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Like many empresses in history, Empress Dou favored her younger son, but that did not mean that she did not like Emperor Jing of Han, but only favored Liu Wu more. In fact, this is not surprising, the folk since ancient times there is a "father and mother prefer the old man" saying. Empress Dowager Dou liked Liu Wu, in addition to this reason, it was related to Liu Wu's great merits to the country, without Liu Wu, the king of Liang, the history of the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was likely to be rewritten. In addition, Liu Wu thought that for Liu Qi, the Emperor of Han Jing, there was another advantage, he was not like Liu Qi, and he was more humane, which was probably the reason why Empress Dou liked him.
"Grandma likes long house grandchildren, and parents like old children", this sentence
Folk sayings reveal the "microcosm" of human nature. Grandparents are more concerned with future generations, family continuity, and the eldest son represents the power of a new generation of families, which is the vision of the elderly in the extended family. It is human nature for parents to care more about their children, especially in ancient times, when there were many children, and young children tended to receive more attention. Empress Dowager Dou's younger son Liu Wu was related to this, and such examples abound. Empress Dou did not do out of line, the most out of line is the Spring and Autumn Zhengzhuang Gong's mother Wu Jiang, Wu Jiang likes the younger son, hates the eldest son, and wants the younger son to sit on the throne instead of the eldest son, and finally leads to brothers cannibalism, mother and son do not recognize each other.
Empress Dou's preference for Liu Wu was manifested in several aspects, one was an extraordinary gift, the second was a visit by Yue Li, and the third was a violation of the law. The first two are clearly within the boundaries of relationships, maternal love, or preferences. Even the third item cannot be said to have much to do with politics. Rather, in Empress Dowager Dou's eyes, it was a family problem, and it hurt a young son. What happened?
Therefore, when Yuan Ang explained to her that brother and brother were not a simple family affair, but the root cause of internal strife in the country, Empress Dou realized that her preference was that there was such a big pit. It can be seen from this that Empress Dou's feelings for her son have never risen to a political perspective, and it is completely the identity of a mother, and she has not gotten rid of the common feelings of people.
Liu Wu had the capital to make Empress Dou proud, of course, Liu Wu was by no means Ling Lang Duan (Zheng Zhuanggong's younger brother), and he did have a reason to be favored by his mother. Liu Wu is a person who likes literature and likes to raise people. These two likes made him gather a large number of literary people of the time, such as Sima Xiangru and Mei Cheng, etc., in his Liang Garden, leaving a small number of American masterpieces, objectively speaking, making contributions to the literary miracle of the Western Han Empire. A king surrounded by literati, his own reputation is naturally not low. Liu Wu's greatest contribution was in the battle to quell the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and it was precisely he who used the strength of one country to block the door of the Wu-Chu coalition army to the north, giving Zhou Yafu room for planning. Zhou Yafu took advantage of the combined forces of Wu and Chu to fight with Liu Wu in a bloody battle against Suiyang, and quickly pacified the states of Qidi, and then, the large army went south, cut off the rebels' grain routes, and made the rebels face the death ground of the front and rear attacks, and the grain and grass were cut off, and then quelled the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in one fell swoop. Zhou Yafu, as the commander-in-chief, took the first credit for quelling the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, but Liu Wu was the eye of the chess and the core of the strategy. Therefore, after the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, Liu Wu received a grand praise, he deserved his name, in the eyes of Empress Dou, the Great Han Dynasty, there are half the merits of the younger son!
In this way, it does not mean that Emperor Jingdi of Han was not filial, but that Emperor Jingdi of Han was a person, which somewhat made Empress Dowager Dou uneasy. There is no doubt that Liu Qi was the primary contributor to the rule of Wenjing, but the Han Jing Emperor lived his life, and the most criticized by his descendants was that he was cold, mean, and sinister. When he was a teenager, for a game of chess, a chessboard smashed the prince of Wu Guo; the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms burst out, and immediately threw out the most believed chao mistake as a scapegoat; the trickery killed Liu Rong, the son of Emperor Zong; the perpetrator Zhou Yafu, and so on, showing Liu Qi's cold-blooded nature.
Empress Dowager Dou, as a mother, knew this nature of her son, and although Liu Qi did not show disrespect for her mother, as a mother, the two sons were placed there, and there was no doubt about their character. The most important thing is, will the yin poison of the Han Jing Emperor be applied to his brothers? Most likely, Empress Dowager Dou thought it would not be surprising if this happened. After Liu Rong's death, Empress Dou was suspected of Emperor Jing of Han. Mother and son are the same thing, their faces are about to be torn apart. This incident is that Liu Wu entered the capital to bear the guilt of Jingjing, because he was afraid of being blackmailed by his brother, and he did not hesitate to hide from everyone and sneak alone. Liu Wu's "loss", Empress Dou's first reaction was: Liu Qi had blackmailed his brother. So the old woman cried and said, "The emperor killed my son!" In the end, it was confirmed that Empress Dou had indeed wronged her eldest son, Emperor Jing of Han, and Liu Wu did not disappear. However, from this incident, it can obviously be seen that Empress Dou has a full understanding of Liu Qi's poisonousness.
Rather than saying that Empress Dou prefers her younger son, she is more worried about the safety of her younger son. Through the above analysis, it can be seen that Empress Dou did not dislike Emperor Jingdi of Han, but preferred her younger son Liu Wu, both the instinctive factor of her mother and Liu Wu's own deeds, and it was also related to Emperor Jingdi's mean and unkind personality.
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