In ancient times, the ruling class instituted a series of harsh punishments to deter the people in order to maintain their feudal rule. The more commonly used tortures are: hanging, waist beheading, burial alive, cooking, car splitting (that is, five horses splitting the body), skinning, Ling Chi and so on.
Just seeing the names of these tortures is enough to make people shudder. However, in this world, there is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that no one else can't do. In order to take revenge on his enemy Qi Ji, The Western Han Dynasty created and invented the unprecedented "Ren Yan". "彘", ancient times called the pig yan. "Human yan" is an extremely cruel torture.
Throughout the dynasties, there has been no shortage of palace fights, and once you enter the palace, the door is as deep as the sea. The poem Bai Juyi's sentence "The most ruthless imperial family" writes the coldness of the dark and deep palace. The women of the harem are no longer just fighting for the feelings of the emperor and fighting for the wind. They are more fighting for their own interests, their power, and the glory of their respective families.
The reason why Lü Hou made Qi Ji a "human being", her cruel and inhumane behavior has forever nailed herself to the pillar of shame in Chinese history. But the cause of anything is not a single one, can not be arbitrarily concluded, but to deeply analyze the overall environment and factors when things happen.
The famous writer Qian Zhongshu wrote in "Siege of the City": There is no accident in the world, that is just the inevitability of wearing makeup and masks. Lady Qi suffered this calamity, and in addition to Lü Hou's inhumane behavior, it was not unrelated to herself.
When Lü Hou was 19 years old, her father, who knew how to look at the picture, believed that Liu Bang, who was born a commoner and was 34 years old at the time, would be a great nobleman in the future, so he made the decision and gave his daughter Xu to him. Soon after, a pair of children were born. Liu Bang was open-minded and generous, did not like agricultural affairs, and wandered outside all day. Lü Hou took the children to run the family and serve her in-laws.
In 209 BC, the first large-scale peasant uprising in Chinese history, led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, broke out, and liu Bang, 48, also began to compete for deer. In the Chu-Han dispute between him and Xiang Yu, after a defeat, Xiang Yu captured Lü Hou and Liu Bang's father, and since then, Lü Hou has lived as a hostage in a state of fear. At this time, Liu Bang newly married Qi Ji, who could sing and dance well in Shandong Dingtao Nianfang, and the newcomer was as beautiful as jade, and he was naturally very pampered. When Lü Hou returned to her husband after hardships, all that awaited her was: the red face was not old and the grace was broken first, and she reclined in the kaoru cage and sat down until Ming.
One of Qi Ji's three mistakes: after gaining favor, ignoring the empress, Lü Hou became jealous
Soon Qi Ji gave birth to a son, and Liu Bang named him "Ruyi". From the name, it can also be seen how happy Qi Ji's mother and son are in Liu Bang's heart. The young and beautiful Qi Ji often followed Liu Bang on expeditions to the Kanto Region, believing that she had Liu Bang's favor, and she was oblivious and triumphant, and did not consider the empress's feelings. Lü Hou often stayed in Guanzhong, rarely saw Liu Bang, and became increasingly estranged. It goes without saying that at this time, Lü Hou's loneliness in her heart and jealousy of Qi Ji.
The second of Qi Ji's three mistakes: wanting to infect the country, Lü Hou hated it
The crown prince Liu Ying was the son of Lü Hou, who was benevolent and cowardly, and Liu Bang felt that his personality was not like his own, and often said "Ruyi is like me". At this time, Qi Ji began to take advantage of the opportunity of often following Liu Bang on expeditions to the Kwantung, crying day and night, hoping to make her son crown prince and replace Liu Ying.
The "Benji of Empress Lü" says: Qi Jixing, often from the Upper Kanto, wept day and night, wanting to establish his son as the crown prince.
Under the attack of Qi Ji's pillow side wind, Liu Bang also had the heart to depose the prince and establish Ruyi. Lü Hou was horrified when he learned of this, and with the help of Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu, Qi Ji did not get his wish after all.
Chen Tingjing, the emperor and chancellor of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, once said:
Emperor Qiu's favorite was Qi Ji Ruyi, and the most evil person after Lü Hou was also Qi Ji Ruyi. Lü Hou's hatred of Qi Ji was favored by Gao Zu.
Qi Ji's third mistake: pit, pit herself, and eventually become an adult
The human heart is like a road, and the more calculated, the narrower it becomes. Liu Bang died, and the crown prince Liu Ying took the throne as Emperor Hui, and Empress Lü became empress dowager. At this time, Qi Ji lost Liu Bang's favor, because of the arrogance when she was once favored, and even wanted to calculate Liu Ying's position as the crown prince, Qi Ji's life path was narrow to nowhere to go.
Empress Lü ordered That Qi Ji be shaved off her hair, put an iron ring around her neck, imprisoned in YongXiang, and used rice all day to do hard labor. At this time, her son Liu Ruyi had already been crowned king of Zhao by Liu Bang and was already in his fiefdom.
Qi Ji, on the other hand, was an unintelligent mother, and she composed a song during her captivity, singing every day while scooping rice: "The son is the king, and the mother is the prisoner." Scooping rice all day long until dusk, often associated with death. Three thousand miles apart, who can tell you? ”
When Empress Lü heard this, she was furious and said, "Are you still thinking of relying on your son?" So he summoned Liu Ruyi from the fiefdom to the palace and was poisoned and killed.
He also cut off Qi Ji's hands and feet, gouge out her eyes, smoked deaf ears, cut off her tongue, poured dumb drugs, scratched her face, and finally threw her in the latrine. It is called "human".
At this point, Qi Ji no longer even had the ability to commit suicide, and could only suffer to death.
Just a few days after Qi Ji was made an adult, Empress Lü asked her son Emperor Hui to see it. After Emperor Hui saw Qi Ji's tragic situation, he asked his entourage, "What is this?" When he learned that this was Qi Ji, he cried a lot, and he got sick from then on, and he has not gotten better for more than a year. He sent someone to tell Empress Lü that this is not something that a man can do, it is too vicious. I am your son, the Empress, and I can no longer rule the world. Since then, he has borrowed wine to pour sorrow, depression has become a disease, and he died at the age of 24.
The "Zizhi Tongjian" says: The empress dowager cut off Lady Qi's hands and siblings, removed her eyes, closed her ears, drank medicine, and lived in the toilet, and was destined to be "human". After a few days, he summoned the emperor to look at the people. When the emperor saw him, he asked his wife, but he cried loudly, and because of illness, he could not get up for more than a year. Ask the Empress Dowager, "This is not a human act." The subject is the empress dowager, and he will not be able to rule the world in the end. ”
The harem battle is a war without gun smoke, and when the Spring and Autumn Warring States King Chu Huai was king, there was a cruel tragedy of "Zheng sleeve covering his nose". If qi ji's son ascended the throne as emperor, what if he knew that Lü Would not be made an adult by Qi Ji?
Lü Hou won Qi Ji, but he was forever labeled as murderous by future generations!
Won the world, but lost his only son!
Looking at the ashes left by history, we are left to think: Did Lü Hou really win?
Li Shangyin shiyun "In the dust of the world, I would rather love and hate." Everything in the vast world is just a dust, so why should we distinguish between love and hatred? What's the fight over the snail horn? Send this body in the light of stone fire.