Around the Time of the Qing Dynasty in 158 AD.
On the official road from Luoyang to the Imperial Palace, a group of people and horses, yellow umbrella covers, and yoke golden bells. After the gong-sounding procession, a luxurious and chic carriage sat Emperor Huan and his new favorite beauty. They giggled with the dingdang sound of the bell, and from time to time stuck their heads out of the canopy and pointed....
This beauty is Liang Ji's "daughter", surnamed Deng, with the name of a fierce woman. Since she is Liang Ji's "daughter", why is her surname Deng? This is also a strategy used by Liang Ji and his wife in order to secure their favors.
In 132, when Emperor Shun of Han was 18 years old, he made the noble Liang shi empress, and from then on, Liang Hou's father Liang Shang became a great general in charge of the imperial power, and her elder brother Liang Ji and younger brother Liang Bu were also greatly favored. After Liang Shang's death, his eldest son Liang Ji (梁冀) took the post of grand general.
Since then, in the history of The Eastern Han Dynasty of China, a period of dictatorship by foreign relatives that lasted the longest and was most harmful has been formed.
In August 144, after the death of Emperor Shun, in just two years, under the control of the Liang clan, the three Yi emperors took the throne, and the last one was Emperor Huan.
Emperor Huan was the son of Liu Yi, the former King of hejian Plains, and was known as Mingzhi. When Emperor Shun died, he had come to the Capital Division to be buried, and was seen by Empress Liang, who saw that he had a beautiful eyebrow, and his demeanor and speech were also quite high-ranking, so she wanted to marry his sister Nuying to him.
In the blink of an eye, two years had passed, and Liu Zhi was already fifteen years old, so the empress dowager summoned Liu Zhi into the palace to discuss the marriage with her sister. Who knows, just in time for the young lord to collapse and propose a new emperor. When Empress Dowager Liang saw this opportunity, she took the opportunity to make her future sister-in-law emperor.
Liang Ji was of course very happy to learn of the empress's intentions, thinking: This time he can be a double uncle, why not enjoy it?
After the two sisters and brothers deliberated, they repeated the same trick, using the Empress Dowager's edict as the upper sword, once again suppressing the proposals of Li Gu, Du Qiao and others, and taking Liu Zhisi's throne.
Liu Zhi did not even dream that he could become emperor, his heart was overjoyed, and he was even more grateful to the Liang family, and the next year, he obeyed the will of the Liang family, allowed the marriage proposal, and welcomed Nuying as empress. The Liang family also took this opportunity to once again make a big splash, prepared a grand wedding ceremony, and sent their sister to the palace in a dignified manner.
As everyone knows, when Emperor Huan was having a cup of wine, it was also the time when he was imprisoned.
Liu Zhi was nominally emperor, but in fact he still repeated the story of the previous dynasty, all political affairs were in the hands of Liang Ji, and even his every move was under the supervision of the two sisters of the Liang clan. However, at this time, because there were still a number of upright ministers like Li Gu and Du Qiao in the DPRK, the Liang clan did not dare to act too excessively. However, a few months later, Liu Wen and others in Qinghe plotted to establish Liu Garlic as emperor, and after the defeat and killing, Liang Ji instructed his party to frame Li Gu, Du Qiao, and a group of people who had advocated the establishment of Liu Garlic as emperor to participate in the rebellion, and zhu lian was imprisoned until death. When the rest of the courtiers saw that the general trend had gone, naturally no one dared to fight with the Liang clan anymore, and everything was known to the Liang clan's decision.
Because Emperor Huan was cultivated by the Liang clan, he naturally asked the empress dowager and his uncle Liang Ji to be the masters of everything. The queen relied on the shade of her sister and brother, and she was also exclusively favored in the backyard. Even the drapery costumes used were strange and unprepared by the previous empresses.
In 150 AD, the empress dowager returned to Emperor Huan due to poor health, and died a few months later. But in fact, the power of the DPRK and China was still controlled by Liang Ji. At this time, Emperor Huan was already 18 years old, and there were always pleasures in the palace, plus the empress's great power, and he did not think about the government, and everything was left to Liang Ji as it was.
After another seven or eight years, Emperor Huan spent all day drinking and having fun in the harem, ignoring political affairs, and going inward and outward, which had already been trampled on by Liang Ji, and under his obscenity, the bureaucrats in the DPRK did their best to flatter and do everything according to Liang Ji's will, and even when a new official took office, he had to first go to the General's Palace to resign and then dare to take office.
Recently, several bold courtiers have entered Liang Ji from time to time, and Emperor Huan has long heard about Liang Ji's behavior. Coupled with the dissatisfaction with his puppet status in the past few years, once in the early dynasty, Emperor Huan implicitly blamed Liang Ji for a few words, which caused Liang Ji's fear and uneasiness.
Speaking of Empress Liang, at this time, she has been in the palace for nearly ten years, and her posture is no better than before. Moreover, she had no heirs, and her position in the palace naturally declined, and Emperor Huan gradually moved to the palace. The empress was originally a fierce woman, and she was arrogant and indulgent in relying on her sister's power, so whenever she learned that the palace people were pregnant, she tried to frame her, and Emperor Huan held a grudge against it, but it was only hindered by the grace of the Liang clan's heirs at that time, and it was not good to have a seizure. However, from then on, there were fewer visits to the Middle Palace.
Since that day, Liang Ji had been blamed by Emperor Huan and was very uncomfortable. After thinking about it, he always felt that his situation was quite unfortunate. The empress dowager had been dead for a long time, and the empress was old and weak, and had no heirs, not to mention that Emperor Huan was becoming more and more mature, and he already had the idea of personally participating in political affairs. If he continued like this, if he joined forces with the forces in the palace that hated the Liang clan and acted according to his own ordinary deeds, wouldn't he be killed? No way! I should still think of a foolproof way to stabilize my position.
His wife Sun Shou listened to Liang Ji's thoughts and couldn't help but smile slyly and said:
"In the past, you Liangmen entered as two sisters, and your honor was incomparable, and even our Sun family had a lot of light. Now, since the empress is not favored by the Saint, the general will sacrifice another beauty to the Saint, and he is afraid that he will not be able to preserve the glory of Liangmen!"
Liang Ji thought about it, but it was not bad.
"However, where can our Liang family pick a woman with both color and art now?" alas! Why did the great general have such a dead heart, why did he have to order Liangmen? Foreign surnames are not impossible!"
Liang Ji was confused by his wife's words.
When his wife saw him look puzzled, she smiled and touched his forehead and said, "Niece, we don't want to turn her into a Liangmen woman!"
Liang Ji suddenly realized. It turned out that the wife was going to move flowers and elder trees! As soon as he was happy, he hugged his wife, circled her, and then put her down and asked busily:
"Virtuous wife, I wonder which woman can take on this responsibility?"
At this time, Sun Shou looked at the women she had seen in her mind one by one, and felt that Deng Mengnu was the most favorite.
This Deng Meng daughter was originally the daughter of Empress Hexi's subordinate Deng Xiang, who unfortunately died of illness in middle age, and his wife Xuanshi took her daughter and remarried sun Shou's uncle Liang Ji. Since a few years ago, I met a fierce girl at my uncle's birthday party, and the two often had contact. Sun Shou felt that the beauty, temperament, and words and deeds of the fierce woman were above the Six Palaces Pink Dai, which was enough to please Emperor Huan. Therefore, she agreed with Liang Ji to go to her uncle's house the next day to settle the matter and find an opportunity to send her to the palace.
XuanShi was of course happy to hear that he was going to send his daughter to the palace, and thought to himself: There is Empress Liang sitting in the palace, and there is Liang Ji in the middle of the court, coupled with the beauty of his daughter, Emperor Huan will definitely treat him differently, and in the future, the mother's family can also bear the rain and dew and enjoy the special honor.
However, when she heard that she wanted to enter the palace as Liang Ji's daughter, her mother hesitated again. She thought, according to common sense, she married into Liang Ji's family, and in a good way, her daughter and Sun Shou were also cousins, but in this way, wouldn't it be a generation difference? Moreover, Liang Ji may have another deep heart in doing so!
However, the fierce girl herself really wanted to open, she thought: As long as my deng fierce daughter can enter the palace and be favored, the glory will naturally belong to the mother's family, and I will not waste my mother's 18 years. Now, what does it matter what the last name is? Moreover, entering the palace as Liang Ji's daughter may be more conducive to entering the palace.
Thinking of this, after Liang Ji and his wife resigned and returned to the house, they actually started their mother's work. The mother saw that her daughter was so determined and confident about the future, so she agreed.
Two days later, Liang Ji and his wife drove the fierce daughter into the general's palace, and as the daughter of the Liang family, they were to be raised in the boudoir in order to find an opportunity to enter the palace.
In the summer of 157 AD, a cloudy and breezy night.
On the Qinglian Pond in the newly built back garden of the General's Mansion, green willows cover the clear water of the clear pond, and a building boat with carved beams and columns slowly wanders on the water.
With the breeze, the song came from the water from time to time.
Under the lights, a group of happy men and women are pushing glasses to change cups, sipping wine while enjoying the music and dance of the singers and dancers. Dancing on the stage, the song is like a sound, the atmosphere at this time plus the surrounding blue water, hazy moonlit night, is really a special atmosphere, but this does not attract the interest of Emperor Huan at this time. He sat on the main seat, and from time to time took the opportunity to drink with Liang Ji and others, and glanced at the beautiful woman sitting next to Sun Shou. The fierce girl had already been taught by Sun Shou, and at this time she deliberately made a shy look, and there were two streams of autumn water under her eyebrows, and from time to time she squinted her eyes to look at Emperor Huan, and directly confused Emperor Huan.
Sun Shou had already seen all this in his eyes, and after drinking for a few rounds, he got up and proposed
"Today is the day when the new garden of the General's Mansion is inaugurated, thanks to the grace of the saint, Liang Men is flattered, and suddenly feels full of brilliance, please ask the saint to drink another cup of my little girl to thank the saint for his grace."
Emperor Huan heard that the beauty wanted to pour wine for himself, naturally happy, hurriedly applauded, the fierce woman glanced at Emperor Huan, and then got up, gently swung the waist, and came to the huan emperor, all of a sudden, a fragrance of fat powder poured into the nose of the huan emperor, he could hardly hold himself, straight sideways looking at the beauty, holding the cup mechanically in his hand, Ren Meng nu grunted and poured the wine into the cup.
At this time, the fierce woman's mind was filled with Sun Shou's words, and she poured wine while pecking at how to convince the Huan Emperor in front of her. Unconsciously, the cup was full, but she didn't realize it. When Sun Shou saw this situation, he was only secretly happy, but he forgot to remind him that the wine spilled out of the cup and flowed to Emperor Huan's cuffs and placket. At this time, Empress Liang, who was sitting next to Emperor Huan, really couldn't look at it, so she dragged Emperor Huan hard, and he woke up, quickly turned around, and placed the cup on several cases.
Emperor Huan's actions also reminded the fierce woman, seeing this scene, she was busy putting away the wine jug, scared to dry for Emperor Huan, Emperor Huan saw her look delicate, where willing to rush to stop.
After the feast was over, when it was close to the son, Emperor Huan and the empress boarded the car and returned to the palace. Liang Ji and his wife discussed again, and they decided to strike iron while it was hot. Then borrow the hand of the internal supervisor to complete this plan. The next day, Liang Ji found the inner circle of inner guards he had placed next to Huan, and asked him to repeat the matter of yesterday's feast in front of Emperor Huan, further test Emperor Huan's thoughts, and then make a plan.
Sure enough, as soon as he mentioned the "daughter" of the Liang family at yesterday's banquet, Emperor Huan raised his eyebrows and danced with great admiration, and the internal supervisor saw that Emperor Huan was interested and took the opportunity to do this beautiful thing for him. Therefore, within a few days, this "daughter" of Liang Ji, Deng Mengnu, entered the palace smoothly and smoothly.
Deng Mengnu also really lived up to her expectations, and as soon as she entered the palace, she surrounded Emperor Huan with her beauty and wisdom, and soon became a nobleman.
For Emperor Huan, although the Six Palaces Pink Dai was extremely beautiful, he had already made him tired of it, and only this new Deng Gui could make him refreshed. Deng Guiren was indeed an otherworldly woman, she was not only beautiful in appearance, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the more Emperor Huan looked at it, the more he loved it, and gradually began to spoil this Deng Guiren.
Although Empress Liang was also very jealous of this, she was not angry with her for the sake of her brother-in-law's consideration for LiangMen. This made Deng Guiren feel like a fish in the water, and he never left Emperor Huan's side at all times. At the beginning, it is the scene where Deng Guiren accompanied Emperor Huan to the Imperial Palace to admire the green road.
In February 159, Empress Liang fell ill and died due to long-term depression. Liang Ji and his wife only relied on this borrowed "daughter" to protect liang's favor. However, they were also afraid that Deng Guiren would be succeeded as empress, and his mother Xuanshi would not be willing to live under the people. Moreover, there was a relative of the Xuan family who was working as a councilor in the court at this time, which was deeply pleasing to Emperor Huan. If the hidden feelings are leaked and the saints are deceived, it is not a joke! They think about it and decide not to do it twice.
Liang Ji found a disciple in the general's mansion and asked him to assassinate Xuan Shi and his relative Feng Zun at night to get rid of the troubles. The new Xuan clan lived in Yanxili, adjacent to the Zhongchang servant Yuan Shu's family, and the assassin sent by Liang Ji climbed onto the roof of the Yuan family at night, preparing to cross into the Xuan family's courtyard. Yuan Yu had just lay down, heard a voice on the roof, thought that someone was going to enter the house to steal, so he sounded the gong and summoned the family to round up, and after taking it, after torture, he learned that he was sent by Liang Ji to prepare to assassinate Xuanshi, so he rushed to the next door to report to Xuanshi.
When Xuan Shi heard this news, he panicked and rushed to let people into the palace and tell his daughter. At that time, Emperor Huan was playing against Deng Guiren in the Kunning Palace, and when he heard about this, he was very angry. I thought to myself: Liang Ji, Liang Ji, your courage is also too big, it does not count on the deception of the saint, and you dare to kill people and destroy your mouth. In the past, you were tyrannical with the empress dowager and the empress's relatives, and now you have moved on the head of my beauty, so if one day it is not in line with your wishes, will you not be able to kill it together? self.
Emperor Huan was furious at this time, and he took the opportunity to go to the toilet and asked The Little Yellow Gate Tang Heng beside him:
"Left and right in the palace, who is at odds with the Liang clan?"
Tang Heng said:
"Zhongchang Waiter Shan Chao, Xiao Huangmen Left Pavilion." Once, they went to Liang Bu doubt's house, slightly disrespectful, after that, their brother was arrested and imprisoned by No Doubt, and later, the two came to the door to apologize, and then they were counted. In addition, there are also zhongchang attendants Xu Huang and Huang Men Ling Gu Zhen who are also at odds with the Liang clan, but..."
Emperor Huan didn't wait for Tang Heng to finish speaking, then he waved his hand and said, "I know!"
After returning to the palace, Emperor Huan summoned Shan Chao, Zuo Guan, and others, and made an alliance of blood. Because of the many eyes and ears of the Liang clan in the palace, they decided to arrange an action tonight to kill the Liang clan.
In a secret discussion in the palace, someone really sent a letter to Liang Ji, but the fact that he sent a disciple to kill people and destroy his mouth had not yet been revealed, so Liang Ji listened to the letter and was suspicious. However, just in case, he still ordered Zhang Yun of the Middle Yellow Gate to enter the palace guards. Seeing this situation, Gu Yu knew that the news had leaked out, so he sent someone to arrest Zhang Yun. He said that he entered the palace for no reason and tried to misbehave. Immediately, he embraced Emperor Huan into the temple and summoned Shangshu to conspire. It was decided that Shang Shu would have Yin Xun hold the officials below him hostage and order them to guard the palace with instruments. On the one hand, Gu Yu gathered the Tiger Ben Yulin Army, a total of more than a thousand people, together with Zhang Biao, a lieutenant colonel, and quickly went to surround the Great General's Mansion.
Liang Ji couldn't hear Zhang Yun's movements, he only thought it was a false alarm, but he didn't expect the palace to send out people and horses so quickly. He was too late to take any action to save the situation, so he took poison and committed suicide. His wife Sun Shou saw that there was no way out, and he also drank wine and died.
Immediately afterward, Liang Ji's sons Yin Liangyin of Henan, his uncle Liang Rang of the Tun Riding School, Liang Shu, a pro-subordinate bodyguard, Liang Zhong, a lieutenant of the Yue Riding School, and Liang Ji of the Changshui School, were all arrested. There were also Sun Shou's internal and external clan relatives who were also seated together, both young and old, all of whom were cursed. Liang undoubtedly passed away long ago because of this, and was spared prosecution. In addition, dozens of officials such as the Secretary of State were stabbed to death by sitting consecutively. Even Empress Liang, who was buried in Yiling, was deposed and demoted to a nobleman
At this point, the foreign power of the Liang clan was completely destroyed, but it was followed by the era of eunuch dictatorship.
In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Liangmen forces had power to fall to the opposition, and they could not be a single generation. However, after only ten years, it ended up with the end of death. "Things must be reversed" is a natural principle, although he used various tricks to consolidate his position of power, and finally he was defeated because his perverse actions offended the wrath of the people.