Lü Hou consolidated the position of his son and made Liu Bang die
Lü Hou and Liu Bang were a pair of old husbands and young wives, and the reason why Lü Hou married Liu Bang was entirely because her father thought that Liu Bang would have a chance to make a difference in the future.
Soon after the two married, Liu Bang embarked on the road of rebellion, and Lü Hou also became a family member of the rebels, wanted, and could only hide everywhere.
In the early days of the rebellion, Liu Bang was not strong enough to fight guerrillas everywhere, but when he felt strange, no matter how hidden he was, Lü Hou could always find him.
Liu Bang was very strange and asked Lü Hou how he found himself. Lü Hou said in front of everyone that she saw the Heavenly Son Cloud in the sky, so she followed this strange cloud to find Liu Bang.
Lü Hou's words made people who followed Liu Bang feel that Liu Bang would have the life to become emperor in the future, and Liu Bang's fame gradually increased.
However, Liu Bang did not thank Lü Hou for this, on the contrary, as a drunkard, Liu Bang abandoned Lü Hou when he failed several times, and finally let Lü Hou become Xiang Yu's hostage, almost dying at the hands of Xiang Yu.
And even when he was defeated, Liu Bang did not forget to stir up flowers and grass, married Lady Qi as a concubine, and gave birth to a son Ruyi.
After Liu Bang became emperor, in terms of choosing an heir, he was not satisfied with Liu Ying, the eldest son born to Empress Lü, but on the contrary, he was very fond of Ruyi, the younger son born to Lady Qi, and had the idea of abolishing Liu Ying's position as crown prince and establishing another Ruyi.
After Lü Hou knew Liu Bang's intentions, she was very anxious, and she knew that if her son's position as crown prince was not secured, then her position as empress would definitely not grow.
In order to keep her son's position as crown prince, Lü Hou thought of a way, she invited four famous hermits at that time, Shangshan Sihao, to be the prince's teacher.
Because Shangshan Sihao's fame is very large, Liu Bang also knows, and has invited four people to come out as officials many times, but these four people have refused, and now, seeing these four people willing to be his son's subordinates, he feels very strange, so he asks them why they rejected him, but accepted his son's invitation.
The four hermits told Liu Bang that because Liu Bang did not respect the readers, they were unwilling to serve Liu Bang, but the prince respected the readers, so they were willing to become subordinates of the prince.
Liu Bang listened, knowing that his son's foundation was already very stable, not that he could be replaced if he wanted to, in order to maintain the stability of imperial power and the Liu family's world, Liu Bang dismissed the idea of replacing the prince.
It was precisely because of Lü Hou's excellent planning that he retained his son's position as crown prince and laid the foundation for him to hold power in the future.
Lü Hou played with his heart and eyes, and took power step by step
After Lü Hou's son ascended the throne, he did not serve as emperor for a long time and died of illness. When Lü Hou sent a funeral for his son, although he was very sad on the surface, he did not shed tears. This made some ministers look at it and think it was strange.
At this time, zhang Liang's son, who was an official in the court, went to see Chen Ping, the chancellor at the time, and asked him if he knew why Empress Lü did this. Of course, Chen Ping didn't know.
Zhang Liang's son said that the emperor was the only son of the empress dowager, and that he died, and of course the empress dowager was sad, but the reason why she held back her grief and did not shed tears was that she was worried that an old minister like the prime minister would not be good for her.
Chen Ping listened and was very panicked, because the cruel means displayed by Lü Hou when she was hanging the curtain to listen to the government had already made him feel that Lü Hou was not a person to deal with, and now, she was alert to an old minister like herself, so her life would be sad in the future.
Therefore, Chen Ping asked Zhang Liang's son what should he do? Zhang Liang's son came up with an idea, asking Chen Ping to resign, and suggested to Lü Hou that the sons of the Lü family should become officials, so that Lü Hou would be at ease and would not suspect that the old minister had any ill intentions.
Chen Ping felt that this was a good idea, and the next day he took the initiative to offer his resignation to Lü Hou and suggested that the lü family's sons take up important positions in the DPRK. Lü Hou listened, was very satisfied, accepted Chen Ping's resignation, and arranged for the Lü family's sons to take charge of the military and political power in the dynasty.
After everything was arranged, Lü Hou was relieved to hold a funeral for her son, and cried bitterly at the funeral.
Lü Hou's calculation can be described as killing two birds with one stone
Although Lü Hou was Liu Bang's empress, she did not get the full support of her old ministers in terms of listening to the government, on the contrary, Liu Bang's military merit group has always been looking for opportunities to grasp great power, so there is a contradiction with Lü Hou.
The reason why Lü Hou was able to maintain the situation temporarily was because she had the status of empress dowager, as the emperor's mother, Chen Ping's old courtiers must not be able to oppose her, but Lü Hou was weak in the imperial court, and if she did not want to turn the situation around, after the death of her son, the military merit group would definitely take the opportunity to oppose her.
Therefore, Lü Hou came up with such a method, let Chen Ping take the lead in resigning from the post of prime minister, and then let her propose to let the lü family's children take power, so that Lü Hou would have a helper and be relieved of worries.
Such an important matter, why would Lü Hou think of letting Zhang Liang's son come out? Because Zhang Liang's son was young at that time, only a teenager, although he was an official in the DPRK, but relying on his father's brand, no one would take his opinion seriously.
This is where Lü Hou's cleverness lies. Because it was a matter of whether they could take power or not, if they sent an old minister or their own cronies to come forward, it would definitely cause Chen Ping's vigilance and the backlash of other old ministers, so that they would easily unite against themselves.
However, letting Zhang Liang's son come forward can offset these doubts, but it can cause Chen Pingren's illusion that behind this must be Zhang Liang's advice. Knowing that Zhang Liang was a founding hero and one of the three masters alongside Han Xin and Xiao He, Chen Ping's old minister would definitely buy Zhang Liang's face and would not easily oppose his son's proposal, so that Lü Hou would achieve his goal.
At the same time, if things do not go well, then, Lü Hou also has room for regression, because Zhang Liang's son is young, if things really cause a backlash, Lü Hou can say that this is a child blind, has nothing to do with himself, let everyone not take what the child says to heart.
In this way, the contradiction between him and the old minister can be resolved, without causing direct confrontation, and then find opportunities later.
It can be said that Lü Hou thought of this method, which was extremely clever, completely putting herself in the active position of attacking and retreating, and the smooth development of things was also unexpected by her, Chen Ping's old minister completely in accordance with her wishes, met her requirements, so that she easily obtained the right to decide, thus opening the prelude to Lü Hou's rise to power.
From this point of view, Lü Hou was able to gain power not only because of her noble status, but because she did have a superior mind.