Xuande

Chapter 30
In December of this year, a major event happened in the Han Dynasty.

After three years since the death of his original spouse, Empress Song, due to a misunderstanding in the first year of Guanghe, Emperor Liu Hong finally became queen again after a lapse of three years.

On the fifth day of December in the third year of Guanghe, Emperor Liu Hong made the noble He Shi the queen.

Empress He, the biological mother of the future short-lived and unlucky emperor Liu Bian, makes her debut.

After the death of Liu Hong's predecessor, Empress Song, the relatives of the Song family disappeared, and the big man had no relatives for several years.

And now, with the establishment of the new queen, the brothers He Jin and He Miao will also make their debut.

As early as when He Shi first entered the court to serve Liu Hong, he had won Liu Hong's favor because of his good looks.

Liu Hong was very happy, so he promoted her natal family, and He's brothers were promoted accordingly. Bi Hejin was worshiped as a doctor, and then moved to Huben Zhonglang general to be the prefect of Yingchuan.

Up to now, the He family has been established as the queen, and Liu Hong immediately sent a big promotion package, worshiped He Jin as a servant, and asked him to return to Luoyang as a master craftsman, and promoted He Jin's younger brother He Miao to be a doctor. Promoted afterwards.

The He family, the relatives, made their debut and entered the political stage at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The two are too familiar to Liu Bei.

He Jin and He Miao, one is a great general and the other is a chariot general. After the death of Liu Hong, they took charge of the supreme power of the Han Empire together with Empress He. The final collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It can be said that he is not a god-like operation master.

For this pair of "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix", Liu Bei said that he must keep a respectful distance and try not to get involved with them, otherwise it may cause accidental injury when the thunder rolls.

However, it is worth mentioning that in the Han Dynasty, especially the Eastern Han Dynasty, foreign relatives were a very special existence.

Because the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were generally short-lived, the emperors after Emperor Han'an and before Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty were basically young emperors or even infant emperors. They died early and left behind young children.

Under such circumstances, the real power of the emperor was gradually transferred to the hands of the emperor's mother, and then to the hands of the empress dowager's family.

Deng's and Liang's relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty were very famous relatives in history, they held great power, and the miasma and shady atmosphere that stirred up the politics in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty was rampant.

It can be said that from the time of Emperor Hehe of the Han Dynasty to the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi, during this period, the actual power holders who dominated the imperial power of the Eastern Han Dynasty were relatives, not the emperor who could not live to be ten years old.

Until Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi ascended the throne, the situation changed.

Liu Zhi was not willing to be the puppet of the Liang family's relatives, but he had no other power to regain the imperial power. After deliberation, he chose the eunuch as his political ally to jointly fight against the relatives and regain the imperial power.

Yes, political allies.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was still the early stage of emperor society, people generally did not have a clear understanding and awe of the existence of the emperor. In addition, there were many young emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, who were manipulated by their relatives, and the mystery and majesty necessary for the emperor's dictatorship have long been lost. .

Everyone knows what kind of thing your emperor is, especially those little baby emperors. It is no secret that you wet the bed several times a day, and you have no privacy at all.

Is a doll that is being played with and applauded deserves respect?Is it worthy of awe?Are you qualified to order us?

In this case, after the Han Dynasty and the emperor, with the unremitting efforts of the relatives, the emperor and the imperial power were de facto separated.

In short, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor was no longer the natural and necessary controller of the imperial power. As long as he was the winner of the political struggle and gained a title, anyone could manipulate the emperor and control the imperial power.

Even a group of eunuchs.

Imperial power is an abstract thing that exists objectively. No one will deny its existence. However, the emperor will not easily grasp the imperial power just because of his status as emperor.

The supreme imperial power will only belong to the victor in the political struggle, not to a defeated emperor.

As an emperor who could not control the imperial power, Liu Zhi did not have any political capital to gain important political allies. He had one and only one choice, the eunuch.

Speaking of eunuchs in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were not very important in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The first eunuchs in the true sense appeared on the stage, and they were also considered to have played a big role for Liu Zhao in the event of Hanhe Emperor Liu Zhao eradicating Dou's relatives and regaining imperial power. The powerful eunuch Zheng Zhong.

It was also from this time that the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to realize the importance of eunuchs. In order to strengthen the power of eunuchs to fight against foreign relatives, the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to expand their staff and even be able to read and write.

It was also from Emperor Hanhe that eunuchs stepped onto the stage of history as a political force that cannot be ignored.

But because the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty after Han Hedi were basically children, they died before they became adults to develop a sense of power and use the sharp sword of eunuchs, and their relatives were able to continue their dictatorship for several years.

Then Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi ascended the throne.

The preparations from Emperor Hanhe until the time of Liu Zhi finally came into play. Liu Zhi lived to adulthood and developed a sense of power. He wanted to regain his power, so he took a fancy to eunuchs.

He painted big cakes for the eunuchs in exchange for the assistance of the five eunuchs who were also very dissatisfied with Liang's relatives. The two sides worked together to kill Liang's relatives and achieved great success.

Afterwards, Liu Zhi named the five eunuchs as marquises and gave generous rewards and political rewards. In fact, he shared the imperial power with the eunuchs.

For the emperor, relatives and eunuchs were both barriers to imperial power, but compared to eunuchs without male abilities, relatives with male abilities were more dangerous and more likely to usurp power.

Therefore, eunuchs are naturally more trustworthy than relatives.

As a result, Liu Zhi and the eunuchs shared the imperial power. During his term of office, he also relied on the eunuchs to start the first disaster of party imprisonment.

After Liu Zhi died of illness, Dou's relatives tried to revive their relatives.

They also united with scholars to try to eradicate the eunuchs in one fell swoop and continue the dictatorship of foreign relatives when Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, had just ascended the throne at a young age, had no clear sense of power, and had no time to have an emotional connection with the eunuchs.

In the end, the eunuch made a high-level move, predicted his prediction, gained Liu Hong's favor and trust at a cosmic speed, and killed Dou's relatives again.

Not only that, they also drove Liu Hong, who trusted the eunuch, to start the second and extremely severe party ban, and beat the originally very arrogant scholars to the bum.

The political power of the eunuch group was greatly invigorated, and Liu Hong's mediocrity and incompetence and trust were used to further strengthen itself, even to the point where he could hold the imperial power on his behalf, issue edicts spontaneously, and choose relatives.

Yes, because Shangshutai is close to the imperial palace, there are many affairs and well-informed, so it is a natural place to eat melons. Liu Bei ate a lot of melons during the few months in Shangshutai.

For example, Liu Hong favored the melons of court ladies.

For example, the perverted eunuch forced the maid to marry the melon.

There are also gossip about some concubines secretly begging for children in the palace.

And the biggest melon he ate this year was the inextricable connection between Emperor Liu Hong's He family relatives and eunuchs.

Empress He, the daughter of an ordinary powerful family in Nanyang County, was able to enter the palace and was favored by Emperor Liu Hong. It is said that it was all due to the promotion and support of the eunuchs. Therefore, it is inseparable from the support of the eunuchs that He's relatives can be on stage. of.

It can even be said that the political background of this foreign relative is an extension of the eunuch's power.

The fact that foreign relatives who could serve as political allies were recruited by eunuchs is not good news for scholars. This means that eunuchs, foreign relatives, and imperial power have once again achieved a high degree of unity of the Trinity, and they can use righteousness to beat scholars.

Scholars are alone in the foreign court and have no helpers. They are easily beaten by the supreme imperial power who is close to complete body.

Therefore, scholars are generally full of uncertainty about the future, and the entire Shangshutai feels like a storm is about to come and the building is full of wind.

At this time, Liu Bei was not concerned about He's relatives at all.

His political observation period at Shangshutai will officially end next year. According to insider information, Liu Bei has been appointed as an official of Shangshutai, and his specific official position is to serve as Ling Shi in Mincao, which is in charge of Lu Zhi.

The main duty is to transcribe documents.

This kind of position does not have much significance, and there is no actual threshold, as long as you can read and write.

But the real significance of this position does not lie in this, but lies in being able to stay in Shangshutai, the power hub in the center of the empire, where you can feel the rules of power operation, accumulate experience in power, and expand what you can use in the future. connections.

Lu Zhi spared no effort in supporting his disciples.

When Liu Bei studied with him in Luoyang, Lu Zhi didn't let Liu Bei know too many people, because he felt that Liu Bei's knowledge was not enough, so he closed the door to educate Liu Bei, and gave Liu Bei a very strict elite education.

After Liu Bei returned to Zhuo County, Lu Zhi did not let Liu Bei take time off. The master and apprentice exchanged letters.

So Liu Bei achieved great success in his studies.

This time, Liu Bei is here to be an official, and he is also preparing to work with Lu Zhi as a teacher and apprentice. No matter what aspect is considered, Lu Zhi will pull Liu Bei into his interpersonal relationships circle.

So whenever Lu Zhi was free during this period, he would take Liu Bei to attend gatherings of scholars, introduce some famous friends of scholars to Liu Bei, and give Liu Bei a chance to show his talents.

This is an important platform for Liu Bei.

During the more than a year of studying with Lu Zhi in Luoyang, Liu Bei only knew Cai Yong, a great scholar who had a close relationship with Lu Zhi.

But this time, under the introduction of Lu Zhi, Liu Bei successively got to know the great Confucian scholars Ma Ridun, Yang Biao, Han Shuo and others.

This does not only involve the internal relations of the ancient literature school, but some bigwigs of the modern literature school are also among them.

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