People who know the Chu-Han War know that Liu Bang was able to stand out in the chaotic world at the end of the Qin Dynasty and become the king who eventually unified the world, in addition to his own efforts, he was inseparable from a group of good brothers who supported him.
One of them, Liu Bang, trusted him very much and gave him a very high evaluation, believing that he was "thick and thin", and before his death, he entrusted his widow with a last word: "The one who is in the world of An Liu clan will be Bo Ye!" ”
Yes, this person is Zhou Bo.
As a grassroots, Liu Bang can become the biggest winner in the chaotic world at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and many times he relies on his insight into people's hearts and human nature and uses them, repeatedly turning dangers into dangers.
But the horror of human nature, as strong as Liu Bang also looked away.
Giving him another 3 chances to die, I am afraid that Liu Bang could not have imagined that the most trusted orphan minister in his lifetime, his compatriot, Zhou Bo, who had followed him all his life to fight in Jiangshan, would actually kill his grandson-
From the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Zhou Bo followed Liu Bang to rebel against Qin, and over the years he has experienced many miracles in hundreds of battles, and is a well-deserved founding father of Liu's Jiangshan.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhou Bo led troops to quell the rebellion of Wang Xin of Han, Chen Feng, Lu Xie and other kings with different surnames.
It can be said that Zhou Bo participated in almost all the major wars in Liu Bang's life and made great contributions. Moreover, he has a thick nature, does not read many books, and does not have the flower intestines of those literati.
It seems that Zhou Bo had made great contributions to the imperial court, was loyal to emperor Liu Bang, and was humble, and was really a model for hundreds of officials.
Therefore, in 195 BC, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, who had run out of oil, added Zhou Bo to the last moment of determining the candidate for the minister of entrustment.
In Liu Bang was really not satisfied with liu Ying, the crown prince who was about to inherit the throne, he originally liked Liu Ruyi, the son of Lady Qi, but Liu Ying had a tough and fierce mother, Lü Yan, and the support of a group of meritorious ministers, so he had to give up.
However, when he really wanted to hand over the throne to the cowardly Liu Ying, Liu Bang was still very worried in his heart.
With Liu Ying's temperament, as well as Lü Yan's performance in the process of assisting the government in these years, liu Ying's succession to the throne is likely to fall into the hands of Lü Ying, and when the time comes, will the world be surnamed Liu or surnamed Lü?
In Liu Bang's view, Lü Yan has shown a very good ability to govern, as a wife she can assist her own administration, as a mother can also assist her son Liu Ying. But no matter what, Lü Yan could only be an assistant, and would never allow him to really govern.
But Liu Ying, who has a weak personality, must not be able to suppress this strong mother, which is something that Liu Bang is very worried about.
Therefore, after entrusting Jiangshan to Lü Yan, Liu Bang appointed several entrusted ministers to check Lü Yan.
At the beginning, Liu Bang's proposed ministers were Cao Shan, Wang Ling, and Chen Ping, but at the last moment, Liu Bang added another person, that is, the loyal and honest Zhou Bo.
Among these 4 people, Liu Bang's most optimistic is actually Zhou Bo. Cao Shan was old, and Wang Ling Geng zhi had a lack of roundness, Chen Ping could make up for this, but he was too smart.
Therefore, Liu Bang left behind the last words of "An Liu's world, Bi Boye".
In this way, after Liu Bang's death, a delicate three-way balance of power appeared in the court of the Western Han Dynasty: Lü Yan, the chancellor of the Tuogu, and the princes.
This is exactly what Liu Bang expected, and he hoped to achieve long-term peace and stability in Liu's world through the mutual checks and balances of the three parties.
But Liu Bang had clearly miscalculated.
These three parties do check and balance each other and compromise with each other, but they are all for their own interests, not for the sake of Liu's world.
Liu Bang made an oath with the Meritorious Minister before his death:
"The kingdom will live forever and give to the Miao." Those who are not the king of the Liu clan, the whole world strikes together, and if there is no merit and does not pay attention to it, the world will condemn it. - "Historia"
This means that you meritorious ministers have meritorious service to the Great Han Dynasty, and as long as the Great Han Dynasty exists for one day, you and your descendants will be able to eat and drink spicy in the future; but you must also promise that in the future, there will be people who are not surnamed Liu but are called kings, or those who do not have enough military merit to dare to be crowned marquis, and all of you will work together to help the imperial court destroy him.
This is what later generations are known as the "White Horse Alliance".
But did these people do it?
Before Liu Bang's bones were cold, Lü Hou brazenly made Lü's clan prince a prince, but the ministers did not take the lead in resolutely resisting.
Sure enough, in this world, in addition to the sun, there is also the human heart and human nature.
However, when Lü Hou joined forces with his cronies to interrogate him and prepare to attack the Gongchen Clique, because it involved their own interests, they immediately raised an opposition, and in the end, because the Influence of the Gongchen Clique was too great, Lü Yan had to give up.
By 180 BC, Lü Yan died of illness.
The group of heroes represented by the minister of Tuoguo immediately joined forces with the prince of the Liu clan to launch a great liquidation of Lü Yan and the Lü family.
In July of that year, before Lü Hou was dying, he took the hands of Lü Lu the King of Zhao and Lü Chan the King of Liang and warned them that they would seize the military power in their hands no matter what, otherwise they would be slaughtered by the ministers.
These two people in charge of the army of the Lü family are the most critical figures, as long as the military power is in hand, at least they can protect the safety of the Lü family.
Unfortunately, there was no one in the Lü clan, and soon after Lü Hou's death, Zhou Bo and Chen Ping entrusted the orphan ministers to call on the people of the world to rise up and attack him on the grounds that the Lü clan had violated the "White Horse Alliance" of Gaozu Liu Bang.
Lü Lu, who was like a waste of firewood, was fooled by Zhou Bo and handed over his Northern Army General Seal.
Due to his incompetence, the process of the slaughter of the Lü clan was accelerated. Including Lü Lu, who handed over the seal, thousands of people in the Lü clan were slaughtered by Zhou Bo and others. Even the Fan family was killed for marrying the Lu family's wife.
Even so, Zhou Bo was still not at ease.
In order to completely eliminate the potential threat, Zhou Bo and others killed Liu Bang's grandsons, that is, the sons of Liu Ying, the Emperor hui of Han, one by one. Because Liu Ying is the son of Lü Hou, Liu Ying's sons are also the bloodline of the Lü clan, and they are naturally the backers of the Lü clan.
If they are allowed to ascend to the throne, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no great reckoning with these heroes in the future.
For them, this is the biggest hidden danger, and it must be eliminated quickly.
Remember what Liu Bang said to Lü Hou before he died, Zhou Bo was "thick and thin", "An Liu will be Bo"?
It was this seemingly loyal and dutiful minister who Liu Bang had high hopes for, and killed all his grandsons 15 years after Liu Bang's death.
I have to say that Zhou Bo is really a cruel one!
I just don't know how Liu Bang would feel about this if he knew about it?
The real reason why Zhou Bo attacked Liu Ying's sons naturally could not be said in a dignified manner, so they found a very far-fetched excuse:
The sons of Liu Ying, the Emperor of Hanhui, were not his own children, nor were they of royal blood. Instead, in order to control Emperor Hui of Han, Lü Hou sent the sons of the Lü family into the palace to pretend. In order to ensure the purity of the royal bloodline, these people must be eliminated.
"The Young Emperor and the Kings of Liang, Huaiyang, and Changshan were not true filial pieties. Lü Hou deceived the other son, killed his mother, raised a harem, and made Xiao Huizizhi the queen, and the kings, in order to honor the Lü clan. "--- Zhou Bo
In the midst of this massacre, the honest man Zhou Bo showed the darkest side of other people's humanity.
Is what they said true?
Of course not, there are too many loopholes in this.
First of all, although Lü Hou's methods were vicious, he did not change the idea of replacing Liu with Lü Shi. She had no reason to do such a stupid thing, Liu Ying was her only son!
Can the Lü clan kiss their sons?
With the wisdom of Empress Lü, how could she do the stupid thing of using Lü Shizi to impersonate the emperor's grandson?
Secondly, Liu Ying, the Emperor of Han hui, was only a coward, not an incompetent waste, and Lü Hou was very protective of this son from beginning to end, paying everything for him.
And no matter what, Liu Ying will not be incompetent to the point where even her son can be fooled if he is true or false.
In the worst case, even if someone really dared to play the trick of "Tanuki for Prince", it would be impossible to easily play 5 times in a row in the heavily guarded palace, right?
So, this is "what is the sin of desire and the guilt of no excuse"! Looking for such a lame reason, Zhou Bo really responded to the comment of "Shaowen".
However, in the face of strong strength, what Zhou Bo needed was just an excuse.
Although this excuse is bad enough, bad enough. However, it did not affect Zhou Bo to enter the imperial palace and kill all the sons of Liu Ying, the Emperor of Han hui.
In this way, Liu Bang's grandsons all died at the hands of zhou bo and Chen Ping' orphan ministers.
Poor Emperor Hui of Han, who was also made up by Zhou Bo to have a notoriety of infertility, really wanted to cry without tears.
After killing Liu Bang's grandson, Zhou Bo faced a more urgent problem:
What about the throne? Who will inherit?
This is a problem that must be carefully considered.
Zhou Bo knew that no matter what, killing the Emperor Sun as a courtier was the following crime, and a bad one might be counted backwards by a counterattack.
It is said that after Liu Ying's sons were killed, the remaining royal sons were eligible to inherit.
In particular, Liu Xiang, the King of Qi, who cooperated with Zhou Bo, made a lot of efforts to defend Liu's Jiangshan.
However, if Liu Xiang, a person with the ability and real power and foundation, became emperor, it would be a disaster for Zhou Bo and other heroes.
How Liu Bang and Lü Hou had dealt with the king with the different surname before, Zhou Bo and Chen Ping knew it all too well.
Therefore, the new emperor must not be like Liu Xiang, what they need is a puppet with no foundation, obedient and sensible, and easy to control.
Liu Heng, the acting king, was one of the few people who met the conditions, so he was invited to Chang'an City and became the new emperor, known as Emperor Wen of Han.
Don't look at the later "rule of Wenjing" is very famous, Emperor Wen of Han is a generation of Ming emperors.
However, liu Heng, the acting king at that time, was cautious and cautious, and when he went to Chang'an as emperor, he did not dare to bring more cronies, only brought three or two kittens, and his attitude and behavior were very respectful, and he was polite to everyone.
Before and after he ascended the throne, something very strange happened, and his princess and four concubines all died mysteriously. It is worth noting that the daiwang surname is Lü.
In the beginning, Emperor Wen of Han was not completely pro-government, and many things had to be listened to by his mother, Empress Bo.
Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty also contributed a story in the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties", "Taste the Soup Medicine".
In the eyes of everyone, this is a good seedling of a standard puppet emperor.
Unfortunately, Zhou Bo and others all looked at it wrong, just like Liu Bang had misread Zhou Bo at the beginning.
Liu Heng was not as easy to control as everyone imagined, and after ostensibly welcoming the meritorious group and consolidating the throne, he soon turned his face to those who regarded themselves as heroes.
And Zhou Bo was also constantly beaten by Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Wen, and even thrown into prison for a small matter.
Although in the end it was only a dismissal, it was enough for Zhou Bo to understand that the emperor was not a good bully as they imagined.
The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all are for profit.
Liu Bang thought that Zhou Bo was loyal and honest and worthy of trust. But they do not know that the human heart is the most unable to withstand temptation, and human nature is the most selfish.
Zhou Bo and other ministers chose to compromise with Lü Hou for their own interests, and later killed Zhu Lü for their own interests, as did liu Bang's grandson.
"Zhu Lü's rebellion" was just an excuse that Zhou Bo and others casually found in order to eliminate the Lü clan and safeguard their own rights and interests.
At that time, the king of Zhu Lü feng had not been able to do it for a day or two, why didn't they dare to do it when Lü Hou ran out of oil, and they had to wait for Lü Hou to swallow his breath and Lü Shi completely lost his main heart bone before doing it?