53 Eradicate Zhulu
There is an interesting phenomenon in Chinese history that those who launched a rebellion or coup d'état said that the other party was a rebel, and they themselves put down the rebellion! The change of Xuanwumen, Tang Taizong said that the prince rebelled against the king of Qi, so he killed them, but in fact, he was the one who rebelled! Cixi launched a coup d'état to hunt down and kill the auxiliary minister, and also said that Su Shun and others rebelled, but in fact, she was the one who violated Xianfeng's will! Becoming a king and defeating a coward, who dares to say that Li Jiancheng, Su Shun and others died unjustly? Although the authoritarian power of the Empress Dowager Lu was wrong, after her death, Lu Chan and Lu Lu did not rebel, and the young emperor Hong was still the emperor. But Liu Xiang wanted to be the emperor, and Chen Ping wanted to set up a new lord. Strictly speaking, it was Liu Xiang and Chen Ping who rebelled! But history is written by the victors, the Lu clan was destroyed, and Lu Chan and Lu Lu rebelled! Chen Ping and Zhou Bo were the heroes who put down the rebellion! Why? Because they succeeded!
However, it was said that Liu Zhang, the Marquis of Zhu Xu, learned from his wife's room that Lu Chan and Lu Lu kept their last words and were forbidden in the palace. It will be difficult to control it in the long run. If you make trouble from the outside, it will be easy to deal with. Nai secretly ordered his relatives to go to Qi, reported to his brother Liu Xiang, and told him to send troops to the west, and he and Ruyi were in the capital as internal responses. If you can destroy Lu Lu and Lu Chan, you can serve your brother as Emperor Yunyun. As long as my brother can be the emperor, where does he care what kind of father-in-law he has? Later generations mostly thought that Liu Zhang was a hero, but in fact, Lu Lu was his father-in-law, wouldn't it be better to cooperate with his father-in-law to assist the young emperor? instigating the eldest brother to raise troops and worship him as the emperor is probably not out of his heart. If Liu Xiang really takes the position, Liu Zhang may want to replace him again! This is the case with Zhao Guangyi of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Liu Xiang received Liu Zhang's letter and felt that this matter was feasible. So with Si Jun as the prime minister, Wei Bo as the general, and Zhu Wu as the internal history, he dispatched all his troops to the west to capture Jinan County, the hometown of Qi State; At the same time, he sent a letter to the princes and kings, saying: "Gaozu pacified the world and spread it to Emperor Hui, and then to Emperor Shao. Now that the Empress Dowager Lu has died, the emperor is too young to govern the world. Today, the Lu family occupies the imperial court, gathers troops to show off their might, and the Liu emperor's throne is in crisis. The outnumbered man led the army into the execution, and he should not be the king! It seems to be impassioned, but in fact, the intention of usurping the throne has appeared.
Knowing that Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, was using troops, Lu Chan and others were in a hurry. On the one hand, they sent the infant to fight against it, and on the other hand, they mobilized troops to guard the palace, and at the same time strengthened the garrison of Chang'an City. At this time, the situation was extremely unfavorable for the Lu family: internally, they had to beware of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, the old ministers; Externally, they are afraid of the soldiers of Qi and Chu; At the same time, it is also necessary to beware of a counterattack from the baby.
As expected! Guan Ying was originally a general under Gao Zu, and he had always been dissatisfied with Zhulu's autocratic power, and now ordered him to block King Qi out of helplessness. When he led his troops to Xingyang, he immediately sent a secret envoy to send a message to the king of Qi and other princes, expressing his willingness to unite with them and destroy the Lü clan in one fell swoop. Liu Xiang was very happy after receiving the offer, so he stopped his troops and waited for an opportunity.
At this time, Prime Minister Chen Ping and Taiwei Zhou Bo were also worried! Liu Lu is unpredictable! Liu Shisheng himself is the Lu family's party, and it was he who recommended the Lu family as the king at the beginning, and he is bound to eradicate it; Lu Shisheng himself is a powerful association between the DPRK and China, and it is difficult to be at ease! Now the military power is in the hands of Lu Chan and Lu Lu, if the military power can be recaptured, then the camera can act! said that he had the intention to punish Lu Fu Liu a long time ago, it was all nonsense that deceived people later! If you really want to kill Zhu Lu, why don't you punish when the military power is in hand, but you have to give it up to Yu Chuan and Green? Now that there is no military power, I panicked!
Don't talk about the past, let's take back military power first. Naturally, it won't work to be taken by force, so let's take the method of fooling!
However, he said that Li Ji had a good relationship with Lu Lu, so Zhou Bo asked Li Ji to go to Lu Lu to cheat out the military power. Li Ji was ordered to go to Lu Lu and said: "Emperor Gao and Empress Lu will set the world together. There are nine kings established by the Liu family, and three kings established by the Lu family, all of which are the result of the minister's consultation, and the matter has been announced to the princes, and the princes have unanimously approved. Now that the queen mother has collapsed, the emperor is young, and she is still a general, and the commander of the army stays in Beijing, and the ministers and princes will suspect you. Why don't you return the seal and hand over the army to the captain? Then ask King Liang to return the seal of Xiangguo, make an alliance with the minister, and make a statement that he will go to the country on the same day, and the troops will naturally return. Wouldn't it be better to be the king of the south of the foothold?
Lu Lu believed so, so he relayed Li's words to Zhu Lu. The elders of the Lu family either said that it was feasible or that it was not feasible, which made Lu Luhu suspicious. Seeing that he was not willing to follow his words, he was very anxious, but it was inconvenient to urge him repeatedly, so he had to persuade him again. Lu Lu and Li Ji were friendly, but they didn't know that Li Ji was pregnant with a ghost fetus, but they wanted Li Ji to go out on a safari with him, and Li Ji couldn't help but obey. The two went out to the suburbs side by side, hunted for a long time, and got a lot of birds and beasts before returning. Passing by the house of Linguang Marquis Lu Xiao, he entered the province by the way. Lu Lu told her about the handover of the seal and the soldiers. Lu Xiao was furious and said: "Yong slave! You are a general, but you abandoned the army and wandered, and saw that the Lu clan would have no place to live! Lu Lu replied inexplicably. Lu Xiao became more and more angry, took out all the jewels hidden in the house and scattered them in the hall, and said hatefully: "The family is dying, and I don't have such things after all, so why should I guard them for others?" Lu Lu was puzzled and retreated. Li Ji waited outside the door, and saw that Lu Lu was in a hurry, which was very different from the happiness when he entered, so he asked Lu Lu for the reason. Lu Lu explained slightly, Li Ji couldn't help but be surprised, so he replied lightly, saying that the old man was too worried, why did he have this. Lu Lu seemed to believe it or not, so he sent it back to the house. Li Jichi reported to Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, and Ping and Bo were also worried, so they had to hesitate.
On September 10, Zhou Bo rushed to the northern military camp and falsely ordered Zhou Bo to command the troops. I was afraid that Lu Lu would not accept it, so he sent Li to send Liu Jie to force Lu Lu. Li Ji said: "There is an edict from the Lord, ordering the captain to be in charge of the Northern Army, just to want to go to the country on the same day, and it is advisable to hand over the seal and leave the capital, otherwise the disaster is now!" This can only deceive Lu Lu, not others. How old is the Lord, how can there be any edict? Lu Lu didn't have much knowledge, and because Li Ji was a good friend, he always said that he would not be bullied, so he took out the seal and handed it over to Liu Jie, and then hurriedly left the camp.
Liu Jie, Li Ji and Li Ji rushed to see Zhou Bo and handed over the seal to Bo, and Zhou Bo was happy as expected. Holding the seal letter to summon the northern army, and immediately ordered: "For the right side of the Lu family, for the left side of the Liu family!" "This order is also not thoughtful, if the army is right-sided, or left-handed, what can Zhou Bo do? Fortunately, the generals and soldiers of the army all showed their left arms and expressed their willingness to obey the dispatch of the Tai Lieutenant to support the Liu family.
The northern army was captured, and there was still the southern army controlled by Lu Chan. Prime Minister Chen Ping received a secret report and urgently summoned Liu Zhang, Marquis of Zhu Xu, to assist the lieutenant. Liu Zhang and Liu Ruyi hurried to arrive. Zhou Bo allocated a thousand elite soldiers to Liu Zhang and said to him: "Hurry up to the palace to protect the emperor!" "[It's not so much protection, it's more like hijacking, which one is going to harm the emperor? Some words can only be understood, not spoken. Liu Zhang led his troops into Weiyang Palace and met Lu Chan. Thousands of people worked together, and they all raised their knives in front of Lu Chan to kill. Lu Chan was shocked and turned around and ran. Liu Zhang led his troops to pursue him separately, and Lu Chan was not allowed to leave the palace, so he fled into the toilet of the Langzhong Mansion and made a mess. However, the time of death had come, and he was caught by the soldiers, and he was chained out to see Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang didn't say much, and slashed Lu Chan's head with a sword, seeing that he couldn't live with a whimper!
In Russia, there was a confessor who came out with a festival, claiming to be ordered by the young emperor to comfort the soldiers. Liu Zhang wanted to seize the festival, but the partializer refused to deliver. Liu Zhang grabbed him with one hand in the same car, and left Weiyang Palace to Changle Palace. More than 1,000 subordinates naturally followed. When he walked to the front of Changle Palace, he knocked on the door and entered, and the doorman saw that there was a person who held the festival, and he did not dare to stop him from going straight in. Changle Weiwei is the Marquis of Lu Gengshi, and Liu Zhangzheng came to kill him. Lu Gengshi didn't know that Lu Chan was killed, so he rushed out to greet him, and was chopped off by Liu Zhang's sword swing. Liu Zhang did not allow anyone to speak, falsely claimed the emperor's order, and only punished the Lu family for not being as good as others. When the guards saw that someone who had confessed was holding a festival, of course they obeyed.
Why is Liu Zhang so bold? Thousands of people dare to break into the palace? It turned out that he was followed by Liu Ruyi! Liu Ruyi is very good at kung fu, with him protecting Liu Zhang, he only kills people, and no one can hurt Liu Zhang! According to Liu Zhang's original intention, it is better to kill the young emperor with his hands, so as not to abolish the establishment and spend more words. Liu Ruyi is resolutely opposed! First, the young emperor is the son of Emperor Hui, and there is no fault at a young age; Second, it is difficult for anyone to commit the crime of killing the king, and it is not known if he is used as a handle afterwards, and the death of the clan is unknown! Liu Zhang then let the young emperor go and led the army back to report to Zhou Bo. Zhou Bo jumped up and congratulated: "We will only suffer from one Lu production, and Lu will be punished, and the world will be decided!" "Send soldiers to arrest Zhu Lu at the moment, regardless of men, women, old and children. Even Lu Lu and Lu Xiao have no way to escape. Zhou Bo ordered Lu Lu to be tied out first, and he died with one sword; Lu Xiao still wanted to struggle to talk nonsense, provoking Zhou Bo's anger, and ordered the sergeant to fall to the ground and flog with a cane, where can an old bone afford a big cane? Less than 100 times have been out of breath. In addition, there were almost hundreds of people who were beheaded. Lu Tong, the king of Yan, has already gone to Yan, and Zhou Bo sent an envoy to commit suicide under the pretext of the emperor's order!
In the process of eradicating Zhulu in the Jingshi, Liu Zhang, the Marquis of Zhu Xu, made the greatest contribution [Liu Ruyi pretended to be a guard and followed Liu Zhang, not to mention it]. Ban Gu's account in this place is very interesting, he said: "Liu Zhang first beheaded Lu Production; Taiwei Zhou Bo and others punished Zhu Lu". Clearly, these are two camps. In the process of eradicating Zhulu, the princes of the Liu clan led by Liu Zhang and the clique of old ministers led by Zhou Bo and Chen Ping were actively trying to win over their own strength, and they all wanted to have an ideal position in the upcoming new dynasty. And Chen Ping and Zhou Bo are more urgent and mature. Chen Ping was an extremely important minister of Empress Lü, and if he wanted to clear his sin of serving Empress Lü for many years, he had to do a great job in the process of eradicating Zhu Lü, so that he could have the opportunity to flatter the new emperor. It was this that forced these old ministers to not allow the full-fledged brothers Liu Zhang and Liu Xingju to dominate the court. If Brother Liu Zhang takes power, then Zhulu's today is his tomorrow, and the end will definitely not be good. The Liu Zhang brothers are young and impulsive, but they are still a little tender compared to these veterans who have lived in officialdom for a long time.