In the entire dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty, there are only two emperors who are born in the grassroots:
One was the founding emperor Liu Bang. Although Zu Shang was a doctor, by the time Liu Bang was born, the family was already a farmer. Liu Bang did not like to farm, at first he was an unemployed vagrant, and later became a petty official, the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County.
The other was Emperor Xuan of Han, Liu Yiji.
Liu Yi was already the great-grandson of Emperor Wu of Han. Serious royal nobility. How did it become grassroots?
Hi, it's all because of bad luck. A few months after birth, he inexplicably stirred up a big game of chess: the curse of the witch.
In 91 BC, someone reported: "Death and death! The son of Gongsun He dared to curse Emperor Wu! Kill him!
Emperor Wudi of Han listened, so big dog guts. Not only did he curse the emperor, but this Gongsun was bold and bold, and he was also unclear with Princess Yangshi. Check, check hard!
Favored Minister Jiang Chong Order. Since it is fiercely investigated, then go to prison. Torture and the planting of stolen goods caused a large-scale panic, and the people indiscriminately identified themselves in order to protect themselves.
Gongsun He's father and son died in prison, and Princess Zhuyi, Princess Yangshi and Wei Qing's son, Marquis Wei of Changping, sat down.
What is even more explosive is that Jiang Chong pointed out that the prince is the real murderer behind the scenes. The crown prince was very frightened at that time, and directly led his troops to kill Jiang Chong.
The crime of treason was confirmed, and Emperor Wu raised troops to suppress it. The crown prince and his mother,000 sons committed suicide one after another.
After both mother and son committed suicide, the minister complained for the crown prince. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who understood this, built the "Si Womb" by yi jiangchong. But even so, the prince will not return, and the tens of thousands of people who died in the scourge of the witches will not return.
Liu, who was still an infant at the time, was one of the hundreds of thousands of people implicated.
Because Liu was ill, he was the grandson of the crown prince Liu Zhao.
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After the prince committed suicide, his family was killed, and for a while there was no one to collect the body.
Only the infant Liu was ill and escaped the disaster. It is also a big fate in this tragedy. Although he escaped death, he lost all his family members and was placed in a temporary official prison. Bingji, who investigated the case, knew that the prince was innocent and sent two female prisoners to take good care of Liu Yi.
By the age of five, Liu had already encountered another life-threatening disaster.
In 87 BC, Emperor Wu of Han was seriously ill, and some people said that when he saw that there was the qi of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an Prison, Emperor Wu sent someone to kill all the prisoners in the Twenty-six Official Prisons in Chang'an.
When he arrived at Bingji, Bingji resolutely disobeyed and released the news that the emperor's great-grandson was here. When Emperor Wu of Han learned of this, he withdrew his life and instead granted amnesty to the world. Liu Yi has been pardoned along with other prisoners in prison.
Liu, who grew up in prison, has finally gained his freedom.
But where can he go?
Although Emperor Wu of Han was his great-grandfather whom he had never met, his parents, grandparents, had both died five years earlier. Moreover, the imperial court did not inform the child to be taken in.
Bing Ji was unable and unwilling to sit idly by, so he had to pay for it out of his own pocket and hire a freed female prisoner to continue to take care of Liu Yiji. Think of a way to do it slowly.
After all, it was the blood of the royal family.
The emperor did not issue an edict, the relatives on the father's side are gone, and there are any relatives on the mother's side? Bing Ji inquired around and found Liu's ill grandmother, a relative of Liu Zhao's wife Shi Liangdi.
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Shi Liangdi's mother was still alive at this time, and she was Liu Yiji's great-grandmother.
It is not surprising that when Liu Yi was born, his grandfather Liu Zhu was only 37 years old.
Contacting Shi Liangdi's mother Zhenjun and brother Shi Gong, Bingji immediately set off to send Liu Yi home. However, this relative is really far away. In the Western Han Dynasty, the state of Lu was sealed.
After Liu Yi returned home, he lost contact with the female prisoners who took care of his growth, as well as Bingji. He was just a five-year-old, too young to figure out what had happened or what he had been through in the past five years.
But he didn't live a peaceful life ever since.
He was sent back by the imperial court. It is said to be because of the will of Emperor Wu of Han.
Liu Yi had finally entered the palace. But that doesn't mean he's received a courtesy. After entering the palace, Liu was sick and was arranged in the Ye Ting, which is where the palace women in the harem lived. The roommate who lived with him was an eunuch, Xu Guanghan.
The living environment is average, and not much attention has been received. Fortunately, it is still relatively free and can walk around. When he was wandering, he was among the people and deeply experienced the suffering of the people.
This is different from the private visits of some kings, Liu Yi has no noble status at this time, he is truly integrated into the surrounding people. When he was young and vigorous, he also clashed with people. Once in Lotus Spoon County, I had not beaten anyone and was bullied.
Of course, Liu Yi has also read books. It was not arranged by the imperial court, but by Zhang He, a former subordinate of Liu Zhao. Zhang He even wanted to marry his daughter to him. Considering that he was already too close to Liu Yi, it would arouse the suspicion of Liu Fuling, the emperor of the dynasty, so he gave up.
Just before Xu Guanghan's daughter got married, her husband Died. Then marry Xu Guanghan's daughter to Liu Yiji.
Why do eunuchs have daughters? Because Xu Guanghan, like Zhang He, was punished by the palace because he made a mistake. Marrying a wife and having children, that was before the torture.
At that time, no one could have imagined that Xu Guanghan would thus become the emperor's father-in-law.
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In 74 BC, Liu Fuling, the Emperor of Han Zhao, died. Liu He, who took the throne, during the probationary period, caused dissatisfaction among the powerful ministers Huo Guang, and was expelled just over a month later.
Later, he became the famous Marquis of Haixia. More than 10,000 cultural relics have been excavated from the tomb.
The emperor's post was vacant, the imperial court was in a hurry, and the headhunter Bingji appeared. He came up with an idea: Liu was sick.
Huo Guang praised: Wonderful! Civilians are born, their hearts are not deep, their age is not large, their foundation is unstable, they do not have many relatives, and their connections are not wide. What a puppet emperor, I didn't expect it.
In this way, the 18-year-old Liu Yi had ascended the throne as a great-grandson of Emperor Wu of Han.
It was for Emperor Xuan of Han.