Liu Bang may not have imagined that the chancellor he trusted very much before his death and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility before his death actually eliminated all his concubines and grandsons after his death, and if Liu Bang was still alive, he would definitely be very sad about this matter.
However, this minister of entrustment to the orphan to eliminate Liu Bang's grandson lineage, in fact, there is a reason, if Liu Bang understands the ins and outs of it, perhaps the minister of the orphan will not only not be angry, but will also praise the practice of the minister of the orphan, why say so? And listen to me continue to analyze.
Liu Bang appointed the Minister of Trust
Liu Bang, if you simply say personal talent, is actually dwarfed, but Liu Bang's biggest advantage is in the use of people, he is a leading talent who can fully integrate resources, so he can rely on the group of talents he integrated, such as Han Xin, Xiao He, Zhang Liang and other talents, to assist himself in laying down the Jiangshan and creating the Han Empire.
When Liu Bang became emperor, he was old, but the newly established Han Dynasty still had many things that Liu Bang needed to deal with, so he was not afraid of tiredness and constantly changed many things to stabilize the foundation of the Great Han Dynasty, that is, on the road of reform, Liu Bang eradicated the princes with different surnames, and stipulated that in the future, the princes with different surnames could not be sealed, only the surname of Liu.
With the gradual stabilization of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang also grew old, and in the twilight years, Liu Bang always wanted to abolish the weak crown prince Liu Ying and make Liu Ruyi the crown prince, but was opposed by ministers such as Xiao He, and finally Liu Bang could only stop it and died with some regrets.
Before Liu Bang's death, he was always a little uneasy about Liu Ying, so Liu Bang made a series of arrangements before his death to maintain Liu Ying's rule, and the arrangement made by Liu Bang was to promote the development of the Han Dynasty through the balance between the empress dowager, the hero and the emperor.
Liu Bang asked his wife Lü Yan to assist Liu Ying, and at the same time found several orphan ministers, including Cao Shan, Chen Ping, and Zhou Bo, and what Liu Bang wanted to do was to let them maintain balance between the three parties, and neither side would be too powerful, so that Liu Ying could be guaranteed to sit firmly on the throne.
Unfortunately, many things, in the actual development process, there will always be a lot of problems, after Liu Bang's death, not long after the balance he initially created, was broken by the ambitious Lü Yan, Lü Lu after cleaning up the hero group, realized his own dictatorship.
Zhou Bo's purge of the Lü Yan Group
After Lü Yan's monopoly of power, Liu Ying basically became a puppet, and Lü Yan had long forgotten the rules left by Liu Bang at the beginning, and desperately sealed his own Descendants of the Lü clan as king, and had the intention of taking Liu Jiajiangshan as his own, especially after Liu Ying passed through the matter of Lady Qi's people and died of depression, Lü Yan was even more wanton.
Lü Yan's deeds were seen by the ministers in their eyes and remembered in their hearts, especially Zhou Bo of the Meritorious Group, who were even more dissatisfied with Lü Yan's practices, and they chose to keep being patient, accumulating thick and thin hair, waiting for the opportunity to clean up Lü Yan well, this wait, that is, for several years, and finally finally put Lü Yan to death.
Before Lü Yan died, he thought that after his death, the descendants of the Lü clan might not be able to fight the Gongchen Clique, so Lü Yan arranged for two descendants of the Lü Clan to take charge of the military power, hoping to deter the Gongchen Clique with military power, but these things were of no use, after all, what Lü Yan had done over the years had already offended too many people.
So in the end, under the joint efforts of the Gongchen Group and the princes, soon the descendants of the Lü clan were cleaned up, Zhou Bo and others were veterans of the battlefield, very familiar with political dangers, they could be described as cutting the grass and roots, leaving no hidden dangers, for the Lü clique, all were eradicated by them, as long as the surname Lü or related to Lü Yan, it was difficult to escape death.
Even more seriously, after Zhou Bo and others eliminated the Lü clique, they also became hostile to Liu Ying's descendants, who at that time had five sons, including Emperor Shao of later Han and his four brothers, who were supposedly Liu Bang's grandsons, and Zhou Bo and others should support him as emperor to continue to rule the world.
However, Zhou Bo and others felt that these people all had a huge relationship with Lü Ying, after all, Lü Yan's own son was Liu Ying, so if they were alive, they would have an impact on themselves more or less in the future, and finally Zhou Bo and others discussed it, on the grounds that these five children were not born to Liu Ying, they were eliminated together to eliminate the consequences.
It can be said that the vigorous means of Zhou Bo and others did make posterity marvel, that is, after such an operation, the Lü clique was completely eradicated, in order to prevent bringing trouble to the Gongchen clique, Zhou Bo and others embraced Liu Bang's son Liu Heng as emperor.
Why are Zhou Bo and others so cruel?
According to historical records, in the process of Zhou Bo and others supporting Liu Heng as emperor, Liu Heng's wife and several children died inexplicably, because this wife was a descendant of the Lü clan, so it would be eradicated, as to whether this wife was killed by Zhou Bo and others, or Liu Heng killed to show sincerity to gain the support of Zhou Bo and others, we do not know.
However, judging from the later facts, no matter what kind of reasons were killed, Liu Heng still did not give much good face to Zhou Bo and others. At first, the Gongchen clique thought that Liu Heng could control himself as a puppet emperor, but Liu Hengxiong was only rough, and after becoming emperor, he was not controlled, but instead turned around and suppressed Zhou Bo' clique.
Zhou Bo was eventually forced by Liu Heng to resign and return home for the elderly, although he was not killed, he was still desolate enough. Judging from such an ending, we can imagine that if Zhou Bo and others had not killed Liu Ying's son and made him emperor, presumably the final outcome of the Gongchen Group would have been miserable.
Under such a historical background, it can be said that the only thing that Zhou Bo and others can do and should do the most is undoubtedly to quickly eradicate all the descendants of the Lü clique, cutting grass and roots to eliminate future troubles is the king's way, history has proved a truth countless times, in the face of politics, once they are soft on the enemy, they will eventually be eradicated by the enemy.
Liu Bang, as a founding emperor and was called "rogue emperor" by later generations, presumably when he understood the reason why Zhou Bo and others eradicated his own grandson's lineage, he would also understand what Zhou Bo had done, after all, if he wanted to return Jiangshan to Liu's descendants, the best way was to cut the grass and root out the Lü clique, otherwise they would resurrect and the situation would be even worse.
epilogue
History is cruel in many cases, especially in the face of the struggle for imperial power, not to mention, often you are dead and alive, once you are kind to the enemy, you may be eradicated by the enemy, history has proved this countless times, Zhou Bo and others eradicated Liu Bang's grandson, although the behavior is very cruel, but from the historical background at that time, they made such a move is also excusable!
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