Introduction: From the perspective of three women, analyzing Liu Bang's emotional life, the original match has no love and power, Mrs. Qi has love but the ending is tragic, she has no love, no power but laughs to the end
People often say that heroes are sad to be beautiful, in fact, in the life of countless emperors and generals experienced in ancient times, they are inseparable from the figure of women, whether it is the emperor above ten thousand people under one person, or the ordinary people who roll in the world, they are inseparable from the figure of women, although in ancient society, women are bound a lot more than men, but day after day, year after year, each role in heaven and earth has his own reason for existence.
What we want to talk about today are the three most important women in the life of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, some of whom have supreme power, won the final victory in the treacherous court struggle, mastered the art of power and scheming in the world, looked down on all sentient beings, and used their iron blood to make everyone submit.
Some people have gained the love of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, by virtue of their beauty and talent, and have become the woman envied by everyone in the harem, becoming the only woman who can be called a lover in Liu Bang's mind; some people have converged on the sharp edge and lived in peace, and finally the mother has obtained the most satisfactory ending by virtue of her son.
These three people are Lü Yan, Lady Qi and Bo Ji.
Today, we will take a look at how these three women have drawn a strong stroke in Liu Bang's life, and how they have grown up through their own wisdom.
Originally matched with Lü Yan, he did not get love and ascended to the empress position by his own ability
The first woman, and also the first important woman in Liu Bang's life - Lü Lu, Lü Yan appeared at the most unbearable time in Liu Bang's life, she was Liu Bang's wife, was the original match; when Liu Bang was still a city gangster, she married him, and Lü Lu's life after marriage was not happy, whenever she needed Liu Bang the most, Liu Bang was always not by his side.
But Lü Yan can not be said to be a strange woman, she happily lived a marriage (single life) supported by only one person, when Liu Bang was chased by his father, she would go to admonish; when Liu Bang brought back his fox friends, she would take out the best meals to entertain, when Liu Bang committed the precepts and escaped, she would go to deliver food for him, and even when Liu Bang became the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Lü Yan also used her insight and vision to advise Liu Bang. And for him to get rid of those who want to get rid of but can't get rid of them, such as Han Xin.
Lü Yan can be said to be a woman who really ascended to a high position with her own ability, although she paid a lot for Liu Bang when she was a wife or an empress, but she was never the object that Liu Bang needed to protect, because Liu Bang had no confidence in front of Lü Yan.
Liu Bang had no self-confidence in front of Lü Yan
In a patriarchal society, men have a natural pride and pride, a so-called pride and pride in treating women. Obviously, Liu Bang is such a so-called big husband, who has seen all his wives who are embarrassed and unbearable, so that he has no self-confidence in front of Lü Yan, and he cannot get his sincere liking, so Liu Bang gives up Lü Yan's interests again and again, and even wants to hurt him and Lü Yan's children again and again, whether it is Princess Lu Yuan or Liu Ying, he has never received Liu Bang's father's love.
When the world was not yet at peace, Liu Bang could push Princess Lu Yuan and Liu Ying off the carriage twice in order to reduce the weight of the carriage; when the world was at peace, he could also plot to marry the princess to the Xiongnu to make peace with the Xiongnu in order to please Lady Qi, and plot to depose Liu Ying's position as crown prince.
Lu Yan, who had lost his sense of security, began to get involved in the government
For such a husband, Lü Yan actually did not have anything to rely on, let alone a sense of security, so she had to rely on her wisdom and her viciousness to survive in the harem that ate people and did not spit bones, so gradually, she began to use her own strength to infect the court, Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and Han Xin all became her springboard, and even many of the courtiers who had been loyal to Liu Bang also fell to Lü Lu's lineup.
She asked Zhang Liang for help, invited Shangshan Sihao for her children, stabilized the position of prince, used Xiao He to remove Han Xin, and used Han Xin's head to pave the way for her own liwei, shocking the court officials at that time, and making everyone very jealous of this woman.
Lü Yan helped Liu Bang get rid of the queen with a different surname, and the important officials of the imperial court all fell to the empress's camp
At that time, Liu Bang was immersed in his love with Lady Qi and could not extricate himself, when he returned to God, he found that the court that had once been a fierce general like a cloud and a courtier like a cloud had been very withered, those who plotted rebellion had been completely eliminated by him, those who had made great achievements in the earthquake were also cut by him, and most of the few people above the court had fallen into the camp of the empress, and at that time he found that in the contest with Lü Yan, he had become a complete loser.
Liu Bang could only ignore Lady Qi's pleas to send Liu Ruyi back to his fiefdom overnight, and sent Zhou Chang, who was kind to Lü Yan, to protect Ruyi, but even so, in the end, Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi could not escape Lü Lu's poisonous hands.
The world thinks that Lü Yan is very vicious, but in Lü Yan's story, how can she not be a poor person? Just like the words spoken by Empress Wenyu in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", Lü Yan's unavoidable virtuousness is also the most painful and sad point of her own.
But in any case, Lü Yan became the next ruler of the Han Dynasty, although she was not an emperor, although she was not able to rule the world like Wu Zetian, but later generations always liked to call her and Wu Zetian lü Wu, recognizing her position as the ruler, and she also became the first most important woman in Liu Bang's life with supreme power, and also a woman who could not be doubted in the later development of the Han Dynasty.
Lü Yan had been guarding the central government for many years, with his two older brothers Lü Ze the Marquis of Zhou Lü and Lü Shizhi the Marquis of Jiancheng holding the military power in Beijing in the middle of the dynasty, his brother-in-law Fan Duo holding heavy troops in other places, and the Lü clan and a large number of founding heroes occupied important positions in the dprk and the army, holding heavy power. The shangshan sihao incident mentioned above can faintly see Zhang Liang's figure, and in the incident of killing Han Xin, Xiao He has also stood behind Lü Yan... After that, Lü Yan became the most unquestionable person in the Han Dynasty.
Lady Qi was the only woman Liu Bang had ever loved
Second, although Lady Qi did not have a happy ending, she was the only woman Liu Bang had loved in her life, and when Liu Bang was mentioned, everyone might think that he was selfish, cold, and ruthless. In such an era of chaos and turmoil in the world, who can be as benevolent and kind as the Confucians say? In the era when survival is very difficult, what person first thinks of not to save himself? We have not lived through that era and there is no way to criticize those who have to do it.
Of course, Liu Bang was ruthless and very poisonous to his wife Lü Yan, but for Lady Qi, he gave all the warmth and admiration in his life. Qi Ji from Dingtao was beautiful as a flower, gentle and tender, such a woman was like water washing away all the filth of Liu Bang's first half of life, she did not witness Liu Bang's unbearable and embarrassing like Lü Yan, she naively thought that people like Liu Bang were born with true dragon heavenly sons, and such a mighty person, such a person who inherited the Mandate of Heaven, only she herself could be worthy.
Lady Qi was indulged in love, and her ambition swelled up in her heart
Therefore, in that love, Mrs. Qi was completely immersed in it, and it was precisely because of this love, this kind of love with a little absurdity, that became the potential crisis for Mrs. Qi's eventual death. Lady Qi always thought that Liu Bang could give her everything she wanted, including her position as empress and her son's crown prince, and she was like many third parties now, believing that since the old Zhu Huang's original match could not grasp her husband's heart, since there was no way to make her husband change his mind, he should give up the original position.
And Liu Bang is very much enjoying this kind of conniving competition, he plays the dual role of referee and athlete, from time to time holding The son Liu Ruyi born to Lady Qi plays the role of a loving father, Liu Bang intentionally or unintentionally does not support Lady Qi's connivance, someone will give her advice, and the ambition will naturally swell.
The so-called holding a murder weapon, killing her own heart, even if Lady Qi is a weak vine-like woman, she also dares to use her feelings with Liu Bang to move a knife to Empress Lü Yan, which also lays the foundation for her final tragic end. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan made Lady Qi a human being, and even the son she gave birth to could not be spared, and she became a poor person in the historical story, attacking people's fragile hearts again and again in the cycle of history.
Although Lady Qi had a tragic ending, she got the love of Tianzi
Lady Qi was pitied and admired by people, and even in many stories, she became harmless to humans and animals, in fact, this kind of kindness with murderous intent is the most deadly, and what she did was not another kind of cruelty? But even so, even if she was not able to get a perfect ending in the end, she was still the most favorite woman in Liu Bang's life.
In the TV series "Beauty and The Heart", Bo Ji once said a sentence, she said that even if Lady Qi was eventually cut off, even if she was called a human being, Lady Qi was still the object of envy of many of their harem women, who envied her for having truly loved and envied that she had truly received the love of her ancestor Liu Bang.
Perhaps the husband's single-mindedness has always been the pursuit of a woman's life, and as a woman, in the war of love without smoke, Mrs. Qi is undoubtedly a winner. And for Bo Ji, who has said this, that is the protagonist in another story.
Bo Ji dodged Lü Hou's front and did not get Liu Bang's favor, but was the ultimate winner
Bo Ji is among all the women who appeared in Liu Bang's life, the ending is the most beautiful one, once she did not hesitate to divert Lü Yan's sight by destroying her appearance, her first half of her life was all hiding from Lü Yan's sharp edge, she did not participate in the harem fight, nor did she expect Liu Bang's love, because Bo Ji understood that Lü Ji was a woman who had truly experienced the wind and rain, as an empress, as the wife of Gaozu Liu Bang, she had too many chips to make her invincible, and she was an obscure concubine, without a prominent family lineage, She also did not have the feeling of sharing weal and woe with the emperor, she did not have that qualification, nor did she have the confidence to compete with Lü Yan.
In the face of Lü Yan's plot, Bo Ji's strategy seemed too pale, so she chose to avoid its sharp edge, chose An Zhiruosu, and chose to face the struggle of the harem without being shocked. In the face of Lady Qi, she did not have such an outstanding appearance, and she did not have the real love of Gaozu Liu Bang, so she was also inferior to Lady Qi, so she could only be an ordinary concubine with peace of mind, and it was precisely because of this that Lü Yan did not poison her after the death of Gaozu Liu Bang.
Bo Ji did not get love, did not get power, but laughed to the end
Lü Yan allowed her to follow her son Liu Heng and go to the country to enjoy the glory of being the empress dowager, and later the Lü family declined, and the sons of the Liu clan in the capital were difficult to assume great responsibilities, and Bo Ji's son Liu Heng was proclaimed emperor, and Bo Ji's mother became the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty with her son Gui, which can be described as a dynasty. It is also like this, she lived the noble life of the empress dowager in the second half of her life, her mother was kind and filial, and her children and grandchildren were full of halls, and she did not experience the turmoil like Lü Yan, nor did she have the tragic ending of Lady Qi.
Perhaps in the competition of Liu Bang's generation, Bo Ji is the ultimate winner, her son is the emperor, even the son's empress is personally selected by her, and she herself is the empress, looking at the picturesque jiangshan, watching the country rich and strong, watching the Jiangshan played down by her husband becoming stronger and stronger in the hands of her son, Bo Ji's life can be described as very satisfied, she does not argue that she has Lü Yan who has worked hard to sit on the seat, and she has a happy ending that Lady Qi once fantasized about. In the contest of that generation, Bo Ji was the woman who had received the favor of God.
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The author thinks
The three women mentioned above are the most important women in Liu Bang's life, although Liu Bang may not have played an important role in their lives, and may not have given them everything they wanted, whether it was the happy marriage that Lü Yan hoped for, or the happy ending that Lady Qi prayed for, although Liu Bang came to the world, under one person, above ten thousand people, but he could not be satisfied.
But anyway? It is also these three women who enriched Liu Bang's emotional life, and also fulfilled the wind and snow moon in Liu Bang's heart, they were all people who were once tumbling in the earthly world, they were once people who struggled in the chaotic world, and their lives may not be smooth.
But no matter what era? No matter what kind of environment they are in, they all expect peace and joy, perhaps although Lü Yan has gained supreme power, she still prays in her heart to get real emotions like Lady Qi, and although Lady Qi longs for power in Lü Yan's hands, the luckiest thing in her life is only Lang's concubine.
People sometimes are like this, when they get it, they don't know how to cherish it, often wait until they lose Fang Zhi regret, Liu Bang is to lay down the Han Dynasty's Jiangshan by chance, but also to meet these women who have changed her life by chance, if there is still a trace of warmth in his heart, it will not let his wife fight with his own concubine to the death, and his own life may also become more exciting, nor will it make the Liu family become so withered in the hands of Lü Yan, It's just that history is sometimes more moving because of these regrets.
References: "History", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Book of Han", "Book of Later Han", etc