Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the seventh emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, who ushered in the heyday of the Han Dynasty, often on a par with qin shi huang who unified China, and had a profound impact on future generations. Although Emperor Wudi of Han did many confusing things in his later years, Emperor Wudi of Han finally realized his mistakes and issued a decree against himself, which was also a prosperous world.
In fact, Emperor Wu of Han was not the eldest son of Emperor Jing of Han, but only the tenth son, ranking very low. Emperor Wudi's mother, Lady Wang, was not an empress, and Emperor Wudi of Han was not a prince at the beginning, so why did Emperor Wudi of Han become emperor? In fact, there were many obstacles on the way to the throne of Emperor Wu of Han.
1. Auspicious birth and marriage to Ajiao
Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was born to wang, and Wang's mother, Zang Er, was the granddaughter of the original Yan king Zang Di. Zang Er had two daughters, and the Chang Queen's clan was married to the Grandson of the King of Jin.
Zang Er calculated the fortunes for her children, and the gua gua said that her two daughters were nobles, so Zang Er forcibly took the Wang family back from her husband's house and sent them to the womb.
The crown prince was very fond of Wang Meiren, and when she was pregnant with Emperor Wu of Han, Wang Meiren dreamed that the sun had fallen into her arms, so Wang Meiren told the prince about this dream, and the prince was very happy and felt that this was a sign of great nobility.
When the crown prince ascended the throne, the empress was of the Bo clan, because Empress Bo had never given birth, so she had been unfavored, and Empress Bo finally died of illness. After Empress Bo's death, the empress dowager was deposed.
At that time, Emperor Jing's favorite concubine was Li Ji, who was the first favored concubine of Emperor Jing and gave birth to three sons for Emperor Jing, which shows how good the relationship between the two was at that time. Emperor Jing's eldest son Liu Rong (劉荣), born to Li Ji, was made crown prince, and on the same day, Liu Che, the son of Wang Meiren, was made the Prince of Jiaodong.
As the saying goes, "the mother is precious by the son", Li Ji is favored, the son is the prince, Li Ji is naturally proud, usually arrogant, and does not put others in the eyes at all. Emperor Jing's sister, Princess Guantao, had a daughter who wanted to make her empress, so she set her sights on Li Ji.
Princess Guantao wanted to marry her daughter to Prince Kurito, so that she would be the empress in the future, but Kurihime had a lot of opinions about Princess Katoro.
Because Princess Guantao often sent many beautiful women to her brother Emperor Jingdi of Han to please the emperor, Li Ji had long been dissatisfied with Princess Guantao, and when she saw Princess Guantao come to marry, she naturally refused. Princess Guantao was unhappy, so she wanted to marry her daughter to Liu Che, the son of Wang Meiren.
Princess Guantao resented herself because she was rejected by Li Ji, so she said in front of Emperor Jing that Li Ji used the Taoist technique of demonizing people and made the attendants spit and curse. Witchcraft was already taboo in the palace, and Emperor Jing listened to Princess Guantao's words and gradually became disgusted with Li Ji.
Once, Emperor Jing fell ill and wanted to test Li Ji, so he summoned Li Ji and asked her to take good care of her other sons after a hundred years. However, Li Ji was narrow-minded, and not only did not agree to Emperor Jing, but on the contrary, he was not inferior, and When Emperor Jing saw Li Ji like this, he was disappointed and resentful.
Princess Guantao saw that Emperor Jingdi had become distant from Li Ji, so she quickly praised Liu Che in front of Emperor Jing, saying that he had both moral integrity and ability. Emperor Jing remembered the auspicious omen of Madame Wang's pregnancy, and his mind gradually wavered.
Lady Wang felt that the time had come, and secretly told the minister that Li Ji should be made empress. At the end of a court meeting, the official proposed that the position of empress had been vacant for a long time, and since Liu Rong was the crown prince, then the birth mother Li Ji should be crowned empress. When Emperor Jing heard this, he thought that Li Ji had begun to meddle in the government and secretly colluded with the chancellor, and he couldn't help but be furious and said, "Is this what you should say?" So he executed the Da Xing official, deposed the crown prince, and renamed him the King of Linjiang, so Li Ji could no longer see Emperor Jing.
Liu Che was able to become emperor, and it was indispensable to the secret maneuvers of his mother Lady Wang and his aunt Princess Guantao.
Because Li Ji was short-sighted and narrow-minded, she made an enemy of Princess Guantao, and Lady Wang had a long-term vision and far-sightedness, and agreed to Marry Liu Che to marry the daughter of Princess Guantao, and won the support of Princess Guantao in the dispute between the crown princes.
With the joint efforts of Lady Wang and Princess Guantao, Liu Che sat on the throne of emperor.
Second, the King of Liang was pampered and plotted to lose power
King Xiao of Liang and Emperor Jing of Han were half-brothers, the younger son of Empress Dowager Dou, and were very popular with Empress Dowager Dou.
Empress Dowager Dou had a strong personality, vanity and greed, and her son Liu Qi had become emperor, but she was not satisfied and wanted her youngest son, King Liang, to become emperor as well.
Empress Dou only had two sons, and it was very unreasonable to want them all to become emperors, moreover, Emperor Jing of Han had more than a dozen sons, not no successors, how could he establish King Liang as emperor. Fortunately, Empress Dou only had two sons, and if Empress Dowager Dou had several sons, would she still want all her sons to be emperor once? Therefore, Empress Dowager Dou's idea was really difficult to realize.
King Liang had a very good relationship with Emperor Jing,
After a drunken drunken attack, Emperor Jing said that after his death, he would pass the throne to the King of Liang. Although King Liang knew that this was just Emperor Jing's unintentional words after drinking, he was still secretly happy in his heart. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, King Liang helped Emperor Jing to quell the war and made great contributions, and Emperor Jing was very grateful, so he was enfeoffed as a great power. Emperor Jing enfeoffed the fertile lands of the world to the King of Liang, of which there were more than forty cities, most of which were large counties.
It is reasonable to say that King Liang had the support of Empress Dou and was indeed the closest person to the throne, but he gradually lost his heart and made several major mistakes, completely ruining his position.
1. Pampered and proud, seize the ambition of the emperor.
Relying on Empress Dou's favor and countless rewards, the King of Liang gradually overstepped his ways. King Liang began to build the Dongyuan, which covered an area of more than three hundred miles and expanded Suiyang City to seventy miles. Not only that,
Also a large number of civil engineering, the construction of palaces,
Construction of overhead passages.
Holding the flag with the emperor's reward, he rode everywhere on horseback and rode with thousands of horses, and the pomp and circumstance was comparable to that of the Son of Heaven.
Liang Guo also forged many weapons, bows and arrows and other weapons up to hundreds of thousands of pieces.
It is said that the wealth of the Liang state treasury is even greater than that of the central government of Chang'an.
2. Assassinate Yuan Ang, the general trend has gone. After Emperor Jing deposed Prince Li, Empress Dou wanted to make King Liang the heir to the throne, but this idea was opposed by Yuan Ang and other ministers, and Empress Dou's plan was frustrated. Because of the obstruction of Yuan Ang and others, the King of Liang actually held a grudge against them, and conspired with Yang Sheng, Gongsun Wei and others to assassinate Yuan Ang and more than a dozen ministers who participated in the discussion of Li Chu.
This incident shocked the government and the opposition, and the imperial court immediately wanted the murderer. Emperor Jing suspected that it was king liang who had done it, so he sent someone to track it down, and sure enough, it was found that it was the envoy of king Liang. Emperor Jing held a grudge against King Liang, and King Liang was terrified and could only be forgiven by asking the empress dowager for forgiveness through the eldest princess.
Emperor Jing was once intimate with King Liang and often rode with him, but after experiencing this incident, Emperor Jing became estranged from him and no longer rode with King Liang, nor did he agree to King Liang staying in Beijing. King Liang was depressed and fell ill and died.
summary
Emperor Wu of Han was able to become emperor, not only the operation of Lady Wang and Princess Guantao,
When Emperor Wudi of Han was young, he was also particularly intelligent, had an amazing memory, loved to read, and never forgot. Liu Che's previous name was Liu Yan because his mother, Lady Wang, did not seek wealth and wealth, but wanted him to live a peaceful life.
Because Emperor Wu of Han was so intelligent, Emperor Jing thought he was "a saint and a man", so he renamed Liu Yan Liu Che.
Therefore, no matter how outsiders operate, in the final analysis, it is emperor Wu of Han himself who is excellent enough to become a prince and ascend to the throne.
References: Book of Han, History