Zhou Yafu learned the lesson of his father Zhou Bo, and he has always been relatively low-key.

However, Zhou Yafu still offended his uncle Wang Xin.

Wang Xin wanted to be a marquis, but Zhou Yafu did not allow it. Naturally, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu entered the blacklist of this upstart. Wang Xin has a grudge against Zhou Yafu, but he is helpless, he can't defeat Zhou Yafu with his strength.

Just when he had nothing to do, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, joined.

Wang Xin once said a lot of good things to Emperor Jing to Emperor Jing under the persuasion of Zou Yang, a guest of King Liang, which alleviated Emperor Jing's suspicion of King Liang.

King Liang regarded Wang Xin as a benefactor, and after coming and going, the two had nothing to talk about.

When the feudal marquis was blocked, Wang Xin sighed and said that he wanted to bring down Prime Minister Zhou Yafu.

As soon as Wang Xin expressed his position, King Liang immediately slapped the table and loudly said that he wanted to do it together.

Wang Xin saw that King Liang's reaction was greater than him, and that posture was almost to go directly to the Zhou Mansion with a knife to stab someone, and he was stunned for a while. He immediately remembered that Zhou Yafu had offended King Liang in the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms.

Wang Xin smiled and attached himself to King Liang's ear, and told him what he thought in his heart, which made King Liang smile.

Wang Xin and King Liang agreed that there is only one person who can bring down Zhou Yafu, and that is Liu Qi

Based on this common understanding, Wang Xin and Liang Wang decided to walk on two legs.

One is Queen Wang, and the other is Empress Dowager Dou.

Under their slander, Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Wang both frowned at Zhou Yafu.

After that, the two most important women in Liu Qi's life passed on such a bad impression to Liu Qi.

Over time, Liu Qi also frowned.

Liu Qi wanted to abolish Prince Li, but Zhou Yafu opposed him; Liu Qi wanted to make Wang Xin a marquis at the suggestion of Empress Dowager Dou, but Zhou Yafu opposed him.

Zhou Yafu, are you still loyal to me?

Liu Qi put a big question mark in his heart about this.

After a while, Liu Qi made up his mind to replace the prime minister, and he quickly found a reason to replace him.

In the third year of Emperor Jing's reign (147 BC), six Xiongnu Xu and Lu chieftains came to Chang'an and surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Liu Qi was overjoyed, he had always been beaten by the Huns, and the Huns were able to have tribes to surrender, which could be regarded as winning glory for the court and growing his face.

Moreover, one of the six people who came to surrender was still the grandson of the founding hero Lu Juan, and Liu Qi was overjoyed and issued an edict to entitle the six people as marquis. Liu Qi hoped that this move would attract more Xiongnu people to join him, thereby weakening the power of the Xiongnu.

Unexpectedly, before the edict was issued, Zhou Yafu heard the news, and he hurriedly ran to find Liu Qi.

Zhou Yafu thought that they were people who betrayed their lords and sought glory, and they could not be crowned marquis.

Liu Qi angrily threw out a cold sentence, which made Zhou Yafu stunned, like a basin of cold water pouring from head to foot.

His words went something like this, "The Prime Minister's Proposal is not available!" ”

Zhou Yafu keenly felt that he might not be able to stay in this court anymore.

He left Weiyang Palace a little sadly, and the moment he left the palace gate, he turned his head and looked back, shook his head and sighed, and left alone.

A few days later, the Xiongnu Xu Lu and six others were named marquis.

At the same time, Zhou Yafu took a special twist - a letter of resignation.

This resignation letter is in Liu Qi's arms, and he has long wanted you to leave, but you took the initiative to bring it up, so you're welcome.

For this conscientious prime minister, he did not make any retention.

In September of the third year of Emperor Jing's reign (147 BC), Zhou Yafu was dismissed from his post and went home, and Liu She, the imperial historian, succeeded him as prime minister.

Zhou Yafu did not escape his father's fate in the end, and lost the hat of prime minister for no reason.

The conspiracy of Wang Xin and King Liang eventually succeeded.

Finally, he took revenge, and King Liang was happy, but he didn't rejoice for too long, because he died.

Liu Qi suspected that King Liang had stayed in Chang'an for a long time, and ordered him to leave Chang'an and return to the fief of Liang.

When the news of his death reached Chang'an, Mrs. Dou almost fainted.

After the Empress Dowager Dou woke up, she cried day and night, complaining that Liu Qi had forced her brother to death.

Liu Qi had no choice but to seal all the five sons of King Liang to calm the old lady down.

King Liang is dead, Liu Qi can finally stop worrying about the stability of the crown prince's position, although the old lady is sad, but there is no candidate for the position of prince, and there is nothing to say.

Liu Qi's harem finally gained true peace.

Like all monarchs, after all the hidden dangers that threatened the position of the prince were eliminated, Liu Qi focused his work on cultivating the wings of the crown prince.

Like all fathers, he wanted his son to take over his legacy and carry it forward.

In August of the first year of Emperor Jing (143 BC), Wei Juan took over as prime minister and was undoubtedly promoted to the imperial historian. Liu Qi's appointment is a clear-eyed person who knows that it has another deep meaning, Wei Juan has been the prince and the prince, and the relationship with Liu Che is extraordinary, and Zhi Bu is a well-known loyal elder, when he was a Lang official, someone in the same dormitory mistakenly took someone else's gold home, and the person who lost the gold thought that he took it without suspicion, and went to blame Zhi Bu Doubt, Zhi Bu did not defend, and took out his own gold to the owner. When the housemate returned and returned the gold, the owner was ashamed. Later, someone told me to hook up with my sister-in-law, but I only replied that I don't have a brother. Other than that, nothing more.

After Liu Qi made these two appointments, he remembered his old acquaintance Zhou Yafu, who had long been dismissed.

He thought of an idea to test this former hero, and issued an order to summon Zhou Yafu to come to the palace for a banquet.

Zhou Yafu soon came with an edict, and Liu Qi ordered someone to carry out the wine and food.

Zhou Yafu was flattered, but after taking a closer look, Zhou Yafu was confused.

There are no chopsticks on the wine table except for wine, and there is a large piece of meat, but there is no tableware that can cut meat.

There was a strange atmosphere in the banquet.

What exactly does Your Majesty mean? Zhou Yafu muttered in his heart.

Liu Qi pretended to be casual and said, eat!

Zhou Yafu said to the kitchen next to him, go get chopsticks.

The kitchen's response was no.

Liu Qi smiled, "Still not satisfied?" ”

Zhou Yafu had red ears on the horse, bowed to Liu Qi, Liu Qi said, get up.

But in the consternation of everyone, after Zhou Yafu got up, he didn't go back to the banquet, and went out of the palace directly.

Liu Qi looked at Zhou Yafu's back and muttered, this person is cowardly, not a young minister.

This banquet was actually Liu Qi's last test of Zhou Yafu, but Zhou Yafu really disappointed Liu Qi, and from that moment on, Liu Qi decided to completely abandon his former heroes.

In the same year, Zhou Yafu experienced the same pain as his father and went to prison, but the difference was that his father survived, while he did not.

Zhou Yafu's son bought him 500 armors to prepare his father to use as a funeral vessel a hundred years later, because of wage problems, Zhou Yafu's son had an economic dispute with the hired laborer. In a fit of rage, the hired worker sued Zhou Yafu's son to the government, accusing him of buying weapons privately and intending to rebel.

The matter implicated Zhou Yafu, Tingwei summoned Zhou Yafu, Zhou Yafu was also confused, and it was not related to Tingwei's question, Tingwei reported the matter to Liu Qi, Liu Qi was furious and ordered a strict investigation.

In order to get Zhou Yafu's guilt, Tingwei summoned Zhou Yafu again and asked, "Why did the prince rebel?" ”

"My son bought all the funeral goods, how can you say that he is a rebellion?"

As soon as Zhou Yafu's voice fell, Ting Wei said a sentence that made Zhou Yafu vomit blood, "I'm afraid I don't want to rebel on the ground, but I also want to rebel underground!" ”

In the face of this unreasonable frame-up, Zhou Yafu could only be speechless.

He was imprisoned in the Tingwei Mansion, and in order to prove his innocence, he chose a very extreme way, a hunger strike.

After five days of hunger strike, Zhou Yafu, a famous general, vomited blood and died.