Luoyang, a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history and more than 1,500 years of capital construction history, has created countless legends of Chinese civilization. "Shannanshui north is yang", Luoyang is named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, and the Heluo area centered on Luoyang is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. The ruins of the five major capitals of Xia Du, Shang Du Xi Bo, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han Wei Luoyang City, and Sui and Tang Luoyang City are lined up along the Luo River, which is rare in the world. More than a hundred emperors ruled here. Today, I will talk about liu zheng, the young emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Young Emperor Liu Jie (176 – 6 March 190) reigned for 5 months in 189. His father was Liu Hong, the Emperor of Han, and his mother was a palace maid from Wan County, Nanyang County (present-day Nanyang, Henan). Deposed as King Hongnong, he became the only deposed emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, committed suicide under the coercion of Dong Zhuo, at the age of fifteen, and was the only deposed emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, buried near present-day Luoyang, Henan Province.
During the reign of the Young Emperor, the Eastern Han Dynasty had already died in name only. In 184 AD (the year of Jiazi), the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out outside the imperial court, and the Eastern Han court was unable to suppress it, delegating power to the localities, forming a situation of warlord division; within the imperial court, a group of foreign relatives headed by the great general He Jin and a group of eunuchs headed by the Ten Constant Attendants appeared. On the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the sixth summer of Zhongping (May 13, 189 AD), the Ling Emperor died. After the Young Emperor took the throne, all political affairs depended on the He Jin foreign clique under the control of the Pro-Dynasty. The contradiction between the He Jin foreign relatives group and the eunuch group intensified, and finally led to the occurrence of palace changes.
During the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, there was a group of eunuchs, known as the "Ten Constant Attendants". The Ten Constant Attendants refer to the twelve eunuchs who manipulated the power of Emperor Ling during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China (25-220 AD): Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Jue, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, Han Wu, and Song Dian, all of whom served as Zhongchang attendants. Its leaders were Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong. In April of the sixth year of Zhongping, in the early summer of 189 AD, Emperor Ling was dying of illness and planned to make Liu Xie, the crown prince of Wang Meisheng, the crown prince. However, the Ten Constant Attendants believed that killing the great general He Jin first could protect the future peace of the crown prince. He Jin was originally a pig killer, because his sister was Empress He, and he gave birth to the crown prince Liu Zhen, and He Jin took control of the power. He Jin knew that the emperor wanted to kill him, but did not enter the palace, returned home, and summoned the ministers to discuss how to kill the ten permanent attendants. Yuan Shao advised He Jin to kill the eunuchs of the Ten Constant Attendants as soon as possible, and He Jin told Empress He about this idea, and Empress He was favoring Zhang Rang and others, so she disagreed. Shi Dongzhuo, the assassin sent by the imperial court to lead the troops to Xiliang, had an army of 200,000 under his command and was very ambitious. On this day, he received He Jin's letter, and his heart was very happy, and he raised an army to march to the capital Luoyang. When Zhang Rang, Duan Gui, and other eunuchs heard the wind, they decided to strike first, so they first sent fifty swordsmen and axemen to ambush inside the Jiade Gate of Changle Palace, and asked Empress He to summon He into the palace. He Jin consciously held the power of the world in his hands and did not listen to dissuasion to enter the palace. As soon as he entered the door, he was hacked to death by the Ten Constant Attendants. He Jin's subordinates Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang, Yuan Shu, and others who saw He Jin's heads were thrown out of the wall, and they were furious, brandishing swords and shouting into the palace, and when they met eunuchs, no matter how big or small, they were all killed. On August 26, 189, the first year of Guangxi (189 AD), after dawn, eunuchs took the opportunity to coerce Empress He, The Young Emperor, Chen Liuwang, and officials and subordinates in the province, and abducted other officials in the palace and fled from the Tianqiao Pavilion to the Deyang Hall of the North Palace. Empress He was rescued by Shangshu Lu Zhi halfway through. On the afternoon of August 27, the first year of Guangxi (189 AD), Zhang Rang, Duan Gui, and others were forced to pursue the soldiers, trapped in the Northern Palace, and had no way to do anything, kidnapping the Young Emperor, Chen Liuwang and dozens of other people to walk out of the valley gate. After nightfall, we reach Xiaopingjin on the bank of the Yellow River. In central Henan, Min Gong reached Xiaopingjin on the bank of the Yellow River at night. The young emperor was hungry and thirsty, and Min Gong killed sheep and entered the army, and then reprimanded Zhang Rang and others for causing trouble in the country and chaos, and hacked several eunuchs to death with swords. Zhang Rang and others committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river. Min Gong helped the Young Emperor and King Chen Liu to walk a few miles in the night, got a board car from the people's family, and the three of them rode to luoshe. In the first year of Guangxi (189 AD), after dawn on August 28, xin wei found two horses, the Young Emperor rode one alone, and King Chen Liu and Min Gong rode one together, and traveled south from Luoshe.
At the behest of He Jinzhi, dong Zhuo, the governor of Hezhou, led an army to Xianyang Yuan, and when he heard that the Young Emperor and his party were about to return to the palace in the north, he led his army and his ministers to meet the Young Emperor at the Northern Mangshan (present-day Northern Mount) north of Luoyang City. When the Young Emperor saw Dong Zhuo suddenly leading a large army, he wept and wept in horror, and his words were incoherent, while King Chen Liu replied like a stream. After Dong Zhuo entered The Capital, he declared himself Sikong and his power fell to the opposition. On the first day of September of the first month of the first year of Zhaoning (September 28, 189 AD), Dong Zhuo summoned hundreds of officials at the Chongde Qiandian and forced Empress He to issue an edict to establish Liu Xie as emperor, depose the emperor as the King of Hongnong, and return the empress dowager to the government. King Chen Liu then ascended the throne and changed his name to Yuan Yonghan to emperor of Han.