The image left by Lu Pheasant in history. If we had to use one word to describe it, it would be "vicious" or "vicious". But this description is not comprehensive.
Let's talk about Lu Pheasant in three dimensions, and you will realize that this person is very decisive and very witty.
From this, let's talk about the relationship between Liu Bang and Lu Pheasant, and after a little analysis, we can know:
Liu Bang may have seen through the essence of Lu Pheasant a long time ago, and maybe he was extremely disgusted!
But on another level, Liu Bang still admires Lu Pheasant very much.
Because Lu Pheasant can do big things that Liu Bang doesn't dare to do, and he has done it twice.
Once, kill Han Shin. Once, kill Peng Yue.
For these two people, they were killed by Lu Pheasant because of the reason of "rebellion".
In terms of the handling of the two, Liu Bang was still quite gentle, Liu Bang was told that Han Xin might have the intention of rebellion, Liu Bang just demoted Han Xin to the Marquis of Huaiyin, and then sent him to the capital to monitor.
But if you really want to kill Han Xin, Liu Bang can't do it at all!
And Lu Pheasant couldn't take care of it so much, when Liu Bang was not in the capital and was out to quell Chen Feng's rebellion.
Lu Pheasant found the opportunity and joined forces with Xiao He to take out Han Xin. And this action, Liu Bang was not informed in advance at all, what he played was exciting, and what he played was to cut first and then play!
And for Peng Yue, the same is true. Someone told Peng Yue that he had the intention of rebellion, Liu Bang didn't believe that Peng Yue would have this plan, and he remembered that Peng Yue was a hero and a founding father! He didn't want to kill at all!
Liu Bang just made a show, demoted Peng Yue to a commoner, and moved to Shu to live.
This is Liu Bang's method of dealing with it. But Lu Pheasant is not like this, she thinks that Lu Pheasant must be killed!
Later, she brought Peng Yue back by the way, and told Liu Bang that she was going to kill Peng Yue. Liu Bang may have also been convinced, and then Peng Yue was killed!
And after this, Liu Bang should have understood Lu Pheasant's ruthlessness more thoroughly!
Lu Pheasant is the queen, and she doesn't care about the identity of the king with a different surname at all, anyway, she just kills if she wants to kill by temperament!
But this is such a Lu Pheasant, Liu Bang didn't want to kill Lu Pheasant before he died? What does Liu Bang think about the safety of Qi Ji's mother and son?
We can look at another episode of events later.
In 195 BC, Liu Bang returned to the capital after pacifying Yingbu, and was injured. This time, Liu Bang felt that his time was running out. The question he should be thinking about most now is who will become the new emperor himself!
The candidate in his heart at that time was Mrs. Qi's son, Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi.
However, the strength of the ministers headed by Empress Lu completely disagreed with Liu Bang's plan, which shows that the power of Empress Lu at that time was so great that Liu Bang could not be shaken.
So, although Liu Bang was dissatisfied! But for the sake of the country, I had to accept it and set up another king!
In addition to the establishment of a new king. Liu Bang also did a big thing before he died!
He killed Fan Xu! This hero who made great contributions to the Han Dynasty, this savior who once rescued Liu Bang in the Hongmen banquet. The final result was that he was decisively killed by Liu Bang!
Guan Yu's major event is described in the "Historical Records of Gaozu Benji": "When Emperor Gao was very ill, people had an evil party in the Lu family, that is, the palace car was driven by Yan on the previous day, and he wanted to destroy the Qi family and Zhao Wang Ruyi's family with soldiers. Emperor Gao was furious when he heard this, so that Chen Ping was the commodore of Jianghou, and he was beheaded in the army. ”
We can see from Liu Bang's killing of Fan Xu that Liu Bang still cares a lot about the survival of Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi after his death.
As a result, Liu Bang was desperate to kill the killer, because Fan Hao touched his bottom line!
However, let's think according to this logic, why was Lu Pheasant not eliminated by Liu Bang?
You must know that Lu Pheasant is here, so Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi will not escape their doom after their death!
But, seriously, how could Liu Bang not know these truths at that time? But he was really powerless at that time.
First of all, Lu Pheasant is the queen of the dynasty, and the emperor kills the queen!
That's too much to say! As the mother of a country, the queen cannot be killed at will! In addition, Lu Pheasant's body has been given too many meanings, for example, he is the mother of the eldest son, and she is Liu Bang's wife, Liu Bang killed Lu Pheasant It is unreasonable or legal!
Secondly, Lü Pheasant's power in the court was unusually consolidated.
Behind Lu Pheasant stood a huge group of relatives. Liu Bang wants to get rid of Lu Pheasant, and political turmoil will definitely happen!
And the only warning that Liu Bang could do at that time was to kill Lu Pheasant's brother-in-law Fan Hao to warn. And if you want to do a large-scale eradication, this is something that Liu Bang can't do!
The Lü family was particularly important to the stable rule of the Han Dynasty at that time, and the power structure between them was intertwined and entangled.
At that time, Liu Ying had already been made the crown prince, and he could not be replaced casually.
Liu Bang's retention of Lu Pheasant can be regarded as a last resort! Even if it is disgust and hatred, it has to be "double standard".
Of course, Liu Bang must have wanted to protect Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi in his heart.
The method he adopted was to let the imperial historian Zhou Chang go to Zhao to serve as the minister of Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, this move was actually to let Zhou Chang protect Liu Ruyi instead of himself. But in reality, the effect is not reflected at all.
That's because this Zhou Chang doesn't have any real power in his hands at all.
Liu Bang hopes that Zhou Chang can protect his children, which is really wishful thinking. Soon after Liu Bang's death, Lü Pheasant asked Liu Ruyi to attack quickly, and Zhou Chang gave Liu Ruyi's staff to ask him to resign and enter Beijing.
But this trick couldn't stop Lu Pheasant at all, Lu Pheasant ordered Zhou Chang to enter the palace, and then sent someone to edict Liu Ruyi alone, and the result was that in this process, Liu Ruyi was poisoned.
And later, Mrs. Qi's fate, we all know that she was made into a human by Lu Pheasant.
On this topic: Why didn't Liu Bang consider the safety of Qi Ji's mother and son and execute Queen Lu Pheasant on his deathbed?
It can only be said that Lu Pheasant is really powerful, and no matter how much Liu Bang wants to protect Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi, he can't help it.
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