In 180 BC, Lü Hou, who had been in charge of the government for several years, died, followed by the Zhulu Rebellion, and Liu Hanzong and his supporters launched a coup d'état against Zhulu under the pretext of Lü's rebellion, with the result that Zhulu was bulldozed, and Liu Heng, who was far away in the daiguo, was made emperor of the Han Dynasty, that is, Emperor Wen of Han.
It can be said that Liu Heng was the most lucky emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, originally the imperial throne was not related to him, and he did not participate in the action of destroying the Lü clan, but the imperial throne eventually fell on his head. Compared with his luck, Liu Xiang is much more sad, it can be said that Liu Xiang made a wedding dress for his uncle Liu Heng, and it should be known that it was Liu Xiang who first stood up to protect Liu Xiang.
Liu Xiang was the eldest son of Liu Bangshu's eldest son Liu Fei, liu Fei, as Liu Bang's eldest son, although he was destined to have no connection with the throne, but his fiefdom was the largest among the princes of the entire Han Dynasty, Liu Fei gave birth to thirteen sons, of which Liu Xiang, the eldest son of Liu Xiang, took the throne of Qi after Liu Fei's death, the second son Liu Zhang was the Marquis of Zhu, married Lü Lu's daughter, and the third son, Liu Xingju, was the Marquis of Dongmu.
Both Liu Zhang and Liu Xingju lived in Chang'an, so Liu Xiang was able to learn about Chang'an's movements in advance. In July 180 BC, Lü Hou became seriously ill, and she said to Lü Lu and Lü Chan:
"King of the Lü clan, Chancellor Fupin." I am about to collapse, the emperor is young, and the minister is afraid of change. It will be guarded by soldiers and guards, and it will be prudent not to send mourners, and it will be controlled by people! ”
Lü Hou plotted for half a lifetime, although the men of the Lü family have been crowned princes, but after all, they are princes with different surnames, when Lü Hou was there, the Lü family power fell to the opposition, but Lü Hou had not yet realized his political ideals, and the status of the Lü family was not so stable, once Lü Hou died, the Lü family was afraid that it would be blamed, and may even be eliminated.
Therefore, when Lü Hou was seriously ill, she had such worries, and she made Lü Lu a general, held the Northern Army in her hands, and asked Lü Chan to hold the Southern Army in her hands, just in case. And Lü Hou left a will: amnesty for the world, with Lü Wang's property as the Xiang kingdom and Lü Lu's daughter as the empress.
Everything Lü Hou did was to protect the Lü family, but because of Lü Hou's relationship, the Lü family was already incompatible with Liu Hanzong's room. As soon as Lü Hou died, Zhu Lü plotted to launch a rebellion and tried to control the imperial court at the first time, and Liu Zhang, because of his wife, knew of Lü's plot in advance.
Liu Zhang secretly informed his brother Liu Xiang, who was far away in the State of Qi, hoping that Liu Xiang would be able to raise an army to the west, and the three brothers should cooperate with each other, and they would certainly be able to get rid of the Lü clan and win the world, and then Liu Xiang, the eldest grandson of Liu Bang, would be the emperor of the Great Han.
Liu Xiang was naturally happy to do so after he knew it, but since it was to destroy the Lü clique, it was necessary to ensure that there were enough troops to be foolproof, and although the territory of the State of Qi was the largest among the princely states, it was not necessarily possible to rely on the strength of only one State of Qi, so Liu Xiang and his team sent Nei Shi Zhu to the State of Langya to seek the help of Liu Ze, the King of Langya, after solving the problem of Zhaoping.
However, Liu Xiang was afraid that he would not be able to hold Liu Ze in the future, after all, Liu Ze was the eldest of Liu's clan relatives, and the right to speak in the future was likely to be above Liu Xiang, so Liu Xiang and others thought of a way. They obviously persuaded Liu Ze to go to the State of Qi to discuss the matter of raising troops, and they regarded Liu Ze as their respect, but in fact they deceived him into the State of Qi, which was considered to be a disguised house arrest.
Zhu Wu led the soldiers of the Langya state to join Liu Xiang, and their goal was Chang'an. To this end, Liu Xiang specially sent letters to the various princes, informing him that the purpose of the rebellion was to kill "those who are not suitable for king", and although Liu Xiang did not respond to everything, most of the princes supported Liu Xiang.
Outside there was Liu Xiang leading the army to the west, and inside there were Liu Zhang, Liu Xingju, Zhou Bo, Chen Pingren plotting to stabilize the situation in Chang'an, they carried out very smoothly, as soon as Lü Hou died, the Lü family was already unpopular, Lü Chan once sent an irrigation baby to lead the army to meet Liu Xiang, but after the irrigation baby sent troops, he tuned his troops in Xingyang, joined forces with Liu Xiang and others, and decided to kill the Lü clique in a suitable reality.
The princes led by Liu Xiang raised an army to provide opportunities for Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping, Liu Zhang and others designed to control the Northern Army and the Southern Army, Liu Zhang even killed Lü Chan, and they later killed Lü Lu, after the two pillars of the Lü family were killed, the others were much easier to solve, and soon, the people of the Lü family were all killed and cleaned.
After the Lü clan was removed, the next thing was to elect a new emperor, and at that time, the selection of the new emperor had only two directions, one was the son of Liu Ying, the emperor of Han Hui, and the other was the son of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao. Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren were the first to exclude the sons of Emperor Hui of Han, and they believed that the sons of Emperor Hui of Han were not his own children, but that originally Lü Hou had taken the children of the Lü family into the palace and raised them under the name of Emperor Hui of Han, so all the sons of Emperor Hui of Han were killed.
As a result, the candidates for the new emperor could only be chosen from Liu Bang's sons and grandsons, and those who were alive at that time were Liu Bang's fourth son Liu Heng, the seventh son Liu Chang, Liu Bang's eldest son Liu Fei's sons, And Liu Bang's sixth son Liu You's sons.
According to the situation at that time, Liu Xiang was the first to stand up and kill the Lü clique, and he was the eldest grandson of Liu Bang, whether in terms of ability, merit or identity, he should be the best candidate, but we know that the last to become the new emperor was Liu Heng, the acting king. So, why did Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren abandon Liu Xiang and choose Liu Heng?
First, Liu Ze, the king of Langya, played a key role in this. Liu Ze said that he and Liu Bang were of the same generation, and they were the elders of Liu Xiang, but they were put together by Liu Xiang and were trapped in the State of Qi, and had to obediently hand over the military power of the State of Langya. Although he won the plan, he was not a fool, and he said to Liu Xiang in the state of Qi:
"Qi mourned the eldest son of Emperor Gao of Hui, and pushed the words of this, and Emperor Gao of the Great King, Shi Changsun, should stand."
At the same time, Liu Ze also believed that although Liu Xianghe should be emperor, those important ministers in Chang'an might hesitate about this, he was the oldest of Liu's clan relatives, and the weight of his speech was still there, if he could go to Chang'an to say a few good words for Liu Xiang, then it was only a matter of time before Liu Xiang sat in that seat.
Liu Xiang felt that Liu Ze's words were very reasonable, so he sent someone to escort Liu Ze into Beijing, but after Liu Ze entered Beijing, he said something like this to Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren:
"The Qi Queen Mother's family is fierce, vicious, tiger and crown also." Fang Yi Lü's family has been in chaos in the world, and now he is the king of Qi, and he wants to restore him to Lü Shiye. ”
This sentence can be described as the key point, the affairs of Lü Hou's ruling and the Lü family are all in our minds, and no one wants to have another powerful and stubborn foreign relative, and Liu Xiang's uncle Si Jun is a murderous person, such a foreign relative is something that no one wants to have, so everyone no longer mentions the matter of making Liu Xiang the new emperor.
Second, if Liu Xiang only had an arrogant uncle, it was not enough to make Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren stop the idea of making him emperor, and another reason was that Liu Xiang was not a person who was easy to control. Judging from liu xiang's first time after Lü Hou's death, he was a very ambitious and capable person, plus he later effortlessly obtained the strength of the Langya state and attacked The jinan county belonging to the Lü state to the west, all of which proved that Liu Xiang was not an incompetent person.
A strong, strategic, and ambitious man who is nearly thirty years old is by no means the new emperor that the powerful ministers want to support, and as a powerful minister, who does not want to have a situation in which the monarch is weak and the subject is strong? Therefore, Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren did not want Liu Xiang to be emperor, but instead were low-key acting kings Liu Heng, who had no power and could not see any strength, and the Bo family behind his mother Bo Ji was kind and honest, all of which met the requirements of the new emperor in their minds, so they abandoned Liu Xiang and embraced Liu Heng as emperor.
Facts have proved that Zhou Bo and Chen Pingren have looked away, and Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Wen, is by no means the kind of person who is easy to control. Liu Xiang made a wedding dress for this uncle, and after returning to the State of Qi, he was depressed and died the following year.