Some people say that he is the best prince in history, because he picked up a throne that "fell from the sky" for nothing, and he has no black material, and he is the most perfect emperor in history.
Because of him, he opened the first prosperous era of Wenjing in history, what did Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty do, and what did the rule of Wenjing look like.
As one of the founding generals of the Western Han Dynasty, Chen Feng followed Liu Bang to conquer the world, and was once named Yangxiahou, but due to Han Xin's instigation, Zhou Chang's denunciation and Liu Bang's suspicion, Chen Feng finally rebelled.
In order to quell the rebellion, Liu Bang personally conquered and suppressed Chen Xuan, when the rebellion was suppressed, Liu Heng was named the acting king, when Liu Bang died, the Western Han Dynasty power was in the hands of the Empress Dowager Lu, Liu Bang's sons were killed, Liu Heng because he lived far away, and has not been taken seriously, he escaped.
Subsequently, the Zhulu Rebellion broke out, and the clan surnamed Liu and the supporters of the surname Liu staged a coup d'état to defeat the Lu clan led by the Empress Dowager Lu.
After the death of the Empress Dowager Lü, the people of the Lü family conspired in a vain attempt to change the surname of the Liu family to Lü, but the news was spread and was learned by the Liu clan, and took the opportunity to execute all the Lu family and recapture the Liu family.
Subsequently, as the surviving son of Liu Bang, Liu Heng was put on the throne by a group of elders surnamed Liu, and when Liu Heng was elected king, he was actually not particularly reluctant.
It is said that at that time, the patriarch of the clan surnamed Liu sent an envoy to pick up Liu Heng and return to Chang'an to inherit the throne, but Liu Heng became suspicious, so he tried his best to excuse himself.
In the end, Liu Heng decided to use divination to decide whether he would inherit the throne, and the final result was that he should immediately ascend the throne and become the Son of Heaven, and then Liu Heng was finally willing to inherit the throne.
After ascending to the throne, Liu Heng used a series of measures to consolidate his throne, first mastering the army, and then using both grace and power on the ministers.
Later, he sent troops to suppress the rebellion of the king of Jibei, and finally the king of Jibei was captured and committed suicide, and three years later, the emperor's younger brother Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, rebelled again, and Emperor Wen of Han took the opportunity to let him return to the capital, and then deposed him from the throne and sent it to the remote areas, Liu Chang also chose to die of hunger strike.
Emperor Wen of Han also learned the lessons of the fall of the Qin Dynasty, abolished many tortures, and attached great importance to the development of agriculture, reducing the burden of the people and gaining the love of the people.
Under the hands of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng, the social economy of the Western Han Dynasty began to prosper, thus creating a situation of "the rule of Wenjing", and when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was forty-seven years old, he died of illness in the Weiyang Palace.
After the death of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty, his son Liu Qi succeeded to the throne, called Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, when he was 10 years old, he was already established as the crown prince by Liu Heng, but because he accidentally killed the son of Liu Bi, it also laid the groundwork for the later Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng, he gave up the country's coinage rights, during which Jia Yi and others had said that they hoped that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty could take back the coinage rights, but the Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty did not listen to this suggestion, which eventually led to the local princes having the ability to mine copper mountains to mint coins, which once threatened the unity of the time.
As the strength of the vassal states gradually became stronger, there were many contradictions between the power of the central government and the power of the local princes, so the imperial historian made a mistake and asked Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty to weaken the power of the vassal states.
Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty made a large reduction in the territory of many princes, and Liu Bi finally decided to rebel and united the seven vassal states to rebel.
When the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was put down, Liu Qi took the opportunity to take the power of the princes into his own hands to prevent it from threatening the imperial power.
Later, Liu Qili made Liu Che the crown prince, and soon after presiding over the coming-of-age ceremony for the crown prince Liu Che, he died of illness in the Weiyang Palace.
During Liu Qi's reign, he still insisted on emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and allowed people living in areas with poor land to move to areas with more fertile land.
And reward the people who work hard, so that the officials care more about the peasants, and during the spring ploughing, the officials are required to work in the fields themselves to set an example for the people.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty, which had just experienced the war and was economically sluggish, became socially stable and the people were wealthy.
Even in the later period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there was so much money that it was impossible to use up, the ropes that wore copper coins were rotten, and the scattered copper coins could not be counted.
On the other hand, in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, because of the peasant uprising in the last years of the Qin Dynasty and the four-year dispute between Chu and Han, most of the fields were deserted, and the whole country was shrouded in famine, and even the phenomenon of cannibalism appeared.
During the period of Emperor Wenjing, both of them humbly listened to the opinions of the ministers, and accepted the good ones with an open mind, and the bad ones would not be tortured and punished by the ministers.
In terms of punishment, it was also improved according to the lessons of the Qin Dynasty, during the Qin Dynasty, the punishment was very severe, and the vast majority of criminals served hard labor all their lives until they died.
Even in the Qin Dynasty, one person's crime implicated the whole family, and in serious cases, even the whole family was executed, but during the reign of Emperor Wenjing, they stipulated the time limit for serving the sentence according to the severity of the crime.
However, during the Wenjing period, due to the influence of various factors, in the face of the invasion of the Xiongnu, they were worried about the burden on the people, and did not choose to take the initiative to send troops, which also led to the destruction of the economy to a certain extent.
And during the Wenjing period, the population of the country was not much, because the war and famine of the Qin Dynasty were not enough for the Second Emperor Wenjing to send troops to attack the Xiongnu with the strength of the whole country.
However, in the late period of Emperor Jing, the population began to grow, and it was not until the early period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the population began to grow wildly, and only then did it have the ability to send troops to the Xiongnu.
During the reign of Emperor Wenjing, through a series of policies, to promote social and economic development, but also to reduce the burden of the people, in this period of the Western Han Dynasty, the society is stable, Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han are also a generation of Ming monarchs.