The last crown prince of the Western Han Dynasty was called Liu Bao, commonly known as the Son of Han, who was the grandson of Emperor Xuan of Han and the son of Liu Xian, the Marquis of Guangqi. So, what is the final fate of Liu Baby?
In 6 AD, Emperor Ping of Han died, and under the control of Wang Mang, the Western Han court selected Liu Bao as crown prince from dozens of young grandsons of Emperor Xuan of Han. At that time, Liu Bao was only two years old, and he was lucky to be selected as the crown prince from dozens of qualified imperial grandchildren.
However, Wang Mang's desire to control the imperial court was clear. And hypocrisy, saying one thing and doing one thing, is Wang Mang's skill. Although he wanted to control the imperial court in his heart, he still had to do superficial work, especially when there was opposition.
In the second year of Ju Zhao, that is, in the year 7 AD, Zhai Yi, Liu Xin, and others gathered more than 100,000 people to oppose Wang Mang's dictatorship, and the momentum was quite huge.
Wang Mang was so worried that he did not think about tea and dinner, and all day long he carried Liu Bao, the son of Han, to the suburban altar and the temple to pray, and said: "On the day of Yue Qiwen, there were 400 people in the clan room, and the people offered 90,000 husbands. He also vowed to the people of the world that in the future, when Liu Bao grew up, he would return the political power to his widow.
In the first year of the first year, that is, in the 8th year of the First Year, someone spied on Wang Mang's thoughts and offered XiangRui and Fu Feng. Wang Mang took this opportunity to go further and called himself a "false emperor". However, Wang Mang still pretended to say: "The minister Mang raised Long's widow at night, and ordered king Beide of Zhou, and Xuanming Empress Dowager Weide in Wanfang, expecting to be rich and teach." The widow adds yuanfu, and the fuzi is clear, such as the story of the Duke of Zhou. ”
These words were still in his ears, and the ink had not dried, and Wang Mang had forgotten them all. In 9 AD, Wang Mang could not wait to send someone to ask The Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun for a jade seal symbolizing imperial power. At this time, the old lady of Wang Zhengjun saw Wang Mang's wolf ambitions, and was greatly annoyed, and threw the jade seal to the ground--it is said that this is the reason why the chuanguo jade seal is missing a corner.
However, at this time, Wang Mang's wings were already abundant, and The old lady of Wang Zhengjun was powerless after all, and could only cry out in vain and let Wang Mang usurp the Great Han Jiangshan.
Wang Mang had successfully usurped the throne, and a thorny question before him was: What should be done with Liu Bao, the last crown prince of the Western Han Dynasty?
On this issue, there is a hypocritical record in the history books: On the day Wang Mang ascended the throne, he personally shook the hand of Han Zizi and sobbed with tears: "In the past, when the Duke of Zhou acted on the throne, he was finally able to return the power of the Ming Emperor to King Zhou Cheng; now I am forced by the majestic orders of the heavens, and I cannot do as I wish!" Sad sighed for a long time. Then, Zhongfu took the Han widow down to the temple and claimed to be a subordinate to the north. Hundreds of officials accompanied, and no one was unmoved.
After that, Wang Mang converted the official office of Dahongxu into the residence of Ding'an Gong (i.e., Liu Bao), sent doormen and emissaries to supervise and manage, and warned the nursery staff and nurses not to talk to Liu Bao, often leaving him alone in a four-walled room. It is said that because of this reason, Liu Bao could not call out the names of the six animals when he grew up.
Liu Bao, the widow of Han, was imprisoned by Wang Mang and seemed unfortunate. However, in China's history, the killing of puppet spokesmen who have no use value has happened infrequently. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, sent someone to kill King Huai of Chu; Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also killed Han Lin'er.
As the saying goes, it is better to die than to live. From this point of view, Liu Baby is lucky again. Because although Wang Mang was hypocritical, at least he did not kill him, allowing him to live for a few more years. However, Liu Bao, the last crown prince of the Western Han Dynasty, could not escape the unfortunate fate of being killed in the end.
In 25 AD, after Wang Mang was killed, Fang Wang, a native of Pingling, and others watched the sky at night, believing that Liu Xuan, the first emperor, would definitely fail, and That Liu Infant was the one who should be made emperor according to the emperor, so they sent troops together to take Liu Infant from Chang'an to Linjing and become emperor.
What night sky phenomenon? What imperial system? Fang Wang and others jointly supported Liu Bao as emperor, in fact, in order to achieve his personal goals, and once again used Liu Bao to pull the banner.
However, even if everyone knew it, the first emperor Liu Xuan still did not allow Liu Bao's existence, so he sent the chancellor Li Song to lead an army to fight Fang Wang, etc., and killed them all, and Liu Nian was naturally among the beheaded.
In short, Liu Bao, the widow of the Han Dynasty, was born with a life that was used, and his short life was a life of being used and abandoned.