When it comes to the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, many people can think of Liu Bang, Emperor Wen, Liu Heng, Emperor Wu, liu Che, etc., but Liu Ying, the second emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Hui, rarely mentions it. It is not because he is a person who does nothing or faints and is incompetent, Liu Yingying died young, and his short life was extremely depressing, leaving all kinds of regrets.
Emperor Hui's Liu Ying was the child of Liu Bang and Lü Yan, liu bang had eight sons, and Liu Ying was Lü Ying's only son. Under the protection of Lü Yan, Liu Ying ascended to the throne at the age of 17 and had a position and power that was difficult for ordinary people to reach, but why did he still die depressed?
This has a lot to do with his original family.
Liu Ying was born in the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, that is, in 211 BC, when Liu Bang was still just a small Surabaya pavilion chief, their family situation was not good, Liu Ying was pure and filial piety since childhood, in order to help the family, the small body was often cultivated with his mother and sister.
Later, Liu Bang rebelled against Qin, and Liu Ying lived a life of upheaval and displacement with them ever since.
When the Chu and Han dynasties fought, Liu Bang was defeated and escaped in a hurry, and he could not take care of Lü Yan's mother and son, and Lü Yan's mother and son were also captured by the Chu army, and it was ironic that it was Xiahou Bao who risked saving his life in the face of life and death, while his father abandoned them and fled.
Chu and Han were in contention, and the situation was the same as water and fire, and how good could the treatment of Liu Bang's wife and children be? During that time, he was only accompanied by his mother, Lu Yan.
Think about it, how much harm a child will cause to the child's soul when he grows up in childhood, suffering and suffering? And it was his mother who accompanied him through the difficult days and gave him warmth and safety.
Later, Liu Bang became emperor, and Liu Ying lived a stable life, but under this stability, there was also a dark tide, and Liu Ying was only nine years old at that time.
Liu Bang was a qualified emperor, but he was not a qualified father and husband, he was busy with his career all day, and he was also greedy for flowers and colors in his spare time; he did not bring Lü Yan much care and affection as a husband, nor did he bring Liu Ying much safety and warmth as a father, but let them suffer a lot.
Even if the Western Han Dynasty was finally accomplished, Liu Bang's mind was also hooked by a group of beauties, and he hated Lü Lu, who looked old, and later even wanted to make Liu Ruyi the crown prince, and how could Lü Lu forget the humiliation accumulated over time? If it were not for Lü Yan's request for "Si Hao" to assist Liu Ying and try to win over the hearts and minds of the powerful people for Liu Ying, Liu Bang would have deposed Liu Ying and established Liu Ruyi as crown prince. After all, every day there is a delicate beauty blowing the wind around him, Liu Bang is also a greedy and lustful person, and this mind is not less moving.
Lü Yan was the wife of Liu Bangming,ming media, plus she was also a tough, intelligent and courageous woman, known as a virtuous person outside, and had many supporters, so even if Liu Bang liked Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi at that time, he could only let Lü Yan and Liu Ying ascend to the throne.
In the face of threats and difficulties, Lü Yan resolved them one by one, and swallowed her grievances one by one, so Liu Ying was able to ascend to the throne smoothly, and Lü Yan really contributed to it.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Ying was already filial to Lü Yan, and then he was even more obedient... Respectful and afraid.
At this time, Lü Yan was more beautiful in Liu Ying's heart, but if the beauty that accompanied this gray years was broken, the collapse and heaviness brought about by it were also devastating blows.
Although Liu Ying was young, he was also a king with a heart for the world.
He carried out ideological reforms, abolished the cultural ideology of confinement and suppression of the Qin Dynasty; continued to implement Liu Bang's policy of recuperation and recuperation from the perspective of economic production, further reduced taxes, vigorously encouraged production, and relaxed the restrictions on commerce, rewarded fertility, and under his administration in just a few years, the Western Han Dynasty was prosperous in population, economic prosperity, and national strength gradually increased; Planning and building Chang'an City; in order to create a peaceful domestic environment, Liu Ying attached great importance to diplomatic work with the surrounding areas.
From here, it can be seen that he was a king who was dedicated to the people, and if he had not died early, what would be the situation in the Western Han Dynasty?
As mentioned earlier, Liu Bang was particularly fond of Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi before she died, for which Lü Yan suffered a lot of humiliation, and in order to protect herself and her children, she had to become cold and hard and bold, but this cold and hard courage gradually became fierce and domineering.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan did not have Liu Bang's suppression, but the same grievances and humiliations had long been brewed into a full of hatred, and now that she had reached the peak of power, she naturally would not let go of the people who had bullied her, and the primary catharsis was Lady Qi and liu Bang's beloved beauties before they died, torturing and insulting them in every way.
And Lü Yanyu felt that she was not relieved enough, and she also wanted to destroy the person that Lady Qi cared about most, Liu Ruyi, just as she wanted to seize the position of her son's crown prince because of Liu Bang's love for her.
Liu Ying was already kind and generous, he thought of blood and kinship, so after learning about this matter, he immediately protected Liu Ruyi, but the harem had long been controlled by Lü Yan, and after all, he was still found by Lü Lu to get his hand.
His beloved mother killed his brother under his protection, and his desperation and powerlessness could be imagined. But does he dare to resist? Can't.
Then Lü Yan did not give up, and even more cruelly made Lady Qi into a human, and even let Liu Ying watch.
Lü Yan asked him to see, perhaps because he wanted Liu Ying to become less weak, not to be kind to the people who had hurt him, and to teach him that as an emperor, he could not be too benevolent and generous.
But obviously, Lü Yan's move was too cruel, and he also thought wrong.
Liu Ying's mother, who relied on her beloved mother, became so cruel and fierce, and while she made Lady Qi an adult, she also turned the beautiful and glorious mother image in his heart into a human figure.
Lady Qi left within a few days of becoming a human being, which was also a relief.
However, the "human nature" in Liu Ying's heart could only rot and stink in her heart, and endured torture day by day.
At this point, Liu Ying's fear of his mother was also deeply rooted, he lost confidence in the future, drank alcohol every day, and no longer had the heart to go to politics.
When Lü Yan saw that her son did not pay attention to political affairs, she took over the power of the government, she eliminated many prestigious old ministers, and installed people of the Lü clan everywhere in the middle of the dynasty, and the harem of the former dynasty became the world of Lü Hou. Later, in order to protect her rights, Lü Yan did an extremely reckless and absurd thing, and even let Liu Ying marry Zhang Yan, the daughter of her sister Princess Lu Yuan, as empress.
Liu Ying could not resist and had no choice but to marry Zhang Yan, a husband and wife in name only, but then there would be no heirs. But think about it, if the two really have children, I am afraid that most of the children born will be deformed or die early.
Lü Yan saw that Liu Ying was in her twenties and Zhang Yan had no heirs, so she thought of another trick - killing her mother and leaving her son. She asked Zhang Yan to pretend to be pregnant, and then snatched the children of the harem beauty as Liu Ying and Zhang Yan's children, and killed the beauty. Liu Ying faced her mother's killing of the beauty who conceived heirs for herself, such cruelty and viciousness, so that Liu Ying's already fragile spiritual world suddenly collapsed, and since then she has been bedridden, the soup medicine has continued, and finally at the age of 24, she has passed away.
Liu Ying did not dare to really rebel against Lü Yan's dictatorship all his life, but constantly allowed all kinds of negative energies to consume his spiritual world, and finally became depressed, and the beautiful future that had not yet begun ended his life, and his life could have made great achievements, which was really regrettable!
Can Liu Ying's life tragedy be avoided?
In fact, Liu Bang's favor of Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi can be, but at the same time, if they can give Lü Yan and Liu Ying enough love, she and Liu Ying do not have to live so panicked and cautious. And the hatred in Lü Yan's heart was not so deep, so deep that he took such an extremely cruel approach. After all, she ascended to the position of empress dowager, and she could let Lady Qi "die of illness" silently and let herself have a good reputation that has been passed down through the ages.
And there are always sayings in history that Lü Yan loves rights, I don't think so, Lü Yan actually loves Liu Ying very much. It can be seen from Lü Yan's efforts to reject Princess Lu Yuan and her relatives that she loves her children very much, and from Liu Ying's kind and benevolent disposition, it can be seen that Liu Ying, who has experienced sophistication but can not be sophisticated, is not always protected, and Lü Yan really protects him very well.
However, the people who protected him suddenly forced him to grow, forcing him to face the bloody truth.
Lü Yan had endured most of the wind and rain, and had become indifferent and ruthless, allowing the young Liu Ying to ascend to the throne, and there was no shortage of young ministers in the dprk. Liu Ying's personality is also a benevolent person, such a character is easy to be contained by many ministers, so Lü Yan has to be tough, she must firmly grasp the power, power can protect herself, and she must also let Liu Ying grow up.
On the one hand, it is because of hate, but on the other hand, it is also for love.
Both mother and son have developed towards both extremes. Liu Ying did not dare to resist everything his mother had arranged for him, did not dare to face up to the hatred in his mother's heart, guarded the foolish filial piety in his heart and finally faced a series of facts, immersed in the world of fear and powerlessness, only knew how to escape, and forgot that he was not only the son of Lü Yan, but also the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.
But Lü Yan did not forget that she was not only Liu Ying's mother, but also the empress dowager of the Western Han Dynasty. She did not receive the love of her husband in her life, and her only son was afraid of himself and separated from himself. How could such a Lu Yan rediscover the mother who made Liu Ying respected.
The beauty of butterflies is out of the cocoon, and when we face difficulties, we run away and consume our own spirits, which does not help ourselves at all.
If Liu Ying can face the past, face reality, and face the future, maybe he will have another situation.
After all, like his father Liu Bang, once Liu Bang faced a more difficult situation than him, Liu Bang chose to endure humiliation and overcome the danger, and finally had the Western Han Dynasty.
Everyone has suffering and fear, and if everyone had been immersed in suffering and fear, the civilization of this world might have ended a long time ago.
Instead of mourning, it is better to ride the wind and waves.
Through Liu Ying's life, we must also take this as a warning.
Only by living can we create beauty...