In the twelfth year of Yongyuan, Ban Chao sent his son Ban Yong back to Luoyang with the emissaries of the Tribute of the An EnGuo, and brought back his recital to the emperor, which had the sentence on it: The subject did not dare to look at Jiuquan County, but hoped to be born into The Jade Gate Pass.
It is full of longing and sorrow for the leaves to fall back to the roots.
Just after Dou Xian broke the Northern Xiongnu and Yan Ranleshi, Ban Chao served as the protector of the Western Regions, gathered 70,000 allied troops in the Western Regions, carried out a cleaning and cleaning, and swept away the hostile elements who dared to oppose the Han Dynasty one by one, resulting in more than fifty countries in the Western Regions being annexed to the Han Dynasty.
Ban Chao was the most brilliant military figure who achieved the most brilliant results in carrying out military operations outside the territory after Dou Xian, and made his descendants look up to Him.
However, the years did not spare people, and by the twelfth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan, Ban Chao had entered the twilight years.
Heroes have always been like beauties, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world.
Although the Western Regions are the places where my career and fame have been achieved, they are still foreign countries and foreign lands.
I'm old and have to leave.
I'm old and have to go home.
Ban Chao's heart is like an arrow.
However, when he was sent back to Luoyang, he was shelved by the imperial court and ignored.
Time passed to the fourteenth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan, and Ban Chao, who was rare in ancient years, contracted typhoid fever again, and if he did not come back, he would never have the opportunity to be born into the Jade Gate.
Ban Zhao, who is Ban Zhao, can no longer restrain his brotherly feelings, and desperately writes to the emperor, she said: Ban Chao, with his own body, turned to the desperate realm, xiao to the kingdoms, every time there was an attack, he was the first to ascend, he was killed by Jinyi, he did not avoid death, his majesty's gods, and he had to prolong his life in the desert.
He also said: Thirty years have accumulated so far, the bones have been separated, they have no longer known each other, and everyone who accompanied them has passed away, the class is the longest, and now he is seventy years old, he is old and sick, his hair is not black, his hands are not kind, his ears are not deaf, his eyes are not clear, he needs to support his way, although he wants to do his best to repay the grace of Heaven, forced by the twilight of the year, the canine horsetooth rope, why bother?
Liu Zhao, who was moved, sent Ren Shang, a lieutenant of pengji, to serve as the protector of the Western Regions and succeed Ban Chao.
In August of the fourteenth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan, Ban Chao returned to Luoyang and worshiped him as a lieutenant of the Shooting Sound School.
However, due to old age and physical weakness, he died of illness in less than a month.
From all aspects of the indicators, Liu Zhao is a good emperor.
He got up early every day to visit the dynasty, worked diligently and loved the people, read the chapters until late at night, and easily refused to neglect government affairs.
He was lenient in government, loved the people as the foundation, sympathized with widows and widows, was lonely and weak, sympathized with the people's suffering, and repeatedly issued edicts to relieve disasters and relief, reduce taxes, and resettle displaced people. In the legal system, he also advocated lenient punishment, and has repeatedly issued edicts to punish unjustly and punish them lightly.
For natural and man-made disasters, he often blamed himself. In the eighth year of Liu Zhaoyong's reign (96 AD), a plague of locusts occurred in the Luoyang area of the capital, and he issued an edict to blame him: "The difference between locusts is not vain, and all parties are guilty, and they are giving one person." "This is not a show, nor is it purely to win people's hearts, and its fist heart is overflowing with words."
Lingnan (present-day Guangdong region) produced longan and lychee, and in order to meet the needs of the imperial court, it was often "ten miles and one place, five miles and one wait, day and night transmission", laboring the people and hurting the wealth, and the people complained.
When Liu Zhao learned of this situation, he indignantly instructed: "The rare delicacies of tribute in remote areas were originally used to enshrine the Zongmiao Temple. If it causes harm, it is far from the original intention of loving the people! Now order: Taiguan will no longer accept such tribute! ”
He also attached great importance to the selection and appointment of officials, appointing meritocracy, and during his reign, he issued four special edicts to recruit the world's most talented people.
If he has shortcomings, then his greatest shortcoming is the use of eunuchs to participate in politics.
In the process of political struggle with Dou Xian, Zhongchang Shi Hook Shield made Zheng Zhong play an irreplaceable important role, and on the reward of merit and deeds, Zheng Zhong naturally ranked first in natural merit and was promoted to the rank of Great Changqiu.
Dachang Qiuyuan was the palace name of the empress of the Han Dynasty, and was used as a famous official, calling her official office "Changqiu Temple", the head of the empress's close attendant, responsible for declaring the will and managing the affairs of the palace.
In fact, Zheng Zhong is a very low-key person.
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Although he was promoted to the head of the eunuchs, he was modest and cautious, not ostentatious, not pretentious, conscientious in his work, and conscientious in his conduct.
Liu Zhao was very appreciative and valued him, and when he discussed major state affairs with him, he only put forward some constructive suggestions to avoid interfering in the decision-making of major national policies.
Rao is so, this is already an epoch-making event.
"The eunuch's use of power has since begun"!
Perhaps Liu Zhao felt that the eunuch was the closest person to him and the most trustworthy; or perhaps Liu Zhao felt that the eunuch was just a small household slave and could not stir up any big winds and waves.
But he was wrong.
Or, he was alive, and he could hold down such a eunuch.
But what about him? Once he dies, will his sons, his grandchildren, his children and grandchildren be able to hold on?
He didn't seem to think about it, or was too late to think about it.
On The 22nd day of the winter of the first year of Liu Zhaoyuanxing (105 AD), he suddenly fell ill and died at the age of 26 years and 4 months.
He was buried in Shenling and the temple was called Muzong.
"He" refers to his generosity and benevolence, discerning right from wrong.
This was also fully reflected in his attitude toward Empress Dowager Dou.
In the ninth year of Liu Zhaoyong's reign (97 AD), Empress Dowager Dou died. Previously, because Empress Dou was still alive, the mouth in the court was very tight, and the emperor had been kept in the dark, unaware of his own origins. When the empress dowager died, the Liang family dared to play the Ming court and seek justice for the Liang nobles who had been dead for many years. He And Emperor Fang woke up like a dream, posthumously crowned his birth mother Liang Guiren as the empress dowager, and made proper arrangements for the families of Liang Guiren and Song Guiren. On the question of how to place Empress Dowager Dou, although the Three Dukes played: "Please follow the precedent of Emperor Guangwu deposing Empress Lü, and demean Empress Dowager Dou's honorific title, and should not let him be buried with Emperor Xian." However, Emperor He believed that Empress Dou had always been her own mother in terms of etiquette, and that "grace could not bear to be separated, righteousness could not bear to lose", and should not be deposed. By virtue of not lowering his honorific title, he was known as Empress Zhangde.
Forgiveness of the enemy, that is, the greatest benevolence, is absolutely worthy of the word "and".
Now, he died, too quickly, too hastily.
Compared with his old father, Emperor Zhang, not only did he have time to arrange for the chancellor, he didn't even have time to specify who was the heir of the empire, and various forces in the palace came out one after another, fighting for your life and death.
The classic car carrying the Eastern Han Empire began to lose control, seriously deviated from the original running track, went farther and farther, and eventually lost all disasters...
VI. The Eastern Han Dynasty Version of the "Palace Heart Plan"
The man who first appeared was named Deng Sui.
This is a woman, a woman of extraordinary origin, a woman of unfathomable depth in the city government, a woman of benevolence, benevolence, and fierceness.
It is said that she has a history because she has a very famous grandfather, Deng Yu, the chief hero of the Guangwu Emperor.
She is said to be deep in the city government because before the first year of Liu Zhaoyuanxing (105 AD), what she did had deceived all the people in the world, and no one could figure out her true face, and no one knew her strength and ambition.
Say that she has both benevolence and benevolence and fierceness to kill... Let's take a brief look at how she has performed.
The history books say that when she was a child, she was talented and intelligent, and she was deeply liked by Mrs. Tai. The wife, that is, Deng Yu's wife, was old and had a serious white miasma, because she liked Deng Sui, she was childlike and wanted to cut Deng Sui's hair, and everyone knew that this was a high-risk activity, and whoever cut her suffered. But Deng Sui was not afraid, and sat down happily and let the wife cut it. As expected, the scissors hurt her forehead several times, and blood flowed down, and she endured the pain, silently, and continued to cooperate with Mrs. Tai's game. Mrs. Madame's vision was blurred and she was not aware. Afterwards, someone asked Deng Sui, little sister, you cow, dare to give the wife a test knife, you see, have been injured several times, is it not painful? Deng Sui replied solemnly and earnestly: "Either it is not painful, Mrs. Tai mourns for the broken hair, and it is difficult to hurt the old man's will, so she endures the ear." ”
Look, is this kind of ruthlessness something that ordinary people can do? Moreover, Deng Sui's little sister was only five years old at that time!
He also said that Deng Sui liked to read, and at the age of six he could write "History Books", "Twelve Poems" and "Analects", and was determined to be in the classics, and did not ask about things at home.
How did this come about? You said that you are a girl, do not ask about the matter of home, how to marry and teach your children in the future? Aiming at the classics, do you still want to be a female doctor and rule the country and the world?!
Her mother scolded her: "Ru does not learn to provide clothes for female workers, but is more pragmatic, preferring to raise the doctor evil?" ”
In the face of his mother's scolding, Deng Sui did not return his mouth, nor did he gamble.
Didn't you say I don't study female workers? Well, I'll learn, learn to show you.
Aren't you saying I shouldn't read? I read it, but I don't let you know it.
She "practices women's business during the day and recites the classics in the twilight", alone, doing two kinds of business.
Such a person is too cruel and too tolerable.
In the fourth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan (92 AD), the general election in the palace, this is an opportunity that every woman of a famous and prestigious family is not willing to give up, you know, once she is elected to the palace and becomes a nobleman, or even an empress, then the family will shine on the lintel and soar.
At that time, the Ma family and the Dou family, although they were vigorously suppressed by Emperor Ming, but there were Empress Ma and Empress Dou, weren't these two families very powerful for a while?
It should be said that Deng Sui was very much looking forward to taking such an opportunity to leap through the dragon gate and ascend to heaven in one fell swoop.
She conveyed to her family her desire to enter the palace with unusual grace.
Her tact, how is the tact method?
She said she had a dream, "Dreaming of heaven and earth, if there is a stalactite, it is drunk on its back." ”
Dreaming of touching the sky, is it not a queen or what?
Parents find someone to interpret the dream, and the dream interpreter says that Yao Meng climbs up the sky, And Tang Dreams and Heavenly Dreams, which is a precursor to being a holy king, and the auspiciousness is indescribable.
She is a girl's family, how can she be compared with Yao Tang? unbelief.
Then he found the face-to-face person to give Deng Sui a face-to-face, and the face-to-face person seemed to have a spirit and a sharp mind with the dream interpreter, saying: "This method of making soup is also." ”
Believe it, right?
Believed.
But this year, Deng Sui was very sorry that he could not enter the palace.
The reason was that her father died untimely in that year.
Your father is dead, and you still go into the palace to pursue your queen dream, are you still human? Beasts, beasts are not as good!
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, where filial piety and honesty were used to select talents, this was very disgraceful.
Deng Sui understood this truth.
She buried her ideal deep in her heart, obediently guarding filial piety at home and serving her father's funeral.
And in order to gain the reputation of filial piety, she made real efforts, "crying day and night, not eating salt vegetables for three years, gaunt and disfigured, relatives do not know", cruel people.
In the seventh year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan (95 AD), there was another general election in the palace, and Deng Sui was filial to the palace for three years, this time, she seized the opportunity and successfully entered the palace.
This year, she was fifteen years old, like a beautiful flower, like a water age, seven feet and two inches long, beautiful in appearance, absolutely different from everyone, left and right are shocked.
Unfortunately, in the heart of the emperor, a person had already lived in.
In the general election three years ago, there was a contestant with both talent and color, artistic pressure, who stood out among many beautiful women and became the heartwarming girl of Hedi.
The contestant also has a history, her surname is Yin, great-grandfather Yin Zhi, is the elder brother of the Guanglie Empress Yin Lihua, and she herself is "less intelligent and good at writing", after entering the palace, she was very favored by the emperor.
In the year that Deng Sui entered the palace, she had already taken the position of "first sister" in the palace with her beauty and knowledge, and was named a nobleman.
This is not to mention, Deng Sui has been in the palace for less than a year, and since Emperor He is already eighteen years old and is an adult, the Great Changqiu Zheng Zhongquan asked to be crowned empress.
The Yin Nobles took the position of empress.
Although, in this posthumous ceremony, Deng Sui was also "incidentally" named a nobleman, in front of Empress Yin, she could only bow her head forever and be a person.
The fact is also the same, because there is a yin queen, the yin queen is a red flower, she Deng Sui can only be a green leaf, green leaves lined with red flowers, it seems that she can only play a supporting role in her life.
The history books say that she "trembled at night after undertaking the yin."
Every time there is a banquet in the palace, the concubines and nobles of the six palaces will compete to decorate, with heavy makeup, bright hair, and distinctive clothes. Only Deng Sui, wrapped in light makeup, and swept eyebrows, are different in the beauty of the crowd. The color of the clothes on his body was occasionally close to that of the Yin Queen, so he changed it immediately, and did not dare to take the limelight of the Yin Queen.
If you see the emperor with the Yin Empress, you will not dare to sit and stand silently behind the Yin Empress; when the Yin Empress gets up and resigns, she will bow down and stand respectfully, waiting for the Yin Empress to start and then go, never daring to go hand in hand with the Yin Empress.
……
Such a life, tired.
But it was precisely this kind of life that gradually attracted the attention of Emperor He, who thought that she was laborious to Empress Yin, humble everywhere, and had the style of a gentleman, and even sighed: "The labor of cultivating virtue is like this!" "I had a lot of good feelings for her.
Once, Deng Sui was sick and bedridden. Emperor He was very pitying, and granted her permission to summon her family to visit the palace for an unlimited period of time. Deng Sui tried his best to resign, saying: "The imperial palace is the most important forbidden place, and if foreign relatives stay in the palace for a long time, the courtiers will criticize His Majesty's favoritism, and the palace will also ridicule the concubines for not being satisfied." The imperial court and the palace all blamed His Majesty and his concubines for this, and they were sincerely reluctant to do so. ”
Still that sentence, too much to endure, too much to pretend.
Emperor He was very impressed, and in addition to favoring Deng Sui, he added a lot of respect.
The Yin Queen's heart over there began to be unbalanced.
She felt threatened and challenged in her position, "a little bit of pampering, a few hateful."
On the contrary, Deng Sui "was respectful and careful, and had the law of movement", taking retreat as an advance, and in front of Emperor He, he tried his best to restrain himself and not let Emperor He have special favors on himself.
But, is this possible?
Looking at what Deng Sui did in the palace, it is an Eastern Han version of the "Palace Heart Plan". Her life is even more than Zhen Huan's biography.
She not only treated Empress Yin with respect and respect, but also treated her subordinates, "although the palace people are subordinate, they are all borrowed by Grace", and she is also very concerned and considerate.
For a time, everyone in the palace had a good feeling for Deng Sui and praised him.
The Yin Queen was angry and anxious, almost crazy, but helpless.
In the summer of the thirteenth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan (101 AD), Emperor He suffered from dysentery, which could not be cured for a long time, and dragged on for more than ten days, and by the middle of the 5th month of the lunar calendar, the illness was even more severe, and it seemed that it was no longer saved.
All over the country, everyone is very sad.
Deng Sui was also very sad, and she prayed every day in the Jiade Palace, praying for the blessing of the heavens and the early recovery of the emperor.
Only the Queen of Yin, she was actually very happy.
There was a reason for her happiness, and the emperor was only in her twenties, her sons were very young, and once she herself died, Empress Yin could be promoted to empress dowager and could be regent of the dynasty.
She said happily, "If I can be proud, I will never let the Deng family leave a living mouth!" ”
When Deng Sui heard this news, he was shocked, and only then did he say to the palace ladies on the left and right with tears in his eyes: "I have devoted myself to the empress, and I have not been able to get her protection." I should follow the emperor to death today, report the emperor's great favor, and relieve the family's calamities, so that the empress will not behave like Empress Lü. ”
After saying that, he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find poison, intending to cut himself off.
In order to stop her, a palace maid named Zhao Yu lied to her that someone had been sent to inform her that the emperor's illness had been cured.
Deng Sui then attempted suicide.
Thanks to the auspicious words of this Zhao Yu palace girl, the next day, he emperor miraculously recovered from his illness.
This time, it was the turn of the Yin Empress to be shocked, you think, she cursed Deng Sui before and said, "If I can be proud, I will never let the Deng family leave a living mouth!" Although this sentence, although on the surface scolded Deng Sui to relieve his hatred, in fact, it already contained a meaning: I hope that the emperor will die early. If he and the emperor knew, would they still have good fruit to eat?
No, you have to find a way to save yourself.
By consulting her grandmother, Tang Zhu, she decided to take the risk and use witchcraft to curse the emperor to death.
I'm so impatient!
When Emperor He learned of this, the Heavenly Court was furious and furious, and sent Deng Zhu and his two sons Deng Feng and Deng Yi, as well as Empress Yin's younger brother Yin Fu, to prison and tortured to death.
On June 22, the fifteenth year of Liu Zhaoyongyuan (102 AD), Empress Yin was deposed for her sins and moved to tong palace, but died of fear at the age of twenty-three.
Empress Yin's father, Yin Gang, committed suicide, and the families of her younger brothers Yin Yi, Yin Chang, and Deng Zhu were exiled to Bijing County, Ninan County (present-day southern Vietnam).
As soon as Empress Yin died, the Middle Palace was absent, and Deng Sui happily took the throne after three pushes and four false pushes.
At this point, Deng Sui has achieved half of her goals in life.
And her other half of the goal began to be achieved from the death of the emperor.
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