Introduction: If it were not for him, the centralized system that has been inherited for more than two thousand years may have fallen apart long ago, and the Han Dynasty that ruled the world for more than four hundred years may have long been doomed; it was he who commanded the Han army to quell the rebels in just three months and save the Han Dynasty, and he was the famous western Han general Zhou Yafu.
When Zhou Yafu was still serving as a punctual in Hanoi County, there was an old woman named Xu Negative who claimed to be good at looking at faces, and by chance, Zhou Yafu invited her to her own house to see herself, and the old woman said: "After three years, you will be crowned marquis, and in eight years you will sit on the position of minister, but in the end you will starve to death." Zhou Yafu felt that this was simply nonsense, now that his brother had inherited his father's marquis, who would still get his turn? Besides, if you are really a high-ranking official and noble, how can you starve to death? But the old woman explained that he was starving to death, and Zhou Yafu was all a joke.
However, three years later, his brother was stripped of his marquisship for committing murder, and Emperor Wen of Han and his father Zhou Bo, as founding heroes, let Zhou Yafu inherit this position. Later, due to the pacification of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, two years later, the chancellor Tao Qing left his post due to illness, and the Han Jing Emperor appointed Zhou Yafu as the chancellor. But Zhou Yafu was after all a warrior, and being a chancellor and fighting a war was a world of difference, and his upright personality made emperor Jingdi of Han slowly lose trust in him.
In that year, Wei Xulu and five other generals returned from the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty, and the Jing Emperor Long Yan Dayue wanted to make them marquises so that other Xiongnu people also had the idea of submitting. However, at this time, Zhou Yafu stood up against it, he thought that these people who betrayed the country as marquises would only give the ministers a bad example, Emperor Jing did not hear it, still made the five people marquis, Zhou Yafu was very disappointed, so he resigned from the government on the grounds of illness and went home to recuperate, and Emperor Jing also agreed.
A few years later, Emperor Jing realized that he was old and needed a loyal servant who could sincerely assist the young lord. At this time, he suddenly remembered Zhou Yafu, but he did not know whether his temperament was still the same as before, so he summoned him into the palace and set up a banquet. Emperor Jing deliberately did not arrange for his subordinates to prepare chopsticks for him, and as a result, Zhou Yafu was very angry, and Emperor Jing asked, "Isn't this still not pleasing to you when you are invited to a banquet?" Although Zhou Yafu was ashamed and embarrassed, he still reluctantly knelt down to apologize, and when Emperor Jing just said "get up", before the words fell, he immediately stood up and left without turning his head back. Emperor Jing sighed, "How can such a person leave him to assist the Young Lord?" It was also from then on that Emperor Jing began to have doubts about him.
Later, Zhou Yafu's son saw that his father was old, so he secretly bought five hundred armor shields to use at the funeral. However, at that time, Jia Dun was explicitly prohibited by the state from buying and selling by individuals, and because Zhou Yafu's son did not pay the domestic helper's fees on time, resulting in being slandered as a crime of treason, Emperor Jing immediately sent someone to investigate Zhou Yafu. Zhou Yafu did not know the ins and outs of the matter at all, so he did not respond, and the matter reached the ears of Emperor Jing, who handed Zhou Yafu over to Ting Wei for trial in one breath.
Lieutenant Ting asked Zhou Yafu, "Why did the prince rebel?" Zhou Yafu replied: "My son bought me funeral goods, how can I calculate rebellion?" Lieutenant Ting deliberately ridiculed him: "I see that you are not plotting rebellion on the ground, I am afraid that you will also go down to the ground to rebel!" Zhou Yafu was deeply ashamed and wanted to commit suicide, but was stopped by his wife, so he launched a hunger strike and died five days later. Thinking about the old woman's prophecy, it is now true that they have all come true.