If you say it, you have to practice.

In the third year of Guanghe (180), Emperor Liu Hong opened many shops in the harem, and divided the palace ladies into a buying group and a selling group, some as salesmen, and some as customers, so that they deliberately quarreled with each other for theft.

Liu Hong came to the appraisal dressed as a merchant, or went into the store to drink for fun.

I played with the dogs in the West Garden, and gave them the crown of the civil official, and tied a beautiful ribbon around the waist; He often rode in a cart pulled by four donkeys, and he himself pulled the reins and ran around.

The original text in the history books is like this: "It was the emperor of the year who made a column in the harem, so that all the women were sold, and they were even more stealing and fighting." The emperor wears merchant clothes, and drinks and feasts for fun. and in the West Garden, he made a dog, and entered the virtuous crown with a ribbon. He drove four donkeys again, and the emperor bowed to his own bridles and drove around. ”

This passage is contained in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty • Emperor Xiaoling.

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Empress Dowager Dong also came to her son's harem in person, and she was both relieved and sighed when she saw her son going through such a setback: she was pleased that her son was a good boy, and when he said what he said, his son believed it, and practiced it himself; What made her sigh was that these post-50s generations (Liu Hong was born in 157) were really sad, selling an official position, and having to form an internship.

After the internship stage, in the first year of Guanghe (178), Liu Hong, who had been the emperor for ten years, finally opened the West Garden of the Imperial Palace (where the emperor played with his dogs) at the instigation of his mother, Empress Dowager Dong, and sold officials at an open price, stipulating that those who paid tens of millions of dollars could buy three dukes (Taibao, Taifu, and Taiwei), and those who paid five million could buy the secretary level, and those who paid 2,000 stone for local officials sold for 20 million, and those who sold 400 stone for 4 million.

It is also stipulated that those who come to buy officials in series with virtue can be given preferential treatment, and they can be discounted in half or six or seven discounts.

The money earned from selling officials is not put into the treasury, but is placed in the small treasury of the empress dowager and the emperor set up in the West Garden.

This ugly history of selling officials has been open and in business for 17 years!

Even the great Si Nong Cao Song (Cao Cao's father) bought the Taiwei for 10 million yuan. Five months later, he was dismissed for inexplicable reasons, and the official position of Taiwei was awarded to Fan Ling, the Shaofu of Yongle Palace (usually Fan took out another 10 million, isn't this a potato sold for two, this idea can only be imagined by the old Mrs. Dong, who has run a serious business), Cao Song was played with and lost a lot of money out of thin air.

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Empress Dowager Dong is a righteous actuary, she thinks that if she wants to operate exclusively, she must keep the current emperor and the future emperor in her own hands, so she persuaded Liu Hong many times to set up Liu Xie, who had been raised by her side since childhood, as the crown prince.

Liu Xie's mother, Wang Meiren, is the granddaughter of Wang Bao, the former general of the five facial features, born in a famous family, with elegant manners, coupled with good looks and well-proportioned figure, she was deeply favored by Emperor Ling.

At that time, it was Empress He who dominated the harem of Emperor Ling, who was born in a butcher's family, and was elected to the palace and became the queen by bribing the eunuchs, and was very jealous of Wang Meiren.

Therefore, when Wang Meiren was pregnant with Liu Xie, she was afraid of provoking Queen He's deeper jealousy, so she didn't tell Emperor Ling, but secretly had an abortion.

But taking the abortion pill did not work, and the child was born.

Queen He was really jealous, afraid that Wang Meiren would further threaten her status if she had a son, so she instructed someone to secretly put the poison in the decoction that Wang Meiren took after giving birth, and Wang Meiren died immediately after drinking it.

When Emperor Ling heard the news, he went to the harem to inspect it, and saw that Wang Meiren's limbs were blue and black, and he knew that he was poisoned and died, so he urgently ordered the murderer to be traced, and soon found out that it was Queen He.

Emperor Ling couldn't help but be furious, intending to depose Empress He immediately.

But Empress He had already used a huge amount of money to buy off the eunuch Cao Jie and others who were trusted by Emperor Ling, and the eunuchs knelt down together, why did the queen intercede, and Emperor Ling actually pardoned Queen He.

Liu Xie was not yet full-term at this time, and Emperor Ling was afraid that Liu Xie would be assassinated again if he left Liu Xie in the harem, so he took him to Yongle Palace and asked Empress Dowager Dong to raise him. Since then, Liu Xie has relied on the Dong family as a foreigner.

Is it okay to make Liu Xie the crown prince?

Empress He was born to a prince Liu Bian, who was fostered in the home of a Taoist surnamed Shi since she was a child.

Liu Wei is older than Liu Xie, and he was born to the queen, and the position of the prince is the only one.

But Liu Bian's demeanor was frivolous and did not have the majestic temperament that a monarch should have.

Liu Xie grew up in Yongle Palace since he was a child, and was carefully raised by the Empress Dowager Dong, with dignified manners and was deeply loved by Emperor Ling.

In addition, his mother Wang Meiren died unexpectedly, and Emperor Ling inevitably had a heart of compassion, so he was inclined to make Liu Xie the crown prince in his heart. However, this is contrary to the royal tradition of putting the heir first, so he can't make up his mind for a long time.

In the fifth year of Zhongping (188), Liu Hong was seriously ill, and he was not at ease with the queen who had fallen out of favor, and he was even more worried about He Jin, the elder brother of the powerful general Empress He, so he obeyed the will of Mrs. Dong and ordered Mrs. Dong's nephew, the guard captain Dong Chong, to be the hussar general, leading more than 1,000 troops to guard the palace.

On this occasion, after Mrs. Dong's many suggestions at Liu Hong's sickbed, Liu Hong finally decided to appoint Wang Meiren's son as the prince, but before the edict was issued, Liu Hong died.

In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), under the vigorous intervention of Empress He, her son Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, and Liu Bian's mother, Empress He, was the Empress Dowager, and Dong was the Empress Dowager.

In this way, 13-year-old Liu Wei sat on the emperor's dragon chair.

In this way, on the issue of regency, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a dispute, and Dong was so angry that she even said, "Do you still want to rely on your brother to be arrogant today?" I can tell my nephew, the hussar general, to cut off He Jin's head! ”

He Hou didn't say anything, and quietly passed the words to his brother He Jin, asking him to strike first and solve Dong Chong.

He Jin and his younger brother, He Miao, the general of the chariot cavalry, led an army to surround Dong Chong's mansion and forced Dong Chong to commit suicide.

As a result, the royal family of the Han family was in the hands of the He family, and Mrs. Dong was no longer silent.

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Until one day, the little emperor issued an edict, saying that the Empress Dowager Dong sent eunuchs to communicate privately with state and county officials, which violated the ancestral system; also took out her Yongle Palace, sold her official beard, and collected money. also said that she was originally the wife of a pavilion marquis, and she came to the palace with the emperor's son's side, which was not legal, so she couldn't help but drive her out of Yongle Palace.

Empress Dowager Dong plummeted, and there was no longer the treatment of the "Queen Mother", and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty called her "Empress Yongle of the Emperor's Mother".

She developed depression and died soon after.

There is also a saying that it was He Jin's sister-in-law, Queen He, who forced her to commit suicide - this is news from Yeshi, willing to believe it or not.

After Dong's death, his coffin was returned to Hejian and was returned to Liu Chang (chá

g) Buried together in Shen Mausoleum.

In the early years of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, there was a nursery rhyme in Luoyang, Kyoto, "Che Banban, into the river." The female workers in the river counted the money, took the money as the room gold as the hall, and the stone was shy. There is a hanging drum under the beam, and I want to hit the anger of Cheng Qing", which is considered to be a prophecy of the Empress Dowager Dong.

"Che Banban, into the river" refers to going to the river to welcome the Ling Emperor into the succession, "the female workers in the river count the money, and take the money as the room for the house" to describe the greed of the Empress Dowager Dong, "the stone is shy" is said to be the stinginess of the Empress Dowager Dong, although she has accumulated money, but it is always not enough, so that people eat the yellow sorghum as a meal, "there is a hanging drum under the beam, I want to hit the anger of the Chengqing" is said to be the Emperor Ling is also very greedy for money under the words and deeds of the Empress Dowager Dong, selling officials and lords, and the upright people in the world beat the drum to complain, but the "Chengqing" in power are afraid of damaging vested interests and do not allow people to speak out.

This nursery rhyme reflects the corruption of the Empress Dowager Dong's mother and son, and even the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.