The Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty, Lu Pheasant
Wen Ren Hanping
In 219 B.C., the richest man in Pei County, Jiangsu, the mansion of Lu Taigong was full of traffic, and the door was like a city. The joy of the Lu family's housewarming, the banquet guests, full of friends, and winning friends.
Peixian County Commander and Mrs. Lu have a very good personal relationship, and the boss's friends naturally need to be flattered, and Peixian ** went to support the scene. The people with heads and faces in the county basically came to the Lu family to congratulate. If the congratulatory gift is more than 1,000 yuan, they will be led into the private room and eat at the same table with Mrs. Lu, and if the congratulatory gift is less than 1,000 yuan, they will sit in the hall and eat.
At this time, Liu Bang, the head of the Surabaya Pavilion under the jurisdiction of Peixian County, also came over, and he also sat in the private room to eat, so he said to the bookkeeper: "You write to me, I Liu Ji congratulated me with a gift of 10,000 yuan." The bookkeeper shouted loudly: "Liu Ji, the head of the Surabaya Pavilion, a congratulatory gift of 10,000 yuan." The person next to him laughed coaxingly: "Liu Laosan, you baby blow, you can't take out 100 yuan, and you can pay 10,000 yuan." ”
Everyone knows that this Liu Laosan is an idle, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and abducting and cheating guys, often eating and drinking, a typical scoundrel.
Liu Bang saw that everyone laughed at him, he was not angry at all, his face did not change, his heart did not beat, and he did not panth. Faced with the congratulatory gift of 10,000 yuan asked by the bookkeeper, he still looked indifferent, "You write it down first, you write it down first." ”
How can there be a congratulatory gift on credit? You're so embarrassed to be home. ”
This guy wants to fly first class without money! Raippi one! ”
The single person did not have a single hair, and pretending to be a single person was guilty of the rules. If you can't afford to eat, don't eat, and come back to eat and drink. ”
Don't find anyone to coax him out yet! ”…The guests gossiped, others followed suit, and the people eating melons were watching the jokes.
Mrs. Lu, who was sitting in the private room, heard the commotion outside and hurriedly walked out. Seeing Liu Bang standing in the crowd, he was immediately stunned, and Lu Taigong, who had read countless people, saw that Liu Bang was born with a different appearance, a wide forehead, a high nose bridge, and thick lips.
Lu Taigong decided that this person was by no means an idle person, and immediately said, "Strong man, please come in the private room." ”
Liu Bang entered the private room, and Pei County Commander, Pei County Deputy County Magistrate Xiao He, Justice Bureau Director Cao Shen, Transportation Bureau Director Xia Houying, and Lu Taigong sat at the same table, facing the county's leading figures and top bosses, Liu Bang was unrestrained, with a strong aura, talking eloquently, talking the head of the head, not taking the county order in his eyes at all, and from time to time teasing the county order and Xiao He and others, the county order's face was red and white for a while. It's not easy to have a seizure in front of Mrs. Lu.
After the banquet was dispersed, Mrs. Lu said to Liu Bang: "Strong man, please stay, can the strong man be married, if not, let my daughter marry you as a wife, if married, marry you as a concubine, okay?" ”
Liu Bang was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't expect that he, a 37-year-old bachelor, would hand over the peach blossom luck. He had long heard that there was a 22-year-old leftover girl in Mrs. Lu's family, who looked like a flower and jade, and was both talented and beautiful.
Liu Bang is a thousand promises, ten thousand promises. was so angry that Mrs. Lu's wife stomped her feet, pulled Mrs. Lu aside and scolded: "Is your brain in the water, or was kicked by a donkey, marrying your daughter is right, you can't bear to marry our baby daughter to a poor bastard, a streamer hammer, what do you want him?" Peixian County Commander has been secretly in love with our daughter for a long time, and the spinach in autumn has already been delivered, you ignore it, your uncle is confused! ”
Mrs. Lu was unmoved, the order of her parents, the words of the matchmaker, Bai Fumei and Lu Pheasant married Liu Bang, an old man who was 15 years older than her. came to Liu Bang's house, in addition to the four walls of the family, there was also an illegitimate son Liu Fei. Lu Pheasant felt bitter in her heart, her parents had been with her for 20 years, and when she got married and returned to before liberation, she did not complain, she married a chicken and a dog and a dog, put on coarse cloth clothes, and both ploughed the fields and watered the garden. Soon, he also gave birth to a girl and a boy for Liu Bang (that is, the later Princess Lu Yuan and Emperor Liu Ying of the Han Dynasty).
In this way, Lu Pheasant engaged in agricultural and mulberry knitting at home, filial piety to his parents, and raising children. Liu Bang is still the same as before, wandering outside all day long, a group of wolves, a group of dogs, eating and drinking, and not doing his job.
Suddenly, one day Lu Pheasant heard a bad news, Liu Bang had a big deal, he was wanted and listed as a violent person. It turned out that when Liu Bang escorted the apprentices to Lishan, most of the apprentices escaped halfway. Liu Bang knew that even if the rest of the people were escorted to Lishan on time, it would be a capital crime. So he said to the rest, "Scatter, scatter, go back to your own house, and find your mother." A kind-hearted servant asked, "Pavilion Chief Liu, we're all gone, what are you going to do?" Liu Bang said: "What else can I do?" I went up the mountain and fell into the grass to be a coward, I let you go, I have already committed a capital crime, and I will affect my family when I go back. "Everyone thought, yes, we have escaped from the service, and we really can't go home, and if we go back, we will not talk about the family, and it will be a dead end. Forget it, it's better to follow Liu Tingchang to occupy the mountain as the king, so that there is a way to live.
Liu Bang and his gang hid, and the monk couldn't run away from the temple, so the officials of Pei County immediately arrested Lu Pheasant and put him in prison. Lu Pheasant's heart is dead, what kind of sin has he created in this life, and he has suffered so much. The cold, damp, and dim prison made Lu Pheasant shiver. Fortunately, although Liu Bang is idle, he is righteous and has made many friends, such as Peng Xiaohe, the chief official of Pei County, Cao Shen, and Ren Ao, the prison official. With Ren Ao's help, Lu Pheasant avoided being humiliated in prison, and then secretly let Lu Pheasant go home.
After being released from prison, Lu Pheasant's hard life became even more difficult, she could only support her family alone, and in addition, Lu Pheasant had to travel long distances to deliver clothes and food to Liu Bang.
In 209 BC, the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings broke out, igniting the raging fire of overthrowing the tyrannical Qin, and people all over the country were ready to move, Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Xiahou Ying, they were like rats on a big ship, and they immediately expected that the ship of the Great Qin Empire was about to sink, so they had to plan early and get up to do something. However, these people have been in the system for too long, and they have too many worries to dare to provoke the head, because the rebellion is to destroy the Nine Clans. After discussing it, they decided to invite Liu Bang back and let him take the lead. Liu Bang is also welcome, you are not the head, I will be the one. Liu Bang led everyone into the tide of the anti-Qin uprising, and fought in various places, Lu Pheasant was frightened at home in Pei County, but fortunately, Liu Bang laid a family business and was named the king of Han by Xiang Yu.
However, Liu Bang was not satisfied with being only a Han king, so Liu Bang took advantage of Xiang Yu's attack on Qidi, and the Han army led by Liu Bang captured Pengcheng, the capital of Xiang Yu. However, Xiang Yu led the cavalry to quickly return to the defense, personally led 30,000 Chu soldiers, and broke Liu Bang's 200,000 army. On the road, in order to reduce weight and make the car run faster, Liu Bang actually pushed his daughter and son out of the car three times, but fortunately, Xiahou Ying stopped the rescue, and Liu Bang gave up.
Liu Bang escaped, Lü Pheasant and Liu Bang's father were captured by the Chu army and became captives and hostages, and Lü Pheasant stayed with Xiang Yu for more than two years. Fortunately, in this crisis, Lu Pheasant finally turned the danger into a disaster, because his husband Liu Bang gradually gained the upper hand in the battle with Xiang Yu, and finally as a condition for peace, Lu Pheasant returned to Liu Bang. 
The husband and wife reunited after a long absence, and what Lu Pheasant was waiting for was not her husband Liu Bang's affectionate hug and full of expectations, but just a polite nodding and smiling. Lu Pheasant found that there was already a distance between him and Liu Bang, because Liu Bang had another woman by his side-Qi Meiren, she was younger than herself, beautiful, and especially able to provide Liu Bang with emotional value. Looking at himself who has gone through all kinds of hardships and is old, Lu Pheasant knows that his relationship with Liu Bang has become estranged.
At this time, a pair of her children came crying, holding Lu Pheasant's hand and crying: "My father pushed the two of us off the carriage three times in order to escape for his life, if it wasn't for Uncle Xiahouying's rescue, we would have died long ago." "Lu Pheasant's lungs are all angry, you are Liu Laosan, you are really ruthless, the villain is unrighteous, is there a father like you? The heart is so ruthless. At this time, Lu Pheasant really wanted to rush up and fight with Liu Bang. However, after going through prison and hostage life, Lu Pheasant is more mature than before, and the pattern has opened up. She knew that the noise at this time had no meaning, it could not change the established reality, and it would bring more trouble to herself. If she can't bear it, she will make a big plan, she still has to rely on this old man to create a brilliant life, and she must not catch the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon. Lu Pheasant picked up the child and calmly accepted all this. She began to help Liu Bang take care of the affairs of the harem and coordinate and deal with various relationships, so that Liu Bang had no worries and devoted himself to the Chu-Han War.
After four years of fighting, Liu Bang won, in 202 BC, Liu Bang ascended the throne as emperor, named the country Han, Lu Pheasant himself became the queen, and his son Liu Yingli became the crown prince. Lu Pheasant, who had worked hard, could have breathed a sigh of relief, but a new trouble came: Qi Meiren, whom Liu Bang liked, was promoted to Mrs. Qi, and her status was second only to Lu Pheasant, but she was still as beautiful as a flower, and her demeanor was still the same, which fascinated Liu Bang. Mrs. Qi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is tired in front of Liu Bang every day, and even hugs and hugs in front of Lu Pheasant, shows affection, is untidy, does some spicy eye movements, deliberately disgusts Lu Pheasant, makes her angry, and looks at her angry and ruined.
However, Mrs. Qi underestimated Lu Pheasant, she knew that Lu Pheasant was a political woman, not an emotional woman, what Lu Pheasant cared about was power and status, she understood that power was the best, and she must firmly grasp it in her own hands. As for whether my husband likes himself or not, it doesn't matter. After so many years of miserable life, she no longer cares about the bad things between men and women.
Lu Pheasant watched Mrs. Qi's performance and felt ridiculous, you can completely fascinate the old hooligan Liu Bang with your beautiful face and convex and backward figure? It's too naïve, in Liu Bang's eyes, you are just a stunner and a plaything, compared to the Han Dynasty and unlimited power, what are you? And behind me stood a group of supporters, Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Xiahou Ying are all old friends, and they are my staunch supporters and allies, my brother-in-law Fan Hao has a heavy army, or Liu Bang's hair is young, and my nephew Lu Ze is also the commander in the army. Fight with me, you're still a little tender. The tiger is not powerful, you still think it is a sick cat, I don't show you my hands, you don't know that Ma Wang Ye has three eyes.
Lu Pheasant began to help Liu Bang and showed his political means. She knew that the Han Dynasty had just been established, and Liu Bang was afraid of the heroes, especially the famous soldier Han Xin and the general Peng Yue, and Liu Bang had always wanted to eradicate them. Lu Pheasant used thunderbolt means, and with the help of Prime Minister Xiao He, he tricked Han Xin into the palace, and directly clicked, and a generation of famous generals came to an end. Immediately afterwards, facing the exiled Peng Yue, Lu Pheasant and Liu Bang said: "Peng Yue is a heroic and brave person, and now he is exiled to Shu, this is to leave a disaster for himself, let the tiger return to the mountain, it is better to kill him." Liu Bang suddenly woke up, Peng Yue was chopped into meat sauce, and Lu Pheasant decided Peng Yue's death.
Lu Pheasant cut down with a three-plate axe, and the ministers of the court and central government saw her methods, and they were all trembling when they saw her, and they were even more afraid than seeing Liu Bang. They know that Liu Bang can still talk to you about some reasoning, and he can also deal with some people and things leniently, and if you contradict Liu Bang for a few words, he won't care about you. Lu Pheasant never talks to you, and kills him directly if he can't get used to it. The message she sent was: Don't mess with my sister, my sister has a bad temper.
Lü Pheasant helped Liu Bang stabilize the power of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bang had to admire her methods. However, at this time, her son Liu Ying's position as crown prince was not secure. Liu Bang has always thought that the crown prince Liu Ying has a weak personality and is not like him, and the idea of changing the prince has always been there. Especially that Mrs. Qi, who also gave birth to a son Liu Ruyi, often blowing the pillow wind beside Liu Bang: "Your Majesty, look at our son Ruyi, smart, clever, capable, how much like you, much stronger than your gentle and humble prince Liu Ying, your Han country is handed over to us Ruyi." After saying it a lot, Liu Bang thought it made sense, and the idea of changing the prince was going to be put into action.
Lu Pheasant quickly got the news and scolded Mrs. Qi: Slut, forget it if you rob my husband, I don't care about you, I don't rare this old cucumber and medicine scum, you rob my son of the crown prince, isn't this my mother and son's life?
The helpless Lu Pheasant asked Zhang Liang, and Zhang Liang proposed to ask Shangshan Sihao to assist the prince. Shangshan Sihao is not a person, but four doctors in the last years of the Qin Dynasty: Tang Bing, Duke of Dongyuan, Cui Guang, Duke of Xia Huang, Wu Shi of Qili, and Mr. Zhou Shu of Lu (lù). They are talented and hermits, Liu Bang attaches great importance to them, and has sent people to invite them out of the mountain many times, but they have all been refused. Lu Pheasant brought a heavy gift, went to invite five times, and sincerely, Shangshan Sihao promised to go out of the mountain to assist the prince.
At a banquet, Liu Ying served on the side, and four old men stood behind Liu Ying, like a tall and radiant background wall. Liu Bang was taken aback: "Over the years, I have repeatedly searched for all the masters, but you have avoided them, why do you follow my son now?" Shang Shan Sihao replied: "Your Majesty has always despised Gaoshi, and the ministers are unwilling to bring humiliation on themselves. Now I heard that the prince is benevolent and filial, respectful and affectionate, and everyone in the world stretches their necks to look up, looking forward to serving the prince to death, so the ministers come voluntarily. ”
Seeing all this, Liu Bang gave up, he understood that Liu Ying's status as the crown prince was unshakable. said to Mrs. Qi: "The prince is full-fledged, it is difficult to move him, Lu Pheasant is really your master this time!" ”
When Mrs. Qi heard this, she cried, as if foreshadowing her tragic fate.
In 195 BC, Liu Bang died, leaving behind a rich legacy - the Han Dynasty, the titular successor of the inheritance, Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. The actual ruler of the inheritance, the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant.
Once in power, she will carry out the order, Lu Pheasant can't forget the suffering she has suffered for many years, she hates Liu Bang, a meat-headed baby, and let the turmoil of her youth have been suppressed, leading to early menopause. She wanted to let out a breath of evil anger in her heart and ordered Liu Bang's favorite concubines to be imprisoned. She hated Mrs. Qi very much, cut off Mrs. Qi's hands and feet, smoked her ears, gouged out her eyes, poisoned her with dumb medicine, made her ** biao, and threw her into the toilet for people to pee on it.
After dealing with the rivals in love, in order to further consolidate power, strictly prevent the destruction of class enemies, and prevent them from dying, Lu Pheasant aimed the butcher's knife at his political opponent - Liu Bang's sons, Liu Bang had a total of 8 sons, and 6 were directly or indirectly killed by Lu Pheasant. After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, Lü Pheasant reigned for 8 years, reached the peak of power, and became the first heroine in Chinese history.
In 180 BC, Lü Pheasant died of illness. Looking back on Lu Pheasant's life, from a cloth cloth and a female stream, through a series of bloody and bloody winds, she took charge of the fate of the empire, she followed Liu Bang's national policy of "resting with the people", practicing "rule by inaction", encouraging production, abolishing torture, and advocating frugality, which laid the foundation for the later rule of Wenjing. In this regard, Ma Qian of Taishi Company gave great affirmation. She wasn't the top politician, but she didn't do a bad job. Although it is detrimental to the Han and Liu clans, it is indeed meritorious to the country.