When the former emperor was there, whenever he discussed this matter with his subjects, he did not hesitate to sigh and hate Huan and Lingye. - "The Teacher's Table"
This is Zhuge Liang's Han Huan Emperor, is the Han Huan Emperor really as bad as he said?
In 146 AD, the Han Emperor Liu Ji was poisoned by the powerful minister Liang Ji, and the Eastern Han Dynasty once again fell into a moment without an emperor. So, the familiar script began again, looking for the emperor.
Because the emperor changes too quickly, the blood of the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty is too small, and it seems that it is not so easy to find an obedient, non-noisy, and young emperor, and the Han Emperor will suffer this fate because of his disobedience, so the matter of choosing an emperor must be cautious.
This generation is not easy to find, pick and choose to go to the previous generation to find, look around and pick up liu Zhi, the great-grandson of Emperor Hanzhang, who is only 15 years old.
For this matter, the ministers in the court seemed to be strange, and every minister could proudly say: "The most important thing we han lack is the little emperor."
Then the emperor is not the most pitiful figure of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it seems that he is admired above ten thousand people, but in fact, he is a Garfield who has always pulled out his teeth. Anyone can be in power, the empress, foreign relatives, eunuchs, but the emperor has no power, which is also sad.
In any case, he is now the son of the Great Han, although he is constrained.
Without any accident, Emperor Huan of Han began his career as a puppet.
Emperor Huan of Han
At the behest of Liang Ji, he did one thing after another.
In the first year of peace (150), Empress Liang could not survive.
The empress dowager returned to the government of the emperor and began to abolish the system. - Zizhi Tongjian, Vol. 53
In the Han Dynasty, the empress dowager has always been a group of more magical creatures, and their magic is long and contradictory.
They once loved the emperor, but they were deeply concerned about the wealth and glory of their mother's family, and it was precisely the emperor who left earlier than them. One by one, they went through two, three, or more dynasties. They are obsessed with power and eager to hold it in their hands, but in the end it is a void.
Therefore, before the empress dowager died, she instructed her to return the government to the emperor, but at this time, Liang Ji had already stopped listening to anyone's words, and his power was about to reach its peak.
Entering the dynasty can walk fast, you can wear a sword and shoes to the temple, you can see the emperor without calling yourself a name, and your power is greater than Xiao He, Deng Yu, and Huo Guang combined.
In the first year of Yuan Jia, the emperor wanted to have the merit of aiding the establishment, and wanted to worship the special ceremony, and he was the secretary of state of the assembly and discussed his ceremonies. Therefore, There was a Si Song Ji who did not tend to enter the dynasty, and he went to the temple, praised the nameless, and the etiquette was better than Xiao He; Xi Yi Dingtao and Chengyang Yu hu were added to the four counties, than Deng Yu; rewarded with money, slaves, mining, carriages and horses, clothes, Jia Di, Bi Huo Guang; and Yi Shu Yuanxun. Each pilgrimage will be held with the three princes. Ten days one person, Pingshang Shushi. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Is Liang Ji satisfied?
Not really.
"I hope that the etiquette played is thin, and I am not pleased."
Liang Ji was very unhappy, and Emperor Huan of Han was also helpless.
Unhappy and had to endure, so it endured for another 8 years, at this time the Han Huan Emperor was already 28 years old. Why is it said to be older? Because he only lived for 36 years.
In the first year of Yanxi (158), an incident directly caused The Han Huan Emperor Liu Zhi to kill.
solar eclipse
On this day, there was a solar eclipse, which is supposed to be a very normal astronomical phenomenon, but the ancients at that time were very superstitious. Therefore, Taishi Ling Chen Zhi said that it was because of Liang Ji.
The cause of the eclipse lies in the great general Liang Ji.
Who is Liang Ji? I think that Emperor Han was poisoned because he was a general, let alone a small Taishi Ling. Apparently, he was silenced.
This incident made Liu Zhi very angry, 'You can direct me to execute whom, but you can't bypass me to punish whom', so a thrilling change is about to begin.
In the second year of Yanxi (159), today next year is Liang Ji's death day, and Jesus cannot save him when he comes
The regime of the Eastern Han Dynasty has always been inseparable from eunuchs, and Emperor Huan of Han naturally needed the help of eunuchs.
But there are Liang Ji's eyeliner all around, so this matter certainly can't be taken out to the surface, and then it is selected in the toilet.
Liu Zhi found tang heng, who he trusted the most, and when he entered the toilet, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly opened the door, "Do you know who among the people around us is at odds with Liang Ji?" This sentence is asked at a very high level, if Tang Heng is not his own person, you can find an excuse to say that he cares about Liang Ji's prevarication in the past, if Tang Heng is his own person, he can directly proceed to the next step.
Liu Zhi's luck was also really good, Tang Heng directly answered the "secret code", confirmed that the eyes were the person that Emperor Huan of Han was looking for.
Tang Heng introduced him to several "younger brothers", and Liu Zhi was really unambiguous, directly allied with several people and worshipped a handle.
So a few people began to act.
Say it's late, that's fast. Several people summoned Zhang Biao, a lieutenant colonel in the name of Liu Zhi, and mobilized troops to directly surround Liang Ji's General's Mansion. Don't look at Liang Ji as a mighty blessing in peacetime, but at the crucial moment, the wall fell down and everyone pushed, and everyone joined the eunuch camp. Seeing that Liang Ji was not right, he directly chose to commit suicide, and the Liang Group was swept away.
Liang Ji perished, but new problems came, and Liang Ji's five "allies" did it.
The dragon slayer boy eventually became a vicious dragon, and several eunuchs were also crowned marquises.
Emperor Huan of Han spent the first half of his life in the shadow of his relatives, who returned power to eunuchs, and Emperor Huan also fell drunk in gentle townships in the last years of his reign.
Perhaps, there will be a man's dignity found there.
As for, is he really as bad as Zhuge Liang said? Maybe in that environment at that time, he could only do this.