In 174 BC, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, gathered seventy people and used forty vehicles to start an incident in Gukou County, and was soon defeated and arrested, and soon Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, went on a hunger strike and died, and Emperor Wen of Han received the news and cried bitterly and was sad. As the younger brother of Emperor Wen of Han, why did the King of Huainan rebel? In addition, even if Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, was sent to Shudi because of his rebellion, he would certainly be warmly received by officials at all levels on the road, so why did he die of hunger strike?
Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, was accused of conspiring to do so, and he himself was imprisoned by a sill car and deported to Shu from the counties along the way. There was a seal on the door of the sill car, and the county orders received along the way did not dare to open the seal, so Liu Shouted: In life, how can you suffer such a strange shame and humiliation? So the hunger strike began. Arriving in Yongdi, Yongxian County Order opened the seal, found that the king of Huainan had died, and immediately reported it, which led to the scene of Emperor Wen of Han crying bitterly at the beginning.
Emperor Wen of Han said to Yuan Ang: I did not listen to your advice, which eventually led to the death of the King of Huainan. Why did Emperor Wen of Han say this? When the King of Huainan was first sentenced to Shu, Yuan Ang said to Emperor Wen of Han: His Majesty is usually too arrogant to spoil the King of Huainan, which leads to such a situation. Moreover, the king of Huainan has a strong temperament and sits in a prison cart into Shu, and the king of Huainan will certainly not be able to bear it psychologically, and if an accident occurs on the way, then His Majesty will bear the notoriety of killing his brother. Emperor Wendi of Han said: "I just let him suffer and let him come back soon."
Now that Yuan Ang had become a slur, and the king of Huainan had indeed died on the way to Shu, Emperor Wen of Han asked Yuan An how to deal with this matter, and Yuan Ang said: Kill all the imperial masters to thank the world. Emperor Wen of Han did not take action, but asked The Chancellor to order all the county orders that were not opened along the way to be executed, and a solemn funeral was held for the King of Huainan according to the specifications of the princes.
Why did Emperor Wen of Han attach so much importance to the death of King Huainan? In addition to blood and kinship, because the death of King Huainan may have a huge negative impact on Emperor Wen of Han. In 172 BC, Emperor Wen of Han ordered the four surviving sons of King Huainan to be made Marquis of Liehou.
In 168 BC, some folk people created a song about the encounter of the king of Huainan: a foot of cloth, still can be sewn, a bucket of millet, still can be scooped, two brothers, can not be compatible. When Emperor Wen of Han heard this, he said very angrily: When Yao Shun exiled his family and Zhou Gong killed his brother, the people of the world praised them instead. Because they did not harm the public with selfishness, for example, do people think that I covet the land of the four counties of the King of Huainan today? As a result, Emperor Wen of Han moved liu xi, the prince of Chengyang, to the position of king of Huainan.
In 164 BC, Emperor Wen of Han moved Liu Xifu, the king of Huainan, back to his hometown of Chengyang and gave the four counties of Huainan to Liu Chang's three surviving sons, who were awarded the titles of King of Huainan, King of Hengshan, and King of Lujiang.
Emperor Wen of Han took this series of measures to quell the rumors, and even made an exception to make an exception for the son of the King of Huainan to be crowned prince, as if an uncle who did something wrong was desperately trying to make up for his mistakes, but we still have a question in our hearts, why did Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, rebel?
In order to explain more clearly, let's first understand the legendary life of Liu Chang, the king of Huainan.
In 198 BC, Liu Bang quelled the rebellion of Han Wangxin, and on the way back to the dynasty, passing through the capital of the Zhao state, Handan, the king of Zhao at that time was Zhang Er's son Zhang Ao, who was also Liu Bang's son-in-law, and in the face of Liu Bang, who was both the boss and the old man, Zhang Ao was very attentive, and even put on the clothes of the next person and personally served; but Liu Bang looked down on this son-in-law very much, and he scolded him if he was slightly unhappy. The ministers of the State of Zhao were very dissatisfied with this, especially Guangao and Zhao Wu, who were both old ministers of the Zhang Er period, and seeing that King Zhao was so snuggly and Liu Bang was so arrogant, they decided to find an opportunity to get rid of Liu Bang.
The following year, Liu Bang passed through Handan again, zhang Ao asked Zhao Ji to serve Liu Bang, Zhao Ji was favored and became pregnant, this child was Liu Bang's seventh son, the later King of Huainan Liu Chang. Guan Gao arranged assassins in Bairen County, where Liu Bang stayed at night, and wanted to assassinate Liu Bang in the middle of the night. As a result, Liu Bang suddenly felt uneasy and asked: What is the name of this county? The bodyguard replied: In Bairen County, Liu Bang felt unlucky, so he got up and continued to hurry, and by chance, he escaped the assassination.
In 196 BC, Guan Gao's enemies reported to Chang'an, exposing Guan Gao's attempt to murder Liu Bang. Therefore, Liu Bang arrested Zhang Ao, Guan Gao, and Zhao Wu the Zhao kings to Chang'an for questioning, and the zhao ministers and harem concubines were arrested and imprisoned in the official palace.
Zhao Ji said to the jailer: I have been favored by Your Majesty and am pregnant. The prison guard reported truthfully that Liu Bang was angry about the assassination and ignored it. Zhao Ji's younger brother rushed to the capital and found Lü Hou's very favored Marquis of Peiyang, hoping that Hou Hou could speak in front of Lü Hou, and when he heard that a woman had appeared again, Lü Hou was full of jealousy and refused to intercede with Liu Bang, and as a result, Zhao Ji committed suicide after giving birth to Liu Chang. The guards sent the little prince to the capital, and as soon as Liu Bang saw his son and heard that Zhao Ji had committed suicide, he felt guilty and gave Liu Chang to Lü Hou to raise. In the eleventh year of Gaozu, King Yingbu of Huainan rebelled, and after being suppressed, Liu Bang made Liu Chang the King of Huainan.
In 180 BC, Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, and Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, claimed that he was the only brother of the emperor, arrogant and arrogant, and did many things out of the ordinary, but Emperor Wen of Han chose to pardon.
In 177 BC, Liu Chang visited the Marquis of Peiyang to interrogate him, and after the food came out, Liu Chang took out an iron hammer from his sleeve, struck with a heavy hammer, and hammered him alive to judge him. Afterwards, he rushed to the palace and asked Emperor Wen of Han for his sins: Marquis Peiyang has three major crimes, and the crime should be to death; my mother should not have been implicated in Zhao Guo's conspiracy, and The Marquis of Peiyang was a close confidant of Lü Hou, and if Hou Ken of Peiyang tried his best to help, he could get Lü Hou's help, but he did not fight, this is the first crime. Lü Hou deliberately plotted to kill the mother and son of Liu Ruyi, the King of Zhao, and the Marquis of Peiyang did not try his best to dissuade them, resulting in the tragic death of the two, which was the second crime. Lü Hou sealed Zhu Lü and threatened Liu Shijiangshan, and The Marquis of Peiyang did not stand up to fight, which was the third crime. I have killed the criminal minister Peiyang Hou for the people of the world, and I have also avenged my mother, so I have come to ask for the crime.
In the end, Emperor Wen of Han actually pardoned the King of Huainan again. After returning to Huainan, Liu Chang acted more willfully, did not act according to the decrees of the imperial court, and ordered vigilance in and out of the palace, issuing orders called "system", without using Han Dynasty laws, imitating the prestige of the Son of Heaven. Yuan Ang advised Emperor Wen of Han that the princes were too arrogant and arrogant, and that they would inevitably cause disasters in the future, and that their fiefdoms should be appropriately reduced. Emperor Wen of Han did not accept it, so the King of Huainan acted even more recklessly.
In 174 BC, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, gathered seventy people and used forty vehicles to prepare for rebellion, but the matter was soon discovered, and the imperial court sent emissaries to summon Liu Chang to Beijing to accuse liu chang of treason. After deliberation, the ministers headed by Zhang Cang , the chancellor , were sentenced to death by Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, for contempt for the imperial court and for not obeying the edicts; for disobeying the law and comparing himself to the heavenly son; for arbitrarily setting up officials and deceiving the son of heaven; for arbitrarily acting as a decree and not using the Han law; for snaring fugitives and killing people to eliminate their mouths; and for instigating rebellion and plotting against the six major crimes of misconduct. Emperor Wen of Han gave instructions: I can't bear to use such a harsh punishment on my brother. After the ministers deliberated again, they still considered that they could not be forgiven, and insisted on the original judgment, and Emperor Wen of Han gave instructions: Abolish the throne of Huainan and pardon him for capital crimes. The ministers played again, requesting that Liu Changfa be assigned to Shudi for residential surveillance. Emperor Wen of Han agreed, but made special stipulations to supply five pounds of meat and two buckets of wine every day, and to choose ten beautiful women that Liu Chang usually liked to accompany. In the end, Liu Chang died of hunger strike on the way to Shu.
The rebellion of Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, was not unrelated to the "tolerance" of Emperor Wen of Han, and what Liu Chang did could be said to be lawless, hammering the marquises and trespassing, each of which was a felony, but Emperor Wen of Han did not pursue it, and his tolerance to him had reached the level of doting, and this "tolerance" also made the king of Huainan even more intense, and finally embarked on the road of no return for rebellion.