Empress Lü hated Concubine Qi and her son, the King of Zhao, the most, so she ordered Concubine Qi to be imprisoned in Yongxiang the Eternal Alley and summoned the King of Zhao. The messengers went back and forth many times. Zhou Chang, the Prime Minister of Zhao, the Marquis of Jianping, said to the messenger: "Emperor Gaozu entrusted the King of Zhao to me, and now the King of Zhao is young. I heard privately that the Queen Mother hated Concubine Qi and wanted to summon the King of Zhao to kill him together. I dare not send the King of Zhao away. Besides, the King of Zhao is also sick and cannot obey the imperial edict." Empress Lü was very angry and sent someone to summon the Prime Minister of Zhao. After he came to Chang'an, and Empress Lü sent someone to summon the King of Zhao again. The King of Zhao came, but had not arrived yet. Emperor Xiaohui was kind and benevolent. Knowing that the Queen Mother was angry, he personally went to Bashang to welcome the King of Zhao, went into the palace with him, and personally took the King of Zhao to sit, sleep and eat together. The Queen Mother wanted to kill the King of Zhao, but could not find an opportunity. In December of the first year of Emperor Xiaohui (194 BC), Emperor Xiaohui went out hunting in the early morning. The King of Zhao was young and could not get up early. When the queen mother heard that he was alone in the palace, she sent someone to bring him poisoned wine to drink. At dawn, Emperor Xiaohui returned, and King Zhao was dead. So the court changed the title of Liu You from the King of Huaiyang to the King Zhao. In the summer, Emperor Xiaohui issued an edict to posthumously honor Marquis Li’s father as Marquis Lingwu. The queen mother finally cut off Lady Qi's hands and feet, dug out her eyes, smoked her ears, poured drug into her to make her dumb, then threw her into the toilet, and called her a "human pig". After a few days, she asked Emperor Xiaohui to go and see the human pig. After seeing it, Emperor Xiaohui asked others and found out that it was Lady Qi, so he cried and fell ill. He was bedridden for more than a year and could not get up. He sent someone to ask the queen mother for instructions, saying: "This is not something a human can do. I am the queen mother's son, and I can't rule the world after all." From then on, Emperor Xiaohui indulged in drinking every day for fun and did not deal with state affairs, so he fell sick.
In the second year (193 BC), King Yuan of Chu and King Daohui of Qi came to the court. In October, Emperor Xiaohui and the King of Qi held a banquet in front of the Queen Mother. Emperor Xiaohui thought that the King of Qi was his elder brother, so he arranged for him to sit at the top seat, according to the etiquette of ordinary people's homes. The Queen Mother was very angry, so she ordered people to pour two cups of poisoned wine and put them in front, and ordered the King of Qi to stand up and toast for her. The King of Qi stood up, and Emperor Xiaohui also stood up, took a wine cup and wanted to toast with the King of Qi. The Queen Mother was frightened, and she stood up and knocked over Emperor Xiaohui's cup. The King of Qi felt strange, so he didn't dare to drink the wine, pretending to be drunk and left. Later, after asking, he found out that it was poisoned. The King of Qi was very scared and thought he couldn't escape from Chang'an, so he was worried about it. The court historian of the King of Qi advised him, "The queen mother has only two children, Emperor Xiaohui and Princess Luyuan. Now the king has more than 70 cities, while the princess has only a few cities as her fiefdom. If the king offers a county to the queen mother as her bathing county, the queen mother will be very happy and the king will have no worries." So the king of Qi offered Chengyang County to the princess and honored her as the queen mother. Empress Lü was very happy and agreed to the king of Qi's request. She held a banquet in the king's official residence and drank happily. After the banquet, she let the king go back. In the third year (192 BC), the construction of Chang'an City began, half of it was completed in the fourth year (191 BC), and it was finally completed after the fifth year (190 BC) and the sixth year (189 BC). All the princes came to the party. In October, the princes entered the court to celebrate.
吕后最怨戚夫人及其子赵王，乃令永巷囚戚夫人，而召赵王。使者三反，赵相建平侯周昌谓使者曰：“高帝属臣赵王，赵王年少。窃闻太后怨戚夫人，欲召赵王并诛之，臣不敢遣王。王且亦病，不能奉诏。”吕后大怒，乃使人召赵相。赵相徵至长安，乃使人复召赵王。王来，未到。孝惠帝慈仁，知太后怒，自迎赵王霸上，与入宫，自挟与赵王起居饮食。太后欲杀之，不得间。孝惠元年十二月，帝晨出射。赵王少，不能蚤起。太后闻其独居，使人持酖饮之。犁明，孝惠还，赵王已死。于是乃徙淮阳王友为赵王。夏，诏赐郦侯父追谥为令武侯。太后遂断戚夫人手足，去眼，煇耳，饮瘖药，使居厕中，命曰“人彘”。居数日，乃召孝惠帝观人彘。孝惠见，问，乃知其戚夫人，乃大哭，因病，岁余不能起。使人请太后曰：“此非人所为。臣为太后子，终不能治天下。”孝惠以此日饮为淫乐，不听政，故有病也。
二年，楚元王、齐悼惠王皆来朝。十月，孝惠与齐王燕饮太后前，孝惠以为齐王兄，置上坐，如家人之礼。太后怒，乃令酌两卮酖，置前，令齐王起为寿。齐王起，孝惠亦起，取卮欲俱为寿。太后乃恐，自起泛孝惠卮。齐王怪之，因不敢饮，详醉去。问，知其酖，齐王恐，自以为不得脱长安，忧。齐内史士说王曰：“太后独有孝惠与鲁元公主。今王有七十余城，而公主乃食数城。王诚以一郡上太后，为公主汤沐邑，太后必喜，王必无忧。”于是齐王乃上城阳之郡，尊公主为王太后。吕后喜，许之。乃置酒齐邸，乐饮，罢，归齐王。三年，方筑长安城，四年就半，五年六年城就。诸侯来会。十月朝贺。
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