The most honorable identity in history is the emperor, who is the top of the food chain, not only living in the golden and splendid palace, but also controlling the lives of the world's people.
In addition to all the treatment enjoyed before death, the emperors will also enjoy the same treatment before death, which is what the ancients believed in death. They will build a huge mausoleum for themselves before they die, and after death, they will take away a large number of luxurious funerary objects to enjoy the general treatment before they die. However, there are exceptions in history, and after the death of this emperor, not only did he not have the luxurious mausoleum of the emperors of previous dynasties, but he was even buried in the tomb of a eunuch, which was a great humiliation for an emperor. But what's going on here?
The emperor buried in the eunuch mausoleum was the Han Shao Emperor Liu Jie of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although Liu Wei reigned for no more than a year, and the history books did not regard him as the orthodox emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the relevant historians still recognized him as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, after all, Liu Wei also really sat on the dragon chair.
In 176 AD, Liu Jie was born, his father was the Han Ling Emperor, and his mother was the palace maid He Shi, because the ancient son relied on his mother Gui, after Liu Jie was born, his mother He Shi was named a nobleman, and later became an empress. As we all know, born in the imperial palace, her mother was crowned empress, and Liu Wei naturally had to experience the dispute between the princes. However, because before Liu Jie was born, the sons of the Han Ling Emperor all died one after another, so after Liu Wei was born, he was sent out of the palace to be raised in the family of the Daoist Shi Zixiao.
Perhaps he did not grow up in the imperial palace since he was a child, Liu Jie did not have the majesty of an emperor, his behavior was very frivolous, and the Han Ling Emperor was very unconcerned about this son, and he could even say that he did not like it. After adding Liu Zhen, Wang Meiren of the harem gave birth to Liu Xie to Emperor Han Ling, that is, the later Emperor Xian of Han. Liu Xie was deeply liked by Emperor Han Ling because of his indifference to Liu Xie's frivolity, but Liu Xie was never made crown prince, after all, under the order of the elder and young, Liu Xie was the best candidate for the crown prince. After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Jie ascended the throne with the support of his uncle He Jin and other eunuchs, and became emperor for Emperor Shao of Han.
Liu Jie, who became emperor, was not stable, and the shaky Eastern Han regime was in turmoil, and the eunuchs of the chancellors, led by Jian Shuo, began to plan to get rid of Liu Jie and establish Liu Xie as emperor. Liu Jie was forced to leave the palace under the pursuit of eunuchs, and later drank poisoned wine under Dong Zhuo's rebellion, ending his career as an emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty for less than a year.
In 189, Liu Xie ascended the throne with the support of Dong Zhuo and became emperor in order to be emperor of Han. Because of the dispute over the throne between Liu Wei and Liu Zheng, after Liu Xie's death, Liu Xie did not bury Liu Xie with royal etiquette, but buried him in the mausoleum of the eunuch Zhao Zhong.
Burying him in the tomb of a eunuch should be the greatest humiliation that Liu Xie gave him.