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Chapter 63: Selling Official Store

"Therefore, when the eunuchs strongly supported Liu Xie, they reached a stalemate, and no one could do anything to each other. In the end, the Han Dynasty internally attacked each other and it was very chaotic. This also created opportunities for the development of the various princes. If Liu Bian Those princes who can succeed to the throne in time must not dare to occupy land and become kings."

"There are all kinds of chaos in the palace, and the princes outside the palace will definitely seize this opportunity to expand their power. Generally speaking, the gradual decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not entirely the responsibility of Emperor Han Ling. The eunuchs played a huge role in it."

"Is Emperor Han Ling not responsible? Yes, he and Hu Hai and others are similarly fatuous emperors. The expansion of eunuchs to this point is not given by Emperor Han Ling, and the empress dowager is in power, which caused the expansion of relatives."

"The reigns of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and his predecessor Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty were the darkest periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty. I won't talk much about Liu Zhi here, but mainly about Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong."

"Speaking of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, I have to say that he was lucky. Emperor Huan of Han Liu Zhi died at the age of 36 and had no heirs at that time. The Empress Dowager Dou at that time chose 12-year-old Liu Hong from among the children of the family. Emperor Huan of Han's cousin Liu Hong After my nephew Liu Hong succeeded to the throne, because he was too young, Empress Dowager Dou was appointed to the throne."

"After Empress Dowager Dou came to the court, every member of the Dou family was ranked on the list of meritorious deeds. The family had power both inside and outside the court, and was very noble."

"As an eunuch, Cao Jie was suppressed, but through the Emperor Ling's wet nurse Zhao Rao and the maids around the Queen Mother, he showed his courtesy to the Queen Mother and gained the Queen Mother's trust."

"Chen Fan and Dou Wu were very worried about this. So they conspired to get rid of the eunuch, but the queen mother was hesitant and forced Chen and Dou to use force to eliminate the eunuch, but the eunuch learned of the secret memorial in advance, which sparked an incident."

"On the seventh day of the ninth month of the first year of Yongkang, the eunuchs launched a palace coup. They tricked Emperor Ling into opening the way with a sword, closed the palace gates, forced the minister to draft an edict, appointed Wang Fu as the Huangmen Order, coerced the Queen Mother, and seized the Jade Seal , send people to arrest Dou Wu and others."

"Dou Wu refused to accept the edict. He and his nephew Dou Shao retreated to the army while fighting, and gathered thousands of people to guard the capital. Mingmen encountered Wang Fujun. Chen Fan was arrested and sent to Beisi Prison. The guarding eunuch kicked and scolded Chen Fan: "Damn old devil, let's see if you can cut down our positions and cut our jobs. salary! "Chen Fan was tortured to death that day."

"At dawn, Wang Fu led the Tiger Ben Yulin army to join the unknown Zhang Huan army who surrounded the general's mansion. They falsely issued an edict, falsely accused Dou Wu of rebellion, and lured Dou's army to surrender. Dou Wu and Dou Shao were alone. Bo, was surrounded heavily, and finally forced to commit suicide. Afterwards, all the family members, guests, and in-laws of the Dou family were killed. The Empress Dowager Dou was moved to Nangong, and Dou Wu’s family was moved to Rinan. Those recommended by Chen Fan and Dou Wu, as well as their disciples and former relatives, will all be dismissed from office and will never be hired."

"The group of eunuchs won the victory of the palace coup. After that, Emperor Ling was forced to promote Cao Jie to Changle Weiwei, Yuyanghou, and Wang Fu to Zhongchang. The other six eunuchs who had meritorious service were named lieutenants. 11 He was granted the title of Marquis of Guannei. So "the group of young people succeeds, and the scholar-bureaucrats are all discouraged."

"In the first year of Xiping, Empress Dowager Dou's mother died of illness, and the Empress Dowager became ill due to worry, and also died in Nangong Yuntai on the tenth day of June."

"The dispute over the empress dowager's funeral is the end of this contest between the relatives and the eunuchs. The eunuchs did not want to let the empress dowager Dou and the emperor be buried together, but also wanted to be buried with a nobleman's ceremony. This kind of thing was even discussed at the meeting of the ministers. You can see Emperor Chuling was fatuous, incompetent and helpless. In court discussions, Zhao Zhong, Cao Jie, and Wang Fu confronted Gongqing in the same room, and argued with each other in a sarcasm and intimidating tone, which shows how arrogant and overbearing the eunuch is.

"From this time until the sixth year of Zhongping when Emperor Ling died, the entire dynasty of Emperor Ling was dominated by eunuchs."

"The eunuchs are a dark group. They also led Lingdi to promiscuously and chaotically governed, and cooperated with Lingdi to sell officials in the West Garden. Finally, a nationwide Yellow Turban uprising broke out."

"All stupid emperors have one characteristic. They built a lot of palaces, drank and had fun, and played with prostitutes. This Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was indeed an emperor who extremely pursued lust and chaos. The most ridiculous thing is that the Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty actually opened a palace in the West Garden In the official exchange, prices are clearly marked and officials are openly sold.”

"This uprising was also due to the fact that eunuchs were in power, the government was corrupt and dark, there were corrupt officials everywhere, and land annexation was very serious. The people could no longer bear the exploitation and oppression, and they took the road of resistance one after another. Uprisings continued in various places year after year. In the ten years to the first year of Zhongping, there were no less than a dozen peasant uprisings recorded in historical records. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out in the first year of Lingdi Zhongping. The Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao .”

"The Eastern Han Dynasty has two notable characteristics: one is that the empress dowager's proclaiming system led to the increasing power of foreign relatives, and foreign relatives intervened in politics from time to time; This is the dispute between Qi and officials in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the fire and struggle between these two groups almost accompanied the entire period of the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty."

"In 184, Taiping Dao leader Zhang Jiao and his brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao led their followers to initiate a popular uprising, known as the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history, which quickly developed to millions of followers and caused nationwide war."

"With the emergence of bandits and bandits from various places, the central army of the Han Dynasty was exhausted. The state pastoral system established by the Eastern Han Dynasty to solve the Yellow Turban Rebellion, as the imperial court continued to weaken, started a situation of separatist rule among the heroes."

"In 188, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty passed away, and the dispute between Qi and eunuchs started again. The eunuch Jian Shuo and others intended to kill He Jin, the general of his foreign relatives, and replaced the prince Liu Bian's younger brother Chenliu Wang Liu Xie. However, after Han Shaodi Liu Bian successfully succeeded, He Jin Together with Yuan Shao and other scholar-bureaucrats, they tried to get rid of the ten permanent servants headed by Zhang Rang and other eunuchs. He Jin also ordered Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou and Ding Yuan of Bingzhou to lead troops to reinforce them. The eunuchs preemptively killed He Jin before Dong Zhuo’s army arrived in Luoyang. Yuan Shao led his army into the palace in the name of revenge for He Jin and killed 2000 eunuchs including Shi Changshi. Although the dispute between relatives and eunuchs that had troubled the Eastern Han Dynasty for hundreds of years ended, it also facilitated Dong Zhuo, who led his army into the capital, to seize the government. power."

"After Dong Zhuo entered Luo, he wanted to usurp the government. However, the situation was not good for him at this time. In addition to the many courtiers who questioned and opposed him, the more important point was that the number of troops inside and outside the city was very large, which was far beyond his own strength. live."

　Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty built a thousand-room naked tour hall in the West Garden.Emperor Ling and many concubines played naked here. He asked people to pick green moss to cover it on the steps, and drew water from the canal to flow around the thresholds and through the entire naked swimming hall.He chose a maid with jade-colored skin and a light body to row the boat with a pole and sway in the water of the canal.In the midsummer heat, he ordered people to sink the boat into the water, watch the jade-like gorgeous skins of the nude palace ladies falling into the water, and then play the song "Seven Words of Merchants" to cool off.

　　
　
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