The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 72: The eunuchs are in power, and the officials are deputized, which is a disaster for the party.

{ Emperor Huan’s coup seems too easy. As a powerful minister, Liang Ji was unarmed in Luoyang? ｝
  {Theoretically, all the armed forces in the capital belong to the emperor, and the transfer must be accompanied by edicts and talismans, which requires the cooperation of the ministerial agency. ｝
  {Although the main generals of the Forbidden Army are all members of the Liang family, there are also middle- and lower-level officers. If you ask them to attack the palace, it really depends on how deep their "love" with the Liang family is. ｝
  {And if things happen suddenly, even these Liang generals may not dare to confront the emperor's armed forces head-on. ｝
  {I have to say something at this time, eunuch is really easy to use, everyone who has used eunuch says it is good (dog head)}
  {Liang Ji was armed, but had no righteousness and insufficient political authority. After all, he was a relative who relied on the emperor to gain power. He himself was incomparable to the emperor. The emperor's name at that time still had some prestige. ｝
  {Sima Zhao: You are right! ｝

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Eastern Jin Dynasty and Emperor Ming Dynasty
  Jiankang Palace,
  Sima Shao looked at that irony and blushed with embarrassment.

Sima Zhao killed the emperor,
  The last vestiges of the emperor's sanctity were stripped away.

It is unfair to win the country...

……

During the Later Jin Dynasty,

In the luxurious courtyard,

An Chongrong looked at the sky and sneered.

"Huh, the emperor's majesty? What a joke."

"The emperor is the one who has strong soldiers and horses!"

……

[Whether Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty was a Ming Dynasty or not is difficult to say. 】

[But one thing is certain, he is definitely not some cowardly emperor in later generations. On the contrary, he has a very martial spirit. 】

[In this regard, he is half the hero]

……

On the sky screen, Dahan's map appeared above the sky.

The big red man is half the size compared to the Han Dynasty period.

There is also chaos everywhere within the Han Dynasty.

……

[In 159 AD, the Shaodang Qiang and other eight ethnic groups invaded the right area of ​​Longxi. Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty appointed Duan Jiao, a general of Zhonglang, as the guardian of the Qiang school to attack the Qiang people and defeated them. 】

[In the same year, as the Qiang Rebellion spread to the Sanfu area, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to reduce the salaries of officials below the public minister in order to reduce the expenditure on the treasury. 】

[Borrow half of the taxes from the king and marquis, and at the same time order the sale of Guannaihou, Huben Lang, Yulin Lang, Tiqi Yingshi and Wu Dafu at different prices. 】

[In 161 AD, Lingwu, Xianling Qiang, Shen Di and Laojie of Shangjun jointly invaded Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Sanfu. 】

[Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty appointed Hu Hong as the school captain on his behalf. Hu Hong has no authority, and the bandits have become more serious. He also ordered Lang General Huangfu Gui to attack and finally defeated it. 】

[In 162 AD, the Shendi barbarians invaded Zhangye and Jiuquan again. Huangfu Gui asked them to surrender, so all the Shendi barbarians surrendered. 】

[Anyone who sells an official position must fight against the barbarians, which is a bit like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who must kill the Huns. 】

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The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
  Liu Che looked at the information in the sky with gloomy eyes.

As a representative figure of "if you don't want to do anything, you have to do it to the Huns".

He understood very well what situation Emperor Huan of Han was facing now.

During the reign of Emperor Shun, people in the world could be rewarded with money and food, but now they can only raise military expenses by cutting official salaries and selling off officials and titles.

This shows that the Eastern Han Dynasty's finances have been unable to make ends meet.

This is even with three billion Liang’s “funding”!
  Liu Che poured a glass of wine.

If the finances cannot make ends meet, taxes cannot be collected.

As for why the cultivated land has reached more than 7 million hectares and the population has reached more than 50 million, taxes cannot be collected. The reason is obvious.

After experiencing the period of natural and man-made disasters in Emperor An.

The land has been controlled by people outside the imperial power.

Liu Che raised his head and drank all the wine.

The most fundamental thing has been lost, and there are still foreign relatives and eunuchs in the court.

The tide is over...

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[At this time, how serious is the eunuch’s rule in the court? 】

[Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "The officialdom of eunuchs is fierce, appointing people and their children as officials, and spreading all over the world. They compete for greed and prostitution, and the government and the public complain."]

[The tyrannical and powerful behavior of the five eunuchs and their relatives not only disgusted the officials in the court, but even Emperor Huan of Han began to worry, so he began to deal with the five princes. 】

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Yanhan·Shun Emperor period
  Liu Bao looked at the sky and sighed.

When I saw the short paragraph "appoint people and their children as officials, they will fill the world".

He suddenly realized where part of the problem with eunuchs sitting in power lies.

That was the edict he issued.

"The eunuch's adopted son heard that he was the queen, and he was granted the title of nobility, and he decided to do so."

Eunuchs could be granted titles, but because eunuchs had no heirs, their titles could not be hereditary and could only be passed away, so the so-called wealth and power could not be accumulated.

But his edict directly allowed eunuchs to adopt children. Since they could adopt children, why couldn't eunuchs adopt a boy?

If you adopt a boy, you can not only inherit the title, but you don't have to be restricted to the palace.

Since the eunuch's adopted son was raised outside the palace, the eunuch's power, which was originally limited to the palace, could naturally expand outside the palace.

Since they can expand outside the palace, they no longer need to rely on the emperor to gain power, but can directly cultivate their own "power".

"This is all my fault!"

Liu Bao sighed, then cheered up again!
  "But now! It's not too late!"

……

[In 165 A.D., Han Yan, the captain of Sili School, reported the crimes committed by the Zuo Guan. He said that his brother, the servant of the Nanxiang Hou Zuo, said that he "please entrust the prefectures and counties to gather for traitors, let the guests indulge, and invade the officials and the people." 】

[ Emperor Huan immediately accurate the report, and the Zuo brothers were forced to commit suicide. 】

[Han Yan also reported that Gu Nuan’s brother Gu Gong was corrupt, and Emperor Huan also ordered the conquest of Tingwei]

[Ju Nuan returned the seal and ribbon of the Marquis of Dongwu to apologize to Emperor Huan. Emperor Huan issued an edict and demoted him to the title of Marquis of Duxiang. He later died at home. 】

[Subsequently, Emperor Huan issued an edict to Shan Chao, Xu Huang and Tang Heng's attackers, all of whom were demoted to the rank of rural marquis. 】

[His descendants who are enfeoffed will all be exempted from the title. The exclusive power of the Five Marquises was completely ended, and it was known in history as "the removal of inner jade"]

[However, due to the continuous wars and the emptiness of the national treasury, Zhongchang Shihou Lan took the initiative to hand over 5,000 pieces of silk, thereby gaining the trust and importance of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. 】

[After being reused, Hou Lan was greedy and indulgent, seizing 118 hectares of people's land and 318 residences, and imitating 16 large-scale residences such as palaces, pavilions, ponds, and gardens. 】

[And he arranged his children and cronies into the court and local areas. There were other eunuchs who did this. 】

[On the other hand, some courtiers who were dissatisfied with the "selling of officials to win titles" and "eunuchs interfering in politics" united with imperial students and scholars to launch a "Qing discussion" to comment on characters and only talk about private morality. Launched a public attack on the eunuchs. 】

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The period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty
  Liu Bing was already looking at the sky and thinking in his mind.

He discovered a problem.

That was after Empress Dowager Deng took the throne.

The positions and powers of the queen mother, relatives, courtiers, eunuchs, and emperors have become very strange.

Liu Bing was already deep in thought, and he understood one thing very well.

That is, after the development of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor's power must have become more concentrated.

Then... after the young emperor can no longer take charge, in whose hands will this power fall?
  Queen Mother!

And the Queen Mother is the master behind her relatives’ interference in politics! This is an example of Deng's relatives not causing trouble in the government.

And who can the emperor use to fight against his relatives?

There are only eunuchs in the palace.

When the Queen Mother passed away and her relatives declined, it was natural for the eunuchs to become powerful.

Who is the most dissatisfied when a eunuch becomes a powerful eunuch?

Liu Bing's eyes were dim.

"...The courtiers are pretty powerful, aren't they?"

Xu Pingjun heard Liu Bingji muttering to himself and didn't know why.

"I'm sick..."

Liu Bing looked down at Xu Pingjun, smiled, and then continued to look up at the sky.

The court officials will not be satisfied with the eunuch becoming bigger, and neither will the relatives.

Therefore, relatives and courtiers will definitely cooperate to deal with eunuchs.

The eunuch is a sword that the emperor personally governs, and he will not allow this sword to be broken.

Liu Bing was very curious now. He was not curious about what Liu Zhi would do.

A knife is a knife. If you use it backwards and hurt yourself, just throw it away.

What he is curious about now is, what else would those "upright" ministers do besides "clearing the discussion"?
  How will they deal with the eunuchs?
  Can future emperors escape from this vicious circle?
  ……

Ming Dynasty Jiajing Period
  Inside the magnificent Renshou Palace.

He is wearing a moon-white Taoist robe with wide sleeves and a golden hibiscus crown on his head, with an auspicious cloud jade hairpin inserted into the golden crown.

Zhu Houcong, dressed in a Taoist high-gong attire, sat on the yin-yang futon, holding a whisk in his hand, and asked Zhu Zaihe in front of him:
  "I ask you, what is Qingyi?"

Zhu Zaihe turned a blind eye to this issue. No one has ever mentioned this before!
  I can only say quietly:

"Qing Yi... Qing Yi..."

Zhu Houcong sighed incomprehensibly and said:

"The biggest change between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty was the rise of the gentry."

"The formation of the gentry is related to Confucian classics and Taixue."

Zhu Houchong twirled his beard, his eyes incomprehensible.

"During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty no longer checked the land, and Emperor An of the Han Dynasty no longer even checked the household registration."

"It has become a matter of course for powerful powers to annex land, and status and wealth are closely linked."

"Local surnames will always be popular. They have more and more land, and the common people and scholars have to depend on them. It is difficult for local talents to rise."

Zhu Houcong put down the whisk in his hand, stood up from the futon, smoothed the sleeves of his robe, and walked to the entrance of the hall.

"Going to Taixue to study Confucianism has become the only upward path for people in many places."

"In Taixue, a Confucian master and official was surrounded by a group of disciples, disciples, and guests, with Confucian classics as the center. This is the gentry."

"In order to compete for power from the "powerful", the nobles used an evaluation system that was not in the mainstream system, which was Qingyi. You can also understand it as commenting on 'morality'"

"Hmph, those with land and high positions are not considered great in their eyes, but they can look down on anyone with bad personal ethics."

Zhu Houcong looked at the sky with his hands behind his back and said sarcastically:

"They can't play in that circle, so comfort yourself by despising them with another evaluation."

"This is the beginning of Qingliu and the birth of Qingyi."

"Sima Guang's Theory of Talent and Virtue is the representative of this kind of clear-flow evaluation."

"But, at the end of the day, they know exactly what they will do when they get to that position!"

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[In the summer of 166 AD, Xianbei, together with the Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan, gathered tens of thousands of cavalry to attack nine northern counties. 】

[In autumn, they also joined forces with Dongqiang, Shendi, Xianling and others to attack Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places in the northwest. 】

[Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty appointed Zhang Huan as the Zhonglang General who protected the Xiongnu, overseeing the three prefectures of You, Bing, and Liang and the two camps of Duliao and Wuhuan. 】

[When the Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan heard that Zhang Huan had led his troops to the front line, they surrendered with 200,000 people. Zhang Huan killed the culprit and adopted measures to appease the people. Xianbei led his troops to flee back beyond the Great Wall. 】

……

On the sky screen, another picture unfolded.

In the painting,

The emperor sitting at the top of the palace looked furious!
  The eunuch beside him bowed and smiled, squinting at the center of the hall.

In the main hall, several officials were being tied up by soldiers. Although their hands were tied, they still glared at the eunuchs and the emperor!

The next moment, the ink-colored picture gradually faded away.

A new picture appeared in the sky.

In the picture, a group of people in Wuyang Wuyang were tied up by a group of soldiers and fell to their knees, crying.

The leader, with disheveled hair, struggled hard and shouted angrily at an official:

"You dare to kill me?! You dare to kill me?!"

The official put his hands behind his back and said dismissively to the roaring person:

"The eunuchs are messing up the government, and you are the ones who will be killed!"

Then he waved his sleeves and shouted at the soldiers:

"cut!"

With a single order, all the people in the crowd were beheaded.

The ground was rolling, and blood flowed into rivers.

The red blood slowly formed four large bloody characters.

"The disaster of party imprisonment!" 』

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[In 166 AD, Nanyang Governor Cheng Jin arrested Zhang Zichu, a wealthy local businessman and eunuch's foreign relative. 】

[At this time, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty announced a general amnesty for the world. In order to punish the eunuchs for ignoring the court's laws, Cheng Jin killed Zhang Zichu. 】

[Not only that, he also killed more than two hundred members of Zhang Zichu's clan and guests, and then Cheng Jin reported this matter to Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. 】

[At the same time, Liu Zhi, the prefect of Runan, arrested Zhao Jin of the Xiaohuangmen, and despite the court's pardon order, Zhao Jin was tortured to death before reporting to the court. 】

[In September 166 AD, the eunuchs wrote to Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty one after another, and at the same time encouraged Zhang Zichu's wife to write to him. 】

[When Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty heard about this, he was furious and immediately issued an edict to arrest Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi together and execute them according to law. 】

[In the same year, the eunuchs sent people to falsely accuse Li Ying and others of cultivating imperial students and tourists, making friends with students from various counties, flaunting each other, forming a party, and slandering the imperial court. 】

[Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty then ordered the whole country to arrest more than 200 "party members" such as Li Ying and Chen Shi. Some of the party members escaped, so Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty offered gold rewards. 】

[For a time, envoys came out from all directions and looked at each other. 】

[In 167 AD, Shangshu Huo Chen and Chengmen school captain Dou Wu jointly went to the court to intercede for the party members. 】

[Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to release the party members to go home, but still recorded their names in the records so that they could not be reused for life. This is the famous "disaster of party imprisonment"]

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{Actually, Liu Zhi is neither a faint king nor a wise king. He is considered a master of talent. He was indeed capable of bringing order out of chaos, killing Liang Ji, and pacifying Xianbei. ｝
  {However, his heavy use of eunuchs was also a major criticism of him. Liu Zhi did not have a high evaluation. The main reason was that he started the disaster of party imprisonment and was smeared by the scholars in the late Han Dynasty. ｝
  {Reusing eunuchs is definitely the best thing for the emperor. Eunuchs will be loyal to the emperor just for profit. At least from the emperor's perspective, there is no problem. ｝
  {So what does this disaster of party imprisonment tell us? Don’t offend the literati if you offend anyone! Thanks to the posthumous title of the Han Dynasty, you still have to show your face, otherwise you won't become violent? ｝

　There is also a small chapter that ends Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)