But it was said that Chen Ping and Zhou Bo were ordered to behead Fan, and the two of them were together while walking on the way. Chen Ping said: "Fan Xu is the general of the hero, and now he holds the power of the army, if he refuses to rebel against the edict, won't the two of us be sent to death in vain?" Even if Fan Xu bowed his head and obeyed orders, he was the brother-in-law of Empress Lu, and now the emperor was so sick, what if the emperor died? At that time, Empress Lu will not blame us. ”

As soon as Zhou Bo heard that he had no idea, he asked Chen Pingdao: "Or let Fan Xu go?" Chen Ping said: "I can't let it go, what if the emperor doesn't die?" Let's tie him up in a prisoner car and send him to Chang'an, or kill or save the emperor from deciding for himself. Zhou Bo thought it was a good idea.

At this time, Fan Hao led the army to set the eighteen counties of Yandi and stationed in Jinan. Chen Ping and Zhou Bo traveled to Jinan, stopped ten miles away from the army, and ordered the entourage to build an altar on the spot, but sent people to the army with a festival, and ordered Fan Hao to come and receive the edict. Fan Xu felt that the envoy of Gaozu was not in the army himself, but he built an altar in a distant place to summon him to receive the edict, and he didn't know what it meant. Fan Hao didn't think much about it, and immediately rode a horse to pick up the edict.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Bo suddenly turned out of the stage, and immediately ordered Fan Hao to be taken down and nailed into the prisoner car, and then rushed to the Chinese army's big tent to replace Fan Xu. Chen Ping escorted the prisoner car back to Chang'an.

After a few days, passers-by said that Gaozu died. Chen Ping was glad that he had not beheaded Fan Xu, so he immediately rushed back to Chang'an.

Chen Ping stumbled into the palace, knelt down in front of the ancestral spirit of Han Gao and cried loudly, crying and saying: "You asked me to kill Fan Xu on the spot, I didn't dare to deal with the minister easily, and now I have escorted him back." This is clearly for the living. When Empress Lu heard that Fan Xu was not dead, and saw Chen Ping in tears, she comforted: "You can go home and rest temporarily." Don't work too hard. Chen Ping took the opportunity to ask to stay in Chang'an, and Empress Lu agreed, and worshiped him as Lang Zhongling to assist the new emperor. Chen Ping didn't kill Fan Xu, and once again saved himself.

But it is said that Emperor Hui was set up as the crown prince by Gaozu when he was five years old, and at the age of nine, Gaozu was the emperor, and then became the crown prince, and now Gaozu has died, at the age of 17, and he is established as the emperor. Emperor Hui was generous and cautious by nature, but he was too weak, and most of the state affairs were arbitrarily decided by Empress Lu. Empress Lu was jealous, vicious, and looked at the group of concubines left by Gaozu, like a thorn in the eye. Especially Mrs. Qi's pampering and plotting against Prince Yi, Empress Lu is the most tooth-gritting, and now that she has her ambition, she wants to vent all her resentment.

When Gaozu's funeral was over, Empress Lu ordered Gaozu's concubines to be imprisoned in Yongxiang. Among the concubines, the prince was named the king, and he was not allowed to go to the country with his son, only Bo Ji had no favor on weekdays, and his son Liu Heng was now the acting king, and the queen Lu only allowed him to return to the dynasty, so Bo Ji had to be the acting queen mother.

The other concubines were imprisoned in Yongxiang, the food and clothing were coarse, and they were inevitably hungry and cold, recalling that the food they ate on weekdays was delicacies and delicacies, and they wore pearls and jade splendor.

Mrs. Qi was the first enemy of Empress Lu, after Liu Bang's death, Mrs. Qi lost her only backer, she asked Empress Dowager Lu for three feet of white silk, but Lv Pheasant refused. She couldn't have been so cheap for her. She wanted to torture Mrs. Qi, and asked her to survive and die.

Empress Lu had her beautiful hair torn off one by one, then tied her neck with iron chains, put on a clumsy prison clothes, and asked her to pound rice every day. Mrs. Qi has been pampered since she was a child, and she only knows how to play songs and dances, but now she is asked to do this hard work. In order to prevent her from committing suicide, Empress Lu sent people to guard her twenty-four hours a day.

Mrs. Qi pounded rice day and night, crying while pounding rice, and singing while crying:

The son is king, and the mother is captive! All day long, twilight, often with death! Three thousand miles away, who should tell you!

This "Song" is flexible in form, simple in language, and sincere in emotion. The image of a weak woman who has been insulted and hurt is about to come out, which has touched the hearts of countless readers for thousands of years, and has become a swan song comparable to "Song of the Fall" and "Song of the Great Wind".

The person sent by Empress Lu heard that Mrs. Qi's lyrics contained resentment and did not dare to hide it, so he came to inform Empress Lu. When Empress Lu heard this, she was furious and said, "The slut still wants to rely on her son!" Now I will kill her son first, and then I will slowly deal with her. So he sent an envoy to Zhao and summoned King Ruyi of Zhao to Beijing.

Once round trip, King Zhao did not come, and two round trips, King Zhao still did not arrive. Empress Dowager Lu became more and more angry, and asked the envoy, but it turned out that Zhao Xiang and Zhou Chang were blocking it. Zhou Chang said to the envoy: "At the beginning, Emperor Gao instructed King Zhao to his ministers and ordered his ministers to protect him wholeheartedly. Now the king of Zhao is still young, and he heard that the queen mother resents Mrs. Qi and wants to summon the king of Zhao to Beijing to kill, but the minister does not dare to listen to the king's call. And King Zhao is sick and can't be edicted. The messenger had no choice but to reciprocate. When Empress Lu saw that he was summoned three times and did not come, he heard many words from Zhou Chang, and became more and more angry. So he came up with a way to divert the tiger from the mountain, first summoning Zhou Chang, and then summoning King Zhao.

Zhou Chang had two sons, one Zhou Xuan and one Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi is the same age as Ruyi, and his appearance also visits. Before Zhou Chang went to Chang'an, he told his eldest son Zhou Xuan to protect Ruyi's safety. If the Queen Mother conscripts King Zhao, let Zhou Yi pretend to be King Zhao. The Queen Mother has rarely seen Ruyi, and Zhou Yi's entry into the court will definitely not arouse suspicion.

and Zhou Changjin admonished the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother said angrily: "Don't you know that I resent the Qi family? Why don't you bring King Zhao here? Zhou Chang replied bluntly: "It is precisely because the Queen Mother resents the Qi family that I refuse to let him enter Beijing." The first emperor entrusted his ministers to the king of Zhao, and the ministers were in Zhao for one day, and they should be protected for one day; In addition, King Zhao is the younger brother of the emperor and is loved by the first emperor. Before the minister, he tried to protect the emperor, and he was trusted by the first emperor, but he hoped that the ministers would protect the king of Zhao again, so as not to cause brothers to fight each other, if the queen mother had personal grudges, the ministers did not dare to participate! The minister only knows the last order of the emperor! Empress Dowager Lu was speechless and told him to withdraw, but refused to order him to Zhao again. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to summon King Zhao. Zhou Xuan had already made arrangements to let his younger brother Zhou Yi follow him into the court, disguised himself as a merchant, and arrived in Chang'an two days ahead of schedule.

When he arrived in Chang'an, Zhou Xuan went to Wang Ling, the right prime minister, according to his father's instructions, and asked Wang Ling to hand over Zhou Chang's confidential letter to Emperor Hui.

After Emperor Hui read Zhou Chang's letter, he knew that it was not King Zhao but Zhou Yi who was about to enter the court! Emperor Hui was kind-hearted and even more grateful for Zhou Chang's loyalty, so he personally went to Bashui to greet Zhou Yi, and announced that it was King Zhao who entered the court. In order to prevent others from recognizing that Zhou Yi was not wishful, and in order to prevent the queen mother from harming her, Emperor Hui and Zhou Yi were inseparable.

As the saying goes, open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to defend, Emperor Hui pays special attention to Zhou Yi's care, but there is also a mistake in Baimi. In the middle of December of the first year of Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui took advantage of the midwinter to go hunting, the weather was still early, Zhou Yi was still lying down and did not wake up, Emperor Hui couldn't bear to arouse, and thought that it would be okay to forgive for half a day, so he decided to go out. When he returned from hunting, Zhou Yi had already bled and cried for his life! Emperor Hui hugged the corpse and cried. Later, he secretly investigated, or Yun Yu died or Yun strangled him, and if he wanted to find out the mastermind, it was nothing more than the Queen Mother. The son can't offend his mother, and Emperor Hui has no choice but to sigh!

After Zhou Yi's death, Empress Dowager Lu only said that Liu Ruyi was dead, so she began to torture Mrs. Qi in a disguised way, she regarded torture as art, first ordered Mrs. Qi's hands and feet to be cut off, and then gouged out her eyeballs, and then forced her to drink dumb medicine, and deaf her ears. In the end, he ordered someone to throw the miserable Mrs. Qi into the latrine.

After doing all this, Lu Pheasant clapped his hands and ordered the palace supervisor to invite Emperor Hui to see the "human biao". Emperor Hui had never heard of the name of "Renbi", and his heart was very rare, so he followed the eunuch out of the palace to watch. The palace supervisor zigzags into Yongxiang, enters a toilet, opens the toilet door and instructs Emperor Hui: "This is 'Renbi'." Emperor Hui looked into the toilet, but saw a human body, neither hands nor feet, only two flesh and blood holes in the eyes, the body could still move, a mouth was very open, but there was no sound. I was shocked and scared when I saw it, what is it that I can't be investigated by the Advisor Palace? The palace supervisor said that it was "Mrs. Qi". Before he could say a word, Emperor Hui shouted loudly: "What a ruthless queen mother, she actually made her father and concubine die so miserably!" As he spoke, tears unconsciously fell from his eyes. Then he went into the dormitory and lay on the bed, full of grief and indignation, and there was nowhere to go. Simply crying and laughing without drinking or eating, causing a kind of dementia. The palace eunuch saw that his expression was different and it was inconvenient to stay any longer, so he replied to the queen mother.

Emperor Hui was reluctant to get up for several days, and the Queen Mother heard that she had come to visit, and when she saw Emperor Hui like a fool, she urgently summoned a medical officer for treatment. The medical officer took several medicines to calm the nerves and relieve worries, only then did he feel a little refreshed, and when he remembered Mrs. Qi's miserable appearance, he couldn't stop whimpering. He never thought that Mrs. Qi, who was the queen of the harem when Yanya was unmatched, played the piano and played the flute to sing "Shangling", and the waist and limbs were bent and bent to dance, would become a monster! Empress Dowager Lu sent the palace supervisor to inquire again, and Emperor Hui sent a message to him: "You have heard the Empress Dowager for me, this matter is not done by human beings!" The minister is the queen mother, and he will not be able to rule the world, so he can ask the queen mother to preside over the decision! When Empress Lu heard this, she couldn't help but feel ashamed. I regret that I shouldn't have asked Emperor Hui to watch, but there is one thing that is exactly what he wants, that is, Emperor Hui asked her to be in charge, so she took over the power and acted arbitrarily, and even left the Marquis of Biyang to eat and eat in the palace, and ate and lived together calmly.

Zhou Chang was also indignant when he heard that his beloved son was killed and heard that Mrs. Qi had died tragically! However, in order to protect Liu Ruyi, he couldn't tell outsiders clearly, so he said that he was tired of hearing about foreign affairs. In the third year of Emperor Hui, he died of illness, gave him a mourning marquis, and ordered his son to attack the seal. This is still to repay him for the merit of fighting and abolishing the establishment. If Empress Dowager Lu knew that he would die with his own son instead of Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, I was afraid that he would dig up his grave and whip his corpse!

Compared with Mrs. Qi, Empress Lu treated Bo Ji very favorably.

Reason 1, Bo Ji is not favored by Liu Bang, her status is low, and she is not within the scope of Empress Lu's revenge. Bo Ji is also a hard-working woman, who entered Liu Bang's harem in the form of a second marriage, and she felt inferior. And after entering Liu Bang's harem, he was not treated by Liu Bang for more than a year, and after being pampered and pregnant with a dragon seed by chance, Liu Bang no longer remembered Bo Ji except that she was the mother of his son Liu Heng. Bo Ji's mind is only on her son, and she walks on thin ice every step of the way, like a small grass that is ignored. Empress Lu's revenge was on the women Liu Bang loved before his death.

Reason 2, Bo Ji has never done anything to hurt Empress Lu's feelings. As long as he and his son are alive and not hurt by others. So Bo Ji has no mind and no ability to hurt others. For Empress Lu, she is the queen mother who is high, and Bo Ji is a "little concubine" who is prostrate below. Bo Ji's maiden family is not to mention powerful, almost no relatives are left, and her parents have long since died. So Empress Lu didn't look at her. Bo Ji has no desire and is not bad, so Empress Lu simply made a favor and let Bo Ji go to Daiguo with his son.

If there is no desire, it is rigid, and if you don't fight, it is the biggest battle. It's yours, and no one else can take it away. Bo Ji and his son Liu Heng escaped the killing of Empress Lu because they did not fight, and they were also supported by the ministers.