Yesterday Lao Fu said that in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a dispute between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law said harshly in front of the daughter-in-law, if you don't listen to me, I will ask someone to kill your whole family. The daughter-in-law was very frightened when she heard this, so she asked her brother to do it first, and solved the problem of her mother-in-law and her family first.
The mother-in-law was Empress Dong, the mother of Liu Hong, the Emperor of Hanling, and his second empress, Empress He. People who know the history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty know that these two women are not good things. To a certain extent, the world of the Han Dynasty was defeated at the hands of these two women.
Regarding the rotten things of the mother-in-law Empress Dong, Lao Fu has already introduced it in yesterday's article. And this Empress He of the He clan is not worse than Empress Dong in terms of playing tricks, and can be said to be an extremely sinister figure.
Let's see what she did. She first joined forces with eunuchs to get Liu Hong's empress Dowager Song out of the mob and throw herself into the tyranny to work, and then she ascended to the throne herself as empress.
After He Shi became empress, her mean and jealous character was fully revealed, and no one in the palace except the emperor was not afraid of her. This Empress He's taboo is very bad, in order to let the emperor be able to spoil her for a long time, she did not allow any woman to have children with the emperor in the palace, there was a beauty surnamed Wang who accidentally got pregnant with the emperor, Wang Meiren was very scared, she took medicine and wanted to beat the child off, but the child was not beaten, and finally gave birth. As soon as Empress He heard that someone dared to give birth to a child for the emperor, she poisoned Wang Meiren to death. When the emperor learned of this, he was very angry and wanted to depose her empress, but later under the persuasion of the eunuchs, Empress He's position was saved. This emperor Liu Hong was also afraid of her empress, and he was even more afraid that his younger son would be killed by this vicious empress, so he handed his young son Liu Xie to his mother Dong Shi personally. This child was the later Emperor Xian of Han.
Liu Xie was able to become Emperor Xian of Han entirely to Dong Zhuo's credit, and after Emperor Hanling's death, he was succeeded by Empress He's son Liu Jie. Empress He came to the court after her son Liu Wei became emperor, and she was even more arrogant and wanton. He even conspired with his brother He Jin to kill his mother-in-law Dong Shi.
However, this Dong Clan seems to have something to do with Dong Zhuo. It is said that the two of them had continued the family tree, and the empress dowager was very happy to recognize Dong Zhuo, the "distant nephew", so Dong Zhuo was Liu Hong's "imperial brother". If Liu Xie became emperor, he would have a nominal blood relationship with the emperor.
Therefore, as soon as Dong Zhuo entered The Capital, he insisted on deposing the emperor and establishing Liu Xie as the new emperor.
Of course, in the court where brothers and brothers would kill each other, blood ties did not mean anything. The real reason why Dong Zhuo wanted to make Liu Xie emperor was probably age, because the young emperor Liu Xie was fourteen years old, and Liu Xie was only nine years old, and he supported a smaller puppet, which was easier to master.
But no matter what, Dong Zhuo was going to do this when he made up his mind.
Therefore, on September 1, 189, Dong Zhuo held a meeting of hundred officials at the Chongming Palace, and under his coercion, Empress He issued an edict deposing the young emperor Liu Wei, demoting him to the position of King of Hongnong, and establishing Liu Xie, the prince of ChenLiu, as emperor, which was Emperor Xian of Han.
The history books record that Empress He whimpered and shed tears, and the civil and military officials were full of pity, but they did not dare to squeak.
After completing this legal procedure, Empress He was no longer of any use, and three days later, Dong Zhuo ordered her to be poisoned with wine. He Jin's mother, an old lady who was given the title of Wuyang Jun, was not spared, and was killed, and the body was thrown into the imperial garden. He Jin's younger brother He Miao was killed in a coffin. The He family, the last powerful foreign relative of the Eastern Han Empire, was completely wiped out.