Power breeds an eternal heart in people. Lu Pheasant wants power to remain in the hands of the Lu family forever, but she knows that she cannot live forever. In order to gain power, Lu Fei made Zhu Lu a marquis and king with one hand, allowing the Lu family to gain real power; with the other hand, he married Zhu Lu's daughter to Liu Nan, making the blood of the Lu family stronger. A two-pronged approach, the effect is obvious.
At this time, the power of Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other ministers had been emptied out, and they were unable to touch the Lu family; the other courtiers were all just helpless people, and they only knew how to be submissive in front of Lu Pheasant. The princes and grandsons surnamed Liu were either given official posts by Lu Fei and married off later, or they were about to be taken away by death.
Looking at the world, Lu Pheasant alone holds the most power, and the Lu family officials hold important positions.
Lu Pheasant killed several disobedient princes, queens and grandchildren, and then pointed his sharp sword at Liu Heng, the acting king.
Liu Heng remained unknown throughout his life, and Liu Bang did not care about him. He was very lonely among the royal family. He had nothing in his heart, he just wanted a place to stay.
When the Xiongnu invaded, Liu Xi abandoned the city and fled, and Liu Bang named Liu Ruyi his acting king. Later, Zhang Ao was deposed due to the assassination of Prime Minister Guan Gao, and the vacant position of King Zhao was replaced by Liu Ruyi. In the end, Liu Bang gave the title of Dai Wang to Liu Heng. Liu Heng was named acting king. He was neither happy nor worried, but accepted it calmly.
Liu Heng was only eight years old when he was named acting king. According to the common practice of the Han Dynasty, if a child is young or incompetent, he can be named king and send someone else to manage it. The person sent to manage Liu Heng was Chen Xi, who later joined forces with Han Xin to rebel and was executed. When Chen Xi was executed, Liu Heng was not implicated in any way. The unknown Liu Heng still serves as the unknown acting king.
Fortune and misfortune depend on each other. Liu Heng's mother Bo Ji was neglected by Liu Bang during her lifetime, but she was not persecuted by Lu Pheasant because of this. Bo Ji didn't have much ability at first and could only use the fortune teller's words to deceive people. This trick was also passed down to her through her mother's words and deeds. Bo Ji's mother is the daughter of King Wei's clan, named Wei Yu. Wei Wei was beautiful and bold. She had an affair with a Suzhou native named Bo and gave birth to Bo Ji. Wei Wei saw that Bo Ji was getting more and more beautiful, so she sent her to the palace. However, there were so many beauties around Wei Bao, the king of Wei at that time, that Bo Ji could not be favored. In order to win Wei Bao's favor, Wei Lao found a fortune teller to create public opinion, saying that Bo Ji would give birth to an emperor. After Wei Bao heard about it, he was very happy and doted on Bo Ji very much. He tried every day to find ways for Bo Ji to have a son.
At that time, the world was in dispute, and Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting inextricably. As soon as he heard that a concubine could give birth to an emperor, Wei Bao immediately wanted to break away from Liu Bang and rely on the unborn emperor to become emperor. Because of Wei Bao's rebellion, Liu Bang's power was greatly reduced. In anger, he sent Cao Shen to attack Wei. Cao Shen only used a few moves to destroy Wei and killed Wei Bao. When Wei Bao died, Bo Ji was captured and worked as a weaver.
A fortune teller said a word, and Wei Bao risked his life, which is very sad. Bo Ji can indeed give birth to an emperor, but not to her first man, but to her second man.
One day, Liu Bang went to the weaving room and saw that Bo Ji had some color, so he recruited her into the harem. Bo Ji was very happy and uncontrollably excited, thinking that the day had come for her to turn over, but Liu Bang placed her in the harem like a vase without even touching her body, so naturally she would not be able to give birth to an emperor.
The flame of hope is about to go out, but God will not let it die easily; the breeze blows, and the fire of hope is ignited again. Bo Ji, a woman, has a hard life, but she has opportunities. She had two childhood playmates, one named Mrs. Guan and the other named Zhao Zier, both of whom were favored by Liu Bang.
One day more than a year after Bo Ji entered the harem, Liu Bang, Mrs. Guan and Zhao Zier drank and had fun together. While chatting, they talked about the past and said they had a very good relationship with Bo Ji. The three of them had agreed that those who get rich first will not forget those who get rich later. However, now they are the favor of the emperor Liu Bang, and Bo Ji is a cold person in the harem. They are very different from each other, and their words are inevitably sarcastic.
Liu Bang talked about loyalty, especially the agreement of "Wealth and honor, never forgetting each other." When he heard the two concubines ridiculing Bo Ji, he immediately felt sorry for Bo Ji and planned to favor Bo Ji.
Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, and finally looking forward to Liu Bang, Bo Ji immediately used a trick. As soon as she saw Liu Bang, she said: "Last night I dreamed that a dragon got into my belly."
Without even thinking about it, Liu Bang said, "Let me make it happen for you." In this way, Bo Ji gave birth to a son, and this son was Liu Heng. Liu Bang forgot everything once it happened, and from then on Bo Ji and her son lived in a deserted way.
Bo Ji and her son have long been used to the deserted days. After Liu Bang died, the other concubines were placed under house arrest. Since Bo Ji was not favored, she was naturally not under house arrest. Seeing that Lu Fei was ruthless, Bo Ji and her son took the opportunity to escape to Daiding. Liu Heng is the contemporary king, and Bo Ji is the contemporary queen mother. Following Bo Ji and her son to Daidi was Bo Zhao. Bo Zhao was Bo Ji's younger brother, and Bo Ji called him uncle. Liu Heng and his son had great trust in Bo Zhao.
After Liu Hui's death, the position of King Zhao became vacant. Lu Pheasant looked around and his eyes stayed on Liu Heng. Bo Ji's mother and son only wanted to live their lives in peace. After seeing so many Zhao kings die, of course they did not dare to accept it. Liu Heng said that he would never accept the position of King Zhao. Lu Pheasant gave him two ways to go: first, Liu Heng accepted the position of King Zhao, and then she played the card of marrying a Lu girl, and finally decided Liu Heng; second, Liu Heng did not accept, once Liu Heng If Heng refused, she made Lu Nan king.
Liu Heng chose the second option, and Lu Pheasant followed the current and granted Lu Lu the title of King of Zhao.
Lu Pheasant kills people repeatedly, but she only has a few tricks: granting an official position and marrying off a daughter. Lu Pheasant believed that Liu's descendants had only two paths. The first was to accept rewards and women and be tortured and bound by political marriage; the second was to seek death. The children of the Liu family have integrity. Not many choose the first option. Those who choose the second option are dead. Liu You and Liu Hui are the representatives. However, people can always find a way where there is no way, and they can always survive in seemingly desperate situations.
The power of the Lu family dominates the world, and the descendants of the Liu family are timid and hide their heads and tails under the control of Lu pheasants. The courtiers dare to be angry but dare not speak out, and they protect themselves wisely. The world is as calm as the sea in winter. However, the undercurrents on the bottom of the sea are boiling and roaring, and they are flowing endlessly. In this calm sea, the fall of a pebble can cause ripples that spread out in circles.
The person who stirred up the first wave in this calm, mirror-like sea was Liu Zhang, the second son of Liu Fei who was almost poisoned to death by poisonous wine. Liu Zhang was brave and resourceful, and he dared to fight against Lu Pheasant, and he was tenacious and wise.
At that time, everyone was salivating over Liu Fei's Seventy Cities. Liu Fei gave a city to Princess Lu Yuan in exchange for a life. This is proof. Lu Pheasant's ambitions are not small, and Liu Fei's gift of a city cannot satisfy her appetite. In Lu Fei's heart, Liu Fei's seventy cities should all belong to her. Lu Pheasant wanted seventy cities, but she couldn't say it clearly, so she made excuses to cut off one city in the east and another in the west. Liu Fei's seventy cities were immediately incomplete.
First, Lu Fei made Lu Tai the King of Lu and cut off the Jinan County of Qi State; secondly, he recruited Liu Zhang into Chang'an, named Zhu Xuhou, and married Lu Lu's daughter; thirdly, he recruited Liu Zhang's younger brother Liu Xingju into Chang'an and granted him the title of Dong. Hou Mou; finally, the Langya County of Qi was ceded to Liu Ze, and Liu Ze was granted the title of King Langya. Liu Fei had three sons, two of whom went to Chang'an, leaving only the eldest son Liu Xiang with him, who was very lonely.
When Liu Zhang came to Chang'an, he was restrained everywhere and monitored all the time, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. However, everyone can do it when they are angry. Only those who can hide their anger and endure their anger are the true heroes. Lu Pheasant was granted an official position, and Liu Zhang accepted it; Lu Pheasant married a daughter, and Liu Zhang also accepted it. Liu Zhang not only made Lu Nu the first wife, but also had a good relationship with her. He was very close to her and loved her.
Liu Zhang is not stupid. He neither resists forcefully nor uses cold violence. Lu Pheasant sent him a good spy, and he used his tricks to play passionately with the spy, trying to turn the spy into a counter-spy. Before the hot violence of hacking and slashing, there is a thrilling spy war. Whoever gets the secret first will win.
People born in trouble usually have two faces, one is the real face, living in the dark; the other is a false face, growing in the sun. What Liu Zhang showed to Lu Nu was a fake face, and what he showed to Lu Pheasant was even a fake face.
Once, Lu Pheasant held a banquet and asked Liu Zhang to be the cupbearer.
Liu Zhang was tired of living in the darkness for a long time. He wanted to see the sunshine, or let Lu know that Liu's sunshine was not extinguished yet. Lu Pheasant ordered him to be a bartender, so he seized this opportunity and made a condition: Anyone who disobeys the order will be subject to military law.
Lu Pheasant agreed and wanted to see Liu Zhang's tricks. Liu Zhang then ordered: Anyone who escapes secretly during the banquet must be killed! If a military order is issued, there will be a beheading. When Liu Zhang issued this drinking order, everyone knew that Lu Pheasant had agreed in advance and did not take it seriously. They all thought that it would only be a few glasses of wine, but no one would be killed anyway, let alone the murder of the leader.
When he was drunk and drunk, Liu Zhang said he would sing a song to entertain everyone. Everyone thought it was interesting and cheered loudly, and Lu Pheasant also smiled and agreed. Liu Zhang began singing a song about plowing. As soon as he finished speaking, someone laughed and said, "Your father doesn't know much about plowing. As the son of King Qi, how could you know?" Liu Zhang is Liu Bang's grandson. My dear, of course I don’t know about plowing and farming, and I don’t even know how many legs a cow has. But Liu Zhang said that he knew. Lu Pheasant became more and more happy and allowed Liu Zhang to sing loudly.
Walking into the field, Liu Zhang drank a glass of wine, moistened his throat, softly sang, and sang loudly:
Cultivate seeds deeply,
When the seedlings are established, they want to be sparse;
Those who are not of his kind,
Hoe it away.
When plowing the land, the seedlings should be sparse so that the fruits will be abundant. This is the principle of plowing the land. However, the sentence "If it is not the seed, hoe it away", it means that others are deliberately trying to uproot the seedlings. When everyone heard this, they felt something was wrong, because Liu Zhang's lyrics alluded to the phenomenon of "not the Liu family but the king" and the killing of Liu's children.
The general idea of Liu Zhang's lyrics is translated as:
My great ancestor, Emperor Liu, worked hard like plowing the fields, and finally conquered this country. Emperor Gaozu made a bloody alliance with the heroes of the world and agreed that no one other than the Liu family would be king. This is like a farmer planting seedlings sparsely to make them grow strong. However, there are cruel people in the world who want to eradicate the seedlings that farmers have worked so hard to plant.
A smart person will know as soon as he hears it that Liu Zhang's song is aimed at the Lu family and Lu Pheasant. At that time, Qi Ji caused the death of both her mother and her son because of a rice-pounding song, which was known all over the world. Lu Pheasant was determined to eradicate the Liu family's descendants, but Liu Zhang dared to act so arrogantly in front of his face. Everyone at the banquet was sweating for him.
However, the strange thing is that Lu Pheasant fell silent and fell into deep thought after listening to Liu Zhang's song. Can the descendants of the Lu family protect the empire building she worked so hard to build for the Lu family? She is the backbone of the entire building. Once she is gone, how long can this gorgeous and majestic building sustain? If the building collapses, her Lu family will be wiped out. On the gambling table of power, power is life, and life is also power. Once the bet is made, one can only win but not lose.
If the scene is frozen, it doesn't matter. Someone will activate it. There is no shortage of clowns in the upper class who only know how to laugh. After a while, the scene became active again. Everyone still drank, but when they saw Liu Zhang, they felt that they couldn't drink. Even if you can't drink it, you have to drink it, because Liu Zhang first issued a military order: Anyone who escapes secretly during the banquet should be killed!
During this banquet, Liu Zhang had already fixed up everyone. Even Lu Pheasant had been tricked by him. The next person to be persecuted will definitely appear, but his name has not yet been announced. Liu Zhang wielded his sword and went around the table to supervise, and everyone had to drink. There was a guy who couldn't drink and ran away secretly. Liu Zhang chased him out with his sword, raised his sword to chop him to death, and cut off his head with one blow.
Liu Zhang came back with his head in hand and said calmly, "There is a guy who escaped privately. I will kill him in accordance with military law."
He was a tall man, holding a sword in his right hand, and holding up a bloody head with his left hand, which was really scary.
Liu Zhang really dared to kill people. The person who was killed was named Lu, and everyone at the banquet was horrified. Liu Zhangli issued the military order first, and Lu Pheasant followed behind. Even if he killed people, Lu Pheasant had nothing to say. Liu Zhang had a small test, and Zhu Lu was wary of him from then on. Lu Pheasant also finally knew that the material of Lu's children could not support the Empire State Building.
After this, as if they saw a big flag among the rebellious army, many courtiers finally saw the light of day and joined Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang dared to do this, first of all, because he was bold; secondly, he won the heart of his wife, which was what other Liu family members lacked; finally, Liu Zhang had a solid fiefdom, sufficient material capital, and no shortage of foreign aid.
