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Chapter 235 The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion
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The south of the Yangtze River is already in mist: There is no need for it, that is to say, usually dreaming about Duke Zhou is a sweet dream, but if you dream about Duke Zhou today, it will probably be a murder in your dream!

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My charming but short-lived ancestor: look at my ID, don’t you feel guilty? That is to say, my ancestors are so powerful, and I just fall down when I see them!

Don’t let the world grow old: I agree! Although I make fun of my ancestors, if I really meet my ancestors, I will be the coward who will be scared to death!

Duke Zhou: That means I’m not that scary, right?
Su Yue looked at the comment area and said: "That is to say, I suggest you people to restrain themselves! This is our dear ancestor! Okay, that is to say, we are almost done with the chaos of the three prisons. The next one It’s the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion during the Western Han Dynasty!”

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The state of Wu was first granted the title in the twelfth year of Emperor Gaodi (195 BC).

King Wu Liu Bi was the son of Liu Zhong, the second brother of Han Emperor Liu Bang. When Wang Ying of Huainan launched a rebellion, Emperor Han Emperor himself went to fight against the rebellion.

Liu Bi was only 20 years old at the time. As a cavalry commander, he followed Liu Bang to defeat Yingbu's army in the west of Qixian County.

Yingbu fled and was killed. At that time, King Liu Jia of Jing was killed by Yingbu and had no heir.

Emperor Gaozu believed that the southeastern region was separated from the Han Dynasty and would be difficult for a non-strong vassal king to rule. At this time, Liu Bang's own sons were still young and could not bear this important task, so he appointed Liu Bi as King of Wu to rule over the three counties. Fifty-three cities.

During the period of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty and Empress Dowager Lu of the Han Dynasty, the world was initially settled, and the princes of the prefectures and states each appeased the common people in their jurisdiction.

Zhang County in the Wu region produced copper ("Historical Records" and "Hanshu" describe it as Yuzhang County, but the annotations point out that "Yu" is the word "Yan", so it should be Zhang County; and the fiefdom of King Wu was the former home of Liu Jia, King of Jing, which included Zhang County but not "Yu" Zhangjun (according to "Hanshu Geography", Zhangjun did have copper officials), Wu King Liu Bi used the resources at his disposal to attract many desperadoes in the world to steal copper coins.

At the same time, salt was produced in the coastal area of ​​​​Wudi, and the king of Wu boiled seawater into salt and sold it to all parts of the country, making a huge profit.

The money minted by Wu State was circulated throughout the Western Han Dynasty.

Due to its prosperous economy and growing strength and capital, the State of Wu did not levy any taxes within its territory, and all those who performed duties were given commissions, thus gaining the support of the people.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xian, the crown prince of Wu, entered the court and was able to accompany the crown prince Liu Qi (later Emperor Jing of Han) to drink and have fun.

When Prince Wu was playing gambling with the crown prince, Prince Wu competed for victory on the chess table with a disrespectful attitude. Prince Liu Qi was angry and picked up the chessboard and smashed Prince Wu's head, killing him on the spot.

After his son was accidentally killed by the prince Liu Qi, the king of Wu did not abide by the etiquette of the princes towards the emperor and refused to go to court because of his illness.

The imperial court thought it was because of the loss of his son, but after verification, it was confirmed that King Wu was not ill, so he detained the Wu envoy. King Wu was frightened and began to rebel.

Later, the King of Wu sent an envoy to perform the autumn pilgrimage on his behalf. The emperor asked about the King of Wu. The envoy replied: "The King of Wu was not actually sick. It was just because the court had imprisoned several Wu envoys. The King of Wu was afraid, so he pretended to be sick." .

Please put aside the past grudges and give him a chance to mend his ways. "

So Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty pardoned the Wu envoy, and gave the King of Wu several cases and a walking stick. He was considerate of his old age and could no longer perform Hajj.

King Wu thought that the court was weak and became more arrogant.

After Liu Qi, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, came to the throne, the contradiction between the central autocratic imperial power and the power of local vassal states increasingly intensified. Chao Cuo, the imperial censor, began to plan with Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty to reduce the vassal state.

In the second year of Emperor Jing's reign (155 BC), Chao Cuo submitted a policy for reducing the vassal status to Emperor Jing. He once again complained about the sins of the princes, and requested that the fiefdoms be reduced and the neighboring counties be recovered.

When the King of Chu came to court, Chao Cuo took the opportunity to say that King Liu Wu of Chu had secretly committed adultery while he was in mourning for Empress Dowager Bo, and requested that he be killed.

Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to pardon capital crimes and reduced Donghai County as punishment; King Liu Sui of Zhao was found guilty two years ago and cut off his Hejian County; King Liu Xun of Jiaoxi cut off six counties because of fraud in the sale of titles; then Emperor Jing also Discuss with the ministers the matter of seizing the fiefdom of Wu King Liu Bi.

Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty's move to cut down vassal vassals caused a great shock in the government and the public. Wu King Liu Bi was worried that the land cutting would be endless, so he wanted to rebel, so he went to Jiaoxi in person and made an agreement with Jiaoxi King Liu Xin to rebel against the Han Dynasty. Wu Wang Divide the world with Jiaoxi and rule.

Liu Xun agreed to rebel, and made an appointment with his brothers and other kings of the old Qi territory to rebel against the Han.

At the same time, King Wu Liu Bi also sent people to the Chu, Zhao, and Huainan countries to conspire and raise armies.

Soon, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to seize the Zhangjun and Kuaiji counties of Wu King Liu Bi.

The edict was passed to the State of Wu, and King Liu Bi of Wu immediately murdered all the Han officials in the State of Wu who were under 2,000 shi. They colluded with King Liu Wu of Chu, King Liu Sui of Zhao, King Liu Biguang of Jinan, King Liu Xian of Zichuan, and King Liu of Jiaoxi. Liu Xiongqu, the king of Jiaodong, and other six kings openly rebelled.

Liu Bi recruited all the men over 14 and under 60 in the feudal state to join the army, and gathered more than 30 people. He also sent people to collude with the Xiongnu, Dongyue, and Minyue nobles in the name of "please punish Chao Cuo and clear the emperor's side." , raised their troops to the west, thus beginning the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion of Wu and Chu in the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Execute Chao Cuo
In the first month of the third year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (154 BC), King Liu Bi of Wu raised troops in Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), set up a granary in Dongyang, Huainan, crossed the Huaihe River to the west, joined the Chu soldiers, and sent spies and troops deep into Yaomian. Regional activities. The Wu-Chu coalition crossed the Huai River and attacked westward, becoming the main force of the rebellion.

The rebels from Jiaoxi and other countries jointly attacked Linzi, where King Liu of Qi was guarding, while the State of Zhao invited the Xiongnu to join forces to invade the Han Dynasty.

Because Liu Bi had planned ahead, the armies of the Seven Kingdoms made smooth progress at the beginning of the rebellion.

Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty heard the news and discussed with Chao Cuo about sending troops. Chao Cuo suggested that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty lead the expedition in person and stay in the capital himself.

Yuan Ang, who had been the prime minister of the state of Wu, proposed to Emperor Jing a plan to kill Chao Cuo and satisfy the rebels' "Qingjun side" requirements in exchange for their withdrawal. Emperor Jing adopted Yuan Ang's plan and named Yuan Ang Taichang, asking him to secretly organize his clothes and go out. Envoy Wu Guo.

More than ten days after Yuan An offered his advice, Prime Minister Tao Qing, Lieutenant Chen Jia, and Ting Lieutenant Zhang Ou jointly submitted a letter to impeach Chao Cuo and proposed that Chao Cuo be executed.

Emperor Jing approved this memorial and cut Chao Cuo in half in Dongshi.

However, killing Chao Cuo did not stop the Seven Kingdoms' army from attacking. Instead, the Seven Kingdoms Allied Forces believed that Emperor Jing was weak and incompetent, so Liu Bi claimed to be the Eastern Emperor, fought against the Western Han Dynasty and refused to see Yuan An.

Only then did Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty make up his mind to suppress the rebellion with force. He sent Taiwei Zhou Yafu and thirty-six generals to lead troops to resist the Wu-Chu coalition. He sent Qu Zhouhou Li Ji to lead troops to attack Zhao, and Luan Bu attacked the traitors in Qi. General Dou Ying was stationed in Xingyang to monitor the movements of Qi and Zhao.

Defeat Wu Chu
The Wu-Chu allied forces marched eastward to the Liang Kingdom (ruling today's Shangqiu, Henan Province). They encountered strong resistance from Liang Wang Liu Wu, the younger brother of Emperor Jing. The Wu-Chu Allied Forces attacked the city together and captured Jibi in the south of the Liang Kingdom (now northwest of Yongcheng, Henan Province). ).

The king of Liang, Liu Wu, appealed to the court. Zhou Yafu believed that the Wu-Chu coalition was too powerful and would be difficult to win in a frontal decisive battle. He suggested using the Liang king's army to hold back the main forces of Wu and Chu, looking for opportunities to cut off each other's supplies, and then wait for an opportunity to defeat the rebels. Emperor Jing agreed to Zhou Yafu's plan.

So Zhou Yafu marched in a detour, took Lantian, left Wuguan, and quickly reached Luoyang.

The Liang Kingdom was attacked by rebels in turn, and the King of Liang asked Zhou Yafu for help.

However, Zhou Yafu sent his army eastward and stationed troops in Changyi, north of Liang State (southwest of Juye, Shandong Province today), and could not hold out.

King Liang sent for help again, but Zhou Yafu still did not send reinforcements. Finally, King Liang wrote to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Jing issued an edict asking Zhou Yafu to send troops for reinforcements, but Zhou Yafu was still unmoved. King Liang then appointed Han Anguo and Zhang Yu as generals, resisted desperately, and faced a stalemate with the Wu-Chu coalition.

Liang's city was heavily defended, and Wu soldiers were unable to advance westward, so they instead rushed towards Zhou Yafu's army.

Zhou Yafu held on to the fortress and refused to fight, but secretly took the opportunity to move south with a small force and seize the mouth of the Si River into the Huaihe River, cutting off the rebels' food route.

The Wu army was out of food, the soldiers were hungry, and several challenges failed, so they attacked Zhou Yafu's camp at night and pretended to attack the southeast. Zhou Yafu ordered to guard the northwest.

Sure enough, Wu soldiers attacked from the northwest, but failed to break through. Wu soldiers were defeated. Most of the soldiers starved to death or surrendered and dispersed. Zhou Yafu led his army to pursue and defeated the Wu and Chu coalition forces.

The King of Wu and thousands of his warriors fled at night, crossed the Huaihe River and fled to Dantu (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province). They retreated to East Vietnam and sent people to recruit the remaining soldiers.

The Han court sent people to lure Dongyue, and the king of Dongyue deceived the king of Wu to go out to comfort the army, stabbed the king of Wu to death with a spear and halberd, and offered his head to the Han Dynasty. After the Wu army collapsed, King Liu Wu of Chu committed suicide.

Put down a rebellion
In Qi, the king of Jiaoxi, Jiaodong and Zichuan besieged Linzi, the capital of Qi, for three months.

The Han general Luan Bu led his army to advance, and the three kings withdrew their troops and returned to their feudal states. After the King of Jiaoxi returned to China, his son Liu De suggested attacking the Han army or fleeing to the sea if he failed, but the King of Jiaoxi refused to listen.

When he went to the Han camp to plead guilty, Han Daodang accused him of plotting a rebellion and read out the edict. King Jiaoxi committed suicide. The king of Jiaodong, the king of Sichuan, and the king of Jinan were also executed.

In Zhao, Li Ji led his troops to attack Zhao. King Liu Sui of Zhao held on to Handan, but Li Ji could not attack it for a long time.

When the Xiongnu learned that Wu Chu was defeated, they refused to send troops to help.

After Luan Bu pacified all the kingdoms in Qi, he returned his army to join forces with Li Ji. The city of Handan was flooded and destroyed, and King Liu Sui of Zhao committed suicide.

The king of Jibei, Liu Zhi, was kidnapped by the doctor of the middle school. He failed to send troops to participate in the rebellion, so he was pardoned but not killed. Instead, he was moved to Sengchuan.

King Liu Jianglu of Qi had meritorious service in defending the city for the imperial court, but he once planned to seize the throne, and later participated in the planning of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion. Especially when he was besieged, he conspired with the King of Jiaoxi and others, so he could not be tolerated by the Han Dynasty. Forced to commit suicide.

结果
In the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, the central government of the Western Han Dynasty won absolute victory.

This rebellion started in the first month of the third year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (154 BC) and was put down in March, with all seven kings dead.

Among the seven countries that participated in the rebellion, except for the preservation of Chu State and the establishment of a new king, the other six countries were all abolished.