Chapter 93: Liu Qi's Prosperous Era 1 The Prosperous Era Continues
In an unprecedented chaos, Liu Qi won the final victory.
The beginning of the war was not expected by Liu Qi, and the ending of the war was also not expected by Liu Qi. We can compare Liu Qi and Liu Bi to two fighters. Among them, Liu Qi is unknown, but Liu Wei is prestigious. As soon as Liu Bi came on the court, he put on the strongest attack posture, and a left hook and right hook went down, and Liu Qi only had the ability to parry and had no power to fight back. However, when Liu Qi stabilized his position, he relied on his innate advantage to give Liu Bi a heavy punch, and as a result, Liu Bi fell.
In everyone's consternation, Liu Bi quickly collapsed and never got up again.
People were amazed by the thunderbolt methods of the young emperor Liu Qi, from now on, he would no longer be the impatient hairy young man with a head to his toes and only a chessboard as a brick, he had the same powerful means as his father.
He lived up to his father's expectations and unexpectedly solved the problem of the vassal king, at the cost of losing a minister who grew up with him.
In the words of history, we can see Liu Qi's heartfelt confession. However, Chao Cuo should be comforted by the fact that his blood was not shed in vain, and his sacrifice was exchanged for a quick victory.
As mentioned above, looking at the essence through the phenomenon, this is still a contest between the feudal system and the centralized system, which is marked by the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, marking the imminent abandonment of the system of feudal production.
In just a few months, the Rebellion of the Seven Kings made many people famous all over the world.
But among them, the most proud is Liu Wu, the king of Liang, and the most disappointed is Li Guang, the cavalry general.
Li Guang passed by Liang on the way back, and was warmly received by the king of Liang, and Liu Wu, the king of Liang, was happy and awarded the seal of General Li Guang, who did not have time to think about it carefully. "Li Guang's difficulty in sealing" also began at this time.
Li Guang would not have thought that such a move would bring him a doom that would be difficult to seal in his life.
In the roster of meritorious deeds, you can find a series of names, Liang Wang Liu Wu, Zhou Yafu, Dou Ying, Luan Bu, Cao Xiang, Li Shang and others, as long as they have made meritorious deeds, they all have their own rewards.
And Li Guang didn't get a reward, all he got was a piece of paper, and he went to Shanggu Taishou, which was regarded as a level-level transfer, but he was transferred from a military position to a civilian position.
Li Guang, who was wronged, did not complain too much, packed up, and went to the frontier non-stop.
That is, at the border with the sound of horses' hooves, Li Guang achieved the glory of his life, and the name of General Fei has since resounded throughout the prairie.
Different from Li Guang's gloomy departure, Liu Wu, the initiator of "Li Guang's difficult seal", regarded himself as the first hero of the rebellion. Whoever has the most credit, who ranks the most, it doesn't have much impact, after all, he is the first feudal king in the world, and he is the beloved son of the current queen mother, so it is understandable to be arrogant and proud. But the bad thing is that Liu Wu, the king of Liang, used this as his capital, thinking about non-division, and doing non-dividing things - competing for the storage position.
Liu Wu still clearly remembers that his brother said, "Long live the king." You don't joke, the emperor can't take what he says as a fart.
Liu Wu can have this kind of thought in his heart, it is not a day or two, because he has not made meritorious contributions before, he can't be too blatant.
Today is different from the past, Liu Wu has merit and backstage (Queen Mother), so he naturally wants to be active.
Liu Wu's idea first began in the capital of the Liang Kingdom.
He received a rich reward from the imperial court. He found a good home for the money - real estate. Of course, there is no need to be too excited, King Liang does not have a high consciousness to take the initiative to build people's housing projects, such as low-rent housing, affordable housing, etc., as long as he does not come to forcibly demolish the people's houses, the people will burn high incense.
Suiyang, the capital of the Liang Kingdom, was dusty everywhere for a while, and Liu Wu sent craftsmen to paint the palace in Chang'an and bring it back to the Liang State to build according to the map.
"King Xiaozhu Dongyuan, more than 300 miles away, 70 miles from the vast Suiyang City, Dazhi Palace, for the resumption of the road, from the palace to the platform more than 30 miles."
In addition to the level of the palace that is about to catch up with Chang'an City, Liu Wu has also raised the level of etiquette to a level.
He ordered that he should be called "police" when he traveled, and "stumbling" when he returned. When traveling, the banner was not the flag of the special vassal king in the past, but the banner given by the Son of Heaven, and the number of people in the team reached tens of thousands.
Liu Wu's behavior was obviously going towards the Son of Heaven. Even now, when officials and nobles go out to a police car to open the road, the crowd cheers, it will be criticized, not to mention the ancient times with strict etiquette.
However, Liu Wu still went his own way, and his actions had already committed the great crime of trespassing.
So not long after, Liu Qi's desk received a recital of King Liang.
Liu Qi finished reading the chapter with a frown, and he couldn't help but have a headache.
Liu Qi knew his brother's merits very well in his heart. In the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, if there was no Liang State to attract the main force of Wu Chu to besiege it, Zhou Yafu would not be able to defeat King Wu in one fell swoop.
But credit doesn't mean you can make mistakes. In fact, what really makes a headache is not that Liu Wu is not arrogant, the problem of trespassation is easy to handle, and if an edict goes down, if there is a crime, there will be guilt, and if there is no guilt, there will be no guilt, and the family will be easy to talk about.
The headache is the old lady in the harem, and the old lady has always had the desire to be a brother and a brother. Coupled with King Liang's activities, the wind blowing from the old lady's side became tighter.
Liu Qi knew that his mother had favored his younger brother Liu Wu since he was a child, and if he didn't do what his mother wanted, he would undoubtedly anger her old man. In order to get his mother's favor and recognition, Liu Qi did a lot of things, and even did not hesitate to say "After a thousand autumns, the king will be the king" to make the old man happy.
But coax and coax, do and do
Family affection and national conditions, Liu Qi did not hesitate to choose national conditions.
He may not be a good father, a good brother, or a good son, but he must be a good emperor.
Shouldering the burden of the Son of Heaven and shouldering the safety of the Son of Heaven, an inappropriate move by the Son of Heaven may cause tens of thousands of people to die. If the imperial court's system of establishing a reserve is not established, it will only continue to be a disaster. If Liu Wu is allowed to continue to develop, maybe Liu Chang's yesterday will be Liu Wu's tomorrow.
After continuous thinking, Liu Qi decided to do one thing to eliminate all the sources of disaster.
This thing is a standing reserve.
The establishment of the reserve is a big thing, and it must be approved by the Queen Mother.
Although he knew that the Queen Mother was biased towards King Liang, Liu Qi was confident to persuade the old lady.
Because the candidate he proposed also won the favor of the old lady, this candidate was Liu Qi's eldest son Liu Rong.
Queen Bo has no children, and Liu Rong was born to Liu Qi's favorite concubine Li Ji, so Liu Rong is the eldest son, but not the eldest son. According to the old system, if the queen has no children, she can be virtuous.
However, most of Liu Qi's sons are still innocent teenagers, and many of them are still nursing in infancy, and Xian Buxian can't see it for a while, so Liu Rong will not let it go.
And, most importantly, the old lady also likes this eldest grandson very much.
After Liu Qi thought about it carefully, he was not in a hurry to put forward the candidate in his heart, and told the Empress Dowager Dou about the idea of establishing a prince.
Empress Dowager Dou is also very much in favor.
Liu Qi timely proposed that he wanted to make Liu Rong the crown prince.
Empress Dowager Dou blinked her eyes, which had already been blind, and was about to ask King Liang how he was, Liu Qi immediately explained that Liu Rong was smart and benevolent, and he was even more filial to the Queen Mother, and your old man also liked him very much.
Empress Dowager Dou thought about it, and it was true, this little guy usually brought her a lot of joy, and he was the eldest grandson of the emperor, so it was a good choice if he could be established as the prince, so he temporarily suppressed the thoughts in his heart and agreed.
In the fourth year of Emperor Jing (153 BC), Liu Rong was made the crown prince, known as the "Li Prince" in history, and his other son, Liu Che, who was only four years old, was also made the king of Jiaodong.
An impending battle for the throne has been resolved for the time being, and Liu Qi wants to use this opportunity to tell all the vassal kings, especially his younger brother.
Keep your duty and don't think too much about it.
Liu Rong was made the crown prince and sent an edict to the Liang state.
Liu Wu was like being poured from head to toe by a basin of cold water, with the help of the Queen Mother, who had a lot of credit, but he didn't expect that an edict would extinguish hope.
King Liang's loss was seen by two favored ministers around him, one was named Yang Sheng, and the other was Gongsun Wei, a native of Shandong. And it is these two people who will create the most earth-shattering case of the Han Dynasty in the future.
The two were Liu Wu's newly recruited staff scribes, and Gongsun Wei served as a lieutenant of Liang Guo, known as General Gongsun. The two are scheming and are deeply favored by Liu Wu.
They stepped forward to cheer Liu Wu up, and they advised King Liang not to be discouraged, wait for the opportunity, and bribe the ministers of the court, as long as the queen mother was there, there was still hope.
Liu Wu was quite encouraged and excited after hearing this, and congratulated him.
Liu Qi was very happy when he learned that Liang Guo was at peace.
Being able to solve the storage problem once and for all is undoubtedly the most ideal outcome in Liu Qi's view. However, Liu Qi was a little happy too early. As the saying goes, wool comes out of the sheep. He was the one who caused the dispute over the storage position, and he was the one who wanted to solve the dispute over the storage position, and a few years later, it was he who caused the chaos.
Of course, Liu Qi's main job in the following days was to cut the feudal domain. After the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the powerful vassal king was served in a pot, but he picked up King Liang, a new powerful vassal king. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, Liu Qi ordered that the vassal kings could only pay taxes on food, clothing, and taxes, and that they could not intervene in the affairs of their own country, and deprive their local princes of their powers.
Not only that, Liu Qi also recovered many counties from the vassal kings, and the number of counties directly under the imperial court reached 44, accounting for the vast majority of the land.
Liu Qi saw the importance of the people's will from the rebellion, and he not only continued his father's policy of leniency and benevolence, but also continued to punish the people.
A war made Liu Qi find self-confidence, he was confident that he could continue the prosperous era left by his father, and he was even more confident that he would push the prosperous era to a more glorious high point.
Therefore, in the third year of Emperor Jing (152 BC), Fu Weijuan, the prince of Jiangdong Confucian, was appointed as a lieutenant in one of the nine Qings, responsible for the security of the capital.
The upward and downward effects have made the social atmosphere more relaxed.
However, Wei Juan's leniency and benevolence have a remarkable effect on governing the people, but they are helpless against the powerful and noble.
At this time, "alternative" officials are needed.
If Liu Qi wants to control this huge empire, he must use "alternative" officials. This kind of person makes the nobles and civilians all frightened, if they are accidentally planted in their hands, even if the father is the emperor Lao Tzu, they can only consider themselves unlucky, this kind of person is not afraid of heaven and earth, but also likes to play with torture tools, they have a unified title, cool officials.
Don't believe it, because the crown prince Liu Rong is planted in their hands.