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Liu Bang failed in several battles with Xiang Yu and became a defeated general under Xiang Yu, Liu Bang was even more beaten in the Battle of Pengcheng, and his family became Xiang Yu's captives, while Liu Bang fled all the way to Dingtao, and met the young and beautiful Lady Qi when Liu Bang was at his worst, who was beautiful in appearance, proficient in music, and good at singing and dancing. Liu Bang, who was in his prime, was attracted by the beauty of Lady Qi, who had just passed the cardamom age, with a graceful posture, delicate and delicate, toned and quick, and her whole body was full of intoxicating breath. Liu Bangna's widely circulated English name won the admiration of the Father and Daughter of the Qi family. In this way, the grassy hero became acquainted with an amorous beauty, Liu Bang took the Qi clan as a concubine, and was deeply favored by Liu Bang, and later followed Liu Bang to fight.
In the first year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu pacified Hebei into Hangu Pass. According to the previous covenant, Liu Bang should be the king of Guanzhong, but Xiang Yu relied on his own strong army and horses, and established himself to rule the Western Chu overlords of Liang, Chu and other rich nine counties and set the capital Pengcheng, but instead ba, Shu, and Han counties were given to Liu Bang, and he was crowned king of Han, with the capital of Southern Zheng. Although Liu Bang was not willing to go to the backward Bashu, but because of the favorable defense, and under the strength of Xiang Yu, he had to accept it, so he began to recuperate and then wait for the opportunity to advance east. In this year, Lady Qi gave birth to a son For Liu Bang, Liu Ruyi.
In August of the First Year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bangxiu took a full month after he visited Han Xin as a general to occupy the Three Qin regions, and opened the curtain on the Chu-Han War, and in each subsequent battle with Xiang Yu, Lady Qi would use song and dance to celebrate Liu Bang's merits or relieve his worries, and Liu Bang would always see her slender waist, confused gaze, and lady Qi who was considerate and understanding everywhere, and Liu Bang had an irreplaceable attachment to Lady Qi.
In February of the second year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang ordered the people of Guanzhong to abolish the Sheji of the Qin Dynasty sacrifices and replace it with the Sheji of Han, which marked the formal establishment of the Han regime, and at the same time made Lü Yan the empress dowager, and his 6-year-old concubine Liu Ying was crown prince. And this irrational decision is the beginning of Mrs. Qi's death,
In the following days, because Liu Ying was benevolent and weak, and Lady Qi had also cried many times around Liu Bang and said that she had made her son crown prince, so Liu Bang had the idea of deposing the prince, so he began to ask for advice from his close ministers many times, but was opposed by Zhang Liang and his uncle Sun Tong and many other elders, but Lü Hou did not idle after hearing this, so he asked Zhang Liang how to deal with it, Zhang Liang said that Liu Bang had invited Shangshan Sihao to come out many times without success, and if the prince could welcome these four people, it would certainly help to consolidate the position of prince. As Zhang Liang said, when Liu Bang saw Shangshan Sihao, he couldn't help but sigh that Lü Hou's wings had become one. In fact, Liu Bang asked the chancellor about the abolition of the crown prince, which was equivalent to exposing Lady Qi and Liu Ruyi to the opposite side of Lü Hou. When Liu Bang knew that the general situation had gone, he began to worry about Lady Qi, he knew that Empress Lü's vicious heart would not let Lady Qi go, but how to arrange Liu Bang was already in chaos, he actually believed in the plan to arrange Lady Qi and King Zhao to the feudal state, and then send a minister to serve as the minister of the feudal state. At that time, Liu Bang should have thought about what would happen to Lady Qi after his death.
Of course, Liu Bang should be fully capable of making decisions for Lady Qi. Although Lü Hou was weighty but far inferior to Liu Bang, in fact, Lü Hou's wings except for a very small number of Lü clan relatives, most of them were Liu Bang's supporters, as long as Liu Bang's next holy will to change Liu Ruyi to the crown prince was not a problem, but Liu Bang because he was the son of the Han Dynasty, bearing the rise and fall of the world, could not let the scarred Han Dynasty rise again because of the private feelings of his children, so Liu Bang made such a choice, and in this choice let his son King Zhao die, for his Chu Song chu dance Lady Qi was sent by Lü Hou to cut off his hands, limbs, limbs, and eyes, Deaf ears, dumb medicine, thrown in the toilet as an adult, Mrs. Qi died silently after being tortured.
The tragic death of Lady Qi has received sympathy and pity from later generations, so many people in China regard her as the "toilet god" and "Qi Gu", and every time the Yuan Festival and the Middle Yuan Festival, there is a custom of sacrificing Lady Qi outside the toilet at home. The "Goddess of the Toilet" rules the world's latrines and acts as a substitute for the auspiciousness of the personnel. The Ming Dynasty Feng Yingjing's "Moon Order Broad Meaning" records the First Moon Order: "The Lantern please the god of Qigu. Mrs. Gaihan's wife died in the toilet, so all those who asked for it were invited to the toilet. Now commonly known as Qigu, the sound is close to also. ”
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