Liu Hong gradually matured, but the Eastern Han Empire also continued to decline. The life-and-death struggle between eunuchs and civil officials within the court, and the outside of the court continued to be like in Liu Hong's era.

In November 172 AD, Xu Sheng, a member of the Huiji, rebelled in Juzhang County and proclaimed himself King of Yue and Emperor Yangming. Yangzhou Assassin Shi Zang Min, Dan Yang Taishou Chen Yin and two were ordered to go to the conquest.

In December, Situ Xu Xu was dismissed, and Yuan Kui, the great Honglu, was promoted to Situ; Just this month, Xianbei invaded the state again.

In this year, the corpse of the Southern Xiongnu Yiling died in Shan Yu, and his son succeeded him as Tu Teruo.

In the second year, in the second year of Xiping, that is, in January 173 AD, there was another plague, and the imperial court had to send envoys to various places to inspect on behalf of the Son of Heaven and give medicine to the people and local governments.

By the end of January, Sikong Zongju was dead; In early February, Liu Hong once again issued an edict to grant amnesty to the world. Guanglu Xun Yang Ci filled the vacancy of the sect and was promoted to the position of Sikong. In March, the old man's Tai Lieutenant Li Xian was dismissed, and two months later, Duan Cheng, the general of Duan, was promoted to Tai Lieutenant. In July, Yang Ci, who had just worked for less than half a year, was dismissed again, and Taichang Tang Zhen was promoted to Sikong. In the blink of an eye, in December at the end of the year, Duan Cheng, who had been serving as a lieutenant for half a year, was also dismissed.

At the end of 173 A.D., Ninan-gun invited foreign translators to translate documents. Xianbei once again invaded You, and Erzhou.

By January 174 A.D., Buyeo sent envoys to participate in the translation of the literature.

On February 26, Liu Hong once again granted amnesty to the world and promoted Taichang Chen Tan to the rank of lieutenant.

In March, Liu Chang, the king of Zhongshan, died, but there were contradictions in the history books about whether he had a son, one said that he had no son, and the other said that he had a son. 、

In June, Liu Hong named his nephew Liu Kang as the king of Jinan, and asked him to support his biological father, Liu Chang, the emperor of filial piety.

On October 14, Liu Hong issued an edict again: criminals who have not been sentenced in the world can pay money (history book: Na Xuan, which means silk silk, here the author understands it as paying money) to atone for their crimes.

In November, Sima Sun Jian of Wu County recruited more than 1,000 Jingyong people to help Zang Min and Chen Yin defeat Xu Sheng in Huiji County and behead him; Another prince, Liu Bo, died, and the title of the vassal state was canceled because he had no son.

In December, Xianbei invaded Beidi County and was repelled by Xia Yu, the Taishou of Beidi, so Xia Yu was transferred to the captain of Wuhuan. Then the defeated Xianbei invaded the state again; This month, Sikong Tang Zhen was dismissed and promoted to Sikong by Xu Xun of Yongle Shaofu.

The time came to March of 175 A.D., Cai Yong and others proposed to revise the "Five Classics", Emperor Ling approved, and ordered Cai Yong to record the Five Classics by hand, and engraved them on the stone with ancient Chinese, seals, and three kinds of characters, and stood outside the Taixue Gate, so that the college students who entered the campus took this "Xiping Stone Classic" as the standard. As soon as the stele was erected, the people who came to watch and copy hugged each other, one after another, there were more than 1,000 vehicles every day, and there was also a serious traffic jam outside the Taixue Gate of the Han Dynasty.

The works of the great writer and calligrapher Cai Yong, of course, will attract the support of the literati, so it is normal for traffic jams to occur, it seems that the matter of chasing stars has existed since ancient times, but the college students have gathered because of this, so that the eunuchs who have always been very sensitive and the emperor who was brainwashed by the eunuchs are afraid, because what they are most afraid of is the unity of the literati and doctors, and they will fight against them as one, so that even if they win, they have to pay the price.

The eunuchs and emperors, who were alert, devised a special law on this matter in March, called the Three Protectors. This law stipulates that persons who are married to each other and two states shall not be subject to official supervision. It does sound good, and it removes the unreasonable phenomenon of being promoted and getting rich because of nepotism; In fact, it is to prevent the civil servants from uniting again! Mysterious and subtle, Chinese word games are sometimes really interesting, can play to make a person's name go down in history, but also to play to make a person stink for thousands of years, this kind of profundity and profundity has led to our current universities have to set up a special discipline for this purpose: Chinese language and literature, to specialize in the study of the subtlety of words.

In this way, the human resources department has a headache, because when choosing a civil servant, the workload is too large, in addition to dealing with the examination and interview process, but also to go deep into the candidate's home, carefully investigate his background, check the eighteenth generation of an ancestor, see if you are popular, to see if you have relatives and some officials and important members. Just a few people, busy all day long, but the work efficiency is extremely poor, for example, the officials of Youbei and Hebei Prefectures, which have been harassed by Xianbei invasion for a long time, are often not selected in place, resulting in more severe defense. This phenomenon made the great writer Cai Yong anxious, how could he say that he had something to do with this matter, so he wrote a letter to the emperor, but Liu Hong did not listen. So what has Liu Hong been busy with lately? According to records: Liu Hong of this group named Liu Tuo, the son of his cousin Liu Jian, as the king of Rencheng in order to restore the Rencheng State that was extinct half a year ago. The daring lover family did not take Cai Dacai's worries about the country and the people to heart at all, but pondered how to seal their own clansmen as a whole.

However, Liu Hong's work of rewarding the clansmen was interrupted by a natural disaster. In April, seven counties reported severe flooding.

I heard that the Han Dynasty encountered a natural disaster again, Xianbei took the opportunity to invade Youzhou again, anyway, I am harassing every year, invading every year, either when the New Year is approaching, get some materials for the New Year, or when you are suffering, it is easy to bully!

The so-called blessing is not a single line, the flood has not been solved, and in June, Hongnong County and Sanfu area encountered a borer disaster, okay, the flood has not gone to the insect plague again!! Emperor Ling of Han couldn't sit still, and he ordered the salt prison to guard the palace order and repair the canal for the people. Moreover, an edict was issued: All counties affected by the disaster shall be exempted from half of the land rent, and those who have suffered more than four-tenths of the land shall be exempted from being held accountable.

After coping with the flood and insect plague, the court is very short of money, what should I do? On October 23, Liu Hong issued another edict: criminals in the world who have not yet been sentenced can pay money to atone for their crimes!!

After issuing the edict for wealth, Liu Hong, who took a breath, continued to ponder the matter of sealing his own clansmen's official titles, and after studying for a few days, Liu Hong issued an edict: Yu Guiren, the biological mother of Emperor Liu Bing of the Han Dynasty, was a nobleman of Xianyuan, and Mrs. Chen, the biological mother of Emperor Liu Zhang of the Han Dynasty, was the princess of Bohai.