Another look at the Han Jing Emperor: boldly cutting the domain is actually done, and there is no intention to plant willows into the shade

As an emperor between Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Wu of Han, who is very famous in history, Emperor Jing of Han has been controversial and controversial in history. His father, Emperor Wen of Han, was a famous Ming Emperor in history, who successfully stabilized the political situation in the early Han Dynasty and created the first reign of ancient Chinese feudal society, which was the ceiling of the Shoucheng Emperor. His son Emperor Wu of han opened up territory, attacked the Xiongnu in the north, ping baiyue in the south, and took the western region in the west, greatly expanding the land area and pushing the han dynasty rule to the peak. In contrast, he is a bit eclipsed. Some people say that he was outstanding in his meritorious service, consolidated the central rule, and laid the foundation for the expansion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the outside world, while others said that he was mean and widowed, and indiscriminately killed clan relatives and ministers.

Of course, on the whole, he also did a good job, and the period of his reign and his father was called the "Rule of Wenjing", and he inherited emperor Wen of Han and emperor Wu of Han, which had a major transitional effect on the great transformation of the national strategy of the Han Dynasty. Personally, I think he was a brilliant politician, and with that being said, he was a lucky politician. From the perspective of great history, he contributed even more to the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, and some of his intentional or unintentional measures actually promoted the Han Dynasty to become strong and even continue to live for the Han Dynasty.

The ill-prepared feudal cleavage was a great success, and the centralization of power was greatly strengthened. To be honest, Emperor Jing's slashing of the domain was a serious lack of preparation. On the one hand, although there were old thorns like Liu Hao, the king of Wu, at that time, the king of the clan generally obeyed the authority of the central government and did not have too much transgression. On the other hand, he did not have a detailed plan and preparation for cutting the domain, but only listened to his teacher Chao mistakenly said, "Cutting now is the opposite, not cutting is also reversing." If you cut it, it will be in the opposite direction, and the disaster will be small; if it is not cut, it will be late, and the disaster will be great." The two have never seriously studied what specific measures and steps to take to cut it. Emperor Jing successively cut down the Changshan Commandery of the Zhao State, the Donghai Commandery of the Chu State, and the Wu Dynasty County, and completely angered the princes represented by Liu Hao the King of Wu and Liu Shu the King of Chu, and they united with Liu Sui the King of Zhao, Liu Peiguang the King of Jinan, Liu Xian the King of Zichuan, Liu Ang the King of Jiaoxi, and Liu Xiongqu the King of Jiaodong to rebel, which is known as the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu.

After stabbing the honeycomb, the two panicked and could not come up with anything to do. Later, Chao Mistakenly fell ill and rushed to the hospital, and actually asked Emperor Jing of Han to lead his troops to the front line to suppress the rebellion, and he stayed in the capital himself. Can Emperor Jing agree? Later, Emperor Jing took Yuan Ang's advice and killed his teacher Chao Wrong, making the rebel slogan "Qing Jun's Side, Chao Chao Wrong" lose its appeal. At the same time, he remembered his father Emperor Wen's death instruction that "if there is a delay, Zhou Yafu can be appointed as a general", and appointed Zhou Yafu as a lieutenant to lead the army to quell the rebellion. Emperor Jing's younger brother King Liang held firm in Liangdi, and Zhou Yafu took a detour to attack the rebel grain route, and the rebel army was quickly defeated after the grain was cut off. This mighty rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wuchu took only three months to quell. Afterwards, the princes who participated in the rebellion were basically executed or committed suicide, and most of the princely states were eliminated.

This pacification of the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu was of great significance to the entire Western Han Dynasty. First of all, the princely states that originally participated in the rebellion were all relatively strong, and after being eliminated this time, the princely states basically lost the ability to fight with the central government, the areas controlled by the central government increased, the central and princely states grew one after the other, and the strong cadres and weak branches became a trend, which also laid a solid foundation for the implementation of the later Tuien Decree and the complete elimination of hidden dangers. Secondly, the centralization of power was further strengthened, the authority and national strength of the central authorities were rapidly enhanced, and the state could concentrate on doing some of the things it wanted to do before, such as going to war with the Xiongnu, conquering Siyi, eliminating border troubles, and further unifying weights and measures, promoting economic development, and so on.

The replacement of the prince for an emperor of the ages brought about the heyday of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Jingdi of Han, he served two terms as crown prince. His first crown prince was his eldest son, Liu Rong, who was born to Emperor Jing's favorite concubine Li Ji at the time. Emperor Jing's first empress was Empress Bo, which was arranged for him by his grandmother Empress Bo, which belonged to the marriage imposed on him, and he himself did not like it very much, so Empress Bo had always been unfavored and had no children, so Emperor Jing had long determined that his eldest son Liu Rong was crown prince.

But later, things changed, mainly the drama of the harem vying for power and seizing the throne began. First of all, Emperor Jing's sister Princess Liu Yan saw that Liu Rong had become crown prince and wanted to marry her daughter Chen Ajiao to Liu Rong, but she did not expect to eat the closed door soup, and Li Ji flatly refused because she hated that the eldest princess often found a woman for Emperor Jing before. The eldest princess remembered the hatred in her heart, and later she found the mother of another favorite concubine of Emperor Jing, Liu Che, Wang Xian agreed, and they became children's relatives, and began to plot the position of prince for Liu Che in a planned way. At that time, Liu Che ranked tenth among Emperor Jing's sons, and he could not turn his turn. But with the help of the eldest princess, things took a 180-degree turn for the better.

The eldest princess Liu Yan was the sister of Emperor Jing and had a close relationship, and she could often see Emperor Jing. On the one hand, she often slandered Li Ji in front of Emperor Jing, saying that Li Ji often cursed Emperor Jing and other favored concubines, and deceived the public. Emperor Jing listened a lot, and sure enough, he became disgusted with Li Ji and gradually alienated Li Ji. On the other hand, the eldest princess kept praising Liu Che, the son of Wang Xian, saying that he was intelligent and ambitious, that he was a piece of jade, and that Emperor Jing had a heart, and became more and more concerned about Liu Che, and gradually found that he was really the best among his sons and paid more and more attention to him. The balance in Emperor Jing's heart began to tilt toward Liu Che, but the reason why he eventually fell to Liu Che was because Li Ji herself died. Once, Emperor Jing was seriously ill, and he felt that he might not be able to survive, so he told Li Ji that if he died, trouble her to take care of his sons, this advice aroused Li Ji's jealousy, she refused to agree, and also scolded Emperor Jing as an "old dog". Emperor Jing was furious, but did not attack on the spot.

Later, he survived this serious illness and began to have the idea of changing the prince in his heart, and Wang Xian added a fire at the right time, and finally reversed the situation. Wang Huan secretly contacted the chancellor to write a letter asking Li Ji to be made empress, which completely angered Emperor Jing, who ordered Liu Rong to be deposed as the King of Linjiang, and Li Ji eventually failed completely. The position of crown prince was vacated, but at this time Empress Dou jumped out and sought an heir to the throne for his other beloved son, Liu Wu the Prince of Liang, fortunately, the chancellor used historical allusions to dissuade Empress Dou in time. All the obstacles were cleared, and Emperor Jing began to implement his plan. He first made his thirteenth son Liu Che crown prince, then deposed Empress Bo, who did not have children for him, and finally made Wang Xian the new empress. Emperor Jing's unhurried rhythm and orderly wrist embody his demeanor as a mature politician, and also bring a new successor to the Han Dynasty, who is brilliant and talented, and qin shi huang is said to have outstanding achievements, and he will take the Han Dynasty to a new historical height! From the results, the change of prince this time is too important for the national fortunes of the Han Dynasty.

An unexpected "substitution" event continued the national fortunes of the Han Dynasty for 200 years. The fertility of the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty has always been poor, and there are relatively few heirs. Han Gaozu Liu Bang was more than forty years old to marry his wife, before the mistress gave birth to a boy for him, the wife Lü Hou gave birth to Liu Ying, and later Liu Bang became emperor, and only gave birth to a few more children in old age, a total of only 8 princes, he is the second most of so many emperors in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Hui, Liu Ying, because of his early death, the records of his heirs were not detailed, and there were some controversies, and the heirs were all killed later, leaving aside. Emperor Wen of Han, there are only 4 clear records, the history books record that he had 4 children before becoming emperor, but he died on the eve of his becoming emperor, possibly born to people from Lü Hou's mother's family. Although Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty had been doing it for a long time, he only had 6 princes, because there were few heirs, and there was really not much room for a successor. Emperor Han Zhao had no descendants, Emperor Xuan of Han had 5 princes, Emperor Yuan of Han had 3 princes, Emperor Cheng of Han, Emperor Ai of Han, Emperor Ping of Han, 3 uncles and nephews had no heirs, and also made the line of Emperor Han Yuan completely broken, after the death of Emperor Han Ping, Wang Mang wanted to neutralize the emperor from the descendants of Emperor Yuan of Han, and there was no one to choose, and he could only choose a widow from Emperor Xuan's grandson to inherit the throne.

The only exception to these Western Han emperors was the Han Jing Emperor, who had 14 sons, the largest number. What is even more unexpected is that the quality of his sons' descendants is generally quite high, among which Liu Xiu (a descendant of Liu Fa the Prince of Changsha) and Liu Bei (a descendant of Liu Sheng the King of Zhongshan) have all become emperors, while Liu Biao and Liu Zhang (Liu Yu, the King of Lugong) who occupied Jingzhou and Yizhou in the late Eastern Han Dynasty also became overlords. In particular, Liu Xiu, the founding prince of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the lord of Zhongxing in the Han Dynasty, has been called "the son of the face" and "the chosen man of heaven" in history, and our great Chairman Mao Zedong also called him "the most learned, the most able to employ people, and the most capable emperor in war in history." His ancestor Liu Fa, the Ding King of Changsha, was from a "harem accident" by Emperor Jing.

Liu Fa's mother, Tang Ji, was originally only the maid of Cheng Ji, the concubine of the Han Jing Emperor, and had a lower status. At that time, Cheng Ji was more favored, which could be seen from the fact that she had several children for emperor Jingdi of Han. One night, Emperor Jing drank too much, went to Cheng Ji's residence to visit her, just When Cheng Ji came to menstruation, it was inconvenient, but it was not good to refuse Emperor Jing, seeing that Emperor Jing was drunk and not very sober, he asked the maid Tang Ji to serve Emperor Jing, and later became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Fa. Emperor Jing did not like this low-ranking maid, and naturally did not like Liu Fa, and sealed him in Changsha, which was still relatively remote at that time. But Liu Fa is still very smart, once, Emperor Jing did shou, his 14 sons all came back to wish for the birthday, and everyone danced to cheer, when it was Liu Fa's turn, Liu Fa "but open his sleeves and raise his hands", jumped and shrunk his hands, Emperor Jing felt strange, asked him what was going on, Liu Fa said: "The country is small and narrow, not enough to maneuver." Jing Di was happy, so he assigned 3 more counties to him.

Liu Xiu was Liu Fa's fifth grandson, after Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he and his family members raised an army, under the slogan of restoring the Han Dynasty, and quickly united with the green forest army of the peasant rebel army at that time, and later was sent by the first emperor Liu Xuan to Zhenfu Hebei, where he gained a firm foothold after several hardships, took advantage of the historical trend of people thinking about Han, and with the help of the power of the Hebei clan, laid his own territory, began to annex the world, after twelve years of unification war, successively eliminated the military forces occupying various places, unified Kyushu, and established the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Liu Dynasty Jiangshan was restored, so that the Han Dynasty Jiangshan continued for another 195 years. Since Emperor Jing, all the emperors, including the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties, have been his descendants. From this point of view, this alternative contribution of Jingdi can be described as huge!