The Emperor's Honor and Disgrace in the Western Han Dynasty

In May 195 BC, Liu Bang, the sixty-two-year-old founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was in danger. A year ago, Huainan King Yingbu uttered wild words: "While the emperor is ill and doesn't want to fight, I want to take his life and the country!" The ministers had no choice but to invite the old emperor to suppress the rebellion and attack the rebellious King of Huainan. Liu Bang declined and said, "I am old and sick!" The ministers said, "You can lie on the carriage to suppress the rebellion, or you can suppress the battle and boost morale!" Liu Bang lay on the chariot and went to quell the rebellion: he defeated the rebels of the King of Huainan. The rebels shot Liu Bang with poisonous arrows. Liu Bang was still lying on the carriage and was pulled back to Changle Palace. He was not happy at all, because Liu Bang's life had entered a countdown. Emperor Lu asked a miracle doctor to treat her husband Liu Bang. Liu Bang refused to seek medical treatment and rewarded the doctor with fifty pounds of gold. In this way, he told the doctor: You are unemployed because I am going to die! Xiao He, Xiao Xiangguo, Jianghou Zhou Bo, Wuyanghou Fan Kuai, Quzhouhou Li Shang, Anguohou Wang Ling, etc., These pillars of the country are very afraid of this day coming: because the sixteen-year-old crown prince Liu Ying cannot rule the world, and his son inherits his father's legacy. Liu Bang's thinking was very avant-garde: Queen Lu could take on this important task. There is no formal decree, but there is a tacit understanding between the husband and wife. Empress Lu asked her husband Liu Bang: "Who can be the prime minister a hundred years after Xiao Xiangguo?" On the bed, Liu Bang named four people. Not only did these four people successively serve as prime ministers, but they could also protect the Liu family for 211 years, or more than 400 years...