The history of China is above, starting from the first hereditary dynasty Xia Dynasty four thousand years ago and ending with the end of the qing dynasty, the last feudal dynasty. After nearly 25 dynasties, the emperor has produced more than 500. Among them, there are some excellent emperors that we still praise, such as the Qin Emperor Han Wu, and there are also some faint emperors who hate and curse to this day, such as the Sui Emperor who built the Grand Canal, and the emperor Puyi, who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country.
But in history there is such an emperor, almost no one mentions, but he is the most perfect king in history, and even historians cannot find his shortcomings. His name is Liu Heng, is he very familiar? In fact, he was the fourth son of Liu Bang and the grandfather of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che.
Liu Heng's mother was originally a concubine of Wei Bao, the King of Wei, named Bo Ji. Because of his feminine temperament and very docile temperament, he was very favored by the King of Wei, so it was natural to become pregnant. At that time, a warlock saw Bo Ji as a heavenly person, and predicted that a heavenly son would definitely appear in the belly of this woman, so Wei Bao directly rebelled for this prophecy, but ended up in a different place. Bo Ji could only weave cloth for a living after Wei Bao's death, and happened to be seen by Liu Bang, who liked beauty, and was included in the palace, and forgot about it after being spoiled twice.
In 202 BC, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, officially became the final winner of the Chu-Han dispute and ascended the throne as emperor. Xiang Yu took Liu Bang's wife Lü Shi and his father Liu Taigong as hostages, hoping to force Liu Bang to fight with him. However, Liu Bang was notoriously fierce, his father and wife were in the hands of Xiang Yu, but he was still drinking and having fun in the palace, and he also fell in love with a woman, Qi Ji, and openly let this woman take power in the harem during the absence of Empress Lü.
Lü Hou returned with hatred, and the woman who had followed Liu Bang to help him since the end of his life was full of anger. The first thing Liu Bang did after his death was to imprison Lady Qi in the court as a slave. Bo Ji has not yet received attention because she is not favored, but she is sensitive by nature and quickly sends her child Liu Heng to the fiefdom.
Later, it turned out that Bo Ji's decision was correct. The mad Lü Hou held the power of the Han Dynasty in her hands after Liu Bang's death, and in 195 BC, Lady Qi was made an adult and could only live in an urn for the rest of her life. Then he summoned Lady Qi's son to watch, and then poisoned Lady Qi's son. Later Empress Lü did not even allow the status to sit on the liu clan, and decided to call it the Lü clan.
In 180 BC, the courtiers could not stand the dictatorship of Empress Lü, so under the leadership of Zhou Bo and others, the courtiers regained power and went to Liu Heng's fief to welcome him back to the imperial court. Ben thought that this Liu Heng had no foundation in the DPRK and was easier to grasp. However, he did not expect that Liu Heng would hand over military power to his former vassals on the first day of his ascension to the throne.
Subsequently, he directly replaced half of the three dukes and nine secretaries who were in charge of the power of the Han Dynasty and put their cronies on the throne. Seize power with lightning speed. On the other hand, the prince surnamed Liu who was seen was restored to his title, and the heroes who welcomed him back to the palace and ascended the throne were rewarded. A series of beatings on Enwei and Shi quickly gained a foothold.
During his 23-year reign, displaced people returned to the fields and the population grew rapidly. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the feudal state was only about 10,000 households, but by the time of Liu Heng's rule, it had increased four or five times. In his lifetime, he forbade others to offer him rare treasures, and he only used rough black silk as clothing, and even the mausoleum after death must be simple, and no luxury was allowed to be wasted. It is a rare birth of an emperor whose family is still simple and simple.
It is worth mentioning that Liu Heng also has great respect for his mother Bo Ji, who is a famous filial piety in history. The protagonist of the story of the twenty-four filial pieties in our country is him. In the seventh year of Emperor Wen's reign (157 BC), Liu Heng died.
Life is very simple, for the emperor to rule the Qingming, the people to live and work in peace, filial piety to the extreme, as an emperor for the mother to taste soup medicine. Such an emperor, how can we find out his shortcomings?