In February 202 BC, Liu Bang held an enthronement ceremony in Shandong, and the name of the country was Han, which was for Emperor Han Gao. After he became emperor, he also took some measures to consolidate imperial power. At that time, the kings of different surnames in various places were still half-hearted because they had military power in their hands. The other founding heroes fought endlessly over merit and rewards, and if they were not appeased properly, they would defect to the king of a different surname. There was also the threat to the emperor by the descendants of the original Six Kingdoms, the power of the Central Chancellor. Therefore, Liu Bang spent eight years to solve these factors that made him uneasy.
The first person Liu Bang cleaned up was han xin, a great hero. Then there were Peng Yue and other princes. In the end, only Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, remained. Although he also killed many heroes, compared with Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, he was a small witch. Fifteen years after his death, it proved that he was not wrong to kill the hero in the first place.
In his later years, Liu Bang favored his son Ruyi of Zhao and alienated Lü Hou. Coupled with the weakness of the crown prince Liu Ying, he wanted to depose the crown prince several times and make Liu Ruyi the heir. Later, when he was quelling the Yingbu rebellion, he was hit by an arrow, which made the elderly Liu Bang's health worse than before. When he arrived in Chang'an, his condition worsened. Lü Hou found him a famous doctor, but he took him away.
In order to consolidate the imperial power, Liu Bang also took pains. On his deathbed, Lü Hou asked him about the arrangements for personnel after his death, saying, "After Xiao He dies, who can take his place?" Liu Bang replied, "Cao San." Lü Hou then asked Cao Shan's successor, and he said that Wang Ling could take over, but Wang Ling's wisdom was insufficient, and he could be assisted by Chen Ping. Chen Ping had wisdom and strategy, but he could not decide on major matters. Although Zhou Bo is not good at words, he is loyal and loyal, and the person who will stabilize the country in the future will definitely be him. Lü Hou wanted to ask again, but Liu Bang said that she didn't know anything about the future.
Soon after, Liu Bang died. He could never have imagined that the orphan minister he had hand-picked would slaughter his own descendants in the future. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou took power. In order to consolidate his position, Lü Hou made her family king in order to strengthen the strength of the Lü clan, and almost all important positions had Lü clan members. As a result, the Han court formed a triangular equilibrium of Empress Lü, the heroes, and the princes of the same surname.
This equilibrium relationship was broken after Lü Hou's death. As soon as she died, Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, Cao Shan, and others led the Meritorious Group to kill the Lü clan. The Lü clan people, both men, women and children, died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Meritorious Group. In addition, the Gongchen clique slaughtered liu Bang's concubine descendants, that is, the Han Huidi family. They claimed to the outside world that Emperor Huidi of Han's sons were not his own children, but were the product of Lü Hou's conspiracy, so they must get rid of these people.
In fact, this is just one reason for the Meritorious Group to kill Liu Bang's descendants. From this point of view, Liu Bang's strategy of killing the hero was correct, and he killed less. If he could be like Zhu Yuanzhang, perhaps there would be no situation in which emperor Huidi of Han was slaughtered.