"Zhao Guo...Liu Pengzu?"

This name may be a bit unfamiliar to many people in later generations, but to Wu Liang, a person who studies archeology, it can be said to be like thunder.

Liu Pengzu was the half-brother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and one of the famous official hooligans in the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the pre-Qin king-conferring system has still continued. Most of the relatives and descendants of the emperor will be granted a territory and form a small country of their own. In the small country, these kings are the local emperors with high mountains and distant emperors.

However, such a "local emperor" cannot do whatever he wants.

Because while the Han system granted these people kings and kingdoms, in order to prevent some people from having evil intentions, they also sent out special inspectors, that is, the prime ministers of these feudal kingdoms. The prime ministers had the right to intervene in all affairs within the country.

They also have the right to report the actions of the feudal kings to the court, so as to ensure the emperor's control over these feudal countries and the feudal kings, lest they forget the fact that "the whole world is not the king's land".

And Liu Pengzu was such a king.

It is worth mentioning that before he moved to Zhao and became King of Zhao, Liu Pengzu’s kingdom was Guangchuan, and his title was King Guangchuan... Does this title sound very familiar? There was a person with "Guangchuan" before.

The tomb of the man named "King of Sichuan" has been stolen by Wu Liang. Bai Jingjing and the Bai family have the most say in this matter.

Moreover, Liu Pengzu was actually the unprecedented first King of Guangchuan, and the name of Guangchuan Kingdom was only used because he was named King of Guangchuan.

As for Wu Liang's colleague Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan, he should be the fourth king of Guangchuan.

Between them were Liu Qu's father and grandfather.

In terms of the ranking of immediate family members, some people think that Liu Qu should be the third King of Guangchuan.

But if we only trace the inheritance of King Guangchuan, we must include Liu Pengzu, the first King of Guangchuan. After Liu Pengzu moved to the throne, he became Liu Qu's grandfather, so Liu Qu can only be counted as the fourth King of Guangchuan.

"It seems that the three words King Guangchuan and I are really destined..."

Closer to home, in Wu Liang's opinion, Liu Pengzu would still be able to thrive in officialdom even in later generations, because this person was extremely skilled in this area, and many history books described him as "a clever and sycophantic man."

evaluation.

At that time, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appointed a group of ministers such as "Zhu Fuyan" to implement the "Tianfa Order".

Zhufu Yan was not a good person either. He traveled to Yan, Zhao, Qi and other countries in his early years and was treated coldly. After he became powerful, he not only became a huge corrupt man, but also launched a crazy revenge against these kings. He was accused of "incest", "treason" and other crimes.

He forced the then kings of Yan and Qi to death.

At that time, King Zhao Liu Pengzu was also worried that his father Yan would retaliate and report him. Fortunately, he had been collecting black information about his father, so when his father Yan went to Qi State for official business, he immediately took advantage of the collected black information.

After some sorting, he wrote a document with complete witnesses and material evidence and reported it to Emperor Wu. In addition, King Qi's charge of "rebellion" was fabricated and framed by his father Yan. Emperor Wu was furious and ordered his father Yan to be killed.

In addition, Liu Pengzu is also one of the earliest "COSPLAY" enthusiasts in history.

Whenever the prime minister and senior officials who were inspectors arrived, Liu Pengzu would dress up as a slave and go out to greet them personally. He would also personally clean the residences where these officials stayed, and then deliberately arrange for his subordinates to create some confusion.

He would try to lure and corrupt them, and he would watch how these officials responded. As long as these officials behaved inappropriately and violated the taboos and laws of the court, he would record the dirty information word for word without any omissions.

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Later, whenever an official wants to act in accordance with the law, Liu Pengzu will use these black materials to threaten him, forcing him to obey his will, otherwise he will report it to the court and destroy his family.

Just put it like that.

Liu Pengzu has been the King of Zhao for more than fifty years. None of the prime ministers and officials who took office have served for more than two years. The smarter ones resigned early, the more stubborn ones all resigned due to crimes, and those who committed serious crimes were directly punished.

Even if someone commits a minor crime and is punished by death, he will never be able to recover for the rest of his life.

With such a skill, how can human nature, which already has various weaknesses, withstand it, or not be grasped by him in the palm of his hand every minute?

In addition to being a slave, Liu Pengzu also liked cosplaying government officials very much. He would put on the clothes of an official and lead his servants around. When he met travelers and caravans passing by, he would blackmail and plunder them.

He even wrote to Emperor Wu, volunteering to supervise and punish the "thieves" in the kingdom.

However, this is actually "robbing and killing under orders", because he alone has the final say who is a "thief" in Zhao State, and there is no place to reason if he is robbed or killed, so that when he was in power, he passed by

The travelers and caravans were so frightened that they did not even dare to pass through the territory of Zhao State, let alone staying in the county city.

In this way, Liu Pengzu was extremely powerful in the Zhao Kingdom. All patent transactions were in his hands. His income was much higher than the normal taxes in other kingdoms. During his sixty years in office, he accumulated countless properties.

However, according to "Historical Records", Liu Pengzu was also a spendthrift, and he squandered all his property before his death...

besides.

The throne of Liu Pengzu, King Zhao, is also very interesting.

Legend has it that this is one of the strangest and most unlucky princes in the history of the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhang Ao, the first king of Zhao, was Liu Bang's son-in-law. Liu Bang suffered a defeat when he conquered the Xiongnu. On his way back to Zhao, Zhang Ao knew that everything he owned was given by his father-in-law, so he was very considerate. As a result,

However, Liu Bang was unreasonably angry at Zhang Ao because of his defeat. He often scolded and cursed him, so that several of Zhang Ao's sincere ministers couldn't stand it, and even secretly plotted to assassinate Liu Bang in order to vent his anger on Zhang Ao.

As a result, the incident was revealed, and Zhang Ao, who did not know what happened, was almost killed. Fortunately, Empress Lu helped to intercede, and finally saved his life, but he was deprived of the throne.

The second King of Zhao was Liu Ruyi, who was famous in history.

Many people have heard about his story. His mother, relatives and wife were chopped off by Empress Lu, whose limbs were cut off, their eyes were gouged out, their noses and ears were cut off, and they were still used as "human pigs" in the toilet. Liu Ruyi was tricked into being poisoned in Kyoto.

, even Lu Bu's biological son Liu Ying, Emperor Xiaohui at that time, suffered from heart disease after seeing such a tragic scene. He couldn't get out of bed for more than a year. In the end, he drank to relieve his sorrow and became seriously ill. Within a few years, he died of depression.

end.

Later Liu Bang's sixth son Liu You took over as King of Zhao. Not long after, he was summoned to the Chang'an mansion because someone was gossiping in front of Empress Lu. Empress Lu ordered people to surround the palace and cut off food.

In the end, he starved to death and was buried in a mass grave.

The next unlucky person was Liu Bang's fifth son Liu Hui, who committed suicide only four months after taking office.

Then it was supposed to be the turn of Liu Heng, the later Emperor of Han Dynasty. Liu Heng was the acting king at that time. When he heard that he was asked to be the king of Zhao, he was so frightened that he quickly declined and said that he would give up the fat piece of Zhao to the Great Empire.

A virtuous and virtuous person, he was willing to stay in the bitter cold border all his life and guard the northern gate for the country... Later, facts proved that his choice was right. He was the only one to escape this disaster, and finally became the least favored "bastard"

With his identity, he entered Weiyang Palace and became the biggest winner.

However, King Zhao's curse did not end.

At this time, the descendants of the Liu family were frightened by the unknown title of King Zhao, and no one dared to take over. However, the descendants of the Lu family, who had the support of Empress Lu, did not believe in evil.

So Queen Lu's nephew Lu Lu was made the next King of Zhao, and the King of Zhao did not need to go to Zhao to live, but stayed in the capital to control the army in the capital.

As a result, Empress Lu died not long after. Lu Lu listened to others' persuasion and surrendered his military power. The final result was that the minister had been suffering from Empress Lu for a long time. He quickly launched a pillow attack and killed him along with other descendants of the Lu family.

Next up.

King Zhao returned to the hands of the Liu family and was succeeded by Liu Sui, the son of Liu You, the fifth King of Zhao. As a result, Liu Sui also continued the curse of King Zhao, because he joined in the fun of cutting off the vassal vassalage with the King of Wu who was also cut off the vassalage. In the end, the army

Defeated and committed suicide.

This is the "Curse of King Zhao" that people will talk about in later generations.

Since the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, the king of Zhao has been replaced several times, but almost none of them ended well, even if he did not believe in evil.

And the person who put an end to this strange curse was none other than the "Liu Pengzu" Liu Bei mentioned just now.

As an official hooligan recognized by later generations, he designed and murdered countless officials, and successfully turned the "curse of the King of Zhao" into the "curse of the Prime Minister of the State of Zhao", making almost all those who came to Zhao State to supervise him.

A good ending.

And he himself reigned for sixty years and finally died.

This sincerity makes people unable to stop thinking about it. Is it possible that the curse is also afraid of evil people?

"It seems that the fourth brother knows this person, so it will be easy to handle."

Seeing Wu Liang's expression, Liu Bei straightened up and said mysteriously in a lower voice, "Actually, I have led people to search for Liu Pengzu's tomb in the past few days. If I can find it, I can get a sum of money."

A huge amount of money can help me solve my current predicament!"

"this……"

Wu Liang frowned slightly and asked, "I remember this person because of "Historical Records". "Historical Records" records that this person was a spendthrift. He squandered all his property before his death. Where is there any huge wealth?

Buried with him?"

"Books are also written by people. People can say wrong things, but how can they not remember wrong things?"

Liu Bei immediately retorted, "What's more, if this news was deliberately released by Liu Pengzu to confuse the public, and he built a suspicious tomb on the surface, but secretly buried a large amount of property, it would not be known to outsiders, not to mention it was written later.

A historian who writes history books?"

"Brother is right..."

Wu Liang nodded, and then asked, "What puzzles me is why the elder brother is so sure. Did the elder brother get the exact news from?"

"This matter is a secret of my family and cannot be disclosed openly."

Liu Bei was vague and continued, "But I can ensure the reliability of the news. Liu Pengzu's real tomb is in Zanhuang Mountain dozens of miles away. Even the specific area is not wrong, but it may be that it is very old.

Over time, the terrain near the real tomb has changed. I have been searching for it in the past few days, but I can't find it anywhere."

"So that's it. This matter is an undisclosed secret in my eldest brother's family. I will pretend that I have never heard what my eldest brother just said, and I will not tell anyone about it."

Wu Liang immediately gave a solemn assurance, then pointed at Dian Wei and said, "Brother Dian Wei also has a life-long friendship with me. Brother Dian Wei can rest assured that he will never go out and talk nonsense... But I still have to say it again.

I would like to advise my eldest brother, this matter of digging a grave is detrimental to your morality, so please think twice before doing anything!"

"Fourth brother, don't try to dissuade me. I have made up my mind! Now that things have happened, I have no way to survive. How can I still manage so many things?"

Liu Bei insisted.

"In this case, I won't say any more words."
To be continued...