The Book of Han says: Eight sons of Gaozu, two emperors and six kings. The Three Zhaos were not ashamed, Huai Li died by himself, Yan Ling was extinct, and Qi mourned Techang.
Liu Bang's eldest son was named Liu Fei, in fact, he was Liu Bang's eldest son, his mother Cao Shi, and the history books record that "Qi mourned Hui Wang Fei, and his mother Gao Zuwei was also a foreign wife." The so-called "foreign wife" is similar to the current lover.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the society was relatively enlightened, the interaction between men and women was relatively free, and it was also common for women to remarry, such as the mothers of Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Wu of Han were married twice. But I don't know why, Liu Bang did not marry Cao, and the history is not recorded in detail.
Liu Bang was good to this eldest son, Liu Fei was crowned king of Qi, established the state of Qi, and set the capital at Linzi, ruling over the seventy-three cities, which was the largest princely state in the Western Han Dynasty.
In 193 BC, Liu Fei entered the capital to meet Emperor Xiaohui, who arranged for his brother to be at the head of the house and treated him with courtesy, and Lü Hou prepared two glasses of poisoned wine and ordered Liu Fei to toast himself.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Xiaohui picked up one of the cups and wanted to toast, and Lü Hou was afraid and quickly overturned the wine glass of his son Emperor Xiaohui.
Liu Fei on the side did not dare to drink the wine in the glass, and then pretended to be drunk and left the scene.
After going out, Liu Fei was worried that he would not be able to leave Chang'an safely, and his subordinates gave him a plan: "Lü Hou hurt his sons Xiaohui Emperor and Princess Lu Yuan the most, you now have more than seventy cities, and the princess only has a few, you can dedicate a county to the princess to make Tang Muyi, the empress dowager will be happy." ”
Therefore, Liu Fei gave Chengyang County to the princess and honored the princess as empress dowager, and Empress Lü was very happy and let Liu Fei return to her fiefdom.
Since then, Liu Fei has spent the rest of his life in peace. In 189 BC, Liu Fei died, and his son Liu Xiang took the throne as the King of Qi.
Liu Bang's second son was Liu Ying, The Xiaohui Emperor, who succeeded to the throne at the age of sixteen. Just as Gao Zu predicted: Liu Ying was kind and weak, not at all like her father.
Lü Hou went to great lengths to help his son maintain the inheritance, but his son was not satisfactory.
During Liu Ying's reign, he implemented benevolent government, reduced taxes, appointed Xiao He and Cao Shan as ministers, and implemented the policy of Xiao Zhi Cao following and recuperating.
In terms of ideology and culture, he advocates the philosophy of Huang Lao. Later, in order to help her son clear the obstacles, Lü Hou poisoned Liu Ruyi and made Lady Qi an adult.
Faced with her mother's dictatorship and brutality, Liu Ying was powerless, depressed, drunk, and died young, only twenty-two years old when she died.
Liu Ruyi is Liu Bang's third son, and her mother is Liu Bang's favorite Lady Qi, so liu bang also feels that this third son is most like himself.
Lady Qi was young and beautiful, and often followed Gao zu to the Kanto region, but Lü Hou was old and faded, and could only stay in the capital.
Lady Qi, taking advantage of Gaozu's preference for her, repeatedly asked her son to replace the crown prince.
After Liu Ruyi was made the King of Zhao, Gaozu wanted to make Liu Ruyi his heir, but was stopped several times by the ministers. In the end, Lady Qi's Long Wangshu laid the foundation for the two women.
After Gao Zu's death, without the protection of the big tree, they fell into the hands of Lü Hou, Liu Ruyi was only ten years old when she died, and Lady Qi's end could not bear to hear.
Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, was the fourth son of Liu Bang. Among Liu Bang's eight children, Liu Heng was the luckiest one, the so-called lucky, thanks to a wise mother Bo Ji.
Bo Ji was the daughter of the Wei Emperor and married Wei Bao first, and after Wei Bao's defeat, Bo Ji entered the Han Palace. Favored by Gao Zu once, he gave birth to Liu Heng.
Since then, Gao Zu seems to have forgotten this woman, and Bo Ji has a weak personality, far from right and wrong, and low-key survival.
After Gaozu's death, Bo Ji was regarded as a non-threatening phalanx by Lü Hou and allowed Bo Ji to leave the palace and follow her son Liu Heng to live in Daidi.
When the power struggle in the Han Palace was in full swing, Bo Ji was training her son to govern the country in a remote corner.
During this period, Lü Hou once sent an emissary to tell Liu Heng, the Dai Wang, that he wanted to change his title to King Zhao, but Liu Heng refused, saying that he hoped to defend the frontier for the Great Han dynasty in the Dai Kingdom for the rest of his life.
After Liu Ying's death, Lü Hou created two puppet young emperors, and she held the power of the Han Dynasty for sixteen years.
In 180 BC, Lü Hou died, and the eunuch Zhou Bo joined forces with the chancellor Chen Pingren to crush the forces of Lü's foreign relatives and support Liu Heng to succeed to the throne, but Liu Heng refused several times, always expressing panic and uneasiness.
Because he has been recuperating for many years, accumulating thick and thin hair, he not only stabilized the situation, but also continued the policy of recuperation and recuperation since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and is a famous Ming Jun in history.
Liu Bang's fifth son was Liu Hui (劉復), and Han Gaozu made him the Prince of Liang (梁王) and set the capital at Dingtao. In the first month of the seventh year of Lü Hou (181 BC), Liu You, the king of Zhao You, was imprisoned and starved by Lü Hou, and the land of Zhao was suspended, and in February of the same year, Lü Hou issued an edict to let Liu Hui move to Zhao land as the king of Zhao.
After Liu Hui arrived in Zhao Province, In order to completely control him, Lü Hou ordered him to marry the daughter of Lü Chan (Lü Yan's nephew), and the attendants around Liu Hui were all lü's sons, and he was under constant surveillance.
Liu Hui had a very favored concubine, and Lü Chan's daughter had a vicious personality and actually poisoned her to death. After the death of his concubine, Liu Hui composed four poems for the musicians to sing. In June of the same year, Liu Hui committed suicide.
When Lü Hou heard about it, he believed that Liu Hui was a woman who had betrayed the ritual law of the temple and deposed his heirs. It was not until the time of Emperor Wen of Han that he was posthumously honored as King Gong.
Liu Bang's sixth son was Liu You, who was created the Prince of Huaiyang in the eleventh year of Han Gaozu. In the first year of Emperor Hui of Han, Lü Hou sent people to poison Liu Ruyi and renamed Liu You the King of Zhao.
Liu You's queen was also the daughter of the Lü family, and the daughters of the Lü clan were all jealous, and because Liu You did not like her and favored other concubines, the girls of the Lü clan returned to their mother's house in anger and complained to Lü Hou, falsely accusing Liu You of rebellion.
Lü Hou summoned Liu You to Beijing, put him under house arrest, and was eventually starved to death. According to the folk funeral rites, he was buried next to the graves of the people of Chang'an. Because Liu You died in seclusion, he was given the nickname Youwang .e.
Liu Bang's seventh son was Liu Chang, and Liu Chang's mother was a beauty of Zhang Ao (Liu Bang's son-in-law and princess Lu Yuan's husband), who was favored by Liu Bang once and gave birth to Liu Chang.
Later, Zhang Ao was arrested and imprisoned for being implicated by Zhao Xiang, and Zhao Ji also committed suicide after giving birth to Liu Chang.
After Liu Chang was born, he was raised by Lü Hou, and Liu Bang made him the King of Huainan. Liu Chang's adoptive mother was Empress Lü, who survived peacefully until Emperor Wen of Han succeeded to the throne.
Growing up around Lü Hou, Liu Chang also infected the arrogance of the Lü family, and after Emperor Wen of Han came to power, Liu Chang constantly violated the law and discipline, and Emperor Wen of Han remembered his brotherhood and family affection, and repeatedly connived at him.
Later, Liu Chang joined forces with the Xiongnu to rebel, and after the matter was revealed, Emperor Wen of Han pardoned the capital crime, abolished his title, and imprisoned him in a wagon along the way, ordering the counties along the way to be deported and relocated to the remote Shu land.
Emperor Wen of Han originally wanted him to taste the pain and then let him come back. Who expected, Liu Chang's personality was strong. He died of hunger strike.
Liu Jian was the youngest son of Liu Bang, his mother did not know who it was, Han Gaozu was crowned King of Yan in the twelfth year, and seven years after Lü, Liu Jian died, the cause of death is unknown, and his nickname is "Ling".
Han Gaozu's eight sons were born together in the imperial family, but their fates were different. It really interprets the sentence: My fate is not up to me.