Lv Hou is perverse and arrogant.
Liu's Military Order on Wine
In the winter of 196 BC, Liu Bang conquered the Whale Cloth of Huainan King and won a great victory. He is very happy. When Ban Shi returned to Beijing, he passed by his hometown of Pei Yi and spent more than ten days drinking and having fun with his fellow villagers, which was probably the happiest day of his life. He selected 120 children, rehearsed songs and dances, and sang and danced at the grand banquet. He personally poured wine for the old people, laughed and played with the children, and sang to relatives with the beat of gongs and drums:
The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying.
Vega returned to her home in the sea,
Andrew, soldiers are always looking! ①
Bear desolate, lamented that he succeeded, when the emperor, but no one came to help him defend his country, perhaps it was a pity and mourning for Han Xin, Whale Bu and other dead veterans. He promised his elders that he would not pay grain tax for generations, and said that he would come back and get together in the future. The battle was extremely tense and serious, but he was particularly excited and excited when he returned to his hometown. After such intense mental stimulation, he returned to Chang 'an and became seriously ill.
Lv Hou invited a famous doctor and said with certainty: "It will be cured soon." Hearing this, Liu Bang began to curse: "Can I take a three-foot sword from an ordinary man and seize the world without destiny?" My life is resigned to fate, even if it is treated by an imperial doctor, what's the use! "(-195. 1 1) was hit by a stream vector when hitting the cloth, which was very severe. Lv Houying is a good doctor. When the doctor came to see him, he said, "This disease can be cured." Shang Yi scolded him and said, "It's not my life to take over the world with three feet of cloth! Life is in heaven, although Bian Que is good! "
Without treatment or medicine, 50 Jin of gold sent the doctor away. A few months later, Liu Bang succeeded to Liu Yuxin, that is, Hui Di, and his biological mother Lv Hou became the Empress Dowager. Because of death. (-195. 1 1) So instead of curing the disease, I gave him 50 Jin of gold, so I gave up.
Because of his low intelligence and weak temperament, Lv Hou actually holds the state power.
Liu Bang's favorite wife, surnamed Qi, gave birth to a son named Ruyi, which was also loved by his father. Liu Bangben wanted him to be a prince, but ministers resolutely opposed it. Later, he was named Zhao Haoqi and lived in Handan today. His Prime Minister is an honest, frank and brave Zhou Chang. When Liu Bang died, the resentment in Lv Hou's heart was like a river that burst its banks. No one can control her now. It's time for revenge.
First, she sent someone to arrest Mrs. Qi, imprisoned her in Yongxiang, shaved her hair, put on prison clothes, and pounded rice there every day. [- 193] The empress dowager ordered Yongxiang to imprison Mrs. Qi, clamp her, dress her and order her.
Madame has suffered such a crime, and her heart is extremely sad. How can you know what happened to your mother when your son is far away from home? While working, she hummed a sad song:
The son is king and the mother is Lu.
The son is a king and the mother is a prisoner. )
It's dusk all day,
From early morning until sunset, rice is mashed all day. )
Always associated with death,
At any time, only death is a friend. )
3,000 miles apart,
Mother and son are three thousand miles apart. )
When someone tells you! ②
Who can help me? Tell my son my sorrow! )
Lv Hou learned that this situation was even more disturbing, so he wanted to kill the prince of Zhao to avoid future trouble. So he sent several messengers to call Wang Zhao, but they were all blocked by Lao Zhouchang. He said to the messenger, "Emperor Gao gave me the king of Zhao and asked me to be responsible for him. Now the queen mother hates Mrs. Qi and wants to kill the prince of Zhao. I dare not let him go! " An emissary named Ruyi Zhao. When the emissary fought back three times, Zhao Xiang and Zhou Chang called the emissary and said, "Gaudi belongs to Minister Wang Zhao. He is very young. I overheard the Queen Mother complaining about Lady Qi and wanted to call her to punish him, but I was afraid to send him. Wang is also ill and can't wait. "
The queen mother was furious and ordered Zhou Chang to come first. As soon as Zhou Chang left, the prince of Zhao lost his courage and went on his way. The prince of Zhao was still halfway, and Hui Di had understood his mother's meaning. As an elder brother, he has a caring heart for his younger brother. So he took the lead, personally rushed to Leak Mouth, and took the Prince of Zhao to the palace. Two people live together, eat together, inseparable, the queen mother wanted to start work, has been unable to find the opportunity. [- 193] The Empress Dowager was angry, so people called Chang first. I often go to Chang 'an, which reminds people of Zhao Wang. The king has come, but not yet; Knowing that the queen mother was angry, the emperor welcomed the prince of Zhao to the throne, entered the palace, and ate and lived. The queen mother wanted to kill it, but she couldn't.
One day, Huidi got up early and went to the teaching site to watch a martial arts competition. Ruyi is still a big boy and likes to go to bed early. Before he got up, someone hurried to report to the queen mother. The queen mother immediately sent someone to bring a cup of poison, saying it was a drink for the prince of Zhao to drink. When Zhao Wang woke up, what did he find? Pick it up and drink. When Hui Di turned around, he saw a black, purple and bleeding body. [- 194] Winter, December, the first morning. Wang Zhaoshao, no fleas; The queen mother asked people to drink with sharks. Li Ming and Huan Di are dead.
Lv Hou got rid of the Prince of Zhao, and then took the lady of Qi as an example: cutting off her hands and feet, gouging out her eyes, fumigating her ears with drugs, filling them with drugs to make her voice hoarse, and then throwing them into the toilet, and taking a terrible name "Ren Bi". It is a pig. [- 194] The Queen Mother cut off Mrs. Qi's hands and feet, gouged out her eyes, washed her ears, drank medicine, and let her live in the toilet and died.
A few days later, the Queen Mother was not satisfied, so she invited Hui Di to visit and let him see what this beautiful woman looks like today. Hui Di is an honest young man, gentle and kind-hearted. He was scared to death when he suddenly saw such a monster. He didn't know it was Mrs. Qi until he asked. He was crying so badly that he fell ill when he went back. He hasn't improved for more than a year. So he invited the Queen Mother and told her face to face: "Mother, it's not a human thing to make people." I am your son, but I can't convince you. How can I rule the world? "Since then, I have rarely asked about politics, just drinking and having fun every day, and passing the days in a trance. [305-194] To live for a few days is to ask the emperor to see the people. When the emperor saw it, he asked his wife Qi, but she was crying. Because of illness, she can't get up in her spare time. The messenger asked the Queen Mother to say, "This is an inhuman act. I am the queen mother, and I can't rule the world in the end. " The emperor regarded drinking on this day as a lewd enjoyment and did not listen to politics.
The following winter, Liu Fei, king of Qi, came to Beijing. He is the eldest son of Liu Bang, and his biological mother is Liu Bang's lover before he married Empress Lu. The family is drinking in the palace. Hui Di respected his brother very much and invited him to sit down. (-193. 10) In October, Qi mourned Wang Huichao and drank in front of the Queen Mother. The emperor took the King of Qi (Liu Fei) and his brother and sat on it.
The queen mother was greatly dissatisfied when she saw it, so she secretly asked someone to put a cup of poison in front of the king of Qi and asked him to drink it. The king of qi can't push it out naturally. Just as he stood up, Huidi followed suit and conveniently brought poisoned wine. When the queen mother saw it, she was anxious, grabbed the cup and threw it on the ground. Seeing this, the King of Qi was very suspicious. How dare he sit down? He pretended to be drunk and got up to leave. Later, I learned that it was a cup of poisoned wine, and I broke out in a cold sweat. What shall we do? Or the followers have an idea and send their own map of Chengyang County to the Queen Mother, dedicated to her own daughter, Yuan Lu princess royal. As soon as the queen mother was happy, she let him go home. (-193. 10) The Empress Dowager was angry, drank some wine and gave the life of the King of Qi. Since the king of qi, the emperor has also taken it; The queen mother was afraid and became a pan-emperor. The King of Qi blamed it because it dared not drink and pretended to be drunk. Asking about this matter is a big taboo. Scholars in the Qing Dynasty said that the king of Chengyang County was Princess Tang of Luyuan. The queen mother is happy, but she wants to return to the king of Qi.
The queen mother's selfishness is expanding day by day, and finally it goes against human nature. She married the daughter of Princess Yuan Lu, that is, her granddaughter, and made her son Hui Di queen. Why? Because she wants to kiss relatives, in today's words, "rich water does not flow outside the field." According to China's ethics, this is almost a barbaric act of incest. (-19 1) In October, Empress Zhang was established. Later, Princess Luyuan, the emperor's sister, was also a daughter. The Queen Mother wanted to be a father, so she gave it to the emperor.
Hui Di is weak and kind, especially stimulated by "people". He is depressed and his family life is unhappy. He was only a short emperor for seven years and died at the age of 24. The queen mother also made preparations early. It turned out that she asked the queen to take a baby, kill her biological mother and raise her as a prince. When Hui Di died, the fake prince was only a few years old and succeeded to the throne. Empress Lu is duty-bound and complacent. (-188) At the beginning of the year, Lv Hou ordered Queen Zhang to take someone else's son away and raise him, and killed his mother, thinking that he was a prince. Both buried, the prince is the emperor, young; Empress Dowager Cixi is called the imperial court.
Empress Dowager Cixi Lv Zhi had great courage. She was the first woman who dared to be an emperor in the history of China, and later generations admired and even worshipped her. However, some of her practices, some means and some intentions are hard for a kind person to imagine.
For example, she didn't have her own son, so she made Queen Zhang pretend to be pregnant. At that time, she held a baby from another palace, killed the maid-in-waiting, and claimed that the baby was born to the queen. One is not enough. In the same way, four other sons were arranged for Hui Di, and one * * * killed five mothers.
After Hui Di's death, Queen Zhang's fake son became emperor, which is called Shaodi in history books. When the child was eight or nine years old, he knew his life experience and said frankly, "Why did the Queen Mother kill my mother and have to be my mother?" I want revenge when I grow up! "(-184.4) Shao Di (the fake son of Queen Zhang) is a Baptist. Knowing that he is not the son of the Queen, he said," Hou An can kill my mother and name her! I am strong, just change! "
Hearing this, Lv Hou locked him in Yongxiang, saying that he was mentally ill and could not be emperor, and then secretly poisoned him. The Queen Mother also brought Hui Di's second fake son, Liu Hong, to the throne. Four years later, the child became the victim of a coup. (-184.4) Empress Dowager Cixi heard that in the secluded eternal lane, it was said that the emperor was ill, which was not around. The empress dowager said to her ministers, "Now the emperor has been ill for a long time, and he is confused, so he can't rule the world after his heirs.": On the contrary "... so he abolished the emperor and secretly killed him. In May, Chen Bingli made Hengshan the Wang Yi emperor, renamed Yue Hong, and took the empress dowager instead of the first year, so as to rule the chaos in the world.
For another example, since the Empress Dowager was the actual emperor, she boldly made the Lu family king. There was a promising prince named Liu who forced him to marry the daughter of the Lu family. One of them, Zhao Wang Liu You, is the son-in-law of the Lu family. He doesn't love this lady, but dotes on other concubines. The queen mother caught him and imprisoned him in the palace. Without food and water, she let him starve and die of thirst alive. (-18 1. 1) In spring, in the first month, Empress Zhao called for a tour. Friends regard their daughter as the queen and love her. The women in Lu were very angry and left. They told the queen mother,' Lu has a king! After the queen mother is 100 years old, I want to beat her. ""The queen mother called the prince of Zhao. When the prince of Zhao arrived, he bought a house and couldn't see it. He let Wei guard it and eat and live. His ministers may steal feedback and need to seize it. King Ding Chou of Zhao starved to death and was buried in Chang 'an with courtesy.
After Liu You died, Liu Hui, another Wang surnamed Liu, was moved to Handan and renamed. He is Lu's son-in-law and hates his wife and concubines. Lv Hou sent someone to poison the princess. Liu Hui was very angry and committed suicide. The queen mother said that he forgot his ancestral career because of a woman and recovered all his inheritance rights. (-18 1.6) Zhao moved to Zhao and was very unhappy. The empress dowager takes the daughter of Lu as the queen, and all the queens are in the official position of Lu, in charge of the prince of Zhao, and are not allowed to be arbitrary. The king loves Jackie, and the queen has her killed. In June, Wang committed suicide in anger. The queen mother heard about it and thought that the king abandoned the ancestral temple ceremony with women and abolished the heir.
Of course, there are people who don't believe in evil. The first one is Zhu He. He is in his twenties and has a strong body. Once served the queen mother to drink and made her a wine officer. -18 1 is time, and ibis uses power at will. Zhu Zhang, twenty years old, has strength and is dissatisfied with Liu's dismissal. Taste the queen mother's swallow, and the queen mother makes the seal a wine collector.
Liu Zhang put forward a condition: "I am the son of the family, and it is enough to pass the wine order by military law." The Queen Mother agreed. When she was half drunk, Liu Zhang proposed to sing a Song of Tillage to entertain her, and the Queen Mother agreed. -Chapter 18 1 invited himself to say, "I can plant, so please go to the army to drink." The queen mother said, "Yes." Full of wine, the title of the chapter is "Song of Tillage", as promised by the Queen Mother.
Then Liu Zhang opened his voice and sang:
Deep ploughing (if you want to grow more beans in deep ploughing,)
Plant seedlings thinly (seedlings should be kept thinly). )
Non-species (clearly see "weeds" and "hybrids" in the field)
Go away with a hoe (if you can't pull it clean, use it again! )
The queen mother is a very sensitive woman. She can hear the lyrics with murderous look, but she can't catch anything, so she has to keep silent. After a while, a son of the Lu family was drunk, and it was his turn to be punished for drinking, so he stood up and ran away. Liu Zhang caught up with him, drew his sword and cut off his head with a brush. Then he calmly turned around and reported to the Queen Mother: "A man escaped after drinking, and I beheaded him according to military law!" " All the people in the room were frightened to disgrace. But originally said to use military law, he was not convicted and had to break up in discord. From then on, everyone in the Lujia family was afraid of him, but the ministers of the DPRK and the princes of Liu were encouraged by this spirit. -18 1 The Queen Mother was silent. In a short time, one of them, Zhu Lu, was drunk, drunk, chased by Zhang Zhang, drew his sword and beheaded him. The report said, "There is dead wine, I will behead it according to law!" " The queen mother was frightened and has given her military punishment, so she is not guilty. Naturally, after this, Zhu Lu was afraid of Zhu, although all ministers followed Zhu and Liu was beneficial.
Lv Hou has been in power for eight years. When she was seriously ill, she repeatedly warned her nephews Lv Lu, the king of Zhao, and Luchan, the king of Lu: "After my death, the princes were afraid of rebellion. One of you is in charge of the North Army and the other is in charge of the South Army. Don't bury yourself. Shougong. " (-180.7) Empress Dowager Cixi said to Lu Yue, "King Lu, minister of pacification. I will collapse, the emperor will be young, and the ministers will not dare to change. Be sure to guard the palace according to the soldiers, and be careful not to send a funeral. This is done by people! "
Lv Hou was very anxious when he died. (-180.7) Xin Si, the empress dowager collapsed.
The Lu family wanted to seize the throne, but they were afraid of several ministers and princes named Liu. Soon, Liu Bang's old heroes, led by Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, joined hands with Liu's kings to kill Lu Jia cleanly. Even Lv Hou's own sister, Lu Xu, an old woman, was spared. (-180.9) Qiu paid tribute to Zhu and said, "I am an only child. Now that it's over, the world will be settled! " So, he sent a division to arrest all the men and women of Lu and chop them all to death. Heart, capture and behead Lv Lu, kill Lu Kui, make people punish Lu Tong, the prince of Yan, abolish Zhang Yan, the king of Lu.
Then the younger brother, the descendant of Wang, was elected to Beijing as emperor. He is the emperor of China. During his reign, he began a famous stable era in history-"the rule of culture and scenery".
(1) (2) These two songs are contained in the first batch of poems of Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Chinese poems edited by Kuaiqin.