In the Shaokang era of the Xia Dynasty, because Shaokang was addicted to hunting, the powerful ministers had a poor clan houyi and did not give him the return to the capital. After Shaokang's death, Zhongkang, Shaokang's brother, became emperor. Zhongkang was naturally not stupid, knowing that although he was the emperor, he was not yet stable and must eliminate the powerful houyi. So his first step was to order Yin Hou (his cronies) to take charge of the Sixth Division. The idea is very clear, that is, to master the army first. But just mastering the army cannot get rid of the powerful ministers, because killing the powerful ministers is to make a famous division. Therefore, Zhongkang's second step is to slowly eradicate the wings of the powerful lord. When the sun and the moon meet on the day, and there is no harmony, the opportunity to eliminate the official of the calendar image of the time comes. Why eliminate the officials of the calendar? The history books record that it was because the officials of the calendar at that time were confused by wine and defected, and the eclipse was still unknown. This reason is really used for thousands of years, haha. In fact, we must know that another reason why Zhongkang was in a hurry to eliminate the officials of the Time At that time was that they were the wings of the powerful houyi, and it was especially necessary to weaken his collateral forces if they could not kill the houyi at once. This is also one of the reasons why in the Zhongkang era, the powerful minister Houyi did not dare to openly seize the Xia Dynasty: the power was weakened and the military power was withdrawn. However, Zhongkang could not completely eradicate Houyi in his lifetime, which also left a curse for his descendants. In the Zhongkang era, HouYi, the powerful minister, converged on the sharp edge, TaoGuang cultivated obscurity, because he knew Zhongkang's thoughts, so secretly he was growing his own strength and waiting for the opportunity. Zhongkang died after thirteen years as emperor, and soon after his son ascended the throne, he was directly expelled from the imperial capital and rushed to Shangqiu, which was a natural result.
After Hou Yi of the Poor Clan drove away Emperor Xiang (Zhongkang's son), the power of the world was actually in his hands, and you may ask, "Why didn't Hou Yi blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?" "That is naturally the emperor himself does not give him a chance, and even if the emperor himself cannot order the princes." In addition, Hou Yi did not have such a strategy, he himself was actually a person who was addicted to hunting and advocating force, and there were no powerful cronies around him, otherwise he would not let the emperor flee, nor would he use such a treacherous person as Han Hun. The result is that he was killed by his own subordinates, who were also villains. In fact, Han Hun's plot for power can be described as a classic, and the history books record that he "acted flatteringly inside, bribed outside, and entertained Yi yu." The outside and the inside are salty and rebellious, and the people of the family kill and cook it. "It's really a good plan, the villain meets the villain, the same trick, seizing power, it is really thought-provoking." At this point, after a total of eight years of Houyi usurpation, it was Han Hun's turn to usurp the throne.
Han Hun is indeed a strategist, although it is a villain. First he killed Hou Yi, and then he killed Emperor Xiang, because after all, Emperor Xiang was the orthodox emperor, and there could not be two heavenly sons in the world. The two vassal states that the emperor was attached to were also destroyed at the same time, which was politics and very costly. However, the heavenly path is leisurely, and the summer pulse is endless, and The emperor's wife (Mingmin) was just pregnant at that time, and escaped, and was not killed by Han Hun. Some of the vassal states on which the emperor was dependent also fled. Han Huan can be said to have cut the grass without removing the roots, so that later Shaokang (Emperor Xiang's son) Zhongxing killed him. Reading history here is really depressed, when many dynasties change in later generations, the previous generation of royal families are often condemned to kill the nine ethnic groups, but also afraid of cutting grass and not removing the roots, it is really sad, the change of dynasties, is the general trend of society, why kill the descendants of the previous generation? It seems that human nature is very terrible.