In September 168 AD, Situ Huguang was promoted to the post of Taifu above the Three Dukes, and recorded Shangshu affairs; Sikong Liu Pet was transferred to Situ; Da Honglu Xu Xu was promoted to Sikong.

On October 30, there was another solar eclipse. Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty issued an edict: criminals in the world who have not yet been sentenced can use money to atone for their crimes.

Soon, Liu Ju, who had originally served as a lieutenant, was dismissed and replaced by the servant Wenren.

In December, the combined forces of Xianbei and Haoqian invaded Youzhou and merged with Zhou.

In the same year, King Shule was killed by his father, Hede, and Hede set himself up as king.

This year, among the Wuhuan tribes, there are more than 9,000 people in Shanggu County, Qiu Liju, a tribe of more than 5,000 people in Liaoxi County, Su Muyan in Liaodong County, and more than 800 people in Youbeiping County.

In the 2nd year of Jianning, on January 4, 169 AD, the emperor once again issued an edict to amnesty the world.

Let's talk about the Empress Dowager Dou who was under house arrest mentioned earlier, in fact, she doesn't have everything that a queen should enjoy now, those eunuchs who used to treat her as a Buddha have changed roles now, and the eunuchs have become her Buddhas. The tiger fell to Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, and the phoenix fell to the ground as good as a chicken.

In fact, after the eunuchs dealt with their political enemies, they were not idle, they did not stop consolidating their rights for a moment, and now the relatives and the scholar group have been exterminated by them, leaving the imperial power group and the eunuch group, yes, the imperial power cannot not exist, because there is imperial power as the core, without the emperor, who knows them, they can only use the emperor to continue to consolidate and strengthen their group. Therefore, the eunuchs, who saw this, used their brains against the emperor again.

Now there is another way to get the best of both worlds, which can not only make the little emperor happy, but also continue to deprive the Empress Dowager Dou of her rights and weaken the influence of the Empress Dowager Dou, that is, let Liu Hong's mother take the place of the Empress Dowager Dou!

The eunuchs are really smart, because they know that this time they have offended the Empress Dowager Dou to their home, and it will be very uncomfortable if they don't pay attention to her backbite one day, after all, the emperor is still young, so the safest way is to get her out of power!

So, on March 3, Dong Guiren, the biological mother of the little emperor Liu Hong, was welcomed by everyone from the river to the capital Luoyang, respected as the Empress Xiaoren, Dong Guiren's brother Dong Chong was named the ruling Jinwu, and his nephew Dong Chong was named the general of the five officials!

However, when people look at things every day, they may really have gods on their heads, or maybe there are really righteous people and gentlemen who are not accustomed to the eunuchs' nonsense and deliberately create superstitious activities to restrain the eunuchs' behavior, in short, there are several "strange things" that have happened.

On April 21, Liu Hong's dragon chair found a big green snake, which scared the child half to death, but there was no blessing and disaster, and the next day there was a strong wind, lightning and thunder, and hail fell from the sky. Liu Hong, who had not yet come out of the fear of the green snake, heard the sound of thunder and hail in the sky breaking the roof tiles, and was extremely frightened, trembling all over his body and asking the eunuch standing next to him what to do? The eunuchs could not explain this strange phenomenon, so they came up with the idea that the emperor would issue an edict to the people of the whole country to see who could explain this phenomenon!

Besides, Zhang Huan, since Dou Wu's death, he has been very depressed, and he doesn't think about doing something for the dead people, after all, the two people who died are his good friends in the past, and they are also comrades in the same camp! When he heard that the Emperor was frightened by the strange phenomena of these two days, he was moved.

So he wrote a letter to the emperor asking for a funeral for Dou Wu and Chen Fan, and asked the emperor to visit the Empress Dowager Dou in Nangong, and finally he and Liu Meng recommended Wang Chang and Li Ying as candidates for the three dukes!

This is obviously not good for the eunuchs, Wang Chang We mentioned before, that is, when Chen Fan and Dou Wu were in power, he was promoted to be the former Sikong Lord who was dismissed after a few months, Li Ying This person does not need me to introduce more, that is the nominal leader of the hardcore so-called "party members".

Hum! This Zhang Huan is clearly going against us, see if you don't want to get mixed up, so the eunuchs added oil and vinegar to the little emperor After a flicker, Liu Hong not only did not let Wang Chang and Li Ying become officials, but also put Zhang Huan, Liu Meng and others in prison, and after being locked up for a period of time, they were released and fined their wages for more than three months!

Hehe, the emperor is in response to the strange phenomena such as snakes and hail falling from the sky on the seat and begged for blunt, but many people don't understand that this was originally the eunuchs who used this trick to comfort the little emperor, you can only write according to the eunuchs' intentions, and you must not tell the truth and tell the truth, otherwise the eunuchs can spare you?

However, there are indeed some outspoken intellectuals who do not see this layer, such as Langzhong Xie Bi is one of them, who wrote a letter to the emperor and told the truth, but was expelled from the imperial court; The eunuchs arranged for him to go to Guangling to be a prince, Xie Bi resigned and went home if he was unwilling, coincidentally Xie Bi's hometown was in Dongjun, and the Taishou of Dongjun happened to be Cao Jie's subordinate Cao Shao, what does the slave mean, originally the eunuch was infertile, but the eunuch also had an elder brother and younger brother, and he could let a certain son of his elder brother succeed his son, which is one of the explanations of the slave. In short, it was this Xie Bi's luck that was a little worse, and the parents in his hometown and Cao Jiena were a family.

Of course, Cao Shao couldn't let go of this opportunity to be a whole person, so he casually found a crime to arrest Xie Bi and put him in prison, and tortured him to make him confess, but Xie Bi was iron-clad and was finally beaten to death in prison.

There are also smart people, such as Yang Bing's son, Guangluxun Yang Ci, he wrote a letter to the emperor about the "snake demon", the approximate meaning of the letter is caused by the imbalance of yin and yang in the Han court, after reading the letter, it is a bit of a heavenly book that people can understand and can't understand, which may imply that it is the reason for the eunuch but he didn't say it directly or clearly, so the emperor ignored it.

In May, there were changes in the personnel of the imperial court, Taiwei heard of the attack, Sikong Xu Xu was dismissed, and soon Situ Liu Chong was transferred to Taiwei, Taichang Xu Xun was promoted to Situ, and Taifu Liu Huan was promoted to Sikong.