That is, the first unified Central Plains dynasty in China after the Qin Dynasty was the Han Dynasty. This is one of the most powerful dynasties in history that is well known, and its influence on later generations was also very far-reaching. As the founder of the dynasty, Liu Bang was a dynasty who could only share hardships but could not be rich. After ascending the throne, he began to kill his meritorious officials, which was criticized by later generations.

Zhao Bing also had this view in his previous life and disliked his character. However, after coming to the Song Dynasty, he became emperor and looked at this history again and gained another understanding. Liu Bang was late and came out to conquer the world at the age of 47, but it took only seven years to achieve great things, which was much better than him.

Therefore, in Zhao Bing's mind, Liu Bang can definitely be regarded as his role model from this perspective. Compared with many emperors in history, he may not be the most outstanding one, but he is definitely the most eye-catching one. If you carefully examine his behavior of killing heroes after ascending the throne, there are actually many unscrupulous ones. No one can bear the things that founding heroes do!

Everyone knew that the emperor was not a god. The reason why he was able to succeed was a group of old brothers who helped him fight for him. Liu Bang was the same. However, after he achieved great achievements, he did not treat these ministers who followed him unfairly. After ascending the throne in Dingtao City, the first thing he did was to enfeoff the princes.

Liu Bang enfeoffed the princes to fulfill his promises - after defeating Xiang Yu, he shared his wealth and honor. He fulfilled his original promise and distributed half of the country to his subordinates. You must know that the world had not been completely unified at this time, and he only had land for forty-seven counties, but he gave twenty-three counties to his subordinates.

In Zhao Bing's opinion, Liu Bang's approach was very courageous. At least he could not do it himself. Of course, it was not that he was reluctant to let it go. The situation in the world was different and the system had undergone drastic changes, but it did not affect his admiration for him like the surging Yellow River. It is not an exaggeration to call it the best in history.

Why? Because Liu Bang kept exiling a large amount of land, and allowed seven generals including Peng Yue, Zhang Ao, Han Wangxin, Han Xin, Yingbu, Wu Rui, Zang Tu to be king. In other words, after Liu Bang divided the princes, he only had half of the land in his hands. However, these generals were not the only ones who helped Liu Bang achieve great achievements, but also the meritorious ministers such as Zhou Bo, Xiao He and Cao Shen who had already followed Liu Bang, also needed to be rewarded.

These heroes played an important role in Liu Bang's battle for dominance in the world, and played a huge role in assisting Liu Bang in defeating Xiang Yu. He had to give up part of the land to these generals no matter what. Therefore, after Liu Bang had enfeoffed the princes, he successively enfeoffed more than 140 heroes, with their fiefs ranging from a hundred households to a hundred households.

In this way, the land of the twenty-four counties in Liu Bang's hands was again granted to those meritorious ministers. However, after years of wars at the end of the Qin Dynasty, all industries had withered at that time, and the children of the royal family of the Han Dynasty also needed rewards, so Liu Bang's territory that could actually receive tax revenue was reduced by nearly half.

Liu Bang was generally very relieved about these ministers who followed Liu Bang to conquer the world. Because although these people had already been granted titles of marquis and generals and had a considerable fief in their hands, they still needed to rely on the court, and the fiefs under their names were also under the jurisdiction of the court. However, for those princes who established the country and became kings, their attitude towards the court was not so respectful...

"The third generals of Han Xin, Peng Yue and Ying Bu were killed by Emperor Gaozu of Han. It is known in history that "the name of the king and the minister outside, but the reality of the enemy of the country inside." It can be seen that they have become a separatist situation. Although they nominally submit to the court, they actually no longer follow the orders of the court, and may even secretly become enemies with the court. As an emperor, it will definitely be unbearable. These princes and kings must be killed!" After all, Zhuang Siqi was born in a farming and studying family and knew the whole story. Now that the emperor mentioned this, he nodded and said that it was the Tao.

"Yes, if Emperor Gaozu of Han had not killed them, then the Han Dynasty would have civil strife and the unified pattern would be destroyed by the hands of the princes and kings he personally enfeoffed. They could only be suppressed by thunder to eliminate hidden dangers. There would be a strong Han who would unify the world in the future!" Ran Anguo agreed little by little.

"There may be twists and turns, whether at that time or now, I was constantly complaining about them. Some even regretted that Han Xin did not voluntarily raise an army to rebel and was killed." Zhao Bing sighed lightly, "It is not surprising that he has such a view. After all, Han Xin has made great contributions to the establishment of the Han Dynasty and is a hero of a generation. People will always feel unfair for the heroes of the meritorious officials."

"However, I think that Emperor Gaozu of Han was forced to kill the meritorious officials. Whether it was for selfishness to consolidate the Liu family's country or for the long-term considerations of history and situation, killing the three people avoided the newly unified world division, and the Central Plains once again fell into a dangerous situation of hundreds of years of melee in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is beneficial to the country and the people."

The current situation is similar to that of Liu Bang. If you put yourself in your shoes, you can understand what you think. As a person of the same era as Qin Shihuang, perhaps only he can understand Qin Shihuang's lofty ambitions. After the unification of Qin, Qin Shihuang issued the same decree and the same carriage, unify the weights and measures, and eliminate the vassal states, these are important measures that are conducive to the progress of the times.

In the early Han Dynasty, if Liu Bang did not take decisive measures, the newly unified world would inevitably fall into division again. No matter from any perspective, Liu Bang could not allow this situation to happen. For these princes and kings who were independent of the court, he had to use thunder to suppress them.

Therefore, Liu Bang would rather bear the eternal infamous reputation than kill these heroes. Although Liu Bang eliminated the princes and kings to consolidate the Liu family's territory, from a historical perspective, Liu Bang's move also promoted the progress of history. From this perspective, Liu Bang did have a long-term vision.

"Haha, fortunately, Emperor Gaozu of Han killed only three princes of different surnames, led by the leader. Otherwise, there would be no nobles who would help Liu get rid of the Empress Lu clan and repeat the Liu clan's country!" Chen Fenglin laughed at this time, and then thought about it and said, "How can the Sa family remember Han Xin and Peng Yue, who were killed by Empress Lu, have nothing to do with Liu Laoer!"

"Tong Chen, if you drink too much, don't talk nonsense!" Liu Zhixue quickly pulled his sleeves.

"Hmph, in fact, Liu did not perish from the Lü family, but was destroyed by the ministers." Zhuang Siqi took a sip of the remaining wine in the glass and said.

"Yes, from now on, the Han Taizu killed fewer, not more!" When everyone was wondering why Zhuang Siqi said this, Li Zhen agreed.

"This..." Li Zhen's words were even more 'vicious', and everyone dared to be surprised.

"Your Majesty, they are drunk too much, don't mind!" Although Ran Anguo was born in Qiongzhou, he was not a rural reckless man who could not read a big word. After joining the general's mansion, he was willing to work hard. He was not only familiar with military books, but also had a knowledge of classics and history. He could be called a Confucian general. He knew that his words were inappropriate, and he could not speak in front of the emperor, while winking at them while covering up the way for them.

"Haha, some things written in history books are not necessarily true, you should read them with your brain. And you are not as careful as Zhuang Dutong and others!" Zhao Bing smiled and pointed at Zhuang Siqi and Liu Zhixue, and then clicked Ran Anguo, saying to the rest of the people.

He actually knew in his heart that what Zhuang Siqi said was true, and historical books were the fig leaf of the winner, hiding conspiracy and filth in just a few words. After Liu Bang's death, the Lü family promoted and appointed his mother's family members, forming the largest group of relatives in history. However, judging from the subsequent development of the Lü group, it seemed that he had never thought of replacing the Liu family.

In Zhao Bing's view, if the Lu family group really wanted to do this, why did Lu Lu, who was in charge of the military power of the Northern Army, easily hand over the military power to the heroes? Therefore, as long as you think about it, you can see that the so-called "Lü family's plot to cause rebellion" was completely a conspiracy made by the heroes.

Why did the heroes do this? This is because the imperial court has too many monks and little porridge, and the Lu family, who lost the protection of Empress Lu, occupies too many political resources. As the saying goes, "It is a crime to bear a treasure." Who else would the heroes kill if they don't massacre the Lu family? In Zhou Bo, Chen Ping used Lu Lu's friend Li Ji to deceive the seal of the Northern Army.

Later, Zhou Bo entered the Northern Army's camp and successfully captured the military power of the Northern Army. Once the meritorious officials had military power, they were doomed to the demise of the Lü clan. Then, Cao Shen's son Cao Qi told the imperial guards that the Prime Minister Lu Chan would not allow Prime Minister Lu Chan to enter the palace gate. Later, Zhou Bo and Zhu Xuhou Liu Zhang led troops to attack Lu Chan and killed him in a toilet. After Lu Chan's death, the Southern Army he controlled was also seized by the meritorious officials. Then, the meritorious officials attacked in different ways, regardless of age, and killed all the Lu people.

After the demise of the Lü clan, the meritorious officials did not stop the sword. Since Lü was the uncle of Emperor Shao of Han, Zhou Bo and Chen Ping were worried that there would be a situation where "(Shaodi) was a long-term act, and I was indifferent". Therefore, they secretly plotted and decided to "legitimately" kill all the descendants of Emperor Hui of Han. So they announced to the public: "Shaodi, Liang, Huaiyang, and Changshan, are not true Xiaohui sons. Empress Lu used a trick to deceive the name of another person's son, killed his mother, raised the harem, and ordered Xiaohui sons to be the descendants of the kings to defeat the Lü clan."

In other words, the so-called sons of Emperor Hui of Han in the palace were not biological children, but were actually the products of Empress Lu’s conspiracy. In fact, Emperor Hui of Han did not have a son. But Zhao Bing, who lived in the palace since childhood, could understand how ridiculous and far-fetched this reason was. How could these princes not be the sons of Emperor Hui of Han? Who would have created six fake sons for his own son?
Chapter completed!