Empress Lu's sister Lu Mi was beaten to death by Chen Ping, and shouted before dying: "Sister will listen to me and kill them earlier, and the Lu family will not fall like this today!" After hearing this, Chen Ping ordered Zhou Bo: "Regardless of whether the Lü clan is male or female, the children of the princes who are born to the Lü clan will also be executed."
After the death of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the overall situation of the world was turbulent, and Empress Lü colluded with Lü's foreign relatives to seize the power of the dynasty and began her own autocratic rule.
Empress Lü's own brother Lü Shizhi was made the King of Qi and became the head of the foreign qi, and during the dictatorship of the Lü clan, a large number of official positions in the imperial court were controlled by the Lü clan of foreign qi, and the national treasury also went into the pocket of the Lü clan.
Fan Yu among the Lü clan was even more arrogant and domineering, wantonly looting wealth in the dynasty and doing whatever he wanted, and he often insulted the important ministers of the dynasty, and the ministers did not dare to make a sound.
In order to stop Lü's chaotic government, Prime Minister Chen Ping began to secretly contact the meritorious old ministers, preparing to overthrow Lü's rule when the time was ripe.
Before his death, Liu Bang had instructed Chen Ping to deal with the rebellion of King Yan and also get rid of the scourge of Fan Yu.
Chen Ping led the order to go to war and soon captured Fan, and his henchman Zhou Bo strongly urged him to execute Fan on the spot, but Chen Ping, considering that Fan was Empress Lü's brother-in-law, and that committing suicide would invite Lü's retaliation, escorted Fan back to the capital, ready for Liu Bang to personally adjudicate.
However, when Chen Ping returned to Chang'an with Fan, he learned that Liu Bang had unfortunately died, and Empress Lü sent someone to order Chen Ping to stop and wait for the verdict against Fan.
Chen Ping realized that the general trend had passed, and in order to protect himself, he decided to make a desperate bet, seize the road to break through and kill Chang'an, and cried in front of Liu Bangling: "His Majesty ordered me to execute Fan Yu immediately, and I did not dare to commit suicide without permission, so I had to take him back to Chang'an to wait for the verdict." ”
Seeing that Fan was not dead, Lü Hou secretly breathed a sigh of relief and immediately released Fan, but Lü Mi was extremely resentful of Chen Ping's arrest of her husband, and repeatedly advanced behind Lü to rumor that she wanted to put Chen Ping to death.
In order to dispel Empress Lu's doubts, Chen Ping began to deliberately be bohemian and drink and have fun with beautiful people all day, and Lü Hou saw that he had no intention of rebelling, so he persuaded Lu Yuan not to mind too much.
A few years later, Fan Yu died, and his son Fan Ling inherited the title, and Lü later deposed Emperor Hui of Han and installed the young Liu Hong as emperor, and made the Lü clan princes.
Lü Consort was also made Marquis of Linguang and participated in imperial politics, but her political affairs were fierce, and all the courtiers were afraid of her, and when Empress Lü was seriously ill, she ordered Lü's descendants not to easily delegate power to ensure Lü's dictatorship.
However, at this time, the Lü family was corrupt and cruel, and had lost people's hearts, and in order to overthrow the Lü family's chaotic government, Chen Ping decided to act.
Chen Ping managed to kidnap Lü Lu's friends and force Lü Lu to surrender his military power, and Zhou Bo, who had obtained military power, led troops into the palace to destroy the Lü clan.
Chen Ping also ordered that Lu Yuan and Fan Ling be beaten to death, and the criminal group of Lü's foreign relatives perished, and before she died, Lü Yuan hated that she had not eliminated Chen Ping's hidden danger in time.
She believes that the downfall of the Lu clan is self-inflicted, and if she had eliminated the dissidents earlier, there would be no disaster today.
The change of a dynasty is often accompanied by the cycle of history and retribution, Chen Ping calmly said to Lu Yuan, who fell in a pool of blood: "The Lü clan trampled on the people's livelihood, and today I know that retribution is not happy, I just upholding justice and eliminating harm for the society." ”
The fall of the Lü clan marked that the Han Dynasty had entered a new stage of development, and Chen Ping's loyal ministers ended the chaotic government of the Lü clan through a coup d'état, laying the foundation for the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.
