When he first entered his career, Liu Yan relied on something

Liu Yan lived between 100 AD and 194 AD, limited by the lack of historical data, we can not determine his date of birth, only that he died in the first year of Xingping (194 AD), and experienced the four dynasties of HuanDi, Lingdi, Shaodi and Xiandi in his lifetime.

Among Liu Yan's many historical events, the earliest with a clear chronology occurred in the third year of Yanxi (160 AD). In this year, Liu Yan's teacher Zhu Tian died of illness, and soon after, Liu Yan also resigned from his official position.

We cannot completely deny that Liu Yan resigned because there was no one in the DPRK.

After leaving the official field, Liu Yan taught books for a period of time in Yangcheng Mountain before accepting the call of the imperial court and re-entering the career.

Yangcheng was not far from luoyang, the capital at that time, and it was convenient to inquire about the government. We can even think that Liu Yan is still greedy for power, looking for an opportunity to quietly prepare for his return to politics.

Liu Yan's teaching level is difficult to verify, but his students are all unknown people. We cannot know their names or their deeds. Even after Liu Yan became the pastor of Yizhou, there was no way to verify whether there were any of his students in the class.

Liu Yan was a descendant of Liu Yu, the Prince of Lugong of the Western Han Dynasty, and Liu Yu was Liu Qi, the Emperor of The Han Dynasty. But this is too far away for Liu Yan, almost legendary.

If he had gone to the Imperial City with the family tree when he was young and had gone to the Han Huan Emperor to confess his relatives, he might not have even seen the emperor's face.

We speculate that Liu Yan could serve in the prefecture and county, which should be helped by the Huang family, rather than the status of a relative of the Han dynasty. Because Liu Yan's mother was Huang Qiong's granddaughter, and Huang Qiong had been a lieutenant.

Moreover, Huang Qiong's place of origin is Anlu County, Jiangxia County, which belongs to the same county as Liu Yan, who was born in Jinling County.

Perhaps, this can also explain why Liu Yan served in the state and county.

Liu Yan's parents were unable to leave a name, and we only know that Liu Yan's father was buried in Zhengxiang.

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