In the sixth year of Zhongping, at the beginning of April, Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong passed away.
His temple name is Duzong and his posthumous name is Xiaoling.
The illness lasted for more than eight months, and he finally died. All the officials in the court breathed a sigh of relief, because it was the Han emperor who affected the normal transfer of the throne.
All the important ministers in the court know that today they don't like the distinction between princes, but rather the princes' association. However, regardless of the order of seniority, the distinction between concubines and concubines, or the forces behind it, the princes' association has no advantage at all.
When Ling Emperor Liu Hong was about to die, he finally compromised.
He Jin secretly drank and celebrated in the back house.
The emperor did not like his nephew Liu Bian, and also hated his sister Empress He. In order to maintain his family status, he had to desperately seize military power, and he could only seek help from aristocratic families.
Doesn't he know that the emperor wants him to check and balance the family?
He knew that this was what his father did, and he won the emperor's heart. He knew this clearly, and he did so in the beginning.
Maybe the accident happened to the prince.
Ling Emperor Liu Hong was taken to Luoyang when he was thirteen years old and ascended the throne. He lived a life of debauchery and gave birth to many children. The previous princes all died in infancy. At the beginning, his sister was He Meiren and gave birth to the prince Bian, who was the emperor's only heir.
Taking advantage of this, the He family was both happy and frightened. They believed the deception of a Taoist named Shi, and begged Your Majesty to take the prince to the Shi Taoist's home outside the palace for foster care.
When Liu Bian was enlightened at a young age, he only accepted the teachings of gods and ghosts and had no royal education at all.
No dignity.
He was jokingly called Shi Hou.
Liu Hong himself was judged as "not like a human king", but he wanted his son to have royal decency, so he was very disappointed, but with such a weak figure, he had no choice but to endure it.
A few years later, Meiren Wang gave birth to Prince Xie, who did not die in infancy. The He family was in a hurry. Queen He ordered people to poison Wang Meiren to death. Liu Hong was very angry, but he needed to rely on the He family. The matter was settled and Prince Xie was left alone.
He was sent to Empress Dowager Dong to be raised.
Liu Xie received strict royal education since childhood.
Emperor Ling saw in this young son the royal manners that he himself lacked.
Like it very much.
However, Empress Dowager Dong's line was in decline, Wang Meiren's family was useless, and Liu Xie had no one to support him, so Emperor Ling favored the eunuch group and turned to Liu Xie.
He Jin panicked, thought about it, and finally threw himself into the arms of the noble family.
As he wished, Liu Bian ascended the throne in mid-May and was replaced by Zhaoning.
The harvest season has come, and General He is very satisfied. Under the instigation of the scholar group, he wants to kill all the eunuchs, leaving no one behind, regardless of the power imbalance in the court.
But He, who has become the Queen Mother, disagrees. Now her son is in charge of the country. She needs the imperial power to be supreme and a group of eunuchs to check and balance the court. The two half-brothers and sisters quarreled endlessly, and the Queen Mother He only allowed to get rid of the late emperor.
The few middle-ranking servants were not allowed to clean up the power of the eunuch group, and his elder brother was needed to turn the spearhead against the aristocratic family.
No monarch likes infinitely powerful aristocratic families.
Silly He Jin let it slip.
Yuan Shao, who was promoted to the rank of captain of Sili school because of Long Youcheng, came up with a vicious plan: to call in foreign troops to go to Luo.
He Jin was blinded by the superficial reasons for killing the eunuch group, and failed to see the underlying thinking of the scholar group: to evade imperial power!
Therefore, Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, who was only a hundred miles away from Luoyang, was the first to lead the army into the city. He was appointed as Zhijinwu and was in charge of Luoyang city defense affairs. The authority of Nangong, which directly belonged to the emperor, was deprived.
Then, Dong Zhuo also came. At this time, he was still the power of the Yuan clan in Runan. He Jin realized what he was doing and ordered him to return to Bingzhou, and all the rest of the troops who had been ordered to go to Luoyang were sent back.
Fatty Dong was unwilling to give in, so he stayed twenty miles outside the city. There were his allies and his brother in Luoyang, and he was waiting for the opportunity.
He firmly believed that there would be a turnaround.
Perseverance paid off. In August, there was a fire in Luoyang. He ignored the darkness and sent troops eastward. At Mang Mountain, he met the emperor Liu Bian who was kidnapped out of the city by the eunuchs, and the king of Chenliu Liu Xie, who was nicknamed "Dong Hou".
There is no greater merit than rescuing the driver!
No one could take away the merit of saving the driver. No matter who blocked him on the road, Dong Zhuo ignored him.
Lead the troops to protect the emperor. Anyone who dares to block the way will be killed!
He wants to enter the city!
At this time, Luoyang was in chaos. He Jin, who wanted to break away from the aristocratic family and return to his true nature as a foreign relative, was inexplicably assassinated by several retired ministers and died in the palace.
He Jin's subordinates, led by the Yuan family's children, led their troops into the palace and killed everyone they wanted to kill.
Emperor Liu Bian was "hijacked" out of the city by a few out-of-power regular attendants among the rebellious army of these "loyal ministers and good generals".
Under the instigation of Dong Min, several groups of He Jin's men massacred the whole family of He Jin's younger brother He Miao.
Absurd and bizarre, the waves and clouds are treacherous.
The great chaos in Luoyang was complicated, but the result was that the eunuch group was killed and the He family was uprooted.
The Shiren Group is the only one.
The final hidden danger is called Liu Bian.
Therefore, when Dong Zhuo deposed the emperor, Yuan Wei personally helped the young emperor Liu Bian to step down.
Yuan Shao knew that he could not escape the crime of breaking the palace ban. He did not want to be a scapegoat, so he took the opportunity to perform a show of scolding the rebellious minister Dong Zhuo. He made a lot of fame and returned to his hometown to wait for the opportunity.
The eight-year-old Chenliu King Liu Xie ascended the throne in early September and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yonghan.
189 was a chaotic year. There were three light years. The first four months were the sixth year of Zhongping, the middle four months from May to September were the first year of Zhaoning, and the last four months were the first year of Yonghan.
Liu Xiang ignored the mess and concentrated on dividing the land in Jizhou and building a militia for training. Only by digesting the newly occupied territory as soon as possible could he be able to advance, attack, retreat and defend, and remain in an invincible position.
During this period, they divided their forces to sweep the north bank of the Yellow River. Yanzhou East County and Jibei Kingdom, Qingzhou Pingyuan County and Le'an Kingdom were all cut off a piece of territory, from Liyang in the west to Bohai in the east, and the north bank of the thousand-mile river downstream of the Yellow River.
They were all placed under the rule of Jizhou and became the sphere of influence of the "Jizhou Yellow Turban Army".
In mid-May, the edict for the new emperor's accession to the throne reached Jizhou, and Liu Xiang ordered people to send it to the Hejian Kingdom. Liu Bei, the king of Hejian, was really a smart man, and he sent the imperial edict the next day.
When the Ling Emperor was on the throne, he needed to be quiet and live happily for others to see, so he could enjoy himself in the palace with peace of mind, living a life that was nourishing. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, his identity is not so sensitive, and his status is not so sensitive.
It's not that important anymore, just surrender honestly and immediately.
Real knowledge of current affairs.
The Prime Minister He Zun was not very obedient. He first objected and then abandoned his post and fled. Tiqi pursued him for three days and shot him dead by the Zhangshui River.
Jizhou was proceeding step by step, and there was no disturbance in Bingzhou. Dong Zhuo's attention was all on Luoyang, and he was not near the border of Bingzhou at all.
In the northern part of Bingzhou, Yan Rou led 20,000 troops to attack Hetao.
Xianbei hid in Mobei. The Southern Xiongnu royal court has been hit one after another in recent years. Not to mention being beaten by the Xianbei people before, the newly ascended Shanyu Yufuluo was captured in the south of Bingzhou. Some of his troops were captured, and now he is leading the remaining troops in Hedong.
The county is resting and recuperating. I don't want to go back to Bingzhou, and I don't dare to go back.
The Hu tribes in the Hetao area were divided into clans and strongholds, and it was difficult for them to work together. Their resistance was not strong and they were easily captured.
At this point, the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty was completely controlled by Liu Xiang, and he entrusted the task of defense and conquest of the grassland to Yan Rou, the general of Beizhonglang.
In early summer, we also received good news: Sun Jian's family, which Su Wei had been searching for for three months without a trace, finally appeared.
They met Youzhou's merchant fleet at sea. They had almost drifted to Youzhou, but now they were being escorted along the Zhang River towards Julu.