On December 28, 167 AD, the 36-year-old Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan ascended to heaven!

He left a mess behind, and the game became complicated and dangerous!

Now the eunuchs and literati are doctors have learned the Dugu Nine Swords, specifically looking for other people's flaws, of course, the eunuchs are more powerful, because they still have the Sunflower Treasure Book as the treasure of the town.

But Emperor Huan ascended to heaven, and the first master to shoot was not one of them, the so-called rivers and lakes are full of talents, and the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves. So the first one to make a move, not a eunuch, not a literati but a doctor, who is he? Some people say that it must be the royal relatives, because they haven't come out for a long time, yes, you guessed it.

The first one to make a move was the aforementioned Empress Dou Miao, who had served by the alliance leader's side for many years, he devoted himself to observation and research, and endured for many years, and finally cultivated to the top level of internal strength, and as soon as the alliance leader died, she didn't have to endure it, she wanted to do what she had been thinking about for a long time with lightning speed.

The emperor died, and the eunuchs who usually relied on the alliance lord were dumbfounded, and they adopted a wait-and-see attitude without a pillar. Opportunities were left to the intellectuals. Of course, with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, intellectuals should do their duty, and they must first take back what they have lost, how can they do it?

First of all, as mentioned earlier, Dou Miao was recommended by a literati doctor, and now he is the queen, and his father is a celebrity, so on the second day of the emperor's ascension, Dou Miao was honored as "the queen mother, who listens to the government in the court." ”。

This time she finally raised her eyebrows, so with the rights of the queen mother, she was the first to make a move, and first killed Liu Zhi's favorite female Tian Sheng, this fox spirit he has hated for a long time! Then I discussed with the ministers to find an emperor she could control, the so-called country can't be without a king for a day, otherwise she, the queen, is afraid that it won't be long before she.

Here is a brief mention, Emperor Han Huan did not have a son, I can only infer why he did not have a son:

The first reason: when he had fertility, Queen Liang was his first master of the harem, although he was favored for many years, he was never pregnant after all, as time went by, Emperor Huan also drifted away, the woman was resentful and had evil thoughts, and persecuted pregnant concubines with vicious means, so that Emperor Huan's concubines had many miscarriages, Emperor Huan dared to be angry because of the power of his relatives, but with the death of Queen Liang's elder brother and minister Liang Ji, Queen Liang finally died of Emperor Huan's cold and depression.

The second reason: Emperor Huan's reign in the early stage of the nameless, controlled emotions are difficult to release, Emperor Han Huan's mentality has also become deformed, when the shackles of power are untied at once, the gap in the heart for many years urgently needs to be filled in a large amount, behind the crazy concubine, is the deformity of their own desires, the scale of five or six thousand palace concubines, for the overdraft of Emperor Han Huan's body laid the bane, self-debauchery and casual do, the previous dissatisfaction and depression to the fullest, after the desperate chaos, the life of Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan finally failed to reach the age of not confused, At the age of 36, he died of frailty and illness.

The above is only speculation, not enough to explain why Emperor Huan has no son, because Emperor Huan is fertile, how can his three daughters under his knees say that he is infertile, but the ironclad fact is that he has no son.

Who will be the emperor? This is something that Dou Miao will consider immediately after being named the queen mother, Dou Miao and his father Dou Wu have only one principle: as long as they can control this emperor, anyone can do it! It doesn't matter if he is capable or not, whether he is virtuous or not, this is a matter for the future. Of course, their opinions are probably also finalized after consultation with Chen Fan, a literati like a doctor, because as mentioned earlier, Chen Fan and Dou Wu are like-minded friends, and they recommended Dou Miao to the emperor......

"The first emperor had no sons, do you think who is the most virtuous and suitable for the successor emperor in the clan now?" Dou Wu called the servant Liu Lu and asked.

"Liu Hong, the cousin of the first emperor and the 12-year-old son of Liu Chang, the marquis of the Xie Du Pavilion, is the most virtuous, I think it is more suitable, what do you think?" Liu Lu, the servant of the imperial history, replied in a soliciting tone.

Liu Lu has already figured out Dou Wu's thoughts, saying this is just a process of walking and being a favor, think about it, what kind of good name can a 12-year-old child leave in society?

understood Dou Wu's thoughts, so Liu Lu was immediately named Guanglu Doctor and participated in the emperor's enthronement ceremony.

As a result, Liu Yu and Zhongchang served Cao Jie, and more than 1,000 people from Zhonghuangmen, Huben, and Yulin went out of Luoyang to welcome Liu Hong into Beijing to succeed to the throne.

On January 3, 168 AD, the Empress Dowager Dou issued an edict: Dou Wu was named the general, Chen Fan, the former lieutenant, was the prince, and Chen Fan, Dou Wu, and Situ Huguang recorded the Shangshu.

Chen Fan, that's right, it was Chen Fan, who Emperor Huan told him to get out of the house before, and he came back, and he was in the position of Taifu. With the introduction of the relationship between Chen Fan and Dou Wu and Dou Miao before, it should be reasonable for Chen Fan to come back.

Mrs. Chen not only became a princess, but Empress Dowager Dou continued to be grateful to her, and handed over all the affairs of the court to Lord Chen to take care of.

But when Chen Fan first took over the power of the court, he had a bit of a light commander's taste, why is this, because Emperor Huan ascended to heaven and the country had no head of state, so the Lord Shangshu was sick and sat back and watched the changes, and when Lord Chen came, he found that no one came to the office at all, "Is this still enough?" Chen Fan immediately wrote them a threatening letter, and when they received the threatening letter, they hurriedly ran to the office to continue working.

On January 20, 168 A.D., Liu Hong arrived at the Xiamen Pavilion in Luoyang, and was greeted into the palace by Dou Wu with the gift of Wang Qing's chariot.

The next day, 13-year-old Liu Hong officially ascended the throne as Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, changed the Yuan, and 168 AD was the first year of Jianning.

Well, the mess left by Emperor Huan temporarily stabilized its position with the efforts of Dou Wu and Chen Fan. However, it is not difficult for everyone to find that in addition to the previous eunuchs and literati are doctors, there is a group that is quietly re-entering the stage of history, that is, the foreign relatives group, after the death of Liang Ji in the Huan Emperor era, they disappeared for a while, but with the accession of the new emperor and the power of the empress dowager, the foreign relatives group returned, and because of the relationship between Dou Wu and Chen Fan, it is not difficult to see that the literati doctor group and the foreign relatives group joined forces in the shortest possible time, and their alliance temporarily stabilized the government of the Han Dynasty. A country that had become smelly and unsmelling, under the combination of these two forces, temporarily stabilized its position and continued to move forward in a bucket!

In the month when Emperor Ling first sat on the throne, Duan Cheng, the captain of the Qiang Protector after quelling the Xiqiang rebellion, was ordered to go to conquer the Dongqiang tribes such as Xianling.

On February 22nd, under the arrangement of Dou Wu, Liu Hong, who had fasted and bathed for more than a month, began to pay homage to the ancestral high temple, the first day to visit Liu Bang's temple, and the second day to see Liu Xiu, at the same time amnesty to the world, and sent a few pieces of cloth to the people of the country, as well as the spiritual reward of the officials, put on a posture of advancing and retreating with the people of the world, in order to calm the people's hearts.

At this time, Dou Wu and Chen Fan had an overview of the government, and on the one hand, they adopted a policy of Huairou and borrowed the new emperor to ascend the throne to ensure the safety of the common people in the world, and on the other hand, they exterminated the so-called "chaotic people" who revolted. It is said that this section of the Gong was ordered to go to the crusade, prepared for nearly a month, and finally gathered tens of thousands of elite soldiers, brought half a month's grain and grass, and went straight to Gaoping County from Pengyang County, Anding County, and encountered the army of the first zero Qiang soldiers in Fengyi Mountain, seeing that the other party was a lot of people, the Han army was suddenly a little "empty", but Duan Cheng looked calm, commanded Ruoding, he called the herald: "The army is divided into three teams, the crossbowmen are sniping at the enemy who rushed up in front, the spearmen are in the middle, and when the enemy rushes up, they will stab, and the broadsword team will follow at the end, ready to fight with the enemy hand-to-hand!" Then he ordered: "Cavalry charge from the left and right flanks!" After giving the order, Duan Cheng began to make a pre-war speech, shouting at these cowardly soldiers: "Now you have left home thousands of miles, there is no retreat, only by rushing forward can you live, if you retreat, you will definitely die, those who advance will be rewarded, and those who have merit will be sealed!" This time, the underground soldiers listened to it, and everyone moved forward, rushed and killed, and finally defeated the Qiang soldiers and beheaded eight thousand.

After getting the news of the victory, the Empress Dowager Dou Miao, who listened to the government, was particularly happy, and issued an edict to reward Duan Cheng with 200,000 yuan, seal the Poqiang general, and seal the Duan family as Langzhong, and promised that there would be another heavy reward after the complete pacification of Dongqiang, and at the same time ordered the Tibetan government to levy money and gifts and send them to the front line to do military expenses.

After waiting for a few months, on April 17, Emperor Liu Hong, who suddenly realized that he was doing something, began to do what all the enthroned emperors should do, that is, to posthumously seal his own ancestors, what his father and mother, his grandparents, etc., some are dead, but they can still be posthumously respected, for example, he posthumously honored his grandfather as Emperor Xiaoyuan, and his grandmother as Empress Xiaoyuan. Wait, I won't go into detail here.

After sealing his family, the personnel of the imperial court changed slightly, because this month Taiwei Zhou Jing died, Dou Wu and Chen Fan dismissed Sikong Xuanyu, and Changle Weiwei Wang Chang was promoted to Sikong, Taiwei has been temporarily vacant, but soon someone will fill it.

On May 1 of this year, there was a solar eclipse, under the influence of Dou Wu and Chen Fan, Emperor Ling issued an edict to open up the way of speech, and ordered the county guards and ministers to recommend a person with Taoism, the so-called Taoist person, not a Taoist priest, but a talent with both talent and morality, so the assassin history and those officials with a relatively high reputation were recruited to the imperial court. Within a few days, Taizhong doctor Liu Ju was promoted to lieutenant.

12-year-old Liu Hong actually doesn't understand anything, all the country's major policies are decided by the Empress Dowager Dou Miao, the Empress Dowager's father Dou Wu, the emperor's teacher Chen Fan and his henchmen, but if the name is not right, it is not good, the emperor also needs to seal bigger officials and more people to supplement the power of the ministers, to put it bluntly, it is Dou Wu and Chen Fan who want to find a way to consolidate and develop their own power. So, on June 17, Liu Hong issued an edict: Dou Wu was named the Marquis of Wenxi, Dou Wu's son Dou Ji was the Marquis of Weiyang, Dou Wu's two nephews Dou Shao was the Marquis of Yan, and Dou Jing was the Marquis of Xixiang. He also named Chen Fan as the Marquis of Gaoyang, and Cao Jie, the servant of Zhongchang, as the Marquis of Chang'an, with a total of 12 marquis.

At this time, Ming Zheng agreed, and the foreign relatives group finally officially stepped onto the political stage of the Han Dynasty. At this time, a student of Ma Rong named Lu Zhi wrote a letter to Dou Wu, and the approximate meaning of the letter was that there were four candidates, and the power was too great, or a few should be canceled, so as not to gossip about the world. But Dou Wu didn't listen. But Chen Fan retreated, seeing that so many of his subordinates had also been promoted and made rich, and he had become a marquis, Chen Fan wrote a letter to the queen mother, not to be a marquis, but the queen mother did not agree, so Chen Fan wrote letters that were not suitable for the marquis every day, and kept writing dozens of letters, the meaning was very clear: "I don't want this marquis." ”

In saying that the general Duan Cheng Duan, seeing the queen mother's reward letter, he was brave, all the way to chase and kill the Dongqiang defeated soldiers, out of the bridge gate pass day and night non-stop pursuit, in the upper county of luxury Yanze, Luochuan, Ling Xianshui and other places defeated the Qiang soldiers, and in the Beidi County Lingwu Valley defeated the Qiang soldiers, finally, in July, back to Jingyang County, Anding County Duan Cheng defeated the Dongqiang soldiers for the last time, after a series of defeats, the last remaining 4,000 Dongqiang remnants of the defeated will flee to the valley of Hanyang County do not come out. Duan Cheng wrote a letter to the imperial court about this and asked for the imperial court's opinion.

At this time, the Hun Zhonglang sent Zhang Huan to the imperial court, "Although Dongqiang is broken, it is difficult to eliminate the remaining people, and now it is time to recruit them with Enjiwei!" In the end, Zhang Huan also said, "Duan Cheng is a sloppy enemy, and it will not be good if he loses the battle", after research, the court agreed with Zhang Huan's opinion, and issued an edict to Duan Cheng to let him do it.

Duan Cheng, who received the edict, was very angry, so he wrote a letter to the imperial court, explaining that he was determined to calm down, and in the letter he severely criticized Zhang Huan, who was listed as 'Liangzhou Sanming' with him.

Let's talk about this place in Liangzhou, in the legend, the west of the mountain will be the general, the west of the mountain will be the prime minister, what does the so-called "Liangzhou Sanming" mean, it is three Pingqiang fierce people; Speaking of which, this Qiang rebellion has been a big problem since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the basic solution is to fight if you make trouble, and if you hit it, you will fall, and if you make trouble after a while, you will fight again; Of course, force alone cannot solve the problem, and this is the right way to solve the problem by holding an arrow in one hand and shaking an olive branch in the other. This was the trick used by Deng Xun, the great hero of Pingqiang, but unfortunately after the death of Lao Deng, the Qiang people could not live a normal life.

In Liangzhou Sanming, in addition to Zhang Huan and Duan Cheng, there is also the fierce man Huang Fu Gui who we mentioned when we talked about Emperor Huan before, who has always wanted to resign and do nothing, these three are fierce people, in the years of Pingqiang battles, in addition to the summary of strategy and tactics, they have also formed a guiding ideology to deal with the Qiang rebellion in their hearts; In terms of guiding ideology, Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan basically inherited Deng Xun's thoughts, believing that fighting is just a strategy, not a goal, and only by treating the Qiang people with power can they achieve practical results! But Duan Cheng and their thinking is different, if you don't accept it, Lao Tzu will fight, and it won't work if you surrender, if you don't do it, you will kill if you see it, so General Duan's iron fists are also more feared by the Qiang people in Liangzhou, and after a long time, General Duan's reputation will also be out.

In terms of talking about the imperial court, Sikong Wang Chang, who had not been in office for a few months, didn't know how to make Dou Wu and Chen Fan dissatisfied, and was dismissed, and the position of Sikong was promoted and taken over by Liu Chong of Zongzheng Temple.

At this time, the golden spire of the government was composed of Empress Dowager Dou Miao, Dou Wu, Chen Fan and the nominal supreme leader Liu Hong,

There are two characters who are temporarily on the second layer below the top of the pyramid, they are: Taiwei Liu Ju, Sikong Liu Pet.

Next, under the leadership team co-chaired by Chen Fan, the leader of the literati group, and Dou Wu, the leader of the foreign relatives group, there will be more people, because after the two of them have been busy for a few months, they find that the world is so big, and they are old, their old eyes are dizzy, their energy is insufficient, and they can't be busy, what should they do?

So Liu Hong issued an edict again: recruit more than 200 Shitong of Li Ying, Du Mi, Yin Xun, and Liu Yu, who were once in prison by Liu Zhi, to be officials!

At this moment, the literati are doctors who really feel that their own spring is coming, the birds and flowers are so pleasant, it is really beautiful, and years of hard exploration and pursuit have finally paid off. The three of the scholars, the Weiwei, and the royal family have been integrated and have reached perfection. The history books record: "The people of the world do not want to stretch their necks and hope for peace"!

Next, the scholars and doctors will tell the eunuchs with actions: Lord was bullied by your grandsons and almost lost his life, and now it is our turn to raise our eyebrows! The time for revenge has come, to give you a taste of this humiliation, and the scholar made a decision, an irrational decision: "Let these sissy monsters who do not grow beards, men and women disappear from the earth!" ”。