Liu Bang's least favorite son, he was abandoned at the age of 8 and became the Ming Emperor of the Ages after 15 years
Speaking of Liu Bang, everyone will think of the civilian emperor who played with power and killed heroes. Liu Bang was born in Buyi, won the world at the age of 53, and became the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty. This person, who was liu Bang's least optimistic son, had endured for many years and eventually became a generation of Ming Jun. Who is this person?
Liu Bang rose from the end of Qin and followed Xiang Yu and other nobles of the Six Kingdoms to raise an army. Rebel armies from all over the country fought against the elite of the Qin state in the front, and Liu Bang stole towers in the rear and picked up leaks. Along the way, Liu Bang collected the remnants of the defeated generals and gradually expanded his power. Later, Liu Bang entered Xianyang effortlessly and was called "King of Hanzhong".
After Qin was destroyed, Liu Bang confronted Xiang Yu, after a five-year war. Liu Bang defeated the unparalleled overlord with the help of a group of strongmen. As the saying goes: "In the midst of the husband's planning, I am not as good as the son of the house; the town and the state, care for the people, give the people, and do not stop grain, I am not as good as Xiao He; even the millions of people, the battle will be won, the attack will be won, I am not as good as Han Xin." All three are masterpieces, I can use them, so I take the world. Liu Bang united all the strong men at that time to defeat Xiang Yu and seize the world. It can be said that Liu Bang dehan has an element of luck.
Emperors like Liu Bang, who came from the lowest levels of society, looked down on sons of low birth. Liu Bang had 8 sons, but Emperor Wen of Han was the one he despised the most. Why did Liu Bang look down on Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han? In fact, this should start from Liu Heng's birth mother, Bo Ji, who is a Wu person and is now in Jiangsu. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Wei Bao established himself as the King of Wei and Na Bo Ji as a concubine. In the Chu-Han War, Wei Bao was capricious, and after defecting to Xiang Yu, he was defeated by Han Xin, and Bo Ji became a prisoner of Liu Bang.
Who Liu Bang is, we can't be clearer. After Wei Bao's defeat, he became Liu Bang's servant, and after coming and going, Bo Ji became Liu Bang's woman, and then gave birth to Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han. It can be said that Liu Heng is the most humble of many brothers. Mother Bo Ji was born as a captive, and from the birth of Liu Heng, Liu Bang snubbed their mother and son. Liu Heng was talented and intelligent, and he was generous in his work and work, which attracted the favor of countless ministers. It is precisely because of this that when Liu Heng was eight years old, he was elected to become the acting king.
Liu Heng's acting king was the lowest-ranking of Liu Bang's sons. When Liu Bang's other sons were killed, Liu Heng was fortunate enough to escape the disaster. Liu Heng came from a humble background and could not threaten Lü Yan's position at all, so Liu Heng was safe and sound. Later, Liu Heng, elected by his ministers, became the new emperor of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han.
At the beginning of Liu Heng's ascension to the throne, the state's financial resources were seriously insufficient, and the people were brutally exploited. Liu Heng revered Taoist thought and advocated recuperation. Liu Heng greatly reduced the field tax, so that the people were based on agriculture, and the national economy developed rapidly. Emperor Wen of Han was the most frugal emperor in ancient history, and his frugality was difficult to accept. Emperor Wen of Han usually wore clothes made of rough black silk. Even the construction of the mausoleum requires congruence. Such frugality could not be compared even to the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian. It was precisely because of emperor Wen of Han's frugality that the national strength of the Han Dynasty was restored, and the first prosperous "rule of Wenjing" in history appeared.
Emperor Wen of Han was from a humble origin and was not valued by Liu Bang, but he was able to become a generation of Ming Emperors through his own efforts, which was enough to see the wisdom of Emperor Liu Heng of Han. Liu Heng's contribution lies in the restoration of national strength, which has made a huge preparation for the powerful dynasty during the Period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. What are your thoughts on this?
References: Emperor Wendi of Han, Liu Heng, History of Liu Bang Benji