Liu Chang, the Prince of Li of Huainan, was the seventh son of Liu Bang and had a rather bleak life. According to the "Records of History", Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, led people to quell the rebellion of Han Wangxin, passing through the Zhao Kingdom, and Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, was Liu Bang's son-in-law, and he was very aware of the temperament of this old man, and immediately offered a beauty.
For Liu Bang, this is to relax, and as a result, this beauty is really pregnant. Zhang Ao this next two big, give people to Liu Bang, offend the mother-in-law, do not send it, feel the troops, hesitated he built a house for this beauty outside the palace to live.
Soon, because Liu Bang was rude to Zhang Ao, Zhao Guo's subordinates were angry at the humiliation of the lord and plotted to assassinate Liu Bang. After the matter was leaked, Liu Bang ordered that the Zhao monarchs and subjects be taken into custody, and the beauty was also escorted to Hanoi.
At this time, the beauty felt bad and told the jailer that she had been favored by the emperor and was pregnant. The prison guards did not dare to be sloppy and reported layer by layer, but Liu Bang was angry, and he may not have seen the officials who had not seen the report at all, and the beauty naturally did not wait for any result.
The beauty also asked her brother Zhao Jian to ask the Marquis of Peiyang to interrogate him and ask him to help talk to Lü Hou, but Lü Hou was jealous, and lü Hou was his close confidant, and when he saw that Lü Hou was not happy, he would not tell Liu Bang that this road would not be fruitful.
In desperation, Mei gave birth to Liu Chang, and then committed suicide, leaving the jailer to hold the newborn prince and stare dryly. The jailer knew that the matter was going wrong, and quickly informed his superiors and carried him to Liu Bang.
Liu Bang, after expressing some remorse, named the child Liu Chang and sent him to Lü Hou to be raised.
Subsequently, Yingbu, the king of Huainan, rebelled and was pacified by Liu Bang, who made Liu Chang the King of Huainan. Because of Lü Hou's adopted son, he was safe and sound in the purge after Liu Bang's death, and by the time Lü Hou died, he became the only surviving son of Liu Bang.
In addition to Liu Chang, another naturally low-key acting king, Liu Heng, was made emperor by his subjects because of the weakness of his mother's family, and he was made emperor for Emperor Wen of Han. Emperor Wen of Han's methods were not ordinary, and he soon got rid of the constraints of his courtiers, monopolized power, and carried out his own rule.
At that time, the problem of princes with the same surname had gradually become prominent, and in the action to eliminate Zhu Lü, there was not only a coup d'état of the central group of ministers, but also the local army of Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, which was certainly a consolidation of Liu's Jiangshan, but for Emperor Wen of Han, this was also a threat to his rule, what if these princes united to engage in their own? It must be weakened!
Emperor Wen of Han first moved his own sons from the King of Huaiyang to the King of Liang in order to contain the other estranged princes, and then took advantage of the fact that the King of Qi was childless and divided the State of Qi into seven to make the jurisdiction of the Princes smaller to weaken their power.
These measures are all justified and well-founded, such as the princes have no children, and their means are very gentle, like the state of Wu and the state of Chu, which have no reason, Emperor Wen of Han did not act, because he did not want to cause turmoil in the princely states, and his main policy was to tolerate or even connive, and if King Wu did not come to the court, then he would not come, and Emperor Wen of Han would also issue an edict to comfort him.
This technique is similar to the way Zheng Zhuanggong played with his younger brother Gongshu Duan in the Spring and Autumn Period, if you want to take it first, you must give it first!
Under the leniency of Emperor Wen of Han, the young and arrogant Liu Chang jumped out first. As early as the Lü Hou period, he was spoiled lawless, but he was not stupid, knowing who could move and who could not, such as his mother-killing enemy (Liu Chang's opinion) to interrogate him, that was Lü Hou's cronies, naturally could not move. But now that the fourth brother Emperor Wen of Han was on the throne, it was time to take revenge.
Liu Chang is actually not an ordinary person, he is born with infinite strength, his strength can carry The Ding, can be called the Han Dynasty version of Xiang Yu, he shot, judged him to be killed in the street.
By openly assassinating the imperial court ministers, Liu Chang also knew that he would find a reason for himself to stigmatize him as a traitor, and he should have been killed a long time ago. However, the reason he gave was very far-fetched, even if he was tried to be guilty, it was still a matter of the central government, and it was not your turn to intervene as a prince! But Emperor Wen of Han did not punish him, but put him back into the fiefdom.
Through this incident, Liu Chang made a wrong judgment, that is, his only younger brother of the emperor, who killed a heavy minister, was not punished, and no matter what he did after that, his brother would not take care of him. So Liu Chang went farther and farther down the road of making mistakes.
The first step is to pull the relationship in. As a courtier, Liu Chang dared to sit in the same car with the emperor without the emperor's invitation, and called the emperor's eldest brother instead of His Majesty. But Emperor Wen of Han did not react at all, laughing at his brother's nonsense.
The second step is to seek internal independence. Liu Chang did not want anyone to take care of him, so he drove back the ministers sent to him by the central government, and set up a set of decrees in his fiefdom of Huainan. Then he asked Emperor Wen of Han, a high-ranking official of two thousand stones (an official of the imperial court who monitored the princes) to be appointed by himself. Emperor Wen of Han agreed.
The third step is to simulate the imperial court. Liu Chang arbitrarily made a marquis to his more trusted officials, and in Huainan, according to the settings of the central officials, he privately created a small imperial court similar to the central government, and all the treatment he enjoyed was the same as that of Emperor Wen of Han, and the carriages and horses traveling were also six Tianzi, absolutely arrogant.
At this point, the central officials could not bear to look at it and asked Emperor Wen of Han to deal with it seriously, but Emperor Wen of Han did not deal with it seriously, but only sent his uncle Bo Zhao to drop Liu Chang.
The young and vigorous Liu Chang became angry and even wanted to rebel. I have to say that Liu Chang's plot to rebel was really a child's play, he first sent people to contact South Vietnam, xiongnu, etc., which were thousands of miles away, and then ordered more than seventy of his henchmen to prepare forty cars, and he wanted to launch a rebellion.
On this point, there were too few people to carry out coups d'état in Chang'an, not to mention the rebellion, which was naturally easily extinguished by Emperor Wen of Han, but the aftermath of the incident made the monarch almost quarrel. Plotting against the great crime, according to the law should be beheaded, but Emperor Wen of Han said that he did not want his brother to be tortured, and he fought over, and he matched Liu Changfa to Shudi, but Liu Chang still died on the road.
The Chronicle of Hengshan in Huainan records that the king of Huainan said of the attendant: "Who is said to be a brave man?" I can be brave! I am proud that I have not heard that I have passed here. In one lifetime, An Neng Yi is like this! "But he dies without eating."
Judging from this record, Liu Chang died of hunger strike and belonged to himself, but there is also a sentence behind it: "The county legend does not dare to send a car seal." To Yong, Yong Ling sent it, to death smell. ”
Emperor Wen of Han did not abolish Liu Chang's status as a member of the imperial household, so what he took during the exile was not an ordinary wooden cage prison car, but a "car", that is, a vehicle covered with a tarpaulin, which was safer and more comfortable. In order to prevent prisoners from escaping, such cars should be sealed in the middle of the way, and the doors and windows should be reinforced.
Because prisoners need to eat, every time they go to a county, after the local officials check that the seal is not damaged, they unseal it in the county, provide food and drink to the prisoners in the car, and let the prisoners get off the car at night to stay in the prison or missionary, and reseal it when the car is transported the next day.
During Liu Chang's escort from Chang'an to Yongxian for several days, all the counties along the way did not dare to open the seal, and when they arrived in Yong County, Yongxian County ordered the opening of the seal and found that Liu Chang was dead.
If you don't give something to eat for a few days, can you call suicide? It was clear that Liu Chang was trapped in the car and starved to death of thirst!
And Liu Chang was the prince of the tangtang princes, even if he was assigned, where did the officials of the counties along the way have the courage not to provide food? It should be known that Emperor Wen of Han clearly instructed to "count the food length to give five pounds of meat and two buckets of wine", and let Liu Chang allocate the hair as a tourist.
I am afraid that the only one who can resist the emperor's will is the emperor's other will.
According to the situation, this will was not written, but the emperor privately dictated to the escort officials in the counties along the way, instructing them to use hunger strikes to kill Liu Chang, which was called the "will of the wind". The insidiousness of this will is that there is no explicit text left, and the emperor can completely rebel.
In fact, Emperor Wen of Han really regarded those officials as scapegoats and cut them all down.
The "Chronicle of Huainan Hengshan" says: Shang ji ordered the king of Huainan and Yushi to arrest the counties of Huainan and the king of Huainan, and abandoned the city, but buried the king of Huainan YuYong with the marquis of Huainan, and placed thirty houses in the tomb.
After Liu Chang's death, Emperor Wen of Han continued to play the role of a good brother, making all four nephews marquis, and then dividing the Huainan kingdom into three and giving it to the three nephews who were still alive (one of them died prematurely).
However, the eyes of the masses are shining, and the reputation of Emperor Wen of Han for killing his brother cannot escape.
The "Chronicle of Huainan Hengshan" contains: Minyou composed a song and song Huainan Wang Yue: "A foot of cloth, still can be sewn; a bucket of millet, still can be spring." Two brothers, incompatible! ”
This is just like Zheng Boke Duan YuYan, no matter how calculated, it is impossible to be seamless after all.