After Lu, when mentioning this woman, the word "vicious" will jump out of many people's minds. Because she turned her former rival Qi, Madame, into a "person" who could not even see her own son.
Lü Yan's life went from good to evil, going through three stages, before there was the later Lü Hou.
At first she worked in the fields with her children, which seemed to be the whole of her life. At that time, Lu Yan was still very kind. But later, after being captured and returning to the Han army, he found that something was wrong, because there was a woman by his side, a beautiful Lady Qi. Lü Yan realized the crisis, no longer the kind peasant woman, but the Empress of the Great Han.
In the years that followed, we saw Lü Hou's iron heart and fierce means.
There is a record in the "Chronicle of History": "When the empress dowager wept, she could not cry", which refers to a phenomenon that the emperor's birth mother cried for a long time before her coffin without weeping on the day of the funeral of an emperor who died of illness and did not shed tears.
Logically, Emperor Hui of Han was the only son of Lü Yan, and now that his son was dead, his own white-haired people sent black-haired people, and he should cry loudly, and he should not cry without crying. No one else noticed, only a 15-year-old saw it.
This young man was the son of Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu, who was already in charge of the service at this time. After Zhang Liang's son returned, he told Chen Ping, the chancellor, that you were about to be in trouble.
Zhang Peijiang also said: "The emperor died too early, and all of her knees were young sons, so the empress dowager was worried about the state society, and she was afraid that you old ministers would not serve the young lord, and she was also afraid that you would rebel and seize power, so she was thinking about how to deal with you, and you were going to be unlucky." "
Upon hearing this, Chen Ping suddenly realized that he had hurriedly asked Lü Hou to make Lü Hou's relatives Lü Tai, Lü Chan, and Lü Lu generals and hold military power. Lü Hou readily agreed, and only then did she remember that her son had died, and the affection in her heart was released, and she began to cry in front of Liu Ying's spirit, and the tears flowed unceasingly.
You must know that their mother and son did not have a very good life in their early years. As early as the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang had kicked Liu Ying and Princess Lu Yuan off the carriage in order to save his own life, saying that it was to reduce weight. If it were not for the support of Xiahou Infant of Tenghou, Liu Ying and Princess Lu Yuan would have died long ago. After Liu Bangbing defeated Bai Dengshan, he even wanted to force Princess Lu Yuan, who was already married, to divorce and sell her to the Xiongnu Mo Dun shan yu as empress.
Thinking about the suffering of the past, how can a mother not cry? Not crying directly made the group of ministers worried and afraid, which was the ability of Lü Hou not to say a word to scare the group of subjects.
Reading through Lü Hou's experience, I can't help but sigh that power is really a monster, an invisible drug, and once it is touched, it can no longer be stopped. For the sake of power, even the kindest people will complete the transformation, and eventually gradually lose their humanity and become unrecognized. In order to protect her children, Lü Hou turned herself into a politician, and she went shirtless and fought in the turbulent political whirlpool.