In April 195 BC, less than a month after the death of Liu Bang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty and a commoner-born ancestor, crown prince Liu Ying was finally granted the throne as Emperor Hui of Han.
After eight years of suffering as a prince, it was not easy for this young man who grew up with his mother in the fields to become the second emperor of the Han Dynasty.
At this moment, facing the majestic Weiyang Palace. When everything was so real and unmistakable, Liu Ying, who was only 17 years old and had a cowardly personality, suddenly woke up in a big dream, and a joy that could not be concealed rippled in his heart, just when Liu Ying, who was proud of his youth in the spring wind, reveled in the beautiful feeling of the throne and had not yet returned to God, his mother Lü Yan was not willing, and the Great Han Dynasty was ordered by his son Liu Ying. This peasant woman, who used to have a pair of children, had to worry about the food and clothing of the whole family, and also had to go to the field to plant crops, since becoming the first empress of the Han Dynasty, she deeply felt the weight of these rights.
Thinking about the second-rate husband at the beginning, after looking at the glory of the scenery after becoming the emperor, For his son's ascension to the throne, Lü Yan was not only not happy, but also very unhappy in his heart. In order to be able to monopolize power by himself, Lü Yan was also planning how to control the authority of the Han Dynasty in his own hands.
So how can we realize our long-cherished wish of dictatorship? In the struggle to fight with her husband, Lü Yan, who had already honed his ambition, fierce heart, and scheming far higher than his son, in order not to be accused by his courtiers and cause civil unrest, after much thought, he finally decided not to abolish his son's throne, nor to replace it openly, but to adopt a way that many people could not imagine in view of the characteristics of his son's cowardly personality. That is, mentally and psychologically, this young emperor Liu Ying, who had no ruling experience at all.
Sure enough, within a few days of giving Liu Ying the throne of God, Lü Yan ruthlessly attacked his son Liu Ying according to his own plan.
One day, Lü Yan brought his son, who did not know his plot. Next to a remote toilet in the palace, he forced him to look at Lady Qi, who had already been chopped off by himself, blinded his eyes, deafened his ears, and curled up miserably, and was in pain, the so-called Lady Qi, who was Liu Bang's concubine before he was born. At that time, Liu Ying was mentally unprepared, and he did not know what his mother was going to do, and when he saw this Lady Qi who wanted to die, could not live early, and was no longer an adult, the young emperor was suddenly crying and crying under the tragic scene in front of him, and his soul was not possessed. Liu Ying's heart could not withstand such cruel blows and frightening stimuli, and she suddenly became ill.
The emperor looked at it and asked, knowing that His wife was crying, because of the illness, he could not afford to stay! This is recorded in the history books. From then on, Lü Yan, the unusual woman, played with her own destroyed puppet-like emperor. As the first crown prince of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Ying's short life encountered too many difficulties. Needless to say, the childhood spent in the countryside and war chaos as a child was that after becoming the crown prince, due to the repeated hesitation of his father Liu Bang, he almost lost the throne.
Fortunately, under the operation of the mother queen, Liu Ying not only retained the identity of the prince. Finally, he was given the throne of Emperor Hui of Han. However, when he first ascended the throne, his mother gave him this Ma Wei, which suddenly caused the young emperor's mind, spirit and body to be completely destroyed. Since then, Liu Ying, who is weak like a lamb, spends her days drinking and lewd, and drinking every day for sexual pleasure and not listening to politics.
The ruling authority of the Han Dynasty was thus tightly held in the hands of Lü Yan. Compared with the vast majority of crown princes who were born in the deep palace and grew up in the arms of their nursing mothers, Liu Ying, who lived with her parents in her old hometown and spent her childhood, was not only a crown prince who was full of pockets, but also an emperor who did not do anything, in 211 BC, when Lü Yan, who was in his early thirties, gave birth to Liu Ying, her lazy man who did not do family production work, second-rate husband Liu Bang, was a pavilion chief of the Surabaya Pavilion of the Qin Dynasty, and the grass-roots officials of the Qin Dynasty were set up as ten miles and one pavilion, ten pavilions and one township, hey, As soon as this small official position arrived, Liu Bang was a good drink, eating and drinking drunk, and indulging in indulgence and pleasure all day long.
Soon after, Liu Bang was escorting some people to Xianyang, and he had the privilege of seeing the Qin Shi Huang Emperor who was traveling, and in the face of the spectacular scene of hugging before and after, Liu Bang said with great emotion on the spot, Oh, manhood, you must have such courage. Oh, so there is the sentence in the history, oh, the big husband should be like this.
Later, Liu Bang once again escorted his husband to Lishan Bandao, and many people fled because they were afraid of hard labor. Liu Bang was afraid of pursuing responsibility after returning, so in 209 BC he pulled some like-minded people to raise an army in his hometown of Pei County to rebel.
Later, together with Xiang Liang, who had raised an army like him, he opposed Qin, and after several years of arduous conquest, he finally overthrew the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC.
When Liu Bang rose up and led a peasant uprising like him against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, Lü Yan was now with a pair of children, and was busy doing farm work in the fields all day long. Liu Bang was forced by Xiang Yu to leave his hometown of Pei County, and he wanted to flee with his family, but forced by the situation, when he did not have time to take his wife and children with him, he ran away first in a hurry. Xiang Yu chased after Liu Bang's house to take a look. Lü Yan and his father-in-law had already taken the child and ran away without a trace.
Later, one day, the two children met their father Liu Bang on the way to escape, tearfully rushed to their father to sit in the car, because Xiang Jun was in hot pursuit behind, in order to escape, Liu Bang actually ruthlessly pushed his children out of the car, wanted to escape by himself, Xiahou Baby, who was present, saw Liu Bang so selfishly, ruthlessly, and angrily accused Liu Bang and said, Even if the situation is critical, you can't leave your children alone. Under the persuasion of Xiahou Bao, Liu Ying's sister and brother stayed with their father.
Although he saw his son and daughter, his father and wife Lu Lu were not found. Later, they were captured by Xiang Yu's men and left as hostages. Since then, Lü Yan has been detained in the hands of Xiang Yu for more than two years.
In February 206 BC, when the Qin Dynasty was about to collapse, Xiang Yu, who had established himself as the king of Western Chu, in order to prevent the world from causing great chaos again, took the form of dividing the land and dividing the land and the king, and named Liu Bang the King of Han in the name of King Huai of Chu, ruling over Bashu and 41 counties in the Hanzhong area. A year later, Liu Bang moved around Liyang and made his seven-year-old son Liu Ying crown prince. Later, after Liu Bang became emperor, Lü Yan was made empress and Liu Ying was made crown prince.
Compared with the crown prince who did not touch the throne for many years, playing in the fields from childhood, and helping his mother to work in the fields, and later being almost abandoned by his father in order to escape for his life, Liu Ying, who was called emperor with his father, his fate soon took a big turn, in April 195 BC. After the death of his father Liu Bang, the 17-year-old Liu Ying became the second emperor of the Han Dynasty as crown prince.
As the crown prince of Liu Bang's concubine, why is Liu Ying's fate full of many twists and turns? All of this is also related to Liu Bang. It turned out that since Liu Ying was made crown prince, Liu Bang did not like this future heir very much, plus before that, when Liu Bang was the king of Han, Lady DingTaoqi also gave birth to a son, Liu Ruyi, facing Liu Ying and Liu Ruyi, who grew up day by day, Liu Bang felt more and more that the kind and cowardly prince Liu Ying was not at all as powerful and decisive as he was.
Therefore, he was always worried that the Jiangshan he had worked so hard to create might not be able to be saved in the hands of Liu Ying, so Liu Bang had always wanted to abolish Liu Ying and establish Liu Ruyi, who had a similar personality to himself, as the crown prince. Although Liu Ying was fortunate to sit on the throne, looking back on the many storms he has experienced over the past ten years, whether from the day he was established as the crown prince or really sat on the throne of God, it can be said that there has never been peace. Around Liu Ying's short life, a thrilling court battle planned and directed by her mother, Empress Lü, and the fratricidal tragedy full of blood and flesh has always been fierce, and even Liu Ying's son, Emperor Han Shaodi, has not been able to escape the clutches of his grandmother Empress Lü in the end.