Chapter 69 4. Dou Ying and Chao Cuo

Dou Ying, whose name is Wangsun, is the elder brother and nephew of Empress Dowager Dou, who lived in Guanjin for generations.Personal characteristics: good guests, generous donation, chivalrous, good Confucianism.Changes in positions: During the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, was the prime minister of the state of Wu, but he was dismissed due to illness; Liu Qi came to power and served as the head of the Queen's Palace (Zhan Shi). To sum up Dou Ying's life, I can sum it up in one sentence: he is a person who dances with shackles. Although Dou Ying and Empress Dowager Dou came from Dou Gen, in the eyes of Empress Dou, he is simply an outlier in the Dou family.The reason is simple: Empress Dowager Dou likes him to speak good words, but he prefers to pick up his tongue;

This is called, one is sweet and the other is spicy.When the two are mixed together, something will happen eventually. Sure enough, something happened to Dou Ying. The incident originated from one person, Liu Wu, the youngest son of Empress Dowager Dou.It is said that pampering young children is the common feeling of parents and elder brothers all over the world.At first, Liu Heng doted on Liu Chang; now, Empress Dowager Dou and Liu Qi dote on Liu Wu. However, history tells us: the siblings of ordinary people are easy to grow, but the emperor's siblings are easy to be short. According to Sima Guang, Empress Dowager Dou doted on her youngest son, Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu, to such an extent that it could not be added.First of all, King Liu Wu has more than forty cities, and the most fertile farmland in the world is his; second, the pocket money that Queen Mother Dou usually rewards is invincible; third, Liu Wu’s own treasury bank has tens of thousands of dollars , even more jewels and treasures than in the capital.As for the palace garden, it is also unrestricted, and you can build it as big as you want.

It is said that this Liang Xiaowang is still an arty person.There are a lot of diners under the door, and a bamboo forest is built, and I often chat with literary friends and recite poems, which is very pleasant.Even Sima Xiangru, the number one Fu writer in the Western Han Dynasty, often attended his literati gatherings.Even Wang Bo, one of the Four Great Masters of the early Tang Dynasty, even admired him after hearing about this incident, and sighed that he was born out of time. It seems that Liu Qi loves Liu Wu more than Liu Heng loved Liu Chang.Whenever Liu Wu entered the dynasty, Liu Qi always sent envoys to hold festivals and take the emperor's mount to Hangu Pass to welcome him.After Liu Wu came to Chang'an, he went in and out of the same car with Liu Qi to play and hunt, feeling very uncomfortable.If you don't play enough, you can continue to stay, and it's okay to stay for a year or so.

In addition, even the ministers who accompanied Liu Wu and the guests were exempted from visas when they entered and exited the gate of Chang'an Palace.They are no different from the same officials serving Liu Qi.Therefore, some people wondered, is this Chang'an City Liu Qi's Chang'an City, or Liu Wu's Chang'an City? But in Empress Dowager Dou's view, Chang'an City belongs to both Liu Qi and Liu Wu.There is only one reason. Liu Qi's then empress, the Bo family, has never had a son, let alone a prince.Of course, she hopes that one day in the future, Liu Wu can also sit on the throne once.

Is it really?Does Liu Qi have any objections? Liu Qi's answer was: Listen to my mother! In the third year of Xiaojing (154 BC), in winter, in October, Liu Wu made another pilgrimage to Chang'an. As in the past, Liu Qi invited Liu Wu to a banquet, accompanied by Empress Dowager Dou and a group of royal relatives.At the banquet, when everyone was drinking happily, Liu Qi suddenly patted Liu Wu on the shoulder and said grandly: Brother, after a hundred years, the position of emperor will be yours. It is necessary to explain that Liu Qishi was thirty-two years old that year.In order to explain that what Liu Qi said was not a joke, nor was it drunk, whether it was Sima Qian, Ban Gu, or even Sima Guang, they all retained a key word in Liu Qi's speech: calmness.

In the current words, when Liu Qi said this, his head was sober, and he had to be responsible. Of course, the reason why Liu Wu was able to drink and recite poetry with a large group of literati showed that he had a good brain.In his opinion, Liu Qi's words may not be entirely true.Even so, a beautiful lie is always more intoxicating than a sweet wine.And it happened that Queen Mother Dou was the first to be intoxicated. There is nothing to say, what Empress Dowager Dou wants is Liu Qi's tickling words. However, just as Empress Dowager Dou was ecstatic and Liu Wu fell into a honey vat, Dou Ying suddenly had a drunken downpour.At this moment, Dou Ying held a glass of wine and said to Liu Qi: Your Majesty said something wrong, I will punish you with a glass of wine!

Everyone in the house was shocked by Dou Ying's unusual behavior. Dou Ying went on to say: "The one who governs the world, the one governed by Gaozu, passed down from father to son, and the agreement between Han and Han!"Why do you want to pass the throne to your little brother! It's so ignorant!Dou Ying, whose family are you from? Empress Dowager Dou's head exploded like a thunderbolt, and she was immediately furious. This is what Dou Ying called, troublesome.The throne belongs to Liu Qi, and it has nothing to do with anyone passing it on.Taking a step back, even if Liu Qi temporarily said something to make Queen Dowager Dou happy, it was just to add to the fun.You Dou Ying, if you don't help your relatives, you don't say anything, but instead talk about the fun of drinking, are you looking for death?

Empress Dowager Dou hated Dou Ying to the neck.Sure enough, after the banquet, Dou Ying immediately received a notice: Please get out and go out, you don't have to go to the palace to work.At the same time, Empress Dowager Dou issued another order: revoke Dou Ying's qualification to enter the palace and court invitation! It's over!Poked a hornet's nest.Dou Ying, you are dead.With me around for a day, you, Dou Ying, don't want to turn salty fish over! I think this is what Empress Dowager Dou wants to tell Dou Ying most. But the truth is, Dou Ying jumped up immediately.Not only did he turn over, he was completely transformed.In a word, big profits.And the one who turned Dou Ying over was Liu Qi's master think tank, so was Chao Cuo!

If Dou Ying is a person who dances with fetters, then Chao Cuo is simply a person who plays with fire on a bonfire.Chao Cuo at this time is simply not the same as before.After Liu Qi ascended the throne, Chao Cuo's worth also doubled and climbed all the way.He was promoted from the former middle-level state official (Zhong Dafu) to the special mayor of Chang'an (internal history), and what immediately impressed the Jiuqings was that most of the business discussions between Chao Cuo and Liu Qi were done alone. Because of this, Chao Cuo sent the prime minister Shen Tujia to vomit blood and died in anger.

Shen Tujia, Liang Ren also.In his early years, he was born and died with Liu Bang, first as a team leader, then promoted to captain, and then moved to Guanneihou, with five hundred households in the city, and then moved to Yushi doctor.Later, the prime minister Guan Yingfu, and Zhang Cang, a royal historian who is famous for his research on legal calendars, took the top spot.Later, Zhang Cang studied the theory of Han's virtue of water, but after being overthrown by a Lu man named Gongsun Chen, Liu Heng confirmed that Han deserved the virtue of soil, and his color was still yellow.Therefore, Zhang Cang could not get along in the court and was dismissed by Liu Heng.

Liu Heng wanted to promote Dou Guangguo as prime minister, but he was afraid of being criticized.Thinking about it later, it is more reliable to promote a respected and respected founding minister.Therefore, Shen Tujia was moved to the prime minister by Liu Heng because he was the oldest and also a doctor of imperial history. Shen Tujia is honest, straightforward, rigid and stubborn, and is a typical conservative.As soon as he came to power, he first cleaned up all the people he didn't like. Deng Tong was one of them.He wanted to kill Deng Tong, a sycophant, to set the record straight, but at the critical moment, Liu Heng sent an envoy to save him.Unexpectedly, only five years later, another person who disliked him appeared again. This person was Mr. Chao Cuo, the celebrity beside Liu Qi. There was only one reason for Shen Tujia to kill Chao Cuo: to get in the way, to get in the way, and to block the eyes. The main reason is that Liu Qi only has Chao Cuo in his eyes, not Shen Tujia.Any suggestion made by Chao Cuo could be passed; but what Shen Tujia said and wrote was all thrown into the trash by Liu Qi as nonsense and waste paper. It seems that if Chao Cuo is not eliminated, Shen Tujia will not sleep well all day. Finally, Shentujia still got the chance. At that time, there were two ways for Chao Cuo to go to work.One goes out from the east gate, and the other goes through the south gate.Go far from the east gate, and close to the south gate.But the problem is that the south gate has built the wall of Liu Bang's sacrificial temple. It stands to reason that the wall of the ancestral temple cannot be approached at will, let alone pass through it directly, otherwise it would be disrespectful.However, Chao Cuo was afraid of trouble, so he took a shortcut and took the south gate to work.When Shentu Jia heard about this, he immediately arranged for someone to impeach and kill Chao Cuo. But when Shen Tujia was about to do it, he suddenly discovered that the murder had become serious again. The reason is: the news leaked, and Chao Cuo took the initiative to ask Liu Qi to surrender himself. In the early morning of the next day, Shen Tujia still acted as usual, so he threw a lot of impeachment words in front of Chao Cuo in front of everyone.But when he was sweating profusely from exhaustion, Liu Qi said casually to Shen Tujia: "The old prime minister has worked hard. Chao Cuo just walked by the wall of the ancestral temple, not really through the temple of the ancestor. In fact, he walked south The door was also reported to me, and I also agreed." Shen Tujia was immediately dumbfounded!You think he is stupid, but he colluded long ago to embarrass you in front of everyone! Yes, now, where to put the old face. After dismissing the court, Shen Tujia was frustrated and angry.At the beginning, Liu Heng came to rescue Deng Tong because he didn't strike in time; now, he was a little slower.If I knew this earlier, I should cut it first and then play it!As a result, the more Shentu Jia thought about it, the more he felt hopeless, and when he returned home, he vomited blood on the bed and died from exhaustion. It's not a big deal to be mad at Shen Tujia to death.And Chao Cuo's real big fire is: cutting down the feudal clan! Chao Cuo and the late genius Jia Yi also had a far-sighted vision in dealing with princes.Only when the central government is strong and the vassals are weak, the country will have long-term stability; otherwise, once the vassals become bigger and their waists harden, the devil of thought will come out of their bodies.At that time, if the world is not chaotic, it will be harmed, and there will be a hundred harms but no benefits. Therefore, before Liu Heng was alive, Jia Yi sent a letter to Hou, and Chao Cuo continued to follow suit.It's a pity that Liu Heng has limited energy and has no time to cause trouble, nor does he want to cause trouble.Therefore, this minefield was left to Liu Qi. Of course we know that the landmines of these princes are everywhere from east to west, from south to north.If you don't have the courage to tie your life on your belt, you will never dare to step on it.However, it must be pointed out that Jia Yi's method of cutting the marquis is quite different from Chao Cuo's.The difference is that the former advocates a soft landing, while the latter advocates a hard landing. Jia Yi's method of cutting Hou is the method of cutting cakes.Let the princes be divided from generation to generation, so that they are all skinny, weak, and unable to resist.If that's the case, the central government will sit back and reap the rewards. However, Chao Cuo thinks: Jia Yi's starting point is good, the problem is that the speed is too slow.If you want to do great things, you have to be fast.The quickest way is to cut the princes hard no matter what!And, let's start with the hardest bone, King Wu! If they insist on giving a reason: then use their various crimes, large or small, as an excuse! Chao Cuo, Chao Cuo, why are you so cruel! However, Liu Qi didn't dare to make his own decisions like Chao Cuo's other suggestions for major matters such as cutting Wu and other vassal states.Whether it will work or not will have to be discussed at a meeting.Of course, the hearing will be waived.What Liu Qi wanted to hold was an enlarged meeting of the political commissars.Those who participated in the meeting included ministers, marquises, and clansmen. Dou Ying, as a member of the foreign relatives, also attended the meeting.Among all the councilors, he was the only one who opposed Chao Cuoqihou!So, Dou Ying quarreled with Chao Cuo at the meeting.As a result, quarrels are useless, and objections are useless!Everyone passed Chao Cuo's plan to cut the marquis! Chao wrong!Just wait and see!From then on, Dou Ying and Chao Cuo formed a relationship.