Liu Heng, the Han Emperor who created the "rule of Wenjing" of the Han Dynasty, is bound to be quite affirmed in terms of historical achievements. After Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, led an army to quell the rebellion of Chen Feng in Daidi, he made his fourth son Liu Heng the Acting King, when Liu Heng was only 8 years old. Liu Heng's birth mother, Bo Ji, was included in the harem by Liu Bang because of her posture, but she was never favored by Liu Bang.
Liu Bang did not spoil Bo Ji many times, and after Bo Ji gave birth to Liu Heng, he almost never saw Liu Bang again. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou imprisoned Liu Bang's former beloved Ji du from leaving the palace, and For Lady Qi, who had tried to change to crown prince, she was assigned to do hard work. It was precisely because Bo Ji was not favored and had no festival with Empress Lü that she was able to follow her son Liu Heng to Daidi after Liu Bang's death.
After the death of Liu Ying, the Emperor hui of Han, the first thing Lü Yan did was to kill all of Liu Bang's sons who had coveted the throne. And Liu Heng was ignored by Lü Heng because of his "mediocre qualifications" and "no opinion" from childhood, and because he was remote, Lü Heng sent to monitor Liu Heng's eyeliner, and did not find any abnormalities in Liu Heng after the death of Liu Ying, the Emperor of Hanhui. In front of others, Liu Heng, as a defender of the city, was quite reluctant and had mediocre talent, which was really not suitable for becoming the successor of the imperial power.
Liu Heng is not a person without ambition, but both he and his mother Bo Ji understand their situation in the palace. Lü Hou was the crown prince's biological mother, and Lady Qi and Liu Bang's other concubines were favored by Liu Bang, but the two of them were neither favored nor powerful, so they could only protect themselves. Liu Heng's "pretending to be stupid" is not a matter of one day or two days, when Liu Heng was young, he was not outstanding among Liu Bang's sons, in fact, Liu Heng was not without the talent to govern the country, but he understood from an early age that he should not make a splash in the palace.
After the death of Liu Ying, the Han Hui Emperor, the fact that Lü Hou took power had already aroused the dissatisfaction of many of his former courtiers. However, Liu Heng did not show any attitude towards this, and was always a dashing image of a king who stayed out of the matter. After Lü Hou's death, Liu Bang's former ministers Chen Ping and Zhou Bo joined forces with the rest of his former ministers to eliminate Lü Hou's forces. Liu Hong, the young emperor who was originally established by Lü Hou, was also deposed and killed by these old ministers on the grounds of "non-Hui Emperor bloodline", and supported the more benevolent and generous acting king Liu Heng as the new emperor.
Liu Heng knew how to protect himself, and when Lü Hou killed Liu Bang's son, he always put himself out of the matter by "pretending to be stupid", and bo Ji's teachings to him from childhood were also indispensable. Bo Ji was once known as the sage Confucius
"The sage avoids the world, and the second avoids the earth"
Come and teach Liu Heng that although the land is desolate and remote, it is a good place to escape from the world. His performance before he was proclaimed the new emperor was nothing more than to cajole the people and let down their guard against him. If it is a matter of heart and mind, Lü Houdu is probably not Liu Heng's opponent.
In fact, Liu Bang's old ministers supported Liu Heng as the new emperor, not because of Liu Heng's generosity, but because the old ministers needed a "puppet emperor" with mediocre talent. However, their wishful thinking hit Liu Heng, who was born with the ability to govern the country, and naturally did not gain any benefits. However, after Liu Heng succeeded to the throne, he still did enough superficial work and continued to "pretend to be stupid" to reward his old courtiers. Moreover, Liu Heng brought his six henchmen back to Beijing from Daidi and installed them in important positions in the army, giving them the power to manage the upper and lower levels of the army, which also laid the foundation for the later attacks on Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others.
Liu Heng was a man born with the ability to govern the country, coupled with the sincere teachings of his mother Bo Ji, as well as what he saw and heard when he was in Daidi, he personally experienced the poverty and suffering of the local area, and only then did he become a Ming Emperor who was praised by future generations. And his biggest city government is to know how to judge the hour and size up the situation, and to protect himself.