Chapter 46 10. Enlighten the mystery, Empress Lv takes power as she wishes

After the turmoil of Li Chu, Liu Bang aged a lot. He seems to have realized that this incident has planted the root of disaster for Madam Qi and Liu Ruyi. After a hundred years, what fate will Madam Qi and Zhao Wang Ruyi suffer?In order to prevent his mother and son from being hurt by Empress Lu in a hundred years, he entrusted his beloved son to Zhou Chang, a veteran minister, and asked Zhou Chang to meet Zhao to protect the safety of King Zhao Ruyi. He also thought that as long as King Zhao was safe, his mother, Mrs. Enjoy wealth and honor.This time, Liu Bang was wrong. In the twelfth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (195 BC), Liu Bang died.Seventeen-year-old Liu Ying is the emperor, and Lu Zhi is the queen mother.

Although Empress Lu was the first queen of the Han Dynasty, she has experienced too many hardships. She has worked hard since she got married, paid silently, and lived in the shadow of Liu Bang.After Liu Bang became emperor, she silently endured the pain of taking her husband.After becoming the empress dowager, she straightened her back for the first time, and felt that she had become the master of the Han Dynasty for the first time. The first thing she did was to take revenge on Mrs. Qi's mother and son.She first cut off Mrs. Qi's hands and feet, gouged out her eyes and burned her ears, gave her dumb medicine to make her dumb, and put her in the toilet, letting her wail, and named her "human pig".Then he found an excuse to transfer Zhou Chang away, recalled Zhao Wang Ruyi to Chang'an, and took the opportunity to poison him.

All this was seen by Liu Ying.Liu Ying saw her mother's cruelty. Although she was an emperor, she couldn't do anything.In the seventh year of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty (188 BC), Emperor Hui Liu Ying died of depression at the age of 24.At that time, Xiao He had already passed away before Emperor Hui, and Zhang Liang, the young prince, was very ill and could not get out of bed to see Emperor Hui for a ride, so he sent his son Zhang Bijiang to greet him. Empress Lu sat in the inner hall of Weiyang Palace, crying loudly, but there were not many tears. At this time, Empress Lu's heart was not sad, but rather preoccupied and thoughtful.What is Empress Lu thinking?Emperor Hui and the queen have no children, who is the successor?All the important officials of the founding of the country were staring at each other. If anyone supported a prince, wouldn't he want to hand over his power?Once you have power, it is hard to imagine what it would be like without power. Empress Lu had a deep fear of losing power.A mother who just lost her son cried only worry and chill.

Such cries caught Zhang Bijiang's attention.He is only fifteen years old, but he has inherited Zhang Liang's wisdom. He is thoughtful and good at observing words and deeds.He listened carefully to the empress dowager's cry, then walked up to Chen Ping, who was busy with the funeral, and whispered, "Uncle Chen, please take a step to talk." Chen Ping walked out with him, and asked, "What does my nephew have?" Is it your father..." Zhang Pijiang said, "Did Uncle Chen listen carefully to the Queen Mother's cry?" Chen Ping listened attentively, and found nothing unusual, except that he was less sad, and looked at Zhang Pijiang suspiciously.Zhang Pijiang said: "Which mother is not sad when a white-haired man sends a black-haired man. Hearing the empress dowager's cry, I feel that it is unusual. Emperor Hui's sons are all young, and they are not his sons. But you ministers can control the government and hold important positions. I think the Empress Dowager is worried about military power. After Emperor Hui's funeral, he will definitely take action." Chen Ping listened carefully to Empress Lu's cry at this time, and he really felt a murderous look. Chen Ping was startled, why didn't he think of it, Could it be that after staying in the court for a long time, did he lose the ability to judge?Quickly asked Zhang Bijiang: "Nephew, what do you think we should do?" Zhang Pijiang said: "Now we can only let the Queen Mother rest assured. Please ask the Queen Mother to make Lu's children Marquis, so that she can feel at ease..."

Chen Ping admired Zhang Pijiang very much, and he really was the son of Zhang Liang.Without further ado, Chen Ping walked up to Empress Lu and said to Empress Lu, who was crying loudly: "The Empress Dowager is mourning. Now is an extraordinary period, and the matter is critical. I can only report to you first." Empress Lu stopped crying slightly, Chen Ping went on to say: "I implore your Majesty to appoint virtuous people not to avoid relatives, and appoint Lu Chan, Lu Lu, and Lu Tai as generals to lead the northern and southern armies and defend the capital to prevent any changes."

After hearing this, Empress Lu didn't answer yes or no, but continued to cry, but this time it was really her mother's cry, sad and desolate.Chen Ping's suggestion dispelled the worries in Empress Lu's heart. As soon as she relaxed her tension, she remembered many past events, the joy of having a son when she was young, and the deep-seated longing for her son when she was Xiang Yu's hostage. I went there when I was young, and told her not to be sad. When Chen Ping heard that Empress Lu's cry had changed, the stone in his heart dropped. After he was busy for a while, he was about to write a letter with several veteran officials.

Emperor Hui finished his funeral.Chen Ping and others wrote a letter, and Empress Lu followed suit, entrusting Lu's nephews and nephews arbitrarily, cultivating party members, and protecting the power she had already obtained. Then Lu Hou chose one of the six sons of Liu Ying and the palace girls, named Liu Gong, falsely claimed that he was born to the queen, and established him as emperor, known as the "former young emperor" in history.The little emperor was young, and Empress Lu held the power.In the first year of Gaohou (187 BC), with the support of many forces, Empress Lv officially proclaimed the system, exercised the power of emperor, and became the first person in the dictatorship of the Chinese harem.Shaodi grew up slowly and knew that his biological mother was killed by Empress Lu. He said in private, "I must avenge my mother." This word soon reached Empress Lu's ears. When he became a disaster, he secretly killed him, and made Liu Hong the emperor, known in history as "Later Young Emperor".Empress Dowager Lu is still facing the world, so Liu Hong does not call it the first year.

After Empress Lu proclaimed the system, she took a series of measures to consolidate the rule of the country. First of all, she followed Liu Bang's personnel arrangements before his death, and successively reused the founding heroes such as Xiao He, Cao Can, Wang Ling, Chen Ping, and Zhou Bo.And these ministers ruled by doing nothing, following the desires of the people, and never laboring the people.Economically, light taxation is implemented.Implement a liberal policy on business and industry. Secondly, he reused his favored officials to examine Shiqi, and Empress Lu named him the Prime Minister of Zuo, and used him in the middle.Shen Shiqi does not deal with matters within the purview of Prime Minister Zuo, but specializes in supervising and managing the affairs of the palace, like a Lang Zhongling.Empress Dowager Lu often decides important matters with him, and ministers and ministers have to go through their examinations before they can decide on affairs.

In the end, he arranged his party feathers and made the princes and princes of the princes and the sons of the beauties in the harem they love.Then kill Zhao Wang Liu You and Liang Wang Liu Hui.Empress Lu posthumously conferred the titles on her two late elder brothers, the elder brother Lv Ze of Zhou Lv as the King of Mourning Wu, and Lu Shizhi as the King of Zhao Zhao.After Empress Lu proclaimed the system, more than a dozen members of the Lu family, including her sister, nephew, grandnephew, and nephew, were enfeoffed as kings and lords. The right prime minister, Wang Ling, resolutely opposed the policy of ennobling Zhulu as king, and insisted on the "white horse alliance" established by Gaozu and the ministers-"The king is not the Liu family, and the world will fight against him." Empress Lu was very unhappy, so she let him The Taifu, who was the emperor, took away his prime minister power.Wang Ling had to report illness and go home.

During the reign of Empress Lv, regardless of the political, legal, economic, and ideological and cultural fields, a solid foundation was laid for the "Governance of Wenjing" in an all-round way. Although Empress Lu's enfeoffment of the Lu family and the attack on the royal family were strongly dissatisfied and opposed by the Liu family and the founding ministers, many feudal states were not able to fully develop and grow, which actually impacted the time and space conditions on which the enfeoffment system relied. , seriously weakened the enfeoffment system, and laid the foundation for the actions of Emperor Han Jing to cut down the vassals and Emperor Wu of the Han to implement the decree of grace and deprive princes of military and political power.From the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the enfeoffment system has undergone essential changes. The enfeoffed princes only enjoy the taxes on their fiefs, and have no administrative rights over their fiefs.

Chen Ping understood the political mysteries from Empress Lu's cry, and helped Empress Lu consolidate her political position, which reflected the survival wisdom of an important minister in the court.Although Chen Ping's behavior was mixed, the historical status of Empress Lu cannot be ignored.Without this deed of Empress Lu, there would be no subsequent rule of Wenjing.Going a step further, without Empress Lu, even the talented and bold Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not be able to complete the construction of a centralized empire.