After Liu Bang captured the Wei State, he was overjoyed to see the beauties of the Wei King Leopard's harem. After lining up one by one, Bo Ji was left alone. Bo Ji was anxious and thought of a way to get Liu Bang's attention.
After this successful scheme, she succeeded in reversing her identity and brought a monarch to the Han Dynasty who could be called an "imperial model".
Back then, Bo Ji was able to enter Wei Wangbao's harem and become Wei Wangbao's favorite concubine, everything was inseparable from her and her mother Wei Yuan's planning.
Wei Yuan is the clan daughter of the Wei State, a rebellious woman who pursues free love. As a declining aristocrat, she was well aware of the rules for men and women to marry.
However, she fell in love with a Wu Guoren surnamed Bo and gave birth to her daughter Bo Ji (real name unknown). Bo Ji's initial identity was very embarrassing, she was an illegitimate daughter.
When Bo Ji grew up, Wei Yuan sent her into the harem of Wei Bao, the king of Wei, and became a concubine of Wei Bao.
Wei Bao is a descendant of Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou, after the peasant uprising at the end of Qin, Wei Bao followed Liu Bang to capture the flag and break the Qin army.
Unexpectedly, when Chu and Han were fighting, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, broke Liu Bang's army in Pengcheng, Henan. Wei Bao's heart was shaken, he didn't know where the confidence came from, and he firmly believed that Chu would win and Han would lose.
So, he decided to break away from Liu Bang and use visiting relatives as an excuse to go back to his hometown to see the situation.
At this time, Wei Yuan found a physiognomy master Xu Cheng to calculate a hexagram for Bo Ji, Xu Cheng looked at Bo Ji's face, and immediately said: "This is the appearance of great nobility, and he will give birth to the Son of Heaven." ”
Xu Cheng is not a mortal, it is said that she was born to look at her face. When she was in her infancy, when she saw others, sometimes she cried, and sometimes she smiled. Later, everything she cried to her met with bad luck, and everything she laughed at was a happy event.
Xu Cheng's physiognomy was widely known, so Wei Bao believed in her.
Since Bo Ji's son will be the Son of Heaven in the future, Wei Bao certainly thinks that he is the Emperor who created heaven and earth. He made up his mind not to listen to Liu Bang's dispatch again. While secretly uniting with Xiang Yu, he and Bo Ji are warm every day, in order to give birth to the Son of Heaven as soon as possible.
It is recorded in "Historical Records: The Biography of Wei Bao Peng Yuelie" that Wei Bao said to the Han envoy Li Shiqi: "Life is like a white horse passing through the ears. Today, the king of the Han Dynasty is slow and insulting, scolding the princes and ministers like scolding slaves, unless there is etiquette, I can't bear to see it again. ”
This angered Liu Bang, in the autumn of 205 BC, Liu Bang sent Han Xin, Cao Shen, Guan Ying and other generals to besiege the city of Anyi where Wei Bao was located in one fell swoop.
Liu Bang went to Wei Bao's harem to take a look, but he was so happy, the beauties in the harem were like clouds, and their postures were extraordinary. So, Liu Bang incorporated these beauties into his harem in one fell swoop.
These beauties were assigned to do chores all over the palace, and Liu Bang, who had nothing to do, walked around, and made love when he saw the beauties he liked.
Bo Ji was thrown into the weaving room and toiled day in and day out. Seeing that day after day, time flies, Liu Bang seems to have forgotten her.
Youth withers like a flower, and as a woman, can she endure it?
Second, because of a favor, the prophecy of the physiognomy came true
At the beginning, when a group of concubines entered Liu Bang's harem, Bo Ji and the two sisters held hands and swore that no matter who was favored, they must not forget to bring other sisters.
On this day, Liu Bang overheard the two concubines talking and laughing. Listening closely, they were laughing at Bo Ji, who was left out in the weaving room, saying that she was from a humble background and too stupid to know how to please the monarch.
After Liu Bang heard this, he was moved with compassion and was also very curious, wanting to see what such a bitter girl looked like.
At this glance, it looks pretty good. At this time, Bo Ji said that she dreamed of a dragon coiled around her stomach last night.
When Liu Bang heard this, this was a good omen, so on a whim, he spent a night with Bo Ji.
On this night, Bo Ji became pregnant.
In response to what the Xiangshi said, this child of Bo Ji is the future Son of Heaven, Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty. Of course, at this time he was just a small prince.
It can be seen that in addition to Bo Ji's forbearance and scheming, luck is also on her side.
After Bo Ji had a son, she never won Liu Bang's favor again.
Among Liu Bang's many harem concubines, Bo Ji's appearance is not particularly outstanding, her scheming is not particularly exquisite, and her methods are not particularly clever.
Seeing the strength of Liu Bang's queen Lu Pheasant, Bo Ji chose to avoid her edge and extinguished her enthusiasm for favor.
She put her whole mind on her son, because with spiritual support, Bo Ji was also very content. gradually moved away from the harem battle and lived a cautious life.
Bo Ji's strategy earned her the chance to spend her old age in peace, becoming one of the lucky few in the midst of brutal harem struggles and political shifts.
Those concubines who vied for favor were brutally counterattacked by Lu Pheasant after Liu Bang's death.
The worst is Mrs. Qi, who is the most favored by Liu Bang, she was ordered by Lu Pheasant to cut off her limbs, pierce her eyes, cut off her tongue, and prick her deaf ears, becoming a terrible "human biao".
And Bo Ji's years of forbearance and grievances aroused Lu Pheasant's pity. Allow her to reunite with her son and go to his fiefdom to enjoy the joy of family. This is the only woman among the many women in Liu Bang's harem who can live with her son.
Her way of dealing with the world not only allowed her to survive well, but also allowed her son to avoid political struggles, which is very appropriate to describe as wise and foolish.
Liu Heng's fief was in the state of Dai, in present-day northwestern Hebei Province and northern Shanxi Province, and was a fortress against Xiongnu attacks. The other princes thought it was hard here, and they were very disdainful in their language.
Bo Ji enlightened his son: The sage Confucius once said, "The sage escapes the world, and then avoids the land", and now the world is peaceful but the palace is not peaceful, and we can run a little farther to be safe. Liu Heng thought that what his mother said was very reasonable, so he happily went to the fiefdom.
However, when he first arrived in Daiguo, Liu Heng was very depressed when he saw that his eyes were full of barrenness. After Bo Ji found out, he sent someone to enlighten his son in time: Lao Tzu's "inaction" and "indisputability" are the magic weapons to avoid disasters.
Under Bo Ji's words and deeds, Emperor Wen of Han accepted reality. Do your own things silently, lightly levy labor, pay taxes lightly, do not form a party, do not fight for position, and manage your fiefdom on behalf of the country in an orderly manner.
Satisfied with the status quo, living a low-key life, and having no ambition on the surface, Emperor Wen of Han escaped Lu Pheasant's crazy purge. The bloody power struggle in the capital Chang'an resulted in the death of several emperors one after another.
Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty: reigned for 7 years and died at the age of 23.
Former Young Emperor Liu Gong: Reigned for 4 years, was deposed because of complaints, and was killed at the age of 7.
Later Young Emperor Liu Hong: reigned for 4 years, was deposed and killed.
Just by looking at these figures, you will know how terrible the palace struggle was, with Lu Pheasant in power, and the puppet emperors one after another, each dying unexpectedly.
And Liu Bang originally had eight sons, before Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng ascended the throne, in addition to Liu Ying died of fright, four other sons were killed by Lu Pheasant.
When Lü Pheasant died, the courtiers wiped out the relatives of the Lü family in one fell swoop. Then they examined Liu Bang's sons and grandchildren, and found that Liu Heng had no foundation, was easy to control, and he was low-key, and everyone thought that he would not pose much of a threat to their side.
The ministers who elected Liu Heng to succeed him gave a high-sounding reason: Bo Ji is a pure-hearted person with few desires, and there are no powerful relatives who do wrong, so there will be no more situation in which Empress Lu controls the government.
The emperor's hat finally fell on Liu Heng's head.
Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng was very similar to his mother Bo Ji, low-key but with hills and valleys in his heart, after he ascended the throne, he cleared the remnants of Lu Pheasant's power.
After the throne was stabilized, he began to strip the power of the ministers who controlled the government, and gradually took the power into his own hands, which achieved the rise of the Han Dynasty.
After the low-key and honest Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, once the opportunity came, he showed his great wisdom. From him, there was the famous prosperous era in Chinese history, "the rule of Wenjing".
It can be said that Emperor Wen of Han was the most friendly emperor to the people at the bottom.
If the emperors of the past dynasties have a model that can be learned, wise and martial, thrifty and loving the people, Emperor Wen of Han will definitely be ranked in the top three. This is inseparable from Bo Ji's education for him and the example he gave him.
Hai Rui commented that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty had "the beauty of being close to the people and being close to the people, and the virtue of mercy and frugality".
Liu Bang was fortunate to be the favorite concubine of Wei Wangbao, but he did not expect to bring a virtuous and virtuous Ming monarch to the Han Dynasty.
Since then, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty have successively created the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty.
This can be regarded as a butterfly effect, Liu Bang definitely didn't expect this shining result at that time.