In the first month of the sixth year BC (151 BC), Liu Qi deposed Li Ji, and his eldest son Liu Rong was deposed as the King of Linjiang. Later, Wang Xian was made empress, and in the same month, Wang Xian's son Liu Che (later Emperor Wu of Han) was made crown prince.
Two years later, in the second year of the Han Jing Emperor 's reign ( 148 BC ) , the deposed crown prince Liu Rong committed the crime of overstepping the system. When he was the king of Linjiang, he expanded his palace to the land of the ancestral temple. In the Han Dynasty, there were two major ancestral temples in the seats of various princely states and counties, one was the temple of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and the other was the temple of Liu Heng, the emperor of Han Wen, surrounded by a low wall. Liu Rong did not encroach on the inner courtyard of the ancestral temple, but only occupied the outer land that still belonged to the scope of the ancestral temple. A whistleblower letter was handed over, and Emperor Jing of Han immediately ordered Liu Rong to be summoned to Beijing. It is said that on the day Liu Rong entered Beijing, as soon as he got on the road, the axle of the car he was sitting in broke. The people of Linjiang Country have spread rumors one after another, and the monarch is afraid that he will not be able to return.
Arriving in the capital, Liu Rong was sent directly to the Lieutenant's Mansion. Entering the Lieutenant's Mansion is not visiting relatives and friends! The lieutenant was in charge of social order in the capital, equivalent to the current director of the public security bureau. Liu Rong also had a fluke: "There are people in the DPRK", not to mention that this person is still the current emperor, his own biological father. Who knows, the lieutenant's voice is strong, the iron face is selfless, and he does not take Liu Rong in his eyes at all. This lieutenant is a cool official clearly recorded in the "Chronicle of the Cool Officials" - Zhi Du. As a deposed prince, Liu Rong's self-esteem was already shaky, and after some cold words, he was even more ashamed and indignant. The two men were deadlocked, and the prince asked for pen and ink, and wanted to write a letter to his father and emperor, explaining the situation on the one hand, and apologizing on the other hand. What is expected is that very tough, resolutely do not give!
In the end, Empress Dou's nephew Dou Bao, because he had been Liu Rong's crown prince, remembered the love of teachers and students, and secretly sent him a knife and pen. The prince who has been pampered and habitually raised since childhood should not be called heaven and earth at this time. Helplessness and fear gripped Liu Rong, who could not bear it, so he committed suicide. The little lieutenant actually forced the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong to die! When this matter came out, the government and the public were shocked, and the royal family was chilled. Liu Rong was wrong to "overstep the system", but the sin did not reach the point of condemnation, and it could not kill the head!
Liu Rong committed suicide, although it was accidental; but after his death, all parties reacted, which was really strange! The first to react strongly was his old grandmother, Empress Dou. When Empress Dowager Dou heard that her eldest son had committed suicide, she was furious and immediately demanded that the culprit, Zhi Du, be executed.
Who is the second person to be stimulated? According to common sense, there is a great pain in life: "white-haired people send black-haired people", the king of a country can not save his son's life, holding a desperate letter - once a letter of distress, how painful it is to be a father! However, Emperor Jingdi of Han was not distressed or shocked, as if it were someone else's child who had died. Very passively and reluctantly, he dismissed All The Officials who had forced his son to die and substituted punishment for killing him. This was not enough, and a few months later, Emperor Jing of Han actually sent someone to the home of Zhidu to deliver a large gift package---- appointing Zhidu as the Taishou of Yanmen County. There is such a profound father in the world!
In the face of the "enemy" Zhi Du, the reactions of mother and son are very different. Empress Dowager Dou's desire to "eat meat and sleep on the skin" is normal, but the "indifference" of the Han Jing Emperor is surprising. Emperor Jingdi of Han was not an emperor at the mercy of others, everyone moved him, in fact, everyone was a pawn on his chessboard. If Emperor Jing of Han wanted to let Liu Rong a horse, he could just replace Him with Zhi Du, but he didn't. In fact, forcing Liu Rong to be killed was already planned by Emperor Jingdi of Han, and from the day he deposed the prince, this murder plan had been on the agenda.
In the case of the death of the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong, Emperor Jingdi of Han was the mastermind, and this was a case of "father killing son"! What is puzzling is that why a father, and the emperor who is also the Emperor of the Nine-Five, must force his eldest son to kill?
The emperor has an iron fist, and those who are courtiers should retreat in spite of difficulties. However, Zhou and Dou were very energetic. Zhou Yafu tried to protect Liu Rong, and his relationship with Emperor Jingdi of Han was broken. Dou Infant was originally the Crown Prince Taifu, who specially taught Prince Liu Rong, and saw that he had a large proud protégé in one hand, such as a chicken, isolated and helpless, and allowed to be slaughtered; Dou Infant's heart was more painful, and his behavior was more out of line! Simply say that the disease is not the same.
The two most respected and respected ministers in the dprk were both unswerving supporters of the deposed crown prince Liu Rong, could Emperor Jing of Han not be wary? With their style and their strength, once emperor Jing is a hundred years old, these two people will play the banner of supporting the deposed prince Liu Rong, will the new prince Liu Che be able to compete with it? The more these two protected Liu Rong, the more Emperor Jing of Han could not let Liu Rong go; the more resolute their attitude, the faster, accurate, and ruthless Emperor Jing's attack became. The silent stalemate between the "Waste Prince" party and the Han Jing Emperor is the real powder keg. Therefore, defeating the "waste prince" party, exterminating the illusion of the "waste prince" again, and ensuring the smooth handover of imperial power were the fundamental reasons for the murder of Liu Rong by the Han Jing Emperor.