Liu Ying was the second emperor of the Han Dynasty, he was the second son of Liu Bang, and the western Han emperor's title was prefixed with a "filial piety" character, and his nickname was "Emperor Xiaohui".
Liu Ying stills
Liu Ying was emperor for a total of seven years (reigned from 195 BC to 188 BC), and was only 23 years old when he died. Throughout Liu Ying's career as emperor, his sense of existence was so poor that he was almost forgotten by posterity.
Liu Ying had six sons, two of whom were successively made emperors, but history did not recognize their status, so Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han, directly became the third emperor of the Han Dynasty. So, how did the throne pass into Liu Heng's hands, and where did Liu Ying's sons go?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Xiaohui Emperor Liu Yingqi</h1>
Liu Ying was the second son of Liu Bang, with a total of eight brothers, and due to their late birth, none of them were given the opportunity to go to the battlefield. In 209 BC, when Liu Bangpei County raised an army, Liu Ying was only two years old, and his half-brother Liu Fei was only 13 years old. In 205 BC, after the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Ying was taken to Guanzhong and made crown prince. Liu Ying's mother, Lü Yan, is the right wife, so he has the status of a concubine, and he is naturally the best candidate for the heir.
Junior Liu Ying stills third from the left
At that time, Liu Bang's other six sons had not yet been born, so there was no problem of someone competing with Liu Ying for the throne. In 202 BC, Liu Bang declared himself emperor, crowned Lü Yan as empress, and made Liu Ying crown prince. At this time, Liu Bangcai added two new sons, one was the third son Liu Ruyi, who was later made the King of Zhao, and the other was the fourth son Liu Heng, who later became Emperor Wen of Han.
According to the situation at that time, Liu Ying was a lucky person, who did not suffer from the war, but directly enjoyed the fruits of her father's labor. However, from the perspective of being the successor of the Great Han, Liu Ying has a clear character weakness, in the words of Liu Bang, it is a nest bag, only a promise, not suitable for being an heir, of course, in the mouth of the courtiers is "benevolence", and it is completely qualified to be a shoucheng king.
It was precisely because of this that later, Liu Bang almost deposed Liu Ying and established Liu Ruyi, the King of Zhao, as crown prince. The reason why Liu Ying was able to keep the position of crown prince was due to the strong support of the ministers and the strong resistance of his mother Lü Hou to his father Liu Bang. In the whole process of "easy storage storm", Liu Ying did not have the slightest right to speak, completely like an object, pushed around by adults.
In ancient times, fifteen or sixteen years old was enough to start a family, and in history, there was also a saying that "Ganluo was 12 years old and sent an envoy to the nations", but Liu Ying did not show the wisdom and strength he should have, so it also determined the root of his fate. In 195 BC, Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, and the power of the dynasty fell directly into the hands of her mother Lü Hou.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the era after Lü</h1>
After Liu Bang's death, liu ying was succeeded to the throne, but the person in charge was Empress Lü. "Zhizi Moruomu", Liu Ying has a benevolent and cowardly personality, and Lü Hou is a strong person, so it is expected that she will take over the power. In addition, as the Han Dynasty was just established, the situation was full of twists and turns, and the pattern was complicated, and she had to come to the foreground to preside over the situation.
Lü Hou's method was to elevate the status of the Lü clan, give them kings and knights, and let them take charge of military power. In this way, first of all, the military merit group did not dare to have a disobedient heart, and at the same time, it could suppress the excessive growth of the power of the princes surnamed Liu, so in the end, the Han Dynasty maintained a trend of orderly development in the hands of Lü Hou.
Lu Hou stills
For Liu Ying, since everything is taken care of by his mother, he has nothing to do all day, except for drinking, which is a bubble girl. In addition, Cao Shen, who is also a drunk, drinks darkly every day, and he also reminds Liu Ying that Gao Zu and Xiao Cheng Xiang have paved the way for us both, and we can just go along, and there is no need to toss anything anymore (Xiao Zhi Cao Sui). As a result, Liu Ying indulged in alcohol and lust, and hung up at the age of twenty-three.
Of course, Liu Ying's untimely death is also related to the inability to reflect his own value, and under the aura and majesty of his mother, he seems insignificant and helpless. Therefore, his mood did not go there, so that he was depressed and avoided the world, depressed, and eventually sank in the color of wine. You Dao is a hero and a good man of Lao Tzu, Liu Yingdu has this virtue, and his son is doomed to grief.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Liu Ying's sons</h1>
Liu Ying's wife was his nephew Zhang Yan, the daughter of his sister Princess Lu Yuan. This family affair was deliberately arranged by her mother, not Liu Ying's voluntariness, and the purpose was to "kiss and kiss". "Being together" with her niece is a farce and humiliation in itself, and Liu Ying can't "not recognize the six relatives" no matter how sexy she is! But he did not dare to disobey his mother's wishes, so he could only fight in private. The final result was that the beauties gave birth to six children to Liu Ying, and Empress Zhang Yan's one acre and three points of land had no harvest.
Since Zhang Yan was childless, after Liu Ying's death, the son born to Ichigo was adopted by her son and was made emperor by Empress Lü. At that time, this child was about five or six years old, known in history as the former Young Emperor, and her mother was also killed by Lü Hou. Since his father Liu Ying once had no sense of existence to speak of, the former Young Emperor was just a signboard. Therefore, Lü Hou simply weighed the system, only one emperor's name.
Four years later, the former Young Emperor learned of his origins, so he hated Lü Hou and gritted his teeth and said that when he grew up, he must avenge his birth mother. After Lü Hou knew, he could leave a "scourge" for himself, so he imprisoned the former Young Emperor and then starved to death. After the death of former Shao Emperor, Lü Hou made Liu Ying's other son Liu Hong emperor, known in history as Later Shao Emperor, in 184 BC, four years after Lü Hou's death.
Liu Hong had the same experience as the former Shao Emperor, and after he was made emperor, his mother was also killed, but he did not repeat the mistakes of the former Shao Emperor, so he survived Lü Hou. However, Lü Hou's death also foreshadowed that his life was about to come to an end, because the Great Han was about to "change the heavens", Zhu Lü was about to be killed, and he, as Lü Hou's grandson, could only "catch fire at the city gate and hit the pond fish".
Liu Ying had six sons, Liu Gong (former Emperor Shao), Liu Jiang, Liu Buxuan, Liu Hong, Liu Chao, and Liu Wu, the first three of whom died early and the last three of whom were killed after Lü Hou's death. They were all crowned princes and marquises during their lifetimes, and they obtained symbolic honor and status, but in the end they could not grasp their own destiny, and the root cause was caused by Liu Ying. If Liu Ying is healthy and long-lived, he will inevitably wait until the day when Lü Hou handed over power, and then the Military Gong Group will no longer have the excuse of "coup", and there will be no twists and turns in the change of imperial power, and his son will be able to succeed him smoothly in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, why did the throne pass to Liu Heng</h1>
Throughout history, in fact, Lü Hou's death was an opportunity for the redistribution of interests, and for the foreign relatives (Lü Hou people), they could continue to support the Young Emperor and protect their vested interests; for the Military Merit Group, they could overthrow the Foreign Relatives Group and re-elect their own interest spokesmen; for the princes surnamed Liu, they could take the opportunity to challenge the imperial court and take the place of the Young Emperor.
If we comb through the relationship, in fact, there are many overlaps between the interests of the military merit group and the princes surnamed Liu, which is the main reason why the two can finally join forces to deal with the foreign relatives group. Therefore, after the death of Lü Hou, the situation in the Han Dynasty developed like this:
First of all, the daughter of the Lü family told her husband Liu Zhang (Liu Fei's son) that Lü Lu and Lü Chan had a plot to usurp the Han Dynasty, so Liu Zhang sent a letter to his brother Liu Xiang, the Prince of Qi, asking Liu Xiang to raise an army into the capital, kill Zhu Lü, and then claim the title of emperor. Liu Zhang did the internal response.
Next, Lü Chan sent Dou Bao to lead 50,000 horses to meet Liu Xiang. However, after the infants of the military merit group arrived in Xingyang, they did not move, and contacted Liu Xiang, saying that when Lü Lu and Lü Chan usurped the throne, they would kill and return to the capital together and do their best to punish Lü.
Second, the military merit clique headed by Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, Cao Qi, and others began to plan to seize the military power of Lü Lu and Lü Chan's northern and southern armies, and then used military force to eliminate the foreign clique.
Lulu stills
The final result was that the Military Merit Group had mastered the Southern and Northern Armies, the Lü Hou clan was killed, and Liu Xiang, who was on the border of the State of Qi, had no place to play, and all the dust settled. Obviously, in the Operation of Jielu, the Military Merit Group was the first to seize the initiative, so it also had the right to speak and decide on the issue of the next election of the emperor.
So who will be the emperor? Chen Ping Zhou Bo and others and Liu Ze, the king of Langya, finally drew up three candidates, one was Liu Xiang the Prince of Qi, because he was liu bang's eldest grandson and active in raising troops; the second was Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, who was liu bang's seventh son; and the third was Liu Heng, the acting king, liu bang's fourth son. In the end, they chose Liu Heng, the acting king. The reason is that, first, Liu Bang's other six sons died, liu Heng became the eldest son of the emperor, and second, he was generous and benevolent.
Liu Heng stills
Is this really not the case? Of course not, this is only a superficial phenomenon. The reason why Liu Xiang was eliminated was because he was too strong, and if he took the throne, the interests of the Military Merit Group might be passively reduced. Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, was raised by Lü Hou from an early age, and there was a possibility of "pro-Lü", and his personality was somewhat violent, and he did not have the quality to be an emperor. Liu Heng is a low-key person, so that in the eyes of others, he has reached the level of obscurity and indisputable with the world. If the military merit group wants to maximize its own interests, who will they choose as the emperor? The answer is self-evident.