Chapter 49 coalition rebellion
When Chao Cuo actively advocated cutting the vassal in the court, Wu Wang Liu Bi was already restless.He realized that he had become an object of no one to take him in. If an outsider could make his nephew plan to fight him, how could he have any reason to sit still?Fate encouraged Liu Bi to fly upwards, and he wanted to rebel because he had to.
Liu Bi was very lonely at the beginning, because he thought about it carefully, except for him, Liu Bi, all the princes and kings were basically soft-headed by this time.Later, he heard that Liu Ang, the king of Jiaoxi, was more aggressive, and the princes and kings of Qi were afraid of him, so he thought that this person could discuss important issues together, so he sent Ying Gao, the doctor of Zhongzhong, to lobby Liu Ang.
Ying Gao said to Liu Ang: "The King Wu of our family is very pitiful. He was framed for no reason. King Wu is dumb and suffers from eating Coptis chinensis. But he doesn't treat you as an outsider. De, so sent me to tell you what he thinks."
Liu Ang replied politely: "Oh, since that's the case, what advice does King Wu have for me?"
Ying Gao said dejectedly: "Now the emperor is deceived by the traitor Chao Cuo, he listens to the slander, changes the law, invades the princes, and under the instigation of this traitor, he amasses money and kills good people. As the saying goes, 'Lick the bran and the rice' Well, Wu and Jiaoxi are both vassal states that the imperial court pays close attention to. I am afraid that if Chao Cuo is allowed to toss this time, neither of us will live in peace. King Wu is ill and has not been to Beijing for more than 20 years. I am afraid that the central court will misunderstand and suspect him. Now that he has done enough prudence, he still cannot escape being framed by the wicked. We, Mr. Wu Wang, heard that you were punished for selling a noble title, and some countries are also punished for trivial matters. According to our observation, Chao Cuo will definitely think of other tricks, and that kid will not let us go easily."
After hearing this, Liu Ang immediately asked eagerly when he saw that his heartache was mentioned: "Yes, yes. Then what should we do now?"
Ying Gao went on to say: "According to common sense, people with the same hatred should care for each other, people with the same interests should help each other, partners who share the same ideals should make each other successful, like-minded people with lofty ideals should go towards the goal together, and people with the same interests should help each other. You should be able to sacrifice yourself for the other party. Now the King of Wu shares weal and woe with you, and wants to go all out with you to eliminate harm for the world. What do you think?"
When Liu Ang heard that Liu Bi was going to pull him to rebel, he was very surprised, so he hurriedly said in fear, "How dare I rebel? Alas, no matter how hard the emperor pushes me, what can I do, I can only show my loyalty by dying." , I have to admit that Liu Qi is our emperor."
"Where, Your Majesty, you still don't understand that there is a grievance and a debtor. All of this was caused by our emperor, the bastard Chao Cuo, the censor. He was the one who encouraged the emperor to cut down the vassal, and he was the one who hindered the loyal ministers from entering. Remonstrance, now people in the court are complaining about Chao Cuo, and the princes and kings have long been suffocating against this kid. From the perspective of human harmony, the time for rebellion has long been ripe; looking at the sky, comets are present, and locust plagues are everywhere. God's will, it's really a good time to raise troops. Since the people are suffering and harboring grudges, we can just take advantage of the situation. King Wu wants to crusade against the court in the name of punishing Chao Cuo, and wants you to join. At that time, our army will surrender immediately wherever it goes, and no one will disobey us. As long as you agree now, our old man Wu Wang will immediately fight with the king of Chu to Hangu Pass and occupy Xingyang (now northeast of Xingyang, Henan Province) Gu Xing Town), captured the food in Ao Cang, and prevented the imperial army from coming to the east. At that time, my master will pack up your residence for you, and wait for you to come to govern. As long as you go at that time, the world will be ours That's right, and then let you and the King of Wu divide the world and rule it, isn't that good?" Ying Gao said with a smirk.
"Okay." Liu Ang couldn't resist the temptation of power, and readily agreed to rebel.Ying Gao went back to report to Liu Bi, Liu Bi was not at ease at first, so he went to Jiaoxi in person to confirm the relationship of the alliance, and then he was relieved.
The ministers of the Jiaoxi Kingdom opposed Liu Ang’s rebellion at the beginning, and these people probably lacked the sense of urgency—this is the characteristic of the Chinese people, they just muddle along, as long as they can get along with each other—so they advised Liu Ang: “ Your Majesty, have you made a mistake? Is it okay for us to be under the control of one emperor now? You are joining forces with the King of Wu, and even if things work out in the end, and you and Liu Bi divide the world, then you two will probably have to fight for territory. There were constant conflicts over the matter. Besides, the land of the princes and kings is less than one-fifth of the counties and counties of the Han Dynasty, so you have to worry about rebelling against your mother, which is not worth it.”
Liu Ang was in high spirits at this time, so of course he would not listen to the advice of the ministers, and he was very active in raising troops, and he took the initiative to help King Wu unite Liu Jianglu, King of Qi, Liu Xian, King of Suichuan, and Liu Xiongqu, King of Jiaodong. , Jinan King Liu Piguang, and Jinbei King Liu Zhi.In addition, they also said: "Liu Zhang, the king of Chengyang Jing, made great contributions to killing Zhulu. His family has worked hard enough. Let's not bother his son Liu Xi now. After the matter is completed, we will give him a piece of land." From this point of view However, Liu Ang and his group are particularly confident in the rebellion.
Chao Cuo's move to cut down the vassal was very quick. Basically, he found some reasons to cut down counties and counties in every country, and the princes and kings were all panicked.As soon as the document Chao Cuo arranged to cut Wu Guoji County and Zhang County arrived, the King of Wu rebelled. First, he killed the officials sent by the Han Dynasty to Wu State with more than two thousand shi, and then Jiaoxi, Jiaodong, and Suichuan. The six countries of Jinan, Jinan, Chu, and Zhao also rebelled one after another, and the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was set off.
There are two small episodes in this. Qi Wang Liu Jianglu originally joined the covenant to raise troops, but he repented halfway, so he did not participate in the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms; Jibei King Liu Zhi was inconvenient to raise troops because the city wall of the capital was broken and could not be repaired.Later, Liu Zhi was held hostage by Lang Zhongling sent by the central government of the Han Dynasty under him, and finally failed to rebel.Therefore, the entire state of Qi was led by Liu Ang, the king of Jiaoxi, and led the rebellious four countries to besiege Linzi, the capital of Qi.
Liu Sui, the king of Zhao, raised his troops and made an alliance with the Huns. This has been explained in the previous article.In addition, Liu Bi had recruited Liu Chang's three sons Liu An, King of Huainan, King Liu Ci of Hengshan, and King Liu Bo of Lujiang before raising his army. These people held grudges because their father was killed that year.Of course, they did not raise troops in the end, Liu An was blocked by the Prime Minister, Liu Bo did not respond to Liu Bi's invitation, and Liu Ci stuck to his country.
When Liu Bi launched the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, he himself first wanted to mobilize troops in the country of Wu.After all, the old man was forced to rebel, the conscription was too hasty, and he had no intention of rebelling in the first place, so he couldn't produce many soldiers for a while.He issued an imperial edict to the people of the state of Wu and said: "I am sixty-two years old this year, but I still lead the army myself. My youngest son is only fourteen years old, but he also takes the lead. Therefore, anyone who is younger than my age and higher than Everyone of my youngest son's age must join the army." King Wu's actions would arouse dissatisfaction among the common people, but he couldn't care less at this time, and if he didn't rebel, Chao Cuo would kill him.
On the 22nd day of the first lunar month in the third year of Emperor Jing (154 BC), Liu Bi formally set up troops in Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), the capital of Wu, and then led his army to the Huaihe River Basin to join forces with Liu Wu's Chu army. Wang sent an open letter, which was very arrogant.
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