Picking up the Emperor Han Wendi: Let Chen Ping shoot himself in the foot

During this period, the Bo family was captured by Wei Wangbao to act as a concubine. However, before Bo Shi and Wei Wangbao lived for a few years, Wei Wangbao was defeated by Liu Bang , and Bo Shi naturally became Liu Bang's woman as a trophy. However, at this time, Liu Bang was surrounded by beautiful women, so he didn't have much impression of Bo. However, on a very lonely night, Liu Bang and Bo had a one-night stand.

Soon after, Bo became pregnant. According to Bo, the child's father is Liu Bang. But who is this kid anyway? In fact, Liu Bang didn't know the truth: after all, there was no DNA technology at that time, and Liu Bang could only vaguely recognize that Bo's child Liu Heng was his own.

Several years later, Liu Bang became the emperor of the new dynasty and began to confer the title of princes and kings. As for Liu Heng's life experience, Liu Bang was a little unsure: because Liu Bang assigned the to Liu Heng and let him be the king.

Liu Bang felt that if Liu Heng was his own son, then he would be considered a king, and even if he wasn't, he would have given him the poorest state. It's the best of both worlds.

2. Equilibrium in the Western Han Dynasty

During Liu Bang's reign, he strived to keep the Western Han court in a balanced state.

In the Western Han court at that time, there were three major forces:

First, the Liu family. It is said that during the Qin Dynasty, the power of the clan was weak, which led to Zhao Gao gaining power, Lu Buwei gaining power, and they could not find a check and balance. Therefore, Liu Bang canonized the Liu family as princes. Once the court has a powerful minister, it can be eradicated through the power of the princes.

Second, cousin. This refers to the Lu family. First, the Lu family played a great role in Liu Bang's entrepreneurial process. Second, even in the period of the Warring States Period, it is normal for foreign relatives of various countries to have power.Liu Bang also knew that he could not avoid the presence of foreign relatives, but he could not sit idly by and watch the foreign relatives become powerful. Therefore, the relatives and the Liu family keep each other in check, which can also maintain stability.

Third, the hero group. In the Liu Bang era, there was still a huge group of heroes in the Western Han court. In fact, Liu Bang does not recognize the hero, but to eradicate it requires a lot of "engineering." Liu Bang did not live to eradicate the heroic group.

However, in general, the Liu family, relatives, and heroes have basically maintained a balanced state after Liu Bang's death.

3. Breaking the balance

Empress Lv After the death of Empress Lv, the power of the foreign relative Lv family has loosened. This made the Lu family anxious. At the same time, the Liu family and the hero also have their own calculus: the hero considers establishing a new king to control a puppet emperor. The most powerful of the Liu family, the Qi Wang family, is considering replacing the court of Emperor Houshao (the puppet court established by Empress Lv, the son of Han Huidi ). As a result, the Hero Group and the Liu family hooked up and launched a cleanup against the Lu family. In this way, the Lu family, the first foreign relative in the history of the Western Han Dynasty, was completely eliminated and became history.

However, the Hero Group also knew that if the powerful King Qi family were to be the emperor, the Hero Group would also face extinction. Therefore, the hero group established the weakest Liu Heng to be the new emperor.

After Liu Heng came to power, he was polite to the Hero Group at first. However, after Liu Heng's emperor's throne was firmly established, Liu Heng also used calm means to clean up the hero group-because the heroes all had fiefs, so Liu Heng scattered the hero groups to their respective fiefs, and then cut off them. In this way, the Hero Group fell into a state of disintegration.

And Liu Heng also became the emperor who really held the power in the history of the Western Han Dynasty. At this time in the Western Han Dynasty, only the princes and kings were left who could check and balance the power of the emperor. After Han Jingdi father and son's efforts, the power of princes and kings also collapsed.

It can be said that Liu Heng's disintegration of the Hero Group affected the trend of the Western Han Dynasty.