It is said that Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, had a younger son, named Liu Chang, who was named the King of Huainan. After Emperor Wen ascended the throne, he also took good care of this little brother. Liu Chang was arrogant and arrogant, and he often acted recklessly, not only killing Lü Hou's boyfriend to interrogate him, but also not obeying the Han law and starting a new stove on the fiefdom, which was very arrogant.
Over time, Liu Chang gradually became antipathetic, and also privately contacted Minyue and Xiongnu, and as a result, he was accused of being sent before he could act. The emperor could not sit idly by, and he reduced his brother to a Shuren and moved to Sichuan. Liu Chang could not bear this humiliation and committed suicide by hunger strike during the journey.
Upon receiving the news of his brother's death, Emperor Wen was very sad to hear this, and in order to compensate his brother, he divided the land of Huainan and distributed it to Liu Chang's sons. Among them, the eldest son Liu An received the largest fief and inherited the title of King of Huainan.
Compared with the corrupt princes of the same age, Liu An was simply a clear stream among the imperial family. People are not only not greedy and lustful, but also especially love to read, so that Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are all familiar, and even gua and alchemy are also good at it, it is said that even tofu is made by him, which is simply Edison of the Western Han Dynasty. In that year, there were thousands of scholars from the great name of King Muhuainan, and even Emperor Wu of Han had great respect for this cousin.
However, among several disciplines, Liu An's favorite is still Taoism. Because he had always wanted to become an immortal, he also gathered a lot of strange people and strangers under his command. One day, 8 old men came to the Huainan Palace and wanted to defect to Liu An. Liu An couldn't look up to them, so he sent someone to send a message: Our great king only accepts three types of people, one is an immortal expert, the second is a confucian who learns to be rich in five cars, and the third is a warrior who can carry the crown, I see that your eight brothers are so old, they will not do anything, don't come to shame people, go home quickly.
The eighth old man laughed and said, "We originally thought that the King of Huainan was a handsome man of the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States, but when he heard you say this, he was just a layman." Don't you think our brother is a few old, now we become younger for you to see! As soon as the words fell out, the eight old men brushed together and turned into the appearance of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, with a full and ruddy face, and there were many water spirits and many water spirits.
The servants were shocked and hurried to report to the king of Huainan. As soon as Liu An heard this, he was so anxious that he didn't wear any shoes and personally ran out to greet the guests, and respectfully invited The Eight Dukes to the SixianTai. After Shangqi Zhen had eaten delicious wine, the king of Huainan prostrated his head and knelt down, and poor Baba begged the eight immortals to teach him some real skills, so that he could become an immortal as soon as possible.
Eight elders said that this is easy to do, although our Taoism is shallow, but how to be stronger than you, like what clouds to drive the fog, spray clouds to spit fog, knives and guns do not enter, landslides, instantaneous movement of these spells we will, what you want to learn, we teach you is.
Liu An listened to the touched no, prostrated his head like pounding garlic to express gratitude, and entertained eight old men with fine wine and delicacies all day long, how luxurious and luxurious. After a long time, I finally came out of people's hands with a secret book - "Jade Dan Jing". According to the method in the scriptures, Liu An quickly refined the elixir, but before he could come and take it, something happened at home.
The culprit was none other than Liu Qian, the crown prince of Huainan, who thought that his sword skills were invincible in the world and loved to be able to do it very much. However, in a contest, he lost to The First Swordsman of Huainan, Lei Wei, and was injured by others. From then on, Liu Qian hated Lei Langzhong and wanted to kill him quickly.
Lei was frightened and offered to go to the battlefield to fight the Xiongnu, trying to avoid disaster, but Liu An refused. The dog jumped under the wall, Lei was sneaked to Chang'an, and wrote to the imperial court, saying that the king of Huainan prevented him from fighting the Xiongnu, openly opposed the main theme of the country, had a disobedient heart, and was punished according to the law!
Emperor Wu of Han did not want to make things bigger, so he made the big things small, and only symbolically cut off the two counties of Huainan to show punishment, which was very lenient. But Liu An was very upset, and said in his heart, how could such a benevolent and righteous king be insulted like this? Isn't this trying to force me to rebel? Then I'll show you the other one!
As a result, Liu An wrapped up Several of Wu Wei, Zuo Wu, Zhao Xian, and several other subordinates, ready to shake his arms and stir up the world like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. In order to ascend the throne, he also prepared a full set of seal letters for the emperor and the chancellor in advance. As a result, before he could raise an army, he was sued by his grandson Liu Jian. The imperial court attached great importance to it, and immediately sent ZongZheng and officials to investigate and deal with it immediately.
Just when Liu An was about to fight a fish to death, the eight open mouths: they said you must not resist, this is the great opportunity given to you by God! If it weren't for people doing it for you, it would be difficult for you to make up your mind to get out of the world. Now, get ready to become an immortal!
Liu Anyi total, yes! I have found so many Daoists and dan who have been practicing for so long, is it not for today? So he quickly followed Hachiko up the mountain to pray, hastily swallowed the elixir he had refined before, and then ascended to heaven in a daze, making him commit suicide. Although he ran away, the thousands of people implicated in the treason case all lost their heads.
According to Ge Hong, the reason why the "History of Han" recorded Liu Anchengxian as committing suicide in fear of sin was that he was afraid that the emperors would learn from each other and want to ascend to heaven every day, delaying major state events. However, after Liu An went to heaven, the mixture was not very good.
Because of his noble birth and his pampering from an early age, Liu An's attitude towards the immortal officials was very arrogant. Not only did he not want to salute people, he also spoke loudly, and he often called himself a widow, which made the immortals of his predecessors very annoyed. Therefore, some people complained about Liu An's black form in front of the Heavenly Emperor, saying that he had no respect for his superiors, was not worthy to stay in the heavenly court, and should kick him back to the human world.
Thanks to the eight justices and righteousness, he said a lot of good things for Liu An, which saved his immortal book. However, the death penalty can be avoided, the living crime is difficult to escape, in order to relieve the anger of the predecessors, Liu An was matched to the Tianting Health Department and swept the toilet for three years. After that, he was not named an immortal official, but became an immortal immortal. This result disappointed the King of Huainan.
Although his uncle was not good in heaven, his nephew Emperor Wudi of Han on earth was envious and wanted to die. After learning the news of the King of Huainan's ascension to heaven from Zuo Wu's mouth, Emperor Wu enviously and chafed and said: If I can become an immortal like Uncle, I can throw it away like a broken shoe in this world, and I don't care at all!
Therefore, like Liu An, he also spent a huge amount of money to recruit strange people and strangers. However, Emperor Wu was a person who everyone knew, his immortal fate was particularly poor, not only did he not find the Eight Gongs, but the swindlers like Gongsun Qing and Luan Da came a lot, and repeatedly suffered losses.
Just when Liu Che was struggling to find immortals, something was wrong in the backyard of the Huainan King's Mansion. It turned out that Liu An's leftover elixir was not cleaned up, and the chicken dogs in the house accidentally ate some, and even flew away from the clouds. These domestic animals effortlessly fulfilled Emperor Wu's lifelong wish that he could not get.
——Excerpt from "The Legend of the Immortals"
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