Lü Hou is a famous female figure of the real power faction in Chinese history, and naturally she is as vicious and vicious as other similar people such as Wu Meiniang and Cixi. There is a poem cloud: "The mouth of the green bamboo snake, the needle on the tail of the wasp, both are not poisonous, the most poisonous woman's heart." "That's the character who said it. Because power in feudal society has always been the property of men, women who want to join it can only use fierce means to deter others. But in any case, the killings of both Lü Hou and Wu Meiniang were disgusted by the world, because they had almost lost their humanity for power.
Therefore, the royal relatives and harem concubines of their contemporaries were extremely miserable. The dehumanizing Wu Meiniang almost slaughtered the entire Li Tang Sect's chamber, not even sparing her own children; Lü Hou's method of punishing Hou Concubine was even more frightening, and the reason why Lady Qi became famous was because she was finally made a "human" by Lü Hou, and her son Liu Ruyi was driven crazy by such means. But what is somewhat strange is that Lü Yan killed Liu Bang's harem concubines, Lady Qi was severed and her limbs were disabled and tortured, but Bo Ji survived the disaster, and even her son Liu Heng became a famous Emperor Wen of Han in later generations. Let's take a look at Bo Ji's life.
Bo Ji's origin is not good, her father is a native of Wu County, and she gave birth to Bo Ji in an adulterous relationship with Wei Guozong's chambermaid. This state of Wei was not a state of Wei during the Warring States period, but a fiefdom given to Wei Bao's brother Wei Gui during the Rebellion of Chen Sheng, who was defeated and committed suicide by Zhang Handan, and Wei Bao then re-emerged with the help of the army of King Huai of Chu, and was later made the King of Wei by Xiang Yu, subordinate to Liu Bang's forces. After Bo Ji grew up, her mother sent Bo Ji to the Wei Palace to serve Wei Bao in order to give her daughter a good future, and indeed got the favor of Wei Bao. Some friends may see that Bo Ji's mother's approach is somewhat inappropriate, and it seems that there is a suspicion of incest, but note that the ethical guidelines before the great revival of Confucian culture are often not too valued, not to mention that Bo Ji is only a "wild species" in the eyes of the world, belonging to playthings, so no matter what era this kind of thing is very normal.
Bo Ji's mother also invited the famous fortune-telling master Xu Negative to tell Bo Ji fortunes, and Xu Negative told her: "Your daughter has a noble life, and will give birth to a son of heaven in the future." This result also reached Wei Bao's ears, and Wei Bao felt that Gua Xiang meant that he would gain the world, so he betrayed Liu Bang to negotiate peace with Xiang Yu. As a result, it turned out that a momentary impulse would kill people, and Liu Bang immediately reacted and sent the general Cao To fight against Wei Bao, and in a battle, Wei Bao's family was captured. Because Bo Ji was Wei Bao's concubine, she was implicated and sent to a weaving workshop in the palace to go to labor camp. Fate is also said to have bottomed out, and Bo Ji is about to usher in the peak of her life.
Liu Bang accidentally came to the weaving workshop once, and at a glance, he saw Bo Ji's beauty, so he included Bo Ji in the harem. But after all, Bo Ji was a gentle person and had no support in the harem, so Liu Bang quickly forgot about her, and no one mentioned her to Liu Bang. In this way, Bo Ji did not get the favor of Liu Bang for a full year. A woman's lonely life in the harem is very difficult, and the only hope is to get the emperor's favor, but Bo Ji can't imagine it.
Fortunately, Bo Ji had two childhood playmates, Lady Guan and Zhao Zi'er, who were also in the harem, and both of them were favored by Liu Bang. When they accompanied Liu Bang once, they suddenly remembered the promise similar to "Gou Rich and Noble, Don't Forget" when they were children, so they laughed at the same time. Liu Bang inquired curiously, so they talked about Bo Ji. Liu Bang then remembered that there was another poor woman who had been snubbed by himself, and he was very pitying, so he summoned her that night. Bo Ji was also a clever person, and immediately said that she dreamed of having a dragon plate on her stomach last night, which further aroused Liu Bang's interest.
Bo Ji became pregnant soon after. Like many concubines, once pregnant, it almost means that you can't serve the emperor, and you will lose the emperor's favor over time, and even after giving birth to a prince, you will be snubbed. The only thing that could comfort Bo Ji was that she gave birth to a prince as she wished, and was named Liu Heng. It is not unusual for Liu Heng to be crowned acting king at the age of 8, because other princes also received fiefs. Relatively speaking, the daiguo at that time was very desolate, indicating that Liu Bang did not attach much importance to this son
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou began to massacre the concubines on a large scale, and at the same time, he supported his own Lü clan forces in the court, and he was another Wu Meiniang. But Lü Hou was as ambitious and talented as Wu Meiniang, or all her energy was focused on the whole person, and the world was a mess. Fortunately, Lü Hou did not have a long life of Wu Meiniang, and at that time, the Western Han Dynasty, whose national strength was far inferior to that of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, was not tossed down (even sheng Tang was almost tossed and collapsed by Wu Mei Niang, and women in power were not shallow). And in this terrible atmosphere, Bo Ji's mother and son escaped a disaster because they were not valued by Liu Bang, and Bo Ji herself was also a weak character, which could not arouse lü Hou's vigilance, so the orphan and widow mother went to a remote daiguo.