Yang Jiaofeng on the Three Kingdoms No. 2:
After entering the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the reigning emperor did not have a single adult, and since the Han and Emperors, eight minor emperors have taken the throne.
Among these little emperors, the oldest was only thirteen years old when he ascended the throne (Liu Hu, the Emperor of Han'an), and the youngest was only a hundred days (Liu Yi, the Infant Emperor of the Han Dynasty), which triggered the power change between the foreign clique and the eunuch clique in the last hundred years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Even when the two emperors, The Han Heng Emperor and the Han Ling Emperor, took the throne, the two emperors were older when they took the throne, one was fifteen years old and the other was twelve years old, and the political situation still did not change.
But these two emperors, especially the Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong's destruction of the Eastern Han court, is far greater than the previous eight little emperors, and our story begins here...
Yang Jiaofeng on the Three Kingdoms No. 2: The great snake descends from the sky, the sea floods, the hen becomes a rooster, and the year number can break the ominous omen?
One
In Chinese history, there are often some signs before a dynasty is about to come to an end, or before it is about to suffer major changes, and historians often record this in writing.
In the previous issue, we also said that in 168 AD (the first year of Jianning), there was a vision in the world, and there was a solar eclipse in the Great Han Dynasty. At this time, the Han Ling Emperor had just ascended the throne, which was the beginning of the struggle between the foreign relatives group and the eunuch group, and Chen Fan and Dou Wu saw this opportunity and immediately wrote a letter requesting that the eunuchs be exempted from participating in politics, which triggered the second disaster of the party.
In the face of this strange celestial phenomenon, the people at that time did not understand the relationship between the sun, the earth and the moon, and only thought that the imperial court had a demon, disaster was about to happen, the people were afraid, and the emperor was afraid.
I thought that by destroying these alarmist scholars, the world would be too peaceful, but unfortunately, Emperor Han Ling (Empress Dowager Dou) thought wrongly. In the second year of the reign of the Han Ling Emperor, that is, in 169 AD (the second year of Jianning), something big happened to the imperial court again.
It was when the Han Ling Emperor was in the Wende Hall one day, and the great snake descended from heaven and fell on the dragon chair at once, which could scare this teenage little emperor. The little emperor was so ignorant that he actually fainted to death, and the guards on both sides heroically rescued the little emperor to the palace next door, and those civil and military officials who were present had long been scared away.
When everyone woke up and came to check on the big snake, it was long gone, followed by thunder and lightning, and the torrential rain mixed with hail fell from the sky until midnight, which also led to the destruction of many palaces.
Two
As the saying goes, the great serpent descended from heaven, and there will be demons in the middle of the country, and the demon-removers will soon flash out:
In fact, from our current point of view, there are not so many mysterious things in it, at most the palace has fallen into disrepair for a long time. What birds, snakes, made their home on the beams of the house, and as a result there was a storm that day, and the wind blew and fell.
For the emperor, either change the palace office, after all, there are many palaces in the palace, and there is no shortage of this one. Or find someone to repair the palace, replace the rotten wood, and catch bugs and birds at the same time, which is not a big deal.
But how can such a good opportunity to eliminate dissidents by taking advantage of the celestial phenomenon be let go, and what is more coincidental is that the snake disappeared afterwards. After it was gone, it was immediately stormy and haily, which made others think more, is this a coincidence, will it be a warning from heaven to the emperor?
Therefore, Dasi Nong Zhang And others took the opportunity to cry out for Dou Wu, Chen Fan and others, and demanded that the emperor get rid of the demons (eunuchs) around him. But as mentioned just now, Liu Hong, the Emperor of Han Ling at this time, was a small puppet, and the eunuch group had already used him to get rid of the Dou family, and at this time, zhang yi and others would not succeed.
Liu Hong, the little emperor, was actually quite sad, his father died early, and he was hereditary Marquis of Xieduting early, but no one taught him how to manage the country. If it weren't for Emperor Huan of Han, the eight rods wouldn't have been able to beat him to the throne, and you should know that the titles of the Han Dynasty were divided into kings and marquises, and hou was divided into county marquises, township marquises, and pavilion marquises, and this Liu Hong was a tinghou.
The stupid boy has never seen the world, everything is fresh when he enters the palace, the empress dowager and her uncles often point fingers at themselves, where are the eunuchs obedient?
Three
After two years, the Luoyang earthquake in Beijing, the side effect of the earthquake is that the sea level on the southeast coast has risen, so many ordinary people along the coast have been swept into the sea.
The eunuchs thought about it, it was broken, and the soldiers were talking about the celestial signs, saying that we were demons, and this time we had to take the initiative to attack.
Find the little emperor!
The little emperor was so easily fooled, a snake fell from the sky, and it rained at night, both of which could be pulled to the dissatisfaction of the heavens, and if the Eastern Han Dynasty wanted to finish it, then treat his body in the way of a man.
This celestial phenomenon is abnormal, it is not that there are any demons in the DPRK, but that there is a problem with the year number we have, Jianning is not good, let's change Xiping, right?
Needless to say, since changing the Xiping era name, the Eastern Han Dynasty has not had any abnormal celestial phenomena for six consecutive years, and the Han Ling Emperor has also grown up and can be pro-government.
In 178 AD, the Han Ling Emperor changed another era name, presumably to celebrate the six years of peace and security in Xiping, so it was changed to Guanghe, which means light and peace.
This change, can be changed, light and the first year, the palace is not at all light and ah:
In April, a hen in the temple suddenly stopped laying eggs, not only did not lay eggs, but also gradually grew a chicken crown, and one day jumped on the branch and screamed "Oh Oh Oh Oh".
In fact, it is not unusual for hens to be transgender, because chickens themselves retain two sets of reproductive systems during development. If there is not a single rooster in a flock of chickens, in order to maintain the reproduction of the group, one of the hens will heroically jump out and become a rooster, which is called sexual reversal. Of course, this change is only the appearance of a rooster, whose genes are still hens.
Four
The incidence of male-female conversion of this chicken is very low, and the loss caused to the chicken breeder is not large, but the insult and the shock blow to the chicken farmer are extremely strong!
Therefore, since ancient times, if this situation occurs in the hens raised, the chicken farmers often feel obscure and think that there will be disasters.
From this, we can infer that the chickens raised in this temple are all hens, and we should really understand that other people's hens do not have the suffering of the opposite sex!
In June, another disaster occurred, this time in the Wind Temple, just like the Great Serpent descended from heaven a few years ago. Only this time it was estimated that the palace was repaired, and no snake fell down, but a black dragon flew in.
The black dragon is naturally invisible, of course, it cannot be said to be completely invisible, at least it exists in the form of a black air mass.
In July, even more amazing, the Jade Hall, that is, the Nangong side actually showed a huge rainbow light, not only that, the Wuyuan Mountain Bank also "collapsed", that is, the landslide.
This succession of strange things can make the Han Ling Emperor suspicious, why did he just change the era name, there were many disasters, did the previous eunuchs not deceive, is it really related to the change of the year number?
Or is it that God was really dissatisfied with what he had done during this time and deliberately gave him a warning? This time, I couldn't listen to the eunuch's one-sided words, so I had to ask the courtiers what they thought of these things?
In this way, one day in the heavens, Liu Hong asked the courtiers, what was going on with this succession of visions?
This question is too difficult to answer, after all, there are so many clear examples there before, no one is willing to ask for trouble, so most people avoid answering.
Five
The meeting was so inexplicably dispersed that when the ministers returned, one of them could not sit still...
This person is Cai Yong, the yilang, about this person may be a little strange to everyone, but his daughter everyone must know, that is, the King driving a rocking car around the Cai Wenji (in fact, the family is a talented woman of the Eastern Han Dynasty).
Cai Yong did not dare to speak above the court, but he could send a secret fold, so he wrote a letter to the emperor with a pen:
Emperor, these visions during this time all show that the heavens are dissatisfied with the use of people in the imperial court, and there must be villains running rampant above the court, so the emperor wants to kiss the virtuous subjects, far from the villains, and revitalize the prosperity of the ancestors.
Yes, the different reasons for the first Han and the later Han mentioned by Zhuge Liang on the master's table were actually mentioned by Cai Yong long ago. He not only mentioned the reasons, but also listed the names of those sages, villains, and let the emperor sift through them.
Because it was a secret fold, it naturally had the meaning of keeping the emperor secret, and the Han Ling Emperor was already an adult at this time, and he was not a fool, naturally just like the later Liu Chan, he was touched by this loyal subject, and then he thought about it.
The emperor's face changed, naturally he could not escape the eyes of the eunuch Cao Jie who was waiting around, he thought, broken, there must be good things people who have given the emperor bad ideas again, what to do?
Although the eunuch and the emperor walked closely, they did not dare to look at it in a dignified manner.
Coincidentally, this Liu Hong suddenly urinated urgently, and even the folds were not closed, and he ran to the hut with his pants. He gave Cao Jie a chance to run, he hurriedly ran over and glanced at it, and at this glance, he saw that his name was prominently listed on the list of villains.
Six
It should be known that when Dou Wu and Chen Fan were originally killed, it was this Cao Jie who joined forces with The Five Senses of Changle, Shi Zhuyu, and other Correctional Dynasties to kill them.
Cao Jie thought to himself, this is to take revenge, that is not okay, I have to consult with the other eunuchs, let them go out and kill Cai Yong.
As a result, one of these eunuchs, Cheng Kuang, used his son-in-law Liu Guo (劉胪郃) and the general Yang Qiu (劉球) to have a conflict with Cai Yong and his uncle Wei Wei (蔡質). The uncle and nephew who slandered Cai Yong and Cai Qian repeatedly asked Liu Gao, saying that Cai Yong might be plotting against him, and sent Cai Yong and Cai Qian to prison on this charge.
Of course, there are not all bad people among the eunuchs, there is a lieutenant general Lü Qiang, who feels that when will the injustice be repaid, the next time people fight back, won't they also be on the list? So he helped to intercede, and the Han Ling Emperor originally did not want to get rid of Cai Yong, so he got off the donkey down the slope, shaved Cai Yong's whole family into a bald head, and exiled him to the current Tibet region.
Of course, Cai Yong can't die yet, because in a few years, he will come back, of course, this is an afterthought, we will talk about it later.
But there is a sentence that Cai Yong is not wrong, the vision of the world is really very ominous, not only for himself, but also for the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Without people like Cai Yong, the eunuchs in the court were even more hesitant, thus forming the "Ten Constant Attendants" headed by Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong. Emperor HanLing also affectionately called Zhang Rang "Father" and Zhao Zhong "Mother", so what happened next?
We'll talk about it next time!
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