People familiar with the history of the Han Dynasty know that Wei Qing was a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, and his life was very legendary, and he made countless military achievements. The Weiqing family was also one of the most powerful families in the Han Dynasty, with empresses, princes, generals, horse generals, and chancellors all coming from their families. But after Wei Qing's death, none of these people received a good death. What's going on?
Wei Qing made many military achievements, he opened the prelude to the victory of the Han-Hungarian War, and won seven battles and seven victories, recovered the Heshuo and Hetao regions, broke shan Yu, and made a major contribution to the development of the northern territory of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, he was promoted to the rank of Grand Sima Da, and was given the title of Marquis of Changping.
In 106 BC, the general Wei Qing died of illness and was given the title of Marquis of Lie.
Emperor Wu of Han was an emperor with a great desire for power, but Wei Qing's prestige in the dynasty was very high, and he was afraid that the people of the Wei Qing family would be highly powerful and affect his own dictatorship, so in order to strengthen the imperial power, he killed his entire family after Wei Qing's death.
Volume 22 of the Zizhi Tongjian recounts the story between Emperor Wu of Han and Wei Qing and the crown prince. Now, Emperor Wu of Han only gave birth to a prince at the age of 29, which was emperor Wu's first son and was naturally very fond of it. Growing up with the prince every day, Emperor Wu cha saw that the prince was kind, generous and humble, as if he was not as shrewd and strong as himself, and felt some regret and despair.
Wei Zifu's son Liu Zhao was made crown prince. In the sixth year of Yuan Shuo (123 BC), Lady Wang became the new favorite of Emperor Wu of Han. Subsequently, Lady Li, Yin Jieyu, and Lady Hook Yi were favored, and Wei Zifu was forgotten.
Wei Zifu gradually fell out of favor, Wei Qing died again, and the empress's mother's family had no patron, so that some treacherous courtiers tried to overthrow the crown prince Liu Zhao, and Empress Wei to cater to the holy will, and then created a case of injustice that shocked ancient and modern Wu.
The people involved in the "Scourge of the Witches", Princess Zhuyi and Princess Yangshi, were executed, and Wei Qing's eldest son, Wei Ling, was killed. Wei Buxuan, Wei Deng, and others were stripped of their thrones. Emperor Wu of Han's favored vassal Jiang Chong framed the crown prince and forced Liu Zhao to kill Jiang Chong and others, while Emperor Wu of Han "sent troops to rebel", and Liu Zhaobing committed suicide in defeat.
In history, it was because Wei Zifu fell into the case of witchcraft and created people to frame, and all kinds of evidence of the matter proved that the matter was related to Wei Zifu, and Emperor Wu of Han could not resist. Even the empress was involved in these things, letting the people say what Emperor Wu of Han, and in the end Emperor Wu of Han had no choice but to issue an order to kill. And Wei Zifu also knew that this incident was difficult to wash white and eventually committed suicide with his son to Mingzhi.
Flying birds, good bows, cunning rabbits dead, running dogs cooking, Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che inherited the "glorious tradition" of Han Gaozu.