I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 302: North Korea hasn’t moved yet, so the title must be seized first!
When Liu Ju received the news, he was not surprised, but just found it very interesting.

If nothing unexpected happened, the fifth prince born by Li Qing'er should be named Liu Bo, and because he was the youngest prince of Emperor Liu Che for a long time, he was deeply loved by Emperor Liu Che.

After a few years, Liu Bo would be named King of Changyi.

Unfortunately, he was also a short-lived person, dying when he was less than 20 years old, but he left behind a famous descendant - Liu He, Marquis of Haihun.

Liu He would become the ninth emperor of the Han Dynasty with the support of Huo Guang, but was deposed by Huo Guang twenty-seven days after he ascended the throne on the grounds of promiscuous behavior and endangering the country. He was known in history as the "Deposed Emperor of Han" and became the emperor with the shortest reign in the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Next came Liu Ju’s grandson Liu Xun, known in history as “Emperor Xuan of Han”.

Liu He was demoted to the title of Marquis of Haihun and sent to Haihun County, Yuzhang Prefecture, where he died of depression soon after. He left behind the "Tomb of Marquis of Haihun", which contains the largest amount of gold unearthed in later generations.

In fact, Liu Bo's birth did not bring any good luck to Li.

First of all, Li Qing'er died of illness a few years after Liu Bo was born.

However, before she died, she used an extremely powerful method in front of Liu Che. When Liu Che came to visit her, she covered her face with a quilt and refused to see Liu Che for the last time, leaving a huge regret in Liu Che's heart.

It was also after that that Liu Che began to use her brothers Li Guangli, Li Yannian and Li Ji, and became more fond of Liu Bo. She herself was buried by Liu Che with the ceremony of a queen.

In the end, because Li Ji caused chaos in the harem, Li Yannian and Li Ji's brothers and clans were all killed.

Li Guangli was defeated and surrendered to the Huns due to unfavorable war conditions. A year later, he was killed as a sacrifice by the Huns. His wife, children and family members were also killed after Li Guangli surrendered.

Liu Bo also died early, leaving behind Liu He, who became the emperor with the shortest reign in the history of the Han Dynasty.

From nothing to something, and then from something to nothing again, Li's fate is like riding a roller coaster with huge ups and downs. The ups and downs of life are so exciting.

But no matter what, Li and Liu Bo could become a threat to him.

The only uncertainty turned out to be Li Guangli. Now Li Guangli has returned to his old job, becoming Liu Che's propaganda minister and re-devoting himself to the art industry...

At the same time, with the demise of Guo Xuanzi and a group of traitors in Hejian State.

"Lady Gouyi" and "Liu Fuling" should not appear again. After all, even a fool would not dare to treat Liu Che as a fool and use the same trick on him again.

By this calculation, Liu Ju had already eliminated one or a group of potential enemies in advance.

Everything seemed to be developing in a direction favorable to Liu Ju.

However, just as Li did not know his own future, although Liu Ju had some understanding of his future in history, as history quietly changed, his future direction was still full of uncertainty.

After all, as long as he is the crown prince, he will always be at the center of all-out political struggle.

As Liu Che gradually grows older, God knows whether those people with ulterior motives will resort to other means. Will there be people who, for their own benefit, continue to become people with ulterior motives just to push him off the altar?

But it doesn't matter...

His original goal was to have Liu Che depose him and become a full-level human in one fell swoop.

Even though he later discovered the loophole of "time-travel blessing", his methods did not change. He continued to do evil and do whatever he wanted in order to be deposed by Emperor Wu of Han.

However, under the premise of being confident that he could not be deposed, his goal changed from becoming a full-level human to exploiting loopholes to transform the Han Dynasty, eliminate political enemies, consolidate his position, and benefit the people of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, he would avoid having to clean up Liu Che's mess after he succeeded to the throne and become a "do-nothing" emperor who lived out his days in retirement.

Didn’t Emperor Liu Che often say things like “I will take on the hard work and leave the leisure to you, isn’t that fine?” and “The affairs of this world will benefit future generations”?

Since the emperor has this intention, Liu Ju, as his son, should be willing to help and fulfill his wish. Isn't this a great filial piety?

But recently he discovered a problem.

Liu Che seemed to have become immune to his previous methods. No matter what he did, it was difficult to provoke him. He could only respond with a mocking "My stupid son". Therefore, his methods had to be changed according to local conditions in order to better adapt to the new version.

For example, when you meet a political enemy again.

In fact, he didn't necessarily have to start with himself, deliberately making himself make mistakes, and using this method to stimulate Liu Che. This method was indeed a bit simple. Not to mention Liu Che, even he himself was a little tired of it.

He could completely break out of the limited circle of himself and Liu Che, fully expand his thinking, and choose to fund and support the enemy!

As long as your enemies are strong enough and work hard enough, you can still achieve your goal...

Why not first see if Li would become hostile to him after giving birth to the fifth prince for Liu Che, and then try out this new idea? Anyway, Liu Ju himself had some opinions about Li.

Because Li Qing'er herself was not a queen, she enjoyed a funeral of the same standard as a queen after her death, and was offered sacrifices in the ancestral temple of Liu Che. In the end, she was posthumously named Empress Xiaowu and became Liu Che's nominal wife.

And his mother was Wei Zifu.

She was clearly the empress of the Han Dynasty, but she was given a funeral with the same standards as that of an empress by Li Qing'er while she was still alive. After her death, she not only did not have any posthumous title, but also did not have a proper funeral or food. It was not until her grandson Liu Xun ascended the throne that she was posthumously given the title of "Si Hou", which made her not even an empress.

Indeed, the treatment Wei Zifu received after her death was directly related to her son, the "Crown Prince". After all, when she started her rebellion in history, Wei Zifu, as the queen, chose to firmly support her, and was therefore also implicated in treason.

But before that, the fact that Li Qing'er was able to enjoy a funeral of the same standard as that of a queen when Wei Zifu, the empress, was still alive was closely related to the "superb method" she used to directly strike Liu Che's pulse before her death.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that when Li Qing'er was buried in this way, it was a humiliation for Wei Zifu, the queen.
As a mother, Wei Zifu could not compete with Li Qing'er, and sometimes a living person can never compete with a dead person.

But Liu Ju did not want Wei Zifu to experience such humiliation again. After all, she was his mother, to whom his blood was thicker than water, a mother who always put his affairs first, a mother who shared his success and failure together.

Liu Ju regarded Liu Che as his "cheap father" and Wei Qing as his "cheap uncle".

However, he never regarded Wei Zifu as a "cheap queen mother", but a real queen mother, because no matter in history or since he traveled through time, everything Wei Zifu did was not mixed with a trace of selfishness or political considerations. Even if she occasionally became an obstacle to him, it was out of a mother's instinct to protect her son...

……

After more than two months, there was finally some movement in the action against the Korean Peninsula.

"Su Liu" asked someone to deliver a secret letter to Liu Ju. It was said that after this period of planning and preparation, Liu Che planned to lead his troops eastward in half a month.

At that time, the Han envoys, Liu Ju and a group of accompanying officials will go with the army.

After arriving in Liaodong, the mighty Han lion will put all its forces on the western border of Wiman Joseon to exert military pressure. At the same time, envoys from various routes will enter the territory of Wiman Joseon to contact Wiman Joseon and other small vassal states that have surrendered to Wiman Joseon, and promote the establishment of the "Mutual Security Treaty" and the "Joint Protectorate" in a two-pronged approach.

Wiman Joseon had only one chance to choose: to destroy the country or to compromise.

Only after completely dealing with Wei Man Joseon, Liu Ju and a group of accompanying officials will officially enter the Korean Peninsula and head to the territory of Chen State at the southernmost tip of the peninsula to carry out the next step of the "sea to seek immortals" plan.

As for who the generals were who went on the expedition, and who the officials were who accompanied Liu Ju, the secret letter did not specify...

Although Liu Ju had no idea about this for the time being, he could imagine that the officials accompanying him this time would definitely become an obstacle for him. After all, Wei Qing and Liu Che had reached a consensus last time, and this time they would definitely choose officials who were "self-disciplined" to accompany him. In name, it was to protect his safety, but in fact it was to ensure that "the holy order would not be wrongly corrected."

These two old foxes.

A father and an uncle are guarding against me like they are thieves. How can we get along well with each other?

While Liu Ju was still wondering who Liu Che would choose to guard against him, his cousin Gongsun Jingsheng took the initiative to visit him, crying and running to plead for his father:
"Your Highness, my father is in big trouble this time, and only you can help him..."

"Cousin, please sit down and tell me what's going on."

Liu Ju invited Gongsun Jingsheng into the guest hall, and after sending his attendants away, he asked in confusion.

"It will be the day for the court to offer sacrifices to the ancestral temple in a few months. According to past practice, the marquises should contribute money to assist in the sacrifice. My father is the Marquis of Nanhuan, who has 1,300 households. He should offer four taels of tribute money and six jars of wine..."

Gongsun Jingsheng said hurriedly with a sad face.

"Zhu Jin seizes the title?"

Before Gongsun Jingsheng finished speaking, Liu Ju had already said a noun.

This incident is quite famous in history. After the "Zhoujin Seizing Titles" incident, a total of 106 marquises were stripped of their titles, accounting for half of the marquises at that time.

It was also after this incident that the situation of separatist princes since the beginning of the Han Dynasty was truly ended. Although the princes still existed, they could only "collect food and clothing, taxes and rents" and were not allowed to interfere in the political affairs of the fiefdoms. They were entitled to fiefdoms but did not govern the people.

Historians of later generations all believed that this was actually a means for Liu Che to crack down on the power of princes and completely realize centralization.

The poor quality or insufficient weight of "Zhujin" is just an excuse to achieve this goal.

As far as Liu Ju knows, Gongsun Jingsheng's father, Gongsun He, did lose his title in this incident...

(End of this chapter)