In his later years, Liu Bang realized that Liu Ying was weak and not a British lord, unable to control the Western Han Empire, and his mother Lü Hou was too strong. After reading the history books, he was worried that his son, weak mother, and strong would leave the monopoly of foreign relations, and several times he wanted to abolish the crown prince Liu Ying and establish Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao. However, Lü Hou's forces had already gained power, and Liu Bang's several proposals for abolition were rejected by Lü Hou's joint ministers.
For the eternal inheritance of Liu's world, Liu Bang visited all the ministers before his death, believing that those who had the ability to "overthrow Lu An Liu" in the future had to be Zhou Bo. Thus, there is the famous dying last words "An Liu Zhi Bo Ye".
"An Liu Zhi Bo Ye"? But where did Liu Bang know that it was this orphan minister he had chosen, the "honest man" Zhou Bo, who, 15 years after his death, had actually killed his four grandsons and four grandsons in one fell swoop.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="156" > Liu Bang's dying orphanage: "An Liu Zhi Bo Ye"</h1>
"Bo" is Zhou Bo, the founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty and the father of the famous general Zhou Yafu. Shi Zai Zhou Bo was skilled in bow horses, and Kong Wu was powerful. From 209 BC, he joined Liu Bang in rebelling against Qin. Zhou Bo was brave and strategic in battle, and was quite appreciated by Liu Bang, and his military positions continued to rise, first he was promoted to the rank of Tiger Commander and General, and then he was made the Marquis of Weiwu by Liu Bang.
In the Chu-Han war, Zhou Bo led an army to attack Zhao Ben, defeat Zhang Ping, besiege Zhang Handan, and repeatedly build up battle achievements. In the Battle of Chenggao, he originally stayed in the town of Guan, heard that the commander was in danger, and led his army to break into the battlefield of Chenggao, turning the situation on the battlefield in one fell swoop. Later, he took advantage of the victory to pursue and lead his troops to capture Qu rebellion, Surabaya and other places, and single-handedly took twenty-two county seats. Zhou Bo, who had made great military merit, was given the title of Marquis of Dai for his meritorious service.
In 201 BC, the Xiongnu invaded the border, and the King of Han was unable to resist, so he asked the Xiongnu for peace and led an army to attack Han together. Zhou Bo was ordered to lead an army against Han Wangxin, Chen Feng, and Lu Xie, and won a great victory and worshiped him as a lieutenant.
In 195 BC, before liu bang died, he entrusted Zhou Bo and predicted that "those who are under the an Liu clan will be Bo ye".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="157" > Liu Bang died, Lü Hou dictatorship, Zhou Bo dormant</h1>
In 195 BC, the Yingbu rebellion, Liu Bang originally wanted to let the crown prince Liu Ying personally go to the front line to supervise the battle, in order to boost morale. However, Liu Ying was cowardly and timid, and Lü Hou was also afraid that Liu Ying would go to the front line, and the position of prince would be full of branches, so he threw himself in front of Liu Bang, hoping that Liu Bang could take back his life.
Liu Bang sat in front of the case, squinted his eyes to look at his wife, and then looked at his son, sighed deeply, and gave up, ordering the three armies to decide to personally drive the conquest. This year, Liu Bang was already a sixty-one-year-old man.
Sixty-one-year-old man, after all, the action will not be too sharp, in the front line of the crusade against Yingbu, Liu Bang was unfortunately shot by a stray arrow, seriously injured, and died in Chang'an soon after.
After Liu Bang's death, the crown prince Liu Ying took the throne as Emperor Hui of Han. His son Emperor Hui of Han was cowardly by nature, and without the restraint of her husband Liu Bang, Lü Hou became more and more unscrupulous in purging dissidents, and soon after firmly controlled the supreme power of the Western Han Empire in his own hands.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="158" > Lü Hou came to the dynasty, and the kings surnamed Liu were slaughtered and purged</h1>
When he was young, Lü Yan may have been kind and virtuous, but after becoming empress, Lü Yan was absolutely evil.
Shortly after Liu Bang's death, the sixteen-year-old Liu Ying took the throne as Emperor Hui of Han. After Liu Ying ascended the throne, he implemented benevolent government, reduced taxes, appointed Xiao He and Cao San as ministers, and implemented the policy of Xiao Zhi Cao following and recuperating, and the society presented a clear and clear scene. The idiom "Xiao Zhi Cao Sui" comes from here.
After his son became emperor and did not have the constraints of her husband, Lü Hou, who held a lot of power, began his own crazy revenge plan.
The first thing Lü Hou had to deal with were Lady Qi and her son Liu Ruyi the Prince of Zhao. Knowing her mother Mo Ruozi, Liu Ying knew that her mother was going to attack Liu Ruyi, so she was always on guard to protect her brother.
One morning in 194 BC, Liu Ying went out with something, and seeing that the time was still early, he wanted his younger brother Liu Ruyi to sleep a little more. As soon as Liu Ying left, the minions told Lü Hou the news, and by the time Liu Ying returned, Liu Ruyi had already been poisoned.
Poisoning Liu Ruyi, Lü Hou was not satisfied, and she began to attack Lady Qi. Lü Hou ordered Lady Qi to chop off her limbs, cut off her eyes, cut off her tongue, and poke her deaf and make a human figure and put her in the toilet. After a few days, Lü Hou ordered someone to invite Liu Ying to come and admire Ren Yan. After Liu Ying arrived, she found that the so-called person was Lady Qi, and she was frightened and cried bitterly.
This incident left a great psychological shadow on the young Liu Ying, and Liu Ying sent someone to Say to Lü Hou after he eased up: "This kind of thing is not done by people. Erchen was the son of the empress dowager, and after all, there was no way to rule the world. "Since then, he has been seriously ill and has ignored the government.
After that, Lü Hou purged the kings surnamed Liu even more unscrupulously.
In 188 BC, Liu Ying, the Han Hui Emperor who did not approve of Lü Hou's actions but was powerless to change the status quo, came to the end of his life in depression. Soon, Lü Hou weighed the rules and completely walked from behind the scenes to the front desk.
After Emperor Hui's death, the crown prince Liu Gong took the throne as the former Shao Emperor. When the former Young Emperor learned that his mother had been killed by Lü Hou, he said to the people that "he will avenge his mother". Soon, the news became known to Lü Hou, and Liu Gong was executed by his grandmother Lü Hou.
After Liu Gong's death, Lü Hou selected the more obedient Liu Hong as a puppet emperor among Liu Ying's remaining five sons (it is said that Lü Hou chose Liu Hong because Liu Hong's mother was a daughter of the Lü family) to make it easier to control.
In 180 BC, Lü Hou, the most powerful woman in the history of the Western Han Dynasty, was also about to complete her evil life.
So, during this time, what was Zhou Bo of "An Liu Zhi Bo Ye" doing? In fact he was dormant, he was waiting for an opportunity, the opportunity for Lü Hou to die.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="159" > the success of the "Suilu Operation", and the Western Han Empire returned to the hands of the Liu clique</h1>
In 180 BC, this opportunity finally arrived, and on August 18, The fierce and powerful Lü Hou finally completed her evil life.
After Lü Hou's death, the chancellor Chen Ping and the taiwei Zhou Bo and other Xungui cliques joined forces with the remaining kings surnamed Liu to immediately launch an operation to overthrow Lü, and under the offensive of destroying Lü Hou, without Lü Hou's Lü family, the paper tiger was quickly pulled down from the altar.
In the action of Su Lü, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo mainly did two things: the first thing was to kill the Lü clan; the second thing was to avoid the appearance of foreign relatives like the Lü family in the future, and chose Liu Heng, who was weak in the matriarchal family, as emperor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="160" >why didn't the "Lulu Operation" take place while Lü Hou was alive, so why did she have to wait for her to die? </h1>
Many people may have such a question, since the Xungui clique and the kings surnamed Liu joined forces to destroy the Lü clan so easily? So why not carry out "Operation Jielu" as soon as possible?
In fact, Lü Hou is too powerful, of course, the power here does not mean that Lü Hou's martial arts are strong, but her political means are too powerful.
There were three forces in the Western Han Dynasty, the Xungui clique, the kings surnamed Liu, and the foreign relatives of the Lü family. Among these three forces, the Xungui clique was the strongest (holding military power), followed by the Lü family's relatives, and the kings surnamed Liu were the weakest.
When Liu Bang was alive, these three forces were closely around Liu Bang. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan took over the power of the Lü family's foreign relatives, and also served as the head of the princes surnamed Liu (controlling most of the power of the kings surnamed Liu). Even if the Xungui clique was dominant, it could not compete with Lü Hou.
After Lü Hou's death, the three forces competed again, and the Xungui clique and the kings surnamed Liu united, and the Lü family's relatives naturally could only lead the neck to kill.
This is why when Liu Ying, the Emperor of Han hui, died, Lü Hou, as a mother, actually cried and did not feel sad, because she was afraid, she was afraid that Liu Ying's death would cause the reorganization of the three forces.
Of course, Lü Hou was afraid of the Xungui clique, and the Xungui clique was also afraid of Lü Hou, so while Lü Hou was alive, the Western Han Dynasty, the Xungui clique and the Lü family's foreign relatives reached a reconciliation, until Lü Hou's death, this reconciliation was broken, and the "LuLu Action" followed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="161" > "Sui Lu Action" not only cursed the Lü family, but also reprimanded Liu Bang's four grandsons and grandsons</h1>
When Lü Hou was alive, didn't he consider the way out for the Lü family's relatives after his death?
Of course she took it into account, not only did she, she laid it out early on.
Even, Emperor Wen of Han, who was later promoted by the Xungui clique (when Emperor Hui was still alive, he was only a humble relative of the Liu family's royal family, and no one would have thought that he could be emperor), he married a wife who was also a Lü family girl, not only that, this Lü family girl also bore Emperor Han Wendi four sons.
Yes, this is what Lü Hou did, that is, to let the kings of the Liu surname and the foreign relatives of the Lü clan marry each other, so that from now on, you have me, I have you, as long as the Liu surname is still in the world, the Lü family's foreign relatives will always be rich and healthy.
I have to say that Lü Hou's plot is indeed deep enough, and his thoughts are indeed far enough.
So, can Lü Hou's idea really be realized? Of course not, her mistake was to underestimate the determination of the Xungui clique to eliminate the foreign relatives of the Lu family.
Since the Xungui clique headed by Chen Ping and Zhou Bo had already made up its mind to eliminate the Lü family's foreign relatives, how could they not cut the grass and remove the roots in order to prevent them from resurgence?
After the Xungui clique purged Zhu Lü, they deposed and executed Emperor Hui and imprisoned the remaining three sons of Emperor Hui, on the grounds that none of Emperor Hui's surviving sons were emperor Hui's own children.
"The Young Emperor and the Kings of Liang, Huaiyang, and Changshan were not true filial pieties. Lü Hou deceived the other son, killed his mother, raised a harem, and made Xiao Huizizhi the queen, and the kings, to the Lü clan. "
Immediately after that, they selected a new emperor among the kings surnamed Liu, and there were only two criteria. First, the matrilineal strength of the new emperor must be weak enough (to avoid the dictatorship of foreign relatives), and the second is that the new emperor must have no connection with the foreign relatives of the Lü family (to prevent the resurgence of the foreign relatives of the Lü family).
You can choose to go, and you simply can't find a candidate who meets the requirements of the new emperor. The dwarf chose the general, and finally had no choice but to choose Liu Heng, the acting king, because the acting king Liu Heng's maternal strength was weak, and although his wife was also related to the Lü family's foreign relatives, she was only once a maid of the Lü family's foreign relatives.
However, even so, the Xungui clique was not completely at ease, and on the night of Liu Heng's entry into Beijing, Liu Hong and other four sons of Emperor Hui were executed. At this point, Emperor Hui of Han liu ying was extinct.
Later, under the persecution of the Xungui clique, in order to show sincerity, Liu Heng was forced to kill his four sons (born to the handmaidens of the Lü family' foreign relatives) before successfully claiming the title of emperor with the support of the Xungui clique.
In this way, Zhou Bo, the "honest man" whom Liu Bang favored, killed Liu Bang's four grandsons in a row within two days to make Emperor Hui die, and incidentally killed liu Bang's four grandsons.
At the beginning of Emperor Wen of Han's reign, Zhou Bo, because of his meritorious support for Emperor Wen of Han, was given the title of Tai Wei (太尉), competed with Emperor Wen of Han for power, was tyrannical, and enjoyed all his glory. Later, Emperor Wen of Han won the struggle for power with the Xungui clique, and casually found a reason to send Zhou Bo to prison and dismiss him, many people felt that Zhou Bo was innocent, but was Zhou Bo really innocent?
I don't know if there really is a spirit in heaven, will Liu Bang regret seeing this ending? Do you lament that you see the wrong person?