The popular TV series "Beauty Heart" in the early years has made countless people moved by the love between the king of the dynasty and Dou Yifang, and the cunning means of Dou Yifang are even more admired.
The content mainly revolves around the historical records of the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.
At that time, in order to prevent Empress Lü's son Liu Heng from threatening the position of crown prince Liu Xiu, empress Dowager Lü, after seeing Dou Yifang's cleverness and ability, sent her to the daiguo to exercise the responsibility of spying on Liu Heng's mother and son in the name of marriage.
Dou Yifang and Liu Heng, the acting king, also slowly developed a deep affection, and in the days that followed, the two supported each other and survived one difficulty after another.
The film and television drama is mainly about the aura of "big heroine" of Dou Yifang, and Liu Heng has finally achieved great success with her assistance.
However, abandoning Dou Yifang, in history, Liu Heng's imperial art is also pure fire, taking the eve of his ascension to the throne as an example, the three sacred wills he issued consecutively can be called the highest application of the imperial heart technique, what is the content of these three sacred wills?
Lü Hou grasped the government, and Liu Heng's mother and son were in a difficult situation
The Han Dynasty established by Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, was inseparable from the efforts of Empress Lü Lu, who negotiated with various figures for Liu Bang's career and handled some inconvenient things for Liu Bang. Lü Yan's application of imperial power was no less than that of Liu Bang.
Liu Bang also had great trust in Lü Yan's ability, and after his death, he entrusted Jiangshan to Lü Yan.
However, although Empress Lü was very capable, she had no ambitions, and all she did was to fulfill Liu Bang's last wishes and guard the rivers and mountains that Liu Bang had laid down.
Liu Ying was the son of Empress Lü, who had a gentle personality and no opinion, and he did not care about the throne, but Lü Hou's strength made him unable to shake it.
Lü Hou did not trust others in his life, except for his own child Liu Ying and Liu Fei, who was raised by his own hands, the sons of Liu Bang were all threats to Lü Hou.
Liu Bang had eight sons in his lifetime, Liu Heng was his fourth son, and his birth mother Bo Ji was originally a miscellaneous palace girl, because of her outstanding posture, she was favored by Liu Bang, but unfortunately, since he was born, Bo Ji had lost Liu Bang's favor and had never had the opportunity to meet. The mother and son also gained a safe life.
Because of the excessive invisibility of Liu Heng's mother and son, when Liu Bang quelled the Daidi rebellion, he made Daidi a fief of Liu Heng on the recommendation of the chancellor. After Liu Bang's death, Bo Ji was allowed to live in the fiefdom with Liu Heng.
Fortunately, he avoided a series of events. Except for Liu Fei, the eldest son of Liu Bang, who escaped the disaster, the other sons all died at the hands of Lü Hou.
Nevertheless, even Liu Heng, who was far away in the fiefdom, was also tempted by Lü Hou, and his life was once in danger.
Sudden leaks
After Liu Ying's death, Lü Hou decided to support another puppet, Liu Gong, and promoted the Lü family on a large scale, making the Lü family increasingly rampant in the imperial court. In this regard, the elderly ministers of the DPRK all dared to be angry and dare not speak out, and they had the intention to change but could not shake the position of Empress Lü.
It was not until after Lü Hou's death that the Lü family was attacked by the group. At the same time, Liu Gong stepped down, and all the ministers believed that the Han Dynasty must be handed over to Liu's clan relatives.
After some screening, they set their sights on Liu Heng.
Subsequently, all the ministers embraced Liu Heng as emperor, they thought that Liu Heng had no other background, and his personality was cowardly and easy to control, and what they did not expect was that they looked away.
Liu Heng was very cautious, and he had been suspicious from the time the envoys he sent arrived at the fiefdom, until there were divination results as evidence, he agreed, and sent his uncle to Chang'an to inquire about the news in advance.
In addition, Liu Heng's mind is also very outstanding.
After Liu Heng arrived in Chang'an, Zhou Bo said in public that he had something important to talk to Liu Heng. As someone else, they may think that this is just a simple private conversation, but Liu Heng does not think so. Liu Heng decisively refused Zhou Bo's request.
According to historical records, at that time, Liu Heng's answer was: If what the lieutenant said was a public affair, then he said in front of the minister of the DPRK, if it was a private matter, as an emperor, he should have no private affairs, so no matter from which aspect, he must make it clear in front of the chancellor of the DPRK.
In order to stabilize his imperial power, three holy decrees were issued in succession
Although Liu Heng had the mind and strategy, he had two major shortcomings, the first point was that he did not have a strong foundation, and the second point was that he wanted to strengthen the power of the princes and princes.
He was very aware of these two points, and on the day of his ascension to the throne, he issued three holy decrees in a row.
The first way is to take back the military power of the north and south, because this army was originally in the hands of Zhou Bo, but after Liu Heng took the throne, Zhou Bo did not have the right to hand over the army, so he only had to use this method to get the military power back, the military power was not in his hands, once in the later stage, Zhou Bo made some rebellious moves, which would threaten his position.
The second will was to grant amnesty to the world, and Lü Hou abused torture during his reign, implicating too many innocent people. Therefore, in order to observe the people's hearts and minds, but also to win the people's will, he ordered a general amnesty, so that the people and ministers were grateful to Liu Heng and even more swore allegiance to him.
This second will earned him a good reputation and further strengthened his prestige with the people.
The third will is to make Chen Ping the Right Minister and Zhou Bo the Left Minister, and even more to give a fief.
In fact, this will can have great meaning, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo both played a great role in Liu Heng's claim to the throne, so they had merit Liu Heng could not treat them badly, and dividing them into one left and one right minister also made them from the earliest cooperative relationship to political enemies, which formed a relationship of mutual confrontation.
In ancient times, the status of Zuo Xiang was lower than that of Right Cheng Xiang, but the fief given by Liu Heng was lower than that of Zuo Cheng Xiang.
Liu Heng's approach allowed him to get rid of his puppet status without spending a single soldier, and this was also recorded in the "Complete Collection of Tips" for posterity.
This book collects more than 1,000 strategic wisdom stories from the pre-Qin to the Ming Dynasty, which is displayed in the form of stories, and interprets the wisdom of life from it, among which the later talent Ji Xiaolan is extremely respectful of this book, no matter where he goes, this book does not leave his body, and Zeng Guofan is also very fond of this book, often picking the lamp to read at night.
This was Liu Heng's art of checks and balances, which not only maintained the balance of the court, but also prevented them from interfering in the government affairs. It is also from this point of view that Liu Heng mastered the Imperial Heart Technique of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao.
Liu Heng's growth experience tempered him, and later he learned to hide in order to save his life, and his cautious treatment of everything saved the lives of their mother and son.
Just as the so-called "mantis catches cicadas, yellow birds are behind", what I did not expect was that all people were deceived by his appearance, until when fighting for power, Lü Hou made wedding dresses for others in order to further control the government and the opposition, step by step, but to make wedding clothes for others.