The emperor is the best job in the world: endless money, unused women, and whatever you want, but for Liu Zhao, the Han and emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, being an emperor is a very tiring errand. Not only to learn to be a puppet, but also to fear being killed by the minister at any time.
Although he married his wife at the age of 14, none of the sons he gave birth to lived well, and in the end, there was no way, the wife gave birth to a child, and he sent it to the countryside for foster care. Not only that, but there are endless recitals and busy work every day. After 13 years of hard work, in the end, I really couldn't stand it, and the 27-year-old Han He Emperor gave up the good years and died.
Han and Emperor
Why did Han he become emperor
Born in 79, Liu Zhao, the Emperor of Han, was the fourth son of Emperor Liu Zhao of Han, and his mother was named Liang Guiren. Emperor Zhang of Han had a total of 8 sons: the eldest son Liu Ling, the second son Liu Quan, the third son Liu Qing, the fourth son Liu Zhao, the fifth son Liu Shou, the sixth son Liu Kai, the seventh son Liu Shu, and the eighth son Liu Long Live.
Almost all of Liu Zhao's older brothers and brothers were born of nobles and belonged to concubines in terms of status, and as for why he became emperor, it was mainly because Liu Zhao's adoptive mother was Empress Dou, the eldest wife of Emperor Zhang of Han.
Empress Dou was the granddaughter of Liu Qiang, the Prince of Donghai, and her great-grandfather was Dou Rong, the founding general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but her family fell in the middle of the road, and in Empress Dou's generation, she could only live on her former savings. With the task of reviving the Dou family, Empress Dou entered the imperial palace, and by virtue of her cleverness and natural beauty, Empress Dou became the only empress during the han Zhangdi period.
But the queen has no children, what to do? Among these sons of Emperor Zhang of Han, the eldest was not born well, the second died very early, and the third was the crown prince at that time, and according to the seniority, he chose the fourth liu Zhao as the adopted son of Empress Dou.
I have to say that Empress Dou is a very far-sighted woman, who brought other people's children over to raise herself, and when she grows up, she will still go to find her own biological mother, what to do, directly killing the child's mother, too cruel, so she drove Liu Zhao's biological mother Liang Guiren out of the palace.
His only child was taken away like this, he couldn't take a look at it, where the young Liang Guiren could stand it, and within a few years he was depressed and died.
Empress Dou has never had a child, looking at this lively little boy in her arms, Empress Dou likes it very much, it should be said that although Liu Zhao lost his biological mother, his childhood was still happier than his brothers and brothers.
When Liu Zhao was 4 years old, with the efforts of Empress Dowager Dou, Emperor Zhang of Han deposed the crown prince Liu Qing and made the fourth prince instead.
Is the crown prince saying that the abolition is abolished, of course not, but the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty are generally afraid of their wives, and in the harem, it has always been Empress Dou who has the final say. Since Empress Dowager Dou could frame Liang Guiren and make her give up her own son, of course, she could frame Liu Qing's mother, Song Guiren, and finally, logically, abolished the crown prince Liu Qing.
Liu Zhao's appointment as crown prince was made on June 18, the seventh year of the founding of the first year (82), and six years later, on April 9 of the second year of Zhang He (88), the 31-year-old Emperor Zhang of Han died, and the ten-year-old Liu Zhao successfully ascended the throne, and Empress Dou became the empress dowager who listened to the government as she wished.
Empress Dowager Dou
How the Han and Emperors were pro-government
At the age of ten, when we were still in elementary school, it was obvious that the ten-year-old Liu Zhao could not take on the responsibility of governing the country, so Empress Dou replaced Liu Zhao. In order to be better boss, Empress Dou began to promote her own mother's family, and those who wore a pair of crotches from childhood were the family.
Therefore, Empress Dou successively promoted her elder brother Dou Xian, and her younger brothers Dou Du and Dou Jing to serve as zhonglang generals and zhongchang attendants. Zhonglang will be the leader of the Imperial City Janissaries, and Zhongchang shi is the emperor's side of the air, and the emperor's important instructions are issued through Zhongchangshi.
Among these brothers of Empress Dowager Dou, the most capable and holding the highest position was Empress Dowager Dou's eldest brother Dou Xian. There are people on the top who are good at doing things, and now this country is surnamed Dou, so the upstart Dou Xian really experienced a feeling of turning over as a master, flying, and putting those who had bullied themselves and looked unhappy, all of them were in prison, and since then, no one dared to resist, and every day they encountered some little people who slapped their asses.
After a long time, Dou Xian had an illusion that no one in the world dared to rebel against him, plus Dou Xian went out to conquer Saiwai and defeated the invincible Xiongnu army. All the time was ripe, and now the only thing Dou Xian wanted to do was to learn from Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty and prepare to truly control the world in the hands of the Dou family, saying so much, in fact, Dou Xian wanted to kill Han He and become emperor himself!
The crisis we are talking about, from another aspect, is the opportunity contained in the danger, and Dou Xian's desire to usurp the throne is a good opportunity for Han and Emperor Liu Zhao to eliminate the chaotic party and pro-government.
Let's compare Dou Xian and Wang Mang to see what the chances of success in Dou Xian's usurpation of the throne are.
Dou Xian and Wang Mang both successfully ascended to the throne through empress dowagers and later seized power in the state, but the obvious difference between the two was that Dou Xian was too anxious. Wang Mang waited for 8 years from serving as the Grand Sima to usurping the throne, experienced three emperors, and had a broad mass base, and the common people felt that Wang Mang was a rare saint.
Dou Xian relied on Empress Dowager Dou's yuyin to become a high official, and although he defeated the Xiongnu, Dou Xian's qualifications were obviously not enough. If Dou Xian can launch a new policy, continuously improve the lives of ordinary people, establish the concept of "following Dou Xian to have food", operate for a few years, have enough prestige, and then launch a coup d'état, the chances of success may be much greater.
Unfortunately, Dou Xian was too anxious, Liu Zhao succeeded to the emperor less than four years, Dou Xian thought about these things, of course, Dou Xian also has his advantages, Dou Xian relied on the fact that after the Xiongnu expedition, mastered the national soldiers and horses, but so many soldiers, it is impossible to take around all day, Han and Emperor used is, when Dou Xian is alone, block him (PS: originally, Kangxi assassinated Aobai that bridge section, borrowing from here Wow).
On June 23 of the 4th year of Yongyuan (14 August 92), Emperor Han and Emperor Wu joined forces with the eunuchs Zheng Zhong and Situ and Wei Weiguan Ding Hong to bring Dou Xian into the capital and close the city gates. Overnight, all of Dou's minions were imprisoned, and Dou Xian and his younger brothers Dou Du, Dou Jing, and Dou Huan all collected their sealed letters and drove them out of the capital.
The Deng Die brothers and Guo Ying's father and son, who participated in Dou Xian's rebellion, were also pulled to the noon gate and clicked.
When such a big incident occurred, Empress Dowager Dou, the commander of the Guangzhu Commandery, was not embarrassed to continue to listen to the government, and in this way, Liu Zhao, the 14-year-old Han and emperor, took back his own power and pro-government.
The 14-year-old emperor, still a child, was only for the purpose of pro-government to save his life, so he drove away Dou Xian, and the eunuchs were the next to take the stage. The Palace is a big dye shop, and no matter how kind you are on the outside, when you get here, you only pursue one thing: power.
We have been saying that throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty, the women and eunuchs around the emperor sang the two-person turn, and basically there was nothing for the emperor to do.
Once again, Ban Chao in the Western Regions was recaptured
Is Han He Emperor a good emperor?
To discuss this issue, one need only look at what the Han and emperors did after they came to power:
1. The main reason for the four times that the government has issued orders to recruit talents is that Dou Xian plotted rebellion, and all officials of all sizes who were involved with Dou Xian rushed home. No one is an official, and then recruit, this move, it is recruited four times;
2. Judging from the attitude of Emperor Han He toward Dou Xian and Empress Dowager Dou, Emperor Han He was an old and good man, so the characteristics of his reign were benevolent government. Including tax reductions and exemptions, disaster relief, resettlement of displaced persons, and advocacy of leniency;
3, reuse eunuchs, in the palace, for the emperor, the best relationship, day and night friends only these eunuchs.
When Han and the emperor were pro-government, the ministers left by his father were basically dead. Some time ago, watching "The Kangxi Emperor", the Kangxi Emperor Xuanye was such a superb figure, from pro-government to killing Aobai and destroying Wu Sangui, all of which were supported by his grandmother Empress Xiaozhuang behind his back.
What does this mean, no matter how powerful the characters, they all need people to guide them, and who are the people who guide han and the emperor? Eunuchs, which is why throughout the Han and Emperor era, and even in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs held so much power.
How did Emperor Han and Emperor Die?
On December 22, the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (105), Emperor Han he died of illness at the Zhangde Front Hall in Luoyang, Kyoto, at the age of twenty-seven. After the death of Emperor Hanhe, his youngest son Liu Long was born only more than 100 days ago, and the empress Dowager Deng of the Hanhe Emperor period was behind the curtain.
There are many theories about the early death of Han and the emperor, and the most popular is that the harem poisoned and killed. In fact, there is another reason, that is, the Han and emperors are too early, resulting in wives marrying too early, what does it mean?
Han and Emperor had a total of two empresses, and in 92 AD, Han and Emperor Gang took over the government, and had their first wife, Empress Yin, and the rest of the concubines. In 95 AD, he welcomed his second wife, Deng Sui, who we call Empress Deng.
When Han Hedi was 14 years old, he had a wife, and when he was growing his body, he began to crackle with his wife, and his body was prematurely overdrawn. Historians suspect that this is also why the sons of the Han and Emperors began from birth, died of death, and fell ill.
Finally, when I wanted to find an heir, I found that liu sheng, the king of the old plains, was a disabled person, and the second liu long was born only 100 days ago.
After the second eldest Liu Long became emperor, he immediately broke the record, with two firsts: the first age to inherit the throne (only 100 days), the first time to be an emperor (220 days), and finally there was no way, after the death of the Han Emperor Liu Long, Empress Deng found the third elder of the Han Zhang Emperor, the son of Liu Qing, the former prince of Qinghe Xiaowang Liu Qing, Liu Hu (read hu), became the sixth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.