Jiang Guodong (WeChat public account Reading History Reading World Special Writer) Lu Pheasant is a politically ambitious person, but her political talent is insufficient, which led to the extermination of the Lu family behind her.
Although Lu Pheasant is full of love for his mother's family, this preference has laid a bane. Her love was too strong, causing the Liu family to feel pain and the hearts of Liu Bang's former retainers to terror, which eventually led to the seeds of hatred blossoming after her death.
Mr. and Mrs. Liu Bang regard the world as their home, and the two work closely together to complement each other. Lü Pheasant and Xiao He took advantage of Liu Bang's outing to quell the rebellion and killed Han Xin in Weiyang Palace.
Although Liu Bang felt pity and joy for this after he came back, without his acquiescence, Lu Pheasant would not have done anything to Han Xin. Even when Peng Yue was degraded, Lü Pheasant sympathized with his plight and brought him back to Liu Bang.
Lu Pheasant knew Liu Bang's thoughts, so she raised her machete without hesitation and killed Peng Yue. In general, Lu Pheasant is well aware of Liu Bang's thoughts and behaviors, and her way of treating heroes is also cruel and ruthless.
Empress Lu, as a typical example of a woman monopolizing power, actively pursued policies to seek benefits for the Lu family with her spirit of loving her family like loving the country. She resolutely cracked down on the threat of the Liu group to the Lu family's forces, and vigorously rewarded the members of the Lu family, hoping to expand the influence of the Lu family.
In terms of suppressing the Liu family, Empress Lu was vicious, especially the killer of Zhao Wang Ruyi. At the same time, she also had a deep hatred for King Liu, and even wanted to poison King Qi to mourn Hui.
But her real purpose is to crown her mother's family as king, because Liu Bang once made an oath with his ministers that no one can be king unless he is Liu, which makes her idea impossible to realize.
However, she succeeded in depriving the right prime minister Wang Ling of his real power and rewarding the members of the Lu family as kings, so as to strengthen the strength of the Lu family and prevent it from being purged by the Liu family.
In the process, she was almost crazy about rewarding, and even named her son-in-law and daughter generals.
Although Gao Hou's wisdom is lacking, she is good at using political means. In order to consolidate her power, she let the daughter of the Lu family marry the king surnamed Liu, and controlled the power by blood.
At the same time, she let the Lu family hold real power, for example, Lü Chan became the Xiangguo and set aside Chen Ping, while Lü Lu controlled the northern army guarding the capital. However, not all the women of the Lu family were welcomed by the princes and kings.
For example, King Zhao doesn't like the Lu woman, and even has something else to love. As a result, the Lü woman denounced King Zhao, causing King Zhao to be imprisoned in Yongxiang and finally starved to death. However, Lü Chan and Lü Lu were unable to compete with Chen Ping and Zhou Bo because of their lack of political and military talents, and they were finally coaxed into handing over their military power, and their families were wiped out.
Empress Gao has a deep affection for the family, and in order to let them live a comfortable life, she does not hesitate to use various means to improve the status of the Lu family. She had two children, one was Emperor Hui of Han and the other was Princess Lu Yuan.
Emperor Hui's Empress Zhang was the daughter of Princess Lu Yuan, which reflected Empress Gao's love for her family. However, Empress Zhang did not give birth to a son, and Emperor Hui was frightened and lost his fertility and died a few years later.
This caught Gao Hou off guard. So, she used an ingenious strategy. She gave the sons born to the palace maids in Emperor Hui's palace to Empress Zhang to raise, claiming that they were the sons of Empress Zhang, and killed the palace maids.
In order to prevent accidents, she also asked Empress Zhang to adopt four fake sons. These fake sons are actually the fake sons of Empress Zhang, but they are the real sons of Emperor Hui and the real grandsons of Empress Gao.
However, the matter was eventually revealed. After Emperor Hui's true grandson ascended the throne, he knew that Empress Zhang was not his biological mother, and Empress Gao killed his own mother, so he threatened to take revenge in the future.
Gao Hou didn't care about this, thinking that as long as he was disobedient, he should be killed. Her method was so vicious that a hundred years after Gao Hou, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo controlled the government, and they were afraid that the real grandsons left by Gao Hou would retaliate in the future, so they judged all of them to be counterfeit and shoddy products, and all of them were executed.
Gao Hou is really an extremely smart person, but her methods eventually made her offspring.
Gao Hou, a ruler with feminine characteristics, her sensibility surpasses reason and makes her leave her selfish and intolerant love to her mother's family, but because of this, she destroys a family world.
Although Emperor Zhao of Han and Emperor Xuan of Han were the younger generations of Empress Gao, they showed the rationality and calmness that Empress Gao lacked in dealing with the relationship with the general Huo Guang. This may be the difference between men and women in dealing with problems.