A few days after Liu Xie's birth, his birth mother Wang Rong was poisoned to death by Empress He, and for this reason, the Han Ling Emperor Long Yan was furious and announced the abolition of Empress He on the spot.
Empress He was born in a humble background, originally from a family of butchers in Nanyang, and was promoted to a nobleman by giving birth to a son of Emperor Hanling, Liu Wei, but she could not be promoted to empress (Empress Song was dead), and waited for three years to climb to the throne of the empress. This poisoning of Wang Rong was only less than half a year before he ascended to the throne of the empress, because this incident almost ruined the future of the He family.
In the end, it was Zhongchang's attendant Zhang Rang and others who stood up to intercede for Empress He and took out money to discourage Emperor Ling, and this dangerous pass could be overcome.
Emperor Ling later entrusted Liu Xie to his mother, Empress Dong, to raise him, and was known as "Marquis Dong".
It can be said that when Emperor Ling was alive, the He family would not fight Liu Xie's idea again.
Portrait of Liu Xie
In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), emperor Ling died and Liu Zheng succeeded to the throne, Liu Zheng was the bloodline of the He clan, and the great general He Jin Bingzheng could say that the supreme power of the Eastern Han Empire fell into the hands of the He family.
A few days after He Jin came to power, the first thing he did was to get rid of his political enemy, Lieutenant Jian Shuo of the Military Academy of the Xiyuan Army, and then get rid of Empress Dong and Dong Chong, the general of the Hussars, and it can be said that Liu Xie had no protective umbrella at all in the palace.
Liu Xie was first crowned king of Bohai and then king of Chen Liu, but he never left the capital division for half a step, and it is not known whether He Jin wanted to get rid of Liu Xie.
First, Liu Xie was only nine years old (at an imaginary age), and he was a lonely man in the palace, without any power.
Second, He Jin followed Yuan Shao's advice and wanted to eliminate Zhang Rang and others and achieve family fame.
It can be said that even if He Jin had the intention to kill Liu Xie, he would not have time to operate this matter, because his primary political target was the eunuch. Moreover, Liu Xie was like the little white rabbit to the He family, without any threat.
After He Jin came to power, Empress Dowager Dong (who was promoted after Liu Zhen ascended the throne) was impeached by he Jin's brothers and the three dukes, asking him to leave Luoyang, and she also fell ill shortly after learning of the death of her nephew Dong Chong. According to the records of the Fan Shu "Empress Jixia", according to folklore, Dong Hou also died at the hands of the He family.
Therefore, Dong Hou's death has already increased the moral pressure on He Jin, and in such a form, He Jin has no reason to kill Liu Xie again, so that there is no harm and no benefit.
![Empress Dong: The key to the power struggle lies in strength, and without hard power, all bluff is in vain[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)