Soon after he demoted Xiao Wang, Liu Shi missed him again, so he made him the Marquis of Guannei and concurrently served as Shizhong, allowing Xiao Wangzhi to visit him every half month. In the matter of giving, he is the imperial supervisor. Liu Shi asked Xiao Wangzhi to serve as supervisor, which made Shi Xian and Shi Gao panic.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Shi wanted to appoint Zhou Kan and Liu Xiang as admonishing officials. If Xiao Wangzhi, Zhou Kan and Liu Xiang were reunited, the alliance of scholar-bureaucrats would revive, threatening to start a prairie fire, which would frighten Shi Xian and Shi Gao. In order to nip the alliance of scholar-bureaucrats in the cradle, Shi Xian and Shi Gao dissuaded Liu Shi from dividing the feudal alliance between Zhou Kan and Liu Xiang. Liu Shi suddenly became determined, and after some bargaining, Liu Xiang and Zhou Kan were named Zhonglang.
The scholar-bureaucrat group was resurrected, and Shi Xian and Shi Gao were restless. When the relationship between the two parties was tense, an earthquake suddenly occurred. Natural disasters are the best excuse for confrontation. Focusing on natural disasters, the two major alliances once again came into contact with each other. Liu Shi received a memorial stating that the natural disaster was not aimed at the three lonely old men headed by Xiao Wangzhi, but at the eunuch Shi Xian. The memorial advised Liu Shi to remove Shi Xian, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
After Shi Xian read the memorial, he excused himself and asked Liu Shi to arrest the person who submitted the memorial for questioning. The person who submitted the report was a relative of Liu Xiang. He was weak-minded and told everything, saying that Liu Xiang had instigated him to make false accusations. Liu Xiang is a master in studying astronomical phenomena and knows that many people will use natural disasters to create momentum. Rather than letting his opponent take advantage, it is better to strike first. However, Liu Xiang misemployed people and stole the chicken but lost the rice. With both human and material evidence available, Liu Shi could only demote Liu Xiang to a commoner again.
Liu Xiang was demoted and the scholar-bureaucrat alliance suffered heavy losses. Xiao Wangzhi didn't know what to do. When Xiao Wangzhi was lonely and helpless, his son Xiao Ji wrote to Liu Shi, requesting that the verdict be reversed. A few months ago, Liu Xiang and Zhou Kan were imprisoned, while Xiao Wangzhi's case was only handed over to Tingwei without being arrested. Xiao Ji believed that his father had not committed a crime and it was unreasonable to be dismissed from office because of this incident. He asked Liu Shi to retry the case and hold those responsible accountable. Xiao Ji's request for a retrial was false, and his real purpose was to punish Shi Xian.
The scholar-bureaucrat group was very upright. Shi Xian took advantage of this weakness and repeated his old tricks. He found several small loopholes in Xiao Ji's memorials and said that Xiao Ji's language was wrong and disrespectful. Shi Xian counterattacked the Xiao family and wrote a letter saying that the Xiao family should be grateful to Liu Shi for being kind and re-appointing Xiao Wangzhi; Xiao Ji openly shouted that he was wronged and asked for the verdict to be overturned. He was simply evil and ungrateful. The emperor's kindness. Shi Xian felt that the written expression was not enough to hurt Liu Shi, and said in Liu Shi's ears that Xiao Wangzhi was very arrogant. He believed that he was the emperor's teacher and was proud of himself. He should dampen his arrogance and kill his prestige, otherwise It cannot be disciplined in the future.
Liu Shi, who had no judgment, often felt that what Shi Xian said was half reasonable and half unreasonable. As for why the half that was reasonable was reasonable and the other half that was unreasonable, he couldn't tell. Shi Xian told Liu Shi that after imprisoning Xiao Wangzhi for a few days, Xiao Wangzhi would become obedient and would no longer cause trouble or provoke others. Liu Shi said that he could not be imprisoned because Xiao Wangzhi had a stubborn temper and would rather have the jade broken than the whole thing.
Under Shi Xian's words, Liu Shi actually handed over the matter of imprisoning Xiao Wangzhi to Shi Xian. Shi Xian took the edict to arrest Xiao Wangzhi and ordered someone to bring it to Xiao Wangzhi. Shi Xian's intention was very clear. He wanted Xiao Wangzhi to know that Liu Shi was in his hands and Xiao Wangzhi could not fight him. Xiao Wangzhi had just read the arrest order when he heard that Chang'an's army had surrounded his home and sent troops to arrest the heinous rebels.
Xiao Wangzhi, filled with indignation and rage, asked his student Zhu Yun what to do. Zhu Yun was a heroic Confucian scholar who said that scholars could be killed but not humiliated. Xiao Wangzhi suffered the shame of being demoted and the humiliation of being imprisoned. He also thought about Liu Xiang being demoted to a commoner twice and the scholar-bureaucrat group being unable to compete with Shi Xian. He suddenly felt discouraged and had the idea of suicide.
Xiao Wangzhi said that he was a Confucian scholar, one of the three nobles, and a minister of Gu Ming appointed by Liu Xun. He was already over sixty years old and would never suffer the humiliation of prison again. Since he could not succeed, he could only become benevolent. He ordered Zhu Yun to quickly grind the medicine, and Zhu Yun handed the teacher a glass of poisonous wine. Xiao Wangzhi raised his head and drank it all, then fell to the ground and died.
In Xiao Wangzhi's eyes, reputation is higher than life.
Xiao Wangzhi, who only cared about preserving his personality as a Confucian scholar, fell into Shi Xian's trap. The reason why Shi Xian was able to kill Xiao Wangzhi was not because Shi Xian was very powerful, but because Xiao Wangzhi was very arrogant and did not want to be humiliated. In Chinese society, if a villain wants to kill a sage, the reason is simply that the villain is vicious and the sage is arrogant. Shi Xian provoked Xiao Wangzhi to death, which is a typical case of a villain trying to kill a wise man.
When Liu Shi heard about Xiao Wangzhi's death, he felt extremely regretful and ordered his people to summon Shi Xian immediately. Shi Xian was good at acting and knew that Liu Shi loved Xiao Wangzhi. As soon as he saw Liu Shi, he immediately fell to his knees and stated thousands of reasons. Shi Xian said a lot of sweet words. In summary, he only said one sentence, and he couldn't understand why Xiao Wangzhi would rather commit suicide than live. Shi Xian knew that Xiao Wangzhi regarded himself as a moral model, had a strong temper and could not bear humiliation. He said he couldn't understand Xiao Wangzhi's suicide, and he meant it to Liu Shi.
Liu Shi knew that Xiao Wangzhi had a strong temper, and he had thought that Xiao Wangzhi would commit suicide due to his arrest and imprisonment. However, Liu Shi couldn't understand after hearing that Xiao Wangzhi had really committed suicide. Liu Shi couldn't understand Xiao Wangzhi's suicide, just like he couldn't understand Liu Xun's statecraft. This was rooted in his cowardly character.
Xiao Wangzhi died, the scholar-bureaucrat group was completely destroyed, and no one dared to challenge Shi Xian anymore. Liu Shi ignored political affairs and left all government affairs to Shi Xian, who could take power leisurely. Shi Gao and Shi Xian are allies. As long as Shi Xian does not go too far, he will not embarrass Shi Xian. Shi Xian dealt with the scholar-bureaucrat group, controlled the indecisive Liu Shi, and united with his relatives to truly control power. Liu Shi was cowardly by nature, and the eunuch Shi Xian took the opportunity to rise. This is a historical necessity.
Liu Xi married a woman and became his queen. This woman's name is Zhengjun, who has the same surname as Wang Zhaojun, but has a completely different personality. If Wang Zhaojun is the jade of a small family, then Wang Zhengjun is the lady of everyone; if Wang Zhaojun is the orchid in the mountain stream, Wang Zhengjun is the revered peony. In a word, Wang Zhaojun is the destiny of a weak woman, and Wang Zhengjun is the destiny of a strong woman. Wang Zhengjun's family lived in Chang'an City. Her father's name was Wang Jin, and he was an official in Tingweishi. When Wang Zhengjun's mother was pregnant with Wang Zhengjun, she dreamed that the moon was flying into her belly. The sun represents the emperor, and the moon naturally represents the queen. This story foreshadows that Wang Zhengjun will become the queen.
Wang Jin had already chosen a marriage for Wang Zhengjun, and the parents of both parties had also agreed. However, before Wang Zhengjun got married, the man died. Then, Wang Jin fell in love with King Dongping, a wealthy young man, for his daughter. Just as the two parties made an agreement, the same bizarre thing happened again. At the time, this was a sign of hard luck.
Later, Wang Jin made a fortune for his daughter. The hexagram says that Wang Zhengjun: When you are a noble person, it is unspeakable. There is very little wealth in the world. If you want to reach the unspeakable realm, you can only become an emperor or a queen. Bizarre things happened frequently. Wang Jin had a rough understanding of it and began to educate Wang Zhengjun in reading, writing, chess, calligraphy and painting. When Wang Zhengjun was eighteen years old, he was elected to the palace.
When Wang Zhengjun entered the palace, Liu Shi was still the prince. Liu Shi was as tender as water, and he was entangled with Sima. Unfortunately, Sima was frail and sick and died early. When he was dying, Sima told Liu Shi that her poor health was all due to the jealousy of the women in the harem, who cursed her to die early. Liu Shi was a passionate person who hated the women in the harem and cursed Sima. After Sima's death, he vowed not to touch the women in the harem. But Liu Shi is the future emperor. If he has no children, there will be no emperor in the future dynasty.
After Liu Xun knew about it, he thought of a way to get the best of both worlds. He personally selected five maids from the harem for Liu Shi to choose from, and Wang Zhengjun was among them. Liu Xi's adoptive mother, Queen Wang, asked him which one he liked. Liu Xi said coldly and said it didn't matter. Queen Wang saw that Wang Zhengjun was sitting next to Liu Shi, and the corner of Wang Zhengjun's red clothes was touching Liu Shi, so she concluded that Liu Shi liked Wang Zhengjun. One person deliberately wore a red dress, two people sat together by chance, and the other person made subjective assumptions, and history was rewritten.
After the marriage, Wang Zhengjun gave birth to a son for Liu Shi. Liu Xun named him Liu Ao. When Liu Ao grew up, he was not in line with Liu Shi's wishes, so Liu Shi wanted to establish another prince. Although Liu Shi was incompetent in governing the country, he made considerable achievements in music. His youngest son Liu Kang had musical talent and was very much in line with Liu Shi's liking. Liu Kang's mother's name was Fu Zhaoyi. She was younger than Wang Zhengjun, more beautiful than Wang Zhengjun, and more popular with Liu Shi than Wang Zhengjun. Liu Kang was Liu Shi's musical confidant, and Liu Kang's mother was Liu Shi's new favorite, so Liu Shi wanted to make Liu Kang the crown prince. Liu Xi was seriously ill and only Liu Kang's mother and son were allowed to serve him, while Liu Ao's mother and son were unable to take care of him. In addition, Liu Shi also ordered people to check the history books and wanted to know how Emperor Jing Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty deposed Prince Liu Rong. Everyone knows what Liu Shi meant. Under such a situation, Wang Zhengjun was very anxious and quickly sought help from Liu She's favorite minister Shi Xian. As long as Shi Xian helped Liu Ao win the throne, he would have a backer. For the sake of tomorrow's development, Shi Xian agreed to help.
Stabilizing Shi Xian is equivalent to seizing the Shi Xian Group. Moreover, Shixian Group is also supported by the Shi family. What made Wang Zhengjun even more excited was that Shi Gao's son Shi Dan was Liu She's confidant and could enter and leave Liu She's bedroom at will.
One day, while Liu Kang's mother and son were away, Shi Dan ran into Liu Si's bedroom, knelt in front of Liu Si's bed and cried loudly, saying that it had been more than ten years since Liu Ao was appointed as the crown prince. The prince's reputation spread far and wide and he was deeply loved by the people. . Moreover, he threatened death to express his firm disapproval of establishing another prince.
Shi Dan's tone was as powerful as Zhou Chang's admonition to Liu Bang. Unfortunately, Liu Shi was not Liu Bang, and he did not reject Shi Dan. Instead, he told Shi Dan that Wang Zhengjun should educate the prince well and help the prince inherit the throne.
On May 24, 33 BC, Liu Shi died in Weiyang Palace.
