The most powerful emperor Liu Bang

Chapter 31

Almost at the same time as Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, a coup took place in the Huns, a nomadic tribe located in the north. Maodun, son of the fierce Shanyu, killed his father, married his stepmother, and proclaimed himself king.Not long after this little king came to power, he launched an aggression against the Han Dynasty.

At that time, Han Wang Jixin was in charge of guarding the northern frontier.Seeing that Maodun led more than 20 horses to attack the capital Mayi, he knew that he was not his opponent, so he immediately reported the situation to the court.Liu Bang immediately led an army of 40 to destroy it.

Liu Bang's army was more than 1000 miles away from Mayi at that time. Under the traffic conditions at that time, it would take more than a month to arrive no matter what.Mayi was about to be captured by Maodun. In an emergency, Ji Xin adopted a tactic of delaying the troops and sent envoys to seek peace from the Xiongnu.The northern peoples repeatedly invaded the Central Plains, and they wanted to plunder some supplies. Today, the Han envoy sent them a lot of things, and they offered to make peace, and they agreed.This situation was quickly reported to Liu Bang by the villain, saying that Ji Xin had surrendered to the Huns.Liu Bang was very angry when he heard the news, so he sent an envoy to condemn Ji Xin.

Ji Xin waited for Liu Bang not to come, and waited for him not to come. He still came to reprimand him when he saw a person from Luoyang. Liu Bang was brutally murdered, what's the point of doing with him,
Being suspected at every turn is really frightening, like walking on thin ice, and will be eliminated sooner or later.Instead of this, it's better to do the opposite.Thinking of this, Ji Xin really took refuge in the Huns.

With the guidance of the internal thieves, Maodun quickly reached Taiyuan County.Liu Bang also arrived in South Korea at this time and was stationed in Jinyang.Mao Dun saw that Liu Bang had brought so many people, twice as many as himself, so he didn't fight recklessly, but used a trick to lure the Han army to fight on the vast prairie.At that time, Liu Bang became the new emperor, so he couldn't help but feel very good. He was very happy, eager to win, and he made a wrong judgment. The place was firmly surrounded by the Huns.

Baideng is a big mountain. It was winter, and Liu Bang's army was besieged here for seven days, cold and hungry, almost to the point of no return.Under such circumstances, Chen Ping asked someone to draw a picture of a beauty and gave it to Mouton's favorite concubine Yanshi, saying that if Mouton continued to besiege, the Emperor of Han was going to give his favorite beauty to Shanyu, so that In exchange for a way of life.Yan Shi was worried that this beautiful woman would steal her love in the future, so when he was warm with Mao Dun that night, he persuaded Mao Dun to withdraw his troops with rhetoric.Later, Liu Bang adopted the policy of making peace, marrying his goddaughter to Maodun, and giving some things that were not available in the north every year, which can be regarded as settling this foreign trouble.

After Liu Bang became the emperor, his first imperial conquest was a disaster, and he was very upset.The occurrence of a series of incidents made him feel more and more unreliable towards Wang with a different surname.On the way back, passing by Zhao Guo, Zhao Wang Zhang Ao received him graciously.Zhang Ao was originally his prospective son-in-law, so it was naturally very grand, but Liu Bang was very arrogant. Because he had an opinion on the king with a different surname, he was not angry when he saw Zhang Ao, and he kept scolding him. Treat one side of the princes so politely.This made Zhao Wang's subordinates not used to it, thinking it was an insult to them, several veteran officials headed by Prime Minister Guan Gao and Zhao Wu wanted to take the opportunity to assassinate Liu Bang.They told Zhang Ao about this idea, but Zhang Ao firmly disagreed.Guan Gao decided to do it himself.

Most people are like this, the bigger the official position, the more superstitious.Liu Bang didn't shy away from anything at first, but since he became emperor, he has become vigilant everywhere.After he settled down at the place Zhang Ao arranged for him, he suddenly asked, "What's the name of this place?"

Lou Jing, who was accompanying him, told him, "Bo people."

"What? Force people, force people, just force people. This place is unlucky, we can't stay here for long, let's leave this place as soon as possible." I don't know if Liu Bang heard it wrong, or he had some premonition, anyway, he led the team overnight The centaurs left the place.

Guangao has already bought assassins, preparing for Liu Bang to let several assassins approach Liu Bang in the name of escort during Liu Bang's stay in Bairen, and take the opportunity to assassinate him.They also planned that once the assassination was successful, they would immediately support King Zhao as emperor.People like Guangao estimated that because Liu Bang killed Han Xin, everyone of other princes with different surnames was in danger. If they did this, they would immediately get a lot of people's response, and they would be the number one hero.Unexpectedly, although they thought well, Liu Bang didn't give them a chance and left early.Say you don't believe in fate, some founding fathers, he can escape from death and survive a catastrophe.Liu Bangxiang is such a person. Since he can be an emperor, he has a great destiny, and it is not something you can just calculate.Who can tell why he left on a whim and escaped a catastrophe?

He died, but Zhang Ao suffered because of it.Not far from Liu Bang's departure from the state of Zhao, an informer followed Liu Bang and reported Guan Gao's plot to assassinate him.When Liu Bang heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat. He had just returned from Baideng, but he was almost assassinated by his son-in-law. This emperor is really not fun, and he is also glad that he walked fast , otherwise I don't know what the result will be.If you don't know the news, if you know it, Liu Bang will never give up easily. He immediately sent a large team to take advantage of Zhao Wang's unpreparedness, and then he turned around and arrested a group of suspects and brought them to the capital for interrogation.

When Lu Zhi learned that Zhang Ao had been arrested, he immediately came to see Liu Bang and said, "Zhang Ao is going to be our son-in-law. How could he assassinate you? It must be the work of those bastard old fellows on their own initiative. Don't be wronged." Hurry up and get someone to let him go." Zhang Ao's marriage was arranged by Lu Zhi, and the wedding will be held soon, if Zhang Ao is arrested or killed at this time, what about the daughter? So Lu Zhi hurriedly came to intercede.

"It's a woman's opinion. If Zhang Ao had no ambitions, would his subordinates dare to do this? If he really succeeded, would he still care about your daughter? I'm afraid our heads in this field will have to move." A rebellion by a king with a different surname, Liu Bang believed that Zhang Ao must be rebellious, so he wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of King Zhao.

Liu Bang asked Tingwei to try the case as soon as possible. Zhao Wu committed suicide in fear of crime. Guan Gao insisted that he was the mastermind and had nothing to do with Zhao Wang.Liu Bang was determined to put Zhang Ao to death, and asked Guan Gao's old friend Zhong Dafu to come forward to induce a confession, but he still didn't get what he wanted, so he had to give up.He killed Guan Gao, demoted Zhang Ao to Marquis Xuanping, and made Ruyi, his precious son born with Qi Ji, King Zhao.Lu Zhi had no choice but to do this to Liu Bang, so he put his resentment on Qi Ji's head, which added another layer of conflict between the two women, and laid a hidden danger for Lu Zhi's ruthless mutilation of Qi Ji in the future.

Almost everyone who achieves great things has a combative personality.They fight against the sky, the earth, and the people, and they feel a lot of fun.Looking at it with the psychology of ordinary people, we may think that these people are sick, so how about they live in peace for a while, and being with others and ourselves is beneficial to physical and mental health.But they don't, they think this is a career, which is to save the people from the fire and water.Also, if you say a few words indiscriminately, you will be asked to learn from them. He himself does not know. Are your words really so effective?Some places don't do these things, and people don't live well.It's a pity that there are many fans of the authorities. A person who is originally a good person insists on ruining himself.Forget it, let's just watch their stupid jokes.Believe me, the earth will turn away from everyone.

Liu Bang was originally a very good person, but after he became the emperor, he had an illusion, always thinking that he was right, always wanting to establish a foundation for eternity, and always wanting to fight with others.When he conquered the world, he followed Zhang Liang's suggestion and used three people, Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Ying Bu.When he succeeded, he felt that these three people were in the way and always wanted to get rid of them.

When Chen Xi rebelled, Han Xin was one of the participants, and Liu Bang logically found an excuse to get rid of him.At that time, there was another incident. Liu Bang wanted Peng Yue to send troops to attack Chen Xi. Peng Yue was worried that Liu Bang would imprison him like Han Xin, so he excused his illness and did not go.Seeing that Peng Yue couldn't be called anymore, Liu Bang was very upset, so he sent an envoy to scold Peng Yue, and since then he has an opinion on Peng Yue.Many people in charge are like this. They seem to be magnanimous, but that's when you follow him. If you are disobedient just once, your narrow-mindedness will immediately come up.This is the commonality of human beings, and it is the same for everyone.

The emperor is a supreme position, and once he ascends to this position, he has everything.So in order to achieve this goal, it is worth taking a big risk.Liu Bang is someone who has experienced it and knows how he got this seat.Therefore, he had to keep on guard against some ambitious or powerful factions coveting his throne.How to prevent it?He ranked who was the most likely, and he had a bottom line in his mind.Still the same sentence, strike first to be strong, and to strike later will suffer.He decided to start with Peng Yue first.

Peng Yue was originally a rough man, and Liu Bang made him the king of Liang. He was already very satisfied, and he never turned his back on him from the beginning to the end.But he is so capable, how many capable people are convinced by their superiors?Not rebelling today does not mean that there will be no rebellion in the future.This is Liu Bang's logic.Liu Bang also thought, Xiang Yu named me King of Han, but I am still not convinced. These people have done so much for me, so would they be willing?Therefore, he sent his confidants to Peng Yue's mansion to buy informants and let them monitor Peng Yue's words and deeds at any time.

It just so happened that there was such an opportunity.One day after dinner, Peng Yue and his counselor Hu Zhe chatted, and Hu Zhe said: "Almost all the kings with different surnames have been eliminated by the emperor. Except for the remote and small place of Changsha King, only Liang Wang and Huainan King are left. If you don't do anything, it is estimated that one day your titles will be cut off, so instead of doing this, it is better to turn back as soon as possible and establish yourself as king, so as to avoid future accidents."

Peng Yue said: "The emperor treats me well, how can I do such inhumane things, don't say that quickly."

That was the end of their conversation. They didn't expect that the eunuch Bai Lixun of the Liang Mansion heard it. This person was the informant that Liu Bang's confidant bought from Peng Yue. He immediately told Liu Bang's people these words.After Liu Bang heard about this situation, he arranged for his confidants to be like this.

Soon, the family members of Peng Yue's mansion united to sue Peng Yue for treason.Liu Bang was already prepared at this time, and immediately led [-] elite soldiers to Liangdi to arrest Peng Yue.The emperor came suddenly, and Peng Yue didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly prepared to pick him up, when Liu Bang pointed his sword and said loudly:
"Peng Yue's rebellion, take it down for me!" Afterwards, Liu Bang's [-] elite soldiers arrested Peng Yue's family and everyone in his family, and of course Hu Zhe was not spared.

Peng Yue still resisted and shouted: "Your Majesty, when did I rebel, how could you arrest me innocently?"

"Now that your family is suing you, how can you say you are innocent. Ask the witness to stand up and show him." Liu Bang said.

When Peng Yue saw that it was Baili Xun who was leading a few servants, he knew what was going on.Because the bird man had heard Hu Zhe's conversation with him, and threatened Hu Zhe to give him a promotion, Hu Zhe told Peng Yue about it, and Peng Yue beat the villain in a fit of anger, which aroused his resentment, so he was willing to sell his master to ask for a promotion. Rong.Peng Yue said to Liu Bang: "I have never turned back. It was this villain who falsely accused me. Your Majesty, don't listen to his one-sided words. I was wronged."

Liu Bang said: "I will find out whether you have been wronged or not. I believe I will not wrong a good person, nor will I let a bad person go." Then he said to Wang Tian, ​​who came with him, "Wang Tian, You come to try this case, and you must figure it out.”

"According to the order, I will definitely investigate and find out." Wang Tian replied.

Liu Bang seized Peng Yue's military power on the spot, handed it over to Wang Ling as an agent, and brought Peng Yue and his criminals back to Luoyang for trial.Wang Tian used various methods to get Baili Xun and Hu Zhe to confront each other. The two even scolded on the spot, but nothing else happened. Hu Zhe only admitted that he had persuaded King Peng to rebel, but Peng Yue disagreed. And scolded him.Peng Yue is a tough guy, and he won't put shit on his head for nothing.Liu Bang judged based on this situation: "Hu Zhe intentionally cheated and induced his master to rebel. He deserved death and beheaded. Although Peng Yue didn't listen to Hu Zhe's bewitching and immediately rebelled, he still kept him in the mansion. Discuss with Hu Zhe, explaining that the heart of rebellion is not dead, it is just that he did not show it, and the crime cannot be forgiven. But remembering that he has made contributions to the country, he will not die, be demoted as a commoner, and be sent back to his original place to live in."

Peng Yue was convicted and sent to Bashu with his family today.Liu Bang originally only cared about the troops in Peng Yue's hands, but now that he has taken his military power, Liu Bang is relieved.This is Liu Bang's benevolent side as a farmer's child.

Liu Bang didn't stay in Luoyang for a long time, so he followed the advice of frontier general Lou Jing and military adviser Zhang Liang and decided to move his capital to Chang'an.In order to move, Liu Bang asked Xiao He and Lu Zhi to visit Chang'an first.On the way back, Lu Zhi happened to meet Peng Yue who had been demoted to Shu.Peng Yue felt that Lady Lu was a knowledgeable person, and since she was a soft-hearted woman, she might be able to speak up for him in front of the emperor, so he said to Lu Pheasant: "I have no resentment at all. I am demoted to a commoner, it is too wronged, I ask the empress to uphold justice for me."

Lu Zhi heard Peng Yue's appeal, rolled his eyes, and immediately said with a smile: "This is the emperor's fault, you just go back with me, and I will ask the emperor to rehabilitate you."

"If you can restore my innocence, I will be very grateful to my mother." Peng Yue said.

"Then you don't have to be polite. The general's business is my business. I will try my best." Lu Zhi said comfortingly to Peng Yue.

Peng Yue didn't know that Lu Zhi's heart was more insidious and ruthless than Liu Bang's. It would be better if he didn't meet her, but if he met her, he would be dead.Before this, Lu Zhi had just dealt with Han Xin's matter, and the emperor praised her for this, and she felt that she had made a great contribution.When it happened to Peng Yue, she wanted to express herself again.Sure enough, after she brought Peng Yue back, she said to Liu Bang: "Aren't you short-sighted? Peng Yue is a rare hero in the world. If you send him back to his hometown, isn't this letting the tiger go back to the mountain? He wants to organize a team there Rebellion is not the same as the current rebellion.”

Liu Bang said: "You bear woman, who told you? I have let him go, or I will chase him back?"

"Don't chase after me, I've brought him back." Lu Zhi briefly told Liu Bang the process of meeting Peng Yue.

"However, there are too few reasons to convict him of death. You killed Han Xin just now, and now you kill Peng Yue for no apparent reason. Why don't the heroes of the world scold us for killing heroes?" Liu Bang said.

"Curse me if you scold me, that's better than asking the heroes to kill you in the future. The stability of the world depends on you, you can't be too lenient. If you want to kill people, you can't find a reason?" Lu Zhi said.

"The world... is stable..." Liu Bang muttered, "For the sake of the world's stability, for the Liu family's world... Yes, you can't be too lenient! You bear woman is more ruthless than me."

"What are you talking about, you can't speak cleanly." Lu Zhi complained.

"Good wife, forgive me for being rude, I will leave this matter to you." Liu Bang said with a smile.

Peng Yue led troops to fight in Liang for many years, he didn't know how many people he killed and offended, and how many people wanted to put him to death.Lu Zhi got Liu Bang's permission, which fully demonstrated her capable talent.Anyway, Peng Yue was no longer in Liangdi, so she sent people to Liangdi to enlist a large group of Peng Yue's deadly enemies, falsely photographed the evidence that Peng Yue and them were in rebellion, and sued them all to Beijing.In front of all the ministers, when Liu Bang saw so many people accusing Peng Yue of treason, and the evidence was solid, he was furious in court and said: "Someone accused Peng Yue of treason before, but I spared his life because of insufficient evidence. The lack of evidence is because they already have everything ready, just wait for us to pay attention and cut off our heads. It is tolerable, what is unbearable, immediately pull this Peng Yue out and behead me, barbarians!"

Before the ministers left, the executioner had already held Peng Yue's head up. Liu Bang didn't seem to understand his hatred, but his face was purple with anger, and he shouted: "Chop his body into meat paste and distribute it to those The princes with heavy troops, let them eat it, and see who dares to rebel!"

Some attendants in the court immediately followed Liu Bang's request.When Liu Bang said this, the ministers standing below were already scared out of their wits, trembling, and some fell there on the spot.

Peng Yue's body meat paste was sent to various places within a few days. The generals who led the army were disgusted after seeing it, but they had to eat it.After Huainan Wang Yingbu ate it with tears in his eyes, he was so disgusted that he vomited it out on the spot. When he saw the filth, it turned into a crab.It turned out that Peng Yue was born under the care of a crab, and now the people by the river still call the crab Peng Yue.The rabbit died and the fox was sad, and Yingbo fell seriously ill because of it.Only now did he see Liu Bang's true face clearly. It was not like his original impression of generosity, benevolence, and elder demeanor. Ruthless, for the sake of his Liu family's world, he can do any unfeeling thing.Thinking of this, he made a bold decision: rebel!

Grass-headed kings like Yingbo, who started as rebels themselves, are not afraid of heaven and earth, and once they make a decision, the whole world will know it.Of course, his enemy Ben He also knew this, and he was soon informed by this Ben who went to Liu Bang.

Yingbu has a favorite concubine named Ming Yan, who often goes to a doctor's house for health care.Ben He is Ying Bu's subordinate and lives opposite the doctor's house. After he knew this situation, he deliberately went to curry favor with Ming Ji and entertained Ming Ji at the doctor's house many times.The mouth of others is soft, Ming Ji will inevitably mention Ben He and boast a few words when she and Ying Bu are warm again.Although Yingbo is a hero, he is quite jealous when it comes to the issue of men and women, so he suspects that Mingji and this Benhe are in love.On the one hand, he couldn't let Ming Ji go, so he could only vent his anger on Ben He, first dismissed him, and then caught him and beat him hard.Therefore, he formed a hatred with Ben He.

Liu Bangzheng was worried that Yingbo would rebel. Seeing that someone had reported something, how could he be careless and send someone to verify it immediately.As soon as the envoy arrived there, Yingbo didn't shy away from it, and did whatever he wanted, and he didn't take the current court seriously at all.Those who went back came back to learn from Liu Bang, and Liu Bang was inevitably furious again, and immediately sent troops to attack Yingbo.

The two armies soon exchanged fire in Qixian County.When Liu Bang saw Yingbo, he scolded loudly: "You ungrateful Lu Fu, why did you rebel?"

"My ungratefulness is not as vicious as your ruthlessness. You can be the emperor, but I can't. I also want the emperor." Yingbo said.

"Well, you traitor, you are actually ambitious. It seems that if you don't give me some flair, you don't know how powerful I am. Generals, hit me hard!" Liu Bang said.

At this time, Yingbo was really a little timid, but the arrow was on the string, and he had to shoot it, so he said: "Hit it, brothers, go up, and reward you whoever catches Liu Bang!" Shoot the arrow towards Liu Bang.

Liu Bang accidentally hit an arrow, but it was fine.He insisted on commanding the troops to fight against the Yingbo army. After more than ten battles, he finally put down the rebellion.

Before and after Liu Bang became emperor, he conferred a total of eight kings with different surnames, and he basically let him cut them off one by one.In addition to Hengshan King Wu Rui who was saved because of the small area and the frontier, another friend from childhood to old Yan Wang Lu Wan was finally driven to the Huns by him.He made an agreement with all the influential people at that time: "From now on, the king will not be named Liu, and the world will fight against him."

(End of this chapter)