Text: Lao Dazi
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Preface
Within half a month, he had to fight with 120 palace maids, built more than 1,000 naked swimming halls, and invented open crotch pants for palace maids, and also sold them publicly at a clear price for official positions. These things are all real in history, and they are all from the hands of one person, he is Emperor Ling of Han.
Emperor Ling of Han
Today, Lao Dazi will talk to you about this absurd Emperor Han Ling~
is regarded as a "puppet" to support the upper position
Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty, as the son of a prince, was originally not capable of inheriting the throne, but unexpectedly became the emperor. Maybe even he didn't expect that he would become the Ninety-Five Supreme, all thanks to Queen Dou.
After the death of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty, the court and the opposition were controlled by Empress Dou and her father Dou Wu. However, despite Liu Zhi's extravagant life, the queens gave birth to three children, but none of them had a son.
Liu Zhi, Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty
Since there was no prince, the throne could only be chosen from Liu Heng's nephew. Although Liu Heng has many nephews, and there are some talented people among them, Liu Hong, who is only 12 years old, has been favored by the Empress Dowager Dou.
Empress Dowager Dou took a fancy to Liu Hong, not because he had any special future, but only because a young child was easier to control. It can be said that Empress Dowager Dou just wants to support a "puppet emperor".
Empress Dowager Dou gave an order, and Liu Hong was taken into the palace in a daze to hold a mourning ceremony for his "father" who fell from the sky. After Liu Hong ascended the throne, he didn't care about any government affairs and indulged in fun all day long.
Empress Dowager Dou
Although many members of the Dou family were promoted to officials, the Dou family was not satisfied with this, and they united with others to try to bring down the eunuch group. But unexpectedly, the news leaked out, and the eunuchs launched a coup d'état to directly wipe out the Dou clan and their comrades.
Since then, Liu Hong has also begun his own ruling career. However, in the past 20 years, he has shown the characteristics of mediocrity, incompetence, and extravagance.
A rich man who was delayed by the emperor's identity
1. Clearly mark the price and sell the official beard
Generally speaking, the monarch has always attached great importance to the selection of talents, but Emperor Ling of Han is ingenious in this regard. He adopted a unique method of selling official titles and titles at a clear price, and local official positions also had corresponding prices.
Sell the official beard
If a position is considered to be "fat", then there will be many people who want to get the position, so the final winner will be determined by bidding, so that the talent selection process has evolved into a market economy model.
In addition to spending money to become an official, Emperor Ling of Han also formulated another bizarre rule: if you want to be promoted, you don't need to rely on hard work and contribution, but you need to pay a certain fee.
No matter how great an official's merit and prestige is, he can only be promoted if he has enough to pay for it. It can be said that this approach is closely linked to power and money.
As the saying goes, wool comes out of sheep. In fact, the money spent on the purchase and promotion of official positions was actually obtained by officials who looted the property of the common people through corruption and perception. When this group of people is in power, how can the state and the people enjoy happiness and well-being? Obviously, such a situation can only hasten the decline and destruction of the country.
Among them, Cao Mengde's father, Cao Song, once spent a lot of money to buy an official position of the head of the three princes: Taiwei, which is unprecedented in Chinese history.
Cao Song
Relatively speaking, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty can be regarded as a relatively powerful emperor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but he never really understood what imperial power was. The purpose of his public sale of official positions was only for his own personal gain, not to expand the treasury and benefit the people.
He pursued only personal pleasure, not the long-term peace and stability of the country.
2. Excessive lewdness, don't plant it with heart
He was a controversial emperor in Chinese history, known as the King of Lust, and his fascination with the beauty of Emperor Ling of Han was widely discussed. Many people envy the luxurious life of the Korean chaebol, but they don't understand that compared to the ancient Chinese emperors, the chaebol can only be regarded as a small thing.
After Liu Hong became an adult, he was addicted to beauty and couldn't extricate himself, and he had a soft spot for some beautiful palace maids, and almost none of them could escape from his clutches. At his peak, he pampered 120 palace maids in just half a month.
In order to facilitate his own pleasure, Liu Hong even invented the "open crotch pants", which required all palace maids to wear them to save the trouble of undressing.
In addition to the invention of the open crotch pants, Liu Hong may have been one of the first to come up with the concept of an "open-air pool". He built a huge swimming pool in his harem and allowed his concubines and ladies to swim naked and spend their days with him for fun.
As for the so-called national governance and national interests, Liu Hong seems to have long forgotten them.
Even the ruler of this country personally learned the culture of Xi the Hu people, dressed in Hu costumes, and played Hu music, and the civil and military officials in the court in order to please this mediocre emperor, even let the dog wear official clothes to get ahead, to a certain extent, it can be said that it has slipped to the absurd extreme.
Why is it so ridiculous?
1. Born in an ordinary place, he worked hard to collect money after taking the position
Emperor Ling of Han was only an insignificant pavilion marquis before he ascended the throne, his father died early, and he could only rely on his mother Dong to survive. Although he was able to make ends meet, he did not enjoy a prosperous life.
Therefore, as soon as he became emperor, he began to feel that his own "poverty" problem was plaguing him. In order to gain a sense of security, he did not hesitate to use various means to accumulate wealth. His goal is to live a rich life and become a wealthy man even if he loses the throne in the future.
2. Eunuch dictatorship
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was still very young when he first ascended the throne, and the government was mainly controlled by the general Dou Wu and the Taifu Chen Fan. At that time, the phenomenon of eunuchs interfering in politics was quite serious, mainly because the previous Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty had supported eunuchs to weaken the autocratic power of his relative Liang Ji.
After Liang Ji's execution, the eunuchs' power grew, and Dou Wu and Chen Fan planned to eliminate their influence. In September of the first year of Jianning, the eunuchs Wang Fu, Cao Jie and others preemptively launched a coup d'état, exterminating Dou Wu and Chen Fan, and completely lost restraint from then on.
Objectively speaking, many of the absurd behaviors of Emperor Ling of Han are not entirely his personal responsibility, after all, he ascended the throne at the age of twelve, and has since grown up to become an emperor surrounded by eunuchs, and his perception of many things is completely based on mistakes.
Under the guidance of the eunuchs, Emperor Ling of Han mistakenly believed that the Quartet was safe, and that everything was fine if he only needed to enjoy himself. From the eunuchs' point of view, the emperor's indifference to government affairs allowed them to fully control the government and exercise power at will.
Old Dazi said
As emperor, Emperor Ling of Han was extremely incompetent, although the intervention of eunuchs and the control of the government were the main reasons for Emperor Ling's indulgence in pleasure. They took advantage of the naivety and ignorance of Emperor Ling of Han to firmly control the government in their own hands, regardless of national affairs and the suffering of the people.
But he has many things to hate, and he is only interested in his own pleasures, and he is blind to the sufferings of the people. handed over the government to the favored ministers to take care of, but ignored the loyal ministers such as Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song, who had been paying for the country.
The fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty is undoubtedly to blame for Emperor Ling of Han.
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