It is recorded in the "Historical Records" that after the death of Empress Lü, the Lü family sat together to discuss, believing that Zhou Bo, Chen Ping, and the members of the Liu family in the court were a great threat to them, so they were ready to kill all of them in advance. But because Lu Lu's daughter was Liu Zhang's wife, he told Liu Zhang the news. So Liu Zhang reported to his brother Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, and asked Liu Xiang to rebel. As soon as Liu Xiang rebelled, Lü Chan handed over the southern army he controlled to Guan Ying and asked him to quell the rebellion. When Guan Ying led the army to Xingyang, he did not move, and secretly got in touch with Liu Xiang. From then on, the Liu family joined forces with the ministers of the DPRK and China to launch the Xulu operation.
After Empress Lü's death, was it the heroes who were in rebellion or Zhu Lü who were in rebellion? Why did Zhou Bo and Chen Ping become models of loyal ministers after killing Emperor Shaodi of Han and Emperor Hui of Han's other sons?
It's very simple, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng was supported by Zhou Bo, if Zhou Bo was a chaotic minister and thief, then what is Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty? Isn't it an improper position? The emperor supported by the chaotic ministers and thieves, how can your legitimacy come about?
Moreover, the emperors behind the Western Han Dynasty are all descendants of Emperor Wen of Han, if Emperor Wen of Han is not right, then all the emperors of the Han Dynasty are not right, who dares to write this history?
Therefore, starting from Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, it is necessary to correct the names of Zhou Bo and the participating heroes and princes, give them official promotions, affirm and highly praise their practices, and give them legitimacy, so that their throne is legitimate.
However, we must know, and Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty himself, as well as those who participated at the time, knew that this was Zhou Bo's rebellion against several rebellious ministers and thieves, led troops to attack the palace, killed the auxiliary ministers and the emperor, and supported the new monarch.
The little emperor who was killed and Zhu Lu's relatives were legitimate, the emperor was not at fault, and Zhu Lu was not guilty, and the biggest sin may be that they were relatives and the struggle failed.
Zhou Bo sent people to welcome Liu Heng, who was still the acting king, to be the emperor, and Emperor Wen of Han was too frightened to accept this beautiful difference, so he discussed with his ministers whether to go or not.
His Lang Zhong ordered Zhang Wu and others to say: "The ministers of the imperial court are all generals of Emperor Gao, who are familiar with military affairs and are resourceful and deceitful, and their intentions are probably more than that, they are just afraid of the power of Emperor Gao and Empress Dowager Lu." Now that they have just destroyed Zhulu and stained the capital with blood, the people who came at this time nominally said that they were welcoming the king, but in fact, they should not be trusted. I hope that the king will not go there under the pretense of being sick, so that he can observe what changes will be made to them.
Only Lieutenant Song Chang objected, believing that the Lu family was unpopular, the world belonged to the Liu family, and Liu Heng should go to Chang'an to take the throne, and finally Liu Heng adopted Song Chang's opinion.
But just in case, Liu Heng was careful step by step in the process of marching towards Chang'an, and he was afraid of falling into the plan.
You see, Liu Heng and his ministers knew too well that Zhou Bo and these rebellious ministers and thieves were guilty of killing the emperor indiscriminately, and asked him to be the emperor, he was so scared that he didn't dare to go, and finally agreed to go, and asked people to find out the truth, negotiate with Zhou Bo, and take one step and see three steps.
Only those of us who look at history in later generations regard Zhou Bo as a loyal minister and regard the killing of Zhu Lu as a righteous one, and the people at that time saw that this was a standard rebellion.
This is also why Emperor Wen of Han had to kill Zhou Bo, and no emperor could tolerate such an act, right?
After the death of Empress Lü, Zhu Lu naturally hoped to continue the established policy, but Zhu Lü did not have the ability and prestige of Empress Lü, and taking advantage of the fleeting opportunity of the power vacuum period just after Empress Lü's death, the meritorious group and the princes and kings quickly formed an alliance to kill Liu Bang's relatives in the name of Zhu Lü's rebellion. In fact, it was the meritorious groups or the princes who really rebelled. No one is clean, it's all for the struggle for supreme power. It's a pity that the line of emperors and queens of the Lu family ended in failure. The self-believing meritorious group supported Emperor Wen of Han to ascend the throne. But what I didn't expect was that Emperor Wen of Han was more ruthless, and on the issue of maintaining imperial power, the interests of Emperor Wen of Han and Empress Lu were the same, so when Emperor Wen of Han was in power, Chen Ping had just died, and Zhou Bo was dismissed. The meritorious group is completely finished. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, the princes and kings also lost power. China officially entered the era of imperial power.
The meritorious nobles led by Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, and the princely group led by Liu Fei, the king of Qi, conspired to punish Lü, which was a necessary act to save themselves and obtain supreme power. There is no right or wrong. Only the result.
To sum up: The reason why Zhou Bo and Chen Ping are regarded as models of loyal ministers is because Liu Heng's descendants naturally want to praise the merits of Zhou Bo and Chen Ping in order to praise Liu Heng's sage.
If the skin does not exist, Mao will be attached? Without Zhou Bo and Chen Ping to destroy Zhulu, how could there be Liu Heng's rule of Wenjing?