In December of this year, a big event happened in the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Liu Hong finally became emperor again after three years since the death of his first wife, Empress Song, due to a misunderstanding in the first year of Guanghe.
On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month in the third year of Guanghe, Emperor Liu Hong made the noble He family his queen.
Empress He, the biological mother of the future short-lived and unlucky emperor Liu Bian, makes a stunning appearance.
After Liu Hong's predecessor, Queen Song, died, the Song family's relatives disappeared, and the Han Dynasty went through several years without any relatives.
Now, with the establishment of the new queen, the brothers He Jin and He Miao will also make their debut.
As early as when He first entered the palace to serve Liu Hong, he was favored by Liu Hong because of his good looks.
Liu Hong was very happy and promoted her natal family, and He's brothers were promoted as a result. For example, when he entered, he was worshiped as a doctor, and then he was promoted to the general of the doctor in Hu Ben and served as the prefect of Yingchuan.
At this time, He was established as the queen. Liu Hong immediately sent a promotion package, appointed He Jin as the servant, and asked him to return to Luoyang to serve as the general master. He also promoted He Jin's younger brother He Miao to the position of doctor, preparing to Then promoted.
The maternal relatives, the He family, appeared on the political stage in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Both of them are too familiar to Liu Bei.
He Jin and He Miao, one was a general and the other was a cavalry general. After the death of Liu Hong, the two took charge of the highest power of the Han Empire together with Queen He. However, due to a series of cunning operations, they led to their own destruction and The final collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It can be said that he is not a god-like operating master.
Regarding this pair of [crouching dragon and phoenix chicks], Liu Bei said that he must stay away from them and try not to get involved with them, otherwise they may cause accidental injuries when the thunder rolls.
However, it is worth mentioning that in the Han Dynasty, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, foreign relatives were a very special existence.
Because the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were generally short-lived, the emperors after Emperor Han'an and before Emperor Huan were basically little emperors or even infant emperors. They died early and left behind small children.
Under such circumstances, the emperor's real power gradually transferred to the hands of the emperor's mother, and then to the hands of the Queen Mother's family.
The Deng family and the Liang family in the Eastern Han Dynasty were both very famous families in history. They held great power and created a shady atmosphere that disturbed the politics of the mid-Eastern Han Dynasty.
It can be said that from Emperor He of the Han Dynasty to the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi, during this period, the actual people who dominated the imperial power of the Eastern Han Dynasty were relatives, not the emperor who could not survive even ten years old.
It was not until Han Emperor Huan Liu Zhi ascended the throne that the situation changed.
Liu Zhi was unwilling to be the puppet of Liang's relatives, but he had no other power to regain the imperial power. After much thought, he chose eunuchs as his political allies to jointly fight against his relatives and regain the imperial power.
Yes, political allies.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was still the early stage of emperor society. People generally did not have a clear understanding and awe of the emperor's existence. In addition, many young emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty were manipulated by their relatives, and they had long lost the mystery and majesty necessary for the emperor's dictatorship. .
Everyone knows what kind of thing your emperor is, especially those little baby emperors. It is no secret how many times a day we wet the bed, and there is no privacy at all.
Is a doll that is played with and applauded worthy of respect? Is it worthy of awe? Are you qualified to order us?
Under this situation, after the Han Dynasty and the emperor's reign, thanks to the unremitting efforts of his relatives, the emperor and the imperial power were actually separated.
In short, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor was no longer the natural and necessary controller of imperial power. As long as he was the winner of the political struggle and gained a status, anyone could control the emperor and control the imperial power.
Even a group of eunuchs.
Imperial power is an abstract thing that exists objectively. No one will deny its existence. However, the emperor will not easily grasp imperial power just because of his status as emperor.
The supreme imperial power will only belong to the winner of the political struggle, not to a failed emperor.
As an emperor who could not control the imperial power, Liu Zhi did not have much political capital to obtain important political allies. He had and only one choice, eunuchs.
Speaking of the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were not very important in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. In the true sense, the eunuchs made their first brilliant appearance, and it also played a big role for Liu Zhao in the incident where Emperor Liu Zhao of the Han Dynasty eliminated the relatives of the Dou family and regained the imperial power. The powerful eunuch Zheng Zhong.
It was also from this time that the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to realize the importance of eunuchs. In order to enhance the power of eunuchs to fight against their relatives, the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to expand the number of eunuchs and even became literate.
Also starting from Emperor He of the Han Dynasty, eunuchs entered the stage of history as a political force that cannot be ignored.
However, because the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty after Emperor He of the Han Dynasty were basically children, they were dead before they could develop a sense of power as adults and use the sharp sword of eunuchs. Their relatives were able to continue their dictatorship for several years.
Then Han Emperor Huan Liu Zhi ascended the throne.
The preparations started by Emperor He of the Han Dynasty and finally came into effect during the period of Liu Zhi. Liu Zhi lived to adulthood and developed a sense of power. He wanted to regain his power, so he took a fancy to eunuchs.
He drew big cakes for the eunuchs, in exchange for the assistance of the five eunuchs who were also very dissatisfied with Liang's relatives. The two sides worked together to kill Liang's relatives, which was a great success.
Later, Liu Zhi granted the title of marquis to the five eunuchs and gave them generous rewards and political rewards. In fact, he shared the imperial power with the eunuchs.
For the emperor, although relatives and eunuchs were both barriers to imperial power, compared with eunuchs without male abilities, relatives with male abilities were more dangerous and more likely to usurp power.
Therefore, eunuchs are naturally more trustworthy than relatives.
As a result, Liu Zhi shared the imperial power with the eunuchs. During his term of office, he also relied on the eunuchs to initiate the first disaster of party imprisonment. After eliminating his relatives, he launched an attack on the scholars and strengthened the imperial power.
After Liu Zhi died of illness, Dou's maternal relatives tried to revive their maternal glory.
They also joined forces with scholars to try to eliminate the eunuchs in one fell swoop when Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong had just ascended the throne and was still young, had no clear sense of power, and had no time to develop an emotional connection with the eunuchs, so as to continue the dictatorship of his relatives.
Unexpectedly, the eunuch made a clever move, predicted his prediction, gained Liu Hong's favor and trust at a cosmic speed, and killed Dou's relatives again.
Not only that, they also drove Liu Hong, who trusted the eunuchs, to start a second and extremely severe party ban, beating the hell out of the originally arrogant scholars.
The political power of the eunuch group was greatly invigorated, and it further strengthened itself through Liu Hong's mediocrity and trust, to the point where it could hold imperial power on its behalf, issue voluntary edicts, and choose relatives.
Yes, because the Shangshutai is close to the palace, has many affairs and is well-informed, it is a natural place to eat melons. Liu Bei ate a lot of melons during the few months he spent at the Shangshutai.
For example, Liu Hong favored the palace maid's melon.
For example, the perverted eunuch forced the palace maid to marry him.
There are also gossips about some concubines in the palace secretly begging for children.
And the biggest thing he got this year was the inextricable connection between Emperor Liu Hong's He family relatives and the eunuchs.
Queen He was the daughter of an ordinary wealthy family in Nanyang County. The reason why she was able to enter the palace and be favored by Emperor Liu Hong was said to be all due to the promotion and support of the eunuchs. Therefore, the ability of He's relatives to take the stage was inseparable from the support of the eunuchs. of.
It can even be said that the political background of this foreign relative is an extension of the eunuch's power.
The fact that a relative who could serve as a political ally was recruited by the eunuchs was not good news for the scholars. It meant that the eunuchs, relatives and the imperial power once again achieved a high degree of unity in the trinity, and could beat the scholars violently in the name of righteousness.
The scholars were alone in the outer dynasty and had no helpers. They could easily be beaten to the ground by the nearly complete supreme imperial power.
Therefore, scholars are generally full of uncertainty about the future, and the entire Shangshutai feels like a storm is about to come.
At this time, what Liu Bei paid most attention to was not He's relatives at all.
His period of observing the government in Shangshutai will officially end next year. According to inside information, Liu Bei has been appointed as an official of Shangshutai. The specific official position is to serve as the official historian in the Mincao in charge of Lu Zhi.
The main duty is to copy documents.
This kind of position doesn't have much meaning, and there is no actual threshold. You can do it as long as you can read and write.
But the real meaning of this position is not here, but that you can stay at the Chancellery, the hub of power in the center of the empire, where you can feel the operating rules of power, accumulate experience in wielding power, and expand your skills that can be used in the future. Personal connections.
Lu Zhi spared no effort in supporting his disciples.
When Liu Bei was studying with him in Luoyang, Lu Zhishang didn't let Liu Bei know too many people because he felt that Liu Bei's knowledge was not enough. He educated Liu Bei behind closed doors and gave Liu Bei a very strict elite education.
After Liu Bei returned to Zhuoxian County, Lu Zhi did not leave Liu Bei free. The master and apprentice exchanged letters. Lu Zhi wrote letters to preach, and asked the family elders to supervise, so that Liu Bei could continue to concentrate on his studies and not neglect them.
As a result, Liu Bei's studies were very successful.
This time, Liu Bei came to Zheng'er Bajing to be an official, and Zheng'er Bajing was prepared to work with Lu Zhi as master and disciple. No matter what he considered, Lu Zhi wanted to bring Liu Bei into his interpersonal relationships. circle.
Therefore, whenever Lu Zhi was free during this period, he would take Liu Bei to gatherings of scholars, introduce some famous scholar friends to Liu Bei, and give Liu Bei a chance to show his talents.
This is an important platform for Liu Bei.
During the more than a year when Liu Bei studied with Lu Zhi in Luoyang, he only met Cai Yong, a great scholar who was very close to Lu Zhi.
This time, under the introduction of Lu Zhi, Liu Bei met the great scholars Ma Rixi, Yang Biao, Han Shuo and others.
This not only involves the internal relations of the ancient literature school, but also some big figures of the modern literature school are among them.
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