Wei Qing was the younger brother of Emperor Wu of Han's empress Wei Zifu, and Wei Qing, through his sister Wei Zifu, received the favor of Emperor Wu of Han and became increasingly noble. Wei Qing himself was very handsome, talented, and had outstanding military talents, so he was soon used by Emperor Wu of Han and was deeply trusted by him.
Sima Qian commented on him: "Zhiqu Sai, GuangheNan, Broken Qilian, Tongxiguo, Jingbei Hu." "Wei Qing made great contributions to the stability and well-being of the Han Dynasty.
Wei Qing's wife, Princess Pingyang, was the eldest daughter of Emperor Liu Qi and Empress Dowager Of Han, and was also the sister of Emperor Wu of Han's compatriots, so she was highly respected by Emperor Wu of Han. She married Wei Qing only in the third marriage, and she first married cao shou, the great-grandson of the founding hero Cao Shan, and was therefore known as the Princess of Pingyang. However, later in the fourth year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (131 BC), Cao Shou died, and Princess Pingyang became a widow. Princess Pingyang's second marriage was with Xiahou Po, the Marquis of Ruyin, who thought that this marriage could be carried out happily, but Xiahou Po was discovered to have committed adultery with his father's concubine. This could be said to be an ugly thing of incest at that time, Xiahou committed suicide in fear of sin, and Princess Pingyang became a widow again.
In the end, Princess Pingyang married Wei Qing, the great general of the battlefield, but unexpectedly, less than ten years later, Wei Qing also died, and Princess Pingyang's marriage road was such a bumpy and bitter.
Princess Pingyang only had one son, Cao Xiang, with Cao Shousheng, and neither Xiahou Po nor Wei Qing had any children.
And Wei Qing's sons were all born to Wei Qing's other concubines, so after Wei Qing's death, what was the fate of his three sons?
During a triumphant victory led by Wei Qing, Emperor Wu of Han was overjoyed, appointed Wei Qing as a general, and made all three of his sons marquis.
Wei Ling was given the title of Marquis of Yichun, but Wei Ling could be said to be a nobleman who did not learn any skills.
In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (116 BC), Wei Ling was dismissed from the throne because of "correction without harm".
What does this mean? That is to say, at that time, Wei Ling was only deposed from the title of Marquis of Yichun because he falsely transmitted the Holy Will, but did not cause serious consequences or harm. As Wei Qing's eldest son, he still had the right to inherit his father's title, so after Wei Qing's death in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (106 BC), he inherited the title of Marquis of Changping.
However, only five or six years after inheriting the title of Marquis of Changping, he was stripped of his title for entering the palace without permission. Later, in the second year of Zhenghe (91 BC), the scourge of the witches broke out, and Wei Ling was implicated and died.
The second son Wei was undoubtedly given the title of Marquis of Yin'an, and the younger son Wei Deng was made the Marquis of Fagan, but in the fifth year of Yuan Ding (112 BC), because none of the princes responded to the emperor's call to lead an army to South Vietnam to support, Emperor Wu of Han was very angry and stripped them of their titles on the grounds that the gold was not as good as the law.
酎金 means the tribute money used during sacrifices by the princes of the Han Dynasty to the imperial court. When the princes came in to offer the gold, the emperor himself came to receive the tribute. If the amount of gold offered by the princes is not enough or the color is insufficient, it is punished in the name of "sitting on the gold". But when this happened, Wei Bu and Wei Deng were only twelve or thirteen-year-old children, so we can speculate that Emperor Wu of Han actually did this to warn the ministers around him and the princes who were more distantly related. Although they were stripped of their titles, the two of them, as wei Qing's sons, could still obtain corresponding titles.
In fact, the scourge of the witchcraft only implicated their eldest brother Wei Ling, and neither Wei Bu nor Wei Deng was affected by this incident. After that, Wei Bu is less recorded in the history books, and we do not know his death year and the situation of his heirs, while Wei Deng's descendants restored their homes during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han. Wei Qing's eldest son, Wei Ling, seemed to be a clumsy disciple, who had been cut down for many crimes. The other two sons also achieved mediocre results, and the once prominent family declined step by step. By the time of Wang Mang, the relevant records of Wei Qing's lineage were interrupted and there was no more news.