When Emperor Wendi and Emperor Jingdi were in power, why was Wu the most powerful of the vassal states?

Liu Bi started his career at the time of the great-grandfather Liu Bang. At that time, he was young and energetic. At the age of 20, he defeated Lu Bu with cavalry and made him famous all his life. After Liu Bang became emperor, he made Liu Bi king of Wu, and he regretted it after sealing it, because he found a fortune-teller king of Wu and said, "This man looks the opposite." Liu Bangjin's words could not be changed, so he said to Liu Bi, "In fifty years, there will be chaos in the southeast, and then it will not be you. The world is surnamed Liu, please take care. " Liu Ying said at once, "I dare not".

After Liu Bi arrived in the State of Wu, Wu Chu's folk customs were tough and arrogant. Liu Bi's son failed to teach well and was killed by Emperor Jing, who was still a prince at that time.

From then on, Liu Bi held a grudge, no longer went to court, and deceived Wendi with sweet words. Then I started to rely on mountains to eat mountains. On the one hand, I dug my own copper mine and minted my own coins (copper was mainly used at that time, and gold was not the main hard currency). On the other hand, I boiled seawater and exported it to the Central Plains, which became more and more prosperous. This kind of economic talent is unique, and it is much faster to get money than to farm. At the same time, he began to recruit fugitives from all over the world to work for him.

After completing the economic accumulation, Liu Bi began to woo the prisoners who were being beheaded by Chao Cuo, colluded with Xiongnu, made an alliance, made a wish and sent troops together.

At that time, with Wu Chu's 800,000 troops, it was indeed possible to sweep the Central Plains, and Jingdi was so scared that he killed Chao Cuo. I didn't expect that Liu Bi's ambition to be emperor was that eight horses would not come back. The army matched Suiyang and threatened Hangu Pass, but was blocked by Liang Wang to the death. After a long time, you can't attack. A constant general proposed to move the capital to Luoyang and seize the granary of the world, but Liu Ying did not adopt it. Zhou Yafu didn't wake up until he cut off his food and grass, but it was too late and the alliance was already very loose. Sima Qian left a sentence, "Don't kiss Yi Di, so as to dilute his genus." This is called Wu Xie? "sigh.

It should be said that Liu Bi's political and military strategy at the beginning was correct, and both "punishing Chao Cuo, clearing the monarch's side" and the marching route were correct, but the subsequent strategy was always dominated by the emperor, but he just didn't know how to be flexible, and a word "drag" dragged himself to death. The rear was undecided, and he rushed to send troops, thinking that a few dollars could seize the world, but the result was betrayed by the Wu people themselves. Looking back on Wu Sangui's anti-Qing campaign, one thing is the same. Fighting is most afraid of protracted war, and hitting the middle is a matter of people's turning back.

However, in spite of this, the king of Wu, Liu Bi, was a lean generation, and was written into biographies by Sima Qian, while none of the other six kings had this blessing.