Although in the ancient Chinese feudal society, the emperor was the supreme being, the idea of divine authority of the monarchy was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the emperor sat on the world.
But in fact, the monarchy is not as stable and unshakable as people think, how many founding emperors are through the usurpation of the throne to inherit the unification, this monarch and subject has always been a relationship between the two sides, which is why the emperors of all dynasties have worked hard to strengthen the centralization of power, until the Qing Dynasty, the centralized power of feudal society developed to the peak.
Because the Qing Dynasty was the peak of the monarchy of feudal society, we can see from looking at the emperors of the Qing Dynasty that except for the emperor Puyi who was forced to abdicate at the end of the Qing Dynasty, none of the other emperors was abolished, which is very rare in feudal dynasties. Since so many emperors in ancient times were repulsed by their subordinates because of their weakness, what about the emperor who opened the first?
The first emperor in China's feudal history to be abolished was Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, who also had another identity that we are more familiar with, that is, the first generation of the Western Han Dynasty. With the discovery of the best-preserved and largest tomb of the princes of the Han Dynasty in China in 2011, the tomb of the Marquis of Haixia was discovered in Nanchang, Jiangxi, the Chinese emperor who combined the triple identities of emperor, king and marquis, but was abolished only 27 days after he ascended the throne, and finally entered people's field of vision again.
Liu He, born in 92 BC, was the grandson of Emperor Wu of Han and the son of Liu Qi, the Prince of Changyi. Here we need to mention one person, that is, the Western Han Dynasty Grand Sima Huo Guang, who is the half-brother of the famous Western Han General Huo Fuyi. At first, Huo Guang was able to enter the official arena because of the promotion of his brother Huo Guang.com.
But Huo Guang himself was also very powerful, even if Huo Guang died of illness in 117 BC, Huo Guang could still rely on his own step-by-step means to seize the trust of Emperor Wu of Han, enter and leave the court for more than twenty years, did not commit a single wrong thing, and became the most trusted courtier of Emperor Wu of Han.
Emperor Wu of Han had a very beloved Lady Gou Yi, but for the sake of the stability of the dynasty, the matter of finally leaving a son to his mother must be no stranger to everyone, and this left-behind heir was the eighth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Fuling, the Emperor of Han Zhao. Liu Fuling himself was very capable, and during his tenure he reversed the social contradictions left behind by Emperor Wu of Han in the last years of his reign; however, he further favored Huo Guang, but laid the groundwork for Huo Guang's future dictatorship.
In 74 BC, Liu Fuling died at the age of 21, leaving no heirs. Huo Guang was already in power at that time, so at his insistence, Liu He, who had originally taken over his father's title, was supported as the ninth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. But Liu He was just a cover for Huo Guang to take Li Wei. Liu He traveled thousands of miles from the fiefdom of Changyi, but in just 27 days, he was abolished by Huo Guang on the grounds that Liu He was faint and endangering the country, and even the temple number was not set in time. According to records, liu he issued edicts to various official offices in just 27 days, a total of 1127 cases, which also became the most direct evidence for Huo Guang's abolition of Liu He.
But the problem is, 27 days to do 1127 bad things, an average of 41 bad things per day, this Liu He even if he does not learn well from morning to night, he can not do this kind of "feat". What's more, among the excavated cultural relics of the tomb of Marquis Haixia, there are a large number of screens about the sages, which can be seen that Liu He is a person who has great respect for the way of the sages, so it can be judged that Huo Guang's move is just to take Liu He to "establish a mighty wind".
In 74 BC, Huo Guang deposed Liu He and made Liu Zhao, the crown prince of Li (劉劉匳) the prince of Lijiao (衛子夫, the concubine of Emperor Wu of Han), the grandson of Emperor Xuan of Han, and Liu He's original state of Changyi was demoted to Shanyang Commandery (山阳郡), and Liu He only retained the title of Marquis of Haixia, ending in hatred in just four years.