As mentioned above, the Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong adopted Liu Yan's suggestion to "change the state pastor", and for whatever purpose, at least he had begun to care about the military.
It is no wonder that there are wars everywhere, and all you hear in your ears are natural disasters and man-made disasters, and your heart will be somewhat touched.
Maybe you said: Emperor Han Ling is a greedy and lustful lord, a typical emperor. I fully agree, but there is only one undeniable point, whether it is "returning to the light" or "luck", in the middle and late period of Liu Hong's administration, there were many correct decisions, especially in the military aspect:
I won't mention it before 184.
However, there were too many rebel forces in various places, and "there were always people who wanted to harm the emperor", such as the warlock Xiang Kai, who after "watching the heavens at night", joined forces with Chen Fan's son Chen Yi and Jizhou Assassin Shi WangFen to take the opportunity of Emperor Ling's northern tour to kill eunuchs and depose the emperor.
Conspiring with them was Xu You, a native of Nanyang, the guy who had sacrificed his plan to burn The Nest, who was good friends with Cao Cao and knew that Cao Cao was undesirable, so he wanted to invite him to do it together, but Cao Cao thought it was unknown and refused to join the company.
At the critical moment, there was a "mainstream warlock" in the imperial court, after looking up at the night sky, he found that there was a red qi in the north, from east to west, across the sky, it was expected that there would be a conspiracy, the Ling Emperor changed his plan after listening to it, and ordered Wang Fen to disband the troops and come to Luoyang to chat about literature. Wang Fen thought that the matter had been exposed and was frightened to commit suicide. This feudal superstition is clearly recorded in historical records, but it is not what I said blindly...
Perhaps it was this escape from death that made the Han Ling Emperor see the magic of the spell, and he began to seek to use the spell to break the evil.
As I said just now, although the Han Ling Emperor fainted, he was not stupid, and he knew that spells could not suppress the danger that could be seen.
For example, Wang Ningzhi, the second son of Shusheng Wang Xizhi, believed in the Five Buckets of Rice Dao, so when sun En, the leader of the rebel army, brought troops to attack, the eldest brother actually did not set up a city defense, but instead took out a bunch of ghost paintings, claiming to have invited "ghost soldiers" to help the battle, and the guarantee would be safe, and the result was that the city was destroyed in minutes. Speaking of which, Sun En is still Wang Ningzhi's Daoist friend, but the "Dao behavior" of the two is obviously different.
Speaking of the Han Ling Emperor, in August 188, shortly after the Wang Fen Incident, the Eight Lieutenants of Xiyuan were opened, cao cao, Yuan Shao, and later Yuan Shao's general Chun Yuqiong, who were among them.
Visible dangers must be suppressed by force, and those who are invisible naturally rely on "magic."
In the winter of the same year, the "Qi Seeker" (presumably a warlock who relied on cloud qi to predict auspiciousness) told the Han Ling Emperor that there would be a military disaster in Luoyang, and there would be bloodshed in the northern and southern palaces.
Upon hearing this, Liu Hong ordered the craftsmen to build two large and small altars in Pinglan, build twelve and nine-fold canopy respectively, and dispatch more than 10,000 people from all over the country to ride and set up camps and formations, only to wait for the day of the first day to eliminate the disaster.
On the day of the military parade, the Han Ling Emperor called himself the "Supreme General", and personally stood under the canopy, clad in armor, mounted on a warhorse, circled the army three times, and then awarded the weapon to the great general He Jin.
I don't know how the effect of exorcism is, anyway, it sounds quite windy...
Emperor Hanling's "nonsense" changed a famous general's view of him because of one of the conversations.
I talked about Gai Xun's story earlier, he is an absolute good person, and he is also a good official who dares to speak out.
Therefore, when the Han Ling Emperor asked Gai Xun what he thought of this "military parade", Gai Xun replied: "The subject heard that 'the former king Yaode did not observe the soldiers'. Imakuri is far away and set up near Chen, not enough Zhao Guoyi, only Wu Er. This means that this not only fails to show Pingkou's determination, but also exposes the essence of his lack of heart and eyes.
As a result, the Han Ling Emperor did not get angry, but praised Gai Xun and said, "Good! Hating to see junwan, the group of courtiers was speechless at first. ”
Gai Xun was greatly moved after hearing this, and turned to Yuan Shao and said: The emperor is very clever, but he is blinded by the people around him.
No matter how absurd the previous Han Ling Emperor was, at least at this time, he acted like a Ming Jun.
Unfortunately, he believed in the Fa, but because of his dialogue with Gai Xun, he predicted his own death date.
After only half a year, Liu Hong died of a serious illness and died at the age of thirty-three.
Some people say that if Liu Hong established Liu Xie as emperor before his death, I am afraid that the Han Dynasty could continue.
Perhaps, but I think that the time is too short, Liu Xie is too small, He Jin is big, and it is not in line with the law. The great general He Jin was no longer the humble pig slayer he had been, and the group of ministers would not agree with the practice of abolishing the long and young.
Two days after Emperor Ling's death, the fourteen-year-old crown prince Liu Wei took the throne, honoring Empress He as empress dowager and bowing to the government. At the same time, he appointed the later general Yuan Kui as a taifu and co-presided over the Shangshu affairs with the general He Jin.
Perhaps you have found that this point in time is the key moment for Emperor Fusong to attack Xiliang, in other words, if Emperor Han Ling can hold out for another year and a half, perhaps there will be no Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Song Jian, the threat of nearly thirty years, of course, this has no impact on He Jin's dispute with the eunuchs, Dong Zhuo will still disturb the Han Chamber and wash Luoyang in blood.
The problem of Liangzhou was not solved under the rule of the Han Ling Emperor, which was his misfortune, but there was also a lucky side, such as Liu Yu quelling the rebellion in Northern Prefecture.
To say that the "Northern State Rebellion" was cultivated by Zhang Wen is not excessive.
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When this force reached Jixian County, due to food problems, the Wuhuan people defected and returned to the tribe.
After that, Zhang Ju proclaimed himself emperor, and Zhang Chun called himself the general of Mitian, played the slogan of "lifting up the contemporary Han", demanded the abdication of Emperor Ling, and ordered the secretary of state to welcome Zhang Ju.
Because Zhang Chun and others plundered the territory of The four prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, and Ji, Emperor Han Ling ordered Gongsun Zhan to go to the conquest, and Gongsun Zhan lived up to the expectations of the people, taking this opportunity to make a big fuss in Liaodong, and received the nickname of "General of the White Horse", but the rebel army was strong and could not be suppressed by force.
This goes back to the above mentioned that the Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong adopted a military policy of "one martial art and one ceremony", and before Gongsun Zhan, he also sent Liu Yu as the pastor of Youzhou to appease the rebels.
Liu Yu was not only a relative of the Han Dynasty, but also quite prestigious, and after he arrived in office, while sending envoys to the Xianbei tribe Chen To say what was at stake, while offering a heavy reward for Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's heads, Qiu Liju took the initiative to surrender because of Liu Yu's arrival, and the two Zhangs saw the situation and fled to Saiwai, until Zhang Chun was killed by his protégé Wang Zheng, Zhang Ju's whereabouts were unknown, and the Rebellion of Northern Zhou was fixed.
In 189, there were still countless rebel armies throughout the country, but with the death of the Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong, military operations, including the crusade against Liangzhou, were all stalled, except for the capital Luoyang.
Liu Wei's ascension to the throne did not dilute the contradiction between the great general He Jin and the eunuchs, and this seemingly unequal strength of the fight led to the greatest catastrophe of the Eastern Han Dynasty.