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Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

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Speaking of the Han Zhao Emperor Liu Fuling, I believe that everyone will not be unfamiliar, he is the 8th emperor of the Han Dynasty, but also 8 years old to succeed to the throne as the emperor, although the number 8 looks auspicious, but did not let Liu Fuling live to 88 years old, but 21 years old died young, this is what no one thought, but also let those officials responsible for repairing the tomb a little caught off guard, what can be done? You can't just dig a pit and bury it, right? Obviously, it is impossible, after all, people are emperors, if they don't get it right, their heads will fall to the ground, so the officials who repair the tomb quickly rented 30,000 ox carts to build a tomb, so they went back and forth many times, and this mausoleum was also built, which is what we now know as Pingling.

Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

Pingling

You don't see, this was built hastily, but people's funerary treasures, but there are everything, and this mausoleum covers a total area of quite a lot, even reaching 13.6 square kilometers, like the configuration of ordinary imperial tombs, such as cemeteries, mausoleums, funeral tombs, these can be seen in the imperial tomb of the Han Zhao Emperor.

Of course, many of these are added later, we will not elaborate, let's just talk about the tomb where the Han Zhao Emperor was buried, its sealing mound is as high as 29 meters, everyone think about it, what is this concept, this is equivalent to the height of our current dozen floors, so how much manpower does it take to say that from this height alone? This also reflects that although it was built hastily, it did not wrongfully aggrieved us Han Zhao Emperor in terms of specifications.

Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

Lacquered wooden horse

Moreover, in the 3 burial pits that have been excavated, archaeologists have also found more than 20 lacquered wooden horses, as well as a number of wooden car traces, which is like a copy of everything that Emperor Han Zhao enjoyed before his death, directly copied a copy to the underground world, for this, it can be imagined that the light three from the burial pit are so powerful, how magnificent the real main tomb must be.

Since the standard of the mausoleum is so high, is there anything outstanding about the Han Zhao Emperor before he died? Let's start with the early years of Emperor Han Zhao. At the age of 8, with the death of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Fuling inherited his father's throne and became the Han Zhao Emperor as we know him. Although gui was emperor, his childhood was extremely lacking in maternal love, and when he was made crown prince, his mother was executed by Emperor Wu of Han, and he died a very wronged death. Because his mother did not make any mistakes, he was killed by Emperor Wu of Han on the grounds that he was the lord of the young mother.

Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

Stills of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

Maybe many friends don't understand why this Lord's young mother is strong? I will simply say that when Emperor Wu of Han thought of his own death, his son Liu Fuling was only a few years old and could not control the situation at all, which would easily make it easy to achieve the second Lü Hou, and Lü Hou everyone knew it! It was a cruel man, who killed many people in order to take power, and even her son, Liu Ying, the Emperor hui of Han, was depressed in fear. Therefore, this Emperor Wu of Han was afraid that such a thing would happen again, so he killed Emperor Han Zhao's mother fiercely, so that he had become a motherless child early.

Although he lacked maternal love since childhood, before his death, Emperor Wu of Han still left several ministers to assist Emperor Han Zhao, of which the more famous one was Huo Guang, who was the younger brother of the famous general Huo Guang, with this level of relationship, this Huo Guang was naturally valued by Emperor Wu of Han, and Huo Guang did not give Huo To sick shame, what people did was also famous, in addition to assisting Emperor Han Zhao in handling government affairs, he also helped Emperor Han Zhao to quell the armed coup d'état of Shangguan Jie and others.

Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

Huo Guang stills

Therefore, if you think about it, with such a capable minister and assistant, Emperor Han Zhao naturally made some political achievements, such as repeated tax reductions and exemptions, and also restored the policy of peace with the Xiongnu, which made his years in power relatively stable, and the people also lived a good life. However, no one thought that it was a benevolent prince who died of illness at the age of 21, and that he had no children at the time of his death.

For this reason, Huo Guang, the minister of power at that time, had to support Liu He, the nephew of Emperor Han Zhao, the prince of Changyi, to inherit his throne, thinking that the imperial power of the Han Dynasty could be passed on, but who thought, this Liu He was an emperor who was greedy and lustful and did not do the right thing, during the period when he took office, he often made fun with beautiful women and made a mess of the government, so the ministers loyal to the Han Dynasty requested the abolition of his throne, so Huo Guang took Liu He, who had been emperor for 27 days, ousted the throne, and established The Han Xuan Emperor Liu Qing to ascend the throne. After Liu Qing ascended to the throne, he inherited the ruling style of Emperor Zhao of Han, which made the Han Dynasty enter its peak.

Emperor Han Zhao died suddenly at the age of 21, and the tomb repairer rented 30,000 ox carts to build a luxurious imperial mausoleum

Stills of Emperor Han Zhao

Presumably, Emperor Han Zhao, under the Nine Springs, would also feel relieved to see his nephew Liu Qian so powerful! Throughout the life of Liu Fuling, the Emperor of Han Zhao, although he did not live very long, he was able to seek the welfare of the people and reduce taxes in a limited ruling career, which enabled the country at that time to develop healthily, if he made a fool of himself like Liu He during his reign, in a few years, the foundation laid by his ancestor Liu Bang would definitely be destroyed!

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