(Emperor An of Han, Liu Hu)
On the tenth day of March in the fourth year of Yanguang, the sixth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Hu, the Emperor of Han'an, died.
The emperor's life can be summed up in one sentence:
He was not a good emperor, much less a good man, but he must have been a good husband.
The emperor spent the first half of his life under the control of foreign relatives and eunuch forces, and it was difficult to regain sovereignty, but he became a lazy and lazy person.
He doesn't care about the big things in the world, li min is suffering, he doesn't care.
The only thing that could make the emperor interested was the empress, Yan Shi.
The emperor was a very obsessed person, and he seemed to be more willing to work with his beloved woman for a lifetime than to achieve the emperor's great cause.
They once admired the prosperity of Luoyang, saw the wind and sand in the north of Saibei, and searched for the spring colors of Jiangnan.
(Emperor's Outing)
The emperor had taken Empress Yan on a tour, for no other purpose than to live his own world of two people.
There were many emperors in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, Wen Jingkuan Renzhishi, Emperor Wuxiong, Liu Xiuwen Tao, and Ming Zhang ruling the country according to law.
In the history of the two Han Dynasties, there were many Ming Jun, but very few Dark Jun, and the overall quality can be said to be leveraged.
From the moment these outstanding emperors came to power the world, they clearly realized that being an emperor is not simply rich and glorious and enjoying joy, and as an emperor, the responsibilities and burdens on their bodies are heavier than all the people in the world.
For Ming Jun, being emperor was even an extremely painful thing.
Because once he ascends to the throne, he must not only endure endless coldness and loneliness, but also dedicate his life to the great cause of the empire.
But for Liu Hu, the Emperor of Han'an, all this seems to be an exception.
Throughout his life, the emperor carried out four big words:
Act spontaneously.
What does the world's hegemony have to do with me? I just have to go with the red dust and be happy.
But in fact, in the end, the emperor was still delayed by love.
Empress Yan, young and beautiful, with a graceful figure, walked step by step, and sang elegantly.
Ten thousand customs, the emperor's heart is pinched to death.
But Comrade Liu Hu's life was not bad, because although the Eastern Han Dynasty under his rule had begun to decline, it was still far from the point of closing its doors and collapsing.
Therefore, even if Liu Hu riveted enough to play, the name of the king of the fallen country could not fall on him.
If all goes well, Liu Huda can comfortably spend the rest of his life traveling around and relaxing happily.
But everything didn't go very well.
When the emperor took the empress to a place called Ye County (Ye County, Henan), he suddenly fell ill with a strange disease.
The so-called strange disease naturally does not refer to the kind of small disease that is cold, fever, runny nose.
What is that disease?
The history books are not specifically documented, and the author is not a medical professional, so I can't make up my mind.
All we know is that the emperor's body temperature began to become very unstable, and he would shout for a cold bath, and then he would shiver coldly.
(Dong Feng, Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo)
The medical technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been relatively developed, the doctor Dong Feng practiced the treatment of diseases, cured a lot of difficult and complicated diseases, Zhang Zhongjing wrote the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", which provided a solid theoretical foundation for the science of traditional Chinese medicine, and Hua Tuo creatively invented the ancient anesthetic - He Boiling Powder, which solved a major problem in the clinical medical community.
These three people were called "the three divine doctors of the Eastern Han Dynasty" by later generations, but unfortunately, these three doctors were all born in the last year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Comrade Liu Hu was born at the wrong time, and none of them caught up.
The accompanying imperial doctor was helpless, and the emperor's condition became more and more serious, and he died within two days.
Liu Hu died in the arms of his beloved woman, Empress Yan.
At that moment, he was satisfied.
He believes that the woman he loves deeply will not fail him, and he will certainly guard the Great Han River for himself.
But it was clear that the emperor had mispaid affectionately.
(Empress Yan)
Many years ago, this empress, who was very deep in the city government, instigated the emperor to depose Liu Bao as crown prince because she was not in harmony with the crown prince.
The question that Empress Yan was now facing was that before the emperor died, he had not issued a will to determine who would inherit the throne, and if the death of the emperor was announced in Ye County, would the deposed crown prince Liu Bao, who was still in the eastern capital Luoyang (the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty), launch a coup d'état and ascend the throne first?
If Liu Bao ascended the throne, wouldn't he be the first person the emperor had to deal with?
After some brainstorming, Empress Yan decided to keep the secret of the funeral and first temporarily conceal the news of Emperor Bintian.
So Empress Yan put the emperor's corpse in the car, and along the way, she ate and lived as usual, and the ministers and soldiers who accompanied her only knew that the emperor was sick and in poor health, but she did not know that the emperor had already played a role and received a bento.
Empress Yan's purpose in doing this was simple: she would return to the imperial capital with the emperor's corpse, and only by returning there could she control the overall situation.
Before returning to the capital, the emperor could only "live".
Looking at the body of her husband who loved her so much and stinking, as a wife, the mood should be extremely sad, but in Empress Yan's eyes, there was no sadness and pain, only fierceness and determination.
Yes, this woman carries the emperor's grace and her husband's love, but she also carries the honor and humiliation from her mother's family and Yan's foreign relatives.
At the critical moment of the change of throne, he must not be emotional, he must become cruel, only cruel, in order to win in this war without smoke.
On March 14, 4th of Yanguang, the emperor who had died of illness finally returned to the palace, and Empress Yan announced Liu Hu's death to the world.
As soon as the emperor's death was announced, it also meant that Empress Yan was officially promoted from empress to empress.
And the first thing she did when she became empress dowager was to choose a new heir to the throne as soon as possible.
There are many relatives of the Liu clan, many young people, and many people who are suitable for being emperors.
But Empress Yan did not have much choice.
Those who are too old are all old fritters in the political arena of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which are not easy to control, and if they are not good, they will be anti-guest-oriented, and after becoming emperor, they will sell yan's foreign relatives.
Moderate age, vigorous, young and strong, it is a good time to make meritorious achievements, how can you be willing to submit to others?
In this way, the selection of the emperor is really a technical job.
Empress Yan chose to come and go, and finally decided to support Liu Yi in Beixiang and become the new tianzi of the Han Emperor, who was also a puppet emperor and a mascot.
Young, ignorant, easy to control, simply the best candidate.
The identity of this comrade Liu Yi is worth mentioning, his father is Liu Shou, the Hui king of Jibei, and Liu Shou is the son of Liu Zhao, the emperor of Han Zhang.
But the new emperor also has only this point, because the emperor has only been on the throne for more than 200 days, and he fell ill and died not long after.
(Beixiang Hou Liu Yi)
The soy sauce emperor left only a name in the history books and left.
The new emperor died on the eve of his ascension to the throne, and the whole country was shocked.
But for Empress Yan, it was not a big deal for the emperor to die, and everything would be fine if she established another one.
Empress Yan soon found new candidates, one was the son of the King of Jibei and the other was the son of the King of Hejian.
They are all the sons of the princes of the clan who are sealed in small places, they have never seen anything in the world, and they have no power, so it is very suitable to choose one to be a puppet emperor.
This news was soon known to the deposed crown prince Liu Bao.
As the son of Emperor An of Han and the crown prince of the former emperor, he lost the position of prince in conspiracies and tricks, and also lost the throne in the change of imperial power.
Yan's foreign relatives were arrogant, and Empress Yan and her people were even more vicious.
The Eastern Han Dynasty under the control of such a person? What are the prospects? What future can there be?
Liu Bao decided to launch a coup d'état by force, not only to completely destroy the Yan clique, but also to regain the throne that originally belonged to him.
Decisions can be decided, I decided to be a scientist, you decided to be a big star, but whether you can do it or not is another matter.
At this time, Liu Bao was just a powerless and powerless deposed prince, and if he wanted to destroy the forces of Yan's foreign relatives, he had to rely on external forces.
But the Yan clan's foreign relatives are densely packed inside and outside the government, the forbidden army in the palace is yan's people, the martial generals in the imperial court will be yan's people, and the courtiers and masters in the court are pretentious and high-minded, and they will never collude with yan's foreign relatives, but they are just a group of unarmed old and weak scholars, even if they are willing to support themselves, what can they help?
From this point of view, looking at the political arena of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bao can be said to be isolated and helpless, and no one can count on it.
But Liu Bao still found a force willing to help him under such a difficult premise.
This force is the eunuch comrades.
(Eunuch image)
Eunuchs seemed humble, but they usually held the military power of the various battalions in Gyeonggi, and in a hurry, they could also order the prohibition of the army, and with the help of eunuch friends, Liu Bao finally had a bottom card against Yan's foreign relatives.
Since we have the right to fight, it is better to choose a day than to collide with the sun.
After reaching a political alliance with his eunuch friends, Liu Bao immediately staged a coup in the palace, intending to take down Yan's foreign relatives in one fell swoop.
According to the general plot, an armed coup d'état in the palace is bound to experience a bitter struggle of bloody rain and wind, Yan's foreign relatives hold great power, Liu Bao can win is a fluke, and losing is the norm.
What is unexpected is that Liu Bao's front foot has just launched a coup d'état, and the Yan clan's foreign relatives on the back foot have all been ambushed.
The author himself has written many novels before, and if I want to, I can use wonderful and tortuous pen and ink to invent a process in which Liu Bao thrillingly and vigorously destroys Yan's foreign relatives.
But unfortunately, there is no such record in the history books, so I can't make it up.
I can only tell you that Liu Bao united with nineteen eunuch leaders to launch a coup d'état in the middle of the night when no one was there, and then destroyed Yan's foreign relatives in one fell swoop and regained sovereignty.
As for how to retake it, how Yan's foreign relatives were destroyed, it is left to historians and archaeologists to reveal the answer.
All of Yan's relatives were punished, and Empress Yan was placed under house arrest in a remote temple.
The palace used to be a symbol of power and a supreme glory for her, and now that it has become a prison under house arrest, she will spend her life in a deep and dark corner.
And Liu Bao (i.e., Emperor Shun of Han), who regained power and regained the throne, also faced an extremely severe test.
(Emperor Shun of Han, Liu Bao)
The eunuch forces that supported him as emperor were eager to move, and the Liang clan relatives behind him (the new foreign relatives) were also eyeing the tiger.
Only then did people understand that the Eastern Han Dynasty had long since ceased its former glory, and that the ascension of Liu Bao, the Emperor of Hanshun, was not saving the future of the dynasty, but pushing it deeper into hell.