The Zhao sisters moved into the harem
Liu Ao is actually not suitable to be an emperor. He is cowardly by nature, does not know how to resist, and does not resist. Everything is done according to regulations. After Wang Feng's death, the emperor who had been ostracized had the curse on his head lifted.
So Liu Ao left the palace incognito, settled some serious matters first, and then took a stroll. Hearing that the fifth prince of the Wang family was very arrogant and only wanted to compete with rich people all day long, Liu Ao decided to pay a visit and wanted to see what luxury was. Chengdu Marquis Wang Shang was very courageous. On a hot and boring summer, he had a sudden idea and asked the emperor to borrow the Mingguang Palace to live in. Mingguang Palace is located in Chang'an City, next to Gui Palace, and only the emperor has the right to use it. Wang Shang's borrowing of Mingguang Palace left a deep impression on Liu Ao. Therefore, Liu Ao chose Wang Shang's residence as the first stop of his trip. Wang Shang was very polite, treated Liu Ao like a confidant, and led Liu Ao to visit his masterpieces. Wang Shang built an exquisite artificial lake at home, and drilled through the city wall of Chang'an in order to draw running water. Chang'an City is like Liu Ao's home, which was earned by Liu's ancestors with their lives. When Wang Shang dug through Chang'an City, he destroyed the Liu family's foundation.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Ao visited Quyanghou Wanggen. When the emperor visited, Wang Gen treated him warmly and also showed Liu Ao his masterpieces. Wang Shang built an artificial lake, and Wang Gen agreed and built a rockery; Wang Shang dug through Chang'an City, and Wang Gen followed suit and built a rockery imitating the White Tiger Palace of Weiyang Palace.
After returning to the palace, Liu Ao summoned Wang Yin and ordered him to handle Wang Shang and Wang Gen. Wang Gen and Wang Shang were shocked when they heard that they were going to be dealt with. For their own safety, Wang Gen and Wang Shang learned from Wang Feng and cried to Wang Zhengjun for help. Wang Gen and Wang Shang told Wang Zhengjun that they knew they were wrong and were willing to tattoo their faces and cut off their noses to apologize. After Liu Ao heard about it, his anger increased instead of abating, and he said, "You have no words to joke about. Once you say something, it's hard to chase after it."
After listening to Liu Ao's words, Grand Sima Wang Yin returned home and knelt on a straw mat, looking up at the sky from time to time. When a prisoner was beheaded, in order to prevent the blood spurting from the neck from flowing to the ground, a straw mat was specially placed on the prisoner to absorb the blood. Wang Yin knelt on the straw mat because she heard that Liu Ao sent someone to inquire about how Liu Heng forced his uncle Bo Zhao to death. Liu Ao suddenly showed his power, and Wang Yin was really scared.
Liu Ao acted vigorously and resolutely. Wang Shang, Wang Gen, and Wang Li carried their swords and chopping boards together and went to the palace to plead guilty to Liu Ao. However, Liu Ao was weak-minded and only had three minutes of enthusiasm. Faced with the heavy burden of the country, Liu Ao relied on the three men, especially Wang Feng; facing life, Liu Ao relied on women, especially the Zhao sisters.
After becoming the prince, Liu Xi found a woman from his relative Xu's family and married Liu Ao. Liu Ao was quite successful. After marrying Queen Xu, he immediately gave birth to a son, who died soon after. Then, Liu Ao had another daughter, but she died soon after. After Liu Ao ascended the throne, Queen Xu never gave birth to a son. Wang Zhengjun was anxious. In order to smash Empress Xu's monopoly on Liu Ao, under the instruction of the Wang family, the courtiers wrote a letter saying that natural disasters were occurring one after another because the emperor had no children. For the sake of the foundation of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ao could only temporarily put aside Queen Xu and favor Ban Jieyu again. Ban Jieyu was beautiful and kind-hearted, and she pleased Liu Ao and even Wang Zhengjun. Soon, Ban Jieyu gave birth to a son. Unfortunately, this child's life was short-lived and he died early.
After Liu Ao repaired the five princes of the Wang family, no one dared to manage him. He often ran out of the palace to play. At Princess Yang's house, he met Zhao Feiyan, who was good at singing and dancing, and fell in love at first sight.
Zhao Feiyan was abandoned by her parents after she was born and left in the wild for three days. However, Zhao Feiyan could not starve to death for three days. Her parents thought that Zhao Feiyan should not die, so they sent her to Princess Yang'a's house to learn singing and dancing. Zhao Feiyan was thin, as light as a swallow, and danced gracefully. She was known as Feiyan, but she eventually forgot her real name. After Liu Ao met Zhao Feiyan, he immediately recruited her into the palace. Along with Zhao Feiyan, her sister Zhao Hede also entered the palace. The female official in the harem, who had seen countless beauties and was known as Dr. Pixiang, predicted that Zhao Feiyan would be a disaster and would drown the Liu family. At that time, there were rumors in Chang'an that the swallow that pecked the emperor's grandson was Zhao Feiyan, which meant that Liu Ao would definitely have no heirs. From an astrological point of view, the Han Dynasty was dominated by fire, and Zhao Feiyan was water. Liu Ao's warm fire plunged into Zhao Feiyan's arms, which would be his own destruction.
Liu Aozai fell into the arms of the Zhao sisters and named her sisters Jieyu. In the harem, Jieyu's status is second only to the queen. The Zhao sisters are as beautiful as demons and as vicious as scorpions. In order to become queens, they resorted to women's tricks, creating witchcraft and framing people for trouble. While Liu Ao was lying in her arms, the Zhao sisters said softly and tenderly that Queen Xu was unwilling to be left out and used witchcraft to curse the beauties in the harem to an early death. The beauties in the harem here refer to no one else but the Zhao sisters. Liu Ao's ears were very soft, and he would get dizzy when a woman said a word. After that, Queen Xu was deposed and relatives of the Xu family were expelled from Chang'an. Ban Jieyu was so smart that she refused to say a word when being interrogated. In the end, for her own safety, she had no choice but to protect herself and proactively asked to move in with Wang Zhengjun.
After the harem war, the Zhao sisters dominated the harem and completely dominated Liu Ao.
Empress Xu was deposed, the position of queen was vacant, and Liu Ao was occupied by the Zhao sisters. An inevitable result was created, Liu Ao wanted to make Zhao Feiyan his queen. Liu Ao was so obsessed with Zhao Feiyan's beauty that he even forgot about important national affairs, and even ignored the important existence of Wang Zhengjun: in the harem, Wang Zhengjun was the oldest; in the palace, Liu Ao was filial and respected Wang Zhengjun; in the court, the Wang family Take charge.
Wang Zhengjun came from a famous family and valued his status very much, and never took Zhao Feiyan seriously. Zhao Feiyan could bewitch the emperor, but she could not gain Wang Zhengjun's trust and favor. For his own interests and the royal family's sake, Wang Zhengjun cannot continue to sit back and watch, and must intervene. At the same time, Wang Zhengjun's nephew saw the benefits from Liu Ao and decided to help Liu Ao.
Wang Zhengjun's nephew, named Chun Yuchang, is her sister's son. Chun Yuchang entered the palace and served as Huangmenlang by virtue of his kinship with Wang Zhengjun. Huang Menlang was a young official with no bribes and no status. After working for a while, Chunyu decided to look for opportunities to be promoted. When Grand Sima Wang Feng was ill, Chun Yuchang visited him several times a day, walking and chatting with Wang Feng. Wang Feng was deeply moved. When he was about to die, he entrusted Liu Ao to be promoted to the official position of Chunyu Chang. Wang Feng was about to die, and Liu Ao followed Wang Feng's wishes. Promoted Chunyu Chang to serve as a servant. In order to prove that he was not just a freeloader, Chun Yuchang volunteered and promised Liu Ao that he could get Wang Zhengjun to agree to make Zhao Feiyan his queen. After saying no, Chunyu Chang took practical actions. First, he suggested that Liu Ao make Zhao Feiyan's father a marquis. He believed that in this way, Wang Zhengjun would not be able to use Zhao Feiyan's humble background as an excuse. In fact, this is self-defeating. This move only shows the power of nepotism and damages Zhao Feiyan's image.
In the third year of Emperor Cheng's Yongshi reign (14 BC), with great hope, Liu Ao granted Zhao Feiyan's old father the title of Marquis of Chengyang. Liu Ao regarded the title of marquis as child's play, and someone immediately wrote a letter scolding the Zhao sisters for their beauty.
The person who wrote the letter was named Liu Fu, and he was an official admonishing the officials. Liu Fu was a member of the royal family, so he estimated that nothing serious would happen if he scolded him like this. Besides, he had a group of people as strong as an army supporting him. In order to aggravate the smell of gunpowder, Liu Fu said that no official in the court dared to criticize him. He was not afraid of death and dared to stand up for the world first.
Liu Ao glared angrily, his hair standing on end, and decided to kill Liu Fu to pave the way for Zhao Feiyan to become the queen. As soon as the order was issued, important officials of the imperial court, including Guang Luxun Shidan, Taizhong doctor Gu Yong, left general Xin Qingji, and right general Lian Bao, all wrote letters begging for Liu Fu's mercy. These people said that Liu Fu's letter was within the scope of his authority, and even if he made rude remarks, he should not be executed.
In fact, Liu Ao wanted to kill Liu Fu, just to show off his power first, so that the courtiers would not dare to hinder Zhao Feiyan's road to becoming a queen. The courtiers collectively came forward to plead for mercy, and Liu Ao adopted a compromise, exempting Liu Fu from death and punishing him with three years of hard labor. In addition, Liu Ao also contradicted Wang Zhengjun, and Wang Zhengjun alienated him.
Zhao Feiyan knew that the reason why the Queen Mother did not recognize her was because she was infertile. Zhao Feiyan and Liu Ao had been together for a long time, but they would not have children, and she was afraid. In order to prove that it was not her fault, she secretly hired her servants and servants to try one by one. The results of each attempt made her miserable. Facing the blows of failure one after another, Zhao Feiyan bowed to fate.
Zhao Feiyan neglected Liu Ao when he was looking for a son. Liu Ao had a dependence mentality and couldn't stand the neglect, so he immediately turned his attention to Zhao Hede. Zhao Feiyan was beautiful, and so was Zhao Hede. Liu Ao loved Zhao Feiyan deeply, and he also loved Zhao Hede deeply. While doting on Zhao Hede, Liu Ao greatly decorated Zhao Hede's Zhaoyi Palace, allowing the beauty Zhao Hede to enjoy the most luxurious palace in the Han Dynasty.
Faced with the pain of life, the Zhao sisters were of one heart and tried to excuse each other. When Liu Ao was lying in Zhao Hede's arms, Zhao Hede told Liu Ao that Zhao Feiyan had a strong temper and had offended many people, so someone would definitely slander him; if someone exposed Zhao Feiyan and said bad things about Zhao Feiyan, Liu Ao would kill the person who exposed him first. .
Liu Ao listened to women very much. Soon, someone exposed Zhao Feiyan's promiscuity in the harem, and Liu Ao directly killed the person who exposed it. This was the first time Liu Ao had killed someone since he ascended the throne. Liu Ao did not kill the five princes of the Wang family, but killed the person who exposed Zhao Feiyan.
Although Liu Ao's eyes were blinded, the eyes of everyone in the world were bright. Zhao Feiyan caused a storm in the harem, Zhao Hede entangled Liu Ao, and rumors spread one after another. Everyone is afraid that rumors will hurt their health. However, for the sake of the Han Dynasty, loyal people had to help Liu Ao.
When the imperial court was employing people, Liu Xiang stepped forward and used all he had learned in his life to cut out the stories about virtuous women who helped their husbands prosper and govern the country in the "Book of Songs" and "The Book of Books", compiled it into a good book, and dedicated it to Liu Ao. After reading the book, Liu Ao summoned Liu Xiang and said that he understood the principles in the book. However, it is one thing to understand the truth, and it is another thing to be able to do things well. Wang Zhengjun made another effort and appointed Wang Feng's right-hand man, Gu Yong.
After Wang Feng's death, Gu Yong was demoted to Liangzhou as governor. At the time of employment, Gu Yong happened to go to Chang'an for business, and Wang Zhengjun immediately summoned Gu Yong. In order to return to Chang'an, Gu Yong decided to help Wang Zhengjun. As things happened, Liu Ao summoned Gu Yong and asked Gu Yong to offer suggestions. Gu Yong wrote a very explosive article, saying that Liu Ao indulged in excessive sexual desire, indulged in women, harmed his body, and even harmed the laws of nature; Liu Ao was very old and had not yet given birth to a child. If he persisted in his obsession, he might have no descendants. After the scolding, Gu Yong persuaded Liu Ao with good words, telling Liu Ao to focus on the great cause of the country.
After Gu Yong submitted the memorial, he immediately fled Chang'an. After Liu Ao read the memorial, he found it was exactly as expected by Gu Yong. Long Yan was furious and ordered his censor Shi to chase Gu Yong quickly. Before Shi Yushi left, Liu Ao told him that if Gu Yong escaped from Jiao Dao stable, there was no need to chase him. For Gu Yong's safety, Wang Zhengjun placed eyes and ears around Liu Ao. As soon as Liu Ao's order was given, Wang Zhengjun immediately ordered people to fly to report to Gu Yong and quickly escape from Jiaodao stable. Gu Yong acted quickly, allowing Liu Ao's troops to return empty-handed.
Liu Ao has a very good playmate named Zhang Fang. He and Liu Ao have a deep relationship. They played together as children and remained inseparable as adults. After Wang Feng died, Zhang Fang and Liu Ao sneaked out of the palace to play, and met the Zhao sisters. Wang Zhengjun could not be angry, but he had nowhere to vent his anger, so he had to vent his anger on Zhang. Wang Zhengjun sent someone undercover to Liu Ao to collect Zhang Fang's evidence that led Liu Ao to go astray.
Wang Zhengjun called Liu Ao and asked him to expel Zhang from Chang'an and return him to his fiefdom. Liu Ao promised verbally, but took no action. Wang Zhengjun summoned the five princes of the Wang family and ordered them to ask the prime minister and the imperial censor to impeach Zhang Fang. So Xue Xuan and Zhai Fangjin jointly submitted a letter listing Zhang Fang's various crimes.
Zhang Fang is not very smart, but he is still very arrogant. The mistakes he made made others guilty, and Liu Ao couldn't put in a good word for him. However, although Liu Ao didn't say anything, he played a little clever and transferred Zhang to Beijun as a captain, hoping to quietly transfer him back to Chang'an while Wang Zhengjun was not paying attention. But Wang Zhengjun knew Liu Ao's thoughts well. In order to completely rectify Liu Ao's eccentricity, Wang Zhengjun transferred Gu Yong to Beijun as the county guard and closely monitored Zhang Fang. Last time Liu Ao failed to catch up with Gu Yong and approached the mountain of Wang Zhengjun. As soon as he took office, Gu Yong wrote to Liu Ao saying that there were many natural disasters in Chang'an. This was God's warning to Liu Ao. If Liu Ao didn't clean up the little things around him, If people still persist in their stubbornness, natural disasters will become more and more serious. Liu Ao could only pretend to submit this letter and praised Gu Yong for his good words.
Liu Ao found an opportunity to transfer Zhang Fang back to Chang'an and serve as a servant. However, Wang Zhengjun noticed it before it could be implemented, and had to send Zhang out of Chang'an again.
After Zhang Fang left, Liu Ao really had many rules and started to take care of things. Wang Zhengjun was very happy when he saw this.
After Liu Ao lived a normal life for more than a year, Zhang Fang's old mother, Princess Jingwu, fell ill, and Zhang Fang was able to return to Chang'an temporarily. Faced with family needs, Wang Zhengjun had to relent. Wang Zhengjun relented, but did not let go. After Zhang Fang stayed in Chang'an for several months, Wang Zhengjun said that Zhang Fang had fulfilled his obligations as a son of man and it was time to leave Chang'an.
This time, for Zhang Fang's safety, Liu Ao changed Zhang Fang's place and transferred him to Hedong County as the captain.
Finally, Zhang Fang was dismissed from office. Liu Ao rewarded Zhang with a large amount of money and sent Zhang back to his fiefdom with tears. After Liu Ao's death, Zhang Fang fell ill with love, cried all day long, and finally died of depression.
This shows how deep the friendship between the two of them is!
