In Liu Bang's later years, he did not like Liu Ying very much, believing that he was a benevolent and weak person and did not get his true biography. And Liu Ruyi is quite similar to himself. So I wanted to make him crown prince.
Lady Qi, he did not become an empress, and he was originally a little unwilling. Now, seeing that this Liu Bang had the idea of changing the crown prince, he seized the opportunity and encouraged him to hurry up and put it into practice every day.
In the end, Liu Bang was so entangled that he really couldn't do anything, so he had to agree to the matter of deposing the prince.
However, what Liu Bang did not expect was that as soon as this topic was thrown out, it stirred up thousands of waves, causing opposition from many ministers up and down the government and the public. Some ministers even forced them to die, believing that Liu Bang's move violated the principles of patriarchy. When Liu Bang saw it, there were many opponents, so he had to give up. Although the matter was in the past, the shock brought to Lü Hou was not small, and Lü Hou only had one son, so he had no way to retreat, and he had to put all his bets on his son.
In 196 BC, when the king of Huainan, Yingbu, rebelled, when the news reached Chang'an, Liu Bang was lying sick in bed, and let Zhang Liang assist the crown prince to stay in the capital, and when he was driving his own conquest, when Yingbu rebelled, he had expected that Liu Bang was old and sick, and he could not personally march.
Among the generals of the Han army, Han Xin Pengyue, who could match him, was already dead, so he had some fear. But he didn't expect this Liu Bang, he ran out of oil and didn't cry.
He was really the commander-in-chief, which shocked Yingbu extremely, and as a result, he panicked and lost the battle.
However, Liu Bang's victory was not perfect.
Because in the process of the imperial conquest, he was unfortunately shot by a stray arrow. After returning to Chang'an, the whole person was almost dead. Liu Bang knew that the limit was coming, so he took advantage of the fact that this breath was still there, and he quickly explained the aftermath. He condensed a thousand sentences into ten sentences, and said intermittently for half an hour, but Lü Hou only heard five words to let the prince take over, which was enough.
In 195 BC, Liu Bang died of illness, and Liu Ying, who was only sixteen years old, succeeded to the throne as Emperor Hui of Han.
This Emperor Hui of Han was a filial son, and his mother Lü Hou took advantage of this advantage to take advantage of the opportunity to monopolize the imperial gang.
After Lü Hou came to power, the first thing he naturally thought of was to get rid of his number one enemy, Lady Qi.
In the process of dealing with Lady Qi, this Lü Yan fully exerted his creative thinking, first poisoning Lady Qi's son Liu Ruyi, then cutting off Lady Qi's hands and feet, goinguging out his eyes and deafening his ears, and finally forcing him to drink dumb medicine, and finally throwing him into a pit and calling him a hostage.
After doing all this, this psychopathic Lü Hou also specially invited his own son Emperor Huidi to admire his masterpiece. After Emperor Hui of Han saw it, his spirit was strongly stimulated, and he cried bitterly. He said that this was not the work of man, and that the subject was the empress dowager, and that he could not rule the world in the end. From then on, he ignored the government and politics, drank and had fun every day, and died after only seven years of reign.
Seven years of filial piety,
Liu Ying died of depression and illness, and Lü Yan made liu gong the crown prince, and he himself took the title of emperor, exercised the authority of the emperor, worshiped Lü Tai, Lü Chan, and Lü Lu as generals, commanded the two armies of the north and the south, and let the people of the Lü family enter the palace and hold great power in the imperial court. In the eighth year of Gao Hou (180 BC), Lü Yan became seriously ill, and before she died, she still did not forget to consolidate the Lü clan. When she was critically ill, she ordered the appointment of her nephew Lü Lu the Prince of Zhao as a general to command the Northern Army, and Lü Chan to command the Southern Army. He also admonished them: "After Emperor Gao pacified the world, he made a covenant with his ministers: 'It is not the Liu clan who claims the kingship, but the whole world condemns it.'" Now that the Lü clan is crowned king, the Liu clan and the ministers are indignant, I will soon die, the emperor is young, and the ministers may mutiny. Therefore, you must firmly control the army, guard the palace, and never leave the palace to pay my funeral, and do not be stifled by others. ”
On August 1, Lü Yan fell ill and died, dying at the age of sixty-two, and was buried with Han Gaozu in Changling.
After Lü Hou's death, the kings of the Liu clan rose up and killed Zhu Lü, and a bloody struggle between the Liu clan and the Lü clan's foreign relatives ended in the victory of the imperial clique. Liu Heng, who was then crowned as acting king, succeeded to the throne as Emperor Wen of Han.
The first recorded empress and empress dowager in Chinese history, and the first woman to claim the imperial title system after Qin Shi Huang established the imperial system, came to an end.