Chapter 49 Recognize my sister as a godmother

Before Liu Bang married Empress Lu, he had a mistress named Cao, who gave birth to a son named Liu Fei for Liu Bang. So although Empress Lu is the first wife, Liu Ying has another elder brother, Liu Fei.Although the mother of Qi Wang Liu Fei died as early as when Liu Bang raised his troops, and never competed with Empress Lu in the Han Palace, Empress Lu still held a grudge for many years. After becoming the empress dowager and taking power alone, she still made things difficult for Liu Fei . In 193 BC, the 18-year-old Emperor Hui Liu Ying summoned the 42-year-old Liu Fei.Liu Fei happily entered the court, and Liu Ying and her elder brother Liu Fei had a banquet with the Queen Mother.The benevolent and generous Liu Ying respected his elder brother Liu Fei as the elder, and let Liu Fei take the seat.Liu Fei regarded himself as the eldest brother and sat at the head.

Empress Lu saw this in her eyes and hated it in her heart.She asked someone to pour two glasses of wine, put poison in the wine, and signaled for Liu Fei to toast for his birthday (the local custom is: the toaster drinks first as a respect. If Liu Fei toasts for Empress Lu, he must drink the poisoned wine first) . Liu Fei raised his wine glass to toast the Queen Mother, Liu Ying also stood up, picked up a glass of wine to toast the Queen Mother, and after toasting, the Queen Mother raised her glass to drink.Empress Lu was terrified that her son Liu Ying would drink the poisoned wine, so she grabbed Liu Ying's wine glass and threw it aside.

Seeing the accident, Liu Fei was too frightened to drink the cup in his hand.In the end, Liu Fei pretended to be drunk and returned to his residence, only to realize that the two glasses of wine just now were poisonous wine, and he was very worried. Liu Fei knew that Empress Lu hated him, and he would not have a good life, let alone what to do.Especially now that I am in Chang'an, I am afraid that the queen mother will not let me go, so Liu Fei is in constant panic. Liu Fei's entourage offered advice and said: "Your sister, Princess Lu Yuan, is the only daughter of the Empress Dowager Lu. The Empress Dowager Lu regards her as the jewel in her palm. The king has more than 70 fiefs, but Princess Lu Yuan's fiefs only have a few cities. The queen must be dissatisfied with this. If the king dedicates a county to the queen mother and honors the princess as Tang Muyi, the queen mother will be overjoyed. In this way, the king can escape the disaster, leave the capital, and return to the fief."Liu Fei thought the plan was very good, so he accepted the suggestion.

Not only that, but for the sake of safety, Liu Fei also came up with another way: to respect his sister, Princess Lu Yuan, as the queen mother, that is, to recognize his sister as a godmother, in order to please Queen Lu's favor.After hearing this, Empress Lu was really happy (Sima Qian used three words "Xi Xuzhi").Liu Fei was able to escape and return to Qi. Princess Lu Yuan's age is unknown.But Liu Ying was only 18 years old at the time, and his sister, Princess Lu Yuan, was probably not too old, probably only about 20 years old.At that time, Qi Wang Liu Fei was already forty-two years old.How aggrieved a forty-two-year-old middle-aged man wants to recognize a twenty-year-old girl as his godmother, and also his half-sister.Sure enough, four years later, Liu Fei died of depression.

I don't know why Empress Lu would "happyly promise it" after hearing such absurd things, but she later did an even more absurd thing: let her son Hui Emperor Liu Ying marry Princess Lu Yuan's daughter as queen, That is, the uncle married his niece.Probably a little perverted.