"Later, when I was not yet full-term, the dearest and dearest person appeared. She was afraid that I would be assassinated again if I stayed in the harem, so she took me to Yongle Palace to raise me. That person is my grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dong of the Han Dynasty. ”

Empress Dowager Dong, Ma Chao also knows some, and her family history and name are not introduced in the history books. It is speculated from this that her family background is insignificant, and she may be just a commoner, even if she is not a commoner, at most she is just a family of petty officials and eunuchs, so she only married King Pan, who has the title of third-class marquis of Tinghou.

However, her fate turned very suddenly, and her thirteen-year-old son Liu Hong was unexpectedly favored by the Dou family of the central government and welcomed to the capital Luoyang to inherit the unification. As a result, this Dong family is expected to become the queen mother.

However, although her own son became the emperor, the Dong family, who was a vassal concubine, was only the wife of a marquis vassal under the emperor: therefore, the Empress Dowager Dong could not go to the capital Luoyang, with unlimited scenery; nor can she enjoy the powers of the Queen Mother; What's more, at that time, there was also a ready-made empress dowager - the empress of Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan - Empress Dowager Dou Miao.

However, another twist in her fate soon struck. During this period, there was no open and secret battle in the harem, she was far away in the river, and after eight months, she waited for the news that the eunuch launched a coup d'état and exterminated the entire Dou family. In March of the following year, the imperial court welcomed Emperor Ling's mother, Dong, from Hejian to Luoyang, where she was honored as Empress Xiaoren—she was called Empress Dowager Dong at the time.

History does not have a high evaluation of this Empress Dowager Dong, almost exactly the same as the evaluation of her daughter-in-law, Empress Dowager He. Because she and He are both from Hejian, they have a strong hatred by nature, and they have an almost crazy obsession with power. During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, she intervened in court politics and sold her official position for goods. The only difference with Empress Dowager He is that she may have learned a lesson from Empress Dowager Dou and does not have the slightest affection for that group of eunuchs and eunuchs. But after all, she is a woman, she has no knowledge at all, and her choice is also very strange: to appoint relatives.

It can be said that the entire Eastern Han Dynasty is a confused account that can't be too bad. When the emperor succeeded to the throne, he was always a little kid. The auxiliary is his biological mother, and those women can rely on, that is, her maiden family, which creates a situation of dictatorship of foreign relatives. When the little emperor grew up, in order to regain the power in his hands, he had a good impression of the eunuchs who had accompanied him since childhood, and reused the eunuchs to check and balance his relatives.

As the mainstay of the whole country, the scholars who have an empty heart to serve the country can only wander between the arrogant and unreasonable relatives on one side and the psychologically deformed eunuchs on the other, which leads to deeper and deeper resentment in their hearts, especially the two 'party disasters' in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which eventually made them more and more disappointed in the imperial power. In the end, it led to a situation in which the scholars began to fight against the royal family through armed struggle.

Ma Chao now feels more and more sorry for Liu Xie, he can speculate that the Empress Dowager Dong does not really like Liu Xie, but just wants to fight for power with the Empress Dowager He through Liu Xie, and in fact, the later development is indeed the case. It is conceivable that there is such a woman on Liu Xie's blank paper, what kind of psychological words of change and resentment can be written, and it is strange that Liu Xie, who she taught, will not change his psychology in the end!

Sure enough, for a period of time later, it was always Liu Xie who was telling how the Empress Dowager Dong was good to him. Ma Chao was in no mood to interrupt him, and it wasn't until Liu Xie said that he was four or five years old later, and Ma Chao gradually listened to him again.

"I was sensible early on, and I showed my cleverness very early. So I hired a servant earlier than other children. No matter which servant and which famous person is famous, they all praise me for being smart, saying how good my talent is, but it was at this time that I had to appear in the harem again to meet my half-brother. Of course, inevitably, I will also run into that Ho from time to time. ”

"When I was five years old or younger, I always had a strange feeling for some reason. This feeling comes from that He family! Is it probably my hallucination? Because every time, I always felt that when the servants praised me in front of the Spirit Emperor, the way He looked at me - well, there was something strange about that look. It's not like the eyes of a normal woman looking at a smart child.

That look was like a hyena guarding its food, looking at a lion cub with its teeth and claws ready to snatch its food! It's as if one sees a potential threat to the future!

That look made me feel a trace of instinctive unease, a trace of instinctive danger!

Although the woman hid such a look deeply, deeply. But since I learned about my origins, I knew that the woman would not let me go. However, at that time, I was just a child, and my choice was to escape.

And this escape is five or six years

At that time, I thought that as long as I hid my cleverness. If she doesn't keep an eye on me again, I'll be safe. But then I realized that it was impossible. Born in the royal family, if you don't fight out, you can only be completely peaceful by dying! ”

"Then may I ask, when did Your Majesty decide to change and struggle to survive?" For the first time, Ma Chao asked. Because, Liu Xie's story is so exciting, if Liu Xie doesn't mind, Ma Chao really wants to write down Liu Xie's story, so that all the emperors in the future can take a look at the psychological growth history of this genius and demon boy.

And Liu Xie saw that Ma Chao took the initiative to ask, as if he had also broken free from his memories, and after smiling at Ma Chao kindly, he said: "General Ma is very interested in my story?" ”

"I have to say, your story is wonderful, and I'm completely immersed in your story. But I still can't mind, and I might ask, what kind of experience has made you now have no regard for the lives of others to achieve your goals? Ma Chao changed to a more comfortable position, and it seemed that he was already planning to not go back without listening to Liu Xie's story.

And Liu Xie seems to be very happy, after all, no matter how smart, ruthless, and scheming he is, then he is just a child. After so many years of grievances in his heart, there was no one to talk to, so he could only go farther and farther on the road of paranoia, and the more frightened he became.

Today's appearance of Ma Chao seems to have given him a God-given opportunity to confide. With a wave of his hand, he brought out a jug of wine, and then said to the air, "You guys stand down, General Ma won't hurt me anymore." There are some words, the more you hear, the sooner you will die."

There was not a trace of echo in the air, but Ma Chao felt with his keen intuition that the two masters had left. In other words, at this time, it is time for Ma Chao to easily kill Liu Xie. But I have to admit that Liu Xie won again at this point. At this time, Ma Chao was really unwilling to kill Liu Xie.

So, he picked up the wine bottle, gave Liu Xie a glass, and waited for the bitter and slightly sweet wine to be eaten. Ma Chao looked at Liu Xie and quietly waited for Liu Xie to continue his story

PS: Thanks for the single and Rogyan's tip, that's it for today, there are more things, and I will continue tomorrow, thank you.