Portrait of Emperor Wu of Han
Emperor Wu of Han was named Liu Che, the fifth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. However, this great Han Tianzi, who had great talent and great achievements, was closely related to the childhood Ajiao.
Liu Che was the tenth son of Emperor Jing of Han, and Ah Jiao was the daughter of Emperor Jing's sister Princess Chang. When Liu Che was 6 years old, he made a solemn promise to Ah Jiao, which changed Ah Jiao's fate and also changed Liu Che's fate.
Emperor Wu of Han's real name was Liu Yan, and his mother's name was Wang Yan. Wang Xian was born into a commoner family, and when Emperor Jing was crown prince, he entered the palace and gave birth to three daughters and a son for Emperor Jing, and was later named a beauty and a lady.
It is said that when Wang Huan was pregnant, she dreamed of the sun entering her arms, and Emperor Jing was very happy when he learned about it, believing that it was an auspicious omen. Emperor Jing also had a dream before, dreaming that Gao Zu said to himself: "Lady Wang has a son, which can be called Yan." Therefore, the son born to Lady Wang was named Liu Yan.
Since Empress Bo was childless, the heir of the crown prince could only be selected from among the princes who had been born out of the crown prince. Emperor Jing had fourteen sons: Li Jisheng Liu Rong the Prince of Linjiang, Liu De the Prince of Hejian, and Liu Fu the Prince of Linjiang; Liu Yu the Prince of Cheng Jisheng, Liu Yu the Prince of Lugong, Liu Fei the Prince of Jiangduyi, and Liu Duan the Prince of Jiaoxi; Lady Jia gave birth to Liu Pengzu the Prince of Zhao Jingsu, and Liu Sheng the Prince of Zhongshan Jing; Liu Fa the Prince of Changsha Ding of Tang Jisheng; Liu Yue the Prince of Guangchuan Hui, Liu Ji the Prince of Jiaodong Kang, Liu Cheng the Prince of Qinghe, Liu Shun the Prince of Changshan, and Lady Wang gave birth to Liu Yan. Liu Yan ranked tenth.
According to the principle of the Royal Succession Law, the crown prince is generally elected according to his age. As a result, Liu Rong, the eldest brother of Liu Che and the son of Li Ji, was made crown prince. The four-year-old Liu Che was crowned the King of Jiaodong, and if nothing else, he grew up to be a small prince.
However, the world was unpredictable, and I did not expect that one of Liu Che's promises was actually helped by nobles, and he successfully changed from the king of Jiaodong to the prince, and finally ascended to the highest throne.
This nobleman was Emperor Jing's sister, the eldest princess Liu Yan. Liu Yan had a daughter named Chen Ajiao, who was very beautiful, and Liu Yan was very fond of her and wanted to make her empress.
Chen Ajiao
In order to achieve the goal of making her daughter an empress in the future, the eldest princess wanted to marry Ah Jiao to the crown prince Liu Rong, so she sent someone to the door to propose to Liu Rong's mother, Li Ji. However, Li Ji resented the fact that the eldest princess often introduced beautiful women to Emperor Jing and took away Emperor Jing's favor for herself, so she categorically refused this family affair. Since then, the eldest princess has formed a grudge with Li Ji and began to re-outline her daughter's future.
After a plan, the eldest princess turned her eyes to Liu Yan, the son of Lady Wang, and when she proposed to Lady Wang, Lady Wang was full of joy and agreed to this family affair.
Once, the eldest princess Liu Yan picked up Liu Yan lovingly and put him on her knee, and she asked Liu Yan, "Do you want a daughter-in-law?" Liu Yan nodded and said, "I think." The eldest princess smiled and pointed out more than a hundred handmaidens to Liu Yan and asked him to choose. Liu Yan said he didn't like it. Finally, the eldest princess pointed to her daughter and asked him, "Is Ah Jiao okay?" Liu Yan smiled and said, "Good! If I can marry Gillian, I must build a golden house for her. After the Han Jing Emperor knew about it, he also agreed to this family affair.
Later, Liu Che became emperor, and really built a golden house for Empress Ajiao to live in, which is the origin of the idiom "Golden House Hidden Jiao".
Because of Liu Che's promise, the eldest princess was determined to win the position of prince for him, so that her daughter could become an empress in the future.
Both Liu Yan and Emperor Jing were born to Empress Dowager Dou, so she not only had a noble status, but also had a great influence on Emperor Jing, and she often went in and out of the inner court to say good things about Liu Yan in front of Emperor Jing, and said that Li Ji's was not.
After some careful planning by her, and Liu Che's indeed outstanding, Wang Meiren was finally made empress by Emperor Jing, and Liu Che also replaced Liu Rong and was made crown prince at the age of 7. Because Liu Yan was "a saint who was superior", Emperor Jing renamed him "Che".
After Liu Che became crown prince, he began to receive orthodox education and learn the art of emperorhood, and the famous scholar Wei Xuan also became his teacher. Wei Qi was very knowledgeable, and he taught Liu Che for six or seven years, which had a great influence on Liu Che's later governance policy.
Liu Che's study was wide-ranging, including not only classical history and literature, but also horseback archery, which laid a solid foundation for his future Martial Arts.
In the third year of the Jing Emperor's reign (141 BC), Emperor Jing died, and the 16-year-old Liu Che ascended the throne as Emperor Wu of Han.
Mausoleum of Emperor Mao of the Han Dynasty
Liu Che's counterattack undoubtedly benefited from the help of nobles, and without the help of the eldest princess, Liu Che could only be a prince for the rest of his life.
At the same time, Lady Wang's performance can also be remarkable, when Lady Wang was pregnant, she had dreamed of seeing the sun thrown into her arms, perhaps just her own fabrication, but this story played a hint to Emperor Jing, meaning that the son she gave birth to, with the sign of being a noble son of heaven, created favorable public opinion for her son to be elected crown prince.
Liu Che himself was also very clever and clever, and it was indeed unusual to be able to make such a promise to the eldest princess. According to the "Internal Biography of Emperor Wu of Han", which is quoted in volume 3 of the Taiping Guangji, when Emperor Liu Yan of the Han Dynasty was 3 years old, Emperor Jing once held him on his lap and asked, "Is Er willing to be the Son of Heaven?" Liu Yan replied, "To be the Son of Heaven is not to be a man by heaven." The son is willing to live in the palace every day and play in front of His Majesty. Nor did he dare to hesitate, so that he lost the Way of the Son of Heaven. "So alert and well-behaved, how can you not please Emperor Jing?"
It was precisely because of the planning of the eldest princess and Liu Che's performance that Emperor Jing made a determination to depose the crown prince.