One day in 154 BC, Emperor Jing of Han sent a lieutenant to trick the chancellor Chao Wrong into entering the palace, and when Chao Wrong traveled to Dongshi, the lieutenant suddenly got out of the car and read the Holy Will to give him death, and before Chao Wrong could return to the taste, he was caught by the waist and beheaded to death; regarding Chao Wrong's death, the mainstream view is that after the outbreak of the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms", The Han Jing Emperor killed Chao Wrong in order to appease the rebels; this statement has a certain truth, but the real cause of Death of Chao Wrong is not so simple.
During the reign of Emperor Jing and Emperor Wen, he created the first prosperous era in the history of the Han Dynasty, and called it "the rule of Wenjing", but Emperor Jing was inferior to his father, and Emperor Jing's handling of two things could show the gap between the two.
First, wrongful killing.
Chao Que had advocated cutting the domain, although it eventually caused the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, but the cutting of the domain was also to strengthen the rule of Chang'an and prevent the Han Dynasty from falling into civil unrest; when the Seven Kingdoms rebelled in the name of killing Chao Wrong, the helpless Han Jing Emperor consulted with Yuan Ang, misjudged the situation and obeyed Yuan Ang's plan, hoping to quell the rebellion by booby-trapping Chao Wrong, and Chao Wrong had been kept in the dark until emperor Jing sent lieutenant Chao into the palace, and he also sorted out his imperial clothes, not expecting that he would be killed by Emperor Jing.
Chao's father heard that they all came from Yingchuan and asked what Chao's intention was; Chao's father said that the purpose of cutting the clan was to protect the eternal solidity of the Han Dynasty, but his father said that you dare to cut the domain, liu family jiangshan is stable, but the chao family is finished, and said that he drank poison and committed suicide; it can be seen that chao wrong in order to protect the throne of the Liu family, at the expense of the Chao family, can really be described as loyal.
At the critical moment, Emperor Wen began to "sell his teammates", in order to appease the princes and kill the loyal minister Chao Wrong, and when he asked the lieutenant to booby trap Chao Wrong, he also lied that he would patrol the capital with Chao Wrong, and did not let Chao Wrong die until he died.
Second, the wrongful killing of Zhou Yafu.
Zhou Yafu's son was accused of stealing and buying "county official instruments", which is a kind of royal burial armor, and Emperor Jing sent someone to arrest and interrogate Zhou Yafu; Ting Wei asked Zhou Yafu if he wanted to rebel and rebel, and Zhou Yafu said: "All I bought are funeral instruments, can I use this for rebellion?" At this time, Lieutenant Ting said a ridiculous sentence: "You don't want to make trouble on the ground, but you want to make trouble underground"; then Zhou Yafu was tortured to confess, and finally he could not bear to be humiliated and hunger strike and vomit blood and died.
Before his death, Emperor Wen of Han made a will saying that the matter of being killed in danger could be dealt with by Zhou Yafu; in fact, Zhou Yafu did indeed live up to Emperor Wen's trust, and the Seven Kingdoms were still in turmoil after Chao's death, and at the time of crisis, Zhou Yafu carried the banner of counter-rebellion, quelled the rebellion in three months, and saved the Han family; Zhou Yafu, who was just in charge, had spoken out against Emperor Jing's desire to depose the crown prince, make his brother-in-law Hou, and make the Xiongnu a prince; and his loyal words angered Emperor Jing, and Emperor Jing teased Zhou Yafu with a large piece of fat meat. After Zhou Yafu left, Emperor Jing also said that Zhou Yafu was not convinced and could not be a loyal vassal of the lord; it can be seen that Emperor Jing had long had the intention of killing Zhou Yafu, and even without the "county official instrument", Emperor Jing could not tolerate Zhou Yafu.
Zhou Yafu's prestige in the army surpassed that of the emperor, Emperor Wen praised Zhou Yafu as a "true general", but Emperor Jing resented Him because Zhou Yafu was outspoken to him; Confucius had a cloud: "The emperor's envoys are courteous, and the subjects are loyal", Chao Que and Zhou Yafu are both loyal to the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing, and Emperor Jing, as a monarch, did not abide by the norms of the emperor's "etiquette", and finally killed the two loyal subjects; it can be seen that Emperor Jing's personal cultivation is far less than that of his father, Emperor Wen, who wrongfully killed the two loyal subjects. Emperor Jing had lost his qualification to be on par with Emperor Wen.