The "Chronicle of History" records that Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, had a total of eight sons, and later Liu Ying, the second emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was the eldest son of his concubine, who was born to Lü Hou. However, although he was the eldest son, he was not the eldest, and he had an eldest son, Liu Fei, before him. Things should start from before Liu Bang married Lü Yan, Liu Bang, a person who was very unprofessional in the early days. I don't like to work in the field, and I mix things up all day, and that's it. His private life was also quite inattentive, and he had an outer chamber before marrying his wife, and gave birth to a son.
This outer chamber is the Cao clan, and there are few records about her in the history books, only that she is not the wife of Liu Bangming. Liu Fei, the eldest son of Liu Bang, was born, and it was precisely because of his lack of fame that Liu Fei did not have the right to inherit the throne. Some speculate that after the Battle of Pengcheng, Cao Shi should have been taken hostage by Xiang Yu with Lü Yan, and the ending is unknown. Not long after, Lü Gong, who claimed to be able to look at the face, insisted on marrying his daughter Lü Yan to Liu Bang, and lü Hou, who was considered fierce and fierce in the world, was actually a virtuous and virtuous woman at the beginning.
She was fifteen years younger than Liu Bang, and after marrying Liu Bang, she did not dislike his poverty in the slightest, from a big lady with ten fingers that did not touch the spring water of the Yang to a peasant woman who personally engaged in nongsang knitting and filial piety to her parents and raised her children. For Liu Bang's outer chamber, he did not show any displeasure, and jointly raised Liu Fei. There is no harsh action for Liu Fei, liu Fei can also be regarded as she raised, which may also be one of the reasons why Liu Fei avoided death.
Although he was the eldest son of Shu, Liu Bang also attached great importance to this son, and the Western Han Dynasty was established in the fifth year of Han Gaozu (202 BC). Subsequently, in accordance with the rules of the Zhou Dynasty, he was given the same surname as the Emperor, and his eldest son Liu Fei was made the King of Qi. Liu Fei commanded a total of seventy-three cities, the capital of which was Linzi, and he also appointed Cao Shan, the Marquis of Pingyang, as minister of state of Qi. In the twelfth year of Han Gaozu (195 BC), Liu Bang died and Emperor Hui of Han succeeded to the throne, so how did Liu Fei survive from Lü Yan's hands?
It is worth mentioning that he and Liu Heng are the only two of Liu Bang's seven sons who survived. It was normal for Liu Heng, who had no power and was cautious and careful, to survive, but Liu Fei, the largest of Liu Bang's sons, also survived, which was quite strange. At first, Lü Hou also had the heart to kill this adopted son, that is, in the second year of Emperor Han Hui's ascension to the throne, Liu Fei entered the capital according to the rules to meet Emperor Hui of Han. During the banquet, Liu Ying felt that Liu Fei was his brother who sat on the head according to family etiquette, and liu Fei could not open his brain and actually sat down.
Lü Hou was not happy at first sight, and let him sit on the throne, did he even want my son's throne? So he ordered someone to pour two glasses of poisonous wine, and let Liu Fei use this wine to toast her, Liu Fei did not know so he was about to toast. Liu Ying saw her brother toasting, so she picked up another cup to toast, and Lü Hou was afraid of poisoning her son. Hurriedly getting up and overturning the wine glass in Emperor Hui's hand, Liu Fei became suspicious of this, and pretended to be drunk without drinking poisonous wine.
After asking afterwards, it was indeed Lü Hou who wanted to poison himself, and his adoptive mother's fierce heart made him afraid. Qi's domestic historians gave him an idea, and the "Records of History" recorded that this idea was: Wang Cheng took the empress dowager as a county, as the princess Tang Muyi, the empress dowager will be happy, and the king will be worry-free. That is to say, Lü Hou loved her two children very much, so you might as well dedicate a few of your seventy or so cities to Princess Lu Yuan. Liu Fei then dedicated Chengyang County to Princess Lu Yuan as Tang Muyi, and honored Princess Lu Yuan as Empress Wang, and Lü Hou spared him.
It is also quite strange here, Liu Fei is the King of Qi, and Princess Lu Yuan is the Empress Wang. Isn't this to honor his sister as a mother, it's all for the sake of survival, fortunately, Liu Fei's life has not made any waves since then. On October of the sixth year of Emperor Hui of Han (189 BC), Liu Fei died, and his posthumous title was Mourning King Hui. The "Records of History" also records that Liu Fei had many sons, and eight of his nine sons rebelled. Several of the kings who stirred up the muddy waters in the Chaos of the Seven Kingdoms were Liu Fei's sons, but these people did not succeed in the end.
Whether they participated in the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms or watched the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms rebel on their own, they were all put down by the Central Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty. The pacification of the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms created conditions for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to further resolve the problem of princes and princes, and also marked the basic elimination of the threat of the princes' power. However, Liu Fei's eldest son Yimei did not participate in the rebellion, so he still successfully inherited the throne of the State of Qi until Liu Fei's great-grandson Liu Cichang. This person had an improper relationship with his sister, and after being exposed, he committed suicide in fear of sin, and after no future, the country was removed.
Reference: Chronicle of History
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