In the first year of Yangjia, Emperor Shun of Han established the daughter of Liang Shang, the marquis of the Cheng clan, as the queen, and the younger sister as a nobleman, and Liang Shang was the general in power. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAfter Liang Shang fell ill and died, Emperor Shun of Han appointed his son Liang Ji as the general to govern.

Liang Ji is a playboy who does not learn and has no skills, and has served as an official position such as Huangmen Shilang, Zhijinwu, Henan Yin, etc., and he has always been overbearing and does not abide by the law. Such a virtuous and talentless gentleman, Emperor Han Shun awarded him the high position of a ruling minister, and Emperor Han Shun's mediocrity can be imagined.

After Emperor Shun of Han died of illness, his son Emperor Chong of Han was only two years old, Empress Dowager Liang listened to the government, and his elder brother Liang Ji held great power. Emperor Chong of the Han Dynasty died of illness again, Liang Ji was greedy for power, and conspired with the Empress Dowager Liang to welcome Liu Zhang, the eight-year-old Marquis of Jianping, as the emperor, for the Han Emperor, and of course the Liang brothers were in charge.

Although Emperor Han Zhen was young, he was very smart, he couldn't get used to Liang Ji's arrogant and lawless appearance, and at a court meeting, he looked at Liang Ji and said: "You are a domineering general." "I expressed my displeasure with the ferocity of the great general.

This sentence made Liang Ji feel hated and afraid, he was afraid that the little emperor would act unfavorably in the future, so he instructed the chamberlain to poison the food. Emperor Han Zhen ate a few poisonous boiled cakes, and then felt bored in his stomach, and urgently summoned the Taiwei Li Gu, saying: "After eating the boiled cakes, my stomach feels very uncomfortable, and drinking water may be saved." ”

Liang Ji said beside him: "You will definitely vomit after drinking water, don't drink water." ”

Before he finished his sentence, Emperor Han was already holding his abdomen, screaming, and died of exhaustion. Li Gu hugged the corpse and cried, demanding a thorough investigation of the courtiers, but was prevaricated by the Empress Dowager Liang's brothers and sisters, Liang Ji was afraid that Li Gu would leak the inside information in the future, so he secretly murdered.

After Li Gu withdrew, he happened to meet his bosses Hu Guang and Sikong Zhao Jie coming to cry. Li Gu waited until they finished crying and mourning, and then discussed the aftermath with them. The three of them were afraid that Liang Ji would establish a young lord again, so they jointly wrote to Liang Ji: "The world is unfortunate, and in a few years, three emperors have been lost one after another. Now we have to choose a new king, and I ask the general to consider such a big thing. ”

After Liang Ji got the book, he convened hundreds of officials to discuss the selection of a new monarch. Li Gu, Hu Guang, Zhao Jie, and Da Honglu Du Qiao all thought that Liu Lian, the king of Qinghe, was old and virtuous, and he was the elder brother of Emperor Han Qian, so it was most suitable to appoint him as the king, and the ministers also agreed with their opinions, but in Liang Ji's heart, there were other arrangements.

It turned out that Empress Dowager Liang wanted to marry her sister to Liu Zhi, Marquis of Liwu, and after the death of Emperor Han Zhi, Liu Zhi happened to be in the capital. Liang Ji wanted to support Liu Zhi as the emperor, and he was good at being the uncle of the country, and he would permanently abuse power, but the ministers and ministers all advocated supporting Liu Garlic, the king of Qinghe, and Liang Ji did not agree with each other, and he was not easy to speak in his eagerness, so Liang Ji was only sullen and unhappy.

After the ministers withdrew, it was getting late, Liang Ji had dinner, and was hesitating, and Cao Teng and others asked to see him in an urgent report. After Cao Teng came in, he said to Liang Ji: "The general's in-laws for several generations are in charge of the government, and the guests are like clouds, so it is inevitable that there will be some mistakes. The king of Qinghe is known as Yan Ming, if he is appointed as the emperor, I am afraid that the general will be in a catastrophe, it is better to support the Marquis of Liwu, you can keep the wealth for a long time. ”

Liang Ji had the support of the eunuchs, and his attitude suddenly became resolute.

The next day, Liang Ji reconvened the meeting of ministers and ministers, advocating the establishment of Liu Zhi, the Marquis of Liwu, as emperor. Seeing this, Hu Guang, Zhao Jie, and others knew that it would be useless to fight any longer, so they all said: "Only the general's order is obeyed!" Only Li Gu and Du Qiao insisted on their original opinions.

Liang Ji shouted: "Let's go!" After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and retreated into the inner room. Li Gu still had hope and wrote to Liang Ji again, persuading him to change his original intention. Liang Ji was even more annoyed, he first asked the Empress Dowager Liang for an edict to remove Li Gu, and then welcomed Liu Zhi, the Marquis of Liwu, into the South Palace. On the day of Gengyin, Liu Zhi ascended the throne as Emperor Huan of Han, who was fifteen years old at the time, and was still governed by the Empress Dowager Liang.

In the first year of Jianhe, Emperor Huan of Han married another sister of Liang Ji as the queen, and the authority of the Liang family became even more prominent. Liang Ji, as a general, presided over political affairs, including the two younger sisters of the Empress Dowager and Empress, sat in the palace, and many eunuchs were his cronies.

Emperor Huan of Han was actually under his surveillance and control, and he could not even guarantee the safety of his life, and he could not do anything at all. When all the officials of the imperial court are promoted, they must first go to the Liang family to ask for Xie En, and then dare to report to the government department. In the court, except for a few sleek and sophisticated old bureaucrats such as Hu Guang and Zhao Jie, who decorated the façade, the real power was controlled by the Liang party.

While Liang Ji supported his cronies, he also wantonly killed dissidents. Taiwei Li Gu once saw Emperor Han Zhen being poisoned, and insisted on establishing the King of Qinghe as the emperor. Liang Ji framed Li Gu for rebellion and put him in prison and executed, but Taiwei Du Qiao was also implicated and killed because he refused to echo Liang Ji, and both of them were left on the street, and their families were not allowed to collect their bodies.

Wu Shu, the county commander of Wanxian County, refused Liang Ji's entrustment and killed dozens of local guests of the Liang family who were brutalizing the people. Later, he was promoted to the assassin of Jingzhou, and when he went to the Liang Mansion to resign, Liang Ji openly entertained him with poisonous wine, so that he died in the car as soon as he went out. When Dong Tai Shouhou Meng arrived in the capital, he did not go to pay homage to Liang Ji, and was later executed by Liang Ji on arbitrary charges.

Although Sun Fen, a wealthy man, was stingy, Liang Ji gave him four horses and borrowed 50 million money from him. Shisun Fen knew that he couldn't get back the money he lent to Liang Ji, so he only gave him 30 million. Liang Ji was furious, so he told the local officials that Shi Sun Fen's mother turned out to be the maidservant of the Liang family's treasury, and stole ten catties of white beads and ten catties of purple gold and fled. So he arrested and tortured several of the Shisun Fen brothers, and the Shisun Fen brothers all died in prison, and all their more than 170 million family property was confiscated.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty ordered the ministers to discuss how to give Liang Ji special courtesy, and the relevant departments proposed: In terms of etiquette for meeting the emperor, he should be allowed to enter the court, go to the palace with his sword, and praise him without his name, and compare it with Xiao He, the first meritorious hero of the Western Han Dynasty; expand his fiefdom to four counties, and compare it with Deng Yu, the first meritorious hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty; reward him with money, clothes, carriages and horses, slaves and maids, and mansions, etc., compared with Huo Guang, the meritorious hero of the Western Han Dynasty; and set up a special seat for him during the court meeting, which is above the three dukes, and these treatments will be announced to the world and set up a permanent system. The treatment is so generous, Liang Ji is still insufficient, and he is very unhappy.

Liang Ji was politically lawless, and he was even more arrogant in life, and the tributes contributed to the emperor from all over the country had to be sent to the Liang Mansion first, and then it was the emperor's turn to enjoy. Liang Ji also sent guests out of the fortress to seek curiosities and exotic objects, bribes from all directions, roads connected to each other, and even the gatekeepers of his house accumulated a fortune as a result, and he built luxurious residential gardens on a large scale, as magnificent as the imperial palace.

He also opened up thousands of miles of hunting grounds near the capital, and set up a rabbit garden in the west of Luoyang City that stretched for dozens of miles. In order to satisfy his personal desires, he ordered people to inform all localities to make a mark on the fur of live rabbits, and stipulated that those who hurt these rabbits should be sentenced to death. There was once a merchant from the Western Regions who did not know the ban and killed a rabbit by mistake, implicating more than a dozen people who were killed.

He openly violated the ban since the Eastern Han Dynasty and plundered thousands of good people as slaves, and called it self-selling. There were three queens, six nobles, two generals, three concubines, and fifty-seven other civil and military ministers. He has been in power for more than 20 years, has supported three emperors, and is the most prominent family among the relatives of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liang Ji was in power, flying and domineering, Emperor Han Huan's heart was uneven, but he was helpless. In the first year of peace, Empress Dowager Liang was seriously ill and nominally returned to Emperor Huan of Han, but the real power was still in the hands of Liang Ji. Soon after, Empress Dowager Liang died, and the situation remained unchanged until Empress Liang also died, and Emperor Huan of Han was slightly freed in the palace.

Langzhong Deng Xiang had a daughter named Deng Meng, and after Deng Xiang's death, his wife Xuan remarried Liang Ji's maternal uncle Liang Ji. Liang Ji's wife Sun Shou saw Deng Meng's beauty, so he sent her into the palace, Deng Meng was very favored by Emperor Han Huan, and was named a nobleman.

Liang Ji wanted to recognize Deng Meng as his daughter in order to consolidate his power, so he asked her to change her surname to Liang, but he was afraid that Deng Meng's relative Yilang Bingzun would not agree, so he sent someone to assassinate him. Later, Liang Ji wanted to assassinate the Xuan family, and the Xuan family was adjacent to Yuan Yu, the Zhongchang servant, and the assassin sent by Liang Ji wanted to enter the Xuan family from the roof of Yuan Yu's house, but Yuan Yu discovered it. Yuan Yu sounded the drum to gather everyone to wake up Xuan, who saw that someone was going to assassinate him, and ran into the palace to inform Emperor Han Huan, who was furious when he heard the news and decided to get rid of Liang Ji.

One day, Han Huan Dili took the opportunity to go to the toilet and asked Xiao Huangmen Shi Tangheng: "Who are the eunuchs who are at odds with the Liang family?"

Tang Heng replied: "There is no doubt that there is a contradiction between Shan Chao, Shi Zuo, Xiaohuangmen, and Yin Liang of Henan; ”

So Emperor Huan of Han summoned Shan Chao and Shi Zuo into the secret room and said to them: "The Liang and Ji brothers are abusing their power and coercing inside and outside the court, and the ministers and ministers are all sycophants and dare not oppose them. Now I want to get rid of the Liang brothers, what do you think we should do?"

Shan Chao replied: "These traitors should have been killed a long time ago, and the ministers are low, I don't know what the emperor wants?"

Emperor Han Huan said: "Of course this is the case, please make proper arrangements for the middle attendant." ”

Shan Chao said: "It's not difficult to kill them, but I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be suspicious." ”

Emperor Han Huan said: "Traitors steal the country, what is there to be suspicious?" The plan of the three has been decided, and Emperor Han Huan bit Shan Chao's arm and bleed, saying that he would never regret it.

At this time, Liang Ji was also suspicious of the actions of Shan Chao and others, and on the day of Ding Chou in August, he sent Zhang Yun of Zhonghuangmen to the palace to stay on duty in case of accidents. Emperor Huan of Han immediately made a decision, sent Gu Ying to enter the palace without authorization, and arrested Zhang Yun on charges of plotting against him, and then Emperor Huan of Han came to the front hall, sat in command, and sent Shang Shu to order Yin Xun to lead the army to guard the palace, and sent Gu Ying and Sili Captain Zhang Biao with more than 1,000 Janissaries to surround Liang Ji's residence, Liang Ji knew that the general trend had gone, so he had to commit suicide with his wife Sun Shou.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty ordered all the people of the Liang family and the Sun family to be arrested, regardless of men, women, old and young, and all of them were dragged to the street and beheaded for public display. Dozens of members of the Liang family were implicated and died, and more than 300 people were deposed.

Due to the suddenness of the incident and the fact that it was initiated by the emperor himself, the ministers were panicked, and the officials at all levels were in an uproar, and it took a few days to settle down. Liang Ji's family property was confiscated, worth more than 300,000 yuan. Emperor Han Huan had this large amount of money, so he issued an edict, minus half of the world's taxes, and the common people heard that Emperor Han Huan got rid of Liang Ji and reduced taxes, and no one did not applaud.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty got rid of Liang Ji, and immediately named Shan Chao, Xu Huang, Gu Yuan, Zuo Yi, Tang Heng and other five people as liehous, because the five people were sealed on the same day, so the world called them five marquis. Although the eunuch Hou Lan did not participate in the destruction of Liang Ji, because he gave 5,000 silks to Emperor Huan of Han, he was also named the Marquis of Gaoxiang.

There are also eight eunuchs such as Zhao Zhong and Liu Pu, because they are usually close to Emperor Huan of Han, they were also made marquis. Emperor Huan of Han did not trust the ministers, so he let these eunuchs be responsible for conveying edicts and various official documents, and handling the daily affairs of the court, so that a situation of eunuchs monopolizing power soon formed.