Liu Long, Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Emperor Liu Long of the Han Dynasty, born in the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Yuanxing (105), was the younger son of Emperor He and Empress Deng. Just over 100 days after Liu Long was born, Emperor Han and Emperor He died. According to tradition, the heir to the throne should be Liu Sheng, the eldest son of Emperor He. But Liu Sheng was ill and did not heal for many years. Empress Deng said: "Liu Sheng was ill and could not inherit the imperial inheritance, so he first made Liu Long the crown prince, and then, on the same night, Liu Long, who was still in his infancy, officially took the throne as emperor." Empress Deng was also promoted to Empress Dowager Deng and listened to the government.

For this important matter, the officials of the DPRK and the CENTRAL Government approved it to their faces, and the mountain shouted long live, but behind their backs they were all grumbling. Because Han and Emperor He had given birth to dozens of sons before their deaths, they all died tragically. In order to eliminate disasters and evacuate, the sons born later were all fostered in the people, and the ministers did not know. Therefore, for Liu Sheng's condition, no one knows what is going on. Some people think it is false, saying that Empress Deng is greedy for a young age, so that she can hold power for a long time. Whether true or false, Emperor Yan ascended the throne and Empress Deng listened to the government, marking the beginning of a new situation in which foreign relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty interfered in politics.

After Empress Deng came to the court to listen to the government, unlike other periods of dictatorship in history, she did not show an arrogant and arrogant attitude of dictatorship. Empress Deng was the granddaughter of The Founding Hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Empress Dowager Deng Yu, and loved to read and recite history since childhood. Her mother was very dissatisfied with this, and warned her: "You are a girl's family, instead of practicing female workers, but studying the history books and scriptures, do you still want to become a doctor?" Since then, Empress Deng has been a nun and a nighttime scholar, thus possessing a cultural quality and an insight beyond ordinary people that ordinary concubines cannot compare.

After Empress Deng came to the court to listen to the government, she first took effective measures against some shortcomings in eastern Han society. First, the Han Dynasty people superstitiously believed in the five elements of yin and yang and emphasized filial piety, so the wind of worship was very popular, and it became more and more intense when the emperor was martyred, which brought a heavy burden to society. Empress Deng was particularly disgusted by excessive worship, believing that the things of ghosts and gods were unpredictable, and that excessive worship could not be blessed, so in April of the first year of Yanping (106), she ordered the dismissal of the officials who were not in the ceremony to set an example for the world. Second, from the Guangwu to the Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many people were imprisoned for breaking the law. Empress Deng believed that the fundamental plan of governing the country should be based on indoctrination, and only by instilling feudal ethics and morality and regular etiquette in the people could the people become loyal subjects and obedient people of the feudal state; Punishment can only be used as an adjunct. In May of the first year of Yanping (106), an edict issued a general amnesty for the world, and all those who violated the law were released as civilians, and the world was ruled by "judo". Third, from the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the emperor, for more than 80 years, the palace women entered the palace endlessly, so that the palace women were like clouds, resulting in a situation of "internal resentment of women, outside there are husbands", and increased the financial expenditure of the Han court. Empress Deng knew this very well since she was a child, and in June of the first year, she once issued an edict to exempt the people of the harem palace and the number of people who won the weak and the sick, that is, 500 to 600 people.

In addition to making adjustments and reforms to some of the drawbacks, Empress Deng also paid great attention to frugality and persuading the peasants. In June of the first year of Yanping, the edict detracted from the food, drapery, treasures, and other labor-consuming items that the Taigong, daogong, Shangfang, and the insider were responsible for. After that, he also ordered that the tribute of the county state should be only half of the original amount, and that the things that the imperial government, Shangfang, and weaving room were responsible for would not continue to be manipulated. As a result, huge financial expenditures have been reduced, such as the original funds of Taiguan and Tangguan as much as 200 million yuan per year. After Empress Deng came to power, the annual expenditure was reduced to tens of millions of dollars. In July, some counties suffered severe floods, but the county and state guards did not report it in disguise, cheating and cheating, causing the people to suffer a lot. Empress Dowager Deng then strictly ordered the county and the state to report the disaster, and the areas seriously affected by the disaster were exempted from land rent and shaving, so as to facilitate the recovery and development of agricultural production.

However, Empress Deng was, after all, the general representative of the foreign forces, and while actively governing the country, she still had the heart to consolidate and strengthen her own rule. In April of the first year of Yanping's reign, she eagerly promoted her brother Deng Xiao (骘骘) from General HuBen Zhonglang (虎贲中郎) to General CheQi (車霓將軍), taking control of the internal imperial institutions with decision-making power.

In August, while Empress Deng was busy giving orders, Liu Long, who had been emperor for only eight months, quietly passed away. Because of the short failure to fold and die, he was honored as the Emperor of Filial Piety and was buried in Kangling.

During the period of emperor death, because the Eastern Han Empire was in a transition period from prosperity to decline, coupled with Empress Deng's political clarity, the harm of foreign relations' dictatorship was not fully exposed. Since then, with the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rule of foreign relatives and eunuchs and the inevitable power struggle between them have accelerated the collapse and decline of the empire.