Chapter 46 4. Bolognese Buffet

Lu Zhi was very scheming, she knew that if she wanted to change Liu Bang's edict and condemn Peng Yue to death, she had to put Peng Yue in prison again. Therefore, Lu Zhi thought of a bad move: framed.She ordered someone to buy off one of Peng Yue's servants, who had been exiled to Shu with Peng Yue. Empress Lu secretly gave this person some benefits, instructing him to report on Peng Yue and instigate his family to rebel after returning to Luoyang. In this way, Peng Yue was imprisoned again. Peng Yue has been mixed up to this point, and he has no soldiers under his command. Even if he really wanted to rebel, he would already be powerless.But because of such poverty, if you want to convict you of any crime, you will be convict of any crime.

The trial is also a formality.The newly appointed Ting Wei has a thorough understanding of Lu Zhi's intentions.He didn't check the evidence at all, he didn't ask the facts, and he settled the case with just one false accusation. As a result, Peng Yue was beheaded and his head was hung in downtown Luoyang. Afterwards, Liu Bang issued an edict that anyone who dared to collect Peng Yue would be arrested immediately. With this decree, no one dares to stretch out his neck to be slaughtered.There was only one person who actually ran to pay homage to Peng Yue. This person is the famous Yingbu.

Speaking of his friendship with Peng Yue, Zang Tu, who took the lead in rebelling against Liu Bang, had to be mentioned. Zang Tu became the queen of Yan and worshiped Yingbu as a general.Zang Tumi was arrested for rebellion, and Yingbo was not spared either.His family found Peng Yue, who interceded with Liu Bang, redeemed Yingbo, and appointed him as Doctor Liang. Therefore, Peng Yue should be regarded as Yingbo's savior. When Peng Yue was escorted back to Luoyang again, Yingbu was on a business trip in Qi State. Hearing the news, he rushed back to Luoyang overnight, only to see Peng Yue's head hanging in the city.

Yingbu knelt down under Peng Yue's head, wept loudly, and offered sacrifices in honor. Seeing this, the guard immediately arrested Yingbu and escorted him back to the palace. Liu Bang was very angry and interrogated Yingbo himself. Liu Bang asked: "Peng Yue's traitors, I expressly prohibit any collection of funerals, but you go to pay homage, are you accomplices?" Ying Bu said in a loud voice: "I don't regret my death, but I have something to say - back then, the emperor was defeated in Pengcheng and trapped between Xingyang and Chenggao. At that critical moment, King Peng defeated Han against Chu, and defeated Chu against Han. Especially in the next battle of Gai, Xiang Yu would not perish without King Peng’s full support. In order for King Peng to send troops, King Peng was unable to accompany him due to illness, so he suspected that King Peng was going to rebel, but there was no evidence of rebellion. If this continues, I am afraid that everyone who is a hero will be in danger in the future. Who will trust His Majesty?"

Yingbo's words made sense and reason, and Liu Bang was moved by it, so he pardoned Yingbo's innocence and promoted him to the rank of captain. This move surprised the officials. Yingbo was even more surprised. He has risen steadily from the dangerous situation of capital crime. The captain became the prime minister of Yan, and was promoted to general until he became a marquis. The reason is that his words touched on the fundamental interests of an emperor, and this fundamental interest is the maintenance of power. Liu Bang promoted Yingbo not because he felt that he was at fault, but because he used the reward to win over and appease the turbulent hearts of the ministers.

However, Lu's pheasant was ruthless and vicious in this matter.After Peng Yue's death, she ordered people to chop Peng Yue's body into minced meat, and then made meat paste from the minced meat.Historically known as: 醢 punishment. It is enough to torture a person to this extent.However, Lu Zhi hadn't finished yet, and she used another trick to make an example of others.Distribute the "Pengyue brand" meat sauce to the princes from all walks of life to taste, buffet, how much you want to eat, you can do it yourself. When the princes saw this special meat sauce, they were all horrified.

Speaking of it, it is common for pigs to be tortured by humans every day, and they don't feel vicious, but when people torture others, they feel the viciousness of people's hearts.This viciousness comes from the pursuit of power.Lu's pheasant is like this, and Liu Bang is actually like this. Han Xin was stabbed to death with a bamboo stick, and Peng Yue was made into meat sauce.These two incidents of killing the founding heroes shocked the whole country. Everyone knows that these two incidents were carried out with the hands-on participation of Empress Lu Zhi. As a survivor, King Yingbu of Huainan was hunting one day, when someone sent Peng Yue's pickled meat, his hairs stood on end.He had a deep premonition that his future fate might be as miserable as that of Han Xin and Peng Yue.And, that day doesn't seem too far away.

He remembered a sentence Han Xin said, "The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks; the empire collapses, and the counselor dies." Facing the meat sauce made from Peng Yue's corpse, and recalling Han Xin's words, every word pierced Yingbo's bone marrow like an ice pick. From then on, Yingbo secretly strengthened his armaments and defense.He thought that if a catastrophic day came, he would never be caught without a fight like Han Xin and Peng Yue. Look back at Liu Bang again. Although the incident between Han Xin and Peng Yue had subsided, Liu Bang didn't feel relieved because of it, on the contrary, it made him even more troubled.

This heart disease is Lu Zhi. Han Xin and Peng Yue conspired against each other, while Lu Zhi was arrogating power. Which one is more threatening to one's supreme power, treason or arbitrariness of power?Obviously the latter.Rebellion is a drudgery from the bottom of the pot, but only if it is successful, while taking power is very direct and ingenious, and it robs you of your power inadvertently. Liu Bang began to regret a government order he made, that is, when he left the central government, Empress Lu and Xiao He would assist the prince to supervise the country. He wanted very much to repeal this decree.However, this order has been implemented since the Chu-Han War, and all the ministers have a consensus that everything should be obeyed by both the emperor and the queen.This situation led to terrible results. Once Liu Bang died and the prince was weak, the power of the government would definitely fall into the hands of Lu Zhi.

With this worry, Liu Bang raised the issue of Yi Chu again.