In Chinese history, there are many women who like to play with power and politics, and the royal court is always full of women who are keen to intervene in the government. But really play a bit of fame to get out of the climate, choose the important ones, but such as Lu Pheasant, Wu Zetian, Empress Dowager Cixi and so few two or three only. Lu Pian could be said to be both Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi, because during the reign of her son, Emperor Huiji, she spent seven years in the same way as Empress Dowager Cixi, "listening to the government from the curtain", and then when Emperor Huiji passed away, she formally joined Wu Zetian and "claimed control of the court". What does it mean to "call the system"? In ancient times, the emperor's words are said to "make a book", said "imperial edict". For example, there is always a holy decree in front of the "By the grace of God, the emperor said ......" words. "Calling the system" is actually the privilege of the son of heaven. When Lu Pheasant claimed to be the emperor, she was in charge of the power of the emperor and carried out the affairs of the emperor. Therefore, although she never held the title of emperor, she was actually the first female emperor in the history of China. Therefore, Sima Qian in the "Records of the Grand Historian" specifically for her to list a "Empress Dowager Lu Benji", and even use the "high queen" chronicle, and the "famous but not real" Emperor Hui of Han, Sima Qian would not want to labor for him to make a biography. To be the first person in China's history to become such a history-changing empress "with a name but without a name", without a grandiose spirit, can it work?
During the 15 years that Lu Pheiang was in power and ruled the country, the world was stable, wars did not occur, thieves did not arise, and the people lived in peace and contentment and had plenty of food and clothing, which was an era of song and dance, and could be compared to the "flourishing age of the new century" described in Du Fu's "Recollections of the Past". According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记-吕太后本纪), during the reign of Emperor Hui-Di and Empress Dowager Lu, the people were free from the pains of war during the Warring States period, and the ruler and his officials wished to take a respite under the principle of "doing nothing", so Emperor Hui-Di hung down his coat and bowed his hand, and Empress Dowager Lu acted as the son of the emperor, giving orders without going out of the gateway, so that the whole world was in peace and quiet. Penalties were seldom used, while criminals became fewer and fewer. The people were devoted to farming, and naturally they were well fed and clothed.
The Empress Dowager, who was both ambitious and accomplished, should have been recognized as a brilliant and wise woman, and should have been regarded as a "holy lord" and a "wise ruler". But Lu Pheasant was not so lucky. In fact, even before her death, Lu Phei had already gotten an evil reputation. When she was alive, this reputation followed her around, making those around her tremble and walk on thin ice; after her death, it was like an altar attached to her bones, from which there was no way to get rid of, and which would prevent her from turning around for thousands of years and generations to come. For more than 2,000 years, Chinese history has been fixed on the evaluation of Lu Pheasant; since the Han Dynasty, Lu Pheasant has been denounced by the written word of all generations; in the minds of the Chinese people, Lu Pheasant has almost become a synonym for evil.
What is the reason for this?
Is it because of her "dictatorship"? But none of the emperors in Chinese history were not dictators. Is it because of the "usurpation of power" by Lu Pian? But all the founding emperors and many ambitious men in Chinese history were also usurpers. Why did those dictators and usurpers escape condemnation, but not Lu Pheasant? There are about three reasons for this oddity in the extreme: gender, surname, and character.
Firstly, it was due to the gender of Lu Piang. Lu Pian is a woman. Although Chinese men are not necessarily better than women in every way, and in fact there are as many weak and incompetent men as there are women, the more incompetent Chinese men seem to look down on women, and the more competent women seem to be more disliked by Chinese men. According to the concept of traditional Chinese culture, women can only be the natural subordinate to men and tools, the so-called "at home from the father, married from the husband, the husband died from the son", this is the order of nature. Therefore, the female chicken in the morning, the woman is one of the most abhorrent phenomena in the Chinese traditional concept.
Secondly, it is due to the surname of Lu Pheasant. The last name is Lü. This is destined in her mother's womb. However, "marrying a chicken follows the chicken, marrying a dog follows the dog", "a wife follows her husband's surname", "a husband sings with his wife" ......, which is also the This is also the order of human relationships designed by traditional Chinese culture. Now this woman named "Lv pheasant", actually dare to risk universal condemnation, want to reverse the Liu's Jiangshan change the surname to "Lv", this is not a treacherous and unforgivable behavior?
Thirdly, it was due to the character of Lü Qiang. On the one hand, the character of Lü Qiang is "resolute". This is very different from the ideal image of women in traditional Chinese culture. In Chinese, "strong woman" is still a derogatory term. Another aspect of Lu Phei's character is "viciousness". Throughout history, few great politicians were not vicious, but people may be able to accept the viciousness of men, but they cannot tolerate the viciousness of women. What is even more intolerable is that the ruthlessness of Lu Pian has almost reached the point of heinousness.
What kind of woman was this? What did she do in her life? How exactly did she get her bad reputation?
The Records of the Grand Historian - Empress Dowager Lu Benji said, "Empress Lu was a tough person, and Zuo Gaozu fixed the world, and more ministers were put to death by the force of Empress Lu." There is no doubt that the "execution of ministers on behalf of Gaozu" was the specialty of Lv Qiang, who was involved in the execution of Han Xin, Brandon Bu (i.e., Ying Bu), and Peng Yue. As for "supporting Gaozu to decide the world", it was generally said that it was the work of generals and strategists, which seemed to have nothing to do with Lu Pian. But this was not the case. She had her own unique way of assisting Liu Bang.
Pheasant Lu came into history after she became associated with Liu Bang. Lu Piang's father, Lv Gong, had some friendship with the magistrate of Pei County and was a frequent guest there, but later moved his family to Pei County to avoid his enemies. When the gentry and officials of the county heard that the magistrate's family had a guest, they all went to send gifts to congratulate him. The gifts of the ordinary officials were less than a thousand dollars. Liu Bang, who was a small pavilion chief in Pei County at that time, was so proud of himself that he wrote on his name sticker "congratulatory gift of 10,000 coins" even though he did not have a penny on his body. The name sticker was handed in, Lu Gong was shocked, rushed to the door to meet, once he saw Liu Bang's appearance, he immediately stood in awe, and led him to the hall to sit. Liu Bang was not modest and took the upper seat. At the end of the banquet, Duke Lu left Liu Bang behind and said, "When I was young, I liked to read people's faces, and I've read countless people in my life, but I've never seen such a noble face as yours. Your future is unlimited. I hope you will behave yourself. I have a real daughter who is willing to be your concubine and hope to serve you for the rest of her life." When Lord Lu went home, he announced that he had found a son-in-law for his daughter today, and this man was Liu Ji, the head of Surabaya Pavilion. Old Mrs. Lu was very upset: "You used to always say that our daughter was different, and you were bent on marrying her to a nobleman. When the magistrate of Pei County asked to marry her, you didn't even agree to it, so why are you now promising her to Liu Ji in confusion!" Duke Lu said, "This is beyond the understanding of you women." At that time, Liu Bang was already in his early forties, had long been married to Cao for many years, and already had his first son, Liu Fei. This Lu Pheasant, in fact, resolutely and willingly, even painfully married Liu Bang. This is the first time that I have seen a woman who is not a woman, but a woman who is not a woman, but a woman who is not a woman, but a woman who is not a woman.
There are three possible explanations for this unbelievable behavior: First, although she was also a woman, she understood that her father's move had a deeper meaning, because she had always trusted her father's talent, so she obeyed him. Secondly, Lu Piang had heard various strange stories about Liu Bang, for example, a dragon hovered over Mrs. Liu and made her pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang; or a hotel owner saw a dragon on Liu Bang's back every time when he was drunk and sleeping soundly. According to these rumors, together with her father's face reading, Lü Qiang concluded that Liu Bang was definitely a very human being and agreed to marry Liu Bang. Third, Sima Qian said that Lu Piang was "resolute", so she must have been a very opinionated person. It may be possible to imagine that the truth behind this incident was that Lu Pheasant herself "recognized the hero with her huge eyes" and had already liked Liu Bang, and then asked her father, Lv Gong, to propose marriage to Liu Bang. This idea is not unreasonable, and even very reasonable. The discovery of Liu Bang by Lü Qiang was similar to the discovery of Sima Xiangru by Zhuo Wenjun and Li Jing by Hongfu Nü. What Zhuo Wenjun and Hongfu Nu did, Lu Piang had already done before her. So Lu Pian was also a woman of extraordinary insight. It was just that Lu Pheasant's behavior had more mysterious colors and demonic atmosphere than that of Wenjun and Hongfu. This coloring and atmosphere made people feel that Lu Pian not only had the characteristics of a great heroine, but also had the characteristics of a witch at the same time. As will be seen below, Lu Pheasant herself seemed to know how to read faces, and even more profoundly than reading faces, she was able to "look into the air". Since she possessed such witch-like supernormal capabilities, it was only natural that she discovered Liu Bang.
After she married Liu Bang, the two seemed to have a good relationship and soon had a pair of children, Liu Ying, later Emperor Hui of Han, and Princess Lu Yuan. In the past few years, Lu Piang did little more than eat chaff and eat food, planting and farming, running the household, and wasting her time. Liu Bang also do not want to make progress, muddling through the days, contentedly as a pavilion chief, seems to have long put the "great man when it is also" of the lofty words to the back of their minds. The first time I saw this, I decided to make Liu Bang realize that he was a man of the world, so I thought of a plan.
Liu Bang was the head of the Pavilion, and he often went home to help Lü Qiang cultivate the land. She knew exactly when Liu Bang came home. One day, Lu Piang was weeding the fields with her two children. An old man passed by and asked her for water. While drinking the water, the old man scrutinized Lu Piang and said, "Your Ladyship is a noble person in the world." Lu Piang asked him to read the faces of her two children. The old man looked at Emperor Hui and said, "Your Ladyship is distinguished precisely because of this child." Then he looked at Princess Lu Yuan, who also had the face of a nobleman. The old man had just left when Liu Bang came back and forth. Lu Pian immediately told him exactly what had just happened. Liu Bang hurriedly chased after him and asked the old man. The old man said, "Just now I gave your wife and child a face reading, and they both look like you, your looks are really precious." Liu Bang thanked him, "If it's really like what you said, I will never forget your kindness in the future." Later on, Liu Bang really became a noble man, but the old man was nowhere to be found. The scene of the nameless old man reading the face was undoubtedly directed by Lu Piang. Originally, Lü Qiang herself or Lü Qiang's father, Lü Gong, had already read the face of Liu Bang, and had already set up a very good foundation, and then designed a mysterious nameless old man, whose purpose was only to remind Liu Bang again to realize his own mission.
Liu Bang privately let go of the prisoners who went to Mount Li to serve, and then went on the run, and there was a period of hiding in the deep mountains and swamps around Mang and Dangdang. Lu pheasant every time to bring people to look for Liu Bang, always a search. Liu Bang was very strange and asked what was going on. Lu Pheasant said, "The place where you are hiding is often covered with a cloud, I can see the cloud and follow it, and I can often find you." Liu Bang was very happy to hear this. The so-called "cloudy atmosphere" was obviously a trick played by Lu Piang. Because at that time, the contact between Liu Bang and Pei County was all through Fan Kuai, who was the brother-in-law of Lv Qiang, with the guidance of Fan Kuai, were you afraid of not being able to find Liu Bang? Moreover, the fact that Emperor Qin Shi Huang was touring the East with the intention of suppressing the "Qi of the Son of Heaven" had already been rumored and known all over the world. Lu Pheasant then took the materials on the spot and grabbed a cloud over Liu Bang's head by looking at the sky. The first thing that Liu Bang could not do was not to associate himself with the saying that "there is a son of heaven in the south-east of the country", as the sorceress Lu Xiangqiang had said.
As for the legend of "the son of the Red Emperor beheading the white snake", it seems that it can also be attributed to the handiwork of Lu Piang. It is true that Liu Bang killed a white snake on the road, but the interpretation of the snake as the "son of the White Emperor" was not made by Liu Bang himself. Perhaps it was Lv Qian who conspired with Liu Bang's close associates, such as Fan Kuai and Xiahou Ying, to fabricate such a myth.
In short, before Liu Bang's rise to power, Lv Qiang used to play God many times to create momentum, with the intention of strengthening Liu Bang's confidence, contributing to his self-awareness, and making Liu Bang feel that he was indeed an extraordinary person. Those who followed Liu Bang were also in awe of him day by day. Pei County, some of the "young", "strong", heard of these strange things Liu Bang, also want to go to him, these people later became the backbone of Liu Bang's capture of the world, the split the land of the feudal lords of the people. The most important prerequisite for a man to accomplish his career is confidence, and revolution is never without a lot of propaganda. Both of these truths were well recognized and grasped by Lu Piang. With the propaganda secretly hosted and planned by Lu Pian, Liu Bang's reputation and influence in Pei County gradually rose until he was elected as the "Duke of Pei". Since Liu Bang was acting in the name of the Duke of Pei, Lu Pian could retire to the second line and wait patiently. The men would take care of the fighting and killing. However, I am afraid that the help she provided to Liu Bang in his early years was no less than that of Xiao He and Cao Shen.
Liu Bang is aware of the appreciation, motivation, and accomplishment that she has made for herself. Therefore, at least for a long period of time, Liu Bang was quite trusting and indulgent towards Lu Qiang. This trust and indulgence was mainly manifested in three things: first, the establishment of Liu Ying, the son of Lu Piang, as the crown prince; second, the possibility for Lu Piang to decapitate and then execute Han Xin; and third, the division of labor between husband and wife: Liu Bang was always on the road, and the affairs of the rear of Guanzhong were ostensibly entrusted to Xiao He, but in reality, to Lu Piang.
According to the law of nature, a woman who is smart, strong, tough, and has a husband's temperament is inevitably lacking in femininity, and will not be able to win her husband's heart for a long time, not to mention that Lu Pheasant's husband is the one who has always been "good at wine and sex", Liu Bang! After Liu Bang settled the world and became the emperor, Lu Piang immediately felt that her importance as Liu Bang's political partner had diminished. When Liu Bang fell in love with Lady Qi, who was a soft and gentle woman who could sing and dance well, Lu Piang felt that she was seriously hurt. When Liu Bang planned to make Mrs. Qi's son, King Ruyi of Zhao, the crown prince, she immediately realized that her position was actually in danger, and then realized that she should be brave enough to rise up and protect herself.
How can a woman protect herself in such a situation? First of all, she must strengthen her existing position as much as possible. Therefore, Lv Qiang did not hesitate to labor with Zhang Liang, did not hesitate to design a scam, and made sure to prevent the replacement of the Crown Prince before the death of Liu Bang, and tried every possible means to keep the position of the "Empress Dowager". After all these efforts, the matter was finally resolved satisfactorily. At this time, Lu Piang's thinking took another big step forward: in order to consolidate her position once and for all, the best choice was to hold as much power as possible. Thus, Lu Piang became more and more obsessed with power and more and more eager to expand the scope of her power. However, in order to consolidate her position and expand her power as much as possible, she first had to eliminate all dissenting forces as much as possible.
From the time Liu Bang was sick until his death, this was the very question that hovered in her mind. She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she forgot about Liu Bang's body and affairs, and after four days there was no mourning. Lu Piang secretly recruited Trial Shiqi to come and discuss the matter: "Those generals were all common people like the emperor, and then they submitted to the emperor in the north, and they were often discontented and sullen about it, but now they are asked to serve the new and young emperor, and it is expected that they will be even more reluctant to do so. It seems that if we don't kill all of these people, the world will not be peaceful." When Li Shang heard the news, he hurried to find Jian Shiqi and said, "I have heard that the emperor has been dead for four days and has not yet mourned, and that the empress dowager wants to exterminate all the generals. If she does, the world will be in danger. Now Chen Ping and Gu Ying are guarding Xingyang with an army of 100,000, and Fan Kuai and Zhou Bo are calming Yan and Dai with an army of 200,000. When they hear that the generals have been killed after the death of the emperor, they will definitely unite and return to attack Guanzhong. At that time, the ministers will rebel at the court, and the lords will rebel outside, and the overthrow of the state will be only a matter of waiting." When Jian Shiqi went to the palace to tell Lü Qiang what Li Shang had said, Lü Qiang reluctantly suppressed her inner impulses and changed her mind, mourning for Liu Bang and granting amnesty to the whole world.
Then Emperor Hui took the throne. Emperor Hui was just a puppet emperor for Empress Lu to manipulate at will, and died after seven years on the throne. After seven years of power, she had become more experienced in politics, and was no longer as impulsive as she had been at the time of Liu Bang's death. During the mourning period of Emperor Hui, the witch of that year shifted to become a playwright. Lu Pian was just a dry howl without tears. Zhang Liang's son, Zhang Peiqiang, who was fifteen years old at the time, already saw something strange and said to Chen Ping, "The Empress Dowager has only one son, Emperor Hui, and now that her only son has passed away, she just cries dryly without grieving, do you know the reason for this?" Chen Ping asked, "What reason?" Zhang Piqiang said, "It is because the emperor has no older son, and the empress dowager is afraid that she will not be able to suppress you ministers. If the Prime Minister asks the Empress Dowager to appoint Lü Tai, Lü Yanyuan, and Lü Lu as generals over the north and south armies, and to let all the Lü family members work in the palace and take charge, then the Empress Dowager will be at ease, and you will be able to avoid trouble." Chen Ping then did as Zhang Piqiang suggested, and Lu Piang was indeed very satisfied, and it was only then that she cried and looked a little sad.
The new emperor was a young man, and all the orders issued by the court came from Lu Piang. After she exercised the power of the emperor, she was so arbitrary that she made a big fuss over the king of Zhu Lu. The Lü family was the first to take control of the imperial court.
But although the young emperor was the son of Emperor Xiaohui, he was not born to Empress Xiaohui. The empress had pretended to be pregnant and had taken a baby born to her concubines to pass him off as her son, killing his mother and making him the crown prince. After the death of Emperor Hui, this crown prince was made the new emperor. When the young emperor became a little more sensible, he inadvertently learned about his own life and threatened to take revenge in the future. Worried about his future rebellion, Lu Pian first imprisoned him secretly, claiming to the public that the emperor was seriously ill, and then tried to abolish him. Lu Pian told his ministers, "Whoever owns the world and governs all the people must be able to cover all things like the heavens above and contain all things like the earth. When the emperor appeases the people with a pleasant and benevolent heart, the people can serve the emperor happily, so that the top and the bottom will be in a good mood and have a harmonious relationship, and the world can be ruled. Now that the emperor has been ill for a long time, to the extent that his mind is out of whack, it is inappropriate to entrust the world to him, and another person should be found to replace him." Who among the ministers dared to disobey? They kowtowed as if they were pounding garlic: "The Empress Dowager has given such far-reaching consideration to stabilizing the countryside for the sake of the people of the world, we are willing to bow down and obey her orders." So Lu Pian abolished the emperor, and in the end, she simply killed him. Then another emperor was created, yet no longer renamed Yuan, for Lu Piang herself had been exercising the emperor's authority all along.
This was by no means the first time that Lu Piang had killed anyone, nor was it by any means the last. During the period when she was under the rule of the Curtain and the Emperor, what went hand in hand with the consolidation of her position and the expansion of her power was that she spared no effort in eliminating dissenters and destroying her enemies.
Who were the enemies? It is clear at a glance. In the view of Lu Piang, anyone who opposed the Lu family, or the feudal lords, was her enemy. And naturally, those who were most opposed to the king of all lüs were the royal family of the Liu Clan. Lu Phei killed three Zhao kings: Liu Ru, Liu You, and Liu Chou. For example, Liu You. Liu You's queen was a daughter of the Lü family. Liu You disliked her and favored other concubines. The daughter of the Lv family was so angry that she went to Lü Qiang and slandered Liu You as a rebel, accusing Liu You of saying something like "How can the Lv family be crowned king! When the Empress Dowager is a hundred years old, I will kill them all!" Lu Pian was furious and immediately sent an order to summon Liu You to the capital. When Liu You arrived at the capital, Lu Piang left him unattended in her official residence and sent her guards to surround him without feeding him. Some of Liu You's subordinates sent food to him secretly, but when they found out, they were immediately imprisoned. In this way, Liu You was starved to death. After his death, he was only allowed to be buried in a messy grave outside Chang'an with the rites of a commoner.
Liu Fei, the king of Qi, also almost died at the hands of Lu Piang. In the second year of Emperor Huiji's reign, Liu Fei came to the capital for a visit. One day, Emperor Hui and the King of Qi hosted a banquet and drank wine in front of Lu Piang. Because the king of Qi was his brother, Emperor Hui asked him to sit at the head of the banquet according to family etiquette. Seeing this, Lu Pian was very unhappy and ordered two cups of hemlock to be poured and placed in front of the King of Qi, so that the King of Qi would stand up and make a toast to bless her. The King of Qi stood up, and Emperor Hui followed suit, lifting the cups of wine with the intention of joining his brother in giving his blessing to Lu Piang. Lu Pian panicked and quickly got up and knocked over the wine cup in Emperor Hui's hand. The king of Qi then realized that there was a ghost in the wine, and left the table feigning drunkenness. Later, after inquiring, it was confirmed that it was indeed hemlock wine. The King of Qi was terrified, fearing that he would not be able to get away from Chang'an. Someone said, "The Empress Dowager only has Emperor Hui and Princess Lu Yuan in her heart. Now the king owns more than seventy cities, while Princess Lu Yuan only has a few cognacs. If the great king can offer a county fief to the empress dowager as the Tangmu cognizance of Princess Lu Yuan, the empress dowager will be happy, and you, the great king, will be able to rest on your laurels." The king of Qi then offered the city to the empress dowager and honored Princess Lu Yuan as the empress dowager of the king of Qi. Only then did Lu Fei spare Liu Fei instead of killing him.
However, Lu Piang's number one enemy, without a doubt, was naturally Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao. Now that Liu Bang was dead, she could carry out her revenge as she pleased without fear.
Dowager Empress Lu ordered Mrs. Qi to be imprisoned, and at the same time sent someone to summon the king of Zhao to the capital. The envoys went several times but failed to summon the King of Zhao. Finally, Zhou Chang, the prime minister of the king of Zhao, said to the messenger, "The king of Zhao is young, and when the Gao Di entrusted the king of Zhao to me, I heard that the empress dowager hated Mrs. Qi and wanted to summon the king of Zhao to be killed together. So I dare not let the King of Zhao go to his death. Besides, the King of Zhao is also ill and cannot go by imperial decree." Lu Pian was furious and first transferred Zhou Chang away from the King of Zhao's side, then sent someone to summon the King of Zhao. The King of Zhao did not dare to confront the Empress Dowager and had to come in response to the edict. Knowing that the empress dowager hated the king of Zhao, Emperor Hui personally went to Bashang to welcome him into the capital, and went to the palace with the king of Zhao, eating and living together, in an attempt to preserve the king of Zhao. Lu Pheasant was watching him closely, but she could not find a chance to do anything about it. Early one morning, Emperor Hui went out to shoot arrows, but the King of Zhao was too young and sleepy to get up early to go with him. When Lu Pheasant was informed that the King of Zhao was alone at home, she immediately sent someone to deliver hemlock wine to him. When Emperor Hui returned, the poor King of Zhao had already been poisoned to death. Then, Lu Piang began to deal with Mrs. Qi. She cut off her hands and feet, gouged out her eyes, deafened her ears, drowned her voice, threw her in the toilet, and called her "human swine". "Swine" is also known as pigs, and the toilet at that time was connected with the pigsty. The so-called "human swine" meant that Mrs. Qi was locked up with a pig. Emperor Hui happened to see this monster, and when he asked about it, he realized that it was Mrs. Qi. Emperor Hui cried on the spot and went back to his bed for more than a year. Then Emperor Hui sent someone to say to his mother, "This is not the work of a human being! As your son, I really have no face to rule the world anymore." From then on, Emperor Hui indulged in wine and sex all day long and did not ask about the government.
Confucius said, "The one who started it all has no posterity!" May the curse of Confucius be upon Lü Qiang! When she invented the horrible torture of "human swine", she was doomed to an evil name that she could never get rid of. Indeed, her face was not only vicious, not only cruel, not only ugly, but also obviously evil, and after more than 2,000 years, that evil still sends shivers down the spine.
Lu Pian has been working hard for 15 years to fight Liu and foster Lu. The first time I saw it, I was about to make Liu's name change, and that's when she died.
Before she died, Lv Piang warned Lv Chan and Lv Lu, "When Gao Di had made the White Horse Pact with his ministers, he agreed that 'no one would be king unless they were Liu's, and no one would be marquis unless they were meritorious; and if they were not as good as the Pact, they would be struck down by the world***.' Now that a man from the Lu family has been made king, the ministers must be indignant in their hearts. Now that I'm dying and the emperor is young, I'm afraid those ministers will take advantage of the situation to rebel. You must keep a firm grip on your military power, defend the palace, and never mourn for me or be controlled by them."
About because the essence of the Lv family has all been concentrated on Lv Qian, the Lv family except Lv Qian alone, only her sister Lv Biao is still a little bit of insight, a little level, the other Lv are some incompetent people.
Lv Lu and Lv Yu held military power, controlled Guanzhong, and were ready to start a rebellion to destabilize Liu's world. However, he was afraid of Zhou Bo and Liu Zhang on the inside, and the Qi and Chu armies on the outside, so he hesitated. Zhou Bo used Chen Ping's strategy of "giving up an army without a fight" to persuade Lu Lu, through a trusted friend of Lu Lu, to hand over his general's seal and return his army to the lieutenant. Lu Lu sent someone to report this matter to the old men of Lu's family, some of them thought it was favorable, some thought it was unfavorable, and their opinions were different, so they could not make a decision. Lu Lu went to ask his aunt Lu Shinan for advice. When Lu Shu heard that Lu Lu was going to give up his army, she was shocked: "You are a general, but you give up your army, our Lu family is going to die without a burial place!" After Lu Nan finished her speech, she threw all the jewels and treasures of her family into the yard, saying, "I don't need to collect these things for others anymore!" However, Lu Lu was a real double idiot, and still gave the military power to Zhou Bo, the lieutenant. Lü Lu was coaxed, while Lü Yan was killed, and both the northern and southern armies were controlled by Liu's party. The situation that had taken fifteen years to build up, but only a few days, had collapsed and was as good as destroyed.
A nightmare is finally over.
Chen Ping, in fact, was a villain of bad character, an erratic politician, an unscrupulous strategist, and a prime minister with virtually no political achievements to speak of. Yet the great historian Sima Qian wrote a brilliant epitaph for Chen Ping: "To set the temple, to end in honor and fame, and to call himself a virtuous prime minister, is it not a good beginning and a good end?" This was naturally due to Chen Ping's active participation in the campaign to exterminate Lu in his later years. The mere fact that he was involved in the preservation of Liu's kingdom was enough to impress Sima Qian. Chen Ping's body was full of moral blemishes, but only because of his participation in the Lv Punishment Campaign, it seemed that Chen Ping finally had a chance to stand on the side of "justice", which was enough to make future generations turn a blind eye to all the blemishes of Chen Ping and ignore them. From this point of view, in fact, it is the infamy of Lu Piang that has made Chen Ping's fame complete, and Chen Ping's epitaph, which is titled "Honorable Name", can almost be said to have been carved by Lu Piang's own hand.
Contrasting Chen Ping's "honorary name" and Pheasant's "infamous name", one can think a lot and feel depressed.