The Ling Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the eleventh emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the third emperor from the bottom of the Eastern Han Dynasty, reigning for a total of 21 years. Born in 157, his father was actually a prince. Emperor Zhang's grandson, who succeeded to the throne in 168, had no way to succeed to the throne because his father was a prince, but because of the interference of foreign relatives, he chose Liu Hong as the heir to the throne.
After Liu Hong succeeded to the throne, his nature also began to be released, and this Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong was very, indulging in indulgence all day and having no intention of state affairs. Every day, I only think about which beautiful woman is good-looking, and all the measures promulgated are aimed at my own pleasure. The attitude of ignoring the country and the people has always made the dynastic regime even worse.
At the time of succession, the Eastern Han Dynasty was already terminally ill, the people were not happy, complained, coupled with the Han Ling Emperor's pleasure all day long, and also supported the measures of the death of those who followed us and rebelled against us, resulting in many ministers and generals being packed up, and these ministers and generals who were arrested and exiled, and the ministers and generals who were imprisoned were all righteous people.
Liu Hong also made a lot of shameless moves in order to collect money, and the lack of wood in the palace made officials everywhere begin to pay tribute to wood. The officials in various localities did not dare not do anything, so all kinds of wood were transported to Luoyang, and then the eunuchs responsible for receiving the wood were also picked, and in general, ninety-tenths of the time was judged to be unqualified, and then the price had to be sold to the imperial court by one-tenth of the original price.
After that, Liu Hong sold these market prices again, which was equivalent to robbery, in fact, no palace was built in the palace, but only wood was sold from it. After a few years, officials in various places found out that this was a set, but the officials had no place to reason, Liu Hong bought land for money, repaired houses, expanded real estate, and finally earned a full pot of pots.
Liu Hong scavengered for money, and also plundered the people's fat and people's anointing pleasures, and there were too many beautiful women around Liu Hong, because he was too, and his wives and concubines were naturally indispensable, as long as they were palace women with a little posture, they could not escape his palms, so there were not many children of the Han Ling Emperor, but in fact, the children under his knees were very few. He and the empress bore him a son named Liu Jie. Empress Linghuai also bore him a son, Liu Xie, in addition to having two sons, there was also a daughter, there were only three children in this life, spoiling so many women, but in the end her own children were so few.
After a lifetime of pleasure, during the Zhongping years, various rebellions began in the world, and Liu Hong had to come out of the pleasure. In October 188, a military parade began, and he also called himself the Supreme General, but finally in 189 Liu Hong died and was buried in Wenling. Liu Wei became emperor shao of Han.
It is also very good that someone can succeed to the throne after the death of the Han Ling Emperor. During his reign, for a total of 21 years, he did nothing, and the absurdity led to the suffering of the people, and the complaints of the people never stopped, which also became an important reason for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.