Lu Lu
Name: Lu Yan
Year of birth and death: 241 BC to 180 BC
Place of Origin: Shan Father (present-day Shan County, Shandong)
Marriage: Western Han Dynasty Gao zu Liu Bang
Lü Yan was the original wife of Liu Bang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty, known as Lü Hou in history, the first recorded empress in history, and the first woman to take the throne after Qin Shi Huang unified China. Because of her strategic skills and considerable political ability, after the death of her husband and son, she listened to the government of the dynasty, and during her reign, she respected the learning of Huang Laozhi, implemented a policy of rest with the people, supported Emperor Hui of Han in abolishing the law of holding books, and encouraged the people to collect books, dedicate books, and restore the old classics. The practice of ruling by doing nothing laid a solid foundation for the later rule of Wenjing. In the later period of his reign, the reuse of the Lü family brothers and sisters opened a precedent for the dictatorship of foreign relatives in the Han Dynasty.
Rich people and prodigal children on the street
The beginning of the story is quite legendary, since the single father moved to Pei County, the squire Lu Gong invited the neighbors to a banquet, and said to the old man who went to eat white food when he was idle: "I like to give people a face since I was young, and I have given more people to meet, no one can compare with your face, I hope you cherish yourself." I have a wife and concubine who is willing to give you a sprinkler. ”
This kind of pie in the sky is a good thing, and those who do not agree are fools, so Lü Yan, who is less than twenty years old, marries Liu Ji, the chief of Surabaya Pavilion who is nearly forty years old and still unmarried.
Later, this Liu Ji changed his name to Liu Bang, took some criminals and displaced people to rob the house, and as the momentum became more and more powerful, and then accidentally let the prophecy of "the death of Qin II" come true, opening the curtain on the 405 years of the 405 years of the Two Han Dynasties in the West and the East.
This ending, perhaps even Lü Gong, who knows people and has skill, did not expect it.
No one knows whether Lü Yan has no complaints about her father's messy Mandarin Duck, in short, she did accept her father's arrangement and married this man who was fifteen years older than herself, had no ambition, could not work, had no income, and had a son (Liu Fei) out of wedlock.
Marriage changes destiny
Since ancient times, marriage has been a major change in a woman's destiny, and Lu Lu is no exception. After marrying Liu Bang, Lü Yan, who never worried about three meals in his boudoir, had to work in the field himself, weave and sew clothes, support himself, raise his children, and be filial to his in-laws, but also often sent warm clothes and food to her husband who did not have trouble everywhere at home.
The hardships are only self-aware, but I think she must have had a grudge.
In April of the second year of han (205 BC), the Han army took advantage of Xiang Yu's inability to extricate itself from Qi and captured the Chu capital Pengcheng in one fell swoop. Xiang Yu led the cavalry to quickly return to defense, and fought with the Han army at Suishui, the Han army was defeated, and Lü Yan and other Liu Bang's family members were captured by the Chu army.
During the confrontation between the two armies, Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang to surrender, and if he did not comply, he boiled Liu Taigong,Liu's father, with Da Ding. Even though he knew that it was a psychological game, when he looked at the bubbling cauldron and listened to the husband who said with a smile, "Wu Weng is Ruo Weng, I will want to cook and Weng, then I will be lucky to share a piece of my soup", Lü Yan's heart must have a grudge.
It should be thanked that the Chu Emperor was not so depressed, but this day of fear did not end until September of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty (203 BC), when Chu Han and Lü Yan were released to return to Han.
Stills: Lu Yan
The husband can let go, and the son cannot be taken
Why people become vicious, as long as you have tasted despair and jealousy.
Lü Yan, who was released back to Han, greeted her not only with her husband and a pair of children, but also with her new favorite, Lady Qi, a flower-raising girl who was good at singing and dancing, and her son Zhao Wang Ruyi. At this time, Lü Yan was often left behind because he was older than Lady Qi, and liu Bang was accompanied by Lady Qi of the Xieyu Language.
Youth is no more, and her husband's favor is no more, Lü Yan comforted herself, fortunately she still has the title of empress and her son Liu Ying, according to tradition, it must be a concubine to inherit the throne and property, and Liu Bang has declared Liu Ying crown prince in June of the second year of Han (205 BC). It is said that after that, life has been able to see the end at a glance, the son succeeded to the throne, she was the empress, and there was no wind and no waves to be rich and noble all year round.
She also persuaded herself to let go of her reluctance, but Liu Bang, who was greedy for goods and good and beautiful, wanted to make Liu Ruyi the prince of Qi Jizi on the grounds that Liu Yingren was weak and "not like me", because "Ruyi was like me".
No matter how deep the feelings are, they can't withstand such endless consumption, not to mention that between the couples who gather less and more, they may not have had a deep affection like the sea.
It was she who gave up her husband Jun, and only then did she have the situation that her son's status was not guaranteed, if she let it go again, then in the future, Liu Ruyi would succeed to the throne, where would the three of them go?
Stills: Liu Bang and Lü Yan
Fix the position of prince and kill the meritorious minister
Sometimes in life, it is not a step back from the sea and the sky, it is likely that this small step back can make you doomed.
If the friendship of common suffering is not as good as the laughter of the newcomer, if the identity of the wife cannot become a guarantee of stability, then it is always necessary to hold something longer to resist the wind and sword of the future.
Sometimes, the growth of a person only takes one night.
No one already knew whether Lü Yan had cried weakly when he heard the news that Liu Bang wanted to change to crown prince. It should have been the goodness and weakness that had cried, died for itself.
It is a pity that the young and beautiful Lady Qi cries, which will make men pity and heartache, and the tears and accusations of an unfavored chaff wife will only make men hate and stay away.
Of course, not all men will be seduced by beauty.
In the former dynasty, there were ministers such as Zhou Chang and Shusun Tong who resolutely opposed the abolition of Chang Liyou, and on this side there was also Zhang Liang's plan: go and ask Shangshan Sihao, whose majesty could not invite him, to assist the crown prince Liu Ying.
Lü Yan gladly accepted the teaching, and sent his brother Lü Ze to invite Shangshan Sihao with the handwritten letter and generous gifts of the crown prince Liu Ying.
Although Liu Bang was arrogant and rude, with the consciousness of a successful politician, he knew that the prince had full wings, and if he shook his position, he would be afraid of hurting the country, and the gain would not be worth the loss.
Since then, the matter of deposing the prince has been put to rest.
If the abolition of the crown prince made Lü Yan feel the political corner, then when he eradicated the king with a different surname, Lü Yan really stepped onto the political stage.
It is difficult to fight the world, and it is even more difficult to defend the world. The monarch mainly guards against the high merits of the lord, and the subordinates must also guard against the cunning rabbit death of the lord, and the lackey cooks the face mercilessly.
At this time, in the eyes of outsiders, Lü Yan, who was fiercely suppressed by Lady Qi, had no love and no favor, and Lü Yan, whose son's status as prince was also in danger, became a seemingly harmless but incomparably sharp knife in Liu Bang's hands.
While Liu Bang was outside the battlefield, she and Xiao He used a plan to kill Han Xin, thus successfully shocking other heroes. Soon, Peng Yue, the king of Liang, was deposed by Liu Bang as a Shuren and exiled to Shu. On the way, when he met Lü Yan, Peng confessed his innocence, and Lü Yan promised to intercede for him and bring him back to Xianyang. She said to Liu Bang: "If you let Peng Yue go, it is equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain." Liu Bang then executed him, killed him, and chopped it into meat sauce and distributed it to the other princes.
From Peng Yue to Han Xin, these famous and famous figures in history died in front of The Woman Lü Yan.
I believe that it was also at this time that Lü Yan tasted the sweetness of power.
The knife is in his own hand, and he kills and kills himself.
Husband dies and dies
In April of the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty (195 BC), Liu Bang died, and the crown prince Liu Ying succeeded to the throne as Emperor Hui.
A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late. Lü Yan, who had turned into empress dowager, was never a magnanimous person, and she had secretly mourned for four days after Liu Bang's death, and consulted with the male pet to judge him to kill the heroes, but then gave up this move under the persuasion of Li Shang, from persuading Liu Bang to kill Peng Yue so as not to let the tiger return to the mountains, and then deliberately killing the heroes, it is conceivable that Lü Yan is not a good kind.
Because of this former love enemy, she did not have a good face, and all the favored ones were imprisoned, and the most favored Lady Qi shaved her hair, tied her neck in an iron circle, and put on a prison coat and sent her to Yongxiang to do hard labor. Later, in December of the first year of Xiao Hui 's reign (195 BC), he killed Ruyi the King of Zhao, moved Liu You, the King of Huaiyang, as Zhao, and cut off Lady Qi's hands and feet, deafened her ears, gouge out her eyes, and poisoned her with dumb medicine, which was thrown into the latrine and called "Ren Yan" [zhì].
Lü Yan, who had been revenge for the great revenge, breathed a sigh of relief and sent someone to send his son Liu Ying to Yongxiang to see the fruits of victory, and Liu Ying, who had always been benevolent and weak, cried bitterly at Lady Qi, who was bleeding like a meat worm, "This kind of thing is not done by people. The subject was the son of the empress dowager, and after all, there was no way to govern the world. "Since then, I have been seriously ill and devastated.
In August of the seventh year of Xiaohui (188 BC), Liu Ying died of depression.
Lü Yan made Liu Gong the crown prince, and he himself was in charge of the imperial title, exercising the authority of the emperor, and the imperial court orders were all from the empress dowager, the first person in the dictatorship of the chinese empress.
Great Seal of Zhulu
When a woman has no husband and son, all she can rely on is her own mother's family.
After Emperor Xiaohui's death, Lü Yan listened to the advice of the chancellor Chen Ping, and Lü Tai, Lü Chan, and Lü Lu became generals, commanding the southern and northern armies, and let the people of the Lü family enter the palace and take power in the imperial court, and the power of the Lü clan began from then on. Later, she posthumously honored her two late brothers, the eldest brother Lü Hou as the King of Mourning Wu and Lü Shizhi as the King of Zhao Zhao, as the beginning of the establishment of Zhu Lü as king.
To put it briefly, after that, almost everyone in the Lü family became kings, and the opposites of each other were long, and the Liu family, which was subordinate to the Lü family, must be dissatisfied. Even the later Young Emperor Liu Gong complained when he was slightly sensible, "How can the empress dowager kill my mother and make me the empress's son?" I'm still young, and when I'm older, I'll rebel. ”
Rice can be eaten indiscriminately, but words cannot be spoken indiscriminately, and Lü Yan simply and neatly deposed Liu Gong's throne, and secretly killed him, and established Liu Yi, the king of Changshan, as emperor and changed his name to Liu Hong.
The song ends with the dispersal
Eight years after Gao (180 BC), Lü Yan finally came to the end of his life. On August 1, Lü Yan fell ill and died, dying at the age of sixty-two, and was buried with Han Gaozu in Changling.
Before her death, she still did not forget to consolidate the Lü clan and ordered the appointment of her nephew Lü Lu the Prince of Zhao as a general to command the Northern Army; Lü Chan commanded the Southern Army. He also admonished them: "After Emperor Gao pacified the world, he made a covenant with his ministers: 'It is not the Liu clan who claims the kingship, but the whole world condemns it.'" Now that the Lü clan is crowned king, the Liu clan and the ministers are indignant, I will soon die, the emperor is young, and the ministers may mutiny. Therefore, you must firmly control the army, guard the palace, and never leave the palace to pay my funeral, and do not be stifled by others. ”
It has to be said that as an outstanding politician, Lü Yan's consideration is very thoughtful, but people die like lights, and her unfinished political plan is overthrown by the Liu royal clique. Liu Zhi's army sprang up, Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, attacked outside, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo responded internally, the kings of the Liu clan rose up in groups and killed Zhu Lü, the men and women of the Lü clan "beheaded all the young men and women", and a bloody struggle between the Liu clan and the Lü clan's foreign relatives ended in the victory of the imperial clique.
After destroying lü's forces, the chancellor believed that Neither Emperor Hou Shao and the other two Sons of Liu Ying, whom Lü Yan had appointed, were not Liu Ying's own children, so he deposed and then killed The Young Emperor Liu Hong, and chose an heir to the throne in the liu clan. The point of consideration was that his mother must not have a powerful mother's family, so Liu Heng, who was then crowned as the acting king, inherited the throne for Emperor Wen of Han.
At this point, Lü Yan and her Lü family ended on the stage of history.
postscript
Twenty-year-old Lü Yan, when he did not know how to put his hand in the hands of the man whose reputation was not very good, did not think that this would be the beginning of a magnificent dynasty.
From the daughter of a squire to the actual ruler of the Han Dynasty, it was difficult and difficult for outsiders to do so.
She was also naïve and ignorant, pure white and flawless, but in the end she did not escape the clouds of fate.