"Lu Pheasant, whose name is Ejiao, is the empress of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and is a careerist who plots to usurp power and seize the throne.
She gave birth to her son, Liu Ying, who is the crown prince. Liu Bang suspected that Liu Ying was "benevolent and weak" and "not like himself", and planned to abolish the crown prince Liu Ying and set up Liu Ruyi as the crown prince.
In the early years of the Han Dynasty, Lü Pheasant had already gained some power. When Liu Bang went on expeditions, he often asked Lu Pheasant to stay in the rear. In order to usurp supreme power, she saw the issue of the abolition of the crown prince as an important step in her usurpation of power.
Therefore, she took advantage of this issue to carry out a series of shameful conspiracy activities, and gradually formed the "Lu Party" centered on her. In addition to relying on her relatives Lu and her sworn friends to judge her, she also used her in-laws to win over Liu Bang's veteran Fan Xu, and curry favor with Liu Bang's adviser Zhang Liang with humble remarks.
He also used Zhang Liang's strategy to "make the prince a book", and greeted the reactionary Confucian scholars Dongyuan Gong, Mr. Jiaoli, Qili Ji, Xia Huangsheng and other "Shangshan Sihao", gave her advice, and strengthened the momentum of the "Lu Party".
In the eleventh year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Di Bu raised troops against Liu Bang, Liu Bang was ill and asked the prince Liu Ying to lead the troops to attack. This was supposed to be a good opportunity for Liu Ying to gain practical experience.
"Si Hao" hid in a cloudy corner and blew the cold wind, saying nonsense, "The prince's generals are in danger", "The prince's generals are meritorious, and it is not beneficial to take the throne, and if they are ineffective, they will suffer from this", and asked Empress Lu to cry to Liu Bang and force Liu Bang to lead the troops to the battle.
So, Lu Pheasant cried and made trouble, and asked Liu Bang to take the sick to the front line and lie in the car to direct the war. Liu Bang had no choice but to "go east" to fight the cloth, and ordered Liu Ying to guard the fundamental important place of the Western Han Dynasty. Although Liu Bang eliminated the forces of the cloth, he was wounded by an arrow during the war.
In order to achieve an ulterior motive, she co-opted the ministers who opposed Liu Bangpang's prince Liu Ying, and deliberately called "Si Hao" to follow Liu Ying, and waved around Liu Bang, hinting to Liu Bang, "The 'Sihao' prince Liu Ying who you can't invite is here", "The prince is more popular than the emperor". tried to force Liu Bang to give up the idea of abolishing the crown prince Liu Ying.
Once, at Liu Bang's banquet, "Sihao" got the opportunity to get close to Liu Bang and took the opportunity to praise the crown prince Liu Ying. Sure enough, Liu Bang felt that the "Lu Party" had become a wing, and it was not good for Prince Pang.
Liu Bang sighed, and said to Mrs. Qi after the banquet, "I was going to abolish Liu Ying and make Liu Ruyi the crown prince, but now that they have their wings, I can't move him." Then he said, "Lu Hou is really the master."
This shows that Liu Bang has indeed seen that Empress Lu's maintenance of Liu Ying's status as the crown prince is fake, and he is ambitious, and he conspires to seize the throne and change the world of the Liu family into the world of the Lu family.
In this regard, Liu Bang was very angry, and in order to prevent the Liu family from being usurped, he took a series of measures. "I am a wise man in the world, it can be said that he is dead (none) bearish, and he has unrighteous rebellion against the Son of Heaven and raises troops, and the world will fight against him. "Second, he gathered ministers, "Punish the white horse and ally the day," If it is not the Liu family but the king, the world will attack it. Third, he asked Lu Pheasant to reuse Cao Shen, Wang Ling, Chen Ping, and Zhou Bo after his death. Liu Bang said earnestly: "Zhou Bo is thick and young, and those who are safe with the Liu family will also be Bo." Fourth, before Liu Bang died, he was very angry after hearing that Fan Hao was a "Lu Party". He ordered Chen Ping and Zhou Bo to go to the bed to receive the edict, instructed Zhou Bo to replace Fan Xu's position to crusade against Yanwang Luguan, and instructed Chen Ping to torture and behead him in return.
Judging from a large number of records in historical books such as "Historical Records" and "Book of Han", Lü Pheasant is indeed a careerist who conspires against Guo Quan. The above-mentioned measures taken by Liu Bang before his death hit the key point of Empress Lü's conspiracy to usurp power.
What did Lu Pheasant do after Liu Bang's death? In a nutshell, she played with intrigues and tricks, usurped power and seized the throne, harshly killed the Liu clan and meritorious generals, sealed Zhu Lu, and turned back the clock on history. This is completely contrary to Liu Bang's "punishment from the Ma League" and Liu Bang's reunification cause.
After Liu Bang's death, Emperor Hui Liu Ying ascended the throne, and Lü Pheasant's power-dependent activities became more rampant. She regarded the Liu clan and the veterans who founded the Western Han Dynasty with Liu Bang as the biggest obstacle to her belief in power and seizure of power. Therefore, as soon as Liu Bang died, she tried to poison the veteran.
In April of the twelfth year of Han Gaozu, Liu Bang died of illness, Lu Pheasant did not mourn, she discussed with the dead party to interrogate him, and prepared to take conspiracy to "exhaust the clan" veteran. However, this conspiracy was leaked out, and Lu Pheasant saw that the conspiracy of the generals of the "Exhaust Clan" would not work. came back and made up his mind from Liu Bang's Lucky Ji Qi and his beloved son Liu Ruyi.
After Liu Bang's death, Lu Pheasant did everything possible to attack the Liu clan. The first to bear the brunt are Liu Bang's favorite sons, King Zhao, Liu Ruyi, and Mrs. Qi.
Liu Ying wanted to maintain the power of the Liu clan and treat Liu Bang's favorite concubine and the Liu brothers leniently. Lü Pheasant wanted to kill Liu Ruyi and told him to leave Zhao and go to Chang'an, Kyoto. Liu Ying personally greeted him to the palace, "living and eating with King Zhao," and tried his best to protect Liu Ruyi and prevent Lu Xiong from poisoning.
But one morning Liu Ying went out, and Lu Pheasant took the opportunity to poison Ruyi. In this way, Liu Ying was very dissatisfied with Lu Pheasant. Then Lu Pheasant brutally killed Liu Ruyi's mother, Mrs. Qi, with stumps on his hands, gouging out his eyes and ears, making him dumb, and throwing them away, insulting him as a "human being".
Lu Pheasant deliberately let Emperor Hui Liu Ying go to see it, scaring Liu Ying with the whole picture, and letting Liu Ying listen to her mercy, so as to achieve the despicable goal of usurping power and seizing the throne. After Liu Ying went to see it, she was sick for a year or two. Liu Ying angrily reprimanded Lu Pheasant, saying, "This is not done by people", and from then on, "drinking every day is a lewd pleasure, and he does not listen to politics." ”
Lu Pheasant took the opportunity to seize all the power, and in this way, Lu Shan's true face of Lu Pheasant's maintenance of the status of the crown prince was exposed. After Lu Pheasant relied on power, he played a conspiracy and put on the cloak of "the dynasty system" for the position he stolen.
It turned out that Liu Ying's queen had no son, so Lu Pheasant had ulterior motives to let the queen take the harem beauty as her son, make him the prince and kill his mother.
In the seventh year of Emperor Hui, Liu Ying died of illness. Lu Xiong was very sad to lose her only biological son, but she cried without tears. What is the reason for this? Emperor Hui died, and the little emperor ascended the throne, although she could put on the legal cloak of "the system of the dynasty," but on the other hand, she was afraid that the ministers would not accept it and dismantle the diorama of her pseudo-crown prince, so she was preoccupied and had the evil intention of killing the veteran.
In order to avoid misfortune, Chen Ping temporarily compromised and asked Lü Pheasant to let Zhulu control the government. "Lu Shiquan started from this. ”
After Lü Pheasant came to power, in order to consolidate and strengthen the position of the "Lü Party", she blatantly opposed Liu Bang's policy of "not being the king of the Liu family", and forcibly named Lü Chan, Lü Lu, Lü Tong, and Lü Tai as kings.
On the other hand, she tried her best to fight the veteran generals and the kings of the Liu family, in addition to killing the young emperor, she also killed Liu You, the king of Zhao, and Liu Hui, the king of Zhao. She also adopted the method of marrying the daughter of the Lu family to the kings surnamed Liu, one to favor the kings, strengthen the "Lu Party", and the other to monitor the kings.
Liu You, the king of Zhao, was sued by the Lu girl because he didn't like the Lu girl. It is true that those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die. For the veteran heroes, Lu Pheasant did not relax.
The right prime minister, Wang Ling, was seized of power because of his opposition to Wang Zhulu. Although Chen Ping became the right prime minister, Lu Pheasant ordered his favored ministers to judge him as the left prime minister, and tried to eat him and Zhu Lu's arbitrary power. "Chen Ping suffers from Zhulu and can't control it", so he has to "drink alcohol every day and dare not consult political affairs." ”
Although Zhou Bo became a lieutenant, he was the commander-in-chief in charge of the Western Han army, but he actually had no military power. Lü Xiong ordered the "Lü Party" Zhao Wang Lu Lu to be the general, the northern army of the army, and the king of Lü to live in the southern army, so as to control Zhou Bo, so that Zhou Bo "is not allowed to enter the main army in the army." The military and political power of the Western Han Dynasty was all taken away by the "Lu Party".
Lü Pheasant eliminated dissent, killed the Liu clan and the veterans, sealed all Lü, and made the Marquis of the Lu family several times in the world. Even her sister Lu Yao became the Marquis of Linguang, which completely violated Liu Bang's policy of "not the Liu family and no king, not the merit and no marquis".
When he was dying, he repeatedly instructed Lu Lu and Lu Chan, "According to the military guards, be careful not to mourn." This actually became a mobilization order for the "Zhulu Change".
After Lü Pheasant's death, he asked Lü to "stand on his own feet because of the danger of the Liu family", which aroused the resentment of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces. Chen Ping and Zhou Bo united all kinds of forces opposing the "Lu Party." Crusade against Zhulu and take back all the power usurped by Zhulu, and the Western Han regime turned from danger to peace.
In fact, Lu Pheasant is a guy who turns back the clock on history. Judging from the political and ideological programs of Lu Pheasant and his gang, Lu Pheasant and his gang moved against the trend of history.
What is Lu Pheasant's political program? Its specific content is that Lu Pheasant "said the system of the dynasty" and sealed Zhu Lu.
We know that since the Warring States period, the feudal landlord class has politically demanded the establishment of a centralized and unified state, and Qin Shi Huang's unification of China was progressive. "Han Cheng Qin system". Liu Bang's re-establishment of a unified Western Han state also played a progressive role in history.
However, Liu Bangfeng made a mistake, and before his death, he stipulated that he was not allowed to be crowned a king with a different surname, which was of positive significance for strengthening the unification situation. After Liu Bang's death, Lu Pheasant intensified his efforts to create a situation of division and control, and sealed the kings, which was obviously an act of avoidance and unpopular.
Lu Pheasant and his sworn friend, the theoretical basis for maintaining Liu Ying's status as the prince is that the prince is "benevolent and filial", "respectful", and "lative", and dresses Liu Ying as the ideal "true son of heaven".
This exposes that Lü Pheasant's ideology, or her dominant ideology, is not Legalism, but Confucianism. She treated the reactionary Confucian "Si Hao" with "humble courtesy" and showed off the "Si Hao" as political capital in front of Liu Bang.
Not only that, when Lu Pheasant was in power, he also ordered twice to reward the Confucian idea of "filial piety", what "the people who raise the people's filial piety and force the field to restore their bodies" and "put filial piety and force the field of 2,000 stones". This is enough to show that Lu Tui is respectful of Confucianism in theory and action.
More than 2,000 years ago, Lu Pheasant was a real careerist and conspirator who usurped power and seized power.