The scourge of witchcraft was a catastrophe artificially created by Emperor Wu of han in his later years. In his later years, Emperor Wudi of Han was superstitious about Huang Lao's doctrine, one day, he saw a man entering the Zhonglonghua Gate with a sword, emperor Wudi of Han suspected that this person wanted to assassinate himself, so he let the soldiers capture this person, but the soldiers searched for more than ten days in ShanglinYuan and Chang'an City, and found nothing, but the witchcraft incident in the later years of Emperor Wu of Han began.
In order to compete for favors, the harem concubines began to use witchcraft to frame each other, resulting in a large number of concubines and palace women being implicated and executed by Emperor Wu of Han.
The ministers of the DPRK and China also used a large number of witchcraft to frame their opponents. After Gongsun Jingsheng, the son of Gongsun Jingsheng, the chancellor of the imperial court, committed a crime, Gongsun He captured Zhu Anshi, a great warrior of Yangling, and wanted to atone for his sins and save his son's life, but Zhu Anshi instead accused Gongsun Jingsheng of fornicating with Princess Yangshi and cursing Emperor Wu of Han with witchcraft, which led to the execution of Gongsun He, Princess Yangshi, Princess Zhuyi, Wei Ling, and others.
Princess Zhuyi was the daughter of Wei Zifu, Wei Ling was Wei Qing's son, and Gongsun He was Wei Zifu's brother-in-law, which was a great blow to the Wei family.
After the outbreak of the Wujiao incident, Jiang Chong and others, the favored ministers of Emperor Wu of Han, in order to invite favors from Emperor Wu of Han, began to use the Wujiao incident to create many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, resulting in a large number of imperial relatives, nobles, and ministers of the DPRK being implicated and killed. In the process, many of Wei Zifu's relatives were executed by Emperor Wu of Han because of the framing of Jiang Chong and others, which also allowed Jiang Chong to offend Wei Zifu and the crown prince Liu Zhao. Jiang Chong understood that after Liu Zhao became emperor, he was not far from death. He took advantage of the opportunity to investigate the case of the witch and began to frame Wei Zifu and Liu Zhao.
In the Prince's Mansion, Jiang Chong found a large number of wooden people and silk veils with great rebellious words. Jiang Chong reported the matter to Emperor Wu of Han.
Liu Zhao was framed, so he wanted to meet emperor Wu of Han and defend himself. Jiang Chong and others prevented him from seeing Emperor Wu of Han. Liu Zhao was afraid that like Princess Zhuyi, he would be killed, so in order to protect himself, with the help of his mother Wei Zifu, he dispatched troops to kill Jiang Chong.
When Emperor Wu of Han learned of this, he thought that the crown prince Liu Zhao had rebelled and dispatched troops to requisition Liu Zhao. After the defeat of the army, Liu Zhu and Wei Zifu both committed suicide.
Suddenly, he lost several relatives, which made Emperor Wu of Han very miserable. Emperor Wu of Han's later years, the WuJiao incident, which lasted for several years and led to the killing of tens of thousands of people, began to reflect on it, and he gradually realized that the crown prince Liu Zhu may have been framed by someone and was very remorseful.
Emperor Wu of Han beheaded Jiang Man, the initiator of this incident, and those who participated in the framing of the crown prince Liu Zhao were also killed by him. Emperor Wu of Han also built a "Si Womb" to remember his son Liu Zhao, who had been wrongfully killed, but all this was only superficial, and he knew that Liu Zhao had been wronged, but he did not rehabilitate Liu Zhao and Wei Zifu, nor did he pardon Liu Zhao's grandson Liu Zhi, who was in prison.
After the suicide of the crown prince Liu Zhu and empress Dowager Wei Zifu, his family was all implicated and executed by Emperor Wu of Han, except for Liu Zhao's grandson, the infant Liu Zhi, who was too young to be executed, and has been held in prison ever since. Liu Yi had already been taken care of by Ting Wei's right prisoner Bingji, the loyal and cautious female prisoners Hu Group, Guo Zhengqing, and others, so that he did not die tragically in prison and survived by chance.
Later, Emperor Wu of Han discovered that there was the "Qi of the Son of Heaven" at the location of the prison and was ready to execute all the people in prison. Emperor Wu of Han discovered that he also had a great-grandson in prison. At this time, Liu Yi was only 5 years old and posed no threat to the throne of Emperor Wu of Han, so he moved his compassion and released Liu Yi from prison, but did not pardon Liu Yi, nor restored his title and Feng Lu, but let Liu Yi live in the Ye Court. The court is a place to reform prisoners. It can be seen that in the heart of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Yi was still guilty.
Emperor Wu of Han was reluctant to pardon his 5-year-old grandson Liu Yiji. At the same time, until his death, he did not rehabilitate the beloved empress Wei Zifu and the crown prince Liu Zhao.
It can be seen that Emperor Wu of Han's reflection was incomplete, and although he felt that Liu Zheng's use of witchcraft to curse himself was fabricated by Jiang Chong and others, liu zhao raised troops to kill Jiang Chong and oppose himself. As the old saying goes, even if Liu Zhi is wronged, he cannot rebel and oppose himself, and Wei Zifu, as an empress, cannot help his son to rebel.
In the view of Emperor Wu of Han, even if Liu Zhi was framed and wronged by Jiang Chong and others, he was still guilty, so he refused to rehabilitate Wei Zifu and Liu Zhao. At the same time, the prince's rebellion left a deep shadow in the heart of Emperor Wu of Han. After Liu's death, his third son Liu Dan asked to enter the capital Suwei, which made Emperor Wu of Han feel that he also wanted to compete for the throne, and he hated Liu Dan in his heart, and he also reduced Liu Dan's fiefdom. Because of the experience of Liu Zhao and Liu Dan, Emperor Wu of Han became wary of his sons, and the fourth son, Liu Xu, also lost the opportunity.
Only his youngest son, Liu Fuling, was still young and did not pose a threat to Emperor Wu of Han's throne, and Emperor Wu of Han was not wary of him and made him crown prince. At the same time, Wei Zifu's help to Liu Zhi's rebellion also made Emperor Wu of Han feel uneasy, and in order to avoid a repeat of Wei Zifu's affair, he made Liu Fuling the crown prince, and then chose to "set up a son to kill his mother", and killed Liu Fuling's mother, Lady Hook Yi, in order to avoid the disaster of Lü Hou.