Liu Qi stepped onto the stage of history and was about to start his era, but he immediately bumped into an arrogant son of the Dou family. This arrogant child did not learn from his elders and behave according to the rules, but he wanted to achieve great things. His name was Dou Ying.

Zi Wangsun, the nephew of Empress Dowager Dou.

Dou Ying loved guests, gave generously, was a chivalrous person, and loved Confucianism. Dou Ying's character was not at all like Dou Changjun and Dou Shaojun. He was powerful, arrogant, and courageous.

When the late Emperor Liu Heng was in power, Dou Ying was the prime minister of Wu King Liu Bi. Liu Heng allowed the people to mint money, and Liu Bi recruited gangsters, opened mountains to cast money, and boiled the sea into salt. He was very rich. Dou Ying served as the prime minister, which was very fat.

Position. After not working for long, Dou Ying retired due to illness.

Liu Qi ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and Dou Ying took charge of the affairs of the empress dowager and the empress' palace. The empress had no children, the crown prince's position was temporarily vacant, and there was nothing to manage in the empress dowager's palace. Dou Ying focused all his energy on the empress dowager and the empress' palace. Dou Ying

Brave and courageous, Empress Dowager Dou is calm and dignified. The personalities of the nephew and the aunt are not in sync. Their personalities are in sync, but they don't get along well, which inevitably leads to small conflicts. If there are too many small conflicts with each other, and they develop day by day, they will lead to big conflicts.

She was hardworking in her early years but happy later, so Empress Dowager Dou loved her younger son Liang Wang Liu Wu very much. As the saying goes, the father loves the eldest son, and the mother loves the youngest son. Liu Wu's fiefdom has more than 40 cities, and each city is very rich, just like the Qi State in those days.

The Seventy Cities. Empress Dowager Dou loved Liu Wu, and Liu Qi also loved him, and allowed him to build palaces as he pleased. According to ancient Chinese rules, the emperor's palace is the richest and largest. If the princes and kings want to build palaces, they must meet the rank.

According to the rules of the Han Dynasty, princes and princes could only stay for more than ten days when they came to court. Empress Dowager Dou and Liu Qi liked Liu Wu. Liu Wu came to court every year and could move freely in Chang'an, staying as he pleased and leaving at any time. When Liu Wu came to court, Liu Qi went out of the city to greet him.

Liu Wu and Liu Qi rode in the same chariot and hunted together. Liu Qi's love for Liu Wu was just like Liu Heng's love for Liu Chang. It's not that enemies don't get together, and father and son can't be together without fate. Liu Heng and his son, not only have fate, but also love.

Very similar.

Liu Qi did not have a prince, so Liu Wu was allowed to use the prince's honor guard. The person who did it was unintentional, but the person who saw it was intentional. Maybe Liu Qi didn't take Liu Wu's use of the prince's honor guard to heart, but Empress Dowager Dou was very pleased to see it.

He wanted Liu Wu to inherit the throne and worked hard to achieve it.

In the third year of Emperor Jing's reign (154 BC), during the pilgrimage, Liu Qi hosted a banquet for his brothers. After drinking heavily, Liu Qi said that he would pass the throne to Liu Wu after his death. After hearing this, Empress Dowager Dou was very happy, as if she herself would become the emperor.

Normally, Empress Dowager Dou was in high spirits and was enjoying herself. Dou Ying suddenly poured a basin of cold water on her head. Dou Ying stood up, offered Liu Qi a glass of wine, and said: "The world belongs to Emperor Gaozu, and it is customary to pass down the inheritance from father to son.

This throne cannot be passed on to the King of Liang Liu Wu." Dou Ying and the Queen Mother Dou are a family member, so he obstructed Liu Wu, and the Queen Mother Dou was puzzled. There was already a rift between Dou Ying and the Queen Mother Dou, and this time they were even torn apart.

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The position of prince is a treasure, but it is also a hot potato.

Although Dou Ying was a nephew, her good deeds were ruined, and the Empress Dowager Dou hated Dou Ying from then on. The Empress Dowager Dou hated Dou Ying, and her face turned ugly. Dou Ying claimed that he was ill and resigned because his current official position was inferior. Dou Ying's resignation was in line with the Empress Dowager Dou's wishes.

Empress Dowager Dou did not do anything, and she simply did it neatly. Except for Dou Ying's family name, she was not allowed to see the emperor. With Dou Ying gone, there would be less resistance for Liu Wu to inherit the throne. Empress Dowager Dou thought it was simple.

Seeing that Dou Ying was about to be doomed, a savior suddenly jumped out - Chao Cuo. In just a few years, this ambitious Chinese doctor wrote "A Note on Military Affairs", "A Note on Guarding the Border and Encouraging Farmers", "A Note on Recruitment"

Books such as "Bian Shi Si Shu Shu" and "Countermeasures for Promoting Virtue".

After Liu Qi ascended the throne, Chao Cuo, a wise man, flew to the sky and was promoted from a senior official to an internal historian. Chao Cuo was like the sun in the sky, dazzling and red. In order to display his great talent, he did not do anything, and he was angry to death.

Shen Tujia, the prime minister of the current dynasty.

Shen Tujia was from Liang Dynasty. He had followed Liu Bang and was promoted to prime minister because of his seniority. He was first a team leader, then a Marquis of Guannei, and then a censor. He was honest and upright and did not accept private guests, but he was a little jealous.

He had just become prime minister, and he couldn't stand Deng Tong's words and deeds. Once, he found an opportunity and wanted to kill Deng Tong, but at the critical moment he was rescued by Liu Heng's envoy Chijie.

Unexpectedly, five years later, another person appeared who was extremely unpleasant to him. This person was Chao Cuo, a popular person around Liu Qi. Chao Cuo served as the internal history, and because he was favored by the emperor, he had a high status.

, he also had great power. He petitioned the emperor to change many laws and regulations. He also discussed how to weaken the power of the princes through relegation and punishment. Prime Minister Shen Tujia also felt that what he said was not adopted, so he hated Chao

Wrong. Chao Cuo served as the internal historian. The gate of the internal history palace originally led out of the palace from the east, which made it inconvenient for him to enter and exit. Therefore, he took it upon himself to build a wall door leading to the south.

The wall cut through the door to the south was the outer wall of the Taishang Emperor's Ancestral Temple. After Shen Tujia heard about it, he wanted to use Chao Cuo's unauthorized cutting of the wall of the ancestral temple as a door to punish Chao Cuo and petition the emperor.

Kill him. But someone among Chao Cuo's retainers told him about it. Chao Cuo was very frightened. He ran to the palace overnight, paid homage to the emperor, surrendered to Emperor Jing, and explained the situation. When he went to court the next morning, Prime Minister Shen Tujia

Please punish Chao Cuo, the internal history official.

Emperor Jing said: "The wall that Chao Cuo built was not the real ancestral temple wall, but the short outer wall of the ancestral temple. That's why other officials lived in it. Besides, I asked him to do this. Chao Cuo had nothing to do with it."

Sin."

Chao Cuo was not killed, but he still apologized in front of the ministers. Shen Tujia was extremely sad and angry. He said to the chief historian: "I should kill first and then report, report first and then kill. It will definitely cause trouble." Because he delayed in landing the sword, Deng Tong was killed by Liu.

Heng rescued him, but Shen Tujia didn't learn his lesson and deserved to die. Shen Tujia returned home and became more and more angry, so he fell ill and died. Chao Cuo escaped, and was respected by the ministers, and his status became more and more noble. After Shen Tujia's death, Chao Cuo

Taking sole responsibility, he also brought up the issue of cutting down the feudal vassals. Chao Cuo was a more radical person. He was different from Jia Yi's soft cuts. His style was tougher and he began to find the faults of the princes and kings. In the name of punishing them, the central government directly took back the princes and kings'

In terms of fiefdom, Jia Yi proposed to reduce the vassal status by enfeoffment, while Chao Cuo proposed to reduce the vassal status by force. In comparison, one was conservative and the other was radical. However, Chao Cuo fit Liu Qi's heart exactly.

With Liu Qi's high regard, the princes and princes did not dare to oppose Chao Cuo's reduction of the vassal state. However, Dou Ying stood up and firmly opposed the reduction of the vassal state. All the civil and military officials in the dynasty were obedient, and no one responded. Dou Ying could not stand alone. However, Liu Qi had already agreed.

To cut down the feudal clan, Dou Ying's voice would be trampled on no matter how high-pitched his voice was. Because of the cutting down of the feudal clan, Dou Ying and Chao Cuo had a rift. At this time, Liu Qi issued an edict to cut down the feudal clan, and the action to cut down the feudal clan officially began.

At this moment, when the princes received the news, they started making noises and the whole world was in commotion.

Wu Wang Liu Bi

Liu Bi, who was only 20 years old, defeated Ying Bu's army with bravery and bravery, which impressed Liu Bang. After Ying Bu was executed, Liu Bang was worried that no one could suppress the tyrannical people of Kuaiji. Seeing Liu Bi's bravery, he was named King of Wu and the Kingdom of Wu

More than fifty cities belong to him. Liu Bi is a capable man. Even if he is given a piece of saline-alkali land in the north, he can turn gold into gold. What's more, Wu State has unique geographical conditions.

After the reward and seal were awarded, Liu Bang took a look at Liu Bi's face and found that Liu Bi's face was reversed. He touched Liu Bi's back and said: "Fifty years after the Han Dynasty, there was a rebellion in the southeast. Is it you? We are one family.

People, you must not rebel!"

Liu Bang's fortune-telling must have been made up by history books. Maybe he saw that Liu Bi was too brave and worried that he would not want to live in a pool and be born underground, but would like to fly to the sky, so he said this. Among the Liu family's descendants, Liu Bi is both brave and courageous.

With a plan, the state of Wu has superior conditions and can easily develop and grow. As a vassal state, once it becomes strong, it will cause trouble. Liu Bang has seen it a lot, so he is good at warning Liu Bi. At that time, Liu Bi was very weak. After listening to Liu Bang's words, how could he

Can you please reply hastily that you don’t dare?

Wu State was rich in copper mines and was close to the sea. Taking advantage of the imperial court's permission to mint money, Liu Bi recruited desperadoes from all over the world to mine, cast money, and boil the sea into salt. With only two items: coining money and boiling salt, Wu State suddenly became rich, and the people

The money is endless. As mentioned above, "Deng Qian" and "Wu Qian" are popular all over the world, and "Wu Qian" refers to the money cast by King Liu Bi of Wu.

The State of Wu suddenly became rich, and its people did not have to pay taxes. People all over the world defected to the State of Wu one after another. Han law stipulates that rich people can buy people to do the corvee service on their behalf. The people of the State of Wu had a lot of money, so they used money to buy people to do the corvee service on their behalf. There was a serious shortage of domestic labor force.

Liu Bi opened the door for convenience, and no matter who came, he would receive it. The State of Wu was very wealthy, and rewarded the people every year, and treated those who died or were injured in the line of duty better. It can be seen that the state of Wu is rich in financial resources.

Confront the center.

Previously, when Liu Heng was in power, Liu Xian, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Wu, came to see him. Liu Bi did not come to see him, and it was inappropriate to send the crown prince here. Liu Qi invited Liu Xian to a banquet, and the two gambled. Liu Xian's family was rich, arrogant, and arrogant.

Liu Xian made fun of Liu Qi, so Liu Qi threw gambling tools at Liu Xian, and Liu Xian died.

Liu Heng, who was deeply apologetic, ordered people to hold a funeral for Liu Xian and asked Liu Xian's entourage to carry Liu Xian back to the Kingdom of Wu. When his beloved son passed away, Liu Bi was very sad and said to his entourage: "Liu Xian and the emperor are one family. He died in

I will bury him in Chang'an and there is no need to carry him back to the Kingdom of Wu." Liu Bi ordered those who came to carry Liu Xian back to Chang'an. Liu Bi's move was clearly to let his son enjoy the treatment of the emperor.

From then on, Liu Bi hated the court, and gradually failed to abide by the etiquette of a vassal. He claimed to be ill for a long time and refused to visit the court. Liu Heng felt that the real reason for Liu Bi's long-term absence from the court was Liu Xian's death, not physical illness. When he found someone to check, it turned out that he was mourning.

Because of his son. After that, every time Liu Bi sent people to Chang'an, they were imprisoned and never returned. Liu Bi became more and more frightened. Every time he went to court, he claimed to be sick and refused to go, and his preparations for rebellion became even faster.

When Liu Heng saw that Liu Bi had not come to court for many years, he directly sent someone to invite him, but Liu Bi still refused, saying he was ill. Liu Heng questioned the Wu envoy, and the envoy replied: "It is not good for anyone to see the fish swimming in the pond clearly. The king of Wu just pretended to be sick.

He was discovered, and when he saw the emperor's accusations, he was afraid of being punished, and didn't know what to do. For the sake of everyone, I hope the emperor would give him a chance." This saying is called, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people are careful, there will be no disciples."

, the messenger was clearly trying to persuade Liu Heng to pass by in a daze and muddle through a disaster.

Liu Heng, who understood his intentions, immediately released the detained Wu envoys, rewarded Liu Bi with a cane, and allowed Liu Bi not to come to court. Liu Heng did not dare to cut the vassal, and wanted to get away with it. He was old, and he would be considered a fool when he died.

However, the consequences of raising tigers are that big tigers will hurt people. After his death, Liu Qi had to face it. Liu Heng was so generous, and Liu Bi became more arrogant and arrogant. He made money, boiled salt extensively, and recruited desperadoes from all over the world. After
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