In the later years of Emperor Wu of Han's life, the disaster of wujiao was a major political event in the Western Han Dynasty, and the cause was Gongsun Jingsheng, the son of Gongsun He, who was accused of being a wujiao curse on Emperor Wu, so Emperor Wudi of Han ordered his favored minister Jiang Chong to thoroughly investigate the case, and as a result, Jiang Chong used torture and planting stolen goods and other three indiscriminate means to force many innocent people to confess their guilt.
This was not the end of it, because there was a gap with the crown prince Liu, Jiang Chong took the opportunity to frame the prince, saying that the prince was also practicing witchcraft in the palace, and found many wooden people in the palace to curse Emperor Wu.
Liu Zhao was forced to raise troops to kill Jiang Chong, and then suppressed by Emperor Wu, empress Dowager Wei zifu and crown prince Liu Zhao, and finally committed suicide one after another, which brought the curse of witchcraft to an end.
But because of this case of Wu Jiao, father and son met each other, husband and wife were separated forever, and the blood in Chang'an City flowed into a river, hundreds of thousands of people were implicated, tens of thousands of people died, it was really sad for the hearers, and the people who saw them shed tears, so later Ban Gu lamented in the "Book of Han":
Wouldn't it be a pity for the scourge of witchcraft!
Book of Han
To say that Liu Zhao practiced witchcraft and cursed Emperor Wu was of course framed, because Liu Zhao, who was already a crown prince at the time, really did not have this need, but in his later years, Emperor Wu of Han was sick and suspicious, and he was not at ease with anyone, and it seemed that everyone was a thief with a weak heart and ulterior motives, so that Jiang Chong's conspiracy could be smoothly implemented.
However, after the death of Emperor Wu of Han, there was really one person who practiced witchcraft and cursed many times, and successfully made the two emperors of the Han Dynasty die and be abolished, at least he himself thought so.
This person was the fourth son of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Xu the Prince of Guangling.
Emperor Wu of Han had six sons, namely Liu Zhao, the eldest son, Liu Hong the Prince of Qihuai, Liu Hong, the third son, Liu Dan the Prince of Yan, Liu Xu the Fourth Son, Liu Xu the Prince of Guangling, Liu Qi, the Fifth Son, and Liu Fuling, the Sixth Son, Emperor Zhao of Han.
Before the death of Emperor Wu of Han, the crown prince Liu Zheng had already committed suicide, and Liu Hong, the Prince of Huai, had died prematurely, so Liu Dan, as the third son, naturally believed that the throne should be his, and he was the prince of course.
Then this Liu Dan was too anxious, and soon he went directly to Emperor Wu, asking Su Weijingshi, that is, the meaning of being on duty in the palace, this request, to say that it is better to listen to, is to defend the palace; to say that it is not good, is to have the intention of supervising, for fear that the old, dim-witted and sickly Emperor Wu, once he dies, someone will take the opportunity to launch a coup d'état and seize his throne.
Liu Dan's unstoppable monkey rush soon angered Emperor Wu, and coupled with Liu Dan's ability to speak eloquently and strategize widely, and also recruit ranger warriors everywhere, Emperor Wu of Han was even more uneasy, afraid that he would not be able to die at the hands of this son, so he not only strictly refused his request, but also cut off his three county fiefdoms.
In February of the second year of the Later Yuan Dynasty, emperor Wu of Han, while seriously ill, made his eight-year-old young son Liu Fuling crown prince, completely breaking Liu Dan's thoughts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="172" >01 Emperor Zhao died</h1>
This Liu Fuling, his birth mother is Lady Zhao Of Hook Yi, is the woman who was born with a fist and a jade hook in her hand, and Emperor Wu of Han came to be opened, and Jia Baoyu was born with a fight. Of course, it fooled Emperor Wu.
In order to prevent the recurrence of Lü Hou's tragedy, Emperor Wu of Han also specially gave Lady Hook Yi to death to avoid future troubles.
After Liu Fuling succeeded to the throne, due to his young age, the power of the imperial government was vested in Huo Guang alone.
During this period of Huo Guang's auxiliary government, he adopted a policy of recuperation with the people, and externally made peace with the Xiongnu, political stability, and social and economic development, which are still worthy of recognition.
However, after Liu Fuling ascended the throne, the first person to be restless was Liu Dan, who first let people spread rumors that Liu Fuling was not the son of Emperor Wu, and then secretly colluded with his sister Princess Eyi, Huo Guang's political enemy Shangguan Jie, and others, plotting for the princess to set up a banquet to invite Huo Guang, waiting for the opportunity to kill him, and then deposing Emperor Zhao and establishing Liu Dan as emperor.
In the end, their plot was denounced by the rice field emissary Yancang, the princess committed suicide, Shangguan was reprimanded, and Liu Dan, the king of Yan, was forced to hang himself at home.
After this, Liu Xu, as the fourth son of Emperor Wu, officially appeared.
The history books record that Liu Xu this person, is a warrior, the strength is too great, the strength can carry the ding, and good "advocate music and leisure travel", but also bare-handed fighting with the beast, this hobby taste is really not the general heavy ah.
Liu Xu, who knew that he was by no means likely to be emperor, was like his brother Liu Dan, who also coveted the throne.
The death of his brother Liu Dan, this lesson of the past, Liu Xu not only did not wake up, but thought that his brother was dead, then, when this Liu Fuling died, on the seniority, this throne is his.
But he also had self-knowledge, even his brother was such a capable person, he could not do anything about launching a palace coup, he took this road, it must be a dead end, so he began to take the sword to the side of the front, the side door left road.
Because of the fiefdom where he was located, he revered the art of witches and ghosts, so this Liu Xu also found a local witch named Li Nusu and asked her to poison and curse Emperor Zhao. After all, at that time, Liu Fuling was just a teenager, and if he wanted to die of natural old age, he would definitely have survived himself first.
It is said that this witch is not generally bold, and after some divine manipulation with words, this woman will cry out in a trembling voice:
Emperor Xiaowu laid me down.
Upon hearing that they were possessed by the ghost of Emperor Wu of Han, the crowd pressed and overlapped, kneeling on the inside and three outer layers, and throwing themselves to the ground in worship of the five bodies.
Then the witch said in the tone of Emperor Wu:
I will make Xu the Son of Heaven.
Upon hearing this, Liu Xu, who had received the edict of his father, jumped up and down in ecstasy, immediately gave nushu a lot of money, and asked her to lead a work group of more than twenty people to Wushan to pray for her early ascension to the throne.
Speaking of this Liu Xu, the most important thing is money, when Emperor Zhao ascended the throne at the beginning of the year, he added another thirteen thousand households to him, and during the Yuan Feng years, Liu Xu entered the dynasty, and Emperor Zhao made a more generous offer, not only adding ten thousand households to the reward, but also rewarding him with a luxury car bmw sword, and most importantly, he was given twenty million cash, as well as two thousand pounds of gold.
Gold is on the pound, this shot, really not the general arrogance ah.
Emperor Zhao's meaning could not be clearer, what I have is, how much do you want, how much I give you, you just need to stay in the fiefdom in peace, don't move that crooked mind, everything is easy to say.
Of course, at this time, Liu Xu's crooked thoughts were nothing more than to let Li Nüsu work day and night to step up the curse technique, so that Liu Fuling could return to heaven as soon as possible and cry out for his life.
In April of the first year of Kaiping, emperor Zhao of Han, who was only 21 years old, died of illness at Weiyang Palace in Chang'an City.
Liu Xu, who received the great news of this day, immediately summoned the female whiskers, and incoherently and excitedly shook her hand and said, "Success has been successful!" Happy cooperation, happy cooperation!
He also commented to the female beard:
The witch of the beard is also!
It is said that this Han Zhao Emperor really gave the female beard a curse to death?
Of course not.
Emperor Han Zhao had been emperor for thirteen years, but this Huo Guang had also been in monopoly for thirteen years, so Liu Fuling, the emperor, was actually depressed, and he could not be the lord above the court. Before the age was small, I still said the past, but after eighteen years old, after twenty years old, or so, who can stand it, let alone a flesh and blood youth?
What's more, in his own harem, Liu Fuling also can't be the lord.
When he was twelve, under Huo Guang's arrangement, he made Huo Guang's granddaughter, Shangguan Shina, who was only six years old, empress. It's like two kids living in the house.
Later, as Empress Shangguan grew older, in order to let her conceive the dragon heir as soon as possible, Huo Guang actually ordered that concubines in the palace should not be allowed to enter the palace, so the empress was single-handedly favored.
In order to prevent the emperor and other palace ladies from doing anything wrong, this Huo Guang actually ordered all young palace women to wear poor underwear, the biggest feature of which was that there were many ties and it was inconvenient to untie them.
For the young Emperor Han Zhao, such an operation was simply a loss of conscience, sitting on Liu Fuling, who had three thousand beautiful ladies, and was forced to live a monogamous life every day.
However, just like this, she only cultivated the empress's land night and night, until Emperor Zhao's death, and Empress Shangguan was stunned that she could not give birth to a son and a half daughter.
Emperor Zhao of Han, who had suffered from extreme depression for a long time, finally hung up at the age of twenty-one.
Regarding the cause of his death, the main history does not record, and Ye Shili said that when he went to the toilet, due to the long squatting, which caused blood to gush into the brain, and the blood attacked the heart and died, it felt pure nonsense, some people speculated that Liu Fuling, who was old, wanted to seize power and was secretly killed by Huo Guang.
In short, the early death of Emperor Han Zhao, whether it was illness or murder, was inseparable from Huo Guang.
Huo Guang stills
However, the death of Emperor Zhao did not have a half-cent relationship with the female whiskers who were far away in Chudi, but this did not prevent Liu Xu from admiring the female whiskers.
Of course, the female whiskers who secretly stole the music and her team also made a fortune because of this accidental incident.
That year, everyone's year-end bonus was multiplied several times.
And because the fish have long been firmly hooked, the glory and wealth in the future are even more endless.
However, Liu Xu did not expect in his dreams that Huo Guang, who did not play cards according to common sense, died a Liu Fuling, and he found another Liu He.
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This Liu He was not the son of Emperor Wu of Han, but the grandson of Emperor Wu, and his father was Liu Ji the Prince of Changyi.
Liu Ji is a person that many people may not know, but when it comes to his mother, it is a household name, and his mother is the famous Lady Li, the peerless beauty who cares about the city and then the country.
After the suicide of the crown prince Liu Guangli because of the witchcraft case, Liu Kui's uncle Li Guangli and the then chancellor Liu Quyi secretly plotted to establish Liu Kui the Prince of Changyi as crown prince, and as a result, Liu Quyi's wife, and Guo Yong, was secretly accused of cursing Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu ordered the matter to be thoroughly investigated, and then Liu Quyi and Li Guangli's plot was also exposed, and finally, Liu Quyi was beheaded at the waist, his wife was beheaded, Li Guangli surrendered to the Xiongnu, and his clan was all executed.
Liu Ji, who was completely frightened by this incident, died within a few years, and then Liu He succeeded him to the throne.
Why, this time, Huo Guang chose Liu He from Emperor Wu's grandsons as emperor?
Let's first look at the evaluation of Liu He in the Book of Han:
Crazy and unpretentious.
What does this mean? Yan Shigu Notes:
Crazy, now idiots also.
One thing that best proves that Liu He's emotional intelligence is worrying, that is, he went to mourn Emperor Zhao, and said to his uncle's coffin: I have a sore throat and can't cry.
Huo Guang's wishful thinking, of course, was to find a stupid prince to be the emperor, so that he could continue to control the government.
Therefore, although Emperor Wu's sixth son, Liu Xu was the only one left, Huo Guang would never choose him.
Such a mangfu who only knows the courage of the puppeteer, it is almost the same as being a royal beast tamer, if he becomes an emperor, Huo Guang knows that he is absolutely unruly, and then the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty will probably be full of beautiful women and beasts.
Portrait of Liu He, Marquis of Haixia
Liu Xu, who did not want to face himself and face the reality, only wanted to be intoxicated and did not want to wake up, so he continued to let the female whiskers pray for him to keep cursing, so that this young and stupid Liu He, like Liu Fuling, would die as soon as possible.
This time, the divine power of the female beard curse was once again verified, and Liu He, who had only been emperor for 27 days, was immediately deposed by Huo Guang as a Shuren and driven back to changyi. This kingdom of Changyi was also downgraded to Shanyang County.
Liu Xu, who got this earth-shattering news for the first time, this time, almost wanted to worship the female whiskers as a god, of course, the rewards given to her were also too many to be carried by cars and boats, which was difficult to count, anyway, he Liu Xu was not short of money.
However, this time Liu He was deposed, which also had nothing to do with the spell of the female beard, but with a group of ministers that Liu He brought from Changyi.
Although this Liu He was not shrewd, all the courtiers he had brought from the Changyi fiefdom were all human spirits.
A minister named Gong Sui in the inner region, who was particularly talented, first advised Liu He countless times not to eat, drink, and have fun like this, and to reward him with unlimited rewards, and then secretly advised him to cultivate his own forces in the dprk in order to contain Huo Guang and wait for an opportunity to seize power.
He Cheng thought that Huo Guang, who had a hot eye and poisonous eyes, had already seen through the thoughts of this minister under Liu He, so he took the initiative first, directly moved his granddaughter, the fifteen-year-old Empress Shangguan, out of the way, and easily said, "Twenty-seven days on the throne, committing adultery", and then deposed him, and then the more than two hundred ministers who came from Changyi with him were all executed.
In March 2011, the media reported that the Han tomb found in Guanxi Village, Datangping Township, Xinjian District, Jiangxi Province, was the tomb of Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Back to Liu Xu.
Liu He was deposed, and Liu Xu, who thought that this time the throne must be his own, did not expect that this throne had gone around a large circle and returned, and this time he inherited the throne, the grandson of the former crown prince Liu Zhao, and the great-grandson of Emperor Wu.
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This Han Xuan Emperor Liu Qian was the son of Liu Jin, the eldest son of Liu Jin, and when the Wu Clan Disaster occurred, Liu Jin and his wife were killed at the same time, and he was still in his infancy, and later under the protection of the chancellor Bingji, he was able to survive.
As soon as the eighteen-year-old Liu Xiangfu ascended the throne, Liu Xu was very unconvinced at the first:
Why did the crown prince stand in opposition?
However, at that time, the power of the government was firmly in the hands of Huo Guang, and who went up and who went down was up to him alone.
Extremely dissatisfied, Liu Xu, in addition to complaining privately, had to let the female whiskers and her team once again take up their old ways and continue to perform curses on Emperor Xuan.
Liu Que stills
This time, as he grew older, Liu Xu, who was a bit old and old, and who was not waiting for me, in addition to pinning his hopes on the female beard as always, a person named Liu Yanshou took the initiative to find him and wanted to conspire with him to make a big deal.
Who is this Liu Yanshou?
He was the fifth grandson of King Yuan of Chu.
Liu Jiao, the King of Chu Yuan, was Liu Bang's half-brother, and han Gaozu was created king of Chu for six years.
This Liu Yanshou was not willing to be a king of Chu with a position and no power, and he was eager to move, believing that once the world changed, Liu Xu, as the son of Emperor Wu, was likely to be made emperor.
Liu Yanshou, who bet his bet on Liu Xu, not only frequently and secretly intersected with Liu Xu, but also persuaded one of his younger uncles, Zhao Heqi, to marry Liu Xu's daughter, and patted his chest and promised his uncle:
Make the King of Guangling stand, - The Marquis of Liehou Candeye.
He also asked Zhao Heqi to send a letter to Liu Xu and said:
May the eyes and ears be long, and future generations have the world.
To say that the lack of heart and eyes, the head is not bright, this Zhao Heqi, and nephew Liu Yanshou, the two have a fight, but Zhao Heqi's father Zhao Has long been not stupid, this is obviously pulling his son to jump into the fire pit. Saying that Liu Xu can be emperor, who believes?
In order to avoid harming his own body, in the first year of the Di Festival, Zhao Changnian took the initiative to report to the imperial court and denounce Liu Yanshou, and then Liu Yanshou was arrested and imprisoned, and soon committed suicide.
Of course, Liu Xu was implicated, but the imperial court spoke up and did not pursue it. Not only did he not pursue it, But Emperor Xuan also gave him five thousand catties of gold and many treasures.
This time, Liu Xu seemed to have found out in his conscience, and he was not embarrassed, he had been cursing the emperor for decades, and as a result, people not only did not pursue it, but also did not hesitate to reward him again and again.
Liu Xu, who was full of remorse, sighed at his beautiful concubines:
I can't stand up.
Then he said to the beard and her team, "Stop it, you are honorably retired."
More than ten years later, Liu Bao, the son of Liu Xu, was stripped of the title of Marquis of Nanli because of killing people, and was also sent back to Guangling to follow his father to eat the old man.
As a result, this restless Liu Bao, who committed adultery with his father Liu Xu, a concubine named Zuo Xiu, was arrested and imprisoned after being discovered.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, the punishment for adultery was very severe, and this time, because of adultery, Liu Bao was sentenced to abandon the city, that is, beheading, but the location was in the downtown where the crowds gathered.
The son broke the law, Lao Tzu suffered, and the minister at that time won the victory, and then went to the imperial court, and should deprive Liu Xu of the grass field and distribute it to the poor, and as a result, the emperor agreed.
This made Liu Xu angry and immediately found a female beard, let her return to her old business, and continue to curse Emperor Xuan.
Therefore, this woman and her twenty-member work group were silent for more than ten years, and finally waited for a big job, and happily went to work in Liu Mansion again.
However, the bearded women did not dream that they had been abducted and deceived in the Liu Mansion for decades, and this time, they entered the door of the Liu Mansion, but they entered the ghost gate, and what awaited them was no longer the inexhaustible glory and wealth, but the poison that would result in their lives.
A few months later, in the first month of the fourth year of Wufeng, Liu Xu secretly cursed the imperial court and cursed Emperor Xuan, which was discovered and reported, and the relevant departments immediately pursued the matter.
At this time, Liu Xu, who was in a hurry, naturally thought of killing people and killing people, and in the name of the banqueting female beard work group, he poisoned more than twenty people, including female beards, who were directly involved in or knew about the curse.
Soon, the imperial court sent a court lieutenant and a great hongqi to interrogate Liu Xu, and At this time, Liu Xu confessed to performing spells:
There is more than death for sin, and there is more than one for sincerity. It's been a long time coming, so please think about it.
Yes, regarding the matter of cursing the emperor, for Liu Xu, it is indeed a long time, and it is a long story.
From the second year of the Later Yuan, when Liu Fuling took the throne, to the current five phoenixes and four years, Emperor Xuan reigned, and a full thirty-three years have passed.
Thirty-three long years, he persevered in doing the same laborious and meaningless thing, laboriously, painstakingly, painstakingly, fearfully, and by the bearded women as monkeys.
Another thing that is extremely frightening is that the imperial court may have known about his curse on the emperor long ago, otherwise, it would be impossible to explain, the curse has not been discovered for thirty-two years, as a habitual criminal and veteran of the witch world, he was actually discovered and reported in the thirty-third year, only a few months after he had just started working.
Why, more than thirty years before, the imperial court did not ask about Liu Xu's spells, and this time, it was necessary to put him to death?
It is really because, but all people with normal intelligence know that this thing has never worked, but it is to give you a psychological comfort, since you Liu Xu loves to play, then play it, as long as you have no practical action, the imperial court will give you financial support, but, this time, after playing for more than thirty years, when you are old, you do not play the old line, but also play some new tricks, dare to communicate with others, to put this plot, covet the heart of the big position, put into action, then sorry, this time, you can completely play yourself.
Therefore, since Liu Yanshou's death, giving you the five thousand catties of gold is just a pretext for you to make a few more days, and then slowly clean you up.
Tomb of Liu Xuhan, King of Guangling
Liu Xu, who returned to his fiefdom, set up a banquet in the Xianyang Hall, and drank from dark to dawn with his wife and children, as well as his beloved concubines, and then Liu Xu hanged himself.
Before his death, he also wrote a poem with two verses:
Huang Quan is deep and deep, life is going to die, what is bitterness!
What a wonderful irony of his ridiculous life.
After Liu Xu's death, his sons were demoted to the rank of Shuren, and he himself received the title of King of Li.
He worked hard in this life, and in the end, he left his descendants full of shame.
The Han Xuan Emperor Liu Qian, who had been cursed by him, neither died early nor was he deposed, and after he took the throne, he used a gentle and enveloping strategy toward Huo Guang, and finally succeeded in seizing power.
He reigned for 25 years, political clarity, social stability, economic prosperity, the four seas of guests, strong national strength, known in history as the rule of filial piety.
And Liu Xu, the king of Guangling, in the eyes of posterity, is just a joke.
In the 1980s, the Tianshan Han Tomb found in Tianshan Town, Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, was the tomb of Liu Xu.
The countless gold and silver treasures in the tomb have long been looted by successive generations of tomb robbers, but because Liu Xu was buried that year, the imperial court specially gave the yellow intestine inscription burial system, and the 856 pieces of gold silk nan wood that were well preserved in the tomb were worth as much as 15 billion yuan.
We say that people are stupid and have a lot of money, Liu Xu is really worthy of the name, so before he was born, so after death, thousands of years later, he is still standing.
Who let him be born in the imperial family?
Author: We invite the author to be the lord of the Noon Dream Hall