Chapter 14: The Fall of the Empire (2)
In 175 A.D., Liu Hong issued an edict of "changing the level standard to the middle standard, and making the eunuch the eunuch the inner sign of the order".
Maybe everyone is confused, what is "level"? What is "neutral"? I will translate and explain it to you, and then add oil and vinegar to polish it, and you will understand the meaning of this holy decree. Liu Hong in a sense, more like a businessman, the original Han Dynasty set up the "leveling" of this functional department to regulate prices, to maintain the normal operation of the market, such as a pound of peanuts originally 5 cents, but a certain year of peanuts harvest, so some unscrupulous profiteers deliberately raise prices to make huge profits, at this time, the level of the role to develop a series of policies to regulate the market price of peanuts, to crack down on the illegal behavior of unscrupulous profiteers, equivalent to the current market supervision and administration bureau plus the price bureau, and the "leveling order" is the director of the Market Supervision Administration and the Price Bureau; In this year, Liu Hong went down to replace the director of the Market Supervision Administration and the Price Bureau from the original intellectuals to eunuchs. Well, under normal circumstances, the leaders of the Market Supervision Administration and the Price Bureau must understand the market and have studied economics. After a long time, the so-called Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and the Price Bureau first became unscrupulous profiteers, selling high and buying low, and part of the money earned went into the eunuch's own pocket, and part of it was handed over to Liu Hong.
Since the eunuchs became the "Zhongzhu Order" to control the economic power, the official names of the eunuchs in the inner palace have also changed their names. Then the eunuchs and the emperor drew up another rule: except for the emperor and the young prince, no other physically sound men were allowed in the harem! In fact, the purpose is very clear, the economic power has been all controlled by the eunuchs, and no one can supervise it, as soon as this regulation comes out, even if the literati doctors want to oppose them, there is no way to come in to find evidence, and it is not Sun Wukong, and the inner palace gate is tightly guarded, and it is absolutely impossible to fly in.
In this year, Yu Yu Wang Anguo led his troops to break the detention of the country, the king of the detention of the country was killed, the son of the detention of the country Dingxing in the Han Dynasty Wuji school captain, the Western Regions Changshi and others under the support of the successor to the king of the detention of the country, but after the catastrophe, the entire detention of the country only left more than 1,000 people.
In April 176 AD, the ethnic minorities of Yizhou rebelled and were put down by the Taishou Li Hao. Liu Hong also sent the servant Yushi to the Imperial Prison Pavilion to redress the unjust case, let go of the light punishment, and stop the prisoners.
In May, Tai Lieutenant Chen Tan was dismissed, and Sikong Xu Xun was transferred to Tai Lieutenant.
In leap May, Yongchang Taishou Cao Luan wrote a letter to intercede for the party, Liu Hong was furious, and ordered the lieutenant of Sili and the Yizhou assassin to arrest Cao Luan, and put him in the prison of Youfufeng Huaili County, and was finally sentenced to abandon the city. Liu Hong followed up and issued an edict, ordering all states and counties in the world to strictly investigate the incumbent officials, and all protégés, former officials, fathers and sons, brothers, and even as long as they were related to the five clans, all of them were dismissed and imprisoned.
Oh, this time there is no need to fight with the eunuchs again, Liu Hong has been brainwashed by the eunuchs for many years, and he already hates the literati group, it seems that the eunuchs are really doing their job very well, and they surrender without a fight!!
On June 3, Taichang Liu Yi was promoted to Sikong. In July, Lieutenant Xu Xun, who had been in office for less than 100 days, was dismissed. Guangluxun Liu Kuan was promoted to lieutenant. In October, Situ Yuan Kui was dismissed. On December 29, Guanglu doctor Yang Ci was promoted to Situ.
In December, the imperial court selected more than 100 Tai students over the age of 60 and asked them to hold official positions at all levels from Langzhong, the prince to Wang Jialang, and the county scholars.
Xianbei, who invaded and harassed every year as I said before, will of course be no exception this year, and according to records, it invaded Youzhou again.
By April 177 A.D., there was another drought and locust plague, and a large area of the country was severely affected.
In recent years, there have been disasters one after another, Liu Hong has also wondered, and has been struggling to find the reason, which may be the point of some people or the answer he found: there is a disaster, and the fourth is because the local officials are corrupt and bribery, regardless of the life and death of the people, resulting in punishment from God. Yes, if there is a natural disaster, you can't punish God, so you have to find a reason, and finally find such a reason.
So, at the end of the month, Liu Hong ordered the newly appointed Sangong to compile a list of all the local officials who had taken bribes and dismiss them all. Yang Qiu, the minister of the Plains State, also appeared in the list of Tingwei's guilt, what is the reason, because he is a cruel official, but Yang Qiu has made meritorious contributions to the thief in Jiujiang Taishou in the past, and Liu Hong ordered an amnesty after knowing it, and also named Yang Qiu as a speaker.
I heard that there was another natural disaster in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Xianbei also had a recurrence of the old disease, and once again took advantage of the situation to invade the border.
In the same month of drought and locust plagues, there was a "hype" incident.
No matter at any time, as long as people will hype themselves up and win the attention of many people, then it is difficult for you to become famous, and if you are famous, your life will have a qualitative improvement, regardless of material level or social status.
In this incident, the object of hype is not a certain star, nor a certain talent, let alone a certain big official, but a group of gangsters in the street market, commonly known as ruffians, in other words, called hooligans, together they are ruffians and hooligans, why is it translated like this, because I think that no honest ordinary people will ponder this matter every day. The operation center is not a certain platform, a certain news center, or a certain TV station, and the hype plan is not drawn up by a certain idea master or a certain planning company. So what exactly is this hype event like? I wanted to use a modern event to set off the narrative.
Another time when I was browsing the news of a certain website, I found this news: the father of the secretary of the provincial party committee of a certain province died and was buried; But soon after, people came to his grave one after another to weep, crying so sadly, burning incense and paper, and the extreme grief was overflowing...... This crying once or twice, others think that this is his own relatives dead, so it is normal for people to cry so sadly, which is understandable! However, many days have passed, this group of people come to cry every day, are big living people with normal IQ, so this practice attracted the attention of the people around, some people in the know know that the grave is buried in the provincial party secretary's father, so he went forward to inquire, it turned out that the crying person is a family, it is said that the body lying in the grave used to be a very, very, very good friend, a friend of life, the insider informed the secretary of the provincial party committee, the secretary of the provincial party committee heard about it, and also wondered, he was also a sixtieth year, He knew all the connections of his father for most of his life, how did he not know that there was such a family, and he still treated his father like this, so he was curious and moved to meet the family in person, and when chatting, he found that the family's description of his father's life was often not the donkey's lips and the horse's mouth, revealing the stuffing! The secretary of the provincial party committee was just about to have a seizure, and the family knelt down and kowtowed to confess their guilt when they saw this, tears and snot gushed like a spring, and the sound of wailing was more sad than their dead mother, asking the secretary for forgiveness, and by the way, help to do something......
The approach of these gangsters in Luoyang City is similar to the incident described above, except that the grave they went to was the grave of the former emperor Liu Zhi, crying and shouting: We are the filial sons of Xuanling, how good you were with the emperor before, and how grand your holy grace was! This move attracted countless onlookers, including people from the palace, so this matter reached the ears of the current emperor Liu Hong, Liu Hong heard that these people were so filial, so grateful, so he issued an edict to all of them as "princes".
Wow! The people outside who were plagued by drought and insect plagues were hungry and hungry all day long, and this little cry became the prince's doorman, eating and eating, and all day long it was a horse chatting, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and drinking delicious wine and delicacies.