Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was the founder of the Great Western Han Dynasty, and with his own great talent, he ushered in a prosperous era in the Western Han Dynasty. Not only did it strengthen the centralization of power politically, culturally "depose hundreds of families and respect Confucianism alone", but also unprecedented social and economic prosperity, and Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty made the Western Han Dynasty the first peak dynasty during the feudal dynasty.
What kind of great man could create such a prosperous dynasty? Must have been an extremely perfect great man. But such a very strategic and far-sighted person has also done something that he regrets for a lifetime. As we all know, the employment strategy of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty was to "reuse professional talents and boldly employ businessmen". But there are many kings in the past who have been blinded by "talents".
Emperor Wu of Han, despite his great ambitions, was seduced by Jiang Yun, a villain, and went so far as to leave behind the pieces of armor that his own son Liu Zhao's family had killed. There was only one little emperor left who was still in his infancy, Liu Yi, and it was said that Liu Zhao, full of guilt, gave Jiangshan to this little emperor, why didn't Emperor Wu of Han establish Liu Yi as emperor? In fact, this is Liu Che's last kindness to Liu Zhiyi.
First, the favored crown prince Liu Zhao
Liu Zhi's mother, Wei Zifu, was a concubine who was very favored by Emperor Wu of Han. Liu Zhi was born when Wei Zifu was being favored, and obviously he was also fully favored by Emperor Wu of Han, and as the crown prince, Liu Zhao would inherit the great cause in the future, so Emperor Wu of Han was extremely attentive to the cultivation of Liu Zhao, and the Jiangshan he had worked so hard to build could not be destroyed in the hands of his son.
When Liu Zhi was a child, the relationship between Emperor Wu of Han and Liu Zhao's father and son was particularly good, and Emperor Wu of Han was so fond of this son that he originally did not allow anyone to provide for the doormen, but only for Liu Zhao to make an exception and allow the prince to provide doormen, the purpose was to let Liu Zhao contact more talents as much as possible. Not only can you learn something from these disciples, but you can also learn the way to behave in the world as soon as possible.
However, as Liu Zhi gradually grew up, his personality began to become introverted, and Liu Zhi himself was also a temperamental person, polite and gentle to the extreme. He obviously did not have the ferocity and arrogance of his father, Emperor Wu of Han, who also discovered this, and the two people often disagreed on some political matters.
Over time, there was a gap between father and son, and once Liu Zhu went to the palace to visit his mother Wei Zifu, and was seen by a small eunuch with ill intentions, but Liu Zhao's time to visit his mother was longer, and the little eunuch went to Emperor Wu to make things up, saying that Liu Zhu had a palace girl in the palace, and when Emperor Wu heard it, he did not confirm to his son that he had selected hundreds of palace women in the palace.
Second, there is a gap in the heart
The next day, it was immediately sent to Liu Zhao's mansion, Liu Zhao was still in the dark, and finally after knowing the truth, he decided but must find out the slanderers, and after a thorough investigation, the little eunuch was soon exposed. Is this farce really just because of villains provoking? If it were not for the estrangement between Emperor Wu of Han and Liu Zhao, how could the villain take advantage of it?
It is said that after this incident, Emperor Wu should take this as a warning, not just listen to the one-sided words of others, but trust his son Liu Zhao. However, Emperor Wudi of Han did not realize this, so he drifted away from his son. In the imperial court, there began to be a line of kings and courtiers, mainly divided into Liu Che's team and Liu Zhi's team, and the father and son who used to be happy and harmonious are now two opposing sides in the imperial court.
Jiang Yunben was just a mediocre literati, and later denounced the illegal acts of Liu Dan, the crown prince of the Zhao State, because he was not afraid of power. After Emperor Wu of Han, who had been reused, knew about it, he admired Jiang Yun very much, and immediately invited Jiang Yun to enter the palace and greatly reused him. Jiang Yun's vanity was momentarily inflated, and it was horizontal and horizontal in the imperial court.
One day, Princess Taochang, the sister of Emperor Wu of Han, entered the palace and drove into the palace with her carriage and horse from the chi road. Princess Tao Chang of the usual pavilion entered the palace in this way, but today I met Jiang Yun, this road immediately did not work, Jiang Yun said "it is not feasible to ride with the entourage", confiscated all the princess's carriages and horses, and did not give the princess a face at all.
Not long after, the prince's subordinates also drove through this lane, and it was said that the prince was high up, and Jiang Yun had to be merciful to give the prince a face. However, Jiang Yun did not give the prince a favor, not only confiscated the carriage and horses, but also arrested the prince's subordinates. Later, the prince personally came forward to intercede, and Jiang Yun did not open a side.
This matter spread throughout the imperial court, and when Emperor Wudi of Han learned of it, he hurriedly applauded jiang yun and praised Him as a good minister, "those who are subjects should be like this"! This further encouraged Jiang Yun's prestige, but Emperor Wu of Han, the patron of Han Wu, was getting older and older, and he would soon be unreliable, and Jiang Yun had offended many people because of his iron-faced ruthlessness in the palace.
Especially the crown prince Liu Zhao, thinking that Liu Zhao would definitely take revenge on him after he ascended the throne, Jiang Yun began to use his crooked brain, and everyone knew that Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che and his son Liu Zhu were no longer warm to the past. So Jiang Yun was ready to see the stitches and needles, and Jiang Yun saw that Emperor Wu was getting older and more superstitious, and began to look for some shadowless immortal techniques.
Third, Jiang Yun maliciously provoked
One day, Emperor Wu of Han woke up in a nightmare and described to Jiang Yun that there were many puppets chasing him in the dream to kill him, which made him panic. When Jiang Yun saw that the opportunity had come, he immediately said that it was because of the witches. Someone must have forged puppets behind the scenes and used witchcraft to murder Emperor Wu. When Emperor Wu heard this, he quickly ordered Jiang Yun to search for the people who had come out of the witches.
So Jiang Yun began to thoroughly investigate the palaces of the imperial relatives and nobles, and the royals, who were not harmonious at all, began to report each other, and for a time they were in chaos. Jiang Yun took advantage of the chaos to take out the puppets that had been prepared long ago and sent someone to secretly bury them in the prince's residence. The next day, the news spread that the puppet had been dug up in the prince's residence, and the prince was furious, knowing that all this was Jiang Yun's self-directed and self-acting.
He rushed to see Emperor Wu of Han, but Emperor Wu did not see the crown prince at all. The crown prince was forced to return to kill Jiang Yun in anger, and if he did not kill Jiang Yun, the prince's own life would be difficult to protect. However, he did not pay attention to the eunuch Su Wen, a pure little man, who had repeatedly patted the prince's horse ass prince but did not eat his set, so he began to complain about the prince in his heart.
In the confusion, Su Wen ran to Emperor Wu to slander the crown prince, saying that after the prince was exposed, the official uprising had occurred, and Emperor Wu quickly sent troops to arrest the crown prince Liu Zhao, who was discouraged and the outnumbered people finally hanged himself. Liu's family was left with only Liu Yi's baby alive, and Emperor Wu of Han kept the baby in prison, but sent special "female prisoners" to take care of it.
4. Summary
Later, the dying Emperor Wu knew the truth and was in pain. But it was too late, he sent someone to kill all the people related to that incident, after all, it was useless, and most people would think that since he felt guilty, it would be better to give Liu the throne he deserved to his son Liu Yi, but Emperor Wu did not do this, and he passed the throne to Liu Fuling after thinking twice.
Liu Fuling was born to Lady Hook Yi, who was favored in the old age of Emperor Wu of Han, and in the face of this youngest son, Emperor Wu was deeply in love. But if it is so easy to be an emperor, because he listened to the rumors of the villain and killed his son alive, it is better to let Liu Yi grow up happily, never get involved in this vicious dispute, and it is also Liu Che's last kindness to Liu Zhiyi.