a result, Empress Dowager Lu named Lu's relatives as princes and princes, and she also went into business.

Nowadays, there are many history lovers who believe that Gao Hou Lu is all over the Zhu Lu, but it is just for his own selfish desires.

But in fact, from the historical records, it is not difficult for us to find that the facts are probably not the case.

First of all, it is the two relatives who were named the princes and kings by Lu Pheasant: Lu Chan, the king of Lü, and Lu Lu, the king of Zhao.

These two locations are undoubtedly strategic points - Lu State, which is the renamed Liang State, is located at the gateway of Guanzhong; Zhao is a strategic town in the northern defense line.

Lü Pheasant controlled these two strategic points with his own sons, nephews and relatives, obviously to ensure the stability of the regime: the Zhao State was to guard against the Xiongnu, and the Liang State was to guard against the Kwantung clan princes.

Maybe when I say this, there is a bit of whitewashing for Lu Pheasant, but Zhu Gong tried to think: If Lu Pheasant really wants to fight for the interests of the family's sons and nephews, then why do you turn a blind eye to the incomparably rich Qi State?

If it is for the sake of profit, Qi is obviously a better choice; The geostrategic significance of Liang and Zhao confirms that Lü Pheasant's control of Liang and Zhao is more out of consideration for political stability.