Emperor Liu Hu (hù) of the Han Dynasty was the son of Liu Qing, the younger brother of Emperor Liu Zhao of Han, and the son who took the throne after the early death of Emperor Han and Emperor Ying was a baby Liu Long who was only born for 100 days, who knew that Liu Long died prematurely within a year.
At that time, the power of the dynasty was held by Empress Deng Sui and Deng Jiao, in order to maintain the stability of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was urgent to choose one of the princes and grandchildren as emperor, and the 13-year-old Liu Hu was selected as emperor.
Empress Deng was also a strange woman, when Emperor Han and Emperor died, she was only 25 years old, in the face of the emperor's small, prominent contradictions at home and abroad, she took the throne, helped the Eastern Han Dynasty through the difficult situation of "ten years of water and drought" during her reign, and sent troops to suppress the Western Qiang rebellion. It may be that he has been in power for a long time and is unwilling to delegate power after the Han and Emperors grew up, so posterity is also more controversial about this.
Liu Hu was unable to control power at the age of twenty-six, so he had a vendetta against Empress Deng and the Deng family.
After Empress Deng's death, Liu Hu began to clean up the Deng family after he came to power. The Tang family was evaluated relatively well among the foreign relatives of the entire Han Dynasty, and did not seek power for themselves or disrupt the government of the dynasty like the Dou, Ding, And Fu families. Empress Deng wanted to give them a raise, and they did not accept it, and they were also cautious, law-abiding, and diligent in government for the people.
Emperor Han
Before Liu Hu came to power, he had been living in the shadow of Empress Deng, surrounded by a group of eunuchs who trusted his nursing mother Wang Sheng and Li Yan and Jiang Jing. When Empress Deng was alive, she did not dare to tell the Deng family what to do, and after Empress Deng's death, Liu Hu and his cronies around him were dissatisfied with the Deng family.
Some palace people who had been punished by Empress Deng falsely accused Empress Deng's brothers Anderson Deng, Deng Hong, and Deng Lu of deposing Emperor An of Han, which gave Liu Hu an an excuse to clean up the Tang clan, and immediately executed them for treason. And The most famous minister of the Tang clan, Deng Xiao, was also dismissed from office and returned to the county, where he was forced to die by the officials of the county.
Ye Zu's new version of Liu Hu
After the expulsion of the Tang clan, it was a struggle between bureaucrats and eunuchs. Liu Hu has always been under the care of her own nursing mother, and after taking power, her nursing mother Wang Sheng and her daughter were even more favored, and with this favor, it can be said that there is no evil. Corruption and bribery, random entry and exit of the court, interference in the government affairs, not only that, after arriving at the local area, the county officials greeted them in the middle of the road, and even some of the county guards and princes also bowed to their cars.
This was some famous courtiers who wrote to advise Liu Hu on this situation, asking Liu Hu to restrain and punish these eunuchs, but Liu Hu ignored them, making the eunuchs even more arrogant, and there were fewer and fewer people in the imperial court who dared to speak.
Liu Hu was once playing with the empress and guiqi going south, when he suddenly fell ill, could not speak on the way back, and slowly died in the car. After his death, the entourage did not dare to announce it to the outside world, for fear of causing turmoil in the government, and only after returning to the palace was a funeral, when Liu Hu was thirty-two years old.
In order to deal with Empress Deng, Liu Hu cut off the foreign relatives who balanced with the bureaucrats and eunuchs, and later favored the eunuchs, resulting in no one available in the court. Not only was the political situation chaotic, but there were also disasters in the country, and finally there was a situation of "cannibalism", and the Eastern Han Dynasty also declined even more.