Preface
Empress Lu was Liu Bang's wife, and she had an extraordinary status in the Han Dynasty at that time! She could have such a high status not only because she was the queen of the dynasty, but also because of her own ability!
But in 180 BC, Empress Lü died of illness, and the death of Empress Lü led to a earth-shaking change in the status of their Lü family.
In order to protect themselves, their Lu family had to follow the actions of Empress Lu and seize the power of the Han Dynasty! But at this time, an accident happened!
The ministers who had not dared to say anything before were gathered at this moment, and the more conspicuous ones among them were Chen Ping and Zhou Bo! These ministers took away the power of the Lu family little by little through secret planning! Then they launched a frenzied killing of them! Since then, the Lu family has been completely exterminated by Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, and others!
At this time, everyone will definitely have questions, their Lu family just wanted to do what Empress Lu did back then, why did the ministers of the court and the central government behave diametrically opposed? When Empress Lu was alive, these people never showed any disrespect, why did they dare to exterminate the Lu family not long after Empress Lu died? What kind of secret is there in this? Let's find out together.
Lv Hou
As mentioned earlier, Lu Hou was Liu Bang's wife, that is, the first woman to be with Liu Bang! When Liu Bang was still a little transparent, Lu Pheasant married him! All this was the will of Lu Pheasant's father, Lu Gong, and Liu Bang came to Lu's house to sit down in a daze, and Liu Bang was just an ordinary person at that time! He didn't want to get other people's attention! However, Liu Bang was stunned that it was just a simple banquet, but he got a wife who was as beautiful as a flower! This wife was Lu Pheasant!
When Duke Lu invited everyone to a banquet, you can see that their family's status at that time was very high, and they were either rich or expensive! So why did they want Empress Lu to marry Liu Bang? It turned out that Duke Lu was a person who could read faces, and when he saw Liu Bang, he found that Liu Bang had the face of a king, so he married his daughter to him, in order to gamble on Liu Bang's future, and once they succeeded, their Lu family would soar! Failure was just because his daughter was unhappy! Therefore, he let Lu Pheasant marry Liu Bang at that time!
When Lu Pheasant married into Liu Bang's family, she was a good wife and mother, and she not only had to take care of Liu Bang, who was uneducated and unskilled, but also had to support the family! Although life was very difficult, she still had no complaints in her heart! In this way, she accompanied Liu Bang through the difficult years!
Many years later, Liu Bang suddenly woke up, and after waking up, Liu Bang directly joined the ranks of the uprising, and began to gather people from all over the world to crusade against the Qin State, and finally the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty was overthrown by their rebel army! At this time, a new problem appeared, the two major forces wanted to be king, and he and Xiang Yu started a struggle again!
It was also at this time that I don't know who spread the news that Lu Pheasant was Liu Bang's wife, and Lu Pheasant was caught as a hostage in Xiang Yu's camp! At that time, Liu Bang was busy fighting with Xiang Yu and had no time to save Lu Pheasant! At that time, in order to survive, Lu Pheasant could only force herself to be ruthless, and she began to deal with Xiang Yu's soldiers, which also made Lu Pheasant become thoughtful, and since then, the good wife and mother Lu Pheasant disappeared into the world, and was replaced by the ruthless Lu Hou!
It turned out that in those years, Liu Bang had been looking for Lu Pheasant, and it was only recently that he discovered that Lu Pheasant was a hostage in Xiang Yu's camp! Later, after Liu Bang had some bargaining chips, he invited someone to go over and negotiate peace with Xiang Yu, the purpose was to let Xiang Yu release Lu Pheasant and the others! After three years of hostage life, Lu Pheasant finally gained the freedom of life! After she saw Liu Bang, she was directly stunned, it turned out that Liu Bang had already had another woman by his side at that time, and this person was Liu Bang's beloved Mrs. Qi!
Thinking about the suffering she has suffered all these years, it is all for Liu Bang, and Liu Bang has actually found other women in these years! At that time, Lu Pheasant understood that power is everything, family affection and love can be without, but she must get the right! Therefore, Lu Pheasant has completely blackened! The former good wife and mother have completely disappeared!
In the following time, Liu Bang's power became bigger and bigger, and Xiang Yu gradually ceased to be his opponent! In the end, Xiang Yu was defeated by Liu Bang, and in order to leave himself with only his dignity, he chose to kill himself! Since then, only Liu Bang's family has been left in the world, and finally Liu Bang unified the whole world and established the Han Dynasty, which is known as the Western Han Dynasty in history!
After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang became the emperor of the dynasty, but according to the regulations, only the wife could be called the queen, and the eldest son could be the prince! Therefore, Lü Pheasant became the queen, and her son Liu Ying became the prince of the dynasty! It's just that at that time, Liu Bang didn't want Liu Ying to be the prince in his heart, he thought that Liu Ying was not very similar to himself, on the other hand, he and Mrs. Qi's son Liu Ruyi had the style of the year! Therefore, at that time, Liu Bang had the idea of setting Liu Ruyi as the crown prince of the dynasty, so he asked the ministers of the court and the central government, and the ministers were resolutely opposed when they heard that Liu Bang wanted to abolish the prince, and the most opposed at that time was the minister Zhou Chang, because his stuttering made Liu Bang laugh, so Liu Bang put the matter aside first!
At that time, Empress Lu naturally heard the news, in order to preserve her son's throne, she paid a lot at that time, and finally after her unremitting efforts, she preserved Liu Ying's position as the crown prince!
In order to improve her status in Liu Bang's heart, she tried every means to get rid of Han Xin and the others in Liu Bang's heart! This also made Liu Bang impressed, and at that time he also understood that Mrs. Qi would definitely not be able to fight Empress Lu! In order to accumulate some virtue for Mrs. Qi, he began to pay attention to Empress Lu! However, at that time, Empress Lu naturally understood Liu Bang's intentions, and he also cooperated with Liu Bang to let him down his guard! Not long afterward, Liu Bang's health failed, and he finally unfortunately passed away in 195 B.C.! After Liu Bang died, Empress Lü's son Liu Ying inherited the throne! At that time, Empress Lü's ambition no longer had to be hidden! Because there was no one in the world who could suppress her!
At that time, the first thing she solved was to take away her husband's Mrs. Qi, and in those years, she always thought that her lack of favor was all because of Mrs. Qi's appearance! There was also his son Liu Ruyi, if she hadn't figured out a way at that time, Liu Ruyi might have become the new emperor of the Han Dynasty! Therefore, after Liu Ying became the emperor, she ordered Mrs. Qi to be arrested!
At that time, Empress Lu's power was so high that no one dared to disobey her, so her ministers arrested Mrs. Qi and threw her into the dungeon! At that time, Empress Lu found Mrs. Qi, and in order to kill Mrs. Qi, she first tortured her mentally!
She knew that Liu Ruyi was Mrs. Qi's backer, so she poisoned Liu Ruyi at that time! After poisoning Liu Ruyi, she inflicted inhuman torture on Mrs. Qi! She removed Mrs. Qi's limbs, poked her blind, pierced her eardrums, and then poured pressure medicine on her, so that she could not move, could not speak, could not hear and could not see anything! Then she threw her into the pigsty and made her a "human biao"!
At that time, she still felt unhappy, and called her son Liu Ying over and asked him to appreciate her masterpiece! After Liu Ying saw Mrs. Qi's appearance, the whole person was directly frightened, not only because of Mrs. Qi's tragic situation, but also because of Mrs. Qi's tragic situation, the most unacceptable thing was that his mother would be cruel to this extent, since then, Liu Ying no longer had any idea of governing, he began to enjoy all day long, and did not ask about anything in the court, so at that time, he became the queen of Lu to dominate the government and the opposition!
During the period when Empress Lu dominated the government and the opposition, she began to frantically suppress the forces of the Liu family, but whoever made her unhappy would surely usher in a catastrophe! Therefore, the ministers of the court and the central government at that time did not dare to have any objections, and the most poisonous woman's heart was not a joke! Empress Lu was not like Liu Bang, Liu Bang might think about the matter at that time, so he would let go of his anger! Empress Lu was different, whoever made her unhappy, she would take someone's life, and even exterminate her nine clans!
During that time, in order to consolidate her own power, Empress Lu gave her brothers official positions, and his elder brother accompanied Liu Bang to fight the country at that time, and his own strength was very good, and with the help of Empress Lu, their power was even more indomitable! Therefore, no one dared to stand up and make irresponsible remarks at that time, so Empress Lu was not only very cruel, but the power of their Lu family was even extraordinary! Since then, Empress Lu has carried out 15 years of "arbitrariness"!
In 180 B.C., Empress Lü's body could no longer hold on, and her life came to an end! When Empress Lü was alive, the power of Lü's relatives could directly compete with the royal family of Emperor Liu! After Empress Lü died, all this changed, and the power of Lü's relatives lost their former glory, and in order to regain the glory of the past, these people began to plot rebellion!
In order to protect the rights of their Liu royal family, they combined with the ministers of the Han Dynasty to plan to get rid of the relatives of the Lu family! Before, they didn't dare to touch the Lu family, it was all because of the existence of the Lu family, after all, she was a joyful person, and once she was happy, it was very likely that she would be punished by the Nine Clans! Another reason was that the Lu Hou was the wife of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and if she moved the Lu Hou, it would represent disrespect for Liu Bang, so no one dared to unite to be disrespectful to the Lu Hou at that time!
Now that Empress Lu has passed away, the relatives of the Lu family still dare to be so arrogant, and Empress Lu does not dare to move, do they still dare not move these people? Therefore, at that time, the Liu royal family gathered a group of people to crusade against the Lu family, among which Chen Ping and Zhou Bo made the greatest contributions! The two of them cooperated and directly took down the two nephews of Empress Lu, and the relatives of the Lu family did not know that they were exposed at the time, so they did not have any preparations, and Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others acted very quickly, and did not give them any chance to react at all, so the relatives of the Lu family were devastated by the Liu royal family!
After they took control of the entire Lu family, they began to massacre the Lu family! Regardless of men, women, and children, they could not escape the slaughter of the Liu royal family, and they frantically killed the relatives of the Lu family, probably venting their dissatisfaction with the Lu family all these years! No way, they really didn't dare to touch the Lu family at that time, but now it is different, these people have no protection from the Lu family, they are lambs to be slaughtered! Therefore, the "Zhulu Rebellion" will occur at that time!
epilogue
To sum up, it can be understood that the reason why the Liu royal family did not act when Empress Lu was alive was because they were afraid of Empress Lu's strength, and the second was their respect for her, after all, Empress Lu at that time represented Liu Bang, and whoever moved her represented an offense to the throne!
This also shows from the side that Empress Lu was really very terrible in that era! Perhaps Liu Bang himself could not have imagined that when he was fighting the world, the things that his wife experienced caused her to completely change into a person! The good wife and good mother in his impression were no longer gone, and she was replaced by Empress Lu, who was feared by the world! It was really so sad!
Bibliography:
Historical Records
Book of Han
"Information Governance Guide"
The Former Han Dynasty